RealTimeData/bbc_alltime
This dataset contains BBC News articles from 2017 to 2022. The articles are arraged by month. Access the specific month by using the format "YYYY-MM" as config. Such as load_dataset("RealTimeData/bbc_alltime", "2021-1").
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1{"title": ["Map may show evidence of Wales' Atlantis off Ceredigion - BBC News", "Somalia hotel siege: More than 20 die in al-Shabab attack - BBC News", "377A: Singapore to end ban on gay sex - BBC News", "India monsoon rains cause fatal bridge collapse - BBC News", "Ben Gregory: Great Britain and Wales decathlete 'in coma' after bike crash - BBC Sport", "Anthony Joshua: 'I let myself down' says British boxer about post-fight antics - BBC Sport", "Felixstowe: Dock workers strike for first time in 30 years - BBC News", "Cost of living: More pets being abandoned, dogs home says - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: Great Britain's gymnasts claim stunning men's team gold - BBC Sport", "Tyson Fury makes emotional knife plea over cousin's death - BBC News", "Zulu King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini crowned in South Africa - BBC News", "Foo Fighters guitar expected to fetch £30k at Wiltshire auction - BBC News", "European Championships 2022: Keely Hodgkinson claims 800m gold - BBC Sport", "Russian nationalist thinker Dugin sees war with Ukraine - BBC News", "Over-50s turn to house-shares to beat rising rents - BBC News", "Ukraine crisis: US sanctions target Russia ideologue - BBC News", "Extra ScotRail services for Coldplay concerts in Glasgow - BBC News", "Oleksandr Usyk v Anthony Joshua 2: Briton loses world title rematch by split decision - BBC Sport", "Thomas O'Halloran: Musical tribute for man killed on mobility scooter - BBC News", "Darya Dugina: Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow blast - BBC News", "Turkey: Separate bus crashes leave 32 dead and 50 injured - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - BBC News", "Plans to cut energy bills if peak-time use avoided - BBC News", "Do new school uniform rules save parents money? - BBC News", "Nationalised energy should be an option, says Sturgeon - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Drone attack targets Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea - BBC News", "Owami Davies: Met Police spoke to woman on day of missing report - BBC News", "BTec delays: Exam board Pearson apologises to students waiting for results - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: Great Britain win 60 medals to finish second in medal table - BBC Sport", "Droylsden: Man charged after girl, 6, abducted and sexually assaulted - BBC News", "Felixstowe port workers to strike after talks fail - BBC News", "Felixstowe: Workers at key UK port to strike for eight days - BBC News", "Jurgen Klopp: Liverpool should get points if Manchester United game postponed over protests - BBC Sport", "English beach sewage dumps not monitored properly, data shows - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: GB win relay gold after Jake Wightman takes silver - BBC Sport", "Barristers voting on all-out strike call - BBC News", "Tinder: CEO Renate Nyborg to leave dating app after one year - BBC News", "Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook school shooting was '100% real' - BBC News", "Dover: Teenage boy found dead at Pencester Gardens funfair - BBC News", "Eco-friendly coffin claims banned by advertising watchdog - BBC News", "Drug deaths: Record number of fatalities in Wales - BBC News", "Taiwan: Pelosi leaves Taipei to sound of Chinese fury - BBC News", "Duty free worker guilty of sex crimes against girls - BBC News", "UK government a problem for Wales, says Rowan Williams - BBC News", "Kansas abortion vote: Major victory for pro-choice groups - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia accuses US of direct role in Ukraine war - BBC News", "Nuclear plant: How close was nuclear plant attack to catastrophe? - BBC News", "Space debris Australia: Piece of SpaceX capsule crashes to Earth in field - BBC News", "Female dance acts largely ignored by radio, study says - BBC News", "England set out to inspire the nation, says winning goalscorer Chloe Kelly - BBC Sport", "Southend United to rename 'Rose West' stand - BBC News", "As it happened: Javid backs Truss as Tory candidates take questions in Wales - BBC News", "Eurovision 2023: Cardiff out of race for song contest - BBC News", "Owami Davies: Student nurse seen with man on night she vanished - BBC News", "Bristol bus boycott organiser Roy Hackett dies aged 93 - BBC News", "Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi meets President Tsai to Beijing's fury - BBC News", "Michelle O'Neill says she was prayed over when pregnant at school - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Truss backtracks on public worker pay plan after backlash - BBC News", "Thousands of small firms go bust owing millions in bounce back Covid loans - BBC News", "£400 energy payment: Fears landlords to keep renters' rebate - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee: Legal battle at the end, says mum - BBC News", "Significantly improved pay offer needed, says union - BBC News", "M&S stops selling disposable barbecues across UK - BBC News", "Junior doctors' pay offer concerns hospital leaders - BBC News", "Ayman al-Zawahiri: Shock in Kabul as US kills al-Qaeda leader - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee: Mum says life support could end on Wednesday - BBC News", "Help house 10,000 Afghan refugees, minister tells councils - BBC News", "US to probe claims Sikh turbans taken at border with Mexico - BBC News", "Daniel Morgan murder: Ex-Met chief may have breached standards, watchdog says - BBC News", "US primaries: Rusty Bowers, who defied Trump, loses re-election bid - BBC News", "UK Parliament closes TikTok account after China data warning - BBC News", "Snorkeler suffers 'suspected shark bite' - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Sajid Javid endorses Liz Truss's bid to be PM - BBC News", "French sailor survives 16 hours in capsized boat in Atlantic - BBC News", "Taiwan braces as China drills follow Pelosi visit - BBC News", "Pig organs partially revived hour after death - BBC News", "Premier League players to limit taking a knee - BBC Sport", "Patrick Vallance: One of government's chief Covid advisers is stepping down - BBC News", "Safe to swim in sea, says expert after suspected shark attack - BBC News", "Stephen King testifies against merger of publishing giants - BBC News", "Spanish beach body ad: Women 'not buying' government's explanation - BBC News", "Logan Mwangi murder: Craig Mulligan won't get sentence increased - BBC News", "Dev Patel: Actor breaks up knife fight in Australia - BBC News", "Ukraine war: IAEA says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant out of control - BBC News", "Stormont recall: Third attempt to fully restore NI Assembly fails - BBC News", "Pelosi visit: Taiwan puts the ball firmly in Xi Jinping's court - BBC News", "Rapper Pa Salieu 'dropped from Games closing ceremony' - BBC News", "China-Taiwan: As China broods, Taiwan is in a 'Pelosi lovefest' - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Sunak and Truss attack Drakeford ahead of Welsh hustings - BBC News", "Banned Russian oligarchs exploited UK secrecy loophole - BBC News", "Tory leadership contest ballot papers delayed over security fears - BBC News", "Beyoncé removes Kelis sample and ableist slur on Renaissance - BBC News", "Carole Packman murder: Parole dates given to paper before family - BBC News", "Epic challenge for MND cyclist who has defied the odds - BBC News", "Nancy Pelosi's long history of opposing Beijing - BBC News", "Plastic pollution: Birds all over the world are living in our rubbish - BBC News", "Man guilty of killing stranger by pushing her off Helensburgh Pier - BBC News", "Cost of filling a tank falls by £5 in July - BBC News", "No Nigeria amnesty guarantees for gay dating app victims - BBC News", "Lionesses: England's Euro 2022 winners urge Tory leadership duo to help schoolgirls play football - BBC Sport", "Booking.com scam: Tourists descend on north London private home - BBC News", "Betsi Cadwaladr: Second English hospital to take vascular patients - BBC News", "As it happened: Pelosi in Taiwan - China plans show of force after Pelosi's visit - BBC News", "All-women team breaks record rowing to Hawaii - BBC News", "Oat milk smoothies served at Eisteddfod on dairy farm criticised - BBC News", "Commonwealth Games: Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Eilish McColgan claim golds - BBC Sport", "RAF diversity: Senior female recruitment officer resigns over targets - BBC News", "Inflation drives fastest fall in real pay on record - BBC News", "Wolfgang Petersen: Das Boot director dies aged 81 - BBC News", "Cristiano Ronaldo: Man Utd star gets caution over fan's phone incident - BBC News", "Dover: Boy died in fall off White Cliffs on 12th birthday, inquest told - BBC News", "Derry: Condemnation of poppies and flags on Bogside bonfire - BBC News", "Greenford: Manhunt for mobility scooter murder suspect - BBC News", "Spanish fires: Passengers injured fleeing train in Bejís - BBC News", "Elon Musk sends social media into frenzy with Twitter joke about buying Man Utd - BBC Sport", "Schools in England told not to cut days over energy price rises - BBC News", "Cost of living latest: UK inflation hits 10.1% as food prices rocket - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum plan: UK ministers partially lose Rwanda secrecy bid - BBC News", "London Bridge: Major disruption as fire closes railway tracks - BBC News", "Fifa ban: India football body suspension deals blow to women players - BBC News", "Salma al-Shehab: Concern for Saudi student jailed for 34 years over tweets - BBC News", "Young watch almost seven times less TV than over-65s - Ofcom - BBC News", "Darius Campbell Danesh: Simon Cowell and Gareth Gates lead tributes to late Pop Idol star - BBC News", "Hull Fair: Nursery nurse thrown off Airmaxx 360 ride gets payout - BBC News", "Ofgem director Christine Farnish resigns over price cap change - BBC News", "William Wragg: Tory MP takes 'short break' due to depression - BBC News", "UK government enters endgame in Europe research standoff - BBC News", "Tory leadership: NI Tories prepare to choose next PM - BBC News", "Rwanda asylum scheme: Warning over political killings before UK flight - BBC News", "Disappearance of ex-Fettes College teacher treated as murder - BBC News", "Windsor Castle crossbow suspect appears in court under Treason Act - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia blames sabotage for new Crimea blasts - BBC News", "Artemis: Nasa readies giant Moon rocket for maiden flight - BBC News", "Liz Cheney: Trump critic blasts Republican 'personality cult' after defeat - BBC News", "Dog infected with monkeypox prompts isolation warning - BBC News", "Climate change: 'Staggering' rate of global tree losses from fires - BBC News", "Ryan Giggs an unfaithful 'love cheat' in relationships, court hears - BBC News", "Aitch vows to get Ian Curtis mural in Manchester fixed pronto - BBC News", "Infected blood victims to get £100,000 compensation - BBC News", "Mourne Wall: Celebrating 100 years of the stone boundary - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: Dina Asher-Smith pulls up with cramp after Lamont Marcell Jacobs won men's 100m - BBC Sport", "Serena Williams thrashed by Emma Raducanu at Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati - BBC Sport", "UK asylum deal: Is Rwanda a land of safety or fear? - BBC News", "Abuse of BBC journalist was disgraceful, says Nicola Sturgeon - BBC News", "UK to receive shipment of Australian gas next week - BBC News", "British man Aran Chada found drowned in Italy after saving son - BBC News", "Police officers violent to women will be sacked under new guidance - BBC News", "Most families will not get blood scandal payout, victim's son says - BBC News", "Ladbrokes owner Entain to pay £17m for breaching rules - BBC News", "Boy, 13, admits raiding luxury London hotels - BBC News", "Oldham mill fire: Missing man's remains identified after blaze - BBC News", "Contaminated blood inquiry: The school where dozens of pupils died - BBC News", "UK denies Moscow claims RAF jet entered Russian airspace - BBC News", "Conservative MP Virginia Crosbie on how tragedy made her strong - BBC News", "Liz Cheney: Trump arch-enemy ousted in Wyoming election - BBC News", "Turkey-Greece migrants: 38 people found stranded on tiny, unnamed island - BBC News", "Western and Southern Open: Emma Raducanu thrashes Victoria Azarenka in Cincinnati - BBC Sport", "Liz Truss accused of branding British workers lazy in leaked audio - BBC News", "Sewage hits dozens of beaches in England and Wales after heavy rain - BBC News", "Darius Campbell Danesh: Pop Idol and West End star dies aged 41 - BBC News", "Tasmanian tiger: Scientists hope to revive marsupial from extinction - BBC News", "Thames Water hosepipe ban to start on 24 August - BBC News", "Greenford: Elderly man on mobility scooter stabbed to death - BBC News", "UK weather: Thunderstorms warning as heavy rain hits and roads flood - BBC News", "Conservative leadership: Truss and Sunak pledge to 'fix' Northern Ireland protocol - BBC News", "Alaska primary: Sarah Palin seeks comeback backed by Trump - BBC News", "Covid: NI health officials plan to use new dual vaccine - BBC News", "Cost of Living: NI households to face further gas price rises - BBC News", "R. Kelly trial: Singer has dark side hidden from public - prosecutor - BBC News", "Islamic State 'Beatles': How 2011 arrests led to convictions - BBC News", "Energy bills: Current support is not enough, says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Ramsgate: Man charged over family hit-and-run deaths - BBC News", "My son with schizophrenia was 'unlawfully deported' to Jamaica - BBC News", "Some antidepressants may make heatwave challenging - BBC News", "Kelp gull first sighting in UK is 'extraordinary' - BBC News", "Nurseries closed in East Lothian E. coli outbreak - BBC News", "Who is Salman Rushdie? The writer who emerged from hiding - BBC News", "Climber, 82, completes 282 mountain challenge - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says - BBC News", "Strictly Come Dancing 2022: Helen Skelton completes star line-up - BBC News", "Medusa festival: One killed as strong winds cause stage collapse in Spain - BBC News", "Thousands more NHS beds to be created in England this winter - BBC News", "Horrifying, ghastly: Authors condemn attack on Salman Rushdie - BBC News", "Mar-a-Lago: Trump investigated under Espionage Act, says warrant - BBC News", "Cardiff drag queen's story event greeted by rival protests - BBC News", "Northern Ireland tourism still below pre-pandemic level - BBC News", "Brentford 4-0 Manchester United: Bees run riot in first half to humiliate visitors - BBC Sport", "UK heatwave: Studland fire caused by barbecue - fire service - BBC News", "Trump search warrant: FBI took top secret files from Mar-a-Lago - BBC News", "Climate change: Drought highlights dangers for electricity supplies - BBC News", "Ukraine says it has taken out vital bridge in occupied Kherson - BBC News", "Louis Thorold: Driver cleared by reason of insanity over Waterbeach pram death - BBC News", "Welsh Secretary Robert Buckland switches his support from Sunak to Truss - BBC News", "Anne Heche dies: 'We have lost a bright light' - BBC News", "Heat warning in Ireland as sunny weather continues - BBC News", "Jonathan Edwards: MP who assaulted wife should quit, Plaid leader says - BBC News", "Montenegro: Gunman kills 11 after family dispute - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie: Author believed fatwa was old and life relatively normal - BBC News", "Britney Spears' ex-husband Jason Alexander convicted over crashing wedding - BBC News", "Train strikes cause more disruption for passengers - BBC News", "Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption - BBC News", "Edinburgh Fringe: Jerry Sadowitz show cancelled by venue bosses - BBC News", "Women's Ballon d'Or: England's Millie Bright, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze nominated for 2022 prize - BBC Sport", "UK Heatwave: Official drought declared across large parts of England - BBC News", "Bournemouth daughter turns detective to find dad's stolen car - BBC News", "England drought: Everyone must rethink their water use, experts say - BBC News", "Gower: Two rescued from burning boat after it caught fire - BBC News", "As it happened: Parts of England to reach 35C as heatwave continues - BBC News", "Taliban break up rare protest by Afghan women in Kabul - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect charged with attempted murder - BBC News", "Liz Truss not ruling out emergency payments, says Penny Mordaunt - BBC News", "Mexican mining rescue: Ten miners trapped underground - BBC News", "Lowering taxes best way to avoid recession, says Liz Truss - BBC News", "Gordon Brown demands emergency budget before 'financial timebomb' - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Ceasefire holds overnight after days of violence - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Death toll rises as Israel kills second top militant - BBC News", "Camber Sands: Six arrested after holiday park death - BBC News", "National Eisteddfod: Mystery of disappearing sign letters - BBC News", "Zaporizhzhia: Real risk of nuclear disaster in Ukraine - watchdog - BBC News", "Port Talbot: Tata Steel faces crunch-time, professor warns - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee: No parent must go through this again - family - BBC News", "Croatia bus crash: Twelve Polish pilgrims killed and 32 injured - BBC News", "Strictly Come Dancing 2022: The line-up in full - BBC News", "Child Q: Schoolgirl strip-search not isolated issue, police data suggests - BBC News", "Girl dies after going missing at Windsor water park - BBC News", "Macro photography: The hidden world of garden insects - BBC News", "Infected blood scandal victims in line to get £100,000 - BBC News", "Israel-Gaza: Emergency services respond after air strike hits building in Gaza - BBC News", "Feltham: Homes evacuated as crews tackle west London blaze - BBC News", "Free school meals: Councils in England cut back on holiday food-voucher help - BBC News", "Party time as Brighton's Pride returns after Covid - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee 'fought until the end', says mum after son dies - BBC News", "Commonwealth Games: Mary Moraa beats Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir to 800m gold - BBC Sport", "Tory leadership: Do Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak's tax pledges add up? - BBC News", "Uganda LGBT rights: Government shuts down key advocacy group - BBC News", "Biden tests negative for Covid after 'rebound' case - doctor - BBC News", "Leandro Lo: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion shot in São Paulo club - BBC News", "Commonwealth Games: England denied dramatic relay gold by disqualification - BBC Sport", "Theatre ticket policies 'a Wild West' for disabled customers - BBC News", "Horniman Museum to return 72 artefacts to Nigeria - BBC News", "Archie Battersbee: Who decides when life support ends? - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Four more grain ships leave Ukraine as hopes grow for export stability - BBC News", "Owami Davies: Fifth arrest over missing student nurse - BBC News", "Taiwan: US hits out at 'irresponsible' China amid attack rehearsal claims - BBC News", "Full extent of NHS dentistry shortage revealed by far-reaching BBC research - BBC News", "Prestatyn girl makes homeless blankets from crisp packets - BBC News", "Turkey teeth: Are cut-price reality TV teeth worth it? - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Next PM will have to grapple with economy quickly - BBC News", "Barristers to strike every other week from August with no end date - BBC News", "Lincoln: Police chief defends officers dancing Macarena at Pride event - BBC News", "377A: Singapore to end ban on gay sex - BBC News", "Tory conference: LGBT group unveils politics-themed condoms - BBC News", "Philippine students return to school for first time since Covid - BBC News", "Stalker who set fire to van with ex inside in Alderton jailed - BBC News", "Bernie Ecclestone denies fraud over Singapore assets - BBC News", "Anthony Joshua: 'I let myself down' says British boxer about post-fight antics - BBC Sport", "Parking: Ceredigion ticket machines 'driving tourists away' - BBC News", "Tyson Fury makes emotional knife plea over cousin's death - BBC News", "Love Island: Laura Whitmore steps down as host of ITV2 show - BBC News", "Bin strikes continue as unions query pay offer - BBC News", "Brain stimulation boosts memory for a month - BBC News", "Long Covid: Mum puts hopes in experimental treatment - BBC News", "The Herald appoints Catherine Salmond as first female editor - BBC News", "Edinburgh Festival Fireworks display will not take place this year - BBC News", "Park Royal crash: Woman killed as car ends up on Tube tracks - BBC News", "Result due in barristers' all-out strike vote - BBC News", "Vanessa Feltz to present drivetime show on TalkTV - BBC News", "Probe launched after officials' expenses claims published - BBC News", "Telegram: Where women's nudes are shared without consent - BBC News", "Donald Trump sues justice department over Mar-a-Lago search - BBC News", "Darya Dugina: Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow blast - BBC News", "Tory leadership: Liz Truss dodging scrutiny of tax plans, claims Sunak - BBC News", "Plans to cut energy bills if peak-time use avoided - BBC News", "Water firms face growing criticism over beach sewage - BBC News", "Do new school uniform rules save parents money? - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Allies seek more security at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - BBC News", "Nationalised energy should be an option, says Sturgeon - BBC News", "Woman killed in Liverpool shooting was not intended target, police say - BBC News", "British Airways to cut 10,000 winter flights - BBC News", "As it happened: Ukraine war: Journalist's killing a vile, cruel crime - Putin - BBC News", "Actors to get nudity warning in anti-bullying move for TV work, union says - BBC News", "Sizewell C: Boris Johnson backs Suffolk nuclear power plant funding - BBC News", "Barristers' strike: Crime victims in despair as court delays worsen - BBC News", "Darya Dugina: Ukraine killed Putin ally's daughter, Russia says - BBC News", "Owami Davies: Met Police spoke to woman on day of missing report - BBC News", "Cineworld confirms it is considering bankruptcy - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: Great Britain win 60 medals to finish second in medal table - BBC Sport", "Inside the secret world of trading nudes - BBC News", "Manchester United: Fans hold protest march to Old Trafford before Liverpool game - BBC Sport", "Elon Musk subpoenas Twitter founder Jack Dorsey ahead of court battle - BBC News", "Sanna Marin: Finland PM's drugs test negative after party video - BBC News", "UK inflation could hit 18% next year on rising energy bills, experts warn - BBC News", "Jagtar Singh Johal case: UK spy agencies accused of tip-off that led to torture - BBC News", "Ukraine nuclear plant: How risky is stand-off over Zaporizhzhia? - BBC News", "Energy bills: Customers can't carry cost of Ukraine war, boss says - BBC News", "Owami Davies: Missing student nurse could be sleeping rough - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Russia appeals for new recruits for war effort - BBC News", "Ellen White: Manchester City and England striker announces retirement - BBC Sport", "English beach sewage dumps not monitored properly, data shows - BBC News", "Felixstowe: Strike continues at UK's biggest container port - BBC News", "Darya Dugina: Speculation rife as Russians ponder journalist's killing - BBC News", "Adelaide Cottage: William and Kate to move to cottage on Windsor estate - BBC News", "UK to offer mini dose of monkeypox jab amid low stocks - BBC News", "Arkansas: Three officers suspended after video shows beating - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: GB win relay gold after Jake Wightman takes silver - BBC Sport", "UK Black Pride event returns to London - BBC News", "Palestinian gunman wounds eight in Jerusalem attack - BBC News", "Sarah Everard: Vigil protesters no longer face prosecution - BBC News", "Brentford 4-0 Manchester United: 'A joke', 'bullied' & 'rotten' - are Man Utd at rock bottom? - BBC Sport", "More new mothers over 40 than under 20 in Wales for first time - BBC News", "Parc Prison, Bridgend: Investigation after inmate death - BBC News", "Brecon walkers pick up 80 dog poos in 90 minutes in town - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie off ventilator and able to talk - BBC News", "Who is Salman Rushdie? The writer who emerged from hiding - BBC News", "Tijuana rocked by wave of violent crime - BBC News", "Tropical Storm Meari leaves trail of devastation in central Japan - BBC News", "Rhyl: Welsh-default ticket machine causes car park delays - BBC News", "Medusa festival: One killed as strong winds cause stage collapse in Spain - BBC News", "Horrifying, ghastly: Authors condemn attack on Salman Rushdie - BBC News", "Rail fares in England to rise below inflation rate, ministers say - BBC News", "Brentford 4-0 Manchester United: Bees run riot in first half to humiliate visitors - BBC Sport", "Marshall Islands: Covid-19 cases surge - BBC News", "UK heatwave: Studland fire caused by barbecue - fire service - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Zelensky warns Russian soldiers at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant - BBC News", "UK heatwave: Final day of 'extreme' heat with thunder on way - BBC News", "Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: Tributes for India's 'stock market king' who died at 62 - BBC News", "Ukraine says it has taken out vital bridge in occupied Kherson - BBC News", "Police probe threat to JK Rowling over Salman Rushdie support - BBC News", "How to protect your skin in the heat - BBC News", "Jonathan Edwards: MP who assaulted wife should quit, Plaid leader says - BBC News", "Firefighters tackling grass and recycling fires across Wales - BBC News", "Saudi Aramco: Oil giant tops own record with $48.4bn quarterly profit - BBC News", "Oder river: Mystery surrounds thousands of fish deaths - BBC News", "Australia: Gunman charged over Canberra airport shooting - BBC News", "Fireworks explosion rocks Armenia shopping market - BBC News", "European Championships Munich 2022: Cox Erin Kennedy wins gold after cancer diagnosis - BBC Sport", "Skegness: Body of teenage boy recovered from the sea - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie's 'defiant sense of humour' remains, son says - BBC News", "Climate activists fill golf holes with cement after water ban exemption - BBC News", "Egypt fire: Dozens dead in Giza Coptic church - BBC News", "Edinburgh Fringe: Jerry Sadowitz show cancelled by venue bosses - BBC News", "Chelsea 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur: Thomas Tuchel & Antonio Conte sent off after late equaliser - BBC Sport", "UK Heatwave: Official drought declared across large parts of England - BBC News", "A-levels: Students told most will get first-choice university place - BBC News", "England drought: Everyone must rethink their water use, experts say - BBC News", "Avanti West Coast: MP in plea to reconsider suspending rail service - BBC News", "Terminal MND cyclist completes Cairngorms ride - BBC News", "Channel migrants: More than 20,000 people arrive in UK in 2022 - BBC News", "UK heatwave: Why is it so hot? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Fringe: 'Extreme' racism behind Sadowitz scrapping – venue - BBC News", "US Taiwan: Congress team follows Pelosi with second high-level visit in a month - BBC News", "'We are waiting for rain, for winter, for God' - Fighting a megafire in France - BBC News", "Taliban break up rare protest by Afghan women in Kabul - BBC News", "Walrus Freya who became attraction in Norway's Oslo Fjord put down - BBC News", "Salman Rushdie stabbing suspect charged with attempted murder - BBC News", "Eurovision 2023: UK host city will need to cancel other events to make way for contest - BBC News", "Body recovered from Cheshunt lake after boy reported missing - BBC News", "East Kent NHS Trust: Hospital apologises over baby death errors - BBC News", "Kenya elections 2022: Raila Odinga and William Ruto in tight race for president - BBC News", "Enas Taleb: Iraqi actress to sue Economist over 'fat' picture - BBC News", "Supermarkets not passing on lower fuel price - RAC - BBC News", "Ukraine war: Blasts rock Russian airbase in annexed Crimea - BBC News", "Toni Minichiello committed 'gross breaches of trust', panel finds - BBC Sport", "Urgent polio boosters for London children - BBC News", "Wildlife under stress as dry spell shrinks rivers - BBC News", "Bin workers at 15 Scottish councils to strike in pay dispute - BBC News", "One dead, three injured in string of attacks around Skye - BBC News", "Mar-a-Lago: Republican uproar over FBI raid on Trump home - BBC News", "Serena Williams suggests retirement from tennis after US Open - BBC Sport", "Homes for Ukraine: Quarter of refugee sponsors do not want to carry on - BBC News", "Raymond Briggs: The Snowman illustrator dies at 88 - BBC News", "Royal Mail staff to stage four-day strike action - BBC News", "The Kite Runner: Broadway show first to adopt mask-only nights - BBC News", "Marcus Mumford reveals he was sexually abused aged six - BBC News", "Thames Water plans to introduce hosepipe ban 'in weeks' - BBC News", "Jonathan Edwards: Wife assault MP to represent Plaid in Commons - BBC News", "Strictly Come Dancing 2022: The line-up in full - BBC News", "Ferguson shipyard boss confident of brighter future - BBC News", "As it happened: Russia must hand threatened nuclear plant back to Ukraine, says G7 - BBC News", "Owami Davies: New CCTV footage released by police - BBC News", "Energy bills could go up before October price cap rise - BBC News", "Tory leadership: I'd rather lose doing right thing, says Sunak - BBC News", "Energy bills forecast to hit over £4,200 a year - BBC News", "Aine Davis: Alleged fourth IS 'Beatle' arrested in UK on terror charges - BBC News", "Energy crisis is worse than Covid - pub owner - BBC News", "Ukraine war must end with liberation of Crimea – Zelensky - BBC News", "Homes needed for 4,000 beagles rescued from breeder in US - BBC News", "Cost of living: Chancellor to meet ministers over energy scheme - BBC News", "France whale: Beluga put down during dramatic rescue mission - BBC News", "Rishi Sunak insists he's the Tory contender to fix problems facing UK - BBC News", "Linton-on-Ouse: Asylum centre plan for ex-RAF site scrapped - BBC News", "Thornton Heath explosion: Girl's death investigated by crime unit - BBC News", "Ministers to meet energy giants over cost of living - BBC News", "Martin Lewis: Energy bill crisis is on scale of pandemic - BBC News", "Zaporizhzhia: Russia must exit Ukraine nuclear plant, says G7 - BBC News", "Student loan interest rate capped at 6.3% - 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check while rehearsing for next week's show.", "The US Speaker's visit is celebrated in Taipei, but could it spark a major US-China crisis?", "Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss face questions from Conservative Party members in Cardiff later.", "A BBC investigation links a little-known type of company to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.", "Party members are receiving their voting papers later than planned over security concerns.", "The star updates her 5-day-old album to remove a Kelis reference and an offensive lyric on Heated.", "The Ministry of Justice says it is \"deeply sorry\" to the family of murder victim Carole Packman.", "Davy Zyw did not think he would still be alive four years after being told he has motor neurone disease.", "The US speaker's trip to Taiwan has angered China - but she has a long history of taking on Beijing.", "Photographs from every continent except Antarctica show birds nesting or tangled in rubbish.", "Jacob Foster is found guilty of killing Charmaine O'Donnell by pushing her off Helensburgh Pier last year.", "But the RAC motoring group warned major retailers should be cutting pump prices further.", "The police want help to build a case against fraudsters but Nigeria criminalises gay relations.", "England's European champions have called on the Conservative party leadership candidates to ensure \"every young girl\" can play football at school.", "A woman says she feels vulnerable after dozens of tourists arrived at her private home throughout July.", "Some already go to Liverpool for surgery but now more could go to Stoke-on-Trent.", "The US Speaker has now left the island, with China expected to hold live-fire drills nearby in the coming days.", "The friends, who had no prior experience of ocean rowing, beat last year's record holders from the UK.", "Farmers label the decision \"perplexing\" as the National Eisteddfod is being held on a dairy farm.", "England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Scotland’s Eilish McColgan earn hugely popular Commonwealth Games titles on the loudest night yet at Alexander Stadium.", "The officer was reportedly pressured to hire more women and ethnic minorities rather than white men.", "Wage growth is lagging behind soaring prices as households grapple with the rising living costs.", "The Oscar-nominated German filmmaker was also known for films such as Air Force One and Outbreak.", "The star appeared to knock a phone from a young fan's hand after Manchester United lost at Everton.", "A coroner in Maidstone rules Mati Urb's death on a family holiday to the Kent coast was an accident.", "The bonfire, in the Bogside area of Derry, also had an image of a PSNI Land Rover and the Queen.", "Police say the attack on Thomas O'Halloran, 87, in west London was an act of unprovoked violence.", "Ten people are injured, three seriously, as a train is caught up in a wildfire in eastern Spain.", "Elon Musk, the world's richest man, sends social media into a frenzy with a joke on Twitter that he is buying Manchester United.", "The government says schools must stay open five days a week, despite soaring winter fuel costs.", "Inflation surprises analysts, with basic goods like bread, cereals, milk and eggs driving the latest hike.", "The High Court says some of the advice given to ministers must be disclosed as part of a major case.", "Four lines near to London Bridge have now re-opened but delays are expected to continue.", "The suspension may prevent India from hosting and participating in international football tournaments.", "Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University PhD student, called for reforms and the release of activists.", "The average 16 to 24-year-old watches TV for 53 minutes a day compared with nearly six hours for over-65s.", "The late singer starred on the talent show Pop Idol before having a string of hits and stage roles.", "Jade Harrison suffered nightmares after the accident at Hull Fair in October 2019.", "A director of the UK's energy watchdog quits over the way the energy price cap will be set.", "The Conservative MP reveals his mental health struggles and says he hopes to return \"refreshed\".", "The government is in a row with the EU over the UK's membership of the €100bn Horizon research programme.", "Members will have a chance to hear from Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss at a hustings on Wednesday.", "Ministers were told the Rwandan regime tortures opponents weeks before the first flight was due to go.", "Two men are charged after the disappearance of a 75-year-old ex-Fettes College teacher in Edinburgh.", "Jaswant Singh Chail allegedly told a protection officer \"I am here to kill the Queen\".", "An arms depot is hit a week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on another military base in Crimea.", "The most powerful rocket ever developed by the US space agency is rolled to the launch pad.", "Liz Cheney criticises the former president after losing to a Trump-backed candidate in Wyoming.", "Isolating from pets when infected and disposing of rubbish carefully is important, health experts say.", "A report says around 16 football pitches of trees per minute were lost to wildfires in 2021.", "Ryan Giggs says he has never been faithful - but denies ever physically assaulting a woman.", "A mural of Joy Division's Ian Curtis was painted over with an advert for Manchester MC Aitch's album.", "Ros Cooper, who was infected with hepatitis C as a child, is one of 4,000 people to receive money.", "It is the boundary of the huge water catchment area that feeds the Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs.", "Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith pulls up with cramp in the European women's 100m after Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men's race in Munich.", "British number one Emma Raducanu put a dampener on Serena Williams' farewell tour after thrashing the American great in the Cincinnati Open.", "Visitors to Rwanda are often impressed by its efficiency, but should be careful what they say.", "Independence supporters shouted insults including \"traitor\" and \"scumbag rat\" at Scotland editor James Cook.", "As Europe looks for alternatives to Russian energy, the UK is set to get an LNG delivery from Australia.", "Aran Chada, from Leicestershire, had been missing since a boat trip on 22 July.", "College of Policing publishes new guidance to \"bring consistency\" to dealing with police misconduct.", "Jason Evans was just four when his father died in 1993 after contracting HIV and hepatitis C.", "Entain failed to properly check possible money-laundering or offer support to struggling customers.", "The boy, who cannot be named, targeted Claridge's, the Milestone and Millennium hotels.", "Uoc Van Nguyen was among four people whose remains were found after a fire at a mill in Oldham.", "Ex-pupils caught up in the infected blood scandal decades ago are giving evidence at an inquiry.", "The MoD says the flight was a \"routine operation\" over international waters in the Arctic Circle.", "As a teenager, Virginia Crosbie nearly died in a crash and in 2018 her brother took his own life.", "The three-term congresswoman is trounced by a relative political newcomer and Trump-backed candidate.", "The group - including a pregnant woman and seven children - have been stuck since mid-July.", "British number one Emma Raducanu produces another eye-catching display as she thrashes Victoria Azarenka less than 24 hours after beating Serena Williams.", "The Tory leadership hopeful is accused by critics of branding workers lazy in leaked audio.", "Charity issues warning after water firms discharge untreated sewage to avoid potential flooding.", "The singer, 41, starred on 2002 talent show Pop Idol before having a string of hits and stage roles.", "Experts behind the project claim the technology for \"de-extinction\" already exists, but others are sceptical.", "Thames Water, which supplies water to 10 million customers in the south of England, starts the ban on 24 August.", "Police say the man, believed to be in his 80s, died at the scene after being attacked in west London.", "Parts of Scotland see a week's worth of rain, as storms flood roads in southern England and Wales.", "The foreign secretary says she will deliver controversial legislation allowing the UK to take unilateral action over the agreement.", "She largely left the spotlight before the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who has become her key ally.", "The jab, approved for use in the UK, can protect against both the original virus and Omicron variant.", "Northern Ireland energy regulator warns households will face further gas prices rises in the coming weeks.", "The singer faces charges of child pornography and obstructing justice in his second federal trial.", "The four militants were identified because of arrests years earlier at an English Defence League counter-protest.", "The outgoing PM says he is making sure money is in place for his successor to offer more help.", "A father and daughter died and others were hurt when a car struck a family walking on a Kent street.", "Eric Hall has 28 convictions but his family says he was not well enough to be put on a Home Office plane to Jamaica.", "Some types of mental health medication may make it difficult for the body to regulate temperature.", "Birdwatchers at a reservoir say it is the first time the bird has been spotted in the UK.", "Pear Tree Nursery in Haddington has been closed after 28 cases of the bug were detected.", "Rushdie suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses in 1988.", "Nick Gardner climbed Scotland's Munros after his wife developed Alzheimer's and went into care.", "The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.", "The TV and radio host is revealed as the 15th and final contestant for this year's dance contest.", "At least 40 others were injured in bad weather at a popular electronic music festival near Valencia.", "Health service chiefs have promised some 7,000 extra beds in England to tackle increased demands.", "The literary world has reacted to the attack on Salman Rushdie with shock and condemnation.", "FBI agents reportedly took around 20 boxes of items, including top secret files, from Mar-a-Lago.", "The children's story-telling tour ends in Cardiff with police outside the city's main library.", "Energy and food costs as well as wage inflation are having an impact, says Hotels Federation chief Janice Gault.", "Brentford produce a stunning first-half performance as they score four goals in the first 35 minutes to condemn Manchester United to a humiliating defeat.", "The fire at a Dorset beauty spot tore through heathland and forced the evacuation of a nearby beach.", "The former president says the cache, including information about the \"President of France\", was declassified.", "Dry conditions in the UK and Europe are stress on facilities including nuclear, say experts.", "Ukrainian forces attacked the bridge as part of its counter-offensive in the occupied Kherson region.", "Shelagh Robertson, 75, is cleared after a baby boy is killed when his pram is hit on the pavement.", "Robert Buckland tells a national newspaper Liz Truss is \"the right person to take the country forward”.", "The Donnie Brasco actress is legally dead, a representative says, after a car crash in Los Angeles.", "Hot weather continues across the island with warnings in place in the Republic of Ireland.", "Adam Price says Jonathan Edwards' actions send \"the wrong message to domestic abuse survivors\".", "Three members of the same family were killed - the gunman was shot dead by a civilian.", "The Satanic Verses author was not worried about security before the stabbing attack in New York state.", "Jason Alexander is convicted of trespassing and battery after disrupting the ceremony in June.", "Some rail operators are running no services as 6,500 train drivers walk out in pay dispute.", "French environmentalists sabotage golf greens to protest against their exemption from water bans.", "The Pleasance venue said the Scottish comedian's material did 'not align' with their values.", "England Euro 2022 winners Millie Bright, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze are nominated for the women's Ballon d'Or but Lionel Messi, the seven-time men's winner, misses out.", "More people could face hosepipe bans, with five companies already announcing restrictions on water use.", "Becky Harrington flooded social media with posts about the stolen car and found it three days later.", "The call for wiser use of water comes as experts fear the England drought could last into next year.", "Coastguard says lifeboat crew \"did an incredible job of taking two people off a burning vessel\".", "More extreme heat is affecting the southern half of the UK with temperatures predicted to reach the mid 30s Celsius", "The militants fire into the air as women call for \"work and freedom\" after a year of Taliban rule.", "The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie pleads not guilty and is remanded in custody.", "Penny Mordaunt says Liz Truss's comments on how to help with the cost of living crisis had been overinterpreted.", "The 10 workers are stuck underground in Coahuila after a tunnel wall collapsed in a mine shaft.", "Liz Truss defends her plans after saying she would not give handouts in response to higher fuel bills.", "Former Labour PM says an emergency budget is needed now because of the cost of living crisis.", "After three days of violence in which 44 people died, fuel deliveries to Gaza have resumed.", "Israel says it has killed a second senior leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.", "A 58-year-old man has died following an altercation at a resort in East Sussex, police say.", "The giant E, F, O and D vanished overnight from the festival site, leaving organisers baffled.", "The warning comes amid reports of Russian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.", "There are fears the Port Talbot site may shut if a deal to help cut carbon emissions is not struck.", "The 12-year-old's family say they were \"stripped of all our rights\" in a legal battle with doctors.", "All 32 surviving passengers are injured, 19 of them seriously, officials say.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "Almost a quarter of searches by the Met from 2018 to 2020 took place with no \"appropriate adult\" present.", "Members of the public helped search a lake before the girl was found by emergency services.", "Macro photographer Geraint Radford says insects have a bad reputation, but they're \"funny\".", "The PM wants payments to be made to survivors \"as soon as possible\", says Downing Street.", "Emergency services take the injured to local hospitals as violence in the region flares up.", "About 60 people have had to leave their homes as trees burn to the rear of several properties.", "Vouchers are being cut in value or scrapped altogether across England, BBC News research reveals.", "Thousands take to the streets as the celebration marks its 30th anniversary.", "The 12-year-old has died in hospital after his life support was withdrawn following a legal battle.", "Kenya's Mary Moraa gatecrashes Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir's Anglo-Scottish duel to take 800m gold at the Commonwealth Games.", "The two contenders promise tax cuts but have given little detail about how to pay for them.", "Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) decried the move as a 'witch hunt' targeting the LGBT community.", "The US president will stay in isolation until he has a second negative test, his doctor says.", "Doctors say Leandro Lo is brain dead after being shot; the suspect has handed himself in.", "England are denied a dramatic 4x400m relay gold after officials rule they committed a lane infringement before anchor Jessie Knight held off Canada in the tightest of finishes.", "Research for Radio 4's Front Row finds inconsistencies in theatres' ticket prices and policies.", "The chair of the Horniman Museum said it was \"moral\" to return items taken by \"force\" years ago.", "Tragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits.", "Four vessels leave Ukrainian ports via a safe maritime corridor set up under a deal with Russia.", "A man is being held on suspicion of kidnap following the disappearance of Owami Davies.", "The US has accused Beijing of \"provocative\" actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack.", "Nine in 10 UK dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children.", "Alyssa has made over 200 blankets for homeless people in north Wales using 10,000 crisp packets.", "UK dentists are treating patients with complications after travelling abroad for cheap crowns.", "While candidates to be PM trade blows many may be wondering whether economic help on offer is enough.", "The long-running dispute is over how much criminal barristers are paid for legal aid work.", "A video showing officers doing the Macarena at the Lincoln event attracted social media criticism.", "The repeal of a colonial-era law will effectively legalise homosexuality in the conservative state.", "LGBT+ Conservatives unveil politics-themed condoms to promote sexual health at Birmingham gathering.", "Experts say the protracted school closures have worsened the country's education crisis.", "Kenneth Jones' ex-partner only escaped injury because a neighbour spotted the flames, a court hears.", "The former F1 boss is accused of failing to declare a trust in Singapore with funds of about $650m.", "Anthony Joshua says he let himself down with his bizarre post-fight antics after losing to Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday.", "Businesses and visitors say parking machines are making it almost impossible to pay and park.", "\"This needs to stop,\" the boxer says, as two are arrested over Rico Burton's stabbing in Altrincham.", "She has fronted the hit ITV2 show for three series following the death of presenter Caroline Flack.", "Unite said it would not take a new 5% pay offer to its members due to \"insignificant detail\".", "Scientists will look at whether diseases such as Alzheimer's can be alleviated using the same method.", "Kate Stott will travel from Aberdeen to Germany to get experimental treatment for blood microclots.", "Catherine Salmond joins from Scotland on Sunday to replace Donald Martin at the end of August.", "The event is traditionally the grand finale of the Edinburgh International Festival.", "A Range Rover ends up on the tracks after hitting a Tesla by Park Royal Tube station.", "Criminal Bar Association members are being asked if they want to ramp up their industrial action over pay.", "The broadcaster, who will take on Jeremy Kyle's slot, says she is not ready for retirement yet.", "The Government Legal Department says the names of civil servants were revealed by accident.", "A BBC investigation has found that women’s intimate photos are being shared in large groups on Telegram.", "Donald Trump wants to temporarily stop the FBI from reviewing material seized from his home.", "Darya Dugina died in car bombing that may have targeted her father, philosopher Alexander Dugin.", "Rishi Sunak steps up attacks on Tory leadership frontrunner as the contest enters final two weeks.", "How homes can get discounts if they use less electricity at peak times are close to being announced.", "The government says companies are responsible but ministers also face accusations of failing to act.", "Schools now have to take unnecessary logos off uniforms, but so far not all parents are benefitting.", "Britain, France, Germany and the US stress the need for nuclear safety as fighting rages in Ukraine.", "Scotland's first minister says all options should be on the table to tackle crisis in energy costs.", "Ashley Dale was \"an innocent member of the public\" who was \"thoughtlessly shot\", police say.", "The airline is cancelling flights from Heathrow 'to protect key holiday destinations over half-term'.", "Russia accuses Ukraine of killing the daughter of a Vladimir Putin ally, but Ukraine denies involvement.", "A commitment to stopping inappropriate behaviour in TV is set out by entertainment union Equity.", "The Sizewell C plant is expected to cost £20bn and could provide the UK with 7% of its electricity.", "Family says it is losing hope in criminal-justice system as teenage victim is forced to wait again.", "Vladimir Putin calls the 29-year-old's death a \"vile, cruel crime\" but Ukraine denies any involvement.", "Owami Davies was reported missing on 6 July but had contact with police on the same day.", "The cinema chain, which also owns Picturehouse, says it has struggled with poor ticket sales.", "Great Britain finish with 60 medals at the European Championships, while a further 27 are won at the European Aquatics Championships.", "Women face blackmail after their details and intimate photos are shared online. The BBC unmasks a man behind one of the groups - thanks to a cigarette lighter.", "Thousands of Manchester United fans march to Old Trafford before Monday night's game against Liverpool in protest of the club's ownership.", "The billionaire hopes Jack Dorsey will help him end his deal to buy the social media site.", "Sanna Marin took the test to allay concerns after several videos showed her dancing at a party.", "Rising energy bills could push inflation to its highest level for almost 50 years, analysts predict.", "Jagtar Singh Johal, a Sikh activist from Scotland, was seized by Indian police in 2017 and remains in jail.", "International leaders warn of potential disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.", "The government must stop bills being pushed up by the Ukraine war, the boss of Octopus Energy says.", "Police say the 24-year-old has no money left on her Oyster card and no access to phone or bank cards.", "Hefty rewards are offered to volunteers to sign up as the army sees significant losses in Ukraine.", "Manchester City and England striker Ellen White announces her retirement from football.", "Some water firms fail to install devices that measure storm overflows, according to the Lib Dems.", "The eight-day strike at the Port of Felixstowe continues as union demands an increased pay offer.", "As state media broadcasts outrage and anger, ordinary Russians question who the intended target was.", "The Cambridges are said to want as normal an upbringing as possible for their children.", "With limited supplies available, some NHS sites will offer people smaller doses of the jab.", "A man suffers blows to the head and back as he is pinned to the ground by officers in Arkansas.", "Great Britain win men's 4x100m gold at the European Championships after 1500m world champion Jake Wightman wins 800m silver.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says he is \"proud to support\" an event that is \"more vital than ever\".", "The attacker opened fire on a bus as well as people waiting in a car park near the Western Wall.", "One of six people accused of breaking lockdown rules at the event says the decision is a \"victory\".", "After losing to Brighton last week, Manchester United were thumped 4-0 by Brentford on Saturday.", "The age of motherhood in Wales is rising as older mothers overtake young ones for the first time.", "Next of kin have been informed following the death at Wales' only privately-run prison.", "Business owners Lucy Mills and Elen Kelly pick up about one poo a minute on their \"poo patrol\".", "The Satanic Verses author was repeatedly stabbed while on stage at a US literary event on Friday.", "Rushdie suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses in 1988.", "Thousands of troops have been sent to the border city after a night of arson saw highways blocked.", "Aerial video shows the extent of damage after some areas saw 50% more rain than expected in a month.", "The machines default to Welsh, but users can change that by pressing a \"language button\".", "At least 40 others were injured in bad weather at a popular electronic music festival near Valencia.", "The literary world has reacted to the attack on Salman Rushdie with shock and condemnation.", "The increase will also begin in March, rather than January, the government says.", "Brentford produce a stunning first-half performance as they score four goals in the first 35 minutes to condemn Manchester United to a humiliating defeat.", "Cases in the Marshall Islands have surged not long after the first community spread was confirmed.", "The fire at a Dorset beauty spot tore through heathland and forced the evacuation of a nearby beach.", "President Zelensky says soldiers who shoot at the Zaporizhzhia plant will become \"a special target\".", "Temperatures have exceeded 30C in much of England and Wales - but rain is forecast.", "Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, also known as \"the big bull\" of Indian markets, has died at the age of 62.", "Ukrainian forces attacked the bridge as part of its counter-offensive in the occupied Kherson region.", "Police are investigating an online threat to the Harry Potter author after the attack in the US.", "Dermatologist Adeline Kikam on coping with conditions that can develop in rising temperatures.", "Adam Price says Jonathan Edwards' actions send \"the wrong message to domestic abuse survivors\".", "Fires broke out across Wales on Sunday putting \"a great deal of strain\" on crews, a fire chief says.", "The staggering profit comes amid soaring oil prices in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "A toxic spill is suspected but testing is yet to reveal the cause of the incident on the Oder river.", "No-one was injured in Sunday's incident, which sent passengers running in fear.", "Video footage shows people running from the huge blast, which killed at least three people.", "Cox Erin Kennedy helps Great Britain to a dominant European Para-rowing gold three months after being diagnosed with breast cancer.", "The boy's body was found after a five-hour search on Saturday.", "The author was severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York State.", "French environmentalists sabotage golf greens to protest against their exemption from water bans.", "The blaze broke out at a Coptic Christian church in the city of Giza causing a stampede.", "The Pleasance venue said the Scottish comedian's material did 'not align' with their values.", "Harry Kane equalises six minutes into stoppage time as Tottenham draw at Chelsea before managers Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte are both sent off.", "More people could face hosepipe bans, with five companies already announcing restrictions on water use.", "Teenagers are getting a reassuring message by the regulator before this week's A-level results.", "The call for wiser use of water comes as experts fear the England drought could last into next year.", "Mark Pritchard says the direct service from London to Wellington in Shropshire is \"well-used\".", "Davy Zyw completed the gruelling 265-mile ride to raise money for the Doddie Weir Foundation.", "Almost double the amount of people have crossed compared to the same period in 2021.", "The Met Office estimates that the extreme heat we are seeing has been made ten times more likely because of climate change.", "The Pleasance said the comedian made staff and audience members feel 'uncomfortable and unsafe'.", "The trip comes just 12 days after a controversial tour by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.", "On the frontline of the wildfires in France is a tactical team trying to stay ahead of the flames.", "The militants fire into the air as women call for \"work and freedom\" after a year of Taliban rule.", "Freya had to be euthanised because the public went too close to her, officials said.", "The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie pleads not guilty and is remanded in custody.", "Council officials confirm Eurovision organisers need access to a venue six weeks ahead of the contest.", "A helicopter and specialist divers search the area after a 14-year-old fails to resurface.", "A hospital trust apologises to Alisha Pegg, whose daughter Grace died in her arms.", "More than 90% of polling stations have reported, but the official result may not be known for days.", "Enas Taleb says she is suing the newspaper over a picture of her on an article about \"fat\" women.", "The margin between the price of fuel at the pump and what retailers buy it for is at its widest since 2013.", "Black smoke is seen rising from the territory, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.", "UK Athletics finds former coach Toni Minichiello committed \"gross breaches of trust\" and making sexual references and gestures to athletes.", "Nearly a million children, aged one to nine, will be offered a jab in the next month after virus found in sewage.", "Most of the world's chalk streams are in southern and eastern England and are under particular strain.", "Unite union said about 1,500 members would walk out for a week from 24 August in a pay dispute.", "A man has been arrested after a series of incidents which also left three people in hospital.", "Mike Pence is among those demanding an explanation from the attorney general for the unprecedented move.", "Tennis great Serena Williams has suggested she is set to retire, saying she will be \"evolving away\" from the sport after the US Open.", "Over 25% of Homes for Ukraine sponsors want to stop after the initial six months, ONS survey finds.", "The author-illustrator's family said he \"was much loved and will be deeply missed\".", "If 115,000 staff strike, it could be the biggest ever action by the Communication Workers Union.", "The Kite Runner will host special performances for theatre-goers who need or want to wear masks.", "The singer stressed he was not abused by a family member or in church.", "The firm plans to bring in restrictions for 10 million customers \"in the coming weeks\".", "Jonathan Edwards will represent Plaid Cymru again after being cautioned for assaulting his wife.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "The company's chief executive is optimistic two delayed CalMac ferries will be delivered next year.", "Russia is significantly raising the risk of a nuclear accident endangering the population of Ukraine, G7 foreign ministers say.", "Owami Davies was last seen on CCTV in Croydon, south London, walking in the direction of Norbury.", "The energy regulator says it's \"possible\" customers' direct debit payments will rise before October.", "The former chancellor says he has a \"moral responsibility\" to help the poorest with energy bills.", "The average household could pay £355 a month, up from £164 currently, consultancy Cornwall Insight warns.", "Aine Davis has denied being part of an Islamic State cell nicknamed the Beatles which murdered hostages.", "Mike Lennon wants to see government intervention after seeing his pub's energy bills spiral.", "Ukraine's president devotes nightly address to Crimea after explosions rock a Russian airbase there.", "Charities are on a mission in what is thought to be one of the US's biggest ever dog rescue efforts.", "Nadhim Zahawi to meet ministers again to try to agree a way to deliver a £400 energy bill discount.", "French officials say the whale's condition worsened as it was being moved from the Seine to the sea.", "The BBC's Nick Robinson reflects on the key takeaways from his interview with Rishi Sunak.", "Plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse into a centre for up to 1,500 men were announced in April.", "Sahara Salman, 4, died and an 11-year-old boy and a 54-year-old woman remain in hospital.", "Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says he is also preparing options for the incoming prime minister.", "Government support needs to double to make up for the huge expected rise in bills, the consumer expert says.", "Moscow's occupation of the Zaporizhzhia site puts the entire region in danger, say foreign ministers.", "The new cap applies to England and Wales, but analysts say it won't help students with rising costs.", "Paul Allen, who is in a wheelchair, needs water for the 14 tablets he has to take every day.", "Education Secretary James Cleverly says there will not be any major support packages until parliament returns in September.", "BBC News finds almost 400 couples who tried to exploit a post-Brexit scheme have yet to be removed.", "John McDermott says he always wanted to compete in a triathlon but could not swim.", "State officials are investigating whether the Trump Organization misled lenders and tax authorities.", "Post Offices handled a record £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July.", "The Met Office says temperatures will be below July's record highs - but this heatwave will last longer.", "Former Plaid leader Dafydd Wigley says there would be a \"greater focus\" on a redesigned UK.", "A farmer says his sign for the pop-up campsite was deemed as \"visual clutter\" by the council.", "A ruling on the coking coal mine in Cumbria had been due in July but was then put back to August.", "Tristian Paul Pearson gave animals Luna and Bailey ethylene glycol, which is toxic to them.", "UK ministers will argue in court that Holyrood cannot set up a referendum without Westminster backing.", "Owami Davies, 24, was captured on CCTV footage with a man in south London on the night she vanished.", "A family involved in the horror cycling crash during the Commonwealth Games say they came \"close to a complete catastrophe\".", "The US model says she and John Legend are expecting a baby, nearly two years after a stillbirth.", "Parents of a child who was killed are seeking millions in a defamation trial against the radio host.", "The Scottish athlete emulates the success of her mother who also won Commonwealth gold in the 10,000m.", "The oil giant is to give its staff a bonus as households are being hit by soaring energy bills.", "\"Those who play with fire will not come to a good end,\" warns China's foreign minister after the visit.", "A committee hears that current funding \"won't touch the sides\" amid rising demand and inflation.", "A heatwave has been ongoing since mid-July with temperatures above 50C in some areas.", "There were 1,245 alcohol-specific deaths registered in Scotland, 55 more than the previous year.", "A High Court hearing is deciding if the 12-year-old can be moved to a hospice.", "South African judges are considering a request to extradite the retired teacher to the UK.", "England’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Scotland’s Eilish McColgan earn hugely popular Commonwealth Games titles on the loudest night yet at Alexander Stadium.", "The 12-year-old boy's family want him to be moved to a hospice for his \"last moments\".", "The Bank of England says it expects the economy to shrink, as it announces the biggest interest rate rise for 27 years.", "Council workers voted to strike after rejecting a 2% pay deal which GMB Scotland described as \"woeful\".", "The hospital worker was shot multiple times as officers stormed her home in a \"no-knock\" raid in 2020.", "The supermarket says the move is to protect open spaces, after record temperatures sparked a spate of fires.", "Scotland claim an astonishing four gold medals during less than four hours of incredible Commonwealth Games drama on Wednesday.", "Firefighters could not get near the blaze due to sporadic explosions at the munitions facility.", "The Bank of England warns the UK will fall into recession as it raises interest rates from 1.25% to 1.75%.", "Beijing continues its show of force around Taiwan in response to top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island.", "Dame Cressida Dick may have breached standards relating to the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan.", "Two PCs face a criminal probe over force used on Donald Burgess, 93, who died three weeks later.", "Yasmin Lalani met the murderous ruler as she cared for his wife before fleeing Uganda 50 years ago.", "Two of the people on board were taken to hospital for treatment after the accident.", "The former chancellor says the UK risks economic decline under Rishi Sunak's policies.", "The Department of Education says the high level of chronic absence is linked to the pandemic.", "The 62-year-old French sailor survived thanks to an air bubble before being rescued by divers.", "Locals raise funds for a Scunthorpe corner shop after its entire stock of chocolate melts.", "Thousands of performers from across the world descend on Edinburgh to put on more than 3,000 shows.", "Nicky Desmond went swimming off the coast of south Tenerife on the first day of his holiday.", "Sunak vows to call out Labour \"failures\" while Truss says Drakeford is a low energy Jeremy Corbyn.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "Taiwan accuses Beijing of trying to change the status quo in the region.", "The parents of a child killed in the shooting say they endured harassment because of the radio host's claims.", "The decision is expected to speed up the distribution of vaccines, treatments and federal resources.", "Police say there was a faulty electricity generator in the property where the family were staying.", "Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been taking questions from an audience in a show hosted by Sky News.", "Brittney Griner, 31, is jailed on drug charges, a verdict President Joe Biden calls \"unacceptable\".", "Fencing will be installed on a path in the Pentland Hills after safety fears were raised over a bull.", "Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated at Zaporizhzhia, the UN's nuclear chief says.", "A third attempt to elect new Speaker to enable the Assembly to function fully again fails.", "The GMB union claims the online retailer needs to \"drastically improve pay and working conditions\".", "James Howard Jackson, 19, is arrested five months after a \"clerical error\" and his mistaken release.", "Ten teenagers were convicted of murdering Jack Woodley, who was kicked, punched and fatally stabbed.", "Labour says a so-called \"Fizz with Liz\" dinner last year may have breached spending rules for MPs.", "The US Speaker's visit is celebrated in Taipei, but could it spark a major US-China crisis?", "A BBC investigation links a little-known type of company to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.", "The US basketball star pleaded guilty to drugs charges but denies deliberately breaking the law.", "A killer on home release left Linda McDonald for dead - now she says the parole system must change.", "Photographs from every continent except Antarctica show birds nesting or tangled in rubbish.", "Welsh Water says a prolonged period of little rain means there is pressure to maintain supplies.", "An independent director asks if the corporation should have done more to investigate sexual misconduct claims.", "Jacob Foster is found guilty of killing Charmaine O'Donnell by pushing her off Helensburgh Pier last year.", "UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says \"grotesque greed is punishing the poorest\".", "The police want help to build a case against fraudsters but Nigeria criminalises gay relations.", "\"Manic, irresponsible and irrational\": China's foreign minister reacts to Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit.", "The Bank of England raises rates as it warns inflation will rise over 13% and the UK faces a long recession.", "Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah said it had been a dream to work on the now-shelved movie.", "Sexual health charities call on the government to take firmer action to control the outbreak.", "Many fans have been visiting the site hoping to find a memorial tree, which was planted in the show.", "Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei has put an increasingly assertive China on the back foot.", "The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was briefly reliant on back up power, Ukraine says.", "Alexander Thomson is convicted of 17 charges of rape and abuse between 2013 and 2019 across West Lothian.", "The document that led to the FBI search of Donald Trump's home is made public - but with parts blacked out.", "The comedian, who studied in Sheffield, says she wishes to contest for an upcoming vacant seat in the city.", "Tory leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak face an ominous judgement before reaching Downing Street.", "The star teams up with Sir Elton John for a dance version of his 1971 classic Tiny Dancer.", "Medics say they do not believe the injuries are life-threatening or life-changing.", "They are allowed into stadiums to see men play a league match for the first time in 40 years.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel's family pay tribute to their \"chatty little girl\" and appeal for information.", "Pearson and others will be quizzed in the Commons about why students are still missing results.", "Russia is burning off millions of dollars in gas every day at a plant near the Finnish border.", "The massive discovery was made during building work on a house in Pombal in central Portugal.", "Sublime centuries from Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes help England take charge of the second Test against South Africa after two days at Emirates Old Trafford.", "The resort director at Cameron House also told an inquiry there was no back up equipment for roll calls.", "Since Brexit, asylum seekers who arrive from a \"safe third country\" can be returned.", "Footage of the arrest of a 36-year-old man on suspicion of murder is also released by Merseyside Police.", "Anoosheh Ashoori, 68, says he is taking part to raise awareness about others held captive.", "Joseph Donnelly, 51, and Gary Gerard MacNally, 62, appeared in court on Friday morning.", "Emma Raducanu plays down an uncomfortable practice session in New York, saying she just had \"one of those weird days\" before she begins her US Open title defence.", "For the first time in its 60 year history, Sense believed it had to give direct assistance", "In an interview with Joe Rogan, Mark Zuckerberg says the story was flagged after an FBI warning.", "Labour accuses foreign secretary of a \"woeful lack of judgement\" and insulting a close ally.", "But Stormont's finance minister says it is not clear when NI households will receive the money.", "As Lewis Haines is sent to prison, 18-year-old Lily Sullivan's mum says: \"I will never have peace\".", "Nadhim Zahawi says the government knows it has to \"do more\" but Labour says it is \"missing in action\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"country has been appalled\" after four people were killed in a week.", "Hackers are selling classified documents online after obtaining data belonging to missile maker MBDA.", "Great Western Road residents react to being named as cooler than streets in London and New York.", "A redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the Mar-a-Lago investigation will be released on Friday.", "China's Volleyball Association later apologised, saying the decision was due to \"lack of experience\".", "Charity says non-energy efficient householders are turning off power, as energy cap rises to £3,549.", "Top secret files were kept at Mar-a-Lago along with assorted newspapers and magazines, say investigators.", "The Russian president signs a decree to add 137,000 service personnel to the million-strong army.", "A second man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.", "About a third of GCSEs were 7/A or above in London, compared to about a fifth in parts of the North.", "Neighbours spotted the Burmese python trying to get into an upstairs window in Chandler's Ford.", "The infection is confirmed in three nurseries, while another two are closed as a precaution.", "A survey of more than 1,000 Ukrainians finds the number in work and with bank accounts has increased.", "Customers face a 28.3% increase in gas and 35.4% increase in electricity prices from 1 October.", "As the latest energy price cap is announced, BBC News speaks to a struggling former care worker.", "Rescue workers took the brothers, aged seven and nine, to hospital but they did not survive.", "The ONS says it will \"closely monitor\" the numbers testing positive as children return to school.", "Delivery delays are expected as staff walk out on on the first of four strike dates.", "Convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee, who was shot as he ran into Olivia Pratt-Korbel's home, is detained.", "Relatives say they have been told it could take up to 11 months to reach 10 miners in a flooded colliery.", "The head of the force writes to personnel amid concerns over recruitment and staff conduct.", "The French president warns of \"problems\" after Liz Truss doubted if he was \"friend or foe\".", "A blind woman says her dog was in cramped conditions, but airline says 48 hours' notice was needed.", "But the Liberal Democrats call the plans a \"cruel joke\" pointing to higher bills for consumers.", "The men, aged 62 and 51, are charged with offences including directing a terrorist organisation.", "The officer was reportedly pressured to hire more women and ethnic minorities rather than white men.", "Diagnoses of dementia rose after two years but other issues like depression fell away, research found.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the stabbing of Thomas O'Halloran in London.", "A coroner in Maidstone rules Mati Urb's death on a family holiday to the Kent coast was an accident.", "Police say the attack on Thomas O'Halloran, 87, in west London was an act of unprovoked violence.", "The High Court says some of the advice given to ministers must be disclosed as part of a major case.", "Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University PhD student, called for reforms and the release of activists.", "After giving the interview, Hadi Matar appears in court to plead not guilty to stabbing Salman Rushdie.", "The former chancellor brushes off polls suggesting his rival Liz Truss is the clear frontrunner.", "The MP was suspended for breaking Covid rules and has now lost her seat after a recall petition.", "A director of the UK's energy watchdog quits over the way the energy price cap will be set.", "Ministers say they are drawing up plans in case there is a radioactive emergency at the Zaporizhzhia site.", "Newly-wed Robert Kaweesi, from Birmingham, has been missing in Uganda since Wednesday.", "Members will have a chance to hear from Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss at a hustings on Wednesday.", "Paul Black and Paul McNaughton are accused of killing Dr Peter Coshan who has been missing since 11 August.", "Amol Rajan will take over from Jeremy Paxman, who is leaving after 28 years hosting the quiz show.", "Two men are charged after the disappearance of a 75-year-old ex-Fettes College teacher in Edinburgh.", "Police say Owami Davies, who has been missing for six weeks, could appear dazed or confused.", "Police arrest a 35-year-old man on suspicion of abduction and sexual assault in Greater Manchester.", "Small units play a key role in targeting Russian armour as Ukraine attempts to retake Kherson.", "Isolating from pets when infected and disposing of rubbish carefully is important, health experts say.", "Teenagers are getting a reassuring message by the regulator before this week's A-level results.", "A summer scourge in the suburbs leaves young people dead and injured and prompts promises of action.", "Grades have been purposefully lowered from levels seen during the pandemic - when pupils were teacher-assessed.", "Although cards remain a far more popular way to pay, cash is a preferred option for many, a report says.", "A 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus had puzzled scientists.", "Three children's homes shut after a BBC investigation and two teenage ex-residents speak out.", "The victims, thought to be aged up to 10, were found in suitcases bought at auction last week.", "The exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial paper due to illness or self-isolation.", "Researchers say a genetic modification that boosts plant growth could help alleviate global food shortages.", "Rose Ayling-Ellis, who plays Frankie Lewis in the soap, is leaving Albert Square after two years.", "Antonio Guterres says troops should leave the plant in Zaporizhzhia as he meets Ukraine and Turkey's leaders.", "A woman tells a court footballer Benjamin Mendy boasted of sex with 10,000 women after he raped her.", "Margaret Ferrier is accused of failing to inform Test and Protect that she had attended parliament.", "About 36% of grades are A* and A – with most applicants assured of university or college place.", "The government's tax agency is encouraging a new generation of alcohol drinkers.", "Passengers trying to use the app to prove their vaccination status were left unable to check in for flights.", "British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to buy Manchester United if the Glazer family put the club up for sale.", "The former Manchester United player also tried to stop his ex's sister calling police, trial hears.", "Just over 1,000 students in England are the first to complete the new qualification.", "British number one Emma Raducanu produces another eye-catching display as she thrashes Victoria Azarenka less than 24 hours after beating Serena Williams.", "Allen Weisselberg, a long-serving executive at Donald Trump's company, must pay back almost $2m.", "Margaret Ferrier spoke in the Commons while awaiting a test result before taking the train home after testing positive.", "RMT boss Mick Lynch says his members will \"keep going\" in their dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.", "An accuser at R. Kelly's trial alleged he had sex with her 'hundreds' of times before she turned 18.", "Competition is fierce for doctor training places, but ministers say limit on numbers must stay.", "Police tell parents to be \"extra vigilant\" as they appeal for help to find a man seen on CCTV.", "The foreign secretary says she will deliver controversial legislation allowing the UK to take unilateral action over the agreement.", "Our produce is likely to be smaller, odd-looking, or even leathery after the hot, dry weather.", "Slashing taxes would add to pressures on public finances unless spending is also cut, the IFS warns.", "At least 12 people, including three children, have died in violent storms after weeks of heat and drought.", "Northern Ireland energy regulator warns households will face further gas prices rises in the coming weeks.", "Other politicians suggest Sanna Marin takes a drug test - she insists she only drank alcohol.", "The singer faces charges of child pornography and obstructing justice in his second federal trial.", "The four militants were identified because of arrests years earlier at an English Defence League counter-protest.", "Southern Water says it is investigating the cause of a power outage which caused the release.", "António Guterres makes the warning during a summit with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Lviv.", "People describe their frustration as a survey fails to find a single available NHS dentist in a town.", "Neighbours say they reported a strong gas smell two weeks ago and that they had been feeling dizzy.", "Officials say Russia has been launching artillery attacks from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.", "Monday's search was reportedly linked to an investigation into Mr Trump's handling of official papers.", "Scotland end Birmingham 2022 with a stunning haul of 51 medals after divers Grace Reid and James Heatly earn a 13th gold and squash duo Greg Lobban and Rory Stewart take bronze.", "The health secretary says hospitals could face \"very serious challenges\" this autumn and winter.", "Birmingham ends a hugely successful Commonwealth Games as legendary Brummie rocker Ozzy Osbourne headlines the closing ceremony.", "Former Labour PM says an emergency budget is needed now because of the cost of living crisis.", "Householders complain of discoloured water from taps amid increased demand during hot weather.", "After three days of violence in which 44 people died, fuel deliveries to Gaza have resumed.", "It was taken in Newtownards and driven to Belfast, colliding with other vehicles along the way.", "June Spencer, 103, has played matriarch Peggy in the long-running Radio 4 drama since 1951.", "The men - who are already serving life sentences for murder - are given additional federal sentences.", "State nuclear power head Petro Kotin accuses Russian soldiers of turning the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant into a military base.", "A witness told the BBC that it was the worst flooding he had ever seen in London.", "But she says her tax cuts would boost incomes, as the Tory leadership rivals row over the economy.", "Best known for playing Sandy in Grease, the actor and singer has died from cancer aged 73.", "It comes as business boss Tony Danker warns the UK cannot \"afford a summer of government inactivity\".", "Almost a quarter of searches by the Met from 2018 to 2020 took place with no \"appropriate adult\" present.", "Police say it is highly likely some of the 120kg of cocaine would have ended up in Northern Ireland.", "The drills were due to end on Sunday but a statement said sea and air exercises were continuing.", "The traditional reading out of the football results at 5pm on a Saturday is axed by BBC Radio.", "England's team chief says he is proud of the athletes after a record haul of 176 medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.", "The PM wants payments to be made to survivors \"as soon as possible\", says Downing Street.", "Grace Ross, 21, struck Joshua Kerr, 18, with her car near the farm where he worked in Fife in 2020.", "About 60 people have had to leave their homes as trees burn to the rear of several properties.", "Even one-off incidents could be classed as offences, new Crown Prosecution Service guidance says.", "Vouchers are being cut in value or scrapped altogether across England, BBC News research reveals.", "Little is known about the new track, but it will be called Hold Me Closer.", "The Grammy award-winning singer found enduring fame in the film Grease.", "Zara had said the name of House of Zana was \"one small brush mark\" from being the same as theirs.", "High Court papers allege Gareth Thomas hid his HIV status and did not take care not to pass it on.", "Meltwater flows from the glaciers, which may be set for their highest mass losses in 60 years.", "The British-born singer died \"peacefully\" at her US ranch this morning, surrounded by family and friends.", "Birmingham 2022 will be Scotland's most successful Commonwealth Games outside of Glasgow 2014 after eight medals - four of them gold - were won on Sunday in boxing, athletics and cycling.", "Doctors say Leandro Lo is brain dead after being shot; the suspect has handed himself in.", "England are denied a dramatic 4x400m relay gold after officials rule they committed a lane infringement before anchor Jessie Knight held off Canada in the tightest of finishes.", "Hot conditions will not hit the 40.3C reached last month but could last longer, forecasters say.", "Chloe Hayman, 17, brought happiness and love wherever she went, according to her family.", "Gavin Higgins has teamed up with a Welsh brass band to perform at the Royal Albert Hall.", "A committee of MPs says cost-of-living payments should reflect higher than anticipated energy bills.", "Four vessels leave Ukrainian ports via a safe maritime corridor set up under a deal with Russia.", "There is pressure for candidates to explain what they will do to help with rising bills and how they'll pay for it.", "Post Offices handled a record £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July.", "Nine in 10 UK dentists are not accepting new adult patients, while eight in 10 are refusing children.", "A judge tells John Watt QC his \"vile\" crimes were of the \"utmost seriousness and depravity.\"", "Roger E. Mosley starred opposite Tom Selleck in all eight seasons of the original Magnum P.I.", "UK dentists are treating patients with complications after travelling abroad for cheap crowns.", "Russian weapons could be permanently degraded by tougher export controls in the West, a think tank says.", "The recruitment blitz that followed the pandemic is cooling, according to a jobs report.", "A mother who lost her baby after having Covid-19 while pregnant urges mums-to-be to get vaccinated.", "Police received multiple 999 reports of a man with a firearm in Greenwich, south-east London.", "The number of people with the virus has fallen by more than half a million in a week, statistics show.", "The star earns her fourth number one album in the UK, outselling the competition by three to one.", "The Scottish athlete emulates the success of her mother who also won Commonwealth gold in the 10,000m.", "It was taken in Newtownards and driven to Belfast, colliding with other vehicles along the way.", "Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey warns price rises would be long-term if Bank did not act.", "There were 1,245 alcohol-specific deaths registered in Scotland, 55 more than the previous year.", "The Labour leader failed to register eight interests on time, the standards commissioner finds.", "A heatwave has been ongoing since mid-July with temperatures above 50C in some areas.", "Allies of the former chancellor say he changed outdated rules to reflect need in rural areas.", "A High Court hearing is deciding if the 12-year-old can be moved to a hospice.", "The family's bid for permission to appeal the latest decision is rejected by the Court of Appeal.", "Around 1,900 staff at Britain's largest container port will walk-out in a dispute over pay.", "The retail and hospitality sectors say more government help is needed ahead of an expected recession.", "There is widespread scepticism over North Korea's claim to have the world's lowest Covid death rate.", "Devices from smart speakers to fitness trackers have apps, and cyber-criminals are exploiting weaknesses.", "The US actor has lost his appeal to have an arbitration award to the show's producers overturned.", "The US says it has a \"serious proposal\" for Moscow that would secure the release of the basketball star.", "As hosepipe bans begin in some areas, images show dried-out lawns and parks across the country.", "South African judges are considering a request to extradite the retired teacher to Scotland.", "The 12-year-old boy's family want him to be moved to a hospice for his \"last moments\".", "A charity wants people to \"dramatically\" cut the amount of water they use each day.", "The hospital worker was shot multiple times as officers stormed her home in a \"no-knock\" raid in 2020.", "An elderly couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary and a 29-year old man are killed.", "The Bank of England warns the UK will fall into recession as it raises interest rates from 1.25% to 1.75%.", "Joseph Wu tells the BBC he will continue inviting leaders to Taipei, as China sanctions Nancy Pelosi.", "Beijing continues its show of force around Taiwan in response to top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island.", "The right-wing leader says in a speech to Republicans that the West is locked in \"a clash of civilisations\".", "Hampshire and the Isle of Wight residents are the first in England to face water restrictions this year.", "The wartime codebreaker Alan Turing studied at King's College, Cambridge, from 1931.", "Gaza militants launch rockets into Israel in the most serious outbreaks of violence for over a year.", "While candidates to be PM trade blows many may be wondering whether economic help on offer is enough.", "Two doses are now given but experts say one shot is enough to give protection against cervical cancer.", "Ukraine says Russian rockets hit part of a giant nuclear plant - but Russia blames Ukraine for it.", "Martin Tyler says he did not intend to link the Hillsborough disaster to hooliganism in a BBC interview.", "The mechanical bull used in the Commonwealth opening ceremony will now be given a permanent home in the city.", "Matty Lee and Noah Williams win synchronised 10m platform gold after England team-mate Jack Laugher clinches his second Commonwealth Games title in 24 hours.", "Thousands of performers from across the world descend on Edinburgh to put on more than 3,000 shows.", "On the fourth anniversary of Joel Uhrie's death, a fresh appeal is launched by his mother.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "Samira Islam, 20, is the third member of the family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.", "The deposit is meant to cover rescue and funeral costs amid increased rockfalls caused by hot weather.", "Pladda off the coast of Arran is on sale for £350,000 and includes a five-bed house and helipad.", "The parents of a child killed in the shooting say they endured harassment because of the radio host's claims.", "Former solider Micky Yule was treated in Birmingham after losing both legs in Afghanistan.", "Ten teenagers are sentenced to life with a minimum of between eight and 17 years.", "A number of patients and contacts received fake emails claiming to be from the group.", "The organisation, started in Australia, offers a space for men to talk about issues they have.", "Karl Townsend stabbed Jordan Brophy to death after seeing him breaking into his home on a phone app.", "The mother of Archie Battersbee says she has done everything she promised her son she would do.", "The problems are reported to have impacted referrals from the NHS 111 helpline to out-of-hours GPs.", "Police say there was a faulty electricity generator in the property where the family were staying.", "Trucks are supplying many parched French towns with drinking water after an exceptionally dry July.", "Arsenal get off to the perfect start as they beat Crystal Palace in the 2022-23 Premier League curtain-raiser at Selhurst Park", "Brittney Griner, 31, is jailed on drug charges, a verdict President Joe Biden calls \"unacceptable\".", "Beijing has reacted angrily after senior US Democrat Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this week.", "The parents of a child killed in the attack said they had endured harassment and emotional distress.", "The entertainment and film company is hoping to emulate the success of rivals like Marvel.", "The foreign secretary can be heard responding with a promise to clamp down on disruptive protest.", "The deadly strike killed at least eight Palestinians, including a child, says Gaza's health ministry.", "Human remains were found by demolition workers at a mill in Oldham in July.", "Mountain biker James Anderson was on his way to a competition when his bike vanished from the plane.", "With the UK expected to fall into a recession later this year, our experts answer your questions about the impact.", "Alex Belfield is convicted of stalking four people online but cleared of stalking four others.", "The steroid injection is available on prescription for some treatments but not hay fever.", "Police say it is highly likely some of the 120kg of cocaine would have ended up in Northern Ireland.", "A killer on home release left Linda McDonald for dead - now she says the parole system must change.", "Gary Schroen, one of the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan after 9/11, has died aged 80.", "The father and son from Cardiff died on Tuesday, police suspect the family was poisoned.", "Christopher Wilson suffered \"multiple substantial injuries\" in a fall while walking with his father.", "The Bank of England raises rates as it warns inflation will rise over 13% and the UK faces a long recession.", "A farmer warns he is one of many considering closure, if costs do not come down before winter.", "Video footage shows people fleeing the club screaming, some with their clothes alight.", "Sexual health charities call on the government to take firmer action to control the outbreak.", "Tragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits.", "A Bangor shop owner is visited by a cheeky seagull who makes off without paying.", "Many fans have been visiting the site hoping to find a memorial tree, which was planted in the show.", "The black 1986 RS Turbo was sold to a buyer in Cheshire following \"global\" interest in the car.", "Get our news coverage on your phone or tablet and discover a range of compelling features.", "For Zoey, a trans woman, the event is \"about being unapologetically myself\".", "President Alexandar Vucic cancels the parade - but organisers insist they will go ahead.", "The 19-year-old was killed near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in August 2019.", "Tory leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak face an ominous judgement before reaching Downing Street.", "More than a million bottles of whisky will be on the vessel when it returns to China from Greenock.", "The man, believed to be in his 20s, was not handcuffed at the time, the Metropolitan Police say.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about CEO secrets from across the BBC.", "The massive discovery was made during building work on a house in Pombal in central Portugal.", "Russia is burning off millions of dollars in gas every day at a plant near the Finnish border.", "Sublime centuries from Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes help England take charge of the second Test against South Africa after two days at Emirates Old Trafford.", "Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington found out she had lost her baby at a 12-week hospital scan.", "A number of countries criticise Russia as it blocks a joint UN declaration on nuclear security.", "The motoring group says it appears airports are trying to recoup pandemic losses.", "Liverpool equal the biggest victory in Premier League history as they thrash newly promoted Bournemouth 9-0 at Anfield.", "Emma Raducanu plays down an uncomfortable practice session in New York, saying she just had \"one of those weird days\" before she begins her US Open title defence.", "Near one city, thousands of mud homes have sunk under water; for miles, all that's visible is treetops.", "Husnara Begum remains ill after three of her family died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.", "Campaigners welcome the extra visibility, but say little money is going back to the LGBTQ+ community.", "On Friday, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg warned of the Russian threat in northern polar regions.", "A family fed and cared for the badly hurt but tame animal when it appeared at their Glasgow home.", "The body of Lizzy McCann, aged 26, was discovered in a flat on Thursday, police say.", "Top secret files were kept at Mar-a-Lago along with assorted newspapers and magazines, say investigators.", "A second man is arrested on suspicion of murder after the shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.", "Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says further interest rate hikes are likely in coming months.", "Julia Hales wants to be the first actor with Down's syndrome to appear in the Summer Bay soap.", "Michael Jennings was handcuffed despite another neighbour telling police it was all a misunderstanding.", "Chris Joell-Deshields says more work is still to be done to support the LGBTQ+ community.", "Sam Campbell takes the top honour and £10,000 in prize money for his show at the Edinburgh Fringe.", "A minute's applause is held before Liverpool's game for the nine-year-old girl, who was shot in her home.", "Get all the latest news, live updates and content about Technology of Business from across the BBC.", "England striker Ellen White says a punctured lung she suffered last year while receiving acupuncture treatment accelerated her retirement.", "A survey of more than 1,000 Ukrainians finds the number in work and with bank accounts has increased.", "War in Ukraine", "Rescue workers took the brothers, aged seven and nine, to hospital but they did not survive.", "It's hoped it will help negate visitors' environmental impact and protect the community.", "Identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience - this is why we are making greater efforts to explain what type of information you are reading or watching on our site.", "One of the men has been recalled to prison after breaching the terms of his licence, police said.", "Climate", "The French president warns of \"problems\" after Liz Truss doubted if he was \"friend or foe\".", "But the Liberal Democrats call the plans a \"cruel joke\" pointing to higher bills for consumers.", "The blaze in France's south-west has gutted a number of homes and forced some 10,000 people to flee.", "The sister of North Korea's leader also blames South Korea for causing her country's outbreak.", "The Met Office has issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend.", "The margin between the price of fuel at the pump and what retailers buy it for is at its widest since 2013.", "Ukraine and Russia trade blame as the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe's largest, is hit.", "Zehshan Mahmood, 30, threatened to share intimate pictures and videos of two women, police say.", "The media giant is gaining subscribers as it details plans to launch an ad-supported service in December.", "Councils across the country are sending vulnerable young people to children's homes in Blackpool. The approach is raising concerns.", "Its IT provider says it may take three or four weeks to fully recover from the cyber-attack.", "Plaid Cymru could not legally stop Jonathan Edwards returning as a MP, BBC Wales learns.", "The heatwave will make conditions on England's farms worse as experts warn of smaller harvests.", "In 2020, Wales recorded its highest alcohol deaths for 20 years, with fears this may rise again.", "A man has been arrested after a series of incidents which also left three people in hospital.", "The Tory leadership contender is accused of \"another U-turn\" as he pledges more money to ease costs.", "Over 25% of Homes for Ukraine sponsors want to stop after the initial six months, ONS survey finds.", "Aine Davis, 38, is remanded in custody in the UK after being deported from Turkey.", "The singer stressed he was not abused by a family member or in church.", "Harry Sarkar got bereavement leave and flexible working benefits due to his \"odious\" lies.", "Jonathan Edwards will represent Plaid Cymru again after being cautioned for assaulting his wife.", "Forces in England and Wales often fail to identify and catch offenders, a watchdog finds.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "Durham Police had appealed for help in finding the boy and his mother from Darlington in Turkey.", "Stocks of the vaccine run low in the UK, with a new batch not due to arrive until next month.", "One in six local authorities in the UK have lost at least one pool since 2019, BBC News finds.", "Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Tesco are among retailers who have also stopped sales due to the heatwave.", "BBC research finds police are taking longer to attend serious offences and charging fewer suspects.", "The former chancellor says he has a \"moral responsibility\" to help the poorest with energy bills.", "The energy regulator says it's \"possible\" customers' direct debit payments will rise before October.", "Owami Davies was last seen on CCTV in Croydon, south London, walking in the direction of Norbury.", "Rage Against The Machine pulled out of the festivals due to a medical issue involving their singer.", "The former Manchester United star is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour", "The FBI searched Mr Trump's Florida home on Monday - the unsealed warrant could reveal why.", "Flights will be more expensive because war in Ukraine has pushed up oil prices, Michael O'Leary tells the BBC.", "Aine Davis has denied being part of an Islamic State cell nicknamed the Beatles which murdered hostages.", "The new prototype doesn't think much of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, either.", "The charges follow the death of a father-of-six and attacks on three others in incidents around Skye.", "Olympic, European and world mixed doubles champion Eve Muirhead retires from curling saying he hopes she showed \"girls that being sweaty's cool\".", "Mike Lennon wants to see government intervention after seeing his pub's energy bills spiral.", "\"Soldiers are everywhere,\" says one worker at Zaporizhzhia. \"Everyone is kept at gunpoint.\"", "Sahara Salman, 4, died and an 11-year-old boy and a 54-year-old woman remain in hospital.", "The top US prosecutor gave a statement days after the FBI searched Donald Trump's Florida home.", "A girl is in hospital with serious injuries, and two others are hurt, in a suspected hit-and-run.", "He was overcharged for train tickets he bought in 1999 and had been fighting to get the money back.", "Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, who had close ties with the Taliban, was a supporter of girls' education.", "The accident happened after two rollercoaster trains collided into each other, Legoland says.", "Thousands of UK home addresses have been used by crime gangs to register bogus firms, the BBC finds.", "John McDermott says he always wanted to compete in a triathlon but could not swim.", "Moscow's occupation of the Zaporizhzhia site puts the entire region in danger, say foreign ministers.", "An elderly woman's daughter is accused of stealing her artwork by using a psychic to pretend it was cursed.", "State officials are investigating whether the Trump Organization misled lenders and tax authorities.", "The Tory leader hopeful says profit is not \"dirty\" and windfall taxes were about \"bashing business\".", "Official figures from NHS England suggest high demand for emergency services and hospitals.", "The charity voices concerns of delaying support for households bracing themselves for energy bill hikes.", "A ruling on the coking coal mine in Cumbria had been due in July but was then put back to August.", "UK ministers will argue in court that Holyrood cannot set up a referendum without Westminster backing.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says he is \"proud to support\" an event that is \"more vital than ever\".", "Farmers joined the search for three boys who got lost in 1961, but it was too late for one of them.", "UK Health Security Agency says clinics could run out of vaccine supplies by the end of August.", "Rescue attempts have been delayed again after the water level in the flooded shafts suddenly rose.", "The Treasury announces the move after Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi met Stormont ministers on Monday.", "Follow how the lives of millions of people have been transformed since the Taliban seized power on 15 August 2021.", "The government says new system will give those receiving benefits better access to cheaper broadband.", "Dowse, who played Vice Principal Yvonne Teasley, had been in a coma brought on by meningitis.", "Jessica Mitchell says her baby boy died after doctors refused to treat him properly.", "The Labour leader tells the BBC his proposal to freeze energy prices for all is a good use of public money.", "More people than originally planned will be offered the jab in the UK ahead of the coming winter.", "The Spider-Man: Homecoming star says Instagram and Twitter can be \"detrimental\" to his mental health.", "Aerial video shows the extent of damage after some areas saw 50% more rain than expected in a month.", "With bills set to soar this winter, the party says its plan would save typical households £1,000.", "The Luhansk base was targeted after a Russian journalist revealed its location online, Ukraine claims.", "Liz Saville Roberts says her party should have contacted Jonathan Edwards' wife after he assaulted her.", "This compares to an average of 3.8 days a week pre-pandemic, research by a consultancy suggests", "It means a daily limit on departing passengers will now apply until after the October half-term holidays.", "The increase will also begin in March, rather than January, the government says.", "Cases in the Marshall Islands have surged not long after the first community spread was confirmed.", "\"We do not consider anyone other than Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame,\" a spokesman said.", "Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai both criticised the rushed US withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.", "Nations are trying to agree a treaty to protect the high seas after four decades of trying.", "The couple were last in the country in June for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations.", "The council notice prohibits activities until the park can show risk assessments on drowning.", "Temperatures have exceeded 30C in much of England and Wales - but rain is forecast.", "Sprinter Ricardo Dos Santos says he was \"worried\" when armed police pulled him over early on Sunday.", "A campaign group says it has been \"inundated\" with messages about nurseries going out of business suddenly.", "The Home Office says the technology can warn 85% of the population of life-threatening events.", "Dermatologist Adeline Kikam on coping with conditions that can develop in rising temperatures.", "He hosted his Sunday afternoon programme for 13 years but recently rotated the slot with Rob Beckett.", "Fires broke out across Wales on Sunday putting \"a great deal of strain\" on crews, a fire chief says.", "Australia's current leader says he will seek legal advice about Scott Morrison's time in office.", "Edinburgh festival performers take to camper vans and tents to escape high accommodation costs.", "South West Water says it was \"left with no other choice\" to \"protect our precious water\".", "The staggering profit comes amid soaring oil prices in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.", "No-one was injured in Sunday's incident, which sent passengers running in fear.", "Many BAME patients waiting for a donor kidney are blood type B so development could be 'game-changer'.", "Great Britain's Eilish McColgan claims silver in the women's 10,000m at the European Championships.", "Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are in Perth to pitch for the votes of Scottish Tory members.", "The author was severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York State.", "The announcement was marred by scuffles, allegations of vote-rigging and a divided electoral commission.", "The blaze broke out at a Coptic Christian church in the city of Giza causing a stampede.", "The accountancy giant is lowering its recruitment criteria which it claims will improve diversity.", "Man City's Benjamin Mendy raped three women in one night at his \"isolated mansion\", a court hears.", "Harry Kane equalises six minutes into stoppage time as Tottenham draw at Chelsea before managers Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte are both sent off.", "Former Liverpool and Scotland midfielder Graeme Souness says he does not regret calling football a \"man's game\" despite criticism.", "Warnings of travel disruption and flooding - but drought restrictions remain in place in many areas.", "Mark Pritchard says the direct service from London to Wellington in Shropshire is \"well-used\".", "More people could face hosepipe bans, with five companies already announcing restrictions on water use.", "The bivalent vaccine will now form part of the booster campaign to be rolled out this autumn.", "The Pleasance said the comedian made staff and audience members feel 'uncomfortable and unsafe'.", "The Met Office estimates that the extreme heat we are seeing has been made ten times more likely because of climate change.", "President Vladimir Putin made the comments in a letter sent to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.", "Boris Johnson will be kept informed of \"urgent issues\" while he is away, Downing Street says.", "A former eye surgeon from Egypt, he took over the terror network after the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011.", "Parts of England saw the driest July on record with serious impacts on farmland and wildfire.", "Luck that has protected the world from nuclear war may not last as tensions rocket, the UN warns.", "But the ex-chancellor's pledge for the end of the next parliament is criticised as being too slow.", "The Court of Appeal says treatment of the 12-year-old should not continue beyond Tuesday.", "English Para-swimmer Alice Tai wins Commonwealth gold in Birmingham just months after having her right leg amputated.", "England's Adam Peaty says Tuesday's 50m breaststroke final will be his last Commonwealth Games race after \"an incredibly hard time\" recently.", "Women's football has grown massively in recent years, but what impact will Euro 2022 have?", "The star will remove lyrics from her new song Heated after criticism from disability campaigners.", "A ship carrying grain leaves Odesa under a deal aimed at easing a global food crisis.", "Labour's Lucy Powell writes to the justice secretary over \"flawed\" conspiracy charges.", "Liz Truss receives a boost from her former leadership rival as she and Rishi Sunak take part in a second Tory leadership hustings.", "Six athletes set to compete in Birmingham on Tuesday are stuck in France because of visa problems.", "She went viral after enthusiastically dancing to Sweet Caroline when England won their semi-final match.", "England forward Beth Mead is named the player of the tournament at Euro 2022 after winning the Golden Boot as top scorer.", "England's Chris Murray wins gold in the men's 81kg weightlifting final with a Commonwealth Games record and Sarah Davies wins the women's 71kg.", "Laura Whitmore announced the winners of the ITV2 dating show during Monday's finale.", "She became one of the first black American actresses to play a figure in authority on US television.", "Surgeons say space-age technology helped doctors in separate countries to work together.", "England win four golds, with all-around champion Jake Jarman and Birmingham's Joe Fraser among the victors, as their superb gymnastics campaign continues at the Commonwealth Games.", "The large animal which had escaped from a pet shop is taken to a vet after being hit by a train.", "England's players gatecrash coach Sarina Wiegman's post-match news conference with a rendition of 'Football's Coming Home'.", "England's Laura Kenny wins a stunning Commonwealth Games gold, a day after thinking it would be her final race amid a \"serious confidence crisis\".", "American basketball great Bill Russell has died at the age of 88.", "The move is part of economic sanctions in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.", "The Court of Appeal will decide this afternoon if treatment for Archie Battersbee can continue.", "Chloe Kelly, Leah Williamson, Sarina Wiegman, Jill Scott, Ella Toone, Alessia Russo, Millie Bright, Rachel Daly and Beth Mead give their reactions to winning Euro 2022.", "Liz Truss continues to emphasise her loyalty to the outgoing prime minister, while Rishi Sunak stands accused of stabbing him in the back", "The wife of the 39-year-old, whose killing was filmed in broad daylight, says her heart is aching.", "The Afghan Taliban say one of their officers died as the two countries blame each other.", "England match-winner Chloe Kelly says \"this is what dreams are made of\" after the Lionesses defeat Germany in the Euro 2022 final to win a first major trophy.", "The former Tory leadership rival calls Truss the \"hope candidate\" in the race against Rishi Sunak.", "Captain Leah Williamson says her England side have \"changed the game in this country\" as she celebrates their historic Euro 2022 victory.", "England cyclist Matt Walls is released from hospital after a terrifying crash in which both he and his bike flew into the crowd.", "The rare claim is likely to intensify concerns over Iran's controversial nuclear programme.", "Chloe Kelly's iconic celebration after scoring the winning goal for England in the Euro 2022 final is praised for empowering women.", "The Queen leads the tributes for England on winning Euro 2022 after their 2-1 extra-time win over Germany.", "The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton helps Sir Ben Ainslie's GB team win a friendly Commonwealth race against New Zealand.", "Deividas Skebas, 22, is charged with murdering nine-year-old Lilia Valutyte in Boston, police say.", "New research says it could be \"fatally foolish\" not to think the unthinkable on climate change.", "The 60-year-old tells the BBC she suspects the government poster used a doctored picture of her.", "England are to open talks with Euro 2022-winning manager Sarina Wiegman over a new contract.", "The impact of body image on mental and physical health needs to be taken more seriously, MPs say.", "The culture secretary is criticised for sharing a doctored image of Rishi Sunak preparing to stab the PM.", "A new device will help reconstruct the formation of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail.", "Ethnic Serbs park trucks and tankers at border crossings in the north in protest at the new rules.", "Learn more about the England players who featured at Euro 2022.", "Ministers have given the green light to plans aimed at limiting the number of Airbnb-style lets.", "Taiwan says it has a full grasp of nearby military activity, China says US will \"pay the price\".", "The history of the complex relationship between the two groups.", "The chair of the Post Office scandal inquiry will issue a report to parliament unless progress is made.", "IAG sees a sharp increase in the number of flights and passengers handled, despite problems at Heathrow.", "The Emmy-winning comic actress also worked with stars including Mickey Rooney and Mary Tyler Moore.", "Chloe Kelly scores an extra-time winner as England beat Germany to secure their first women's major trophy in dramatic fashion.", "Chloe Kelly's goal in extra time gives England a 2-1 victory over Germany in the final of European Women's Championship.", "The airline suspends sales for two weeks in response to the airport's cap on passenger numbers.", "Disability campaigners are exasperated after the singer uses an ableist slur on her new song Heated.", "The chain becomes the latest retailer to take action to try to stop food being thrown away at home.", "Fans have been reacting to England's historic Euro 2022 win. Here are some of the best tweets and comments.", "The three Britons, who were captured by pro-Russian forces, are accused of being mercenaries.", "Scotland's deputy first minister says public services would need to be cut without extra UK funding.", "Ayman al-Zawahiri helped plan the 9/11 attacks and was among America's most wanted men.", "Trafalgar Square roared with celebrations as England's lionesses claim an historic win.", "Watch as England's celebrate their extra-time victory in front of fans in Trafalgar Square.", "After years of misery following England's football teams, the Lionesses finally gave the nation the trophy it craved.", "Clarence House says due diligence was conducted when a charitable donation was accepted in 2013.", "BBC Sport has launched a new women's sport campaign to showcase the phenomenal female talent on show at major events this summer.", "Deividas Skebas, 22, appears at crown court accused of killing Lilia Valutyte in Boston.", "Hundreds from up and down the country packed out Trafalgar Square to celebrate the Lioness's victory.", "Watch full-time scenes as England beat Germany 2-1 in extra time at Wembley to become Euro 2022 champions and win their first major competition.", "England's James Wilby breaks team-mate Adam Peaty's grip on the 100m breaststroke title with a superb swim at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.", "England's Euro 2022 final win over Germany was watched by a peak television audience of 17.4 million, making it the most-watched programme in the UK so far in 2022.", "BBC Sport highlights the key athletes to watch at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games from across the home nations.", "One of Ukraine's richest men and his wife die in a bombardment of the southern city of Mykolaiv.", "A helicopter and specialist divers search the area after a 14-year-old fails to resurface.", "Gas engineers had been working in the area before a girl died in a house explosion, neighbours say.", "The revolutionary designer died of liver cancer in Tokyo aged 84, his company said in a statement.", "Black smoke is seen rising from the territory, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.", "Neighbours say they reported a strong gas smell two weeks ago and that they had been feeling dizzy.", "UK Athletics finds former coach Toni Minichiello committed \"gross breaches of trust\" and making sexual references and gestures to athletes.", "Officials say Russia has been launching artillery attacks from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.", "Labour accuses the PM of leaving a \"political vacuum\", saying the government must act now.", "Monday's search was reportedly linked to an investigation into Mr Trump's handling of official papers.", "Prices in supermarkets could increase by 20-25% later this year, one leading exporter tells the BBC.", "Birmingham ends a hugely successful Commonwealth Games as legendary Brummie rocker Ozzy Osbourne headlines the closing ceremony.", "Scientists hope that a scoring system will lead manufacturers to compete over sustainability.", "As part of the Holland, Dozier, Holland team he wrote hits for The Supremes, The Four Tops and more.", "Morhib Miah's family say they are devastated by his death and will not stop searching for answers.", "Mike Pence is among those demanding an explanation from the attorney general for the unprecedented move.", "Tennis great Serena Williams has suggested she is set to retire, saying she will be \"evolving away\" from the sport after the US Open.", "The Tory leadership contender is accused of \"another U-turn\" as he pledges more money to ease costs.", "If 115,000 staff strike, it could be the biggest ever action by the Communication Workers Union.", "Inspectors rate a Liverpool nursery inadequate and find it needs to improve risk assessments.", "The men - who are already serving life sentences for murder - are given additional federal sentences.", "The firm plans to bring in restrictions for 10 million customers \"in the coming weeks\".", "Team Scotland have achieved their most successful Commonwealth Games away from home soil.", "Best known for playing Sandy in Grease, the actor and singer has died from cancer aged 73.", "Former US Vice President Mike Pence says the search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home \"undermines public confidence in our system of justice.\"", "A number of accounts claim to guarantee a safe Channel crossing for £5,000, despite a TikTok ban.", "It comes as business boss Tony Danker warns the UK cannot \"afford a summer of government inactivity\".", "The average household could pay £355 a month, up from £164 currently, consultancy Cornwall Insight warns.", "Three of those who died had drowned in an apartment basement, reminiscent of the film Parasite.", "The committee alleged Donald Trump was directly involved in attempts to reverse election results.", "Little is known about the new track, but it will be called Hold Me Closer.", "High Court papers allege Gareth Thomas hid his HIV status and did not take care not to pass it on.", "French officials say the whale's condition worsened as it was being moved from the Seine to the sea.", "Meltwater flows from the glaciers, which may be set for their highest mass losses in 60 years.", "The British-born singer died \"peacefully\" at her US ranch this morning, surrounded by family and friends.", "Plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse into a centre for up to 1,500 men were announced in April.", "Typical energy bills could hit more than £3,600 a year this winter, says analyst Cornwall Insight.", "Hot conditions will not hit the 40.3C reached last month but could last longer, forecasters say.", "Government support needs to double to make up for the huge expected rise in bills, the consumer expert says.", "Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says he is also preparing options for the incoming prime minister.", "Thousands waiting more than two years for scans, checks and surgery have finally been treated.", "As Chinese developers spiral into debt, people with nowhere else to live have moved into unfinished apartments.", "The ex-president outlines his plan to tackle homelessness before going off script and dropping a hint.", "Post Offices handled a record £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July.", "The Met Office says temperatures will be below July's record highs - but this heatwave will last longer.", "A judge tells John Watt QC his \"vile\" crimes were of the \"utmost seriousness and depravity.\"", "The changes will let users silently leave group chats and control who sees their online status.", "The Ethiopian Airlines pilots dozed off at 37,000ft but woke to land the plane, an aviation journal says.", "Users of some models of iPhone, iPad and Mac are being urged to run \"important\" security update.", "Sacked workers claim they were axed because of pro-union activity as the coffee chain vows to appeal.", "Russia captured the Zaporizhzhia facility in March and is accused of using it as a military base.", "US scientists have discovered a low-cost method for destroying chemicals associated with cancer.", "Thomas O'Halloran, 87, was stabbed to death while riding a mobility scooter in west London.", "The appeal comes amid warnings of a nuclear disaster, as each side accuses the other of shelling it.", "Josephine Tewson played Hyacinth Bucket's nervous neighbour Elizabeth in the 1990s TV sitcom.", "It's a year since the model said a botched cosmetic procedure had left her \"brutally disfigured\".", "International leaders warn of potential disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.", "The former chancellor brushes off polls suggesting his rival Liz Truss is the clear frontrunner.", "People angry at acts like Måneskin pulling out of the festivals say they have got their money back.", "Ministers say they are drawing up plans in case there is a radioactive emergency at the Zaporizhzhia site.", "Manchester United reach an agreement with Real Madrid to sign Brazil midfielder Casemiro in a deal worth up to £70m.", "Ukraine and the UK have been discussing weapons supplies ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive", "Newly-wed Robert Kaweesi, from Birmingham, has been missing in Uganda since Wednesday.", "MPs should come back two weeks early on 22 August ahead of the energy price cap rise, the party says.", "The monks' infection rate was twice that of the townspeople, research reveals.", "Where a tenant's bills are included in their rent the energy rebate will be paid to their landlord.", "An arms depot is hit a week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on another military base in Crimea.", "Police say Owami Davies, who has been missing for six weeks, could appear dazed or confused.", "The heavily indebted cinema chain, which also owns Picturehouse, has been hit by poor audiences.", "The latest news and updates as London Underground and bus workers walkout in a dispute over pay and job cuts.", "Shoppers' concerns come in the face of \"soaring cost-of-living and bleak economic prospects\", says research.", "Kate Greville wrote a parting letter to Ryan Giggs three days before he allegedly assaulted her.", "Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith has to settle for silver after Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji proves too strong in the 200m final at the European Championships in Munich.", "The animal had escaped from a truck transporting it to an abattoir.", "Vanessa Bryant is seeking millions for emotional distress over photos taken at the accident site.", "Elshafee El Sheikh, 34, was found guilty in April of kidnapping and supporting a terrorist group.", "The government will increase its management of the city council after recent expensive errors.", "Security officials report at least 12 dead after al-Shabab militants storm the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu.", "Dina Asher-Smith calls for more research into the effect of periods on performance after her menstrual cycle causes cramp in the European 100m final.", "Reports should go to water companies, not police, forces say.", "The mum of an American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State met her son's killer to forgive him.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 August.", "Sanna Marin was speaking to reporters after videos showed her partying with celebrities.", "The former cabinet minister suggests Liz Truss's tax plans are a \"holiday from reality\".", "Residents say the building shook as the car crashed through the ground floor wall on Thursday night.", "Researchers say a genetic modification that boosts plant growth could help alleviate global food shortages.", "A YouTuber films himself shouting insults at Bolsonaro before nearly losing his phone to the president.", "The actor describes his fellow Scot as a \"brother in arms\" and says he has been left devastated by his death.", "France and Russia want inspections by the UN's nuclear agency as soon as possible, the Kremlin says.", "A woman tells a court footballer Benjamin Mendy boasted of sex with 10,000 women after he raped her.", "The two rowers survived in a life raft for more than five hours after their transatlantic rowing vessel sank.", "About 36% of grades are A* and A – with most applicants assured of university or college place.", "Wayne Couzens is now accused of a total of six counts of exposing himself to cause alarm or distress.", "YouTube becomes the latest platform to remove the social media influencer for violating its policies.", "Western officials reveal the impact of recent Ukrainian strikes on the Russian-occupied peninsula.", "It might not be enough for self-driving cars to be safer than usual cars as people expect more, experts say.", "Passengers trying to use the app to prove their vaccination status were left unable to check in for flights.", "Just over 1,000 students in England are the first to complete the new qualification.", "After the ambulance arrived she was in the vehicle for 20 hours outside hospital.", "An accuser at R. Kelly's trial alleged he had sex with her 'hundreds' of times before she turned 18.", "Lee Byer is charged with the murder of 87-year-old Thomas O'Halloran who was stabbed in west London.", "Police tell parents to be \"extra vigilant\" as they appeal for help to find a man seen on CCTV.", "Notorious Boston gangster James \"Whitey\" Bulger was beaten to death in prison in 2018.", "We hear from young people finding it hard to afford their rent, as well as a landlord facing rising costs.", "At least 12 people, including three children, have died in violent storms after weeks of heat and drought.", "An estimated 1.7 million people would test positive, according to the latest survey.", "Stars Coffee replaces Starbucks after the US chain pulled out over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.", "More and more people will get sick as they choose between skipping meals or heating homes, the warning says.", "The four militants were identified because of arrests years earlier at an English Defence League counter-protest.", "António Guterres makes the warning during a summit with Ukrainian President Zelensky in Lviv.", "The victims of the early-morning house fire in Pennsylvania ranged in age from five to 79.", "The foreign secretary can be heard responding with a promise to clamp down on disruptive protest.", "Liz Truss defends her plans after saying she would not give handouts in response to higher fuel bills.", "Molly Leonard says she often spends months far from her family because Wales has no specialist unit.", "Matty Lee and Noah Williams win synchronised 10m platform gold after England team-mate Jack Laugher clinches his second Commonwealth Games title in 24 hours.", "Israel says it has killed a second senior leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.", "The Scottish government warns cuts will have to be made elsewhere after finding £140m to help settle the dispute.", "A 58-year-old man has died following an altercation at a resort in East Sussex, police say.", "South African judges are considering a request to extradite the retired teacher to Scotland.", "The giant E, F, O and D vanished overnight from the festival site, leaving organisers baffled.", "The warning comes amid reports of Russian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.", "All 32 surviving passengers are injured, 19 of them seriously, officials say.", "The ex-chancellor seizes on a warning from the Bank of England at the latest Tory leader hustings.", "Fleur East, Kym Marsh and Tony Adams on the BBC One dancing competition.", "Samira Islam, 20, is the third member of the family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.", "An elderly couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary and a 29-year old man are killed.", "Beijing has reacted angrily after senior US Democrat Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier this week.", "Members of the public helped search a lake before the girl was found by emergency services.", "Allies of the former chancellor say he changed outdated rules to reflect need in rural areas.", "Thousands take to the streets as the celebration marks its 30th anniversary.", "The move would close a legal loophole which means the current maximum term is only two years.", "The 12-year-old has died in hospital after his life support was withdrawn following a legal battle.", "Kenya's Mary Moraa gatecrashes Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir's Anglo-Scottish duel to take 800m gold at the Commonwealth Games.", "Elizabeth Bird clinches a thrilling 3,000m steeplechase silver as England win five athletics medals on day eight of the Commonwealth Games.", "The father and son from Cardiff died on Tuesday, police suspect the family was poisoned.", "The US president will stay in isolation until he has a second negative test, his doctor says.", "Research for Radio 4's Front Row finds inconsistencies in theatres' ticket prices and policies.", "The mother of Archie Battersbee says she has done everything she promised her son she would do.", "The Australian musician found fame in The Seekers, a folk music group, before going solo.", "Tragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits.", "Police say there was a faulty electricity generator in the property where the family were staying.", "The problems are reported to have impacted referrals from the NHS 111 helpline to out-of-hours GPs.", "Trucks are supplying many parched French towns with drinking water after an exceptionally dry July.", "Arsenal get off to the perfect start as they beat Crystal Palace in the 2022-23 Premier League curtain-raiser at Selhurst Park", "The US has accused Beijing of \"provocative\" actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack.", "Gaza militants launch rockets into Israel in the most serious outbreaks of violence for over a year.", "The parents of a child killed in the attack said they had endured harassment and emotional distress.", "Firm to donate more of its profits but critics say \"billions not millions\" of pounds is needed to help homes.", "UK engineers are building a satellite called Biomass that will map the state of the planet's trees.", "Democrats are keen to eclipse rising star Ron DeSantis amid expectations he may run for the White House.", "The BBC obtains footage where shots can be heard in the killing of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.", "The death toll may rise further after the attack in eastern Ukraine, the country's president says.", "Rolands Kazoks, 31, had his pay and bank cards withheld and denied showers and clean clothes.", "The student nurse, who left her home in Essex more than seven weeks ago, is found in Hampshire.", "Photos posted on social media appear to show metal cages being built in Mariupol's concert hall.", "Darya Dugina, a Russian nationalist commentator, was the daughter of an ally to President Putin.", "Exam board Pearson says a team is in place and results will be provided \"as quickly as possible\".", "Fans praise Wrexham FC's celebrity owners ahead of reality show which puts \"underdog\" in spotlight.", "Two sources give police the same name as they hunt the man who shot Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.", "The dugong, a relative of the fabled manatee, has been declared functionally extinct in the region.", "The rising price of cod, sunflower oil and energy has left many shops struggling to survive.", "The PM says the West must \"stay the course\" on Ukraine despite rising living costs on a trip to Kyiv.", "Researchers say two-thirds of the continent is under some sort of drought warning.", "The man had begged to be euthanised after being partially paralysed in a police shootout in Spain.", "The 27-year-old was shot after a struggle with two officers who were trying to arrest him.", "A higher rate should be paid to all workers, including under-23s, the Trades Union Congress says.", "Rico Burton was stabbed outside a bar in Altrincham in the early hours of Sunday morning, police say.", "A woman tells a court footballer Benjamin Mendy dismissed her protests against having sex with him.", "Many households are feeling the pinch of higher prices, but which sectors are benefiting from them?", "Members of one of Ukraine’s top rock bands, Antytila, are among thousands of civilians fighting against Russia.", "Charlotte Howard is feeling \"completely disheartened\" after missing out on a university place.", "Around 60 tracks from the predator Acrocanthosaurus have been revealed for the first time in 22 years.", "Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen said a gunman shot through the door and hit Olivia Pratt-Korbel and her mother.", "The measures include turning down heating in public buildings as Germany tries to wean itself of Russian gas.", "The Thames Water ban applies to 10 million customers in the Thames Valley and London.", "Dead trout and sticklebacks are strewn along a stretch of the river in Dromore.", "Six months on from the start of Russia's invasion, the threat will test Ukraine's spirit.", "Imports of goods from Russia fell to £33m in June, the lowest level since 1997, official figures show.", "The retailer becomes the latest UK supermarket to scrap best before dates on more than 200 products.", "Trump and Brexit divisions have set back progress, claims Wales' first black cabinet minister.", "Passengers could now underestimate their flights' emissions by nearly half using the Google tool, BBC reveals.", "Rangers will play at European football's top table for the first time in more than a decade after stunning PSV Eindhoven to reach the Champions League group stage.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot as she stood behind her mother who was fighting to close the front door.", "The student nurse went missing from London for seven weeks but was found in Hampshire on Tuesday.", "Thousands of users reported issues on Wednesday as a glitch hit the social media site's homepage.", "Lower income students who had Pell Grants will get more debt cancelled - up to $20,000.", "The pilot scheme will run in eastern Europe to help combat disinformation about Ukrainian refugees.", "Ex-security chief appears to echo claims by Elon Musk over the number of fake accounts on its site.", "Charlie Crist will challenge Florida's Republican governor in the midterm elections in November.", "British-Belgian teen flew through sandstorms and spent the night on an uninhabited island to break record.", "Amelia Shearer relieved herself in a fitting room while drunk and then lied to her bosses about it.", "The deadly attack on passenger carriages came six months to the day since Russia's invasion.", "Fraudster Jody Oliver is jailed for six years after selling non-existent cruises.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was \"kind-hearted and would go out of her way to help others\", her head teacher says.", "Capitol Music Group faced a backlash for signing the artificial intelligence musician.", "Convicted drug dealer Joseph Nee, who was shot as he ran into Olivia Pratt-Korbel's home, is detained.", "\"Several people were freaking out,\" said one traveller, after a Calais to Folkestone train was evacuated.", "The BBC said the then-Newsnight host broke impartiality rules with remarks about Dominic Cummings.", "Most hospital patients and care home residents will no longer be tested unless they fall sick.", "The annual Gers figures show the country's public finances continued to be hit by the pandemic last year.", "Some nurses are swapping NHS staff jobs for bank or agency roles to get a better work life balance.", "The statement comes after a BBC News investigation uncovered widespread abuse in orphanages.", "The Met Office has issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend.", "The outgoing PM says he is making sure money is in place for his successor to offer more help.", "Healthcare workers will be balloted on industrial action after rejecting a 5% pay offer.", "Unite union said about 1,500 members would walk out for a week from 24 August in a pay dispute.", "The Scottish government is offering the funding after unions rejected a 2% pay increase.", "Photographers around the globe capture the final supermoon of the year.", "Rushdie suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses in 1988.", "The 12-year-old died in hospital after his life support was withdrawn following a legal battle.", "A candle-making company gives up the rights to cariad, Welsh cake and hiraeth.", "The Satanic Verses author was stabbed in the neck and abdomen at an event in New York state.", "The government's offer has been described as a real-terms pay cut for health service workers.", "Health service chiefs have promised some 7,000 extra beds in England to tackle increased demands.", "The Tory leadership contender is accused of \"another U-turn\" as he pledges more money to ease costs.", "Wales could face regular repeats of this summer's prolonged hot and dry weather, says expert.", "As war continues in Ukraine, a youth group has come together to help the worst affected areas.", "FBI agents reportedly took around 20 boxes of items, including top secret files, from Mar-a-Lago.", "Energy and food costs as well as wage inflation are having an impact, says Hotels Federation chief Janice Gault.", "Six contenders to stage the 2023 song contest are in England with one in Scotland.", "Harry Sarkar got bereavement leave and flexible working benefits due to his \"odious\" lies.", "The former president says the cache, including information about the \"President of France\", was declassified.", "The proposed pay rise of 5% will mean starting salaries for teachers will be £28,866 a year.", "Durham Police had appealed for help in finding the boy and his mother from Darlington in Turkey.", "Tower superfan Charlie is the voice in the lift, sharing facts and figures about the famous attraction.", "The 35-year-old penguin was killed after the fox broke into its enclosure on Wednesday night.", "Stocks of the vaccine run low in the UK, with a new batch not due to arrive until next month.", "Shelagh Robertson, 75, is cleared after a baby boy is killed when his pram is hit on the pavement.", "Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Tesco are among retailers who have also stopped sales due to the heatwave.", "Council leaders offer 3.5% with the Scottish local government living wage rising to £10.50 an hour.", "The Donnie Brasco actress is legally dead, a representative says, after a car crash in Los Angeles.", "The Met Office says the risk of fires spreading will be \"exceptional\" this weekend in large parts of England and Wales.", "Hot weather continues across the island with warnings in place in the Republic of Ireland.", "Her family says she suffered a severe brain injury when her car crashed into a house.", "By the time BBC journalist Sarah Lee was able to get doctors to listen, her cancer had spread.", "The author, 75, has suffered years of Islamist death threats since writing The Satanic Verses.", "The FBI searched Mr Trump's Florida home on Monday - the unsealed warrant could reveal why.", "Three members of the same family were killed - the gunman was shot dead by a civilian.", "Rage Against The Machine pulled out of the festivals due to a medical issue involving their singer.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 August.", "Finlay MacDonald, 39, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court following the incidents on Wednesday.", "The charges follow the death of a father-of-six and attacks on three others in incidents around Skye.", "Emma Edwards says his reinstatement sends a message \"that domestic abuse survivors don't matter\".", "Nicola Sturgeon had called on Boris Johnson to hold an emergency meeting with the devolved nations.", "The suspect fled the scene in Cincinnati and was gunned down after an hours-long standoff.", "Alison Bell killed herself after she became pregnant during a secret relationship with a nurse.", "\"Soldiers are everywhere,\" says one worker at Zaporizhzhia. \"Everyone is kept at gunpoint.\"", "The 66-year-old says the council will need to double its offer to get him to vacate his property.", "With Britain reaching record temperatures, use our postcode tool to find out how your area experiences extreme heat.", "Some Labour MPs criticised leader Keir Starmer for being on holiday as the energy crisis deepened.", "England Euro 2022 winners Millie Bright, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze are nominated for the women's Ballon d'Or but Lionel Messi, the seven-time men's winner, misses out.", "More people could face hosepipe bans, with five companies already announcing restrictions on water use.", "Becky Harrington flooded social media with posts about the stolen car and found it three days later.", "The accident happened after two rollercoaster trains collided into each other, Legoland says.", "Police name the man accused of stabbing Rushdie in the neck as Hadi Matar, 24, from New Jersey.", "Carl LeVan was a witness at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the 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men's team final at the European Championships in Munich.", "The mum of an American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State met her son's killer to forgive him.", "Misuzulu ka Zwelithini takes the throne in spite of some relatives and royals launching legal challenges.", "Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson wins her first major outdoor title as she claims gold in the women's 800m at the European Championships.", "The exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial paper due to illness or self-isolation.", "Sanna Marin was speaking to reporters after videos showed her partying with celebrities.", "Footage appears to show smoke rising from an area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based.", "The former cabinet minister suggests Liz Truss's tax plans are a \"holiday from reality\".", "One flat-sharing website says it has seen a 239% increase in older people seeking shared accommodation.", "The CPS says DCI Banks star Stephen Tompkinson, who denies the charge, is due in court in September.", "A psychologist says the Superbad actor \"should be applauded\" for opening up about anxiety attacks.", "Russia captured the Zaporizhzhia facility in March and is accused of using it as a military base.", "Untreated wastewater has caused beaches across the South East to close due to a pollution risk.", "The operator's announcement follows a weekend of disruption on Scotland's railways.", "Briton Anthony Joshua's bid to recapture the unified heavyweight titles ends in disappointment as Oleksandr Usyk produces a terrific performance to win by split decision in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.", "In the two fatal incidents in Turkey, emergency crews are hit while attending to earlier crashes.", "The attack on the Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol is the latest in a string of strikes against Russia.", "Over the next eight years, the Welsh government aims to cut smoking rates to 5% or less in adults.", "The Star of Caledonia project situated at Gretna will be about 80% of its original intended size.", "Some students have still not received their BTec results which were due out on Thursday.", "An old chapel has been transformed into one of the largest collections of cinema organs in UK.", "Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith has to settle for silver after Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji proves too strong in the 200m final at the European Championships in Munich.", "About 36% of grades are A* and A – with most applicants assured of university or college place.", "Lewis Jones, 23, from Liverpool, is remanded into custody to appear before crown court in September.", "Slashing taxes would add to pressures on public finances unless spending is also cut, the IFS warns.", "We hear from young people finding it hard to afford their rent, as well as a landlord facing rising costs.", "YouTube becomes the latest platform to remove the social media influencer for violating its policies.", "Western officials reveal the impact of recent Ukrainian strikes on the Russian-occupied peninsula.", "Josephine Tewson played Hyacinth Bucket's nervous neighbour Elizabeth in the 1990s TV sitcom.", "The Insolvency Service said there was no likely prospect of conviction, but a civil investigation is ongoing.", "International leaders warn of potential disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant.", "Harry Kane scores his 250th goal for Tottenham as they move top of the Premier League for a few hours with a hard-fought win over Wolves.", "Vanessa Bryant is seeking millions for emotional distress over photos taken at the accident site.", "Elshafee El Sheikh, 34, was found guilty in April of kidnapping and supporting a terrorist group.", "Ministers say they are drawing up plans in case there is a radioactive emergency at the Zaporizhzhia site.", "It follows a string of attacks against Russian military sites and equipment in Crimea in the past week.", "The four militants were identified because of arrests years earlier at an English Defence League counter-protest.", "Lloyd Rees, 28, beat the previous record, set last week, by more than 20 sheep.", "After becoming a tourist attraction in Oslo, a travelling walrus was killed. 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toxicology report finds evidence of cocaine use, which probably caused the entrepreneur's death.", "Pa Salieu says he was told he failed a background check while rehearsing for next week's show.", "The airline suspends sales for two weeks in response to the airport's cap on passenger numbers.", "The U-turn comes after a backlash from some Conservatives over the plan to link public sector pay to location.", "While most went broke for legitimate reasons, 260 directors have been disqualified for misuse of money.", "Three other members of the same family are also in intensive care after the incident.", "Where a tenant's bills are included in their rent the energy rebate will be paid to their landlord.", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street.", "One mother says she was embarrassed after someone shouted at her while she fed her daughter.", "New figures show the trend of UK club closures continued despite government support.", "A total of 45.8mm 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the myths and legends surrounding the Welsh Atlantis date from long before that.\n\nYet there has never been any definitive geographical evidence for the mythical land… until now, perhaps.\n\nA medieval map has been uncovered which depicts two islands off the Ceredigion coast - now lost to history.\n\nSimon Haslett, honorary professor of physical geography at Swansea University, went in search of lost islands in Cardigan Bay while he was a visiting fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.\n\nAlong with David Willis, Jesus Professor of Celtic at the University of Oxford, they have presented evidence of two islands depicted on a medieval map, each about a quarter the size of Anglesey.\n\nThe 13th Century map depicts a medieval Wales with two large islands off the west coast that do not exist today\n\nOne island is offshore between Aberystwyth and Aberdyfi and the other further north towards Barmouth, Gwynedd.\n\nProf Haslett explained that the two islands are clearly marked on the Gough Map, the earliest surviving complete map of the British Isles, dating from as early as the mid-13th Century.\n\n\"The Gough Map is extraordinarily accurate considering the surveying tools they would have had at their disposal at that time,\" he said.\n\n\"The two islands are clearly marked and may corroborate contemporary accounts of a lost land mentioned in the Black Book of Carmarthen.\"\n\nProfessors David Willis (left) and Simon Haslett (right) researched the lost islands of Cardigan Bay\n\nThe map is held in the collections of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.\n\nCardiff University's Welsh folklore expert Dr Juliette Wood - who was not involved in this research - said the Black Book's account was key to anchoring the story in Welsh myth.\n\n\"The Gough Map may have its origins around 1280, shortly before that, around 1250, you have the Black Book of Carmarthen.\n\n\"It describes Gwyddno Garanhir's country called Maes Gwyddno (Gwyddno's Field). It was flooded because the well-keeper (Mererid) left the cover off the well.\"\n\nDrawing upon previous surveys of the bay and understanding of the advance and retreat of glaciers and silt since the last ice age about 10,000 years ago, Profs Haslett and Willis were able to suggest how the islands may have come into existence and then disappeared again.\n\nProf Haslett also suggested it may explain some of the local folklore.\n\nHe said: \"I think the evidence for the islands, and possibly therefore the legends connected with them, is in two strands.\n\n\"Firstly, coordinates recorded by the Roman cartographer Ptolemy suggest that the coastline at the time may have been some 13km (8 miles) further west than it is today.\n\n\"And, secondly, the evidence presented by the Gough Map for the existence of two islands in Cardigan Bay.\"\n\nThe Gough Map depicts two islands in Cardigan Bay - both about a quarter of the size of Anglesey\n\nHe added folk legends of being able to walk between lands now separated by sea could be a folk memory stemming from rising sea levels after the last ice age.\n\n\"However, legends of sudden inundation, such as in the case Cantre'r Gwaelod, might be more likely to be recalling sea floods and erosion, either by storms or tsunami, that may have forced the population to abandon living along such vulnerable coasts,\" he added.\n\n\"In roughly a millennium, from Ptolemy's time to the building of Harlech Castle during the Norman period, the seascape had completely altered.\"\n\nRoman cartographer Ptolemy mapped much of Europe in precise detail\n\n\"Later maps show the islands had disappeared, yet further up the coast at Harlech, the castle which was built to have a strategic advantage on the coastline now found itself more or less landlocked,\" he added.\n\n\"The erosion of any islands here would have released boulders that are likely to have contributed to the accumulation of the distinctive stone structures known locally as sarns.\"\n\nDr Wood believes these sarns have played a vital part in perpetuating the story.\n\n\"People now as much as then want to find a way of explaining things which seem simply unexplainable; especially during tough times,\" she said.\n\n\"I've seen the sarns myself, and they are incredibly convincing. You could easily believe that their uniform structure was once part of a lost civilisation, however the catch is that most of these stories don't come back into fashion until the 18th Century.\n\n\"I call it re-enchanting the land, the romanticists amongst the Celtic population want to find meaning and a belief system to make sense of the current hardships.\"\n\nDr Wood added that similar \"Atlantis\" legends can be found around most of the world, particularly in Europe.\n\n\"These migratory stories emerge when the facts fit the myth. They come and go all over the place, but especially when phenomena like the sarns appear.\n\n\"Rather than saying that the discovery of the island proves the folklore, I'd say that the proof is coincidental, and that the two truths can exist independently of each other.\"\n\nHowever, Prof Haslett warned his findings could have more bearing on the future than the past.\n\n\"These processes didn't happen just once, they're still on-going.\"\n\n\"With rising sea levels and more intense storms it's been suggested that people living around Cardigan Bay could become some of Britain's first climate change refugees, within our lifetimes.\"", "Local residents came past the site of the hotel to see the destruciton for themselves\n\nSomali security forces have said they rescued 106 people who were trapped inside a hotel that had been stormed by militants on Friday night.\n\nTwenty-one people are confirmed to have died in the 30-hour ordeal, the health ministry said. The fight to retake the hotel ended overnight, officials said.\n\nThe assailants used explosives to gain entry to Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel before violently taking control.\n\nIslamist militant group al-Shabab has taken responsibility for the attack.\n\n\"I would like to inform all Somalis that the operation at the hotel was concluded at midnight,\" police Commander Abdi Hassan Mohammed Hijra told journalists in a briefing that took place close to the site of the attack.\n\n\"It is shocking that innocent people lost their lives here... The security forces were engaged in rescuing the people one by one and in groups.\"\n\nThe death toll could rise as there is the possibility that family members collected the bodies of relatives before an official count was made, Health Minister Ali Haji Adan said. He added that 117 people were injured, with 15 of them being in a critical condition.\n\nThe hotel has been largely destroyed following intense fighting between the militants and security forces throughout Friday night and Saturday, with videos showing explosions and smoke billowing from the building's rooftop.\n\n\"It has been terrible, really terrifying living next door to the gunfire, the explosions. It was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen in Mogadishu,\" Abdisalam Guled, a former deputy director of Somalia's national intelligence agency, told the BBC.\n\nA police officer told Reuters that two car bombs had been used to gain access to the hotel on Friday evening - targeting its front barrier and gate.\n\nAfter the initial attack, a website affiliated to al-Shabab said a group of militants were \"carrying out random shootings\" after having \"forcibly entered\" the hotel - described as a popular location for employees of the federal government to meet.\n\nSecurity forces struggled to gain access to the upper floors of the hotel for hours because the gunmen, who were holding an unknown number of people hostage, had reportedly bombed out the stairs needed for access.\n\nAn affiliate of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has engaged in a long-running conflict with the federal government.\n\nThe group controls much of southern and central Somalia, but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in Mogadishu.\n\nIn recent weeks, fighters affiliated with the group have also attacked targets along the Somalia-Ethiopia border, which has raised concerns about a possible new strategy by al-Shabab.\n\nThe attack on Friday marks the first in the capital by the group since Somalia's new President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was elected in May.\n\nHotels and restaurants have been frequent targets, but Mogadishu saw its deadliest attack in October 2017, when more than 500 people were killed when a truck filled with explosives was detonated at one of the city's busiest intersections.\n\nNo group said it was behind that attack, although correspondents say all indications are that al-Shabab was responsible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smoke rises from hotel targeted by explosives and gunfire\n\nThis attack is a stark reminder of the lethal capabilities of al-Shabab.\n\nAnalysts say it was a message to new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has promised that ending the insurgency would be his top priority.\n\nThis hotel siege indicates just what a tough challenge he faces, and is perhaps why the president has appealed to the international community for help.\n\nHe has said the country needs equipment, training and intelligence to help counter a group that is now described by the US Department of Defense as the \"the largest, wealthiest and most lethal\" of the branches of the al-Qaeda network.\n\nAndrew J Franklin, a former US marine and Africa security analyst, says this latest attack shows that \"al-Shabab is very far from being a bedraggled gang of irregulars on their back feet\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSingapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state.\n\nThe decision, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on national TV, comes after years of fierce debate.\n\nLGBT activists in Singapore have hailed the move as \"a win for humanity\".\n\nThe city-state is known for its conservative values, but in recent years an increasing number of people have called for the colonial-era 377A law to be abolished.\n\nSingapore is the latest place in Asia to move on LGBT rights, after India, Taiwan and Thailand.\n\nThe government's previous stance was to keep 377A - which bans sex between men - but it also promised not to enforce the law in an effort to appease both sides.\n\nBut on Sunday night, Mr Lee said they would abolish the law as he believed \"this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will accept\".\n\nHe noted that \"gay people are now better accepted\" and scrapping 377A would bring the country's laws in line with \"current social mores, and I hope, provide some relief to gay Singaporeans\".\n\n\"We finally did it, and we're ecstatic that this discriminatory, antiquated law is finally going to be off the books. There's a sense that maybe it took a little too long, but it had to happen, you know. Today we are very, very happy,\" gay activist Johnson Ong told the BBC.\n\nA coalition of LGBT rights groups called it a \"hard-won victory and a triumph of love over fear\", adding it was the first step towards full equality.\n\nBut they also expressed concern over another announcement Mr Lee made in the same speech.\n\nHe had said the government would ensure better legal protection for the definition of marriage as one between a man and a woman. This would effectively make it harder for gay marriage to be legalised.\n\nHe said Singapore remains a traditional society with many keen on maintaining family and social norms.\n\nLGBT activists called this \"disappointing\" and warned that it would only further entrench discrimination in society.\n\nMeanwhile Protect Singapore, a conservative group, said they were \"deeply disappointed\" that the repeal was going ahead without assurance of \"comprehensive safeguards\".\n\nThey called for the definition of heterosexual marriage to be fully enshrined in the constitution, as well as laws banning \"LGBT promotion\" to children.\n\nSingapore inherited 377A from the British and chose to retain it after independence in 1965.\n\nThough the law technically criminalises sex between men, it is effectively seen as a ban on homosexuality.\n\nAs it has not been actively enforced in recent years, a thriving and increasingly visible LGBT scene has developed in Singapore, including gay nightclubs.\n\nBut LGBT activists have long called for 377A to be scrapped, saying the law perpetuates social stigma against gay people, goes against Singapore's constitution which forbids discrimination, and has trickled down to influence other aspects of life.\n\nFor instance, any content deemed as \"promoting homosexuality\" can be banned from broadcast in Singapore, and TV shows and movies have in the past been censored.\n\nThe law is also at odds with Singapore's image as an open, diverse global financial hub and multinational companies based in the state have said it would hinder their efforts to attract talent.\n\nWhile many in Singapore still support retaining 377A, in recent years the call for its abolition has grown stronger, with surveys showing growing support for LGBT rights.\n\nAt the same time both LGBT activists and conservatives - many of whom come from religious groups - have mobilised on both sides of the issue.\n\nProtests and political gatherings are strictly regulated in Singapore, but every year LGBT activists hold the island's biggest civil society rally - known as Pink Dot - which draws tens of thousands of participants.\n\nMeanwhile, conservatives have organised social media campaigns and events calling for the preservation of traditional values, and some churches have promoted controversial gay conversion programmes.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Lee appealed to both camps for understanding.\n\nIn his National Day Rally speech - Singapore's equivalent of a State of the Union address - he said: \"All groups should exercise restraint, because that is the only way we can move forward as a nation together.\"\n\nLGBT activists in Singapore have consistently called for 377A's repeal\n\nSingapore is not the only former colony with a version of 377 - the law continues to exist in many parts of Asia, Africa and Oceania.\n\nIt was introduced by the colonial British government in India in the 19th Century, and forbade \"carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal\".\n\nIt soon spread outside of India as the British used the Indian Penal Code as the basis for criminal law codes in other territories they controlled. Several former British colonies such as Kenya, Malaysia and Myanmar still have some version of 377.\n\nIn 2018, India's Supreme Court abolished 377 in a historic verdict, prompting hopes among activists that other former colonies would eventually follow suit.\n\nIn recent years, other parts of Asia have also moved to legalise gay marriage.\n\nTaiwan became the first place to do so in 2019, and in June Thailand approved draft legislation allowing same-sex unions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SG Boys is the first LGBTQ podcast in Singapore", "A bridge has collapsed in India following seasonal monsoon rains in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.\n\nAt least two people are known to have died.", "Decathlete Ben Gregory is in a critical condition after being involved in a serious bike crash over the weekend.\n\nThe 31-year-old's partner, Naomi Heffernan, said on social media: \"Ben... has a fractured skull, neck and multiple haemorrhages to his brain. He's in a coma and on life support.\"\n\nGregory has represented Great Britain, is a multiple Welsh champion and competed at three Commonwealth Games.\n\nIn October 2020 Gregory escaped serious injury in another bike crash.\n\nHis bike was involved in a collision with a car in London and at the time he credited wearing a helmet as the reason he was able to walk away from the incident.\n\nWelsh Athletics issued a statement saying: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with Ben's friends and family at this time.\n\n\"Ben's accomplishments as an athlete speak for themselves: Wales' greatest ever decathlete - three Commonwealth Games, the Welsh record holder and representing Wales and Great Britain multiple times.\n\n\"The outpouring of support across social media is testament to his popularity as a person and as an athlete. Everyone who has had the privilege of training or competing alongside Ben will speak of his incredible love of life, his kindness, support and loyalty.\n\n\"We will all continue to pray for a full recovery for Ben.\"\n\nGregory, who outside athletics works as a model and personal trainer, was a promising youth rugby union player who was on the books at the London Wasps Academy before studying at Loughborough University, but ultimately opted for a sporting career in athletics.\n\nThe chief executive of Welsh Athletics, James Williams, added his own personal tribute and well wishes.\n\n\"I found out last night via social media, like most of us did and utter shock and concern first of all for Ben and obviously considering his family and friends and hoping the next 24-48 hours bring some form of positive news for us all,\" Williams said.\n\n\"He is the type of person you always want on your team and every time he's part of a team he ends up being team captain and there is a reason behind that. He's this larger-than-life character that everyone gravitates to.\n\n\"I think back to previous Commonwealth Games when he's literally had the whole stadium cheering for him, been the last person on the pole vault or winning the 400 or 1500m at the end of each day. That's my memories of Ben and what most people would consider the type of person he is.\n\n\"Decathletes are these individuals who just turn themselves towards anything. To be able to be as successful as you are at 10 events, let alone one, just speaks to the type of person he is.\"", "Anthony Joshua says emotions got the better of him and he let himself down with his bizarre post-fight antics after losing to Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.\n\nJoshua was defeated by split decision in the heavyweight world title rematch.\n\nAfter the contest, the Briton picked up two of Usyk's belts, dropped them out of the ring and strode towards the dressing room, before returning to the ring to give an impassioned speech.\n\n\"I let myself down,\" Joshua tweeted.\n\nAfter returning to the ring, the 32-year-old confronted Usyk, saying, \"you're not strong, how did you beat me? How? I had character and determination'.\n\nJoshua then picked up the microphone and produced a expletive-filled speech in which he reflected on the fight and his shortcomings as a boxer.\n\nHe also talked about several topics, including his troubles with police as a teenager, the war in Ukraine, his career and led the crowd in saluting 35-year-old Usyk.\n\nIn his post-fight news conference, Joshua said he had acted that way because he was mad at himself. \"When you're angry you might do stupid things,\" he added.\n\nIn his tweets on Sunday , he wished Usyk, who also beat him on points last September in London, \"continued success in your quest for greatness\".\n\n\"You are a class act, champ,\" he said. \"Yesterday I had to mentally take myself into a dark place to compete for the championship belts! I had two fights, one with Usyk and one with my emotions and both got the better of me.\n\n\"I'll be the first to admit, I let myself down. I acted out of pure passion and emotion and when not controlled it ain't great. I love this sport so so much and I'll be better from this point on. Respect.\"\n\nJoshua, who took super-heavyweight Olympic gold at London 2012, won his first 22 professional fights, but has now lost three of his past five contests, all of them for world titles.\n\nJoshua hopes to compete again in December\n\nMeanwhile, Joshua says he has the \"hunger\" to fight again and hopes to return to the ring in December.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn wants him to have three or four fights next year with the ultimate goal of the Englishman becoming a three-time world heavyweight champion.\n\n\"I spoke to Eddie and asked him if it's possible to get out in November because momentum is important in boxing - Eddie said December,\" Joshua said.\n\n\"If it's about who I fight, it's come one, come all. Whoever wants it can get it, I don't mind.\"", "Some of those striking were at the picket line early on Sunday morning\n\nDock workers at the UK's largest container port have gone on strike for the first time in 30 years.\n\nAbout 1,900 members of the Unite union at Felixstowe in Suffolk are walking out for eight days in a dispute over pay.\n\nUnite said members rejected a 7% pay offer from the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, which it said was below the rate of inflation.\n\nA port spokesman said the strike was \"disappointing\".\n\nA picket line formed early on Sunday as the strike began, and the union said it would be manned until 22:00 on each day of the walkout.\n\nMiles Hubbard, from Unite's regional office, told BBC: \"Very few people reported for work this morning.\n\n\"The picket line has been in place since 6am and we're getting great support from the public.\"\n\nAbout 2,550 people work at the Port of Felixstowe - the country's busiest port, handling about 48% of the UK's container trade. Striking workers include crane drivers, machine operators and stevedores who load and unload ships.\n\nPort spokesman Paul Davey said the average pay for workers at Felixstowe was £43,000, and employees had been offered a 7% rise plus a single payment of £500.\n\nHe said the offer represented an increase of between 8.1% and 9.6%, depending upon the category of worker at the port, at a time when the average pay increase in the country was 5%.\n\n\"We've got a shrinking economy, we're going into recession... I think that's a very fair offer indeed,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme, he added the strikes were part of Unite's \"national agenda\".\n\n\"It serves their purpose well to have a strike here at Felixstowe... I know many of them [workers] feel they're being used as pawns in this game.\"\n\nFreight transport body Logistics UK said it was \"not expecting massive disruption\" from the walkout.\n\nA spokesperson for the trade association told the BBC: \"Felixstowe is not a 'just-in-time' delivery port - everything coming in is scheduled well in advance.\n\n\"If it [the strike] goes on for longer than eight days then those using the port will be looking at alternative routes, but at the moment there is plenty of stock in the supply chain. Others have already been planning alternative routes - we're not expecting panic.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added: \"As an industry, we are incredibly flexible and have been working for a while to put these goods into alternative ports if they have to be.\"\n\nMajor shipping group Maersk warned that it expected the strike to cause serious disruption with some vessels significantly delayed.\n\nDr Kamran Mahroof, associate professor in supply chain analytics at the University of Bradford, told the BBC: \"Although a lot of the goods that pass through this particular port might be your fridges and laptops, there will be a lot of frozen goods foods that might also be passing through this channel.\n\n\"So there will be disruptions, but the importance here is to ensure that it is limited only for eight days as they say.\n\n\"Prolonging this might mean we might have to divert where goods go, but infrastructure might not be able to cope.\"\n\n\"Don't ask for a pay rise.\" That was the message from the governor of the Bank of England in the spring. Andrew Bailey feared the more money workers manage to squeeze out of employers, the higher inflation could spiral.\n\nSince then it has risen from 7% to just over 10% and is predicted to peak at as high as 13% over the coming year.\n\nThat is why unions at the Port of Felixstowe say a 7% pay deal is not good enough for workers who are struggling with rising bills at home.\n\nAnd that is the conundrum facing both the bank and the incoming prime minister.\n\nHow to get inflation under control while helping people with rocketing energy bills, increases in food and fuel prices, and rising mortgage and rent costs?\n\nIt is an especially tricky puzzle, given that some of the factors currently driving inflation - the war in Ukraine, soaring wholesale gas prices and a general global downturn - are difficult to influence.\n\nBut until the tide is turned and the cost-of-living starts to recede rather than rise, it will also be difficult to convince workers not to push for higher wage settlements.\n\nAnd dock workers at Felixstowe may not be the last workforce we see taking to picket lines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: The BBC spoke to Robert Morton from the union Unite and Paul Davey from the port\n\nSome businesses have expressed concern about the action.\n\nAdam Searle, managing director of haulage firm CP Transport, said if his firm did not move any containers this week it could stand to lose £60,000-£70,000.\n\nHe said: \"Throughout Suffolk the bill could run into the millions and throughout the country a lot more.\n\n\"It's not going to affect food supply chains because all the fresh produce is already in stock, but it will affect the supply chain in terms of furniture, fences and random bits and bobs.\"\n\nDerek Hailstone, co-owner of Mick's Cycles in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said the strike had \"the potential to affect us as most of our stock comes into the UK through Felixstowe\".\n\nDerek Hailstone said his business was reliant on Felixstowe\n\nAnd Haulage company Turners of Soham in Cambridgeshire, which moves about 500 containers out of the port every day, said the walkout could cause problems.\n\n\"About 30% of our business is at Felixstowe, so it's going to have a huge impact,\" said Paul Day, managing director.\n\nExplaining the reasons for the action, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"Felixstowe docks is enormously profitable.\"\n\nTogether with its parent company, CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd, they could \"give Felixstowe workers a decent pay raise\", she said.\n\n\"It's clear both companies have prioritised delivering multi-million pound profits and dividends rather than paying their workers a decent wage.\"\n\nRobert Morton, Unite national officer, also told the BBC: \"The people in Felixstowe aren't particularly militant and that's been shown by the fact there hasn't been a dispute for 30 years. But people are angry now a company who made £240m over the last two years are unwilling to share it with them.\"\n\nHe said dock workers were going to be paid £370 per week with strike pay.\n\n\"Our members are understanding of what they will lose, but they're looking at what they can gain as well.\"\n\nFelixstowe is one of the largest container ports in Europe\n\nMeanwhile, the port said its staff union, which represents about 500 clerical and engineering employees, had \"voted to accept the same pay offer that Unite has refused to put to its members\".\n\nUnite said it had balloted the dock workers, not the clerical groups represented by the Port of Felixstowe staff union.\n\nReferring to the staff who had accepted the offer, a Unite spokesperson said: \"This group of members have the right to accept the offer from the company but Unite's dockers want to press for 10%.\"\n\nStrike action at the port is expected to last until Monday 29 August.\n\nHow is your business being affected by the Felixstowe strike? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katie Bull from the Hope Rescue Centre with one-year-old terrier Rolo\n\nThere has been a \"sharp rise\" in the number of dogs being abandoned as the cost-of-living crisis deepens, a rescue centre has said.\n\nHope Rescue Centre in Rhondda Cynon Taf said it had taken 300 calls in the past three months about pets.\n\nThe centre said it was caused by a \"perfect storm\" of an increase in dog ownership during lockdown alongside the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn the year after the first lockdown, UK households bought 3.2 million pets.\n\nRolo, a one-year-old terrier is one of the many dogs at the rescue centre.\n\nHe was brought by a dog warden as a stray, with very little known about his background.\n\nThe centre said although he was very friendly, he could get overwhelmed in some situations, so needs a gentle approach.\n\nThe centre's owner and founder, Vanessa Wadden, said Rolo was one of many and the situation was the worst she has seen 17 years.\n\n\"In the last three months alone we've had over 300 calls from people asking for our help,\" she said.\n\n\"It is very dramatic, it is a perfect storm.\n\n\"We are having to turn dogs away and that is the hardest bit, it is heartbreaking.\"\n\nRagner is an American bulldog described as the \"biggest puppy at heart\"\n\nCentres across Wales are struggling to cope with demand and although many are full, staff stressed there was still help at hand.\n\n\"There are circumstances where we can't always help, we can't always take the dog in there and then, but we would urge owners to always pick up the phone,\" said Hope Rescue's Katie Bull.\n\n\"We can always offer advice if you are struggling to feed the dog, or struggling with medical costs and we can also put people on the waiting list.\"\n\nIt is a similar story at Cardiff Dogs Home. With the number of strays, surrendered and unwanted dogs rising on a daily basis, the centre has seen record inquiries.\n\nManager Maria Bailey said: \"The demand has been quite striking for lots of different reasons.\n\n\"We are getting about 40 to 50 calls a month. Between April and July this year we have taken in 225 dogs, that is roughly 56 dogs a month at the moment so we are pretty much full all the time.\"\n\nRagner, a two-year-old American bulldog, was signed over because his owner could not look after him any longer.\n\nHe is also what is now commonly known as a \"lockdown pet\", many of which have been abandoned.\n\nVeterinary charity The PDSA estimates that \"depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000\".", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nGreat Britain claimed gymnastics gold with a stunning performance in the men's team final at the European Championships in Munich. European all-around champion Joe Fraser, James Hall, Jake Jarman, Courtney Tulloch and Giarnni Regini-Moran dominated to finish more than six marks clear of silver medallists Italy. They are the first British team to win the European title since 2012. Britain won with a score of 254.295, as Turkey earned bronze behind Italy. \"The way we pulled together today really showed our character. We have worked for months together through the tough times and the good,\" Fraser told BBC Sport. \"To deliver the routines we did today under that amount of pressure - I'm proud of each and every one of them,\" he added. Hall said: \"It's just been a pleasure. I've enjoyed every single moment going round with these guys. \"To be rewarded with this, it's just a dream come true.\" Britain won silver in the women's team event last week. 'One of the greatest teams ever' - superb Britain triumph The men's team maintained the consistent form that had seen them top qualification on Thursday, nearly three points ahead of Turkey, as they secured a commanding victory at Olympiahalle. Jarman, 20, led with a score of 14.500 as Britain made an encouraging start to their competition on the floor - the highest score in that section of the final - before Fraser displayed his pommel class with a 14.433. Britain were on course for gold at the halfway mark after Tulloch (14.633), Fraser (14.100) and Hall (13.433) executed solid routines on the rings - but led Germany by little over one mark. Jarman, who became the most successful English male gymnast at a single Games with his four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, helped extend the advantage as he led the team with a superb 15.200 on vault. Joined by Regini-Moran (14.900) and Tulloch (14.600), it ensured Britain stood five marks clear of second-placed Italy after four of six rotations. Having become the first British man to win the European all-around title two days earlier, the 23-year-old Fraser reinforced his credentials on the parallel bars before Sunday's individual final with a 15.166 - though Turkey's Ferhat Arican posted 15.200 in response. There was to be no let-up from the British team on the final rotation, as Hall (14.066), Fraser (13.900) and finally Jarman (12.966) secured the title on the horizontal bar, allowing the celebrations to begin. \"This team competition has topped everything off. It's been an amazing journey and I can happily say the hard work has paid off,\" Jarman said. Regini-Moran added: \"We're a great team and I think it's that team spirit that really lifts us. The team spirit we have is incredible.\" Speaking on BBC TV, former British gymnast and Olympic medallist Nile Wilson said: \"How good is that? They are one of the greatest teams ever. \"All of them are superstars. The humility and how modest everyone is on that team - you produce your best gymnastics because it's not for you, you're competing for your boys. It's such a special feeling.\" On Britain's wealth of gymnastics talent, he added: \"It's exciting times. We've created pioneers and superstars. It's just phenomenal.\" As the British team topped the gymnastics table with one day of competition remaining, fellow Olympic medallist Beth Tweddle said: \"It's such a proud moment. When I was younger, we were dreaming of that. To see Britain dominating a medal table is incredible to see.\" There will be further opportunity for Britain's male gymnasts to claim medals in Sunday's individual apparatus finals. Fraser will go for further golds in the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, while Regini-Moran has qualified for the floor, vault and parallel bars finals. Tulloch will compete on the rings and in the vault, Jarman on the floor, and Hall will contest the high bar final.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "Rico Burton died in hospital after he was stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nBoxer Tyson Fury has called on the government to introduce stronger punishments for knife crime after his cousin was killed in a stabbing.\n\nThe heavyweight champion said on social media \"RIP Rico Burton\", who was \"stabbed in the neck\" overnight.\n\nFury compared knife crime to a \"pandemic\", adding, \"you don't know how bad it is until it's one of your own\".\n\nTwo men have been arrested in connection with the incident, in which a 17-year-old also suffered serious injuries.\n\nSupt Ben Ewart said one of the men, aged 21, was arrested at the scene and the other, aged 20, was arrested later. Both remain in police custody.\n\nIn an impassioned plea on social media earlier, Mr Fury wrote: \"This is becoming ridiculous - idiots carry knives. This needs to stop.\"\n\nThe boxer demanded the government \"bring back higher sentencing for knife crime\".\n\nHe ended the post in tribute to his cousin: \"Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick. Enjoy every moment.\n\n\"RIP Rico Burton - may the lord God grant you a good place in heaven, see you soon.\"\n\nTyson Fury said his cousin Rico Burton died after a stabbing\n\nSupt Ewart, of Greater Manchester Police, said the emergency services had received multiple calls at about 03:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nArriving at the scene in a courtyard area, paramedics found the 17-year-old and Mr Burton with stab wounds and receiving first aid from members of the public.\n\nHe said both victims were taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary where Mr Burton later died.\n\n\"This is without doubt a senseless attack and both victims should have returned home this morning after enjoying a night out with friends,\" Supt Ewart said.\n\nHe added: \"Goose Green is a popular nightspot and would have been busy at the time and I appeal for anyone who was there overnight on Saturday or anyone with information about this incident - including phone photograph footage or videos - to come forward, in particular any friends of any of the victims or suspects who may have been out with them that night who have not yet come forward.\n\nAsked what police had been told about a possible argument, Supt Ewart said it was a \"very live\" investigation and that was \"obviously a factor we're looking into\".\n\nKnife crimes rose by 10% to 49,027 offences in England and Wales during the year to March 2022, according to records.\n\nPublic concern about stabbings and firmer guidance for judges since 2015 have led to longer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than jailed.\n\nA statue made of weapons confiscated by police - known as the Knife Angel - has been recently touring the country\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands gather for the coronation of the new Zulu king\n\nAfter a year-long family feud, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini has been crowned Zulu king in a traditional ceremony in South Africa.\n\nThe 48-year-old is the son of the previous king, but some royals had argued he was not the rightful heir and that the late king's will was in fact forged.\n\nThousands of people gathered at Saturday's traditional coronation at KwaKhangelamankengane Palace, where the king entered the sacred cattle kraal to invoke his ancestors before being announced to both the living and the dead as the new Zulu monarch.\n\nHe was expected to wear the hide of the lion that he hunted for the royal event, a key feat in proving he is indeed the chosen one. More than 10 cows were slaughtered in preparation for the festivities.\n\nNext month, he is to be hosted by the government for a state ceremony.\n\nThe throne has no formal political power, but a fifth of South Africa's population is Zulu and its monarchy remains hugely influential with a yearly taxpayer-funded budget of more than $4.9m (£3.5m).\n\nThe Zulu kingdom has a proud history. It is world-famous for defeating British troops during the 1879 battle of Isandlwana.\n\nIts succession battles have always been fierce - and at times, bloody. The legendary King Shaka ka Senzangakhona killed his brother in 1816 in order to take the throne, then was himself assassinated in a plot masterminded by his nephew years later.\n\nBut this latest saga, following the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu more than a year ago, has been an embarrassing public spectacle.\n\nVarious royal family factions continued to champion their preferred candidates through several legal challenges.\n\nBy the time he died last year, King Zwelithini had six wives and had ruled for more than half a century.\n\nKing Goodwill Zwelithini was on the throne for more than 50 years\n\nIn his disputed will, he named his third wife Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu as regent - a sort of caretaker role pending the appointment of a successor.\n\nQueen Mantfombi held the highest status among the king's wives, because she came from royalty - her father was the late King Sobhuza II and her brother was King Mswati III of Eswatini.\n\nHer marriage to the Zulus came with the condition that her first-born son would be first in line for the throne on her husband's death.\n\nSo when she died a month after becoming regent, their son Misuzulu ka Zwelithini was seen as the obvious choice to take power. He had also been named as successor in his mother's will.\n\nWhat's more, the fact that Prince Misuzulu was the only person to inherit the traditional weapons of his grandfather King Cyprian Bhekuzulu ka Solomon was seen as an endorsement that he would eventually take over from his father.\n\nHowever, two more of the late king's sons have been staking their claim to the throne.\n\nThe royal family has split into three factions, each backing their preferred prince - Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, Simakade ka Zwelithini and Buzabazi ka Zwelithini.\n\nBack in March, South Africa's president formally recognised Misuzulu ka Zwelithini as the new Zulu king, but a legal challenge was mounted by Misuzulu's brother, Mbonisi Zulu, who asked the court to halt the coronation.\n\nHowever, the court dismissed his application and allowed coronation proceedings to continue.\n\nExactly a week before King-to-be Misuzulu's traditional coronation, his half-brother Prince Simakade was announced as the new monarch by a handful of supporters within the royal family.\n\nHis backers say he is the obvious choice as the late king's first-born son, but traditional Prime Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has described this as a \"foolish provocation\".\n\nMeanwhile, three of King Zwelithini's brothers called a news conference on Thursday to announce Prince Buzabazi as their choice, claiming he of all sons had the closest relationship with his father.\n\nEven on the day of the crowning ceremony, the new king's half-sisters filed an urgent motion at the high court in Pietermaritzburg to try to stop the coronation. Princesses Ntandoyenkosi and Ntombizosuthu said their late father's will may have been forged. The challenge was dismissed by the court.\n\nMisuzulu has received strong support from other family members, who argue that customs dictate he is the rightful heir.\n\nSome believe tribalism could be at the heart of this battle. King-to-be Misuzulu's maternal heritage is from Eswatini, meaning he is not 100% Zulu and that's why some in the royal family never fully embraced his mother as the Great Wife.\n\nWhile the battle rages on for now, many believe the throne will find a way of cleansing itself and that the rightful king will be officially installed at a public coronation on 24 September - a public holiday in South Africa - ending the long-running feud.\n\nA fitting choice, because the holiday was previously known as Shaka's Day - a time when thousands of Zulus would visit his grave to honour him for uniting the Zulu nation.", "A guitar used by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is expected to fetch up to £30,000 at auction.\n\nGrohl played the Gretsch White Falcon guitar in the 1997 video for Monkey Wrench.\n\nIt was originally owned by the band's rhythm guitarist Pat Smear and was used on their second album The Colour And The Shape.\n\nThe guitar is being sold at auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate, in Corsham, Wiltshire, on 7 September.\n\nIt is being sold along with a Polaroid photograph taken by Smear of actress Drew Barrymore playing it.\n\nA photograph of actress Drew Barrymore playing the guitar is also being sold\n\n\"This a very exciting guitar as it's one of the few owned by Foo Fighters, arguably the biggest current rock band on earth, ever to come to public auction,\" said auctioneer Luke Hobbs.\n\n\"Monkey Wrench was the band's breakthrough single and also the first to feature drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died tragically this March.\n\n\"I'm expecting interest from around the world. The fact that it features so prominently in the band's iconic Monkey Wrench video makes it all the more attractive to collectors and fans.\"\n\nSmear, who was also the on-tour rhythm guitarist with Grohl's previous band Nirvana, bought the guitar in 1996 and it is being sold by a private collector.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Keely Hodgkinson won her first major outdoor title as she claimed gold in the women's 800m at the European Championships.\n\nHodgkinson, 20, moved to the front with 200m remaining and took victory in one minute 59.04 seconds in Munich.\n\nIt is a second European title for Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Hodgkinson, who won indoor 800m gold as a teenager in 2021.\n\nBritain's men's 4x400m relay team also won gold while the women took bronze.\n\nAlex Haydock-Wilson held on under pressure from France and Germany following legs by 400m champion Matt Hudson-Smith, Charles Dobson and Lewis Davey, as the men's quartet triumphed in 2:59.35.\n\nThe women's team - Victoria Ohuruogu, Ama Pipi, Jodie Williams and Nicole Yeargin - finished behind the Netherlands and Poland to make the podium.\n\nThere was a medal for Britain in every race on the track in Saturday's evening session, as Elizabeth Bird later clinched bronze in the 3,000m steeplechase.\n\nAlbania's Luiza Gega won gold in a championship-record time of 9:11.31, ahead of Germany's Lea Mayer (9:15.35), with Commonwealth silver medallist Bird crossing the line in 9:23.18. Fellow Briton Aimee Pratt was seventh.\n\nElsewhere, Sweden's pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis added to his Olympic and World titles as he set a championship record, retiring after his first-time clearance at 6.06m with the gold medal already secured.\n\nIn the 800m, Jemma Reekie was the only athlete initially able to follow team-mate Hodgkinson in the closing stages, however she faded out of contention as France's Renelle Lamote took silver ahead of Poland's Anna Wielgosz.\n\nReekie, 24, finished fifth in 2:00.31, with Alex Bell sixth (2:00.68) and Ireland's Louise Shanahan placing eighth (2:01.64).\n\n\"I think you can tell I was very happy to come here and finally get on top of the podium,\" said Hodgkinson, who pointed to the sky with a beaming smile as she crossed the finish line.\n\n\"There is a great team around me that has helped me all season. It has been a hard year mentally but we've made it to the end with a gold and two silvers, so I'm really happy.\"\n\nAmbitious Hodgkinson 'wants to be a legend'\n\nHodgkinson lost out to American Olympic champion Athing Mu by 0.08 seconds at the World Championships in Eugene in July, before she was denied gold by Kenya's Mary Moraa at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham a fortnight ago.\n\nBut they remain the only two athletes to beat the Briton over the two-lap race this year after she executed her plan to perfection at Munich's Olympiastadion.\n\nReekie, who was beaten to Olympic bronze by 0.09secs last summer, suffered after trying to follow Hodgkinson - who pulled away down the home straight to ensure a perfect end to her season.\n\nThe Wigan athlete broke Kelly Holmes' 26-year British record as she won Olympic silver in Tokyo in a breakthrough 2021, a year that also saw her claim the British and Diamond League 800m titles in addition to her European indoor success.\n\nShe opened her 2022 season by producing a British indoor record - and the fastest indoor 800m performance by a woman in 20 years - at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham in February.\n\nHoping to challenge for major international titles, Hodgkinson was forced to withdraw from the World Athletics Indoor Championships with a quad injury in March.\n\nBut she has responded to that setback with three superb performances - with this final run after an exhausting summer delivering the gold she desperately wanted.\n\nAsked how she has refocused after each championship, Hodgkinson said: \"Trying to get that gold definitely helped. I think it's just about trying to forget and move on from it. Now I can go home with three medals, I couldn't be happier.\n\nOn what comes next, she added: \"There's still a world indoor medal that I don't have yet and I still have a lot of silvers, so we're going to try and get some golds. I've still got a long way to go.\"\n\nHodgkinson is trained by Trevor Painter and his wife Jenny Meadows, the 2010 silver medallist who was watching from the BBC studio.\n\n\"I'm so relieved for her,\" said Meadows. \"She's ambitious. She wants to be a legend of the sport. She wants to win everything multiple times. Aged 20, she has the time to do that.\n\n\"This is her moment. She knows how fickle sport can be. She could get injured, the next person could come through - as Moraa did at the Commonwealths. She is going to take every opportunity she can right now.\"\n\n'Everyone in this team has a story' - relay joy for GB\n\nHaydock-Wilson, the 400m bronze medallist, and Davey competed alongside Joseph Brier and Rio Mitcham as Britain's men's quartet finished in the third and final automatic qualification place in their heat on Friday.\n\nBolstered by the inclusion of individual champion Hudson-Smith and 22-year-old Dobson, the men's team led from start to finish in the final following Hudson-Smith's opening leg, with Haydock-Wilson measuring his effort to ensure he had enough left to seal victory.\n\nComparing his two European successes this week, Hudson-Smith said: \"This one feels a lot better and a lot sweeter because we have a team. This is honestly amazing.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old admitted he had struggled with his mental health over recent years as he battled with injury, debt and the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We have a great support system and without them I wouldn't be here,\" Hudson-Smith added. \"I have the future right next to me [his 4x400m team-mates]. The four-by-four boys are back and we're here to take over.\"\n\nHaydock-Wilson said: \"We're back and this is not it - this is the beginning of this team. Everyone in this team has a story, we believe in each other, we love each other.\n\n\"What Matt has come back from over the last four years, Charlie with injuries, Lewis who has been coaching himself since his coach passed away a few years ago, we all have something to fight for.\"\n\nOhuruogu and Yeargin were part of Britain's world bronze medal-winning team in Eugene in July - and they took third again in Munich.\n\nYeargin was overhauled by the Netherlands' talented 400m and 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol, and Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek despite a 49.7secs final leg as the team finished under a second off gold in 3:21.74.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "Alexander Dugin believes the separatist struggle has re-awakened the \"Russian spirit\"\n\nA prominent Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher has told BBC News that war between Russia and Ukraine \"is inevitable\" and has called on President Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine \"to save Russia's moral authority\".\n\nAlexander Dugin is the founder of Russia's Eurasian movement. His views are believed to be popular among the hawkish Russian elite. Until recently, he was also a professor at Moscow State University, but he says his current status with the university is unclear.\n\nHis views have not changed, he says, but attitudes towards his views among those in power may be shifting.\n\nThe centrepiece of his geopolitical theory is that Russia's mission is to challenge US domination of the world, with the help of Iran, as well as Eurosceptic parties, which are currently on the rise in Europe.\n\nHe has been labelled the brains behind President Putin's wildly popular annexation of Crimea.\n\nThe next step, he proclaims, is military intervention in eastern Ukraine, which he regularly calls Novorossiya (New Russia). It is a name that has also been used by President Putin.\n\nDugin believes the \"Russian spirit\" has been re-awakened by the separatist struggle there, which he calls the \"Russian Spring\".\n\nThe symbol of that spirit is rebel commander Igor Strelkov, backed by Dugin who keeps in regular touch with the fighters in Donetsk.\n\nRussian troops on exercises near the border with Ukraine in April\n\nSpeaking on the phone from Moscow, in clear English and with a sense of urgency in his voice, Dugin fears that the \"Russian Spring\" is about to lose its momentum: \"It is a real mess.\n\n\"The liberals are against Putin, and the patriots support him, but only if he continues with his patriotic policies. While he is hesitating, he is losing the support of both sides. It is a dangerous game. But maybe he has a solution?\"\n\nAlexander Dugin called for the annexation of Crimea as far back as 2008, during Russia's war with Georgia.\n\nHe travelled to the disputed region of South Ossetia, where he was photographed with a rocket launcher.\n\nBack then, he thinks Russia should have taken its troops all the way to the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. They should have then overthrown President Mikheil Saakashvili and moved to take over Crimea, \"which is part of Russia anyway\".\n\nSuch views will offend most in Ukraine and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. At the time, many Russians would have found them extreme. But not any more.\n\nSince Russia's annexation of Crimea, President Putin's approval rating has soared as high as 86%. According to the independent Levada Centre in Moscow, two-thirds of Russians approve of the separatists in eastern Ukraine and most believe that Moscow should offer support.\n\nNow, with Ukrainian forces on the offensive against rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Dugin blames \"the liberals\" for President Putin's reluctance to send troops.\n\nThe \"liberals\", in his view, are mainly businessmen who made their fortunes in the 1990s. If further economic sanctions are applied to Russia, they are the ones who stand to lose most because they are \"integrated into the world economy\".\n\nPresident Putin's apparent hesitation, in Dugin's view, is due to an internal struggle in the Russian government - and in President Putin's own mind.\n\n\"This is the struggle between the patriotic, Orthodox, conservative forces - and the liberal forces, which are also very strong,\" he says.\n\nIn effect, he thinks, there are two conflicting sides of Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"Putin's patriotic side is supported by most Russians, and his liberal shadow is represented by most of the political elite, the oligarchs and his Prime Minister, Mr [Dmitry] Medvedev.\"\n\nThis anti-establishment note is popular with most Russians, who do not trust the \"liberal elite\", blaming them for the chaos of the 1990s.\n\nNot only do many Russians sympathise with Alexander Dugin's new brand of militaristic patriotism, some go as far as buying their own kit and travelling to eastern Ukraine to join the rebel groups.", "Karen has been housesharing for five years\n\nThe rising cost of renting and buying a house has led to more over-50s looking for house and flat-shares, according to property-sharing websites.\n\nIt's something that is normally associated with younger people but what is it like sharing when you're over 50?\n\nKaren Miles, 66, moved into a 13-person house five years ago to save money.\n\nShe was previously living in a one-bedroom flat just outside Eastbourne but struggled to cover her bills alongside rent of around £560 a month.\n\nNow she pays £500 a month for a room, excluding bills, in a shared house in the town.\n\nHer housemates are a mix of ages, ranging from early-20s to early-50s. While she gets on with everyone, they don't tend to socialise together and Karen, who works part-time as a housekeeper, said sharing with younger people can pose problems.\n\nShe has previously had issues with some flatmates being noisy and the shared kitchen and bathroom can get dirty quickly.\n\nHowever, she said there were also benefits of having other people around to chat to.\n\n\"If I moved in somewhere on my own, I think I probably would feel a bit lonely,\" she added.\n\nKaren has tried to look for a one-bedroom flat to rent but with prices increasing she has struggled to find something affordable.\n\nShe would also like to share with friends but said it can be difficult for older people to find someone of a similar age to rent with.\n\n\"My friends have got husbands and family so it's hard,\" she said.\n\nLeading flat-sharing site SpareRoom said it had seen a 239% increase in 55 to 64-year-olds looking for house-shares since 2011 and a 114% increase for the 45-to-54 age group.\n\nHowever people aged 25 to 34 years old still make up the majority of sharers.\n\nSpareRoom communications director Matt Hutchinson said the primary reason more older people were house-sharing was affordability.\n\nHe told BBC News the increased cost of renting and buying a home meant more people were sharing for longer and becoming \"lifetime renters\", while people who had come out of long-term relationships and might originally have bought or rented a one-bedroom flat were now \"priced out\".\n\nMr Hutchinson said he expected the trend to continue as housing and other costs increased further.\n\nSarah Coles, a senior personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said official figures also suggest renters are getting older.\n\nShe added that figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest the cost of living crisis is felt more by renters than homeowners, as they spend a greater proportion of their income on housing.\n\nThey are also more exposed to rent increases as many mortgage-holders are on fixed rates.\n\nRental prices in the UK have been increasing steadily since Covid restrictions were eased in the summer of 2021, according to the ONS.\n\nHigh demand has contributed to rental prices increasing by 3.2% in the 12 months to July - the largest annual growth rate since January 2016.\n\nFor April to June, property website Rightmove found average asking rents outside London hit a record £1,126 per month - up 11.8% on the same period last year.\n\nCohabitas, a website which advertises house-shares for people over-40, also said it had seen increased demand from older age groups since it was founded in 2016.\n\nOver the past six months, it said it had seen a 44% increase in users compared to the same period last year.\n\nFor 55 to 64-year-olds the increase was 51%, while for 45 to 54-year-olds it was 35%.\n\nCo-founder Eva Orasch said the long-term trends driving the increase in sharing among older age groups were the UK's ageing population and increased house prices.\n\nIn the short-term, she said the rising cost of living and the pandemic were also contributing, with some people no longer wanting to live alone after lockdown.\n\nIn a 2021 survey of more than 1,500 users, the website found 45% of respondents had chosen to share for purely financial reasons, while 48% were sharing for both financial and social reasons.\n\nSusan used to live on her own but has started housesharing to save money\n\nSusan Laybourn, 58, also started house-sharing to save money in March 2020.\n\nMost recently she has been sharing with a live-in landlady who is a similar age to her, as well as a man in his 20s, in Trefnant, north Wales.\n\nAfter getting a job in the area, Susan, who works as a locum podiatrist for the NHS, could not find anywhere affordable to rent on her own.\n\nMany houses in the area are let as holiday homes and Susan said demand for rented properties already outstripped supply.\n\n\"At one point, I did consider just trying to find somewhere on my own and there was a couple of flats going in Rhyl, which is nearby,\" she said.\n\n\"But by the time I rang up to inquire about them they said 'oh, sorry, they're already gone'.\"\n\nShe added that not having a permanent job and often needing a shorter-term rental contract because of this also counted against her when trying to find somewhere to rent.\n\nIdeally, Susan said she would prefer to live alone or with just one other person her own age - and she could afford to do so - but it was much cheaper to share. Her current room is £400 a month including bills.\n\n\"If I could find anywhere here on my own I'd probably be paying at least £200 more just for the rent, and then you've got bills on top,\" she said.\n\n\"And when you hear about energy bills are going to go through the roof and everything, I think I'm glad I'm not private renting [on my own] because I feel like I'd just be wasting money, when I could be saving it.\"\n\nShe would also like to buy her own flat in the future but believes her age and lack of permanent job means she would not be able to get a mortgage.\n\nSusan said she did enjoy having company, especially when moving to a new area, and she gets on well with her live-in landlady.\n\nHowever, she said it can be hard to find someone her own age to share with as there is still a stigma associated with older people house-sharing.\n\nIn the past she said she felt \"almost ashamed\" that she was not able to rent her own place.\n\n\"I've kind of come to terms with it now and try to see the positives in it, rather than the negatives.\"", "Alexander Dugin wants Mr Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine\n\nThe United States has imposed sanctions on 14 Ukrainian separatists and Russians, including an idealogue who has heavily influenced the Kremlin.\n\nPolitical scientist Alexander Dugin is an extreme Russian nationalist closely associated with the Ukraine conflict.\n\nThe US said it was cutting business ties and freezing the assets of him and others who had destabilised the situation in the east of the country.\n\nA ceasefire, albeit not fully observed, has been in place for a month.\n\nRussia said it found the new wave of sanctions \"difficult to understand\".\n\n\"We categorically do not see any link between what has recently been happening in south-eastern Ukraine and these sorts of actions,\" Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the news agency Interfax.\n\nPresident Barack Obama and European leaders have used sanctions as its main form of retaliation for Russia's annexation of Crimea and backing of separatists groups in eastern Ukraine.\n\n\"If Russia continues to support destabilising activity in Ukraine and violate the Minsk agreements and implementation plan, the already substantial costs it faces will continue to rise,\" said Adam Szubin of the US treasury department.\n\nAmong those targeted for sanctions is former prime minister Mykola Azarov and two other top Ukrainian officials in former President Viktor Yanukovych's inner circle, for \"misappropriation of Ukrainian state assets\".\n\nAlso included are five officials in the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk's people's republics and the leaders of Eurasian Youth Union, including Alexander Dugin.\n\nA ceasefire has been in place for nearly a month, although it has not been fully observed\n\nFormer Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov is among those targeted\n\nMr Dugin, a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist philosopher, has called on President Vladimir Putin to intervene militarily in eastern Ukraine \"to save Russia's moral authority\".\n\nThe US says the Eurasian Youth Union has \"recruited individuals with military and combat experience to fight on behalf of the self-proclaimed DPR and has stated that it has a covert presence in Ukraine\".\n\nA Russian bank operating in Crimea, now the largest banking network in the region, has also seen its assets blocked by the US.\n\nIn a separate development, the US is preparing to send more non-lethal aid to Ukraine, including unarmed drones, an unnamed official told US media on Wednesday.", "Coldplay play at Glasgow's Hampden Park on August 23 and 24\n\nScotRail has announced additional trains and carriages for this week's Coldplay concerts at Hampden Park.\n\nThe band are set to bring their Music Of The Spheres world tour to Glasgow on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nScotRail said the extra services will go to and from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida, the closest station to the stadium.\n\nThe operator's announcement follows a weekend of disruption on Scotland's railways.\n\nAbout 80% of ScotRail's services were cancelled on Saturday as a result of strike action by Network Rail staff.\n\nThen the reopening of signal boxes at different times across the country meant 19 services were either cancelled or amended on Sunday.\n\nNetwork Rail and unions remain at loggerheads over pay and conditions.\n\nScotRail employees did not take part in the UK-wide strike but many of the Network Rail staff taking industrial action work in rail safety, meaning a normal service was not possible.\n\nThe ongoing dispute between the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and the rail network operator is over jobs, pay and conditions.\n\nEarlier this year music fans had to contend with a reduced rail timetable for gigs by Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris and Gerry Cinnamon due to a train drivers' pay dispute which has since been resolved.\n\nPassengers at Dunblane Station were among those affected by the disruption on Saturday\n\nAhead of the Coldplay gigs ScotRail, confirmed queuing systems will be in place at Glasgow Central and Mount Florida.\n\nCommuters using services to and from Neilston have been warned that their service may be much busier than normal on both days with people travelling to the gig.\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail's head of customer operations, said: \"We're looking forward to helping music lovers travel by train to see Coldplay perform at our national stadium.\n\n\"To help the event run smoothly, we're adding extra carriages to key trains as well as more trains to and from Hampden.\n\n\"Our advice to customers is to leave extra time for travel as trains are likely to be busier than normal.\"", "Anthony Joshua's bid to recapture the unified heavyweight titles ended in disappointment as Oleksandr Usyk produced a terrific performance to win by split decision in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn a clash billed as the Rage on the Red Sea, a spirited Joshua, 32, showed some aggressiveness and intent - a vast improvement from their first fight - but could not match the brilliance and ring savviness of the Ukrainian who improved his record to 20 wins from 20 contests.\n\nTwo judges scored the fight 115-113 and 116-112 to Usyk and the third gave it 115-113 to Joshua.\n\nWhile there were some close rounds, Usyk - in just his fourth bout since moving up from cruiserweight to heavyweight - was the deserved winner.\n\nAt the end of the fight, a furious Joshua - quite bizarrely - picked up two of Usyk's belts, dropped them out of the ring and strode towards the dressing room, before turning round and getting back into the ring to give an impassioned speech.\n\n\"Usyk is one hell of a fighter. That's just emotion,\" he said. \"If you knew my story, you'd understand the passion. I'm not an amateur boxer. I was going to jail and I got bail and I started training.\n\n\"It shows the passion we put into this. For this guy to beat me tonight, it shows the levels of hard work he must have put in, so please give him a round of applause as heavyweight champion of world.\n\n\"They said that I'm not a 12-round fighter. I ain't 14 stone, I'm 18 stone, I'm heavy. It's hard work. This guy here is phenomenal.\"\n\nJoshua also went up to Usyk and said to him: \"I was studying Ukraine and all the champions from your amazing country. I've never been there. What's happening there, I don't know but it's not nice.\n\n\"You're not strong, how did you beat me? Because of skills. I had character and determination.\"\n\nHe has now suffered back-to-back defeats against Usyk, with the champion retaining the WBA (Super), WBO and IBF titles he won in London last September.\n\nJoshua had some success in the fight - and enjoyed his best round in the ninth, charging Usyk down and unloading a flurry of punches, reminiscent of the AJ of old.\n\nBut such is the brilliance of Usyk, he came back fighting in the 10th round and was landing clean blow after blow. Usyk landed a five-punch combination, and Joshua became a sitting duck.\n\nJoshua fatigued and Usyk - who just a few months ago was defending his nation against the Russian invasion - took full advantage in the championship rounds.\n\n\"I devote this victory to my family, my country, my team, to all the military defending this country - thank you so much,\" he said, before calling out WBC champion Tyson Fury.\n\n\"I'm sure that Tyson Fury is not retired yet. I'm convinced he wants to fight me. I want to fight him. If I'm not fighting Fury, I'm not fighting at all.\n\n\"Only God knows whether I will fight him or not but all these gentlemen here around me, my team, they are going to help me.\"\n\nFury recently announced his retirement but has until 26 August to decide on whether he will relinquish the belt.\n\nThe Gypsy King criticised both fighters on social media, and hinted he may not yet be done with boxing. The carrot of a clash with Usyk - one which would certainly cement the winner's legacy as an all-time great - is dangling.\n\nThe boxers made their ring walks at approximately 01:00 local time. Even in those early hours, there were temperatures of 30C, as approximately 12,000 fans filled out the air-conditioned King Abdullah Sport City Arena.\n\nA crowd that was somewhat subdued for most of the night came alive as Joshua - the challenger - marched to the ring first. Jeers echoed around the arena as Usyk followed. It was clear who the fan favourite was.\n\nHeading into the fight, there were questions as to how well Joshua and new trainer Robert Garcia had gelled, having only started working together this year.\n\nThe opening few rounds were close, but ones which Usyk most likely edged. After three rounds, American Garcia told Joshua he had won every round.\n\nThe champion was given time to recover in the fifth round after a Joshua low blow had him wincing. A two-punch combination to Joshua's midriff and head, from range, was the pick of the sixth round.\n\nAs the fight progressed, Usyk's movement started to dictate the fight. He landed a counter left in the seventh, before Joshua unloaded two smart shots to the body in the eighth.\n\nThen came the two of the most memorable rounds, out of the 24 across two bouts, between the two fighters. Joshua gave it everything in the ninth, and appeared to have Usyk in a spot of bother. Perhaps it was a ploy from Usyk to tire Joshua out. In the 10th, he broke Joshua's resolve - and went on to take the fight.\n\nBefore the fight, Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn insisted defeat would not spell retirement but described the bout as must-win.\n\nAfter a third loss in five bouts, Joshua now has to resurrect his career. But he can take positives from his performance. His reputation and legacy have been dealt a blow, but perhaps not as heavy as many predicted.\n\nIn June 2019, Joshua suffered a shocking knockout defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in New York. Six months later, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Joshua recaptured his heavyweight crown with a disciplined points win.\n\nBeating Usyk, however, was a totally different challenge. Joshua was in against a pound-for-pound star - the trickiest of southpaws. And he was facing a patriotic Ukrainian determined to bring some much-needed joy to a nation torn apart through war.\n\nBoxing fans wanted to see some heart and fight from Joshua. In the 10th round, when under attack from Usyk, he barked \"come on\" at his opponent.\n\nSuch is the beast of heavyweight boxing and the level of fame bestowed on Joshua, there will always be critics. This time, though, perhaps not for his performance, but for his post-fight interview.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "Many of those who gathered to pay tribute to Thomas O'Halloran were from the Irish community\n\nMore than 100 people gathered to pay a musical tribute to a grandfather who was fatally stabbed while riding a mobility scooter in west London.\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died at the scene in Cayton Road, Greenford, after being attacked on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nHe was known to busk regularly by the train station in Greenford and tributes at the gathering on Cayton Road included songs he performed.\n\nLee Byer, 44, of Southall, west London, has been charged with his murder.\n\nMany from the Irish community were among those paying tribute to Mr O'Halloran, originally from Ennistymon, County Clare, in Ireland.\n\nMr O'Halloran, 87, was a much-loved member of the community\n\nMr O'Halloran played the accordion and had recently been busking to raise money for Ukraine when he would have the country's flag draped over the front of his scooter.\n\nAmbrose Gordon, 61, said his friend would have \"loved\" the tribute.\n\n\"He'd be there on his little trolley and he'd have been playing his tunes and things like that,\" he said.\n\nAnother friend, 65-year-old Gerry Hehir, said that Mr O'Halloran's death \"shocked\" the community.\n\nMr Hehir, from nearby South Harrow, said: \"I have lived here for 29 years. It's a shock, the way it happened. I mean, there's a lot of tragedies in London and in the wider place and all throughout the world, but it's a very, very sad thing.\"\n\nMr O'Halloran was attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday\n\nHe described Mr O'Halloran as \"very quiet and professional\", and added he was \"a very loving man and a very caring man\".\n\n\"He will be very well remembered for everything he's done for the community,\" he said.\n\nMr Hehir described the event as a \"sad occasion which turned into what I would call not joyful but the easing of people coming together. I think it meant a lot to the family and to all of us\".\n\nBefore the ceremony, flowers, candles and a vial of holy water were laid at the site near where Mr O'Halloran was stabbed.\n\nLocal parish priest Father Tom Daly led the community in prayer. He said: \"We pray today for Tom, who died so violently.\n\n\"In the face of this kind of awful incident, we don't know what to do and people feel completely helpless.\"\n\nDuring the event, local musicians played several songs, including Now I'm Easy by the Dubliners, as the community clapped and sang along.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Darya Dugina was vocal in her support for the Russian government over the invasion of Ukraine\n\nThe daughter of a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing.\n\nDarya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow, Russia's investigative committee said.\n\nIt is thought her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of the attack.\n\nMr Dugin is a prominent ultra-nationalist ideologue who is believed to be close to the Russian president.\n\nAlexander Dugin and his daughter had been at a festival near Moscow, where the philosopher gave a lecture on Saturday evening.\n\nThe \"Tradition\" festival describes itself as a family event for art lovers which takes place at the Zakharovo estate, where Russian poet Alexander Pushkin once stayed.\n\nThe pair were due to leave the venue in the same car, before Mr Dugin reportedly made a decision at the last minute to travel separately.\n\nFootage posted on Telegram appears to show Mr Dugin watching in shock as emergency services arrive at the scene of the burning wreck of a vehicle.\n\nInvestigators confirmed that Ms Dugina, who was driving the car, died at the scene near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy.\n\nThey said an explosive device planted under the car went off and the vehicle caught fire. Forensic and explosive experts are investigating.\n\nA Ukrainian official has dismissed accusations of Ukrainian involvement in the incident.\n\n\"Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, and even less a terrorist state,\" said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMaria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry, said in a Telegram post that if any Ukrainian link was found it would amount to \"state terrorism\".\n\nWhile Alexander Dugin is not a state official himself, he is nevertheless a symbolic figure in Russian politics.\n\nHis anti-Western, ultranationalist philosophy has become the dominant political ideology in Russia and has helped shape President Putin's expansionist foreign policy, most prominently on Ukraine.\n\nAttention will now turn to who was behind this attack. Denis Pushilin, the \"head\" of the self-declared pro-Russian \"Donetsk People's Republic\", has already laid the blame on Ukraine, writing on Telegram: \"Vile villains! The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to eliminate Alexander Dugin, blew up his daughter… In a car. We cherish the memory of Daria, she is a real Russian girl!\"\n\nIncidents like this will make officials in Moscow nervous, especially in the aftermath of a series of explosions and attacks in occupied Crimea and in Russian regions near the border with Ukraine.\n\nKremlin propaganda consistently stresses how Vladimir Putin has brought security and stability in Russia following the turbulent 1990s, when car bombs and assassinations were commonplace. This car bomb in the Russian capital undermines that narrative.\n\nDespite not holding an official position in government, Alexander Dugin is believed to be a close ally of the Russian president and has even been branded \"Putin's Rasputin\".\n\nDarya Dugina was herself a prominent journalist who vocally supported the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nEarlier this year she was sanctioned by US and UK authorities, who accused her of contributing to online \"disinformation\" about Russia's invasion.\n\nIn May, she described the war as a \"clash of civilisations\" in an interview and expressed pride in the fact that both she and her father had been targeted by Western sanctions.\n\nRussian investigators at the scene of the vehicle explosion\n\nAlexander Dugin was sanctioned by the US in 2015 for his alleged involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nHis writings are said to have had a deep influence on Mr Putin and the philosopher is regarded as a chief architect of the ultra-nationalist ideology endorsed by many in the Kremlin.\n\nFor years, Mr Dugin has called on Moscow to assert itself more aggressively on the global stage and has supported Russian military action in Ukraine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The scene after the fatal crash near Gaziantep\n\nAt least 32 people have been killed in two separate events in Turkey when vehicles crashed into first responders following earlier accidents.\n\nA bus hit the scene of a road crash near Gaziantep on Saturday morning, killing 16 people and injuring 21.\n\nHours later a truck hit a crowd of people 250km (150 miles) away in Mardin, also killing 16 people and reportedly hitting emergency workers.\n\nThere have been no reports of a connection between the incidents.\n\nTwenty-nine people were injured in the second crash, eight of them seriously, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.\n\nThe incident in the town of Derik in Mardin province \"occurred after the brakes gave out on a lorry, which hit a crowd\", he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe emergency workers had been sent to the scene following a crash involving three vehicles, Anadolu news agency reported.\n\nThe first incident on Saturday occurred near the southern town of Nizip in Gaziantep province.\n\nA bus ploughed into rescue crews and reporters who had come to the scene of a crash involving a car that had come off the road.\n\nThree firefighters, two emergency workers and two journalists were among those killed, the governor of Gaziantep said on twitter.\n\nPhotos on Turkey's DHA news agency showed the back of an ambulance ripped out and metal debris strewn around it.\n\nJustice Minister Bekir Bozdag has announced an investigation into the crash.\n• None At least 16 killed in Turkey bus crash. Video, 00:00:51At least 16 killed in Turkey bus crash", "Ukrainian emergency teams near the Zaporizhzhia plant have been rehearsing what to do in case disaster strikes\n\nBritain, France, Germany and the US have stressed the need to ensure the safety of nuclear installations threatened by the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nIn a phone call on Sunday, the four leaders also reiterated their support for Ukraine against Russia's invasion.\n\nMoscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling a Russian-held nuclear plant, raising fears of a catastrophe.\n\nMeanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to be vigilant ahead of Independence Day celebrations.\n\n\"Russia could try to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel,\" he said in a weekend address.\n\n\"One of the key objectives of the enemy is to humiliate us,\" he added, but \"we have to be strong enough to resist all provocation\".\n\nUkraine's Independence Day on Wednesday, 24 August, will also mark six months since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe conflict was the subject of a conference call on Sunday bringing together the UK's Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nFollowing its conclusion, they urged military restraint around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, where renewed fighting has led to fears of disaster worse than that in Chernobyl in 1986.\n\nThe leaders welcomed a deal - approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday - to allow UN inspectors to visit the plant at a future date.\n\nThe four leaders also said they had \"agreed that support for Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression would be sustained\".\n\nUkraine reported more missile strikes on Sunday, notably in the town of Nikopol, near the Zaporizhzhia power station.\n\nOn Saturday, a fresh drone attack targeted Russia's Black Sea fleet in the city of Sevastopol in Russian-annexed Crimea. The Russian authorities there said a Ukrainian drone had been shot down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show smoke rising from an area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based\n\nSeveral drone strikes have been reported in Crimea in recent days, including one on an airbase near Sevastopol on Thursday and another on the harbour on Friday.\n\nEarlier in the month, nine Russian jets were destroyed at a Russian military base on Crimea's western coast.\n\nThe peninsula was invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014 and Ukraine has vowed to retake it. However, Kyiv has not confirmed or denied involvement in the recent attacks.\n\nIn Russia itself, the daughter of a close ally of President Putin, the ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a suspected car bombing late on Saturday.\n\nDarya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow.\n\nIt is thought her father, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of the attack.\n\nBoth had been guests at a patriotic festival. Aleksandr Dugin's writing about the need to restore the Russian empire is believed to have inspired President Putin.", "Plans to enable households to get discounts on electricity bills if they cut use at peak times are set to be announced in the next two weeks.\n\nThe scheme would allow people to save cash if they avoid high-power activities, such as cooking or using washing machines, when demand is high.\n\nIt is understood the service is likely to apply to homes which have smart meters installed.\n\nThere are hopes it can be put in place this winter, when energy bills rise.\n\n\"We are developing a new service that will be available for consumers to benefit from across this winter and will be announcing further information soon,\" a spokesman for National Grid ESO - which will run the scheme - said.\n\nIt is understood the company's proposals of how it will work, such as how money will be paid back to customers, are expected to be revealed in the next fortnight, with consultations taking place with energy providers and the UK's energy regulator Ofgem.\n\nIt has been reported that rebates for minimising the use of goods such as tumble dryers, dishwashers and games consoles during the peak hours of 17:00 and 20:00 could be as high as £6 per kWh saved.\n\nNational Grid ESO previously told the BBC the service is \"not about energy rationing\", despite fears over supplies, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine affecting oil and gas supplies to Europe.\n\nThe typical household energy bill is forecast to reach £3,553 a year in October.\n\nThat is when the price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - goes up again. It has been forecast to rise further to £4,650 in January.\n\nJack said the scheme would be a huge help for people struggling with energy bills\n\nJack Beckwith, 25 and from County Durham, said the scheme would mean he is able to put his heating on this winter.\n\nHe expects his bill to go up to £238 per month in October - from his current monthly average of £100 - wiping out his savings.\n\n\"I generally keep on top of my usage and pay for what I use. I have some savings - but that was meant for emergencies - my leaky roof fund. That'll all go towards paying for the price increase,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's been a gradual realisation that I can't afford it.\"\n\nJack said he was expecting to not meet up with friends, and has already said no to taking on a gym membership. He is also considering cutting back on his Spotify subscription, which could save around £10 per month.\n\n\"Off peak heating will be a lifeline,\" he said. \"It will literally will save lives if people can be made aware of it, and can use it, because it will mean they can put the heating on.\"\n\nNational Grid ESO has hosted webinars with energy firms to ask for feedback on its proposals.\n\nThe move follows a trial where Octopus Energy offered incentives for 100,000 customers who reduced consumption.\n\nOctopus Energy has said during the trial its consumers received credit on their energy accounts and also had a \"self-refund option\" where they could get cash transferred to their bank accounts.\n\nHow will this scheme affect your energy use? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Shoana Qureshi-Khan reckons she has spent more than £300 this summer on school clothes for her two sons\n\nA new law to protect parents in England from unnecessary school uniform costs comes into effect from September 2022.\n\nState schools will be forced to remove unnecessary branded items from their uniform requirements, allowing parents to shop around or hand clothes down more easily.\n\nHowever, Shoana Qureshi-Khan is one mother who has not seen the price of school clothes come down.\n\nShe has still had to fork out for a number of items of clothing bearing the school logo for her sons aged 11 and 13.\n\n\"The school blazer alone costs between £45 to £60,\" she said. \"It's just a phenomenal amount that you just don't prepare for.\"\n\nThe boys are in the same secondary school and can pass on some items, but Shoana still reckons she has spent more than £300 kitting them out this summer.\n\n\"It is just crazy if I'm honest. I suppose I can understand one logo so the kids feel part of the school family, but it's just so unnecessary,\" she said.\n\n\"I can get something else from the supermarket for a few pounds. It's just not fair on hard-working families and pushes the equality gap further.\"\n\nShoana's story will ring true for hundreds of other parents.\n\nAn issue for some is that September's new rules come with a loophole.\n\nIt means schools which need to secure a new uniform contract with a supplier have until December 2022 to put that in place. They then have until the start of the September 2023 school year to introduce those garments.\n\nThe new legislation requires branding to be kept to a minimum, but does not ban it, so some children will continue to wear some items with school logos, for example blazers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Prosser, founder of the Uniform Project Nottingham, says that this summer has seen a “massive increase in users”\n\nFor those parents who struggle to afford school uniforms some help is available, from people like Emma Prosser who runs the Uniform Project Nottingham.\n\nShe started off facilitating uniform swaps between the parents of children attending two primary schools.\n\nBut demand has grown so much that she now has a uniform bank available to the parents of pupils at 19 schools across Nottinghamshire, where those who need it can access free uniforms.\n\nWe met her surrounded by piles of jumpers, pinafores and donated warm coats.\n\n\"You have three types of parents,\" she said. \"Those who like to buy new, and like brands. Those who really can't afford it and really need the help. And also a growing number of those with a decent income but just don't see any sense in buying new. Buying second-hand is so much greener.\"\n\nNow, Emma partners with local food banks to offer items of uniform alongside food staples and she tells us she's never been busier. But the logos place a limit on how easily good clothes can be shared.\n\n\"You have got to cater to your parental community,\" Emma said. \"You're not doing that if you're insisting on having logos and expecting everyone to have a spare £300 for each child they have.\"\n\nWhile we were at the Uniform Project, a mum of four came in. She was emotional and did not want to give her name, but was relieved to receive free jumpers, cardigans, trousers, shirts and skirts for her family. \"I've been panicking,\" she admitted.\n\n\"To kit out my son in secondary, it'll cost me £98 because he has to have logo-ed everything except shirts,\" she tells us. \"When you're spending as much on one uniform as you do on a big shop, it's difficult. It's really hit us hard this year.\"\n\nThe Children's Society said it expected the average cost of school uniform this year to be £315 per primary pupil and £337 per secondary pupil, unchanged from 2020.\n\nBut the charity, which helped push through the new legislation, believes it should empower parents to push back when uniforms feel too much.\n\nChief executive Mark Russell said: \"If parents think that the school uniform policy hasn't changed in their local school, they should contact the headteacher, they should contact the governing body.\"\n\n\"Failing that, if they are still not satisfied, they should contact their local MP or the Department for Education itself. The department will then contact the school and require them to implement the law.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"School uniform must never be a burden for parents or a barrier to pupils accessing education.\"\n\nThe new law coming into effect next month should help families to keep down costs, they added. \"We know schools and families are facing increased cost pressures more broadly, which is why this government is providing over £37bn to help households with the greatest need and supporting families through the Household Support Fund.\"\n\nUnlike many other products at the moment, school uniforms have not gone up much in price this year. The difference is that for an increasing number of families, the ability to make a big one-off payment at the start of the academic year has become much harder to achieve.\n\nThe new guidelines are supposed to help with that but there are a lot of grey areas, with parents and schools likely to have differing opinions of what might be considered \"necessary\" or \"reasonable\".\n\nParents who don't think their school is complying with the new guidance are being told to approach the school's governors in the first instance.\n\nThat's not an easy step to take, but the hope when this legislation received cross-party support was that a gentle reminder from parents that schools must comply with the new guidelines will be enough to bring most uniform policies down in price.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nationalised energy should be an option - Sturgeon\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said renationalising energy companies should be \"on the table\" to tackle the crisis caused by rising power costs.\n\nScotland's first minister warned a \"looming disaster\" was set to get worse if the next household energy price cap rise comes into effect in October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Ofgem's next increase, to be announced on Friday, should not be allowed to go ahead.\n\nThe UK government said struggling households will receive some support.\n\nLast week the Scottish government estimated 36% of homes will be in fuel poverty.\n\nIt is defined as the cost of heating a home being more than 10% of household income, after tax and housing costs have been deducted.\n\nBased on an Ofgem price cap of £2,800, by October the status would apply to 906,000 of all households across Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon is to convene a summit this week with energy companies on improving advice and support for people struggling with energy bills.\n\nScotland's major energy suppliers, including Scottish Power, OVO Energy, Centrica, Octopus and E.ON, will attend, as well as industry bodies and anti-poverty groups such as the Poverty Alliance and Energy Action Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland: \"I want us to come together to call on the UK government to take the action only it can take.\n\n\"There is a looming disaster that is already unfolding but it is going to get worse.\n\n\"This is going to cause destitution and devastation, this will cause loss of life if real action is not taken to stem this crisis.\"\n\nShe called for a cancellation of the next increase in the energy price cap, and for the financial support already offered by the UK government to be doubled.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"This further increase in people's energy bills can't be allowed to go ahead because it is making it impossible for people to provide the basics for themselves and their families, but it is also continuing to fuel inflation, which, of course, is causing the problem in the first place.\"\n\nThe first minister said renationalisation of energy companies \"should be on the table\", but Scotland did not have the power to do that.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had argued for these powers to lie with the Scottish government but they needed to \"focus on reality\" as it stands now and push the UK government to act.\n\nShe said: \"Let's focus on getting them to exercise the powers they have campaigned to keep in their hands rather than constantly deflect the questions to a government that doesn't hold these powers.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has agreed to talks between the UK and devolved governments over the cost of living crisis but no date has been set for the discussions.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said households struggling with the rising cost of living in the UK would receive some help this winter.\n\nMr Kwarteng, an ally of Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss who has been linked to the chancellor position, has not yet outlined how the government intends to support people.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday he insisted Ms Truss' pledges to reverse an increase to National Insurance and introduce a temporary moratorium on energy levies were examples of her willingness to \"look at what more can be done\".\n\nThe cost-of-living crisis has been driven by a series of issues, including inflation outstripping wage increases and record energy bills due to a surge in wholesale gas prices.\n\nCustomers have been warned to expect annual household energy bills to reach more than £3,500 after October.\n\nNationalise the energy companies: it's a slogan that is proving attractive to the public as they watch bills soar.\n\nAnd First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks it should be at least \"considered\" at Westminster, where they have the powers to make it happen.\n\nThe first minister has previously engaged with the energy market. Before the current crisis, when it was felt energy retailers were over-charging, there was a high-profile conference speech pledge to set up a Scottish government-owned supplier.\n\nBut as other suppliers went bust, that idea has been ditched.\n\nWith 30 fewer retail suppliers than last year, and more concentration on the big five suppliers, what would public ownership mean, and how might it work?\n\nFirst, that retail sector of the market is only one part of the energy industry - the vast profits are being made by companies, or bits of firms, that drill and produce oil and gas and there are some big margins for those who do the refining.\n\nRetail is seen as the terrain where government could step in and replace private companies, perhaps with regional suppliers, such as we used to have until the 1980s.\n\nThose advocating public ownership say the UK government could buy out shareholders, through legislation. They would have to pay a fair market rate.\n\nIf they don't, and simply seize the assets, that would surely skewer private investment in the economy more widely.\n\nEnergy consultancy Auxilione used Friday's gas prices to suggest typical household energy bills in the UK could hit as much as £6,000 a year from April 2023.\n\nLabour has pledged to extend the oil and gas windfall tax to fund a freeze to the energy price cap at its current level of £1,971 for six months.\n\nStuart McIntyre, economics professor at Strathclyde University's Fraser of Allander Institute, told BBC Scotland rising energy prices was one of of the key drivers of inflation, which could exceed 13% over the next few months.\n\n\"I'd urge people to be sceptical of politicians promising quick fixes to what is a very difficult problem,\" Prof McIntyre said.\n\n\"What we need is a thoughtful, detailed redesign of energy markets, not something designed to win an election... to try and get something that will deliver more realistic and stable energy prices going forward.\"\n\nFish and chip shop owner John Pagani said energy price rises were going to \"sting hard\"\n\nThe energy price cap only applies to domestic energy customers but business owners are also facing steep rises in their bills.\n\nJohn Pagani, who co-owns a fish and chip shop and cafe in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, said they had been left with \"no wiggle room\" in their budget.\n\n\"We are coming to the end of our contract in about a month's time and it really is going to sting hard,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The cheapest quote we've had is four times what we are paying now and that is going to be almost £5,000 a month, just for electricity.\"\n\nHe said profits had also been hit by VAT returning to 20% and fish prices going up, partly due to Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nChinese-made biodegradable packaging has also increased in price after Covid shutdowns hit manufacturing.\n\nSet up in 1967 by his parents, the business now employs 20 people but is once again relying on family to keep going.\n\nMr Pagani said: \"This morning I was in at 06:30 and I'm working right through to 21:00 tonight. I'd rather have another member of staff in helping me but we simply cannot afford it.\n\n\"We as the the owners have to put in the extra hours and our families have to put in the extra hours because we don't get paid by the hour.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show smoke rising from an area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based\n\nRussian forces in Crimea have been targeted by a fresh drone strike.\n\nThe Russian-appointed regional leader said a Ukrainian drone targeting Russia's Black Sea fleet in the city of Sevastopol was shot down on Saturday.\n\nIt follows a string of attacks on Russian forces and installations in the annexed peninsula this month.\n\nMeanwhile Ukraine's president has welcomed a deal allowing UN inspectors to visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, further north.\n\nEarly on Saturday a video showed smoke rising from the area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based. The BBC News has not been able to independently verify the footage.\n\nThe Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, played down the seriousness of the incident.\n\nHe said the fleet's air defences had been activated and the Ukrainian drone destroyed. \"It fell on the roof of the headquarters,\" he said. \"There was no significant damage and no-one was hurt.\"\n\nLater on Saturday, Mr Razvozhayev said anti-aircraft systems had again been in operation in Sevastopol, but gave no details.\n\nSeveral drone attacks have been reported in Crimea in recent days, including one on an airbase near Sevastopol on Thursday and another on the harbour on Friday.\n\nEarlier in the month nine Russian jets were destroyed in an attack on the Russian military base at Saky, on Crimea's western coast.\n\nFootage on social media at the time showed crowds of Russian tourists fleeing a nearby resort.\n\nThe attack in Saky startled tourists on a beach in the region\n\nCrimea was invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014, and Ukraine has vowed to retake it.\n\nHowever the Kyiv government has not confirmed or denied involvement in the recent attacks.\n\nMoscow has blamed sabotage for some of them, indicating some kind of special military operation perhaps by Ukrainian forces - or those loyal to Kyiv.\n\nWestern officials say these incidents are having a major operational and psychological impact on Russian forces.\n\nIn another development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant could start to be restored with a visit of international inspectors.\n\nHe was speaking after Russia's Vladimir Putin said Moscow would grant UN inspectors access to the facility, north of Crimea.\n\nThe Kremlin and Kyiv have blamed each other for shelling the plant over the past week, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe.\n\nMeanwhile Russia has pressed on with its tactic of overnight shelling of cities, targeting Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mykolaiv, among others.\n\nAnd the Russian-installed mayor of Mariupol reportedly survived an assassination attempt.\n\nThe incident in Mariupol reportedly happened near the entrance of the local zoo\n\nA Russian state TV reporter said the mayor, Kostyantyn Ivashchenko, was in a car when an explosive device went off at the entrance to the city's zoo.\n\nAlso on Saturday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres held a press conference in Turkey after another two grain ships left Ukraine.\n\nHe said he had been \"deeply moved\" watching a ship carrying grain heading to the Horn of Africa and that such deliveries provided \"urgently needed relief for those suffering from acute hunger\".\n\nThe safe passage of the vessels has been enabled through UN-brokered deals with Turkey, Russia and Ukraine last month.\n\nMr Guterres added that enabling the transport of food and fertiliser from Russia is also critical as the cost of living crisis deepens.", "A still from the bodyworn camera of one of the Met Police officers who interviewed Owami Davies on 6 July\n\nPolice officers had contact with a student nurse on the day she was reported missing by her family, it has emerged.\n\nOwami Davies, 24, who is studying nursing at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was last seen in Croydon on 7 July.\n\nThe Met said its officers had spoken to her in Croydon on 6 July but did not yet know she was a missing person.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has received a referral.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We are currently assessing the available information to determine what further action may be required\".\n\nMs Davies's family reported her missing to Essex Police on 6 July and the force handed the investigation over to the Met on 23 July.\n\nOwami Davies was last seen on 7 July\n\nIn a statement, the Met said officers were called to an address in Clarendon Road, Croydon, over concerns about the welfare of a woman on 6 July.\n\nPolice attended and called the London Ambulance Service, but the woman told them she did not want help and left.\n\nMs Davies had not yet been marked as a missing person on the police database at the time.\n\nThe force said it only later established the woman they had spoken to was Ms Davies as a result of their missing person investigation.\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nThe force's own professional standards body has said it will not investigate the officers involved but the IOPC requested the matter to be referred to them.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said: \"The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) were consulted and as there has been contact with police the IOPC were informed.\n\n\"The officers are not subject to any current investigation by the DPS.\n\n\"The interaction recorded on the officers' bodyworn video has been viewed by members of the Independent Advisory Group and Owami's family to ensure openness and transparency,\" they added.\n\nFive people have been arrested - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - but have since been released on bail, pending further investigation.\n\nThe force issued a fresh appeal at the beginning of this week, saying Ms Davies could be in Croydon and \"in need of help\".\n\nOn Thursday, British Transport Police tweeted that Ms Davies could still regularly be taking trains, may appear dazed or confused and may be seeking to engage with women travelling alone.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James from Sheffield has been waiting for his BTec results since Thursday\n\nAn exam board has apologised after some BTec students did not receive their results as expected last Thursday, throwing university places into doubt.\n\nPearson said a \"very small percentage\" of its BTec students were affected.\n\nHundreds of thousands of students received their A-level, BTec and T-level results this week.\n\nOne student told BBC News he has now missed his chance of a clearing place at his chosen university.\n\nJames, 18, from Sheffield, did a BTec in uniformed public services at Sheffield College.\n\nAs his friends celebrated their results on Thursday, he was sat refreshing the online results page.\n\n\"I was told I would hopefully get them by the end of the day but nothing came - it's been really stressful,\" he said.\n\n\"It's kind of just going around in a loop - not having my results, asking people where they are, being told to wait and still not getting them.\"\n\nJames, who applied to study law and criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, still does not know if he has secured a place.\n\nHis plans to trade-up in clearing and read law at the University of Sheffield have fallen through as a result of the delay, he said.\n\nAnother exam board, OCR, has also had delays issuing Cambridge Technicals results to some students.\n\nIt says it will continue to process results over the weekend and it has \"delivered more than a thousand results to schools and colleges within the last 24 hours.\"\n\nBTecs - Business and Technology Education Council qualifications - and Cambridge Technicals are vocational courses which are largely assessed through practical learning, with written exams accounting for just a small element of the final mark.\n\nIn order to receive an overall grade, the marks from every module are required.\n\nPearson has not said how many students are waiting, but that it is a \"very small percentage\".\n\nThe exam board said it was working around the clock with colleges, adding staff would \"be here all weekend working to get results out as soon as we can\".\n\nIt added that UCAS, the university and college admissions service, said the best thing these students can do is contact their university of choice directly and ask them to hold their place.\n\nThe exams regulator Ofqual says it has \"every sympathy\" with students yet to receive a result.\n\nThe chief executive of the Association of Colleges, David Hughes, says the delay has put extra pressure on students.\n\n\"It is really stressful at the best of times but when a delay happens like this, I think it is terrible,\" he said.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nGreat Britain won 60 medals as they finished second in the medal table behind host nation Germany at the European Championships in Munich.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 27 medals were won at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome, where GB ended the competition second to hosts Italy.\n\nBritish teams topped the standings in both gymnastics and rowing in Munich.\n\nDiving was the nation's most successful sport across the two championships, as Britain won six golds among 12 medals.\n\nJack Laugher and Anthony Harding claimed the men's synchronised 3m springboard title on Sunday to ensure the British team's best-ever European performance - surpassing the three golds and 11 medals they won in 2016.\n\nIn gymnastics, Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser also won golds on the final day as Britain recorded their best-ever artistic gymnastics European Championship medal haul, ending with five golds, three silvers and three bronzes in total.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain failed to win Olympic rowing gold for the first time in 41 years at the Tokyo Games last year but claimed six golds and a total of 10 medals this time around, in a European performance described by British Rowing's director of performance as a \"stepping stone\" for September's World Championships.\n\nThere was notable success too for Britain in athletics (six golds, 20 medals in total), swimming (four golds, 15 medals in total) and Canoe Sprint (five golds, 11 medals in total).\n\nElsewhere, Tom Pidcock rode to cycling mountain bike cross-country gold and Non Stanford won triathlon gold in her final major competition.\n\nThe track cycling team contributed five medals and Kieran Reilly won BMX cycling silver, while GB did not medal in road cycling, beach volleyball, sport climbing and table tennis in Munich.", "The attack is believed to have happened in a wooded area\n\nA man has been charged after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester.\n\nOfficers said the girl was reunited with her family shortly after the assault in Tameside on Thursday.\n\nLewis Jones, 23, from Liverpool, but of no fixed address, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault by penetration and one count of abduction.\n\nAfter appearing before magistrates on Saturday, he was remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 1 September.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers continued to give the victim and her family support.\n\n\"We would once again like to thank members of the public for their assistance in this investigation and for engaging with our appeals,\" the force added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Workers at Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port, will go ahead with an eight-day strike after pay talks broke down.\n\nAround 1,900 members of the Unite union will walk out on 21 August after rejecting an offer of a £500 lump sum on top of a 7% pay rise.\n\nThe Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company called the decision \"disappointing\".\n\nUnite called for the port's bosses to make a \"reasonable\" offer, adding that it was open to further talks.\n\nUnite's Robert Morton said: \"Felixstowe docks is massively profitable. It can afford to put forward a reasonable pay offer to our members but once again has chosen not to. That decision was driven by greed not need.\"\n\nA spokesperson at the port of Felixstowe said: \"During talks yesterday [Monday 8 August] the port further improved its position offering a £500 lump sum in addition to 7%.\n\n\"The staff branch of Unite and the Police Federation of Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company have agreed to put a similar offer to their members. In contrast, the hourly branch of Unite has again rejected the port's improved position and refused to put it to its members.\"\n\nAround half of containers brought in to the UK are transported via the port. A spokesperson for Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company said that the port has not had a strike since 1989.\n\nWorkers in other industries have also announced industrial action, most notably in the transport sector, over pay as well as terms and conditions.\n\nNegotiations over wages has led to several rail strikes over summer, as workers seek higher salaries to keep up with sharp price rises for goods and services. The Bank of England has warned the UK will fall into recession in the final three months of this year when inflation is set to hit more than 13%. It announced the largest interest rate rise in 27 years - up 0.5% - to 1.75% in an effort to calm inflation.\n\nUpcoming strikes include those on Saturday, 13 August by train drivers from nine rail companies, and further rail staff walkouts on 18 and 20 August by members of the RMT union.\n\nCustomers will face disruption to train services as 6,500 train drivers are expected to join Saturday's walkout.", "Workers at the UK's biggest container port in Felixstowe are to strike for eight days in a dispute over pay.\n\nAround 1,900 members of the Unite union will walk out on 21 August after rejecting a 7% pay offer from Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company.\n\nUnite called the pay offer \"significantly below\" the rate of inflation.\n\nThe announcement comes after a summer of strikes in the transport sector as the cost of living continues to rise.\n\nA Felixstowe port spokesperson said the company was \"disappointed\" and that it was \"determined\" to help workers tackle rising costs - whilst continuing to invest in the port.\n\nUnite said eight days of strike action at the port will run from Sunday 21 August ending on Monday 29 August.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"Both Felixstowe docks and its parent company CK Hutchison Holding Ltd are both massively profitable and incredibly wealthy.\n\n\"They are fully able to pay the workforce a fair day's pay. The company has prioritised delivering multi-million pound dividends rather than paying its workers a decent wage,\" Ms Graham added.\n\nAround half of containers brought in to the UK are transported via the port.\n\nUnite said in a statement that the strike action will have a \"huge effect on the UK's supply chain and will also cause severe disruption to international maritime trade, as well as the UK's supply chain including the logistics and haulage sectors\".\n\nA spokesperson at Felixstowe port said: \"The port has not had a strike since 1989 and we are disappointed that the union has served notice of industrial action while talks are ongoing. The port provides secure and well-paid employment and there will be no winners from industrial action.\"\n\nThe port said workers involved in the dispute earned an average of £43,000 a year.\n\nTalks are due to resume on Monday.\n\nWorkers elsewhere in the transport industry have also announced plans to strike in August, after unions said wages are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living and that their members need a pay rise.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year-high of 9.4% and the Bank of England has warned it could reach more than 13% as energy, fuel and food prices soar higher.\n\nTrain drivers at nine rail companies will walk out on 13 August in a dispute over pay, the union Aslef has said.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is planning strikes for Thursday 18 August and Saturday 20 August.\n\nRail passengers have already faced disruption this summer. About 40,000 RMT union members at Network Rail and 14 other train companies walked out on 27 July over pay, job cuts and changes to terms and conditions.", "Manager Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool should be awarded the points if their Premier League game at Manchester United is postponed over fan protests.\n\nA game between the sides in May 2021 had to be rearranged after home fans marched to Old Trafford to protest about the Glazer family's ownership.\n\nAnother protest is planned before Monday's match, leading to fears of a repeat.\n\n\"Plans for the game not happening? Yes, going home on the bus,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"I really hope it will not happen but if it does happen I think we get the points.\n\n\"We have nothing to do with the situation and if the supporters want the game not happening, then we cannot just rearrange the game again and fit it in somewhere in an incredibly busy season.\n\n\"People tell us we are fine, we go there and play the game hopefully and go home. But in a situation like this, always the other team should get the points because they have nothing to do with it and they have prepared for it.\"\n• None Why emotions have been simmering at Old Trafford for years\n\nLast year's match, the first in Premier League history to be postponed because of fan protests, was meant to be played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHowever, thousands of United supporters gathered outside the ground in the hours before the scheduled kick-off before around 200 fans broke into the stadium.\n\nAsked about the planned protests against the Glazer family, United boss Erik ten Hag said: \"I can only say the owners want to win - and the fans, we want them behind the club.\n\n\"I can understand sometimes but I am not that long in the club that I can see all the backgrounds, but we have to be unified and fight together.\"\n\nBoth teams will be searching for a first win of the season, with Liverpool having drawn their first two games and United starting with back-to-back defeats.\n\nTen Hag wants to see more \"fighting spirit\" from his side when they take on their rivals on Monday.\n\n\"It starts with yourself,\" he said. \"Act as a team. Follow the rules and principles and work hard, as hard as you can maximise. If you do that, then you get confidence.\n\n\"It's a week that's normal as a manager. That you see a game, you have a plan, a way of play and then you check how the game went.\n\n\"And then you analyse and you see what's wrong and what's good. Now obviously, a lot went wrong [in the 4-0 defeat to Brentford], but what I say is you don't have to talk about anything when the attitude is not right.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWater companies have been accused of failing to monitor sewage discharges at popular British seaside resorts.\n\nData analysed by the Liberal Democrats found that many monitoring devices had either not been installed or do not work \"90% of the time\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the data showed a quarter of sewage discharges went unmonitored last year as a result of a lack of monitors or faults.\n\nWater firms have insisted they are committed to tackling the issue.\n\nIn Seaford, East Sussex, where the beach is popular with swimmers and families, a monitor was only working a third of the time, according to a review of data from the Environment Agency.\n\nSouthern Water was forced to apologise last week after beaches in East Sussex were closed due to untreated wastewater being released into the sea at the shoreline.\n\nPollution warnings were put in place across more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after heavy rain overwhelmed sewer systems.\n\nParticular concern was raised over a handful of beaches that have bathing water status - including Littlehampton in West Sussex and Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire - where the Lib Dems said some Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) devices were not installed at all.\n\nAcross Devon and Cornwall, one in eight of South West Water's sewage monitors installed at designated bathing locations were also either faulty or not installed, they said.\n\nBathing water status is given to locations where ministers expect \"a large number of people to bathe\" based on past trends.\n\nRaw sewage was pumped into rivers and coasts around 375,000 times in 2021, down 25,000 from the previous year, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThe agency said it increased the number of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) monitored across the network from 800 in 2016 to more than 12,000 in 2020. All 15,000 will have them by the end of 2023, it added.\n\nThe government previously said it wanted to reduce discharges into bathing waters by 70% by 2035, and eliminate 160,000 incidents of sewage overflows by 2040.\n\nWater minister Steve Double said earlier this week: \"We are the first government to take action to tackle sewage overflows.\n\nDr Imogen Napper, a postdoctoral researcher in marine pollution at the University of Plymouth, said for such goals to be met more \"investment and accountability is required from water companies to ensure this environmental disaster is not repeated\".\n\n\"The protection of our environment, and the community that enjoy it, is paramount,\" she told BBC News, adding it was \"environmental vandalism\" for raw sewage to \"enter our environment due to [companies] cutting corners and a lack of appropriate infrastructure\".\n\nWhen all monitors were considered - not just those in spots with bathing status - the Lib Dem analysis found that the water company with the worst record was Anglian Water, which had less than half (49%) its sewage discharges measured due to a faulty monitor or the fact one was never installed.\n\nThis was followed by South West Water (30%) and Severn Trent Water (29%).\n\nStanley Johnson, the prime minister's father, blamed his son's administration for the sewage problem, saying it should have been pressed harder.\n\nLinking the problem to Brexit, he said Britain's beaches got a \"clean up\" after joining the European Union in 1973. Without the \"EU push\", he added, the UK faces a \"very dangerous and difficult situation\".\n\nBoth Anglian Water and Southern Water told BBC News work had already been done to improve the issue.\n\n\"All but three of the places designated for bathing in our region are rated as good or excellent for bathing water quality, and all have EDM monitors installed on them,\" an Anglian Water spokeswoman said.\n\nShe added the company planned to have devices installed \"across all CSOs by the end of 2023\".\n\nAt Southern, a spokesman said the company has monitors on \"87.8% of our storm overflows, giving us the ability to report pollutions more accurately\".\n\nHe added: \"This covers 959 of our 974 overflows - one of the highest levels in the industry.\n\n\"We have committed to £145m of investment to drive down pollutions by 2025.\"\n\nLib Dem MP Tim Farron, the party's environment spokesperson, described a \"national scandal\" in which water companies could be guilty of \"gross negligence by failing to install sewage monitors\".\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for water regulator Ofwat said it was currently investigating \"all wastewater companies\" in England and Wales due to \"concerns\" over how they \"manage their treatment works\".\n\nCases are currently open in relation to six of them, he told BBC News, adding: \"Where we find issues, we will act\".\n\nTory MPs last year defended themselves after 256 voted with the government to reject an attempt by the House of Lords to bolster the Environment Bill.\n\nPeers wanted to force water companies and the government to demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage and make it standard for them to \"take all reasonable steps\" to avoid using combined sewer overflows.\n\nSome MPs said the proposed amendment was unnecessary, while others argued dumping sewage into open water was better than it coming into people's homes or businesses.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's men's 4x100m team defended their title at the European Championships, after Jake Wightman had to settle for silver in a close finish to the men's 800m final in Munich.\n\nThe men's quartet ran a championship record 37.67 seconds to beat France and Poland to gold.\n\nHowever, the women's team were unable to finish after dropping their baton.\n\nGold for hosts Germany in the women's 4x100m meant they edged Britain in the final medal table.\n\nGermany finished on 26 golds - two more than Britain - as both nations ended with 60 medals at the end of a thrilling 11 days of competition across nine sports.\n\nIn athletics, Britain finished with 20 medals - more than any other nation - with their six golds second to Germany (seven). In 20182, they won 18 medals, including seven golds.\n• None Great Britain win 60 medals to finish second in Munich\n\nBritain's 1500m world champion Wightman missed out on 800m gold to Spain's Mariano Garcia by just 0.06secs.\n\nThe 28-year-old clocked a season's best one minute 44.91 seconds in the two-lap race, as Ireland's Mark English clinched bronze.\n\nThe European silver completed a sweep of major medals this summer for Wightman, who also won Commonwealth 1500m bronze.\n\n\"I felt I was in the right place and I was just willing him [Garcia] to come back. I didn't quite have enough to get it at the end,\" Wightman told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I really went into this thinking I could win, but coming away with silver is a really nice way to end my season.\"\n\nBritain lined up as defending champions in both the men's and women's 4x100m events - but the two teams had varying fortunes at the Olympiastadion.\n\nThe men's quartet, which won world bronze behind Canada and the USA at the World Championships in July, stormed to victory as Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake brought the team home following legs by Jeremiah Azu, Zharnel Hughes and Jona Efoloko.\n\n\"Its a great feeling to come out with the gold,\" said Mitchell-Blake. \"To come out of it with the championship record is a bonus. It's been a true team effort.\"\n\nThe women's team had run the fastest time in qualifying - with only Spain also managing to clock under 43 seconds - as they looked to bounce back from their disappointment at the worlds.\n\nTheir medal hopes were ended in Eugene after Dina Asher-Smith pulled up with injury.\n\nSet to race the final leg on Sunday, Asher-Smith replaced Bianca Williams for the final, joining Asha Philip, Imani Lansiquot and Ashleigh Nelson.\n\nBut Philip was unable to hand the baton over to second-leg runner Lansiquot, as Germany took the title in 42.34 ahead of Poland and Italy.\n\n\"This team is really consistent and so I'm really shocked about what happened out there,\" said Philip. \"I can't get my head around it just yet. We wanted to defend our title but things just didn't go my way in that race.\"\n\nAsher-Smith said: \"We're such a strong squad, we know what we're capable of and we have a phenomenal time in us.\n\n\"Unfortunately this is why the relay is one of everyone's favourite races - there are so many factors to get right. Things do happen, it's unfortunate but it's OK, we will just grow from it.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC TV, British sprinter Richard Kilty said: \"Britain should be dominating absolutely every European Championships in the 4x100m. We have the talent, we have big investment.\n\n\"Mistakes do happen and the girls will learn from it. I'm glad this has happened now and not next year or going into the Olympics, because that team is definitely a constant medal-winning quartet.\"\n\nIn July, Wightman became the first Briton to win the men's 1500m world title since Steve Cram in 1983.\n\nHowever, he admitted he struggled to refocus following that success and said he was \"relieved\" to earn bronze for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in early August.\n\nDespite initially planning to go for three major 1500m medals this summer, he subsequently chose to switch to the 800m in Munich as a way to \"refresh\".\n\nThe Briton ran a smart race on Sunday and was well positioned at the start of the final straight, but he was unable to overhaul Garcia in the closing stages.\n\n\"I really wanted to add the European 800m title to my world 1500m title and I felt in the shape to do it,\" Wightman added.\n\n\"The toughest bit [of the season] was after winning the 1500m at the Worlds. I'm pleased with how I managed to come back and I'm still running well.\n\n\"It's something that I can reflect on at the end of the season and be proud of - that I got something from each of these championships.\"\n\nBritain's Ben Pattison, who won Commonwealth Games 800m bronze for England earlier this month, finished sixth in Munich in 1:45.63.\n\nIn the women's 100m hurdles final, Cindy Sember clipped the second hurdle as she finished outside the medal positions.\n\nThe Commonwealth bronze medallist started as favourite, with the quickest time of the field this season, but crossed the line eighth.\n\nPoland's Pia Skrzyszowska won the title in 12.53 seconds, Hungary's Luca Kozak took silver and Switzerland's Ditaji Kambundji earned bronze.\n\nIn the men's 10,000m final, Britain's Emile Cairess finished 11th in 28:07.37, one place ahead of compatriot and World Indoors 3,000m bronze medallist Marc Scott (28:07.72).\n\nMeanwhile, Morgan Lake finished tied seventh in the women's high jump final with a clearance of 1.90m.", "Lawyers outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on 4 July as they strike in a dispute over pay\n\nBarristers are voting on proposals for an all-out strike next month as part of an ongoing row with the government over pay and legal aid cuts.\n\nThe indefinite, uninterrupted strike - which comes after weeks of walkouts - would start on 5 September.\n\nThe ballot closes at midnight on Sunday and the result is expected on Monday.\n\nMore than 6,000 court hearings have been disrupted in England and Wales as a result of the walkouts by members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA).\n\nThe CBA is asking for a 25% rise in pay for legal aid work, representing people who could not otherwise afford lawyers.\n\nCriminal barristers are due to receive a 15% fee rise from the end of September, with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) saying the increase would see the average barrister earn about £7,000 more annually.\n\nBut members of the CBA have rejected the government's pay offer, saying it would not kick in immediately or apply to existing cases.\n\nDuring the first 19 days of industrial action between 27 June and 5 August, 6,235 court cases were disrupted, including 1,415 trials, across England and Wales, according to MoJ data.\n\nThe CBA said the walkouts have had a \"devastating impact on the ability of our Crown Courts to function with any semblance of normality\".\n\nIt added that \"the continuing refusal of the justice secretary to negotiate a fair settlement with criminal barristers comes at a very heavy price\", measured both by the financial waste of courtrooms sitting idle and by the impact on complainants, defendants and witnesses.\n\nThe CBA said members had indicated that there \"should be no pausing or halting of the ongoing programme of strike action\".\n\n\"Given the expectation that the ongoing strike action will inevitably lead to the progressive incapacitation of court business, there is no doubt that resolving this dispute will be the critical priority of any incoming justice secretary,\" the CBA added.\n\nAn MoJ spokesman said: \"The only outcome of escalating strike action is further distress for victims forced to wait longer for justice.\"\n\nThe MoJ added that backdating pay would require a \"fundamental change\" in how fees are paid.\n\n\"That reform would cost a disproportionate amount of taxpayers' money and would take longer to implement, meaning barristers would have to wait longer for payment,\" a spokesperson said.", "Renate Nyborg during the Collision 2022 tech conference in Toronto, Canada\n\nTinder chief executive Renate Nyborg is leaving the firm less than a year after becoming the boss of the dating app.\n\nHer exit was one of a number of management changes at Tinder announced by parent company Match Group.\n\nTinder's plans to adopt new technology, including virtual currencies and metaverse-based dating, are also being reviewed in the strategic shake-up.\n\nThe announcements came as Match reported second-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations.\n\n\"Today we're announcing the departure of Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg, and I have made some changes to the management team and structure that I am confident will help deliver Tinder's full potential,\" Match Group chief executive Bernard Kim said in a letter to shareholders.\n\nMr Kim will take up the role vacated by Ms Nyborg while the company looks for a permanent chief executive for Tinder.\n\n\"I have loved every moment of the last two years, working with an I.N.C.R.E.D.I.B.L.E team on the magic of human connection,\" Ms Nyborg said in a LinkedIn post.\n\nThe announcement also included the reorganisation of Tinder's top management team as well as a review of plans for rolling out new technology.\n\n\"After seeing mixed results from testing Tinder Coins, we've decided to take a step back and re-examine that initiative... we also intend to do more thinking about virtual goods,\" Mr Kim added.\n\nIt came as Match - which also owns the dating apps OkCupid, Hinge and Plenty of Fish - said it expects sales in the three months to the end of September to be between $790m to $800m.\n\nThat was well below Wall Street expectations and would mean the company would see no sales growth for the period.\n\nMr Kim pointed to the impact of the pandemic on people's willingness to start using dating apps and currency fluctuations for the disappointing figures.\n\n\"While people have generally moved past lockdowns and entered a more normal way of life, their willingness to try online dating products for the first time hasn't yet returned to pre-pandemic levels,\" he said.\n\nMatch Group shares fell by more than 20% in after-hours trade in New York on Tuesday.\n\nMs Nyborg became Tinder's first female chief executive in September last year.\n\nMr Kim was appointed as Match's chief executive in May after his predecessor Shar Dubey stepped down after just over two years in the role.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has testified that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was \"100% real\" and that it was wrong to call it a hoax.\n\nThe parents of a child killed in the shooting are seeking at least $150m (£123m) in a defamation trial brought against the prominent radio host.\n\nThey say they have endured harassment and emotional distress because of Mr Jones's comments about the attack.\n\nThe trial will determine how much money he owes for defaming the couple.\n\nMr Jones is the only person testifying in his defence during the proceedings in Texas. He has portrayed the case as an attack on his free speech rights under the First Amendment.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Infowars host said he now understood that it was irresponsible of him to claim the shooting was false and that no children were killed.\n\n\"Especially since I've met the parents. It's 100% real,\" he said. \"They [the media] won't let me take it back.\"\n\nIn a dramatic moment in court, it was also revealed that Mr Jones's text messages had been sent by mistake to a lawyer representing the parents.\n\nMark Bankston, a lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse died in the shooting, revealed that he had been sent an \"entire digital copy\" of Mr Jones's cell phone spanning a period of two years.\n\nMr Bankston added that when he told the opposing legal team about the mishap, they \"did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way\".\n\nThe revelation emerged after Mr Bankston provided Mr Jones with a copy of texts from his device that referenced Sandy Hook. Mr Jones had previously said under oath that there were no such messages.\n\n\"You did get my text messages?\" Mr Jones asked. \"You said you didn't. Nice trick.\"\n\n\"You know what perjury is, right?\" Mr Bankston said.\"I just want to make sure before we go further.\"\n\nMr Jones then insisted he had not tried to hide any messages. \"If I was mistaken, I was mistaken,\" he said, adding that he was not a \"tech guy\".\n\nTwenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012.\n\nIn the years following the incident, Mr Jones repeatedly claimed that the shooting was a ploy to push gun control measures and claimed without evidence that it had been staged by actors and the media.\n\nIn his testimony, he also complained that he was being \"typecast\" as \"someone that runs around talking about Sandy Hook, makes money off Sandy Hook, is obsessed by Sandy Hook\".\n\nClosing arguments in the case are expected to begin later on Wednesday before jurors begin deliberating a verdict.", "The teenage boy was found dead at the fairground in Pencester Gardens, Dover\n\nA teenage boy has been found dead at a funfair in Dover.\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance Service was called to the fair at Pencester Gardens just before 07:45 BST.\n\nIt said a \"teenage boy was pronounced as deceased at the scene\". Kent Police said \"no suspicious circumstances\" had been reported.\n\nThe site was hosting the Family Funfair run by Kent-based Forrest Amusements which, according to a poster, was due to open to the public on Wednesday.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive is also investigating.\n\nA report is being prepared for the coroner.\n\nIn a statement Forrest Amusements said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened to hear about the tragic incident\".\n\nThe Showmen's Guild, the body which represents travelling fairs, said in a statement: \"Our thoughts are with the family of the person involved.\"\n\nIt added it was assisting the Health and Safety Executive with the investigation.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two companies advertising 'green' funeral packages have been banned for misleading consumers\n\nTwo funeral providers have been banned from repeating claims about eco-friendly funeral packages by the UK's advertising watchdog.\n\nThey misleadingly suggested that the MDF coffins and funeral plans being offered were more eco-friendly than alternatives, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found.\n\nGolden Leaves said it did not agree with the findings.\n\nBoth companies had advertised \"green\", \"environmentally-friendly\" or \"eco-friendly\" funerals - that could include wooden or MDF coffins.\n\n\"Choosing an environmentally-friendly funeral not only assists your loved ones, but also makes a positive statement of intent to help preserve the world in which we live\", Golden Leaves had advertised.\n\nOn the JC Atkinson & Son website, after selecting \"eco\", consumers had access to a selection of coffins including a range called \"reflections\". It read: \"The eco-friendly Reflections range is for those wanting a truly personalised tribute.\"\n\nThe ASA and LifeArt Coffins challenged whether the \"eco-friendly\" claims were misleading and could be sustained.\n\nJC Atkinson & Son said it would remove claims that the coffins were \"eco-friendly\", but added that it believed they could be substantiated.\n\nIn relation to the company's advert, the ASA said that because the evidence provided \"did not demonstrate\" that there was no negative impact to the environment over the full life cycle of the coffins \"we concluded that the ad was misleading\".\n\nGolden Leaves said the claims that its funerals and coffins were \"green\" should be understood as part of a whole funeral plan package. The company said the package was designed to promote an environmentally conscious message.\n\nThis included promotional material, the sustainable nature of the coffin types used and carbon offsetting strategies such as replacement tree planting and donations to rainforest conservation.\n\nIn relation to Golden Leaves, the ASA said consumers would understand terms such as \"green\" within the ad to be \"absolute claims about the whole life cycle of the funeral\" and said evidence provided did not prove that purchasing the funeral plan \"would have a net neutral or positive impact on the environment\".\n\nAs a result of this, \"we [ASA] concluded that the claims had not been substantiated and were misleading\".\n\nThe ASA informed the business that the ad \"must not appear in its current form\".\n\n\"We also told them to ensure that the basis for the environmental claims were made clear to consumers\", added the advertising watchdog.\n\nResponding to the ban, Golden Leaves said it did not agree with the finding, but it had decided to remove the product range in question \"until further research\" could be conducted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drug abuse: 'It grips you straight away', says recovering addict\n\nThere has been a sharp increase in the rate of deaths from drug misuse in Wales, according to new figures.\n\nThere were 210 deaths recorded in 2021, compared with 149 in 2020 - an increase of 41% - Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showed.\n\nThe figure was also the highest since records began in 1993, with the previous record being 208 in 2018.\n\nThe Welsh government said every death was a tragedy and it would be investigating the increase.\n\nThe number of deaths per million people was higher in Wales than in England, which saw a far smaller rise in deaths.\n\nHowever, due to backlogs in coroners' courts during the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the reported deaths would have been from the year before.\n\nCharities working on the front line said the data showed old approaches to drugs are not working, and called for an urgent rethink of Wales' strategies.\n\nWales is currently pioneering new treatments, which recovering drug addicts said have had a positive impact on their condition.\n\nOne of those was Cullan Mais, who was addicted to heroin at 19, but has been taking a drug called Buvidal, which stopped him feeling the intense symptoms of withdrawal.\n\n\"Your confidence comes back, that ambition comes back,\" Cullan said.\n\nCullan, who started smoking cannabis as a teenager before becoming addicted to crack cocaine and heroin, said drugs were a way for him to control his OCD, anxiety and ADHD, all of which went undiagnosed until he went to prison.\n\nCullan Mais went to prison 11 times while funding his drug use\n\nHe funded his drug addiction through shoplifting, after stealing from family and friends, eventually going to prison 11 times.\n\nNow 30, he described his first stint in HMP Birmingham as a \"real eye opener\".\n\n\"I thought that was going to be my only time in prison and it did genuinely scare me,\" he said.\n\n\"But when drugs like heroin come into play, it's never the only time.\"\n\nCullan Mais during a detox from his drug addiction\n\nCullan was caught in a cycle of reoffending and reusing drugs, but everything changed when his friend died from an overdose and he ended up in hospital. It was then he was offered Buvidal.\n\n\"It was probably the first time I was really scared of losing my life,\" he said.\n\nWhile Cullan acknowledges Buvidal is not a \"silver bullet\" for everyone, it helped him.\n\nHe now has a girlfriend, a family, a home, and a podcast on which he has interviewed First Minister Mark Drakeford about drugs policy.\n\nThe Welsh government first approved the use of Buvidal in September 2019.\n\nIt is a new, injectable form of the drug buprenorphine, and can help users stop using heroin or methadone.\n\nUnlike methadone or traditional buprenorphine, Buvidal injections can last for one month.\n\nAfter funding was initially provided for 26 patients in Wales, that number rose to 740 in a year and has now exceeded 1,300, according to Dr Jan Melichar, visiting professor at University of South Wales.\n\nCharities in Wales said Buvidal was one of the ways Wales was starting to change its approach to drug addiction.\n\nNewport-based Kaleidoscope said instead of punishing people for taking drugs, the focus was on reducing the harm to the drug user.\n\nMartin Blakebrough, from the charity, said drugs need to be treated as a \"public health issue\" in Wales, \"reducing the stigma of criminalising everyone who has a drug issue\".\n\n\"Workers in Wales are taught to recognise those who have serious problems with drugs often has extreme trauma in their lives,\" he said.\n\nWales will become the first UK nation to have a nationwide peer-to-peer Naloxone programme, a drug which rapidly reverses an opioid overdose.\n\nIn 2021, the Welsh government and Gwent alcohol and drug service funded an eight-week pilot to train people with lived experience of addiction to give Naloxone to those at risk of overdosing.\n\nThe pilot was so successful, the training has been extended across Wales.\n\nLeighton said being able to help other drug users who had overdosed meant he was \"saving someone's life\"\n\nLeighton is one of the volunteers who has been involved with the project since the beginning.\n\nBefore he volunteered, he was still using drugs.\n\n\"I was going round in circles constantly, getting clean, relapsing, getting clean, relapsing,\" he said.\n\nNow Leighton has broken that cycle.\n\n\"You're saving someone's son, someone's daughter, someone's father - it puts a smile on your face,\" he said.\n\nGeorge Charlton said Wales was leading the way, and everywhere else needed to catch up\n\nGeorge Charlton is also a former drug user, who is now known as \"the Naloxone man\" because of his work training people to use the drug.\n\n\"Typically, we don't see the good in people who use drugs,\" he said.\n\n\"This project reframes all of that and what we tell people is that their lived experience absolutely matters - that they've got like a qualification that nobody wants - they've got a street degree right and their street degree is involved in pain and trauma.\n\n\"And I would argue that when it comes to the peer led approach, Wales is definitely leading the way, so everyone's got to catch up.\"\n\nCommenting on the rise in drug related deaths, the Welsh government said the latest increase was of \"deep concern\" and officials would be investigating the reasons behind the increase.\n\n\"Until now drug misuse deaths had fallen to the lowest level since 2014,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are working with the NHS, police and charities to tackle substance misuse and investing over £63m a year.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesperson from the UK government said its drug strategy would help rebuild drug treatment and recovery services in England, as well as tackling the criminal supply chains which fuel illegal drug markets.\n\n\"This will help to prevent nearly 1,000 deaths, deliver over 54,500 new treatment places, - a 19% increase on current numbers - and support 24,000 more people into recovery from substance dependency,\" they said.\n\nIf you need help or advice with any of the issues raised in this story please contact the BBC Action Line - information can be found here", "US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but controversial visit.\n\nMs Pelosi - the most senior US politician to visit in 25 years - departed on Wednesday after meeting leaders in the capital Taipei.\n\nBut her visit, as part of a wider Asian tour, sparked fury in Beijing after she ignored its warnings not to travel to the island.\n\nTaiwan is self-ruled - but China sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it.\n\nAccusing the US of \"violating China's sovereignty under the guise of so-called democracy\", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: \"Those who play with fire will not come to a good end and those who offend China will be punished.\"\n\nIn a statement following the visit, Ms Pelosi said China cannot \"prevent world leaders or anyone from traveling to Taiwan to pay respect to its flourishing democracy, to highlight its many successes and to reaffirm our commitment to continued collaboration\".\n\nThe senior US Democrat's visit was not approved by her party colleague, President Joe Biden, who had said the American military felt it was \"not a good idea right now\" amid heightened tensions between the two countries.\n\nThe US walks a diplomatic tightrope with its Taiwan policy. On the one hand, it abides by the \"One China\" policy, which recognises only one Chinese government, giving it formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan.\n\nOn the other, it maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nAs speaker of the US House of Representatives, Ms Pelosi is second in line to the US presidency, behind Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nIn response to the trip, China announced what it called \"necessary and just\" military drills in seas around 10 miles (16km) from Taiwan.\n\nThe exercises - which will begin on Thursday and last for five days - will take place in some of the world's busiest waterways and will include \"long-range live ammunition shooting\".\n\nChina's defence ministry has admitted that some exercises may breach Taiwan's territorial waters. In recent days, Chinese warplanes ventured as far as the median line, the unofficial divide separating China and Taiwan in the waters between them.\n\nTaiwan has asked ships to find alternative routes to avoid the drills and is negotiating with neighbouring Japan and the Philippines to find alternative aviation routes.\n\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen said the country was facing \"deliberately heightened military threats\".\n\nIn an effort to calm the situation, the foreign ministers from the G7 nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US - released a joint statement saying China's escalation risked destabilising the region.\n\n\"There is no justification to use a visit as pretext for aggressive military activity in the Taiwan Strait. It is normal and routine for legislators from our countries to travel internationally,\" the statement said.\n\nThere is a full-on Pelosi lovefest happening in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.\n\nYou can see it in the excited way Nancy Pelosi's arrival here is being reported on Taiwan's many TV news channels.\n\nThey have been studying everything from the colour of her outfits to the height of her heels, (very high for an 82-year-old apparently) and the fact that she \"looked like Audrey Hepburn in that photo of her with President John F. Kennedy back in 1961\".\n\nCrowds gathered early outside Taiwan's parliament on Wednesday, hoping to get a glimpse of Ms Pelosi as she came out.\n\nAlmost everyone there brushed off worries that China might retaliate.\n\n\"China is bluffing,\" said a 70-year-old man. \"It may retaliate in the short term, but if Beijing over-reacts, it will be punished by the United States.\"\n\n\"China shouldn't bully Taiwan like this\" a 50-year-old house wife told us. \"This trip is normal... if China continues like this it will only alienate more countries.\"\n\nBut to China this trip is anything but normal. To Beijing it is an outrageous breach of diplomatic norms.\n\nDuring a meeting with Ms Tsai, Ms Pelosi praised Taiwan as \"inspiration to all freedom-loving people\" .\n\n\"Forty three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan... today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan,\" she said.\n\nWhile the top Democrat's visit has been welcomed in Taiwan, it has somewhat split opinion in the US.\n\nSome commentators speculated that the visit could even push China to supply arms to Russia for use in Ukraine - something it has so far refused to do.\n\nBut she has received support from some perhaps unexpected quarters, with 26 Republican senators writing a letter in support of the visit.\n\nThe letter, whose signatories included Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, said that \"for decades, members of the United States Congress, including previous Speakers of the House, have travelled to Taiwan\".\n\nThe trip, it added, was \"consistent with the United States' One China policy to which we are committed\".", "Serial sex offender Bradley Booth, 21, will be sentenced next month\n\nAn airport worker has been convicted of a series of sex crimes against seven teenage girls, including three rapes.\n\nBradley Booth was a teenager when he targeted his victims in Edinburgh and East Lothian between 2016 and 2019.\n\nBooth, now 21, of Edinburgh, was found guilty of 11 charges and will be sentenced next month.\n\nThe judge at the High Court in Edinburgh told jurors it had been \"a rather distressing case\".\n\nLord Tyre requested a background report on the first offender ahead of sentencing.\n\nBut he warned Booth that, given the seriousness of the offences, it was \"extremely unlikely\" it would be anything but imprisonment.\n\nThe duty free worker was on bail during his trial but was remanded in custody following the verdict.\n\nThe court heard his first victim was a 13-year-old who he attacked in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh in 2016.\n\nThe girl had been drinking and found herself alone with Booth when he molested her.\n\nHe committed his first rape the following year when he attacked a 14-year-old girl at a house in the Niddrie area.\n\nBooth also sent sexual communications to another 14-year-old in Edinburgh between March 2017 and March 2018 and twice had sex with the child.\n\nThe jury was told he admitted being in contact with another 15-year-old girl and claimed that he visited her home in Haddington after she told him she had \"a free house\".\n\nBut the girl said she was pinned down and raped by him during the visit in March 2018.\n\nThe girl later spoke to her sister who urged her to report it to the police.\n\nThe predator was also convicted of having underage sex with another 14-year-old girl at a house in Edinburgh between 20 May and 30 June 2018.\n\nHe also indecently communicated with a girl aged under 16 at addresses in Edinburgh between February 2017 and June 2019 by sending her explicit pictures on Snapchat and asking her to send him sexual images of herself.\n\nHis final victim was a 15-year-old he had contacted by text and Snapchat and asked her to send sexual images.\n\nBooth had sex with the underage girl but then raped her after she said no to him.\n\nHe claimed he thought she was 16 or 17 from how she appeared on social media.\n\nHe was placed on the sex offenders register.", "Dr Rowan Williams was Archbishop of Canterbury for almost ten years, stepping down in December 2012\n\nDevolution \"is not being given serious attention\" in Westminster, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nDr Rowan Williams believes the UK government \"is a problem for us here in Wales\".\n\nAs co-chairman of a commission looking into the constitutional future of Wales, he was participating in a panel discussion on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK government said devolution remained \"a priority\" and was putting funds in \"the hands of local leaders\".\n\nDr Williams also said he believed Wales was now in a position where more, rather than less, devolution was likely.\n\n\"The commission's task isn't to decide on the future but to discuss options - such as independence or devolution - the questions are open,\" he said.\n\n\"From where I stand, more devolution is most probable.\"\n\nHe was also asked about comments from Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss that Nicola Sturgeon \"should be ignored\".\n\n\"Of course, the Westminster government is a problem for us here in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"What will transpire in Westminster, I don't know, but of course I hope the devolution will get serious treatment in Westminster.\n\n\"I'm not sure devolution has been taken seriously by them until now. I hope we as a commission can bring the question to the forefront.\"\n\nLiz Truss is vying with Rishi Sunak to replace Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister\n\nOriginally from Swansea, Dr Williams was Archbishop of Canterbury between February 2003 and December 2012.\n\nHe has criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson on several occasions, including recently over the Partygate scandal and the Westminster government's policy of sending refugees to Rwanda.\n\nWith a new prime minister to be elected by Conservative Party members in the coming weeks, Dr Williams was asked whether he thought there would be better moral leadership under either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss.\n\nHe responded: \"It is difficult for me to believe there could be less moral leadership than under Boris Johnson. I hope things will improve there.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"Devolution remains a priority which is why we are working closely with devolved administrations and ensuring the Welsh government is resourced to play its part.\n\n\"This includes giving greater powers to local leaders in Wales by investing £585m through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and over £120m through the Levelling Up Fund.\n\n\"These funds put decision making firmly in the hands of local leaders who understand best the needs of their places.\"", "The conservative US state of Kansas has decided in a referendum to protect abortion rights - in a major victory for pro-choice groups.\n\nVoters overwhelmingly said they did not wish to amend the state constitution to assert there is no right to abortion.\n\nIt was the first electoral test of the issue since the US Supreme Court allowed states to ban the procedure.\n\nIf the ballot had gone the other way, lawmakers could have moved to further restrict or ban abortion in Kansas.\n\nThe ballot question in Kansas had been hotly anticipated since the US Supreme Court two months ago overturned Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalised abortion nationwide.\n\nProjections suggest Kansans voted by more than 60% to uphold the state's constitutional right for women to access abortion.\n\nIt's just a projection for now, and the official result will be confirmed in a week.\n\nWhen Roe v Wade was overturned, President Joe Biden said abortion rights would be an issue for the voters. What's happened in Kansas has turned that theory into evidence.\n\nThe referendum result is being seen as a landslide, in a state that Republican former-President Donald Trump won by a convincing margin just two years ago.\n\nFor Democrats and pro-choice groups, this is a sign that Americans are deeply unhappy with abortion rights being overturned - and see the Supreme Court's decision as out of step with the public.\n\nThe US holds national mid-term elections on 8 November, with Democrats fighting to retain control of Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Biden said the result showed \"the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion\".\n\nOne voter, Taylor Hirth, wept as she celebrated the result with her nine-year-old daughter at a watch party in Overland Park, Kansas.\n\n\"I'm a rape survivor, and the thought of my daughter ever becoming pregnant and not being able to do anything about it angers me,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I never thought this would happen here, but we have worked so hard here to get the vote out. Republicans underestimated us.\"\n\nValue Them Both, a Kansas based anti-abortion group said that \"Kansans endured an onslaught of misinformation from radical left organizations\" over the past six months, that \"spread lies\" about the amendment.\n\n\"This outcome is a temporary setback, and our dedicated fight to value women and babies is far from over,\" a message on its Twitter page said.\n\nKansas officials said voter turnout across the state was significantly higher than expected on a primary voting day when Republicans usually outnumber Democrats by two to one.\n\nWith feelings running high in the month before the vote, a Catholic church and a statue of the Virgin Mary were defaced with red paint and a pro-choice slogan.\n\nOn the eve of the ballot, some Kansans had received misleading texts urging them to \"vote yes\" to protect choice, but the opposite was true - a \"yes\" vote was to take away access to abortion. Tech company Twilio said it had suspended the anonymous sender from its platform.\n\nAlthough Kansas is staunchly conservative, its abortion regulations are less strict than many other Republican-led states.\n\nIt allows pregnancies to be terminated up to 22 weeks with other restrictions, including a mandatory 24-hour waiting period and mandatory parental consent for children.\n\nThe legislature of the Great Plains state is controlled by anti-abortion Republicans, but its politically vulnerable governor, Laura Kelly, is a Democrat. She had warned that changing the state constitution would throw Kansas \"back into the dark ages\".\n\nMore than a dozen Republican-led states have moved to ban or further restrict abortion since the Supreme Court decision on 24 June.\n\nBut 10 states across the US, including Kansas, have the right to abortion enshrined in their state constitutions, provisions that can only be overturned through referendums.\n\nOther states, like California and Vermont, are holding votes in November seeking to enhance protections to abortion in their state constitutions.", "Russia has accused the US of direct involvement in the war in Ukraine for the first time.\n\nA spokesperson for Moscow's defence ministry alleged the US was approving targets for American-made Himars artillery used by Kyiv's forces.\n\nLt Gen Igor Konashenkov said intercepted calls between Ukrainian officials revealed the link. The BBC could not independently verify this.\n\nA spokesperson for the Pentagon said it provided the Ukrainians with \"detailed, time-sensitive information to help them understand the threats they face and defend their country against Russian aggression\".\n\nHimars is a multiple rocket system which can launch precision-guided missiles at targets as far as 70km (45 miles) away - far further than the artillery that Ukraine previously had.\n\nThey are also believed to be more accurate than their Russian equivalents.\n\nMr Konashenkov said: \"It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for all rocket attacks approved by Kyiv on residential areas and civilian infrastructure facilities in settlements of Donbas and other regions that caused mass deaths of civilians.\"\n\nIn April, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said US President Joe Biden's decision to supply Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of arms meant \"Nato, in essence, is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy and is arming that proxy\".\n\nThroughout the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has been accused of numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity. Last week, Ukraine accused Moscow of bombing a prison in separatist held Donetsk to cover up allegations of torture.\n\nAnd the BBC has documented allegations of torture and beatings of Ukrainian prisoners by both the Russian military and security services.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"By the grace of God, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night.\"\n\nThat was the verdict of the US ambassador to the United Nations on Friday, after Russia attacked and seized a nuclear power plant in Ukraine.\n\nBuildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant - the largest in Europe - were damaged after it was hit by shelling.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.\n\nBut it is still a very risky situation.\n\n\"For the first time this morning, I'm frightened,\" Sheffield University nuclear materials expert Prof Claire Corkhill told BBC News.\n\nAs well as the Zaporizhzhia plant, Russia has taken control of the now-retired Chernobyl plant - the site of the worst nuclear incident in history.\n\nExperts have stressed that there are important differences between the two plants.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia site is far more secure, according to Dr Mark Wenman of Imperial College London.\n\nHe says the reactor is in a steel-reinforced concrete building that can \"withstand extreme external events, both natural and man-made, such as an aircraft crash or explosions\".\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia plant also does not contain any graphite in its reactor.\n\nAt Chernobyl graphite caused a significant fire and was the source of the radiation plume that travelled across Europe.\n\nTowns near Chernobyl were abandoned following the nuclear incident\n\nHowever, scientists say a military attack on the reactor itself isn't the only threat. Disruption to its electricity supply could also cause serious issues.\n\n\"You don't need to hit directly a plant to get a problem,\" said Olexi Pasiuk, deputy director of Ecoaction, an energy pressure group in Ukraine.\n\nThe Ukrainians were in the process of taking the reactors offline to protect them. Only one of the six reactors operational at the power plant is now thought to be running.\n\nBut reactors cannot just be turned off like conventional energy supplies. They must be cooled slowly over 30 hours, which requires a constant electricity supply to the plant.\n\nA disruption to this supply - and therefore the cooling process - could lead to radiation leaking into the surrounding environment.\n\nA loss of cooling like this was experienced at Japan's Fukushima plant following the 2011 tsunami.\n\nIn that case a loss of power caused a meltdown in three of its nuclear reactors.\n\nIf people are exposed to leaked radiation it can cause severe immediate and long-term health impacts including cancer.\n\nThis was seen in 1986 at Chernobyl.\n\nRussia may be trying to curb Ukraine's power capabilities, Prof Corkhill said.\n\n\"They're taking the rectors offline. This means they're shutting down the nuclear reaction and putting them into a safe and stable state.\n\n\"And this could be the intention of the Russians: if you want to target their power supply, you attack a building close to the power plant and force operators to shut it down.\"\n\nThere are four major nuclear plants in Ukraine, and the defunct Chernobyl.\n\nRussia has control of Zaporizhzhia and Chernobyl and it is approaching a third site - the south Ukraine nuclear power plant.\n\nThere are also smaller plants and radioactive disposal sites which store waste material from nuclear power operations across Ukraine.\n\nOn 27 February, Russian missiles also reportedly hit the site of a radioactive waste disposal facility in Kyiv.\n\nUkraine's nuclear inspectorate said no radiation leaks were reported and the plant was not directly damaged.\n\nFor now, Russian forces - who have blamed the attack on Ukrainian saboteurs - have allowed staff to remain in the control room at Zaporizhzhia, to run operations.\n\nBut world leaders have accused the Kremlin of acting recklessly. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it could \"directly threaten the safety of all of Europe\", and Ukraine's president accused Russia of \"nuclear terror\".\n\nIAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi said: \"We shouldn't wait for something like this to happen [again].\"\n\nHe plans to travel to Ukraine to negotiate with Russian forces for the safe operation of all power plants in Ukraine.", "When Mick Miners, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, first saw a large black object sticking out of the ground in a remote part of his land, he thought it was a dead tree.\n\nBut on closer inspection - and verification from experts - he learned it had fallen from space.\n\nThe Australian Space Agency (ASA) later said it came from a SpaceX capsule.\n\nExperts described the discovery as \"rare\" and \"exciting\" - but said such events may become more common.\n\nThe object landed on 9 July in a large area of fields, but was not discovered by Mr Miners until several weeks later.\n\nTwo other pieces were later found nearby, and the ASA asked anyone who came across further items to contact a debris hotline set up by SpaceX.\n\nDr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, was called to examine the object.\n\nHe is often called to similar discoveries - the vast majority of which turn out not to be space debris.\n\n\"This has been super exciting to see this all up close, I've never seen a piece of space junk fall like this,\" he said in a video shared online.\n\nDon Pollacco, a professor of astrophysics at the UK's Warwick University, agreed that it was very rare for space debris to hit land.\n\nWhile objects fall from space to Earth every day, the vast majority land in the oceans covering most of the planet, he said.\n\nWhat's more, the only recorded case of a person being hit was Lottie Williams, who was unhurt when a piece of space debris landed on her shoulder in Oklahoma, US, in 1997.\n\nOther incidents include damage to buildings in Ivory Coast in 2020, from pieces of a Chinese rocket.\n\nHowever, discoveries on land may become more common - especially as the number of rockets sent to space has hugely increased in recent years.\n\nThe Sun is also moving into a cycle of being more active, Prof Pollacco added, a knock-on effect of which may be more debris falling to Earth.\n\nPerhaps more worrying is a study from Canada's University of British Columbia, published in July, which found there was a 10% chance of one or more people being killed by space debris in the next decade.\n\nBut Prof Pollacco still says the chance of an individual being hurt is \"almost zero\", adding: \"I don't think people need to be frightened, the likelihood of them getting hit is unbelievably small.\"\n\nSpaceX did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The James Webb Space telescope will also enable scientists to look at black holes", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DJ D-Lish talks about the prejudice she's experienced as a female DJ in a male-dominated field\n\nLess than one per cent of the dance music played on UK radio is made by a female solo artist or all-female band, a new study suggests.\n\nWomen are also under-represented on the charts, accounting for just 5% of dance hits, according to the report, which examines gender imbalance in the scene.\n\nTo get heard, it says, female acts have to collaborate with male producers.\n\nSongs with women as the \"featured\" vocalist make up 44% of dance music on the radio and 37% of chart hits.\n\nThe pattern can be seen in the careers of musicians like Ella Henderson and Raye, whose collaborations with male producers like Jax Jones and Nathan Dawe often chart higher than their solo material.\n\nThe research, which covered the years 2020-2021, was conducted by the Jaguar Foundation - which is the brainchild of Radio 1 DJ Jaguar Bingham.\n\nShe says she was \"disappointed and saddened\" by the findings, which looked at female and non-binary representation across the club scene, from the board room to the charts.\n\nJaguar believes the lack of female dance producers is \"systemic\", with many women discouraged from pursuing a career in music at an early age.\n\n\"If I think about when I was at school, boys were always encouraged to do more technical things like music production,\" she says.\n\n\"As a result, there are more men in that field, so they managed to take over the scene and become the majority. So anyone who isn't [a man] maybe feels shunned, doesn't feel comfortable or doesn't feel welcome.\"\n\nArtists like Raye (right) often score their biggest hits as the featured vocalist on a song by a male producer such as Jax Jones (left)\n\nThere is some room for optimism - the report's authors say - with the report showing that the proportion of female and non-binary acts on UK festival bills has doubled since 2018, from 14% to 28%.\n\nHowever, it notes that women are often relegated to warm-up slots at the bottom of the bill.\n\n\"You'll have an all-male line-up and then you'll have one woman,\" says DJ Nia Archives in the report. \"It's ridiculous to be honest with you. But you know, it's quite a boys' club.\"\n\nHer comments are borne out by the evidence. At this year's Creamfields festival, for example, Nina Kraviz is the only female headliner - from a total of 33, across the festival's 10 stages.\n\nThe result, says Jaguar, is that dance music has almost forgotten its roots in the queer and black minority spaces of 1970s Chicago, Detroit and New York.\n\n\"Now, if you look at a lot of major festival line-ups it's just a lot of guys - which isn't really representative of what it should be.\"\n\nThe lack of diversity is reflected in the audiences who attend these shows, the report suggests.\n\n\"If you've got an all-white male line-up, that's gonna attract a lot of white males,\" says rising London producer TSHA.\n\n\"A gay black man or a black woman's not going to feel like they can come to that party. They're not going to feel like that party is for them.\"\n\nThe report, which was backed by the Sony Music UK Social Justice Fund, also highlights the fact that many women feel unsafe in clubs.\n\n\"You can be DJ-ing and are literally having to watch your drink at the same time,\" DJ/producer Riva told the authors, while Yewande Adeniran said they insist on \"a safety rider\" after several experiences where \"guys have come behind the decks\" and harassed her during a set.\n\nJaguar presents the BBC Introducing show on Radio 1 Dance, championing new artists\n\nJaguar says such tales are not uncommon.\n\n\"Imagine walking through the doors at work and not feeling safe - but that's exactly what happens. You come into these clubs late at night, often on your own, and there are a lot of people there who might be intoxicated.\n\n\"That's why we need to educate the clubs, the bouncers and the staff to make sure everyone feels safe on the decks, but also on the dancefloor.\"\n\nTo help achieve that, the report's authors have drawn up a template for an inclusivity and safety rider that artists can present to club and festival promoters.\n\n\"It says, 'I won't play on this line-up unless there's another woman, person of colour or trans and non-binary person alongside me',\" explains Jaguar. \"If not, it's within my rights to cancel the gig.\"\n\nThe broadcaster says her dream is that male headliners like David Guetta and Calvin Harris will also insist on these terms.\n\n\"If guys have these contracts too, it would really accelerate the thing that we're trying to achieve here, which is diversity,\" she says.\n\n\"It's a really important step that we need to take.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "England set out to inspire the nation, says winning goalscorer Chloe Kelly Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nChloe Kelly reflects on that goal, celebration and women's empowerment. England hero Chloe Kelly says the Lionesses set out to \"inspire the nation\" and is proud they achieved that by becoming European champions. Kelly's celebration after scoring the winner against Germany in extra time at Wembley on Sunday has become the iconic image of England's historic victory. Kelly hopes their legacy will be making football more accessible for everyone. \"It is huge and I hope people now see it as just football, everyone is included,\" she told BBC Sport. \"We are just enjoying ourselves and playing the game everyone loves. \"It's massive and women's empowerment is huge; this summer has been excellent for that and has shaped the future for us as well.\"\n• None How can England's Euro 2022 win help grow the game? The Manchester City forward thanked the players who paved the way for this England side and said is it now their turn to \"shape the future for the next generation\". Kelly also wants to maintain the momentum of interest in the women's game and has called on fans to watch the Women's Super League when it kicks off in September. But the 24-year-old says that can be helped by not scheduling men's Premier League games at the same time, and referenced the Women's FA Cup final in which her Manchester City side featured at the same time their male counterparts were playing West Ham. \"Not having games at the same times as men's, where it clashes and a fan has to decide between what game they are watching - that is the biggest thing for me,\" she added, speaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan. In less than 24 hours, 65,000 tickets have been sold for the Lionesses' game against World champions USA at Wembley on 7 October. Euro 2022 winner Alessia Russo: After school I would tag along with a boys' team Following a report that claimed 44% of secondary schools in England offer girls equal access to football in PE lessons, Kelly also hopes England's success can be a turning point. She grew up playing cage football with her five brothers and their friends, while also playing in the boys' school football team and at QPR. \"You also want to be in an environment where you are comfortable and that is massive for young girls,\" Kelly said. \"There will be a massive turning point from this summer. The girls, as a group, we want to make a change and if we can do that, that is massive. Girls being able to do what they love, no matter the quality, let's go and play.\" England goalkeeper Mary Earps added: \"I'm having so many messages from so many people saying how great it was and how their daughter especially, but sons too, are in the garden practising their goalkeeping or playing football. \"That is what we want. We want girls to have access. Football is the best sport in the world, everyone just wants to play.\" Earps added that football \"absolutely should be on the curriculum\" and says she was fortunate to attend schools that were \"quite facilitating\". \"I was also quite stubborn, playing football with the boys,\" the 29-year-old told BBC Breakfast. \"Girls and boys were separated; girls played netball and tennis, which were seen as more 'feminine' sports. \"Women can do whatever we want. We need to break out of the boxes and moulds people have been putting us in for years. We can achieve great things.\" Forward Alessia Russo said: \"One turning point from this tournament is to make sure these girls have access not just for the next few years, but for the rest of their lives.\" Kelly ripping off her shirt after scoring the winner will be the enduring image of this Euros; it evoked memories of Brandi Chastain's similar iconic celebration for USA in the 1999 World Cup final against China. Kelly says she has spoken to the American, while also acknowledging the moment has caused a spike in sports bra sales. \"Every women's footballer knows of that moment, it's an incredible moment,\" explained Kelly. \"It is huge for women, it is huge for women in sport, and I am really excited for what the future holds for women in sport, but also women. \"I don't think it has sunk in yet how much has changed just from one celebration, one goal, but the biggest thing is the team has been incredible this summer and I enjoyed every moment because it is such a special group. \"The sports bra sales going through the roof, that's amazing - just from one moment! That just shows what women can do. \"To inspire the nation this summer was what we set out to do and I am very proud to be part of a great group that did that. Dream big!\"\n• None Gangster tells the story of one of Britain's wealthiest drug barons\n• None Why is it a struggle to get an ADHD diagnosis?: Kirsty Craib has spent eight years trying to get assessed without success", "Southend United said it would look at a \"different arrangement of words\" for the stand\n\nA football club that renamed a stand after a sponsor will change its name again, after fans pointed out it included the name of a serial killer.\n\nSouthend United sold naming rights for the West Stand at their Roots Hall ground to estate agents Gilbert & Rose.\n\nNow when fans want to buy a ticket, the stadium plan shows availability in the Gilbert & Rose West Stand.\n\nThe football club said it was talking to the sponsor about a \"different arrangement of words\".\n\nRose West, together with her husband Fred, murdered an unknown number of people at the couple's house in Gloucester over a 20-year period from 1967.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Iain Macintosh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe naming of the stand sparked a flurry of activity on social media.\n\nIn a tweet, Paul Napper said: \"Only Southend United could have a sponsor for the West Stand called Gilbert & Rose, inevitably leading to the Gilbert & Rose West Stand.\"\n\nIain Macintosh, from The Athletic, tweeted: \"I don't think they thought this one through\".\n\nThe National League side said the company was a \"fantastic local estate agent\" and it was looking forward to working together.\n\nBut after being alerted to the wording of the stand, the club said it would look at different phrasing.\n\nIt added that the full wording of the stand had not been added to signage within the stadium.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Unsurprisingly, the first question to Liz Truss is about her swiftly scrapped plans for regional pay boards for public servants.\n\nAsked if it was actually a misrepresented policy, she says it was misinterpreted by the media and was never intended to apply to nurses, doctors and teachers.\n\nTruss adds she wanted to clear up the policy right away and that they are not going ahead with it.\n\nPressed on where the predicted £8.8bn savings her campaign said it would save will come from instead, Truss says its \"not part of my central costings\" to pay for her planned £30bn of tax cuts.\n\nShe says her reversal of the NI rise, keeping corporation tax low and a temporary moratorium on green energy levies will be paid for from general taxation.\n\n\"We'll still be able to get the debt falling within three years,\" she adds.\n\nTruss says the policy in question was a much longer term plan, but then repeats it isn't going ahead anyway.\n\nShe concludes that she is someone \"when things are misinterpreted, when mistakes are made I'm honest about that\".", "Ukraine won this year's contest thanks to Kalush Orchestra\n\nCardiff has dropped out of the running to host Eurovision in 2023.\n\nOfficials said staging the song contest would have meant cancelling a \"significant number\" of other events next spring.\n\nIn a joint statement Cardiff council, the Welsh government, and the Principality Stadium said it would not be possible for a bid to go forward.\n\nThe UK will host the contest after organisers said it could not be held in winning country Ukraine due to the war.\n\nIt comes after musicians and politicians had backed calls for the Welsh capital to host the competition in 2023.\n\nThe Principality Stadium had previously said it would \"relish\" the chance to host Eurovision\n\nThe council, Welsh government and stadium said Cardiff had a \"very strong record in hosting major events\", and the stadium would have been \"a natural fit for such a significant production\".\n\nBut they said its complexity would have led to other events being called off, such as the European Wheelchair Rugby Championships.\n\nThey said they had been in talks with the BBC to look at options, but could not find \"a workable solution\".\n\nAs event organisers, the BBC had released detailed specifications for each city wishing to bid.\n\nThis year the winner was Ukraine, with Britain's Sam Ryder coming second\n\nThe UK has a number of cities with the arenas, accommodation, and international transport links to host the competition, with London, Sheffield and Manchester already confirming plans to make an official bid.\n\nLeeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Brighton, Bristol, Belfast and Nottingham are also considered possible contenders.", "Owami Davies has not been seen for nearly a month\n\nStudent nurse Owami Davies was captured on CCTV in the company of a man on the night she was last seen alive.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says the footage shows them crossing Derby Road in West Croydon, south London, just after midnight on 7 July.\n\nThree men have been arrested on suspicion of the 24-year-old's murder.\n\nHer mum Nicol said: \"This is such a terrible time for all those who love Owami and I am pleading for anyone who can help find her to contact police.\"\n\nTwo men, aged 23 and 27, were arrested on Monday and a third man, aged 32, was arrested on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said Owami Davies was with a man as she crossed Derby Road on the last night she was seen alive\n\nA property on Derby Road has been cordoned off, as police spent much of Wednesday searching it.\n\nNicol Davies said: \"There are many friends and family who love and care for Owami and all of them want to see her safe return.\n\n\"Every day we hope to hear the news that Owami is coming back to us; your help might make it so.\"\n\nPolice say Owami Davies was seen in a shop in West Croydon before she went missing\n\nIn particular, officers are keen to speak to the driver of a white van that was parked in Derby Road.\n\nPolice said Ms Davies and the man she was with crossed the street \"just as the van pulled out\".\n\n\"The van driver would have had a good opportunity to see them both clearly and officers are appealing this possible witness to come forward,\" a statement said.\n\nPolice have been searching a property on Derby Road, West Croydon\n\nMs Davies was first reported missing by Essex Police on 11 July. The force said she had left the family home in Chafford Hundred, Grays, on 4 July.\n\nIn an updated statement on 16 July, the force said Ms Davies was last seen in Croydon on 6 July.\n\nShe was wearing a black jumper, grey jogging bottoms and a grey cap.\n\nAnother image of Owami Davies in a shop in West Croydon before she went missing\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney said Ms Davies' family were \"living through a nightmare and are desperate for news\", emphasising that the case remained a missing person investigation.\n\nHe added: \"We are working hard to find Owami but we really do need the public's help. Owami is very vulnerable and the longer she is missing, the more we worry that she has come to harm.\n\n\"As a result of extensive CCTV inquiries, we have a clearer idea of Owami's movements but we still need the public to contact us and tell us what they know.\"\n\nCorrection on 3 August 2022: The Metropolitan Police initially issued incorrect images of the CCTV footage, which the BBC published and later replaced with the correct images.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Hackett was honoured with an OBE for his part in the bus boycott\n\nCivil rights campaigner Roy Hackett, described as a \"humble freedom fighter\", has died at the age of 93.\n\nMr Hackett was one of the organisers of the Bristol Bus Boycott, a successful campaign to overturn a ban by Bristol Omnibus Company on employing black and Asian drivers and conductors.\n\nHe once said: \"I lived in many places before I came to Bristol, and I never had racism as tough as back then.\"\n\nBorn in Jamaica, he was appointed an MBE in 2020.\n\nMr Hackett, who was the co-founder of the Commonwealth Coordinated Committee which set up the St Paul's Carnival in 1968, leaves behind three children.\n\nLaToyah McAllister-Jones, executive director of the St Paul's Carnival, said: \"Rest In Power, Mr Roy Hackett.\n\n\"You have inspired so many, your service and dedication to your community lives on through us all.\"\n\nA newspaper cutting shows students marching in Bristol in protest against a \"colour bar\" on the buses\n\nBristol West Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire said: \"It was an honour to know him.\n\n\"He was an inspiration to so many and taught us all so much about standing up for justice and equality.\n\n\"I will miss his warm smile, quick wit and charm, as well as his deep and lasting commitment to the people of Bristol and to ending racism.\"\n\nMany others in the Bristol community have expressed their condolences, including teacher and author, Aisha Thomas.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 1963, it was entirely legal for British companies to discriminate against someone because of the colour of their skin.\n\nMr Hackett joined forces with campaigners Paul Stephenson, Owen Henry and Guy Bailey to begin the boycott that year.\n\nDeputy mayor of Bristol, Asher Craig, said: \"The transition of Mr Hackett has hit many of us really hard.\n\n\"A humble, principled, freedom fighter - Bristol Bus Boycott, St Paul's Carnival, Bristol West Indian Parents & Friends Association, Bristol Race Equality Council - his legacy will live on.\"\n\nThe bus protests saw the company change its policies and helped pave the way for the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968\n\nMr Bailey applied for a job at the bus company, and was denied because of his skin colour.\n\nThe subsequent protests saw the company change its policies and helped pave the way for the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968.\n\nRoy Hackett was a civil rights and community hero, a true trailblazer who overcame adversity and racism at a time when it was rife.\n\nFamous for organising the Bristol Bus Boycott, which caught national attention, he was part of the first boycott of its kind in Britain.\n\nMr Hackett founded and led many causes such as the West Indian Parents' and Friends' Association, which was the springboard for countless initiatives including the now renowned St Paul's Carnival.\n\nHe has described his early years in the UK as a \"dog's life\", but turned it into a legacy.\n\nMr Hackett was a self-proclaimed \"born activist\" and was an inspiration to many, with his work still continuing to create change within the city.\n\nBristol Lord Mayor, Paula O'Rourke, also paid tribute, saying: \"So very sad to hear Bristol civil rights legend Roy Hackett, organiser of the Bristol bus boycott 1963 and founder of St Paul's Carnival has passed away.\n\n\"My thoughts are with Roy's family and friends at this difficult time.\"\n\nGeorge Ferguson, former Mayor of Bristol, also reached out on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by People & Cities This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a previous interview with BBC Ideas, Mr Hackett said: \"It [Bristol] was hard for us to find a place to live, it was hard for a black man to find a job.\"\n\n\"I walked down Ashley Road looking for housing and found one house which didn't have a card on it to one that said 'no gypsies, no dogs, no Irish and no coloureds'.\n\n\"The lady opened the door, saw me, and without saying a word, just slammed the door. It was a struggle, people were blatantly racist.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch historic moment Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan, the first visit by such a senior US official in decades\n\nUS Speaker Nancy Pelosi has met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in a visit that has been strongly condemned by China.\n\nMs Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit Taiwan, said her delegation had come to make it \"unequivocally clear\" that the US would not \"abandon\" the island.\n\nChina had earlier said the US would \"pay the price\" for Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nTaiwan is self-ruled, but China sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it.\n\n\"Forty three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan... today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan,\" Ms Pelosi said, referring to the Taiwan Relations Act.\n\nTaiwan has become yet another flashpoint amid heightened tensions and sharp rhetoric between Washington and Beijing in recent years, with the US walking a diplomatic tightrope on the issue.\n\nThe US abides by the \"One China\" policy - a cornerstone of the two countries' diplomatic relationship which recognises only one Chinese government - and has formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan. But it also maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island. That includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nMs Pelosi's visit is viewed by Beijing as yet another sign of support for Taiwan.\n\nHowever, the White House has been opposed the visit, and President Joe Biden had said the military assessed it as \"not a good idea\".\n\nIn her meeting with Ms Tsai at the presidential office, Ms Pelosi called Taiwan an \"inspiration to all freedom-loving people\", saying: \"The world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America's decision to preserve democracy here in Taiwan remains iron-clad.\"\n\nMs Tsai similarly praised the partnership between both places, saying Taiwan remained a \"trustworthy and reliable partner of the US\".\n\nShe added that Taiwan was \"facing deliberately heightened military threats\", adding that it \"would not back down and that Taiwan will do whatever it takes to strengthen its self-defence capabilities\".\n\nMs Pelosi is expected to meet a group of human rights activists later on Wednesday.\n\nShe had earlier met with Taiwan Deputy Speaker of Parliament Tsai Chi-Chang.\n\nAs her plane touched down on Tuesday night, Chinese state media reported that its military jets were crossing the Taiwan strait. Taiwan denied those reports at the time, but later said that more than 20 Chinese military planes had entered its air defence zone on Tuesday.\n\nWithin an hour of Ms Pelosi's arrival, China announced that the People's Liberation Army will conduct a series of live-fire military drills in the air and at sea around Taiwan later this week - warning ships and aircraft not to enter the affected areas.\n\nThis follows days of escalating tensions in which Chinese warplanes had already ventured out as far as the median line, the unofficial divide separating China and Taiwan in the waters between them.\n\nThe danger with escalation is that it is hard to pull back.\n\nNow that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to visit Taiwan - the highest-ranking American official to do so in 25 years - won't others want to do the same in the future?\n\nNow that China has held major live fire exercises of such a scale, so close to Taiwan, why not do that again?\n\nNot so long ago, Beijing's plan with Taiwan involved engagement.\n\nHowever, the approach under Chinese President Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent, with ever more pressure being applied on Taipei.\n\nThe biggest challenge perhaps for regional stability is that everyone's public position on Taiwan is ridiculous. It's like a giant game of pretend which is becoming harder to maintain.\n\nChina pretends that Taiwan is currently part of its territory, even though the island collects its own taxes, votes in its own government, issues its own passports and has its own military.\n\nThe US pretends it is not treating Taiwan as an independent country, even though it sells it high-tech weapons and, occasionally, a high-ranking politician visits on what looks very much like an official trip.\n\nIt's apparent that it would take nothing for this flimsy show, designed to guarantee the status quo, to fall apart.\n\nWhile Ms Pelosi's visit had been the subject of huge international speculation for days, it had been shrouded in secrecy until the last minute.\n\nWhen she set off on a tour of Asia on Sunday, there was no mention of Taiwan on her official itinerary, which included Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.\n\nBut after Ms Pelosi landed, the White House's Mr Kirby told CNN this visit was similar to previous trips by other officials, adding that the \"United States is not going to be intimidated by threats\".\n\nMr Wang called it an \"open political provocation\", adding that it \"seriously violates the one-China principle and harms China's sovereignty\".\n\n\"The US must stop obstructing China's great reunification. Taiwan is an inalienable part of China\".\n\nChina also rolled out several curbs on Wednesday, stopping shipments of sand to Taiwan and suspending the import of some fruit and fish from Taiwan.\n\nBeijing also exerts international pressure on other nations to accept its \"One China\" principle - that there is only one Chinese government, based in Beijing. Only 15 nations in the world have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.", "Michelle O'Neill is due to become first minister if power sharing is restored at Stormont\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has said she was prayed over at her school when she became pregnant.\n\nMs O'Neill also said that the school created a \"huge fuss\" when she returned to do A-levels after her daughter was born.\n\nShe recalled her experiences to host Mark Carruthers, in the first of a series of special Red Lines programmes.\n\nThe programmes are available as podcasts on BBC Sounds and will be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster.\n\nAs Sinn Féin won the most seats in May's assembly election, Ms O'Neill is due to become first minister if power sharing is restored at Stormont.\n\nThe Mid Ulster assembly member, who was born in 1977, talked about her time at school in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nShe became pregnant at 16 while studying for GCSEs at St Patrick's Girls' Academy in Dungannon, County Tyrone.\n\nMs O'Neill said her form teacher at the time of her pregnancy \"was absolutely amazing to me and very understanding that you're not like every other 16-year-old\".\n\n\"You're trying to do your GCSEs maybe having been up all night the night before with a child with a sore ear,\" she added.\n\n\"Unfortunately my reality was that not everybody in the school was as supportive.\n\n\"A 16-year-old girl being pregnant was frowned upon and they wouldn't have been the kindest in terms of their approach to supporting me at that time.\"\n\nMark Carruthers and Michelle O'Neill have a wide-ranging chat on Red Lines\n\nWhen asked by Mark Carruthers if she felt the Church had played a part in the school's approach, Ms O'Neill said some in the school had prayed over her.\n\n\"It was actually when I'd just got pregnant. It was nearly like, you know, that I had sinned and therefore I must be prayed upon which obviously was not the right approach,\" she said.\n\n\"My parents made that clear also to the school leadership at the time.\"\n\nMs O'Neill said that despite her daughter being born six days before her first GCSE exam, she was determined to sit them as she wanted to return to study for A-levels.\n\n\"I remember turning up for sixth form having achieved my GCSEs and the required amount to go back in to do A-levels and I remember the school creating a huge fuss that I hadn't asked for permission to come back to the school,\" she said.\n\n\"It was my right to come back to the school to finish my education.\n\n\"They caused a whole fuss and a whole fuss in a school assembly which was quite an embarrassing experience.\"\n\nMs O'Neill also said that she had never been invited to St Patrick's Academy to talk to pupils but she would \"of course\" go if invited.\n\n\"I have my own lived experience, but the young people that are at the school are entitled to have access to their politicians and have people come in and talk to them,\" she said.\n\nMichelle O'Neill, pictured with Francie Molloy (left) and the late Martin McGuinness, was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2007\n\nThe Sinn Féin deputy leader, though, said she had returned to her primary school.\n\n\"I had a great experience in my primary school - fabulous teachers,\" she recalled.\n\n\"Their kindness always shone through, they were just really decent people and it was a very pleasurable experience.\"\n\nIn a statement, the board of governors at St Patrick's Academy said they were sorry to hear of Ms O'Neill's experiences \"at what was a very difficult time for her\" but were also heartened by by the actions of her form teacher.\n\n\"The approach taken to young people in this situation is now very much one of compassion and pastoral support, underpinned by the RSE and pastoral care policies,\" the statement added\n\n\"Michelle has shown great tenacity and fortitude both then and in the intervening years, and she is certainly a role model to young women today.\"\n\nMs O'Neill also talked about how her interest in politics developed.\n\nHer father, Brendan Doris, was a Sinn Féin councillor and former IRA prisoner.\n\n\"We wouldn't have been a house that sat down at the kitchen table to talk about politics every day,\" she said.\n\n\"However, some of it was a little unavoidable because of the fact that my father was a Sinn Féin councillor, the fact that previous to that he was an ex-prisoner.\"\n\nMichelle O'Neill also speaks of her relationship with her political mentor, the late Martin McGuinness\n\nShe said, however, that it was the \"extraordinary circumstances\" of Northern Ireland and the society around her that shaped her political beliefs.\n\n\"You're born into a society that actively discriminated against you,\" she said.\n\n\"I remember getting my driving lessons and I remember being stopped by the local RUC.\n\n\"They actually gave me, I'm not sure it was a fixed penalty notice then or a fine, for not wearing a seatbelt whenever I was wearing a seatbelt.\n\n\"The words of those officers to me were: \"Well it will be your word against ours, and we know who's going to come out on top of that.\"\n\n\"So that's the active discrimination that you lived in in society at those times.\n\n\"It sounds quite trivial in terms of what happened in the conflict, but that's my experience of something actually happening personally to me, outside of everything else that was happening at that time.\"\n\nWhen asked about IRA violence, Ms O'Neill replied: \"I think at the time there was no alternative.\"\n\n\"Now, thankfully, we have an alternative to conflict and that's the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"My whole adult life has been building the peace process.\n\n\"I wish the conditions were never here that actually led to conflict.\n\n\"The only way we're ever going to build a better future is actually to understand that it's OK to have a different take on the past.\n\n\"My narrative is a very different one to someone who's perhaps lost a loved one at the hands of republicans.\"\n\nMark Carruthers' counterpointed what Michelle O'Neill said about her views of the security services, suggesting that others would see things differently and that police and army personnel were \"protecting society from a terrorist threat\".\n\nHe went on to ask whether she had ever questioned what he described as the \"republican narrative\" and \"if some of the things done in the name of the IRA were actually justified\".\n\nIn a statement, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson rejected the claim from Ms O'Neill that there was no alternative to violence.\n\n''There was never a justification for violence,\" he said.\n\n\"Even in Northern Ireland's darkest days, the overwhelming majority of our people respected democracy, the rule of law and - where they felt passionately about a particular cause - took part in peaceful protest.\"\n\nFour special Red Lines programmes with Ms O'Neill, Conservative MP Conor Burns, former MP and civil rights activist Bernadette McAliskey and former Justice Minister Claire Sugden will be broadcast on successive Fridays during August - starting on Friday 5 August - at 17:30 BST on BBC Radio Ulster.\n\nThey will also be available as podcasts on BBC Sounds.\n\nThis article was updated on 4 August to reflect more fully the contents of the podcast.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: \"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses.\"\n\nLiz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs following a backlash from Tory MPs and opposition parties.\n\nThe Tory leadership candidate had proposed regional pay boards, in a bid to save taxpayers a potential £8.8bn.\n\nBut the policy was criticised by several senior Tories, who argued it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nMs Truss has now said the proposal would not be taken forward.\n\nThe foreign secretary told the BBC the plan had been \"misrepresented\" and people had been \"unnecessarily worried about my policies\".\n\n\"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses,\" Ms Truss said. \"But what I want to be clear about it that I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards.\"\n\nEarlier a spokesperson for Ms Truss's campaign said current levels of public sector pay would be maintained if she became prime minister.\n\nFormer Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Ms Truss are vying for support from Conservative members to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader and prime minister.\n\nA spokesperson from Mr Sunak's campaign described the U-turn as dramatic.\n\n\"It demonstrates a lack of serious judgment by setting out plans that would see pay dramatically cut for police, nurses and our armed forces in Cardiff and Canterbury, Teesside and Taunton during a cost of living crisis,\" they said.\n\n\"It also shows a worrying lack of grip of detail in what is already a woolly economic plan.\n\n\"If this was in a general election, it would have been a potentially fatal own goal for the Conservatives.\"\n\nAnnouncing the policy on Monday night, Ms Truss had said she wanted \"a leaner, more efficient, more focused Whitehall\" and set out plans which suggested savings of £11bn a year.\n\nThis included £8.8bn which would come from introducing regional pay boards, meaning that civil servant pay - and potentially later other public sector workers' salaries - could be adjusted to reflect the area where civil servants work.\n\nIt could have seen workers in, for example, the south-west or north of England paid less than those in the south-east.\n\nIn addition to saving money, the Truss camp also argued it would help boost growth in areas, where the private sector had been crowded out by public sector salaries.\n\nHowever, the proposal was dropped after just over 12 hours when it was met with strong resistance from Tories.\n\nTees Valley mayor Ben Houchen - who is supporting Mr Sunak - described the policy as \"horrifically bad\", telling the BBC's World at One it could lead to more scrutiny of policy from the foreign secretary.\n\n\"There are lots of tasty soundbites from Liz - what we're now seeing is that as people start to scrutinise that detail it can unravel quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nLiz Truss is widely thought to have been ahead in the Tory leadership race.\n\nShe had momentum in the campaign - and had avoided any significant errors.\n\nThis policy has attracted huge criticism from opposition parties - and many Conservative politicians supporting Rishi Sunak.\n\nThey argued regional pay boards would have been \"levelling down\".\n\nSpeaking to Mr Sunak's allies this afternoon, they argue Ms Truss's plans are unravelling and that it was a \"catastrophic error of judgement\".\n\nTeam Sunak will hope this starts to change the dynamic of the campaign - and potentially put him back on the front foot just as Tory members start voting.\n\nTeam Truss will hope that junking the policy quickly will limit the damage.\n\nMs Truss met supporters in the south-west on Tuesday as she continued her campaign for the No 10 job\n\nA number of Conservative MPs in the south-west of England also attacked the policy, including Sunak ally Steve Double who said it would be \"hugely damaging to public services in Cornwall, where we already struggle to recruit NHS staff\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the proposal \"reveals her [Liz Truss's] priority would be to slash the pay packets of working people\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"U-turning on a multi-billion-pound policy five weeks before even taking office must be a new record.\"\n\nMs Truss has been seen as the frontrunner in the race for No 10, with several polls suggest she is more popular among the Conservative party membership.\n\nBoth candidates have announced a string of competing policy proposals to woo Conservative members.\n\nThe latest came from Ms Truss who, in an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, pledged to order a review into whether not paying for a TV licence should still be a criminal offence.\n\nThose who watch TV or BBC iPlayer risk being fined or taken to court if they do not pay the £159-a-year licence fee.\n\nIn 2020, there were 55,061 prosecutions and 52,477 convictions for TV licence evasion.\n\nMs Truss told the Mail a \"disproportionate number\" of women had ended up in jail for non-payment, adding she wanted to \"look at how we can make sure that we reform the TV licence fee, so we don't end up with those punitive results\".", "A total of 1.5 million bounce back loans were granted during the pandemic\n\nMore than 16,000 businesses which took out a type of government-backed Covid loan have gone bust without paying the money back, the BBC has found.\n\nHundreds of directors, who got loans they were not entitled to, have also been disqualified.\n\nThe cost to the taxpayer of these insolvencies could be as much as £500m, and is likely to grow as more companies go under.\n\nQuestions are now being asked about what is being done to recoup the money.\n\nThe figures, obtained by the BBC under a Freedom of Information request, have been described as \"shocking\" by a former head of the Serious Fraud Office.\n\nSir David Green QC describes checks the government required banks to do on bounce back loan applicants as \"hopelessly inadequate\".\n\nSir David Green QC says checks carried out on bounce back loan applicants were \"hopelessly inadequate\"\n\nA total of 1.5 million loans worth £47bn were handed out. One of several measures designed to help businesses survive the pandemic, the loans were supposed to be paid back within 10 years. But in the rush to save the economy, checks on borrowers were limited.\n\nUnder the scheme any small company could apply for a loan of up to £50,000 depending on its turnover. Applicants were allowed to \"self-certify\" the figures.\n\n\"You wouldn't send an army into battle without assessing the risks. And just the same in this situation, the risks, which were obvious, should have been assessed and addressed,\" said Sir David, who is now chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel.\n\nHe believes bounce back loan money must be recovered wherever possible.\n\nThe government has said it will \"not tolerate\" people defrauding taxpayers.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating what will happen to the hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money given to companies which have since become insolvent.\n\nThe majority of those businesses went bust for legitimate reasons, however there is increasing evidence that a proportion of bounce back loans were misused. The BBC has discovered that hundreds of company directors have so far been disqualified from running businesses.\n\nAnd many of those companies were not eligible to receive the loans in the first place. Previous research shows that 45% of successful applicants to two banks showed no evidence of trading at the relevant period.\n\nWith festivals cancelled, Peter Ferguson's events companies struggled during the pandemic. And so he turned to the government's bounce back loan scheme.\n\nMr Ferguson took out a £50,000 loan through a dormant company called Beautiful Digital Events Ltd. He gave a turnover figure which overstated the true amount and used the money to buy himself two cars.\n\nPeter Ferguson took out a £50,000 bounce back loan through a dormant company\n\nMr Ferguson has since been censured by the Insolvency Service and banned from being a company director for six years.\n\nBut another of his companies is putting on one of Scotland's biggest festivals, Party at the Palace, on 13 and 14 August.\n\nMr Ferguson is no longer allowed to be a director, but is listed as a \"person with significant control\" and promotes the festival line-up on his Facebook page.\n\nAnd, earlier this year, on holiday in Las Vegas, Mr Ferguson won more than £200,000 playing poker.\n\nThe terms of the bounce back loan state that the dormant company is liable to pay it back, not him personally - and that company has now been dissolved.\n\nMr Ferguson responded in a statement: \"With the in-person events industry in Scotland wiped out overnight, I sought a loan to move into the digital events space.\n\n\"Despite our best efforts and much to my deep sorrow, this service failed. I was advised to liquidate the company, having been willing to repay the loan up to that point.\"\n\nHe has confirmed that he took out a total of five bounce back loans, including the one for Beautiful Digital Events. As for the four others, he said \"one has already been paid back in full and a payment has not been missed on the others\".\n\nScrolling through the website of the Insolvency Service, we found scores of company directors who took out loans with, it seems, little or no prospect of being able to repay them.\n\nIn fact, a request under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that so far 260 directors have been disqualified with their companies still owing a bounce back loan.\n\nThe loans were spent on everything from gambling debts and cryptocurrency schemes - to cars, house renovations, even flying lessons.\n\nThe rules state that if there's no money left in the business the loan can't be paid back.\n\nSo it's not clear how much the government will eventually be able to recover.\n\nSeveral agencies have been tasked by the government with investigating Covid loans and getting back the money.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has brought only one prosecution to date but claims it has another 30 cases pending.\n\nIts website is updated almost daily with new examples of directors being banned from running a business after obtaining bounce back loans they weren't entitled to. The maximum ban lasts 15 years.\n\nBut the service has no record of how much money has been recovered because each case is handled separately by a private insolvency practitioner.\n\nThe government has also asked the National Investigation Service (Natis) - a law enforcement organisation which usually investigates local authority corruption - to look into the scheme.\n\nThe latest figures show Natis, which has a £6m budget, made 49 arrests and recovered just £4.1m. It has identified 673 suspects of whom 559 used the bounce back loan scheme.\n\nIt's now thought £17bn could be lost to fraud, mistakes and companies going under.\n\nSir David Green QC from the Fraud Advisory Panel believes organised criminal groups have had a field day.\n\n\"Fraud is opportunistic and organised crime groups are experts at that opportunism.\"\n\nBut he thinks with limited resources, police should target the worst offenders, while company directors who did not play by the rules should be pursued through the civil courts.\n\n\"It's important to concentrate on those areas where you get most bang for your buck, and that, I would suggest, is in relation to the most egregious organised frauds rather than individuals,\" he said.\n\nRaitis Dzerkalis had a car repair company in the West Midlands. He claimed a £40,000 bounce back loan - he wasn't entitled to it.\n\nThe Insolvency Service said he exaggerated turnover and didn't spend the money on the business.\n\nThe company became insolvent and, like Peter Ferguson, he was banned from being a director - in this case for 10 years.\n\nBut Mr Dzerkalis has another company, which he transferred into the name of a housemate.\n\nNow Mr Dzerkalis seems to work as a part-time DJ.\n\nWe caught up with him at home in Coventry but he didn't want to talk. So we have no idea if he has attempted to pay any of the loan back.\n\nBusiness Minister Lord Callanan said in a statement that \"tough new powers\" had been introduced allowing the Insolvency Service to disqualify directors for dissolving companies to avoid repaying bounce back loans.", "Tenants whose bills are included in their rent could miss out on the government's £400 energy rebate because it is paid to their landlord, charities have warned.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said this group were \"at the mercy of their landlord passing on this much-needed support\".\n\nAn estimated 585,000 households - 13% of private renters - have energy bills included in their rent.\n\nThe government said it expected landlords to pass on the discount.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) also said that where tenants incurred the cost of increased energy bills, the discount should be passed on to them by their landlord.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson pointed out there would be cases where all-inclusive rents had been set without reflecting the recent surge in energy costs.\n\n\"The government needs to ensure that its scheme recognises such cases where it is the landlord who is ultimately paying the cost of increased bills, rather than the tenant,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe typical household energy bill could hit £3,615 a year in January, up from £1,400 a year in October 2021, according to a forecast from consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nThe government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living, including a £400 discount on energy bills.\n\nLast week the government revealed details of how people in England, Scotland and Wales would receive the payment.\n\nThe Treasury is still in discussion with Stormont ministers about how to make the payment to households in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe money will be paid in six instalments, with a discount of £66 applied to energy bills in October and November, and £67 a month from December to March 2023.\n\nHow the money is received will depend on how you pay your bill.\n\nHowever, for tenants whose energy bills are included in their rent, their landlord would receive the discount as they are the bill payer.\n\nHelen, 25, rents a room in a four-bed house in Leicester with bills included.\n\nShe is worried that if she asks her landlord to pass the £400 payment on to her he will increase her rent when her contract is up for renewal later this year.\n\n\"I'm leaning towards not rocking the boat because I'm dreading that conversation about renewing and what my new rent will be for the next six months,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHelen, who did not want to give her surname, is a PhD student and her stipend will increase by just 2% in September - well below the rate prices are rising, with UK inflation hitting 9.4% in June.\n\nIf her rent increased she said it would be \"a real stretch\" to cover her other living costs.\n\nAs she shares a house with strangers, Helen said it was also difficult to discuss the situation with her housemates, who she would have to share the payment with. She did not know if they would feel the same as her.\n\nWhen it comes to utility bills, government guidance states that landlords who have a domestic electricity contract with a licensed supplier and then resell the electricity to their tenant, based on usage, must comply with maximum resale price rules.\n\nThis means landlords are not allowed to make a profit on energy they are reselling.\n\nLandlords with a domestic electricity connection where a fixed cost for energy is included in the rent \"should also be passing on the discounted payments to tenants\", the government said.\n\nBut charities have raised concerns that landlords will not pass on the saving to their tenants.\n\nAre you a renter worried about missing out on the £400 energy rebate? Please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch via WhatsApp: +44 7756 165803 and Twitter: @BBC_HaveYourSay\n\n\"There's no specific legal obligation for landlords to pass on this support but they aren't allowed to overcharge tenants for the energy they've used or make a profit on it,\" Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said.\n\n\"This could be the case if they pocket the government support and continue to charge the same rate for utilities.\"\n\n\"Landlords can only charge for energy used, the standing charge and VAT. So, it's worth making a note of how much energy you're using to make sure you're not paying more than you should,\" she added.\n\nMs Neate said it was \"unfair that those at the sharp end of this crisis could miss out on this much-needed support\" and urged the government to make sure it went \"to the people who need it the most\".\n\nGillian Cooper, head of energy policy at Citizens Advice, said there was no clear guidance on how landlords should pass on the discount \"or any law to make sure they do\".\n\n\"We're worried that renters could fall through the cracks and miss out on extra cash,\" she added.\n\nDan Wilson Craw, deputy director of campaign group Generation Rent, said: \"A lot of landlords have already raised the rent to take account of higher energy bills and there's no easy way for tenants to ask them to pass on the £400 grant if they don't want to - threatening to move out is one approach but that is difficult when rent on a new property could be much higher.\"\n\nHe suggested tenants could ask their landlord to take into account the £400 rebate the next time they tried to increase their rent.\n\nBut he added that until Parliament passed the Renters Reform Bill, tenants could still be evicted without reason if they complained.\n\nLandlord Annette Munro hasn't increased the rent on her flat, despite soaring energy costs\n\nHowever, some landlords who have not increased their tenants' rent said they did not think they should have to pass on the £400 discount.\n\nAnnette Munro, 59, rents out a flat in London with bills included and believes landlords should only have to pass on the rebate if they have hiked rents due to rising energy costs.\n\nShe said the monthly energy bill for her property had increased from £90 to £267 but she has not put up the rent for several years because her tenants are \"already struggling\".\n\n\"If landlords haven't put [the rent] up and have absorbed that cost because they like their tenants and they want to keep them, then I think that they should be able to take the £400,\" she told the BBC.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has said the legal battle to postpone the withdrawal of her son's life support had come to an end.\n\nHis family want him to be taken to a hospice, but doctors have warned there is \"considerable risk\" in moving him.\n\nOn Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused an application from the boy's parents to delay any changes to his treatment.\n\nLife-sustaining treatment for Archie has been in place since April.\n\nIt had been due to be withdrawn on Wednesday but was delayed for the ECHR to consider his family's appeal.\n\nHowever, the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for treatment to be stopped.\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, said the court's decision to refuse their application was \"another heart-breaking development\".\n\nThe family have now said they want to file an application in the High Court to transfer Archie to a hospice.\n\nThey claim Barts Health NHS Trust has told them life support will be withdrawn at 11:00 BST on Thursday unless an application over the hospice move is submitted by 09:00.\n\n\"I would like him out of here as quick as possible really, and in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos,\" Ms Dance said.\n\nLawyers for Barts Health NHS Trust said in a letter that any application to move Archie to a hospice would \"be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis\".\n\n\"The trust continues to put Archie's welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care,\" the letter said.\n\n\"It believes that Archie's condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Archie's family said it was \"absolutely disgusting\" that the family were \"not even allowed to choose where Archie takes his last moments\".\n\nShe added that a hospice had said it would take him.\n\nA High Court order made in July requires that Archie remains at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn.\n\nHollie Dance says she will fight to ensure Archie has \"a dignified passing at a hospice\"\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal London Hospital, where Archie has been cared for since April, Ms Dance said it was now \"the end\".\n\n\"It was the last thing, wasn't it? And again our country has failed a 12-year-old child,\" she said.\n\nMs Dance said: \"We've now got a fight to see whether we can get him out of here to have a dignified passing at a hospice.\"\n\nShe added she \"won't allow\" anything to be done before Archie's father returned to his son's bedside at the hospital, which she said would be on Thursday morning.\n\nBarts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said changes to Archie's treatment would not be made until legal issues were resolved.\n\nThe trust said there was \"considerable risk\" in moving him from the hospital bed and any transfer from the hospital would \"hasten the premature deterioration\" of Archie.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Archie's family and we aim to provide the best possible support to everyone at this difficult time.\"\n\nArchie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance had turned to the ECHR after several hearings in UK courts\n\nThe 12-year-old was found unconscious at home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 7 April. His mother believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nDoctors had previously said it was \"highly likely\" he was brain-stem dead, with no chance of recovery and it was in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nA High Court judge said earlier that continuing treatment was \"futile\".\n\nOn Wednesday, in the latest in a series of court challenges Archie's parents had argued the plan to withdraw treatment and ignore the concerns of a UN committee would breach a range of human rights safeguards, including right to life and right to a fair trial or hearing.\n\nBut the ECHR said it \"considered the conditions of admissibility...were not fulfilled\".\n\nCourt of Appeal judges had previously ruled Archie's life-sustaining treatment should not continue beyond 12:00 on Tuesday, but this was also delayed for an appeal process which was ultimately unsuccessful.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard \"every bodily function [of Archie's] is now maintained by artificial means\", while another heard he had not \"regained awareness at any time\".\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Refuse workers in Glasgow took strike action in November 2021\n\nOnly a \"significantly improved\" pay offer will stop thousands of Scotland's council workers going on strike, a union has warned.\n\nStaff at schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres voted to strike after rejecting a 2% pay offer.\n\nThe Scottish government and local authority body Cosla met on Wednesday to discuss the dispute.\n\nBut GMB Scotland has warned workers expect a better pay deal or they will take action.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney later described the talks as \"constructive\" and said the Scottish government, despite having no formal role in pay negotiations, was working with Cosla to \"explore all options available\".\n\nHe added: \"Local government workers play a crucial role in our communities and are integral to our recovery from the pandemic.\n\n\"I would urge all parties to continue a dialogue and reach a resolution which avoids industrial action.\"\n\nCouncil leaders are set to discuss whether they can make an improved pay offer on Friday but, unless there is hope of a deal, unions are likely to announce strike dates in the next few days.\n\nPay settlements for council workers - apart from teachers - are the responsibility of Cosla and it is meeting with the Scottish government to discuss its demand for more money for the deal.\n\nThe Scottish government has urged all parties to find a resolution to avoid industrial action.\n\nKeir Greenaway, a senior organiser with the GMB Scotland, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: \"There is the possibility of a resolution if the Scottish government can find more money for Cosla.\n\n\"I wouldn't say we we're confident, we haven't had a meeting with Cosla around pay since March.\n\n\"Our members are incredibly angry, they are seeing double digit inflation and were supposed to see a pay rise in April.\n\n\"Our members need a significantly improved offered or they are are falling into working poverty.\"\n\nStrike action could result in rubbish piling up\n\nMr Greenaway claimed the 2% offer was the lowest across the whole of the UK public sector.\n\nThe strike ballot of about 25,000 council workers from the Unison, Unite and GMB unions was said to be the largest in more than a decade.\n\nUnions have said the strike action could happen after pupils return from the summer break in August, with hundreds of schools affected.\n\nIt is estimated that more than half of Scotland's 250,000 council workers earn less than £25,000 a year for a 37-hour week.\n\nCosla has said discussions with trade unions would continue in order to \"reach an agreement and avoid strike action.\"", "Marks & Spencer has stopped selling disposable barbecues in its stores across the UK.\n\nThe supermarket said it wanted \"to help protect open spaces and reduce the risk of fires\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade, which has been calling for a ban on the sale of disposable barbecues, said the move was \"good news\".\n\nIt comes after the UK experienced its hottest day ever, with 40C exceeded for the first time.\n\nDozens of locations saw temperatures above the previous record of 38.7C, and 15 fire services declared major incidents because of a surge in blazes.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson told the BBC the move came into effect earlier this week.\n\nThe supermarket said: \"We'd already stopped selling disposable barbecues near national parks and in London but given the unusually hot and dry conditions, we've taken the precautionary step of removing them from sale across the UK.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade had already warned people against using barbecues in open spaces, grassland or balconies, particularly after the recent heatwave.\n\nLast week, its commissioner Andy Roe called for disposable barbecues to be taken off the shelves across Britain.\n\nIt came after the London Fire Brigade experienced its busiest day since World War Two, dealing with multiple blazes in the record-breaking temperatures.\n\nWelcoming the decision by M&S, London Fire Brigade said: \"We want to work with retailers to stop the sale of disposable barbecues and reduce the risk of dangerous grass fires.\"\n\nRetail analyst Jonathan de Mello said he expected similar announcements to follow from other supermarkets.\n\n\"This move by M&S will put pressure on their retail peers to follow suit,\" he said.\n\n\"With multiple grass fires caused by these barbecues given the unprecedented hot weather we have seen in the past few weeks, M&S have rightly decided to put public safety first,\" he added.\n\n\"M&S are often seen as a bellwether for UK retailers, and hopefully other retailers will follow their lead.\"\n\nOther retailers have halted the sale of the items in selected stores, while not taking a nationwide approach.\n\nA Co-op spokesperson told the BBC that since June 2021 it had stopped selling disposable barbecues in shops located in or nearby national parks.\n\nA Sainsbury's spokesperson said: \"We offer customers choice and all our disposable BBQ packaging includes advice on safe use and disposal which customers are encouraged to follow.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Medical students and junior doctors were protesting outside Department of Health and Social Care last week\n\nHospital leaders are concerned by the government's decision not to offer junior doctors in England the same pay rise as other NHS staff.\n\nJunior doctors are entitled to a 2% annual pay rise as part of a four-year deal but other staff are getting 4.5%.\n\nNHS Providers, representing trusts in England, says this undermines morale in an already overstretched workforce.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says junior doctors' pay will be looked at next year.\n\nIt maintains the current pay deal, which ends then, provides the most experienced junior doctors with higher pay and increases allowances for those working the most weekends.\n\nBut junior doctors say the strain of working through the worst of the pandemic has not eased and the pay decision is deeply unfair.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate deals with junior doctors and have offered pay rises more in line with other staff.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA), the main union representing all doctors, says industrial action is inevitable if the government does not change its stance.\n\nOne junior doctor told BBC News: \"The 2% offer is just a slap in the face.\n\n\"Doctors are working long night shifts, saving people's lives, for not much more than minimum wage.\n\n\"We also have exams and training that is mandatory that we have to pay for with this paltry salary.\n\n\"And after six years of medical school, we have huge student debts as well.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I don't understand why the junior doctors were left out of the higher pay award.\n\n\"They will use some excuse that it was some pre-arranged pay deal - but that had a caveat that if there was a drastic change in circumstance, then this would be reviewed.\n\n\"Surely, Covid and inflation of 9% should be considered drastic.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says junior doctors' pay in England will be looked at next year, when their pay deal ends\n\nA third, who graduated from medical school five years ago, said: \"I'm a new dad and with the cost-of-living crisis, we're struggling to make ends meet.\n\n\"It's not right that full-time working professionals deal with these conditions - it is driving people away from the profession.\"\n\nJunior doctors, which includes anyone who has finished medical school but not yet become a consultant, say their wages have fallen for several years running in real terms (once inflation is accounted for).\n\nFirst-year junior doctors currently earn £14.13 an hour, assuming a 40-hour week - but they regularly work much longer hours.\n\nMany cited poor working conditions where sickness and burnout meant a junior doctor was often doing the work of two or three doctors in a shift, without the necessary guidance and support.\n\nDr Sarah Hallett and Dr Mike Kemp, who jointly chair the BMA junior doctors committee, said: \"Overworked, underpaid and undervalued junior doctors cannot and will not tolerate being ignored any longer - and ministers are seemingly oblivious to the crisis in front of them.\n\n\"They are angry and an extraordinary committee meeting has been called to review next steps.\"\n\nThere is intense pressure across the health system.\n\nPatients cannot be quickly admitted to hospital because of crowded accident-and-emergency departments and delays transferring patients from ambulances due to a shortage of staff and beds.\n\nProblems with social care prevent some medically-fit patients from being discharged and sent back to their communities.\n\nNHS Providers interim chief executive Saffron Cordery said: \"Trust leaders are frustrated and concerned by the decision to exclude junior doctors and other specific staff groups from the recent NHS pay award.\n\n\"Like so many people, junior doctors are being hit hard by the cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"Trust leaders are seeing first hand how the decision to award pay increases to some staff and not others is undermining staff morale, seeding unnecessary division at a time when the workforce is already hugely overstretched and it is a struggle to recruit and retain staff.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has made the point multi-year pay awards are part of the Treasury's long-term public-spending plans and unpicking them is not straightforward and could set a precedent for other public-sector workers.\n\n\"Pay awards are based on what you expect to happen to inflation. And then if inflation turns out lower than expected, the workers do better - but if inflation is higher than expected, they do worse,\" Ben Zaranko, an economist at the institute, said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"Junior doctors are already in a pre-existing multi-year pay and contract-reform deal, which ends next year - this will be the right time to consider pay.\"", "This is the suspected location of the strike in Kabul - green plastic sheeting has been draped over the balconies\n\nThe first signs of an operation that was months in the making erupted when an attack rocked the centre of Kabul in the early hours of Sunday morning: we heard two thunderous blasts on our street nearby.\n\nSpeculation swirled around who or what had hit this \"empty house\" in Sherpur.\n\nIt is a neighbourhood which became notorious over the past two decades for its garish multi-storey villas, mocked by Kabul residents as the stronghold of corrupt warlords and officials, a gaudy symbol of the spoils of an ugly war.\n\nKabulis called it Choorpur, the town of thieves. The Taliban took over some of the empty villas, close to some high-walled Western embassies, which also slammed shut when the Taliban took charge.\n\nWith every day, new pieces of this puzzle surfaced: of a possible strike on an Islamic State target; the use of a US drone which raised even more questions; the involvement of US forces on the ground.\n\nAs Kabul woke to the news that the US had killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike, we tried to approach the area on a main road leading into the street threading past Spinney's luxury supermarket and the Afghan Ghazanfar bank.\n\nA single Taliban guard angrily crossed his arms to warn us away.\n\nFrom a side street, we reached the back of the villa on foot.\n\nGuards and workers in adjacent buildings confirmed which house had been hit on Sunday; balconies protruding from the top floor were now covered with green plastic sheeting.\n\nHad anyone seen any activity, any residents, at this place?\n\n\"The house was empty,\" was the refrain. Was this a reply rehearsed in advance, an echo of the Taliban's official statement?\n\nOwners of nearby buildings told us they had been ordered, hours earlier, to shut their rooftops to everyone, even their own workers.\n\nAs news of Zawahiri's killing shot like an electric current through social media, the scene of this explosive moment seemed strangely quiet.\n\nTraffic flowed on surrounding tree-lined streets on this warm summer's day. But as minutes ticked by, more journalists arrived, more passers-by stopped, more Taliban guards showed up.\n\n\"If you don't listen to me, I'll speak to you through my gun,\" one armed Talib warned a colleague as we stood on the main street.\n\nA group of Afghan and foreign journalists approached us, one journalist in tears after an angry altercation on the main road which led to the front of the house.\n\nHer equipment had been forcefully taken away. It was then returned.\n\nNow what had only been whispers grew louder.\n\nThere was talk that Arabs had been seen, in recent months, moving through these streets. No one dared speak much about it.\n\nA local journalist living nearby told us: \"We've seen non-Afghan residents in this neighbourhood in the past couple of months. They don't speak the local languages. We don't know who they are.\"\n\nNow there are many questions, conspiracies and a range of possible consequences.\n\nThe death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top target on America's wanted list, had been reported many times before including last year when he was said to have died of illness.\n\nZawahiri was al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman and ideologue\n\nIf he was alive, he was said be a recluse in the rugged terrain along Afghan-Pakistan border.\n\nBut now it emerges that he was a guest of the Taliban leadership, living in that villa smack in the centre of Kabul and said to belong to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting Taliban interior minister, who is under US terrorism sanctions.\n\nThere is an echo of the 2011 US killing of Zawahiri's brother-in-arms, Osama Bin Laden, who had been hiding in plain sight in a villa in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad, down the street from a Pakistani military academy.\n\nThere is an echo too of the Taliban's rejoinder to the US after the 9/11 attacks that Bin Laden had only been their honoured guest, in Afghan Pashtun tradition.\n\nThe 2020 US-Taliban deal, signed after nearly two years of tortuous negotiations in the Gulf state of Qatar, was meant to sort out this crucial question.\n\nDuring the talks, we were repeatedly told that the Taliban commitment not to allow Afghanistan to be a safe haven again would be spelled out clearly, in black and white.\n\nBut the deal which emerged, with secret annexes, was not so clearcut.\n\nThe Taliban vowed to prevent any attacks on US soil from their territory.\n\nBut they never explicitly agreed to sever ties with their fellow jihadis including Zawahiri who, like other al-Qaeda leaders, had sworn allegiance to the Taliban leader, or emir, Haibatullah Akhundzada.\n\nSince the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August last year, there have been repeated and credible reports of al-Qaeda fighters crossing the Pakistan border into Afghanistan but there have also been repeated Taliban pledges to fight against terrorism.\n\nThe Taliban also accuse the US of violating their deal in their attack against a residential neighbourhood of Kabul. A statement from a Taliban spokesman warned that \"repeating such actions will damage the existing opportunities\".\n\nThis watershed moment comes at a time when the Taliban, one year after seizing power, are still struggling to establish international legitimacy and recognition. They may not wish to endanger any fragile progress.\n\nThe US and other Western powers have also been trapped in a bind: how do they help the people of Afghanistan, mired in a deepening humanitarian crisis, when many Taliban leaders are still under US terrorism sanctions?\n\nAmerican interests in this region also include the fight against extremist groups like Islamic State, an enemy they share with the Taliban\n\nThe Taliban have been walking a political high wire ever since they took charge in Kabul.\n\nHow do they maintain their standing in the global jihadi community, including their long-standing relations with al-Qaeda?\n\nSocial media is now buzzing with accusations of another US war crime with another alleged extrajudicial killing.\n\nHow do they complete their transformation from an insurgency to an internationally respected government but still keep their ultra-conservative credentials?\n\nThat high wire is now wobbling. The world is watching.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Archie Battersbee's mum 'let down' by court ruling\n\nArchie Battersbee's life support will start to be withdrawn on Wednesday morning, his mother has said.\n\nThe family's appeal against the decision to end his treatment was refused by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.\n\nHollie Dance said her son's treatment would end unless an application was made to the European Court of Human Rights by 09:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nArchie, 12, was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nHe has never regained consciousness and his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge when he suffered brain damage.\n\nMs Dance said in a statement: \"We want to make an urgent application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but the trust are saying that that has to be submitted at 09:00 BST, which gives us and our lawyers no time to prepare it.\"\n\nArchie's life support will be withdrawn at 11:00 if an application is not submitted to the ECHR in time, she said.\n\nHowever, the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the legal action by Archie's parents, said its team would submit an application to the court by 09:00, \"in order to give Archie more time\".\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nSpeaking after the Supreme Court's decision, Ms Dance said she would \"fight to the bitter end\".\n\n\"I hope I've paved the way for any other parents that want to go up against a trust in this country and the justice system,\" she said.\n\nMs Dance said she felt the system to decide treatment options where there is a dispute between families and hospital trusts \"needs reforming dramatically\".\n\nBarts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital in east London where Archie is being treated, said it would continue to \"work with the family to prepare for the withdrawal of treatment\".\n\nCourt of Appeal judges had previously ruled the 12-year-old's life-sustaining treatment should not continue beyond 12:00 on Tuesday.\n\nBut this was delayed while the Supreme Court heard the application from Archie's parents.\n\nThe family had asked that court to assess whether more time should be given for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) to look at the case.\n\nBut it said the Court of Appeal had \"made the correct decision\".\n\nThe ruling said it was \"not clear that Archie has any more extensive rights in international law\" nor was the decision to end treatment a \"breach of international law\".\n\n\"The panel reaches this conclusion with a heavy heart,\" the ruling said.\n\nPresident of the Family Division Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Moylan had ordered a short delay in withdrawing life-sustaining treatments until Tuesday for Archie's parents to consider any other applications they wished to make.\n\nAt that hearing, Sir Andrew said: \"In short, his system, his organs and, ultimately, his heart are in the process of closing down.\"\n\nDoctors treating him have said they believe it is \"highly likely\" he is brain-stem dead and argued it is in his best interest for life-support to end.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard Archie's \"every bodily function is now maintained by artificial means\", while another heard Archie had not \"regained awareness at any time\".\n\nLast month specialists told the court they did not believe it was in his best interests to continue treatment.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Archie's family.\n\n\"As directed by the courts, we will now work with the family to prepare for the withdrawal of treatment.\n\n\"We aim to provide the best possible support to everyone at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe Christian Legal Centre has called for \"systematic reform\" of the law following Archie's case.\n\nChief executive Andrea Williams said: \"Legislation must be passed reforming the system. Archie's case stands in the gap.\n\n\"The precedent his case sets can go an incredibly long way to fixing a system which has no room for error.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The refugees minister has appealed to councils to help house 10,500 Afghans currently living in UK hotels at a cost to the taxpayer of £1m a day.\n\nLord Harrington told councils the government had fewer than 100 properties available in June, but expects 500 Afghan arrivals each month.\n\nSeveral Afghans said living in hotels had left them unable to settle.\n\n\"I know this is costing the British people but for what?\" one refugee told BBC Two's Newsnight.\n\nMohammad, who is in his 40s, said: \"I want to settle and integrate but how can I when we are living in a hotel for months and months? I can't start my life properly.\"\n\nHe worked alongside the British Army in Afghanistan and came to the UK with his wife and two young children after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in August last year.\n\nHe says his wife of 20 years is struggling after sharing one hotel room between the four of them since September.\n\n\"I don't blame her [for struggling] because I know the situation. She is in that room for one year with two kids. These are kids, and she is depressed, so things are not good\", he said.\n\nAfghan families are being placed in temporary hotels until social housing can be found, according to the Local Government Association.\n\nOnce housing is found, the government gives the relevant council more than £20,000 per person over three years to help them resettle and integrate in the local community.\n\nIt is up to councils to find accommodation, but many already face a dwindling housing stock.\n\nThe Home Office said homes have already been found for more than 7,000 Afghan evacuees.\n\nBut in his letter, seen by the BBC and dated 27 June, Lord Harrington said they needed another 2,000 properties to house the remaining 10,500 people.\n\nA month later the government put the number of Afghans needing accommodation at 9,500.\n\nNewsnight has been told that the Home Office is negotiating with some local authorities to extend the Afghan hotel scheme into next year, which would mean some residents living there for longer.\n\nIt is a difficult prospect for Afghans like Munza. She has been in a hotel in the north of England with her parents and younger brother for six months.\n\nThey are unable to cook in the hotel - and she says they all feel \"so down\".\n\n\"Our hotels also are in a very isolated place and far away from the town or any shops with basic necessity items. And with very limited bus services in this area, it makes it even more difficult and frustrating for people based here for now.\"\n\nLord Harrington wrote that more than 500 four-bedroom houses were needed to accommodate larger families.\n\nHe said the government was reaching out to landlords, property developers, and the wider private rented sector, including property listing website Rightmove, to encourage further offers of properties.\n\nIt is also working with education establishments on converting properties to be used as long-term accommodation, he wrote.\n\nThe Home Office said it faced a \"challenge\" of insufficient local housing accommodation in the UK - \"not just for Afghans and those in need of protection but also British citizens who are also on a waiting list for homes\".\n\n\"While hotels do not provide a long-term solution, they do offer safe, secure and clean accommodation,\" the Home Office added in its statement.", "Border Patrol officers at the US-Mexico border near Yuma on 1 June\n\nUS authorities say they are investigating reports that the turbans of Sikh asylum seekers were confiscated after they were detained at the border.\n\nAccording to human rights advocates, nearly 50 migrants have had religious headgear taken away.\n\nSikhism requires that men wear turbans and do not cut their hair.\n\nRecord numbers of migrants from India have been detained at the US-Mexico border in recent months.\n\nMany hail from India's Punjab, where more than half of residents are Sikh.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has said the turban confiscations \"blatantly violate federal law\" and are inconsistent with the CBP's own non-discrimination policies.\n\nIn a letter sent to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus on 1 August, it called the seizures \"ongoing, serious religious-freedom violations\".\n\nLawyer Vanessa Pineda, of the ACLU of Arizona, told the BBC no proper explanation has been given about what - if any - security concerns a turban could raise.\n\nShe said it is part of a wider situation where the personal property of migrants is being confiscated and disposed of without explanation or replacement.\n\n\"It's just not acceptable,\" she added. \"They need to find another alternative and to stop this. It's dehumanising.\"\n\nIn a statement quoted by the Washington Post, the CBP's Mr Magnus said the border agency expects its staff to \"treat all migrants we encounter with respect.\"\n\n\"An internal investigation has been opened to address this matter,\" his statement said.\n\nAccording to CBP statistics published online, nearly 13,000 Indian citizens have been detained by Border Patrol officers at the US-Mexico border in the fiscal year that began in October.\n\nOf these, about three-quarters - nearly 10,000 - have been detained in the Border Patrol's Yuma sector, a 202 km (126 mile) expanse of desert and rocky mountains that stretches from California's Imperial Sand Dunes to the border between Arizona's Yuma and Pima counties. In 2019, a six-year-old Indian citizen from the Punjab was found dead near the Arizona town of Lukeville in a high-profile case.\n\nAuthorities later said the little girl died of heatstroke in extreme temperatures of over 42 C (108 F) after her mother left her with another group of migrants to go and search for water.", "Daniel Morgan's family have been fighting for justice for more than three decades\n\nFormer Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick may have breached professional standards relating to the murder of a private detective, a review has found.\n\nDaniel Morgan was found in the car park of the Golden Lion pub, south London, with an axe in his head in 1987.\n\nThe police watchdog report comes after an independent panel last year found the Met was institutionally corrupt in its handling of parts of the case.\n\nDame Cressida said she disagreed with the report and she acted \"diligently\".\n\nDespite five police inquiries and an inquest spanning two decades and costing more than £40m, no-one has been convicted over the father-of-two's death, with the Metropolitan Police previously admitting corruption had hampered the original murder investigation and apologising to his family.\n\nHis family believes the police corruption, and reluctance to confront it, could explain the murder and the failed investigations.\n\nMr Morgan, from Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in south Wales, died outside the pub in Sydenham on 10 March 1987.\n\nIn June 2021, an independent panel found the Met had been corrupt in the way it concealed its failings in the inquiry into the case.\n\nThe report said there were several theories as to why Mr Morgan was killed, among them:\n\nThe latest report by the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said it had determined there was an \"indication\" Dame Cressida \"may\" have breached the standards of professional behaviour. The findings relate to a period between 2013-2015 when she was an Assistant Commissioner and the senior officer responsible for the inquiry.\n\nBut it concluded that no disciplinary action was necessary, saying there was \"no evidence to indicate Commissioner Dick intended to protect corrupt officers\".\n\nThe IOPC added Dame Cressida had appeared to have \"acted in the genuine belief she had a legitimate policing purpose\", due to concerns about protecting information but \"may have got it wrong\".\n\nThe IOPC said that, following its assessment of the independent panel's June 2021 report, \"there are no new avenues for investigation which could now result in either criminal or disciplinary proceedings\".\n\nFormer Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick resigned from the Met after a series of scandals\n\nMr Morgan's family said they were \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the IOPC's review.\n\n\"What we find here is a rather shabby exercise by the IOPC to avoid the implications of the police corruption and criminality which the panel's report compelled them to acknowledge,\" they said.\n\nThey said that the decision by the IOPC not to take any disciplinary action \"shows that it suffers the very sickness within its own ranks that it purports to diagnose within the Met.\"\n\nDame Cressida said she and her team had acted \"professionally, flexibly, expeditiously, diligently and with integrity in a challenging, unprecedented and complex task\".\n\nShe added she \"deeply\" regretted \"that no one has been brought to justice for Daniel's murder\", and \"everything the Met or any of its members have done which has added to the pain of Daniel's family of losing Daniel in such terrible circumstances\".\n\nAssistant Met Commissioner Amanda Pearson said the force had \"transformed how we investigate homicide, identify misconduct and drive out corruption\".\n\nShe added the Met was continuing to work on implementing the recommendations made in a recent Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) report, which set out multiple changes to be made to restore public trust in the force.\n\nSal Naseem, IOPC regional director for London, said what had happened must be a \"salient reminder\" to police \"of the importance of being constantly vigilant in challenging improper and corrupt behaviour swiftly, firmly and robustly\".\n\nDame Cressida stepped down from her role as commissioner in April, after a series of scandals exposing racist, misogynist and homophobic behaviour among some officers in the ranks of the Met Police.\n\nShe has been replaced by former counter-terrorism policing chief Sir Mark Rowley.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bowers told the 6 January committee last month that Donald Trump pushed him to overturn Arizona's election results\n\nA Republican who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to help overturn the 2020 election has lost a vote to a candidate endorsed by the former president.\n\nRusty Bowers was hoping to fight for election to the Arizona state senate, but lost the party's primary vote to David Farnsworth.\n\nThe staunch conservative also testified against Mr Trump to the committee investigating last year's Capitol riot.\n\nRepublican voters elsewhere in the US also backed Trump-endorsed candidates.\n\nCandidates were chosen in a number of states on Tuesday following primary elections that decide who will stand for the party in November's mid-terms.\n\nThose who have publicly supported Donald Trump and repeated his false claims about fraud and malpractice in the 2020 presidential election performed well.\n\nIt was a clear indication of Mr Trump's continuing influence on the Republican Party and the enduring support for his claims about the election he lost to President Joe Biden.\n\nMr Trump, who has hinted publicly at potentially running for president again, has endorsed dozens of Republican candidates.\n\nMr Bowers, 69, gave emotional testimony to the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in which he said Mr Trump and his adviser Rudy Giuliani tried to push him to help overturn the election results.\n\nAfterwards, the Arizona Republican party - which has shifted steadily rightwards and is reliably pro-Trump - formally censured Mr Bowers, saying that he was \"unfit to serve\" the party and no longer a Republican \"in good standing\".\n\nMr Trump endorsed his challenger, and dismissed Mr Bowers as a \"Rino\" - Republican in name only - a favoured term of Mr Trump's for members of his party who refuse to back his false claims of election fraud.\n\nMr Farnsworth, a 71-year-old former state senator, received the backing of a number of Mr Trump's top allies. He has claimed the 2020 election was influenced by \"a real conspiracy headed up by the devil himself\".\n\nAlso in Arizona, which is a key battleground state, Mark Finchem - an election result denier who protested outside the Capitol on 6 January 2021 - won the Republican nomination for secretary of state.\n\nAnd Blake Masters, a venture capitalist backed by Mr Trump and the technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel, captured the party's nomination to run for Arizona's US Senate seat against Democrat Mark Kelly in November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn Michigan, Trump-endorsed candidate Tudor Nixon won the Republican nomination for governor. She will now face Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, an outspoken Trump opponent, later this year.\n\nAlso in Michigan, Peter Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump last year, lost to John Gibbs who served as Mr Trump's Assistant Housing Secretary. He has repeated the former president's false claims of election fraud and has said the 2020 election results were \"mathematically impossible\".\n\nElsewhere, Washington Representative Dan Newhouse and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, Republicans who also voted to impeach Mr Trump, were fighting for their political lives.\n\nKansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, endorsed by Mr Trump, secured the Republican nomination for governor.\n\nBut also in the state, Secretary of State Scott Schwab, a Republican who has opposed Mr Trump, successfully fought off a primary challenge from Mike Brown, a former county commissioner, who has spread false claims about the 2020 election.", "The UK Parliament has closed down its TikTok account after MPs raised concerns about the risk of data being passed to the Chinese government.\n\nThe account has been locked, and content deleted, days after its launch.\n\nSenior MPs and peers had called for the account to be removed until TikTok gave \"credible assurances\" no data could be handed to China.\n\nTikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, which has denied it was controlled by the Chinese government.\n\nRelations between London and Beijing have been fraught in recent years, with tensions heightened by China's sanctioning of several MPs last year.\n\n\"Based on member feedback, we are closing the pilot UK Parliament TikTok account earlier than we had planned,\" a UK Parliament spokesman said.\n\n\"The account was a pilot initiative while we tested the platform as a way of reaching younger audiences with relevant content about Parliament.\"\n\nA TikTok spokeswoman told the BBC it was \"disappointing\" that Parliament would not be able to connect with users of the app in the UK.\n\nOffering to reassure the MPs who raised concerns, the spokeswoman said TikTok would be willing to \"clarify any inaccuracies about our platform\".\n\nPeers and MPs - including former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and recent Tory leadership contender Tom Tugendhat - flagged those concerns in a letter to the speakers of both Houses of Parliament.\n\nIn the letter, the peers and MPs, who have been sanctioned by the Chinese government for speaking out about human rights abuses in the country, said they were \"surprised and disappointed\" by Parliament's decision to set up the account.\n\nThe letter said the data security risks associated with the app were \"considerable\".\n\nTikTok executives were \"unable to reassure MPs that the company could prevent data transfer to ByteDance, should the parent company make a request for it\", the letter said.\n\nIt added: \"The prospect of Xi Jinping's government having access to personal data on our children's phones ought to be a cause for major concern.\"\n\nThe BBC understands TikTok has written to all the peers and MPs who signed the letter, offering to meet them and explain their data protection processes.\n\nLast month Theo Bertram, TikTok's vice president for government relations and public policy in Europe, wrote to MP Darren Jones, the chairman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.\n\nIn a letter Mr Bertram said \"we have never been asked to provide TikTok user data to the Chinese government, nor would we if asked\".\n\nNus Ghani, one of the Tory MPs who expressed concerns about TikTok, welcomed the shut-down of Parliament's account on the app.\n\nIn a tweet, she thanked the speakers for \"standing up for our values and protecting our data\", adding \"common sense prevails\".\n\nHer tweet included a letter from the speakers, who said they \"were not consulted on the plans for this pilot project\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by UK Parliament This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe perceived national security risks posed by Chinese tech is one of several issues straining the London's relations with Beijing.\n\nThe decision to remove of Huawei's 5G equipment from Britain's mobile networks by 2027 prompted fears of a tit-for-tat economic war in 2020.\n\nThen last year China sanctioned UK organisations and several MPs, including Sir Iain, over what it called the spreading of \"lies and disinformation\" about human rights abuses in its Xinjiang region.\n\nTikTok's role in the UK's social media landscape was raised last month during the first one-on-one televised debate between Tory leadership candidates Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.\n\nBBC economics editor Faisal Islam asked Ms Truss: \"Are you going to crack down on TikTok, like some of your MPs have suggested?\"\n\nIn response, Ms Truss said: \"We absolutely should be cracking down on those types of companies.\"\n\nIn the debate Ms Truss did not specify exactly what she meant by \"cracking down\".\n\nBut Ms Truss's campaign later told the BBC she wanted to do more to ensure critical technologies were not exported for use by authoritarian regimes, and make sure that international firms abide by UK rules.\n\nElsewhere some other countries - notably India and the United States - have sought to impose restrictions on TikTok.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The company said it offered \"the chance to have up close and interactive encounters with blue sharks in their natural environment\"\n\nA snorkeler has suffered a leg injury after reportedly being bitten by a blue shark off the coast of Cornwall.\n\nThe incident is believed to have happened during an organised trip at lunchtime on Thursday 28 July.\n\nA Maritime Coastguard Agency spokesperson said a coastguard team went to Penzance Harbour to pass the casualty into the care of an ambulance.\n\nBlue Shark Snorkel, the company that organised the tour, said such incidents were \"extremely rare\".\n\nThe casualty was handed over to an ambulance crew at Penzance Harbour\n\nIt reported that the person injured had found it \"very scary\" and had \"thanked everyone for their amazing actions\" to get them quickly and calmly back to shore.\n\nOn its Facebook page Blue Shark Snorkel said: \"As we know, these things can happen when we choose to interact with wild animals in their own environment.\"\n\nOn its website, the company said it offered \"the chance to have up close and interactive encounters with blue sharks in their natural environment\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We immediately enacted our emergency response plan, with first aid being carried out on the person involved.\n\n\"Following advice and assessment from the coastguard, the person walked off the boat and received further treatment ashore.\"\n\nAn MCA spokesperson said: \"HM Coastguard sent Penzance Coastguard Rescue Team to meet a snorkeler who suffered a suspected shark bite... It is believed the swimmer suffered a leg injury.\n\n\"The coastguard team met the casualty at Penzance harbour to assist with passing them into the care of the ambulance service.\"\n\nThe snorkelling company said it was \"trying to understand why it happened and were in continued talks with shark experts\".\n\nThe firm also shared a statement from the victim, who said: \"I don't for a second want this freak event to tarnish the reputation of an already persecuted species.\n\n\"We all take these risks when we enter the habitat of a predator and we can never completely predict the reactions of a wild animal.\"\n\nBlue sharks visit the UK during the summer months from the Caribbean, and are known to mainly feed on small fish and squid, but have been known to attack seabirds and other small sharks, according to the Wildlife Trusts.\n\nUK-based charity the Shark Trust says there have been no \"unprovoked\" shark bites in British waters since 1847, when records began.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Sajid Javid was thought to be close to Rishi Sunak, who succeeded him as chancellor in 2020\n\nFormer chancellor Sajid Javid has backed Liz Truss to become the next Conservative leader, calling for urgent tax cuts in an attack on her rival Rishi Sunak's economic plans.\n\nMr Javid, who withdrew his own bid to be leader last month before voting began, said Mr Sunak's plans could make the UK a \"middle-income economy\".\n\nHe said Ms Truss was best placed to rise to \"the challenges of our age\".\n\nHis backing came on the evening of the latest leadership hustings, in Cardiff.\n\nMr Sunak and Ms Truss are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and British prime minister.\n\nThe party's roughly 160,000 members started receiving ballots this week, with the result due on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.\n\nThe pair will go head-to-head again in a debate on Sky News this evening.\n\nWednesday's hustings event in Cardiff marked the first time either candidate had visited Wales since the leadership contest began.\n\nMr Sunak was introduced by Swansea-born former Conservative leader Michael Howard, while Ms Truss was welcomed to the stage by Clwyd West MP David Jones, a leading Brexiteer in the party.\n\nAt the hustings, Ms Truss said a plan she had this week floated and then quickly scrapped - to link public sector pay to local living costs - had been \"misrepresented\" by the media and was not part of her \"central costings\".\n\nMr Sunak said he was glad Ms Truss had abandoned the plan, telling a crowd of Conservative members: \"It would have meant, I think, potentially almost half a million workers in Wales getting a pay cut, which I don't think is the right policy to pursue.\"\n\nThen Mr Sunak appeared to U-turn himself on his own policy to scrap plans to relax the ban on onshore wind in England.\n\nAsked by a party member whether he would \"scrap the embargo on onshore wind\", Mr Sunak replied \"yes\", adding \"we've already said that we are open to do that where we can do it with local communities\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak's campaign later clarified he had \"misspoke\" and would not relax the ban.\n\nIn other key moments during the hustings, Ms Truss:\n\nRecent polling of Conservative members suggests Ms Truss has a significant lead over Mr Sunak as voting began this week.\n\nMr Javid's endorsement gives her campaign another boost and means she now has the backing of five of the other candidates who were originally nominated for the leadership.\n\nThe endorsement is bruising for Mr Sunak, who worked with Mr Javid in the Treasury and succeeded him as chancellor in 2020.\n\nThe pair - who both had careers in finance - had previously appeared friendly, with Mr Sunak tweeting about a Star Wars cinema outing with Mr Javid in 2019.\n\nThe two men resigned from the cabinet within minutes of each other last month triggering a ministerial mutiny that forced Mr Johnson to quit as Tory leader.\n\nMr Javid launched a leadership bid but, struggling to win enough support, dropped out of the race early before candidates were nominated by Conservative MPs.\n\nThe former health secretary has now thrown his weight behind Ms Truss and her policy of introducing tax cuts immediately.\n\nWriting in the Times newspaper on Wednesday evening, Mr Javid argued that tax cuts are \"a prerequisite for growth\" and warned that the UK risked \"sleepwalking into a big-state, high-tax, low-growth, social democratic model which risks us becoming a middle-income economy by the 2030s\".\n\nHowever, Mel Stride - Conservative chair of the Treasury Committee and Sunak ally - argued that making \"tens of billions of pounds worth of unfunded tax cuts\" would make the problem of inflation \"even worse\".\n\n\"I think that would be really quite dangerous,\" he told the BBC.", "A 62-year-old French man survived for 16 hours at sea by using an air bubble inside his boat after it capsized.\n\nThe 12-metre vessel, which had set sail from Portugal's capital Lisbon, sent out a distress signal late on Monday evening from the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nSpanish coastguards found the upturned boat, but the sea was too rough to rescue him - so the sailor had to wait until morning.\n\nThe man's survival was \"verging on the impossible\", said coastguard divers.\n\nHis boat sent a distress signal at 20:23 local time on Monday, 14 nautical miles (26 nautical kilometres) from the Sisargas Islands, near Spain's north-west Galicia region.\n\nA rescue ship carrying five divers as well as three helicopters set off to find and rescue the man, who has not yet been named.\n\nA diver was winched onto the ship's hull to seek signs of life and the man responded by banging from inside.\n\nThe sea was rough and the sun had gone down, so the rescue team attached buoyancy balloons to the boat to stop it from sinking and waited until morning.\n\nThe man was airlifted to hospital after being rescued\n\nThe next day, two divers swam under the boat to help the sailor out, who they found wearing a neoprene survival suit and submerged in water up to his knees.\n\nThe man then jumped into the freezing water and swam under the boat towards the sea's surface.\n\nIn a tweet, Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society said: \"Each life saved is our biggest reward.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVicente Cobelo, a member of the coastguard's special operations team, said the sailor got into the water \"of his own initiative\" .\n\nBut, Mr Cobelo added that divers helped pull the sailor out, as it was difficult for him to get out of his suit.\n\nHe was airlifted by the rescue team and briefly taken to hospital for checks.", "A Chinese military helicopter by Pingtan island across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan on Thursday\n\nChina is kicking off its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following US politician Nancy Pelosi's visit.\n\nThe live fire drills began at 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and in several areas were due to take place within 12 miles of the island.\n\nTaiwan said China was trying to change the status quo in the region.\n\nMs Pelosi made a brief but controversial visit to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province.\n\nThe drills are Beijing's main response, although it has also blocked some trade with the island.\n\nThe exercises are due to take place in busy waterways and will include long-range live ammunition shooting, Beijing says.\n\nTaiwan says it amounts to a sea and air blockade while the US said the drills were irresponsible and could spiral out of control.\n\nAnalyst Bonnie Lin told the BBC that the Taiwanese military would react cautiously but there was still a risk of confrontation.\n\n\"For example, if China decides to fly planes over Taiwan's airspace, there is a chance that Taiwan might try to intercept them. And we could see a mid air collision, we could see a lot of different scenarios playing out,\" she said.\n\nTaiwan said it scrambled jets to warn off Chinese warplanes on Wednesday and its military fired flares to drive away unidentified aircraft over the Kinmen islands, located close to the mainland.\n\nSeveral ministries have suffered cyber-attacks in recent days, the Taiwanese government said.\n\nTaiwan has also asked ships to take different routes and is negotiating with Japan and the Philippines to find alternative aviation routes.\n\nJapan has also expressed concern to China over the areas covered by the military drills, which it says overlaps with its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).\n\nIn response, Chinese government spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing did not accept the \"so-called\" Japan EEZ.\n\nOn Wednesday, China detained a suspected Taiwanese separatist in the coastal Zhejiang province on suspicion of endangering national security, according to local media reports.\n\nMeanwhile China's Ambassador to France Lu Shaye told French TV that after \"reunification\" with Taiwan, Beijing would focus on \"re-education\".\n\nChina has previously used the term \"re-education\" to refer to its detention of mostly-Muslim minorities in its north-western Xinjiang region, where human rights groups say more than a million people have been incarcerated.\n\nIn the Taiwanese capital the situation remains calm but Taiwan is being forced to reroute a huge amount of air and sea traffic around the exclusion zones declared by Beijing.\n\nMeanwhile a US aircraft that can track ballistic missiles in flight has taken off from Japan and is heading towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say one scenario is that China is preparing to fire ballistic missiles - to splash down in the exclusion zones, very close to Taiwan's coast. That is what China did back in 1996, the last time tensions between Beijing and Taipei got this bad. But this time the exclusion zones are much closer to Taiwan.\n\nThere is also concern that one of the exclusion zones is to the east of Taiwan in the Pacific ocean. Analysts say it is possible China is preparing to fly a missile over the top of Taiwan - to splash down in that zone. That would be considered a major violation of Taiwan's airspace.\n\nMrs Pelosi, the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years, made the trip as part of a wider Asian tour.\n\nChina had warned her not to travel to the island.\n\nAccusing the US of \"violating China's sovereignty under the guise of so-called democracy\", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: \"Those who play with fire will not come to a good end and those who offend China will be punished.\"\n\nIn a statement after the visit, Ms Pelosi said China cannot \"prevent world leaders or anyone from travelling to Taiwan to pay respect to its flourishing democracy, to highlight its many successes and to reaffirm our commitment to continued collaboration\".\n\nAfter leaving Taiwan, Ms Pelosi travelled to South Korea, where she met her counterpart Kim Jin-pyo. She is due to visit the Joint Security Area near the border between the two Koreas, patrolled by the US-led UN command and North Korea.\n\nThe US walks a diplomatic tightrope with its Taiwan policy. On the one hand, it abides by the \"One China\" policy, which recognises only one Chinese government, giving it formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan.\n\nOn the other, it maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.", "Pig organs have been partially revived an hour after the animals were killed, in a breakthrough with the potential to transform medicine, say US researchers.\n\nThe technique could increase the number of organs available for transplant and buy doctors more time to save a life if applied to people.\n\nThe study also challenges assumptions about what happens in the moments between life and death.\n\nExperts said the findings were \"truly remarkable\" and \"incredibly significant\".\n\nWhen the heart stops beating, the body is starved of oxygen and the nutrients it needs to survive. Organs swell in size, blood vessels collapse and cells - the building blocks of the body's organs - begin to die.\n\nThis cellular death was thought to be rapid and permanent, but researchers at Yale University have undone some of that damage in animals which have been dead for an hour.\n\n\"We can restore some functions of cells, across multiple vital organs, that should have been dead,\" said Prof Nenad Sestan.\n\n\"These cells are functioning hours after they should not be.\"\n\nThe research team performed a similar feat on just pig brains in 2019. Now they have adapted their technology - called OrganEx - to work across a whole body.\n\nThe experiments, published in the journal Nature, involved about 100 pigs and were given ethical approval before going ahead.\n\nScientists deeply anaesthetised the animals and then stopped their hearts. After being dead for an hour, they were connected to the OrganEx system and given the restorative cocktail for six hours. The anaesthetic was maintained throughout the experiments.\n\nAfter the six hours, the scientists dissected the pigs' organs such as the heart, liver and kidneys. and showed they were partially revived with some functions restored.\n\nThere was restoration of electrical activity in the heart, and some heart muscle cells were able to contract. However, the organs were not functioning at the same level as before death.\n\nResearcher Dr Zvonimir Vrselja said: \"Things are not as dead as we previously presumed - we have demonstrated that we can actually initiate cell-repair on a molecular level. We can persuade cells not to die.\"\n\nAt one point the pigs' heads and necks began moving spontaneously. It could be a sign they were recovering some motor function, but that will need further investigation.\n\nNeuroscientist Dr David Andrijevic said it was a \"quite startling moment\". However, he said it was \"not indicative of any mental activity on the part of the pig\".\n\nJust like the experiment in 2019, there was evidence of repair in the brain. But there were no brainwaves or electrical activity that would suggest consciousness or awareness.\n\nIt will take considerably more research before the technology could be adapted to be used on people.\n\nHowever, the initial aim is to preserve transplant organs for longer, so they can get to patients who need them.\n\n\"I think the technology has a great deal of promise for our ability to preserve organs after they're removed from a donor,\" said Dr Stephen Latham, the director of Yale's interdisciplinary centre for bioethics.\n\nMore distant ambitions include making even more people suitable organ donors after death and even as a treatment.\n\nCommenting on the study, Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at New York University, said the study was \"truly remarkable and incredibly significant\" and it could help explain reports of near-death experiences.\n\nHe said the technology could also be used to buy more time for doctors to treat people whose bodies were starved of oxygen, such as those who died from drowning or heart attacks.\n\nHe added that this could \"bring such people back to life many hours after death\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nPlayers took the knee prior to the Community Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City Premier League players will stop the pre-match anti-racism gesture of taking the knee before every match. Top-flight clubs started taking a knee to support the Black Lives Matter movement, which rose to prominence following the death of George Floyd in the United States in May 2020. Premier League captains took the decision after consulting with players. The gesture will instead be seen before certain rounds of games, including the Boxing Day fixtures and cup finals. Players and staff will also take the knee before the first and last matches of the 2022-23 campaign as well as dedicated No Room for Racism match rounds in October and March. The gesture took place before the Community Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City last Saturday. Captains and players are said to believe that 'less is more' - hoping when the knee is taken it will have greater impact. \"We have decided to select significant moments to take the knee during the season to highlight our unity against all forms of racism and in so doing we continue to show solidarity for a common cause,\" said a joint statement from the Premier League captains. \"We remain resolutely committed to eradicate racial prejudice, and to bring about an inclusive society with respect and equal opportunities for all.\"\n• None What's taking the knee and why is it important? Important to keep taking the knee - Vieira The gesture was inspired by NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who decided on the silent protest against racial oppression by kneeling during the US national anthem. However, Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha stopped in February 2021, saying at the time that \"at the moment it doesn't matter whether we kneel or stand, some of us still continue to receive abuse\". Several Championship clubs, including Derby, Brentford, Bournemouth and Queens Park Rangers, also stopped taking a knee around that time. Swansea City and Bristol City recently announced they would be stopping the action as well. \"We met with the captains last week, they're still totally committed to the issue,\" Premier League chief executive Richard Masters told BBC Sport on Tuesday. \"For two years now taking the knee has become part of the pre-match ritual. The players fear it's losing power and momentum and we will see it take place in a different format. \"It's up to the players to decide themselves and we support them in whatever decision they make, as do the clubs.\" Let the soap opera begin - Premier League chief before new season starts Prior to the decision to scale back the taking of the knee, anti-racism charity Kick It Out's chairman Sanjay Bhandari said he would support the players in whatever decision they made. \"We should be spending more time on why players take a knee rather than whether they take a knee or not,\" said Bhandari on Tuesday. \"The reason they take a knee is because we are not living in an equal society. There is discrimination. There is a huge amount of online abuse. \"It is using their platform to raise awareness and says to the people in power you need to act. Whatever they do, I will support any kind of peaceful gesture. \"The point is we still need to be doing something to raise awareness and to keep things like the online safety bill on the agenda.\" He added: \"We are talking about how we tackle discrimination and how we create greater inclusion in football and around football with governing bodies and clubs. \"There seems to be this great intent in wanting to do more. We have to tap into that.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "The government's chief scientific adviser, who helped steer the UK through the pandemic, is stepping down.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance's five-year term ends in April. His successor has not yet been announced.\n\nIn June, he was honoured at Buckingham Palace for his work updating the public on the Covid-19 virus, regularly appearing alongside the prime minister at televised briefings.\n\nHe voiced disappointment Covid rules had been broken in Downing Street.\n\nSir Patrick, 62, was an academic and a consultant physician before joining GlaxoSmithKline, where he became president of research and development.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"immensely grateful\" for Sir Patrick's advice and expertise throughout the pandemic.\n\nHe had \"played an instrumental role in expanding and accelerating the science super-prowess of this country... overseeing the development and innovative use of new technologies, responding to the global threat of climate change, boosting the life sciences and health of our nation and ensuring our policies and decisions are informed by the latest and best scientific thinking.\"\n\n\"He will be missed by all when he leaves next year and I wish him the very best in all future endeavours,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nSir Patrick said: \"Science and engineering remain vital for the future prosperity of the UK - and high-quality evidence and science advice should be at the heart of all government decision making.\"\n\nAnd he would remain \"fully committed\" to his completing his \"both challenging and immensely rewarding\" five-year term.\n\nProf Sir Jonathan Van-Tam stepped down from his role as deputy chief medical officer, in March.\n\nNicknamed JVT, he became known for using football analogies to deliver Covid updates and was considered one of the best communicators of health advice on the virus.\n\nHe was knighted, at Buckingham Palace, by the Duke of Cambridge, in July, having missed the initial ceremony after catching Covid.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swimmers take a dip at Penzance: People should continue enjoying the sea said marine biologist Hannah Rudd\n\nSea swimmers should not be deterred from having a dip, an expert has said after a suspected shark attack off the Cornwall coast.\n\nMarine biologist Hannah Rudd said the incident during a snorkeling trip was an \"incredibly rare event\".\n\nOrganisers Blue Shark Snorkel said a person was injured on a group dive and walked off the boat for treatment.\n\nThe victim said in a statement it was a \"freak event\" on 28 July and sharks should not be judged by it.\n\nThe snorkeler was taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro for treatment, South West Ambulance Service said.\n\nMs Rudd told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't think this should stop anyone from getting in the water this summer.\n\n\"Please go out and enjoy the beaches responsibly and enjoy the sea in all its salty goodness.\"\n\nBlue sharks mainly feed on small fish and squid\n\nShe encouraged anyone interested in getting \"up close\" with sharks to \"give it a try\" with a professional operator.\n\nShe added that although \"you are entering a wild environment with an apex predator\", it was \"important to stress\" how rare attacks were.\n\n\"I'm sure the dive master there will give you a briefing on the code of conduct,\" she said.\n\n\"That will include keeping a safe distance, not touching unnecessarily, not chasing them and if you feel unsafe in the water just alert your dive master and they will safely remove you from the water.\"\n\nBlue sharks are among 40 species of sharks in UK waters\n\nBeing in the water with \"these highly majestic\" animals was an \"absolutely incredible experience\", she said.\n\n\"Despite this incident they [blue sharks] are really good role models for challenging the stereotypes that sharks have endured for decades.\"\n\nThe UK had about 40 species of sharks in its waters, she said.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? Please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nMs Rudd said climate change had brought \"shifting distributions of sharks around the world\", with \"more apex predators in our waters but not to a degree that anyone should worry about\".\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that just because there's a change in distribution it does not mean that there's a change in abundance necessarily,\" she said.\n\n\"And a lot of these species are highly under threat from human activity such as commercial fishing.\"\n\nMatt Slater from Cornwall Wildlife Trust said: \"All the people on board these trip boats sign disclaimers and they know there is a tiny risk but it could happen.\n\n\"Unfortunately in this case it has happened, but I don't think there's any reason for anyone to think this is any more dangerous an activity than it ever has been.\"\n\nBlue sharks visit the UK during the summer months from the Caribbean, and are known to mainly feed on small fish and squid, but have been known to attack seabirds and other small sharks, according to the Wildlife Trusts.\n\nUK-based charity the Shark Trust said there have been no \"unprovoked\" shark bites in British waters since 1847, when records began.", "American horror novelist Stephen King is taking on a new monster: corporate consolidation.\n\nThe author was the star witness in an anti-trust trial to block the two biggest US publishers' $2.2bn merger.\n\nThe US Department of Justice called on King to testify about how the proposed tie-up of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster could affect authors.\n\nKing, 75, told the court in Washington DC that he felt \"the move would be bad for competition in the industry\".\n\nBoth publishing houses have argued the merger would not hinder competition because the companies would continue to bid against each other for the rights to publish novels, even after the transaction is finalised.\n\nKing - who has 50 years' experience in publishing - called that idea \"a little bit ridiculous\".\n\n\"You might as well say you're going to have a husband and wife bidding against each other for the same house,\" the novelist quipped, according to journalists in the court.\n\nSince publishing his first novel, Carrie, in 1974, King has penned more than 70 novels - including other cult classics like The Shining, and It - that have sold over 350m copies.\n\nIn the last decade, King has also become more outspoken on social media, interacting with fans and often encouraging his 6.8 million Twitter followers to support local and independent bookstores.\n\nIn November 2020, Penguin Random House and Paramount Global, Simon & Schuster's parent company, announced plans for a merger.\n\nA year later, the justice department sued to block the acquisition. US President Joe Biden's administration has vowed to increase competition as a central part of its economic policy.\n\n\"American authors and consumers will pay the price of this anticompetitive merger - lower advances for authors and ultimately fewer books and less variety for consumers,\" US Attorney General Merrick Garland said following the announcement of the lawsuit.\n\nAttorneys representing the merger have denied these allegations and argue that stopping the transaction \"would harm the very authors DOJ purports to protect\".\n\nThe \"DOJ has not found, nor does it allege, that the combination will reduce competition in the sale of books\", Daniel Petrocelli, Penguin's lead attorney in the trial, said in a statement.\n\n\"We are confident that the robust and competitive landscape that exists will ensure a decision that the acquisition will promote, not harm, competition.\"\n\nAnti-trust legal action seeks to ensure acquisitions and mergers do not create market monopolies, or anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing.", "Women whose pictures were used without permission in a \"beach body\" ad campaign have criticised the Spanish government's explanation that it didn't know they were \"real people\".\n\nThe Spain's Women's Institute campaign uses an image of five diverse women of different shapes and sizes.\n\nBut three women have since said they've not consented to images being used.\n\nSian Green-Lord, whose prosthetic leg was edited out of the image, says she's \"not buying it - not at all\".\n\nThe advert by Spain's equality ministry aimed to encourage women to go to the beach, regardless of how they look.\n\nThe Spanish government, which hadn't commented until now, has told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"We would like to make it clear that at no point was it aware that the women in the images were actual real people.\n\n\"The work contracted was for an illustration without the use of any models.\n\n\"Therefore, the Women's Institute, as a concerned party, have been in touch with the models to clarify the situation, and is waiting for the illustrator and the models to reach an agreement.\"\n\nNyome says her photo was used as the basis for the Spanish illustration\n\nSince the ad was released three British women have come forward to say they haven't consented to their images being used.\n\nTwo of them, Sian and Nyome Nicholas-Williams, say they don't accept the government's explanation.\n\n\"It feels like they're just shifting the blame onto the illustrator but it was the government who hired them,\" says Nyome, who lives in London.\n\n\"The campaign could have been great if they invited us to Spain, did the photoshoot and paid us but they decided to put my head on someone else and erase Sian's leg.\"\n\nSian adds: \"I'm speechless, it's actually wild, I can't believe they're digging themselves into this bigger hole.\n\n\"They haven't even said sorry - it's comical. We need to take this as far as we can. I just want justice with us all, because this has caused so much upset.\"\n\nSian Green-Lord's prosthetic leg was edited out of the campaign\n\nSian and Nyome weren't the only women to come forward over the campaign.\n\nCancer survivor Juliet FitzPatrick, who has had a mastectomy, thinks a woman in the advert may have been based on her.\n\nShe told the BBC the body in the poster was not hers as the woman had one breast while she had a double mastectomy.\n\nCopyright laws that apply in the UK and Spain say that a photo, or part of it, can't be used or copied without the owner's permission - even if it's posted on a site like Instagram.\n\nThe Spanish government has apologised to Juliet but hasn't said sorry to Nyome or Sian.\n\nBut the campaign's creator, Arte Mapache, has issued an apology.\n\n\"Given the - justified - controversy over the image rights in the illustration, I have decided that the best way to make amends for the damages that may have resulted from my actions is to share out the money I received for the work and give equal parts to the people in the poster,\" the artist said.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Craig Mulligan was one of three defendants found guilty\n\nA teenager who helped murder five-year-old Logan Mwangi before dumping his body in a river will not have his sentence increased.\n\nLogan's body was found in the River Ogmore near his home in Sarn, Bridgend county, in July 2021.\n\nCraig Mulligan, 14, was given a 15-year sentence and was convicted along with Logan's mother and step-father.\n\nAfter considering his sentence, the Attorney General's Office said it would not refer it to the Court of Appeal.\n\nJohn Cole, 40, must serve a minimum term of 29 years in prison while Logan's mother Angharad Williamson, 31, will serve at least 28 years.\n\n\"The solicitor general was horrified by this case and wishes to express his sympathies to the victim's father,\" a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said.\n\n\"After careful consideration, the solicitor general has concluded that this case cannot properly be referred to the Court of Appeal.\n\nLogan Mwangi was a previously \"smiling, cheerful little boy\", the trial heard\n\n\"A referral under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme to the Court of Appeal can only be made if a sentence is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances of the offence.\n\n\"The threshold is a high one and the test was not met in this case.\"\n\nMulligan, Cole and Williamson killed the Tondu Primary School pupil before dumping him like \"fly-tipped rubbish\" in the river in nearby Pandy Park, jurors at his trial their trial were told.\n\nJohn Cole and Angharad Williamson are also serving lengthy prison terms for Logan's murder\n\nLogan was treated like a prisoner in the days before his death after previously being described as a \"smiling, cheerful little boy\" and died after suffering a \"brutal and sustained\" attack at home.\n\nHe suffered 56 \"catastrophic\" injuries, including extensive bruising to the back of his head and tears in his liver and bowel.\n\nMulligan had a \"desire for violence\" and pushed Logan down the stairs, breaking his arm.\n\nA support worker once heard him singing: \"I love to punch kids in the head, it's orgasmic.\"\n\nFive-year-old Logan Mwangi was described as a \"really sweet, happy-go-lucky child\" by a neighbour\n\nIn sentencing, Mrs Justice Jefford told the trio they were \"all responsible for Logan's death and all the anguish that has flowed from it\".\n\n\"Because he was killed in his own home, it is not possible to be sure what has happened to him,\" she said.\n\nDuring the trial, Mulligan could not be identified publicly due to reporting restrictions because of his age.\n\nHowever, after he was found guilty and sentenced, this was lifted.\n\nIn her ruling on the anonymity order, Mrs Justice Jefford said \"there is a significant gap in any understanding of this case\" if Mulligan was not named.", "Dev Patel has starred in Slumdog Millionaire, The Green Knight and Lion, for which he received an Oscar nomination\n\nDev Patel successfully broke up a knife fight in Adelaide earlier this week, his representatives have confirmed.\n\nThe actor, who has starred in Slumdog Millionaire, witnessed the fight in Adelaide on Monday (1 August).\n\nA man and a woman were reportedly fighting in the street and in a convenience store when the man was stabbed in the chest.\n\nPatel's spokesman said the star \"acted on his natural instinct\". The man who was stabbed is expected to survive.\n\n\"We can confirm that last night, in Adelaide, Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already in progress outside of a convenience store,\" representatives for Patel told BBC News.\n\n\"Dev acted on his natural instinct to try and de-escalate the situation and break up the fight. The group was thankfully successful in doing so and they remained on site to ensure that the police and eventually the ambulance arrived.\"\n\nOfficers were called at around 8.45pm (local time), following reports of a man and woman fighting in the street, South Australia Police said.\n\nThe couple continued fighting inside a nearby service station where witnesses attempted to break up the fight, before the woman allegedly stabbed the man in the chest.\n\nA 32-year-old man from Glengowrie was treated at the scene by ambulance officers before being taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.\n\nThe statement from Patel's team continued: \"There are no heroes in this situation and sadly this specific incident highlights a larger systemic issue of marginalised members of society not being treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.\n\n\"The hope is that the same level of media attention this story is receiving (solely because Dev, as a famous person, was involved) can be a catalyst for lawmakers to be compassionate in determining long-term solutions to help not only the individuals who were involved but the community at large.\"\n\nFurther details about the situation and the motivation of the alleged attacker have not been made clear.\n\nPatel got his big break in British teen drama Skins and has also starred in The Green Knight, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Lion, for which he received an Oscar nomination.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "This image of a Russian serviceman guarding the plant was taken in May\n\nA huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is \"completely out of control\", the head of the UN's nuclear agency says.\n\nRafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs.\n\n\"You have a catalogue of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility,\" he said.\n\nEurope's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.\n\nUkrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south of Ukraine.\n\nBut a Russian-installed official in the region told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian forces were using Western-supplied weapons to attack the plant.\n\nYevgeny Balitsky said officials were ready to show Mr Grossi's agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), how Russians were guarding the nuclear facility while Ukrainians were allegedly attacking it.\n\nWhen Russia seized the plant, its shelling of buildings there caused an international outcry.\n\nThe plant is still operating, with Ukrainian staff under Russian control.\n\nAt a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Mr Grossi said: \"The situation is very fragile. Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated one way or the other and we cannot allow that to continue.\"\n\nThe IAEA's director-general said he was trying to put together a mission as soon as possible to visit the plant but this required the approval of both the Ukrainian and Russian sides, as well as UN authorisation, given the risks involved in visiting the war zone.\n\nIn June, Ukraine's state nuclear company said Ukraine had not invited the IAEA - and any visit would legitimise Russia's presence there.\n\nThis week, Mr Grossi said he and his team needed protection to reach Zaporizhzhia - which meant the co-operation of both Russia and Ukraine. \"I'm pleading to both sides to let this mission proceed,\" he said.\n\nIAEA contacts with staff at the plant had been \"patchy\" and the supply chain of equipment and spares had been disrupted, Mr Grossi explained to AP. There was also a lot of nuclear material which needed to be inspected, he added.\n\n\"While this war rages on, inaction is unconscionable,\" he said. \"If an accident occurs at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we will not have a natural disaster to blame - we will have only ourselves to answer to. We need everyone's support.\"\n\nAccusing the Russians of using the plant as a \"nuclear shield\", Mr Blinken said: \"Of course the Ukrainians cannot fire back lest there be a terrible accident involving the nuclear plant.\"\n\nIn 1986, northern Ukraine was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded.\n\nRussian forces also seized Chernobyl soon after the invasion on 24 February this year but withdrew after five weeks. Computers at the site were looted or damaged but actual nuclear equipment at the decommissioned plant was not affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Assembly members are meeting following a recall petition, spearheaded by the SDLP\n\nA third attempt to elect a new Speaker at Stormont and allow the Northern Ireland Assembly to function fully again has failed.\n\nAssembly members met following a recall petition, spearheaded by the SDLP, which wanted a debate on the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe DUP refuses to nominate a Speaker over issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe DUP leader said recalling the assembly would not solve the problem.\n\nBut the SDLP said \"basic governance\" must return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill says the DUP is \"punishing the public\" by its \"refusal to govern\"\n\nThe Protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, preventing a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it means checks on some items which come into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK, creating a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nUnionist parties are opposed to it, saying it undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nControversial UK government legislation aimed at giving the government powers to override parts of the Protocol is making its way through Westminster.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie nominated party colleague Mike Nesbitt and the SDLP's Matthew O'Toole nominated his colleague Patsy McGlone as Speaker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The DUP's Brian Kingston says the recall of the Stormont assembly \"was stunt politics\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Shailesh Vara said he was disappointed that the assembly had failed to elect a speaker.\n\nHe tweeted: \"People expect and deserve the Executive to be formed as soon as possible to address issues affecting everyone in Northern Ireland, including the rising cost of living.\"\n\nEarlier, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the DUP's \"continued boycott of these institutions and their failure to accept the democratic outcome of the election\" were denying people \"the representation which they are entitled to and which they deserve\".\n\n\"It's totally unacceptable, it is untenable and it cannot continue,\" she added.\n\nMost politicians elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly want the protocol to remain\n\nShe said the DUP were the \"only party that are blocking and preventing the executive being formed, preventing the executive meeting that would allow us to distribute money to help workers and families\".\n\n\"So let me say to you, even at this late hour today, workers need help, families need help, businesses need help and you're continuing to punish the public that we're elected to serve by your continued refusal to govern with the rest of us.\"\n\n\"These proceedings are not a genuine attempt by the parties opposite to restore the political institutions, rather they demonstrate a wilful disregard for the views of unionists and the principle of power sharing itself in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nMr Kingston said the Northern Ireland Protocol had caused a \"deep fracture in our politics\".\n\nHe said the party would be \"condition-led and not calendar-led\".\n\nAt the same time, he made it clear that when its conditions were met, the DUP would be prepared to nominate a deputy first minister.\n\nThe Stormont institutions have been in flux since February when the DUP withdrew from the first minister role in protest over the part of the 2019 Brexit deal known as the protocol.\n\nAmid all of the words spoken during the 90-minute debate, one adjective stood out: \"undiminished\".\n\nThe DUP's Brian Kingston said that if his party was to return to the power-sharing executive at Stormont, the Westminster bill to override the Protocol must emerge from Parliament \"undiminished\", in other words, without any amendments.\n\nIt is clearly a DUP pre-condition.\n\nThe other appears to be a commitment from the next prime minister that once he or she gets the power to override the Protocol, it will be used immediately.\n\nThat is certainly the current state of the assembly, as all eyes now focus on Westminster and Downing Street.\n\nSince then, there has been an assembly election and two recall petitions.\n\nSinn Féin became the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time following May's election, with 27 seats, pushing the DUP into second place.\n\nThe election cemented a majority for assembly members who accept the Protocol, including Sinn Féin.\n\nHowever, overall unionists still hold the most seats in the assembly.\n\nDuring Wednesday's debate, the SDLP's Matthew O'Toole pointed to the cost of living.\n\n\"How long do they [people] have to wait, struggling to put food on the table, struggling to afford the cost of school uniforms and apprehensive about this winter?\n\n\"They said the Protocol Bill's passage would lead to a graduated response, it's passed the Commons, what now?\"\n\nUnionist parties in Northern Ireland are all opposed to the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nAlliance assembly member Patrick Brown called for reform to \"put an end to ransom politics\".\n\nHe said it was no longer tenable for one party to be able to block the formation of an assembly and executive.\n\n\"Until this place can operate in a mature and democratic fashion, our ability to deal with situations like the cost-of-living crisis will continue to be curtailed,\" he said.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said many assembly members did not want to face \"reality\" that the Protocol was incompatible with Northern Ireland's constitutional position as an \"integral part of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"The very same people who yesterday and in recent days were effusive in respect of Lord David Trimble, consciously and deliberately ignore the very telling of Lord Trimble about the Protocol when he said that the Protocol has ripped the heart out of the Belfast Agreement,\" he said.\n\nStormont uses a system of government known as power sharing\n\nPeople Before Profit's Gerry Carroll said the DUP had shown themselves to be \"completely and utterly self-serving in their approach to politics\".\n\n\"They are wilfully ignoring the plight of the vast majority of people here who are struggling to keep their heads above water due to spiralling costs and political inaction,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he could not provide a timetable on when the Stormont Executive would be restored.\n\n\"The sooner we can get to a solution on the Protocol, the sooner we will see the cross-community consensus restored that is necessary to operate the political institutions in Northern Ireland,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\nSir Jeffrey said he recognised getting a \"fully-functioning executive and assembly was important for everyone in Northern Ireland\" but he wanted to ensure the foundations for that were \"sound\".\n\nThe comments come as the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the Northern Ireland Protocol had given the region's economy a temporary boost.\n\nAn assembly Speaker can only be elected with support from a majority of unionist and nationalist members.\n\nWithout a Speaker in place, there can be no nomination of first and deputy first ministers, meaning the assembly cannot function.\n\nThe DUP has previously said it wants to see \"clear progress\" on the government's controversial protocol bill in Parliament first, before it would consider supporting the election of a Speaker.\n\nThe bill passed the House of Commons in July but now must be debated in the House of Lords.", "The danger with escalation is that it is hard to pull back.\n\nNow that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to visit Taiwan - the highest-ranking American official to do so in 25 years - won't others want to do the same in the future?\n\nNow that China has held major live fire exercises of such a scale, so close to Taiwan, why not do that again? Each time Chinese fighter jets fly nearer to the island or in greater numbers, a new standard of \"normality\" is established. So, if the People's Liberation Army (PLA) doesn't fly as close next time, what message is it sending?\n\nNot so long ago, Beijing's plan with Taiwan involved engagement. Young people from the mainland were backpacking around the breakaway province claimed by China, and businesses from Taiwan were popping up all over China.\n\nHowever, the approach under Chinese President Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent, with ever more pressure being applied on Taipei.\n\nThose with more militaristic tendencies in the upper echelons of power here must have secretly welcomed the visit by Ms Pelosi. It has provided an ideal excuse to ramp up the war games around Taiwan in preparation for what they see as the inevitable day when it will be seized by force.\n\nThe biggest challenge perhaps for regional stability is that everyone's public position on Taiwan is ridiculous. It's like a giant game of pretend which is becoming harder to maintain.\n\nChina pretends that Taiwan is currently part of its territory, even though the island collects its own taxes, votes in its own government, issues its own passports and has its own military.\n\nThe US pretends it is not treating Taiwan as an independent country, even though it sells it high-tech weapons and, occasionally, a high-ranking politician visits on what looks very much like an official trip.\n\nIt's apparent that it would take nothing for this flimsy show, designed to guarantee the status quo, to fall apart.\n\nThe danger for the world is that there are those in Beijing who would like to see it fall apart.\n\nThe approach under Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent\n\nFor decades, China's Communist Party-controlled media has been churning out similar rhetoric on Taiwan, but the idea of a war to reclaim it never felt any closer.\n\nThere is a belief among most people you talk to that President Xi wants to take Taiwan during his time in office, thus catapulting himself into an immortal status - as the leader who unified the motherland.\n\nHe has already effectively reined in Hong Kong, a city which had become increasingly troublesome for China, well ahead of schedule.\n\nThat President Xi will move into a historic third term in office in a few months actually eases the pressure a little.\n\nNow that he can remain in charge for as long as he likes - unlike previous leaders since Mao Zedong who were limited to two terms - he doesn't have to be in a rush to attack the island.\n\nBut every day we move a step closer to that and a step further away from peace.\n\nSome of China's propaganda, designed to rev-up popular support for a military solution, displays pre-World War One levels of naivety about what such a war would really entail.\n\nEven with the heavily censored coverage of the Ukraine conflict, seeing that invasion play out would surely have given Chinese people pause when considering involving their own country in bloody conflict.\n\nBut nationalism is a powerful tool and delusion can easily take hold.\n\nIf Beijing did attack Taiwan, even with the might of the PLA, it would have to mount a large-scale landing across a treacherous strait - and then face a dug-in, committed enemy fighting for a free way of life, seen as much more important than the patriotic justification to attack which has been drummed into the invading army.\n\nSuch a war could be long, turn China into a pariah for an extended period of time and kill the Chinese economy. Even if the PLA won, it would lead to the occupation of a huge island populated by millions of people who would likely resent Beijing's authority.\n\nThat would be disastrous and smart minds in the Chinese capital know it.", "Rapper Pa Salieu was named the BBC's Sound of 2021\n\nRapper Pa Salieu says he has been removed from the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony after failing a background check.\n\nThe artist was convicted in March of possessing a bottle as an offensive weapon during a brawl which saw his friend stabbed to death.\n\nHe also admitted violent disorder and is awaiting sentence.\n\nGames' organisers would not comment on individual cases but said everyone went through the same accreditation process.\n\nThe artist, winner of BBC Music's Sound of 2021, said in an Instagram post he was given the news on Monday while rehearsing for the show.\n\n\"Next week's performance should have been a celebration,\" said the rapper, from Coventry.\n\nHe said he had \"fully cooperated\" with the legal process adding: \"I've consistently been trying to use my career to show people where I'm from there is another life for us.\n\n\"But what can you do if the police, justice system and Home Office don't care about you and put everything possible in your way to stop you trying to get on with your life?\"\n\nThe 24-year-old artist from the Hillfields area of the city was accused of joining a group that chased and cornered a man during violence outside a Coventry bar in 2018.\n\nIt followed a fight in which Fidel Glasgow - a close friend of Salieu and grandson of Specials singer Neville Staple - was fatally stabbed.\n\nAnother man, 25-year-old Michael Mistouflet, was convicted of a separate violent disorder charge after a trial at Warwick Crown Court, but Salieu and two others, Meidel Dange and Adil Naseer, both 25, were cleared of that offence.\n\nA statement from the 24-year-old musician's management said \"no human common sense\" had been involved in the decision to cut his performance from the Birmingham 2022 event with less than a week to go.\n\n\"Although born in the UK, Gambian Pa Salieu (who has indefinite leave to remain) does not have the documentation needed to apply for a visa to travel in most parts of the world and the Home Office will not issue this until his court case is concluded, already causing huge disruption to his career,\" it said.\n\n\"His trial for the incident in 2018 ended in March and he was originally due to be sentenced a month later, however the courts keep moving the date, often with less than 24 hours notice.\n\n\"This date has changed four times already, with the latest date now being set as the 2 December.\"\n\nThe statement also stressed that Salieu is \"very outspoken about his former life\" and has \"consistently tried to use his career as an inspiration for others from similar underprivileged backgrounds\" while also taking part in social initiatives including supporting youth centres and speaking at young offenders' institutions.\n\nBirmingham 2022 organisers said: \"Everyone involved in the Games goes through the same accreditation process; including our volunteers, performers, athletes, contractors, and workforce.\n\n\"We cannot comment on individual accreditation applications. This process facilitates the delivery of the Games.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei on Wednesday, in front of a framed picture of Sun Yat-sen\n\nFor Taiwan this trip by Nancy Pelosi is about support, but also legitimacy.\n\nTaiwan needs America's support, military and otherwise. But it craves legitimacy. It craves recognition that this is not some \"renegade province\" as Beijing calls it, but a proud country, with its own democratic government and a determination to keep it that way.\n\nThat is why a visit by the speaker of the US House of Representatives means so much. America is what Taiwan looks up to, not China.\n\nYou can see it in the excited way Ms Pelosi's arrival here is being reported on Taiwan's many TV news channels.\n\nThey have been studying everything from the colour of her outfits to the height of her heels - very high for an 82-year-old apparently - and the fact that she \"looked like Audrey Hepburn in that photo of her with President John F. Kennedy back in 1961\".\n\nThere is a full-on Pelosi lovefest happening in Taipei, the island's capital.\n\nCrowds gathered early outside Taiwan's parliament on Wednesday, hoping to get a glimpse of Ms Pelosi as she came out. Almost everyone there brushed off worries that China might retaliate.\n\n\"We are used to the threats from China,\" a female banker told us. \"In the long run this trip will be good for the development of US-Taiwan relations.\"\n\n\"China is bluffing,\" said a 70-year-old man. \"It may retaliate in the short term, but if Beijing over-reacts, it will be punished by the United States.\"\n\n\"China shouldn't bully Taiwan like this,\" a 50-year-old house wife told us. \"This trip is normal... if China continues like this it will only alienate more countries.\"\n\nBut to China this trip is anything but normal. To Beijing it is an outrageous breach of diplomatic norms.\n\nWhen President Jimmy Carter recognised the People's Republic of China in 1979, Washington agreed it would drop recognition of the \"other\" Chinese government in Taipei.\n\nFor Beijing, that should have been the end of the story. But America never completely gave up Taiwan. And as this island has transformed from a military dictatorship to a flourishing democracy, the sense that the US should protect this \"plucky little democracy\" in the face of China's threats has only grown.\n\nIt is now increasingly clear that Beijing is not going to be satisfied by venting its anger at Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan with mere words.\n\nThe announcement of six large exclusion zones around the island starting on Thursday, and lasting for four days, is ominous. Beijing did the same thing back in 1996, the last time there was a so called \"Taiwan Straits Crisis\". But then the exclusion zones were all well outside Taiwan's territorial waters.\n\nThis time three of the six zones intrude into Taiwan's 12-mile limit. That is unprecedented. Taiwan's defence ministry has already called the move a breach of UN conventions, and said it amounts to an air and sea blockade against the island.\n\nIf China were to move ships or aircraft into those areas, it would amount to an invasion of Taiwan territory. This makes the stakes much higher as Taiwan may feel compelled to defend its own waters.\n\nThe US Navy is watching all this very closely, and already has the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group sailing nearby in the Philippine Sea.\n\nMs Pelosi is now on her way to South Korea, but the fallout from this trip to Taiwan looks set to rumble on for a while longer - and could even grow in to a major US-China crisis.", "It is the first visit to Wales for either candidate since the contest began\n\nTory leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have vowed to hold the Welsh government to account ahead of an event in Cardiff.\n\nThe pair are facing questions from party members at the only Welsh hustings of the leadership contest.\n\nMr Sunak pledged to hold Labour ministers accountable for the NHS and schools in Wales.\n\nMeanwhile Ms Truss accused First Minister Mark Drakeford of letting Wales down.\n\nWednesday's event in Cardiff marks the first time either has visited Wales since the contest began.\n\nThe new Conservative leader will be declared on 5 September, and will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nOf the contenders Mr Sunak has wider support among MPs and MSs in Wales.\n\nBackers include former Welsh Secretary Simon Hart, Brecon and Radnorshire MP Fay Jones, Montgomeryshire MP Craig Williams and Senedd Tory chief whip Darren Millar.\n\nMs Truss, who is foreign secretary, is supported by Clwyd West MP David Jones and Senedd members Janet Finch Saunders and Laura Anne Jones.\n\nMr Sunak told BBC Wales' Walescast podcast the performance of the Welsh NHS was \"far worse\" than was the case with England's health service and said schools in Wales were funded \"far less\" than they were across the border, despite Wales receiving more public funding.\n\nThe most recent analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, however, concluded spending per pupil was similar in both countries.\n\nLast month, the Education Policy Institute said poorer pupils in Wales were further behind their peers than was the case in England, based on their GCSE results, with Welsh ministers saying they would try to close the \"attainment gap\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak pledged to invest in Wales if he becomes prime minister\n\nThe former chancellor said: \"I support devolution, of course I do, and I want to work constructively with the Welsh government, but I do think it's also right to hold them accountable.\n\n\"I think it's right that we have schools that are properly funded in Wales.\n\n\"I think it's right that we hold the Welsh government to account for the state of the NHS in Wales, with waiting times which are worse than anywhere else in the UK.\"\n\nHe said there should be an \"answer to the question of why NHS performances Wales is far worse than it is elsewhere in the UK\".\n\n\"I think the Welsh people deserve answers to those questions and I think it's perfectly reasonable for the prime minister of the United Kingdom to have a conversation about that and that's what I would like to do.\"\n\nRishi Sunak was greeted on arrival by Michael Howard and a group of Welsh politicians\n\nProtesters gathered in Cardiff ahead of the event\n\nMr Sunak also announced he would make sure Wales would have two freeports, following an announcement in May that it would have at least one after an agreement was reached between the UK and Welsh governments.\n\nFreeport status allows firms to import goods and then export them outside normal tax and customs rules.\n\n\"It's a policy which I created, it's an opportunity we have because of Brexit and it's working across the UK, bringing jobs and investment into areas,\" he said.\n\n\"People really want it and I'd be delighted as prime minister to make sure that Wales has not one but two freeports to bring jobs and investment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss says she “cancelled” her public sector pay policy to make sure doctors and teachers \"weren’t worried”.\n\nBBC Wales requests for an interview with Liz Truss have been declined. In a clip shared among broadcasters, she said Mark Drakeford \"has not delivered for the people of Wales and I will be holding him to account\".\n\nShe said: \"The reality is that Wales has been let down by 20 years of Labour rule.\n\n\"What I am about is about making sure we bring opportunity, investment to Wales, that we back Wales' fantastic farmers, and that's what I'm going to be talking about in the hustings tonight.\"\n\nIn a pre-hustings article for WalesOnline she promised to \"level up Wales in a Conservative way\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the UK \"has the potential to be a high-growth and highly productive powerhouse, with Wales at its heart\" and promised \"full-fat freeports\".\n\nMs Truss said she would work with the Labour Welsh government \"and local communities to identify areas which are ripe for transformation as part of a new investment zone\".\n\nWelsh Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens welcomed the pair to Cardiff, but said: \"Neither Liz Truss nor Rishi Sunak has had anything to say about Wales during this campaign, but their record of 12 years of Tory neglect tells us all we need to know: a high-tax, low-growth economy and the biggest drop in living standards since records began.\"\n\nThe hustings comes a day after Ms Truss initially announced proposals to link public sector pay to local living costs, before later scrapping them.\n\nThe plan had faced criticism from some Conservatives, including Simon Hart, who claimed 430,000 workers in Wales faced a \"near £3,000 pay cut\".\n\n\"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses,\" she said.", "Sanctioned Russian oligarchs from Vladimir Putin's inner circle exploited a UK secrecy loophole left open by the government.\n\nArkady and Boris Rotenberg - judo partners of the Russian president - used a type of company that was not required to identify its real owners.\n\nMinisters have acknowledged concerns that these companies, known as English Limited Partnerships (ELPs), have also been abused by criminals.\n\nA joint investigation by the BBC and Finance Uncovered has discovered evidence linking a number of ELPs to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.\n\nIn 2016 and 2017, the government introduced measures that forced almost all UK companies to identify their real owners. ELPs were not covered by these new transparency laws.\n\nSince then, more than 4,500 of them have been set up.\n\nThe BBC has worked with Finance Uncovered to analyse leaked documents and thousands of company records that show how ELPs have become a route to dodge anti-money laundering laws requiring the real owners, or persons of significant control, of UK companies to be disclosed.\n\nELPs are legitimately used in real estate, investment and pension funds - they have tax advantages, for example, and the amount investors risk is limited.\n\nUnlike most companies, ELPs do not have a separate legal identity. The government says that means they cannot own assets, do not have a beneficial owner, and cannot legally open bank accounts in their own right.\n\nBut our investigation has found documents identifying beneficial owners of ELPs, and evidence of their use to open bank accounts and to facilitate financial crime. According to Graham Barrow, an expert in financial crime, they are also \"vulnerable to misuse\" because of how little information about their activity they are required to make public.\n\nOur data shows the number of new ELPs being set up has gone up by 53% since 2017.\n\n\"I wish I could be shocked about the scale of this, but I'm absolutely not. I'm just depressed and frustrated,\" says Helena Wood, head of the UK Economic Crime Programme at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\nMore than 4,500 ELPs have been created in the five years since the new transparency laws came into effect. In the five years to 2017, 2,950 were set up.\n\nWe have established that among those to take advantage of the secrecy of ELPs are members of President Putin's inner circle.\n\nThese are brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg who were the subject of an investigation by a US Senate committee in 2020. It said they had exploited a global web of shell companies to evade US sanctions imposed following the annexation of Crimea in 2014. These companies were used to buy millions of dollars worth of art.\n\nOne of these companies was an ELP. Sinara Company LP was set up in January 2017 and listed its principal place of business at an address a stone's throw from London's Oxford Circus.\n\nIt claimed to be involved in \"tourism and ticketing services\".\n\nBetween July 2017 and June 2018, it sent \"14 wire transfers in $9,500 increments totalling $133,000\" (£109,000) to an art adviser who the Senate report said \"facilitated purchases for the Rotenbergs\".\n\nUnder UK law, there is no requirement to disclose who was behind Sinara, which was dissolved in 2019.\n\n\"It's a scandal that people like the Rotenbergs who have been sanctioned in America for years have still been able to use British corporate structures to bring their money out of Russia through these structures and then spend it at will,\" says Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who chairs a parliamentary group on tax and corruption.\n\nThe BBC tried to contact the Rotenbergs, but have not received a response.\n\nMost limited partnerships are set up by so-called company formation agents - or presenters - who provide a registered address and administrative support.\n\nThe BBC and Finance Uncovered found that of the 4,500 ELPs formed since 2017, one in four were created by just five UK-based agencies.\n\nThese agencies have track records in creating anonymous UK companies for clients in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of those companies they incorporated have also been linked to financial crimes including money laundering.\n\nCorporate records show the most prolific of these agencies is LAS, run by Elena Dovzhik, an Anglo-Russian accountant, and her Latvian business partner Ineta Utināne. The UK-based businesswomen have made millions from LAS, the activities of which include forming and administering hundreds of anonymous British companies for clients based across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.\n\nA number of companies associated with LAS have subsequently been involved in crime. One, Always Efficient LLP, a firm registered to a London address provided by LAS, was found to be behind BTC-e, the largest Russian-language bitcoin exchange. The exchange was shut down in 2017 by the US Justice Department in relation to allegations of money laundering.\n\nAnd last year the fazze.com website, which used a LAS contact address, was alleged to have run a Russian-coordinated vaccine disinformation campaign, spreading claims that the AstraZeneca vaccine would turn recipients into chimpanzees.\n\nLAS told the BBC that they \"terminated\" their services to Always Efficient LLP \"in 2017 due to their breach of our Terms & Conditions\".\n\nIn relation to fazze.com, LAS say: \"This could be an illegal and unauthorised use of our address services as we do not hold exact or similar details in our historic database.\"\n\nLAS was also responsible for setting up huge numbers of another type of UK company called Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs). A 2017 investigation by Bellingcat, found that LAS was the \"single most prolific presenter of SLPs between 2015 and 2017\".\n\nSLPs at the time did not have to disclose their real owners. But after they were repeatedly linked to major international money laundering scandals, the UK government changed the law so they had to provide information about those who ultimately owned or controlled them. Almost immediately the number of registrations fell by almost half.\n\nAfter this change in the law around SLPs, leaked documents seen by the BBC show LAS switched its attention to ELPs.\n\nIn an emailed update to clients dated 18 May 2017, under the heading \"Alternative Solutions\", LAS proposed ELPs as, \"a way out and as a substitute for Scottish Partnerships\".\n\nThe document, discovered in the Pandora Papers, a data leak obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), continued: \"For the time being, the privileges of this type of partnership are that they are not and will not be subject to the laws of the disclosure of information about the controlling persons.\"\n\nNow our investigation has discovered the involvement of a number of ELPs associated with LAS in alleged criminal activity.\n\nThey include companies, owned by ELP Donnea Business LP, which have been accused of evading tax in Ukraine and another ELP called Cosalima Trade LP controlled by a Russian businessman wanted by the authorities in Russia in relation to a £5m fraud.\n\nLAS boss Elena Dovzhik said: \"We are aware that many years ago we filed registration documents for some companies that eventually were accused in unlawful activities, but such information was not available to us prior (to) registration.\"\n\n\"We (have) never been involved in any business activities of our former clients and only assisted our corporate clients with their company's formation process, mail-forwarding services, (and) statutory filings.\n\n\"We never supported any kind of fraud or illegal activities.\"\n\nShe explained that her firm had \"enhanced due diligence for all international clients\" and \"if any of our clients was ever reported to us as being under suspicion of being involved in unlawful activities… services were terminated with immediate effect\".\n\nBoth Donnea Business LP and Cosalima Trade LP were registered to addresses provided by LAS in London.\n\nCosalima Trade LP was registered at the second floor of 6 Market Place, in premises above an unrelated burrito bar in Fitzrovia, central London.\n\nThis address is home to around 800 active companies. It's one of the most frequently used addresses for ELPs in the country. Over the past five years, more than 240 ELPs have been registered here.\n\nA scrap of paper inserted into a button on the intercom lists just one company at the address - 1000 Apostilles Ltd, which is owned by LAS's Ineta Utināne.\n\nLAS says its \"lease for 6 Market Place expired during this year\".\n\nAnother popular address for ELPs is not in London but in Bristol.\n\n1 Straits Parade in the Fishponds area of the city is now a Turkish barber shop.\n\nIt has also been an address used by Arran, another formation agent, to set up UK companies including 197 ELPs.\n\nCompanies registered at the address have been linked to bribery, fraud and other financial crimes.\n\nOur investigation has discovered that Rivelham LP, an ELP that was registered there in 2013, was also flagged during the FBI inquiry into the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in the US.\n\nRivelham LP was identified in suspicious activity reports produced by Deutsche Bank and handed to federal agents as part of the investigation into financial transactions associated with those responsible for the bombing.\n\nThe reports, from a leak of suspicious activity reports filed with the US Treasury known as the FinCEN Files, do not identify who owned the ELP, but they record its involvement in 116 suspicious transactions totalling over $7.3m (£6m) in just one month between December 2012 and January 2013.\n\nThe BBC tried to contact the owners of Arran but received no response.\n\nWhile addresses like 1 Straits Parade and 6 Market Place may indicate which formation agency has been involved with an ELP, they give little clue as to who is really behind them.\n\nWhile names of the partners of the ELP can be found on paperwork submitted to Companies House, more often than not, the names will be of anonymous companies incorporated in countries including Belize and the Seychelles.\n\nAnd even the real people signing paperwork for those companies are unlikely to be the true owners.\n\nTypically they are nominee, or proxy signatories, paid to sign documents and they usually know nothing about what the company is doing.\n\nOne prolific proxy signatory is Ruth Neidhart, a 71-year-old from Switzerland who lives in Cyprus. She also works as a ceramic artist making porcelain dolls and jewellery, sometimes arranging pottery painting sessions for children's birthday parties.\n\nOur analysis of Company House filings has found since 2016, she has signed paperwork for more than 160 ELPs set up by the company formation agency she has worked for, IOS.\n\nMrs Neidhart did not respond to the BBC's invitation to comment.\n\nThe investigation has also found one of the LAS's most prolific nominees is Alexandru Terna, a Romanian national in his early 30s who lives in London. Mr Terna has signed Companies House paperwork for at least 306 ELPs created by LAS for clients.\n\nResponding to written questions from the BBC, Mr Terna says his involvement was \"arranged through LAS International\" or a related company, \"for and on behalf of owners of all individual companies, with whom we had trustee/nominee service agreements\".\n\nHe adds: \"We have never been involved in the control or management of any company, mentioned in your letters.\"\n\nCampaigners say the BBC's revelations about ELPs show that reform of the UK's legal structures is long overdue.\n\n\"We've been warning the government about these problems with these opaque legal structures for years,\" says Helena Wood of the Royal United Services Institute think tank.\n\n\"Transparency is the best disinfectant they say, and we need a bucket load of it with these English Limited Partnerships.\"\n\nThe failure of successive British governments to shut down major loopholes in anti-money laundering laws stands in contrast to promises made by senior politicians.\n\nAs long ago as 2014 the government considered acting on ELPs but failed to do so. The following year the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, declared he was determined the UK would not become \"a safe haven for corrupt money around the world\".\n\nThe government acknowledged in 2018 that there were risks posed by limited partnerships and \"concerns that they are being abused by criminals following large-scale money laundering scandals\".\n\nAfter the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson said he wanted to \"open up the Matryoshka doll of Russian-owned companies\" to reveal their true owners.\n\nThe government says it does not have any evidence of significant misuse of ELPs. A government spokesperson said: \"The UK already has some of the strongest controls in the world to combat money laundering, and it's vital that we continue to upgrade our governance to crack down on criminals abusing UK corporate entities.\n\n\"That's why we are modernising the law governing UK Limited Partnerships through our forthcoming Economic Crime Bill which will tighten registration requirements and improve transparency - ensuring that only those acting within the law can remain on the UK register.\"\n\nBut those proposals do not appear to include closing the ELP loophole requiring the disclosure of the real owners, or persons of significant control behind the companies.", "It was initially planned that members could choose whether to vote by post or online\n\nBallot papers for the Conservative leadership election have been delayed in being sent out over security fears.\n\nThe party said it had changed its plans for the contest, which will decide the next prime minister, after consulting with security agency GCHQ.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported that GCHQ had warned that hackers could change people's votes.\n\nTory members deciding between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak should get their ballot packs this week, the party said.\n\nAround 160,000 Conservative members are due to elect Boris Johnson's successor, with the winner announced on 5 September.\n\nIt was initially planned that the voting process would have allowed members to choose whether to vote by post or online and then, if they changed their minds, use the alternative method to cancel out their previous vote.\n\nBut after advice from the National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, the Conservative Party has decided to make changes to \"enhance security around the ballot process\".\n\nIn an email sent to members, seen by the BBC, the Conservative Party said that their voting pack was on its way but would \"arrive with you a little later than we originally said... because we have taken some time to add some additional security to our ballot process\".\n\nThe email says that, once the ballot company receives a postal vote, they will deactivate the member's online codes, \"reducing the risk of any fraud\".\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre, the defensive arm of intelligence agency GCHQ, has become increasingly involved in consulting politicians and parties in recent years about cyber security.\n\nRussia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election were a wake-up call that other states were willing to do things like hack into people's accounts and leak information. Russian intelligence was even accused then of getting inside election systems although there was never any evidence that they actually changed any information.\n\nThe Conservative Party's decision to use an unusual voting system in which votes could later be changed clearly created a vulnerability which a foreign state could try to exploit.\n\nSources say there is no evidence of anyone actually trying to do so, but even the theoretical risk that someone could was enough for advice to be issued to change the way the vote takes place.\n\nThe risk that the decision about who becomes prime minister might be contaminated or even questioned left little choice.\n\nThe Telegraph said it understood fears were raised that scores of votes could have been changed by nefarious actors, although there was no specific threat from a hostile state.\n\nA Conservative spokesperson said: \"We have consulted with the NCSC [part of GCHQ] throughout this process and have decided to enhance security around the ballot process. Eligible members will start receiving ballot packs this week.\"\n\nA National Cyber Security Centre spokesperson said: \"Defending UK democratic and electoral processes is a priority for the NCSC and we work closely with all Parliamentary political parties, local authorities and MPs to provide cyber security guidance and support.\n\n\"As you would expect from the UK's national cyber security authority we provided advice to the Conservative Party on security considerations for online leadership voting.\"\n\nIn the email to members the Conservative Party said members who had not received their ballot pack by 11 August should contact the party.\n\nThe pair have been meeting in a series of clashes on television and in front of voters and they will take part in a hustings in Wales later.\n\nMuch of their debates has focused on tax policy, with Ms Truss vowing to scrap a planned rise in National Insurance, while Mr Sunak has said he would cut taxes \"responsibly\" including cutting the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% by the end of the next parliament.\n\nIt has been a mixed few days on the campaign trail for Ms Truss after she received backing from former rival Penny Mordaunt but then was forced to scrap plans to link public sector pay to local living costs following a backlash.\n\nDuring a campaign visit to Ludlow in Shropshire, the foreign secretary again insisted her policy had been \"misrepresented\", but added she had been \"decisive\" in abandoning it.\n\nShe said she \"cancelled\" it because she \"wanted to make sure that our important frontline workers like doctors and teachers weren't worried\".\n\n\"I did it straight away, I was decisive and I was honest with the public about what I was doing.\"\n\nEarlier former Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis, who is backing Ms Truss in the contest, insisted her proposals were \"never at any point about reducing the pay of the public sector workers\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a \"number of people\", including rival Rishi Sunak's campaign team, had been \"extrapolating figures, talking about pay cuts for various people which was never the outline of the policy\".\n\nBut former Brexit Secretary David Davis, who is supporting Mr Sunak, said Ms Truss's team \"didn't think through\" the policy.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"The people who misrepresented them was themselves.\n\n\"This is a dress rehearsal for being a prime minister. You can't afford to make those sorts of judgmental errors.\"\n\nIt comes as a YouGov poll, reported in the Times, suggests Ms Truss had the support of 60% of Tory members, while ex-chancellor Mr Sunak was backed by 26%. The poll was conducted before Ms Truss's backtrack over her public sector pay proposal.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales ahead of the latest hustings event in Cardiff, Mr Sunak brushed aside the poll, saying its findings were \"absolutely not the sense that I'm getting when I'm out and about across the country\", and he was confident he could win.\n\nHe said there were a lot of people who were still to make up their mind, and party members were \"ultimately focused on who is best placed to beat Keir Starmer and the Labour Party in the next general election\".", "Beyoncé updated the songs shortly after acknowledging complaints from disability advocates\n\nBeyoncé has updated her latest album, Renaissance, in response to criticism from fans and the pop star Kelis.\n\nThe song Heated has received a lyrical update, removing a slur that is often used to demean people with spastic cerebral palsy.\n\nIn place of the so-called \"s-word\", Beyoncé now sings \"blast\".\n\nMeanwhile, a reference to Kelis's hit Milkshake has also disappeared from the album, after the singer complained she had not given permission for its use.\n\nThe \"la la la\" hook from Milkshake was originally used in the background of Beyoncé's song Energy. Those vocals have now been erased from the mix.\n\nA drum sample - based either on Milkshake or an earlier Kelis track called Get Along With You - remains integral to the song.\n\nThe updates happened on streaming services including Spotify, Tidal and Apple overnight on Tuesday, just five days after Renaissance was released.\n\nIn a brief glitch, Tidal replaced Energy with a version that only featured the isolated vocals of Beyoncé singing \"la la la\", with the rest of the track remaining silent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by PAPITOˣ⁴ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the time of writing, the original versions remain on YouTube.\n\nIt is also too late to change the vinyl and CD editions of the album - although future pressings may contain the revisions.\n\nBeyoncé came under fire from disability advocates over the weekend for including an ableist slur on Heated, which was co-written by Drake.\n\nIt came just a few weeks after another US pop star, Lizzo, apologised for using the same derogatory term in her song GRRRLS.\n\nBoth Lizzo and Beyoncé said they were unaware of the connotations of the word - whose links to cerebral palsy are less well-known in the US.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Beyoncé's publicist said: \"The word, not used intentionally in a harmful manner, will be replaced in the lyrics\".\n\nThe Kelis story is less clear-cut.\n\nKelis was angry that Beyoncé hadn't sought permission to reference her song Milkshake\n\nThe singer took to social media last week, accusing Beyoncé of \"theft\" after learning her anthem Milkshake had been interpolated on the song Energy (interpolation is when one song references another, without directly sampling it).\n\nKelis said she had not been informed in advance, and that her mind was \"blown\" by the \"level of disrespect\".\n\n\"It's not hard. She can contact me, right?\" Kelis said on Instagram. \"It's common decency.\"\n\nHowever, Beyoncé would not have had to seek Kelis's permission to reference Milkshake, as the singer is not a credited writer on the song and does not own the copyright.\n\nInstead, permission would have been sought from writer/producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo - and Kelis's disagreement is largely with them.\n\nShe has previously accused the duo, professionally known as the Neptunes, of \"lying and tricking\" her into a bad deal, which gave them the rights to her music at the start of her career.\n\n\"I was told we were going to split the whole thing 33/33/33, which we didn't do,\" she told the Guardian in 2020. \"Their argument is, 'Well, you signed it.'\n\n\"I'm like, 'Yeah, I signed what I was told, and I was too young and too stupid to double-check it.'\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BeyoncéVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIn an Instagram video about Beyoncé's song, she confirmed that Pharrell, in particular, was the source of her frustration.\n\n\"Publishing was stolen, people were swindled out of rights. It happens all the time, especially back then. So it's not about me being mad about Beyoncé.\n\n\"Pharrell knows better,\" she added. \"This is a direct hit at me [and] he does this stuff all the time. It's very petty [and] the reason I'm annoyed is because I know it was on purpose.\"\n\nBeyoncé appears to have sided with the singer, by removing the reference to Milkshake - although Pharrell and Chad Hugo still receive a writing credit, presumably for the brief sample of Get Along With You.\n\nMeanwhile, Monica Lewinsky has tweeted a request for Beyoncé to consider adjusting a lyric in her 2013 song Partition, which references her affair with President Clinton.\n\nLinking to a news story about the lyric change on Heated, Lewinsky wrote: \"Uhmm, while we're at it... #Partition\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Monica Lewinsky (she/her) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAsked if she had ever mentioned the song to Beyoncé's team, Lewinsky replied: \"No, I haven't. I did mention it in the first Vanity Fair article I wrote in 2014, which was the first public thing I'd done in 10 years. But you make an interesting point.\"\n\nIt is not unusual for musicians to update albums after release in the streaming era.\n\nKanye West, a former Beyoncé collaborator, has turned it into an artform. In 2016, on the day he released his seventh album The Life Of Pablo, he tweeted: \"Im'a fix Wolves\" - referring to one of the album's key songs.\n\nA month later, the original version of the track was replaced, featuring new vocals from Australian pop star Sia. Frank Ocean's contribution to the song was then separated out, and given it's own track on the album, simply known as Frank's Track.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carole Packman disappeared in 1985 aged 40 and her body has never been found\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has said it is \"deeply sorry\" that a murderer's parole dates were given to a local newspaper before the victim's family.\n\nRussell Causley was freed in 2020 for the 1980s murder of his wife Carole Packman in Bournemouth but was recalled to jail last November.\n\nMs Packman's family had been chasing details for 79-year-old Causley's latest parole hearing for weeks.\n\nBut they first had to read about it in a Bournemouth Daily Echo article.\n\nRussell Causley was jailed for fraud after a botched attempt to fake his own death\n\nIn a statement released to the BBC, an MoJ spokesman said: \"We are deeply sorry for the distress this has caused Carole's family and are working closely with the Parole Board to make sure this kind of error doesn't happen again.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Neil Gillingham, the grandson of Causley and Ms Packman, said they also wanted to know what the killer's licence breach had been so suitable parole statements could be prepared.\n\nThe licence conditions were understood to place restrictions on locations he could visit, including areas where Causley previously told fellow inmates he had hidden his wife's body.\n\nMr Gillingham, 32, said: \"If people are asking whether I think my grandfather should be released, my opinion would change hugely and differ completely depending on the licence breach.\"\n\nCausley, who worked alongside his wife in the aviation industry, was caught out as a murderer after a botched attempt to fake his own death as part of an elaborate insurance fraud in the early 1990s.\n\nHis daughter has since revealed how Causley subjected her and her mother to physical and psychological abuse, as well as moving his lover into the matrimonial home.\n\nMr Gillingham described his grandfather as \"cunning\" and said Causley used parole hearings as \"a platform to continue to viciously and psychologically attack my mother and I\".\n\nCausley had been having regular parole hearings since becoming eligible for release in 2012.\n\nNeil Gillingham said not knowing what happened to his grandmother's remains has been \"draining psychologically\"\n\n\"The pain and the trauma and the length of the fight is taking its toll - not only on mum but also on me and I have no doubt on Russell Causley too,\" Mr Gillingham said.\n\n\"It could all be relieved in a heartbeat if he had a backbone and spoke up and did the honourable, decent thing [by telling us where the body is].\"\n\nHelen's Law gained royal assent in 2020 after a campaign by the mother of murder victim Helen McCourt. It places a legal duty on the Parole Board to consider the anguish caused by murderers who refuse to disclose the location of a victim's body.\n\nHowever, Mr Gillingham said the legislation was a \"law with no teeth\" and has failed to fulfil its aim of keeping killers like Causley incarcerated.\n\nCarole was an aeronautical draughtswoman and travelled the world\n\n\"I said he couldn't behave himself and guess what? It's no surprise he's now back behind bars and we're back on the rollercoaster of parole hearing after parole hearing,\" said Mr Gillingham.\n\nAn MoJ spokesperson said Helen's Law meant judges could impose tougher sentences on murderers who conceal their victim's remains but that a \"no body, no parole\" law would have likely been \"successfully challenged in the courts\".\n\n\"There are also practical problems in that such a proposal may have incentivised offenders to lie, thus compounding a family's pain,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nA Parole Board spokesperson said it was \"not standard practice\" for the details of a licence breach to be revealed.\n\nCausley's parole hearing could be one of the first in UK history to be held in public.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Davy's twin brother Tommy Zyw helping him zip up his cycling shirt\n\nWhen he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) at the age of 30, Davy Zyw did not think he would still be alive four years later.\n\nBut next week the 34-year-old will attempt to complete a 260-mile continuous cycle along some of Scotland's highest roads.\n\n\"This challenge is difficult for a fit person let alone someone who has MND,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I'm scared. It's a step into the unknown and I'm not sure how my body will react.\n\nDavy, from Edinburgh, said the route - which has been dubbed the High Five - would be a real test of endurance.\n\n\"This challenge has never been done before and I think only now am I coming to terms with the gravity of it,\" he said.\n\nDavy was snowboarding in Canada when his MND symptoms started\n\n\"My health is deteriorating, but I'm still cycling.\n\n\"I don't know how many more chances I'll have to do something like this again.\"\n\nDavy had first noticed that something was wrong when his thumb stopped working while on a snowboarding holiday in Canada.\n\nHe was told it was probably carpal tunnel syndrome, but after further tests back home in the UK he was diagnosed with MND.\n\nDavy had been working as a wine expert in London, so moved back to Edinburgh to be with his family.\n\nHe kept his condition secret for the first two years.\n\nDavy moved back to Edinburgh with his wife Yvie and his son Alek\n\n\"I wanted to live my best life rather than shouting it from the rooftops,\" he said.\n\n\"By telling people, I would have to relive the diagnosis.\n\n\"But after two years I came out and now I'm turning this into a positive by deciding to do this cycle.\"\n\nDavy said he was lucky to be in a position to take on the challenge.\n\n\"When I was first diagnosed I didn't think I'd be alive in four years,\" he said.\n\n\"The statistics show MND kills a third of people within a year, and more than half within two years of their diagnosis.\n\n\"I'm not dead yet, so every day is a good day. I want to make the most of every second I have.\n\n\"I'm getting worse so there is an urgency to do this now. Today is my best day, so I can't wait.\"\n\nWine expert Davy Zyw before he started losing the dexterity in his hands\n\nThe father-of-one now has very little movement in his hands and little strength in his arms.\n\n\"My left hand, left arm, shoulders, and now my right arm are beginning to fail me,\" he said.\n\nWith his fingers now unable to operate regular gears, Davy will use an adapted bike with electric gears on the challenge.\n\nHe said the condition was like being under water, having less dexterity and less strength.\n\n\"This is the cruellest disease you can think of. It rewires your brain and changes your personality. Your muscles waste and you lose bodily functions.\n\n\"MND is incurable, degenerative and paralysing. It strips you of your nerve cells, which means your muscles waste away and can never be built up again.\n\n\"But I'm still full of life.\"\n\nMND is a serious and complex condition affecting the brain and nerves.\n\nStatistically, one in every 300 people will contract MND in their lifetime. It involves the progressive loss of bodily functions such as mobility, communication, swallowing and breathing, and eventually leads to death.\n\nLife expectancy from diagnosis on average is around three years, but some can live for 10, and in very rare cases even longer - it depends on where in the body the disease appears.\n\nWhile there are more than 400 people living with MND in Scotland, this is not because the disease is rare, it is because life expectancy after diagnosis is so short.\n\nThe High Five challenge will start on 11 August at Killin on Loch Tay and finish on the top of the Bealach na Ba, near Applecross in Wester Ross.\n\nThe route takes in the five highest passes in Scotland, at Ben Lawyers, Glenshee, Tomintoul, Cairngorm Mountain, and the Bealach na Ba and has more than 19,000ft of climbing.\n\nDavy will be joined on the challenge by his twin brother Tommy Zyw, their 29-year-old brother Sorley Richardson, and a group of five friends.\n\n\"I'm so glad I'm doing this with my brothers and friends. There have been some dark times in recent years, and there will be some dark times on the bike, but they always lift me up with laughter,\" he said.\n\nDavy, who still works as a wine expert and author, said he needed to train for up to 10 hours at a time for the challenge.\n\nHe said his wife Yvie had been \"hugely supportive and understanding\" of the preparation which was required.\n\nDavy is raising money for the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, which was set up by former rugby player Doddie Weir after he was diagnosed with MND in 2017.\n\nThe foundation's CEO, Jill Douglas, said: \"Davy is an inspiration - I'm not sure people quite appreciate how unbelievable this challenge would be for anyone.\n\n\"Like Doddie, he is giving so much of his precious time to create hope and help raise funds that we hope will one day end MND.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is second in line for the presidency\n\nUS House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan, defying warnings from China and concerns from the White House. But she has a long history of criticising the Chinese government.\n\nMost famously in 1991, two years after large-scale protests in Beijing were crushed by the Chinese government, she visited Tiananmen Square and displayed a banner honouring the deceased demonstrators.\n\nFor its part, the Chinese government has made no secret of its disdain for Ms Pelosi, once labelling her \"full of lies and disinformation\".\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province, and has not ruled out using force to unify it. It deploys significant pressure to dissuade other countries from recognising Taiwan's independence.\n\nBefore her visit, China warned of serious consequences if Ms Pelosi went to Taiwan.\n\nShe is second in line for the presidency after Vice-President Kamala Harris, and would be the most senior US politician to travel to the island since her predecessor Newt Gingrich in 1997.\n\nHer plans to visit the island were kept under wraps - however rumours were circulating about the plan, prompting the Chinese warnings. Her Asian tour also includes visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.\n\nThis leg of the trip is not backed by US President Joe Biden, and with US-China tensions continuing to run high, even White House officials reportedly tried to dissuade her. Mr Biden recently told reporters \"the military thinks it's not a good idea\".\n\nTwo years after protestors were crushed by Communist Party forces in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the then-California representative visited the capital city.\n\nSlipping away from her official escorts along with two other members of Congress, she went to the city square without the permission of her Chinese hosts.\n\nThere, they unfurled a small, hand-painted banner which read: \"To those who died for democracy in China.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nancy Pelosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe police closed in quickly, roughing up reporters who were covering the event and chasing the lawmakers out of the square.\n\nChina's Foreign Ministry later denounced the incident as a \"premeditated farce\".\n\nSome criticised Ms Pelosi's actions during that visit. Former CNN Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy that she was the reason he got arrested at the scene.\n\nMr Chinoy said he was not aware of what Ms Pelosi planned to do at the square, and was detained for several hours as the police were unable to target a visiting foreign dignitary.\n\n\"It was my first experience with Pelosi's penchant for high-profile gestures designed to poke China's communist rulers in the eye - regardless of the consequences,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mike Chinoy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Pelosi, who also helped lead a resolution condemning China's actions in 1989, has continued to speak out about the \"massacre\" of demonstrators over the years.\n\nMost recently, she issued a statement to mark the 33rd anniversary of the protests this year, calling the demonstrations \"one of the greatest acts of political courage\" and slamming the Communist Party's \"oppressive regime\".\n\nAt a meeting with then-Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao in 2002, Ms Pelosi tried to pass him four letters expressing concern over the detention and imprisonment of activists in China and Tibet, and calling for their release.\n\nSeven years later, Ms Pelosi reportedly hand-delivered another letter to him - by then President of China - calling for the release of political prisoners including prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo.\n\nLiu was named the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize but was not allowed to travel to Norway to accept the award. He died of cancer in 2017 while still in Chinese custody.\n\nMs Pelosi has opposed China's bids to host the Olympic Games as far back as 1993 on the basis of its alleged human rights abuses.\n\nShe was one of the lawmakers that unsuccessfully urged then-US President George W Bush to boycott China's Summer Olympics opening ceremony in 2008.\n\nThis year, the Speaker of the House again led calls for a \"diplomatic boycott\" of Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China.\n\n\"For heads of state to go to China in light of a genocide that is ongoing - while you're sitting there in your seat - really begs the question, what moral authority do you have to speak again about human rights any place in the world?\" she said.\n\nIn response, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington said US politicians were in no position to make \"wanton groundless criticism\" against China.\n\nOver the years, Ms Pelosi has also pushed for China's trade status to be linked to its human rights record, and to attach conditions to China's entry to the World Trade Organization.\n\nThe policy has been controversial: Mr Bush vetoed legislation related to this several times, while former President Bill Clinton initially supported but later abandoned it, saying broader American strategic interests justified the reversal.", "Gannets in Norway nesting in plastic ropes and fishing gear\n\nBirds from every continent except Antarctica have been photographed nesting or tangled in our rubbish.\n\nPhotos were submitted by people from all over the world to an online project called Birds and Debris.\n\nThe scientists running the project say they see birds ensnared - or nesting - in everything from rope and fishing line to balloon ribbon and a flip-flop.\n\nNearly a quarter of the photographs show birds nesting or entangled in disposable face masks.\n\nThe focus of the project is on capturing the impact of waste - particularly plastic pollution - on the avian world.\n\nMary Caporal Prior in the US captured this image of a mallard with a mask around its neck\n\n\"Basically, if a bird builds a nest using long fibrous materials - like seaweed, branches or reeds - the chances are it will have human debris in its nest somewhere,\" said Dr Alex Bond from the Natural History Museum in London, and one of the researchers involved.\n\nThe project, which he and his colleagues have been running for four years, aims to draw attention to the widespread problem of plastic waste in the environment.\n\nPigeons nesting on a building site in Sussex make use of discarded cable ties\n\n\"When you start looking for this stuff, you'll see it everywhere,\" he said. \"And this has really illustrated the huge geographic scope - we had reports from Japan , Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK, North America - it's truly a global issue.\"\n\nIn a recent study, the team looked into how many of the photos being submitted feature pandemic-related personal protective equipment (PPE). They found that it featured in almost a quarter of the photographs submitted.\n\nMasks, like this one on a black bittern in Singapore, are the most common pandemic-related items in the photographs\n\n\"It's almost all masks,\" said Dr Bond. \"And if you think of the different materials a surgical mask is made from - there's the elastic that we see tangled around birds' legs or we might see birds injured by trying to ingest the fabric or the hard piece of plastic that secures it over your nose.\n\n\"So we use this catch-all term of 'plastic' but it's a whole range of different polymers, and masks are a good example of that.\"\n\nMany birds, like this American robin found in April 2020, are seen tangled in the elastic straps of masks\n\nThe researchers say they want to highlight the \"systemic problem\" that leads to so much debris ending up in the environment.\n\nLead researcher Justine Ammendolia from Dalhousie University in Canada told BBC News that seeing the breadth of the impact on species globally was \"devastating\".\n\n\"In April of 2020, the first sighting of a bird hanging from a facemask in a tree was recorded from Canada and the sightings just internationally cascaded afterwards, \" she said. \"It really just demonstrates the harm that humans are capable of imposing on the environment in a very short window of time across the world.\"\n\nThis coot in the Netherlands is difficult to spot amid all the rubbish in its nest\n\n\"Changing to a bamboo toothbrush or a canvas shopping bag is not going to save the world, [because] most large-scale plastic production today is commercial and industrial,\" said Dr Bond.\n\n\"So it's a combination of top-down policies and bottom-up pressure for us to say 'enough is enough'.\"\n\nPhD researcher Justine Ammendolia added: \"For people seeing these images for the first time, it's alright to feel sad. But we need to learn from the unnecessary and often invisible suffering that some wildlife experienced during the pandemic.\n\n\"I hope people use their sadness to fuel their demand for action.\"\n\nThe researchers say we need to learn from the often invisible suffering of wildlife\n\nDr Bond likened the global action required to address plastic pollution to the Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-depleting chemicals - a treaty widely considered to be one of the most successful global agreements ever signed.\n\n\"We need the same thing with plastic pollution, and we're moving in that direction, but just very, very slowly.\"", "Charmaine O'Donnell suffered neck injuries and drowned after she was pushed into the water\n\nA 29-year-old man has been found guilty of killing a stranger by picking her up and then pushing her off a pier.\n\nJacob Foster attacked Charmaine O'Donnell at Helensburgh Pier, in Argyll and Bute, in April 2021.\n\nJurors at the High Court in Glasgow heard Ms O'Donnell, 25, suffered severe neck injuries and drowned after she was pushed into the water.\n\nHer family said her death had \"changed our lives forever\", but that justice had now been served.\n\nFoster, who had denied murder, was convicted of culpable homicide after a trial.\n\nHis lawyers had lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility, saying he had an \"abnormality of mind\" at the time. Foster, from Helensburgh, suffers from a learning disability.\n\nJacob Foster told a police officer at the scene that it was \"just a bit of fun\"\n\nThe trial heard that Ms O'Donnell had gone to Helensburgh with a friend, Caitlin McTaggart, on 23 April last year to enjoy the good weather.\n\nThe pair began chatting to three men fishing and Ms McTaggart, 25, said it appeared Foster was trying to get involved in the conversation.\n\nShe told the court that neither she nor Ms O'Donnell knew him.\n\nThe jurors heard there had then been a \"commotion\" when Ms O'Donnell was pushed over the railings at the pier and someone shouted to Ms McTaggart: \"That's your pal.\"\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice QC asked Ms McTaggart: \"Did you say anything to Jacob?\"\n\nShe replied: \"I was screaming at him to help her. He just kept saying: 'What have I done? I have taken it too far this time. I am going away for a long time'.\"\n\nCulpable homicide is the term used in Scots law for an offence where someone caused the death of another person by acting unlawfully but with no intention to kill.\n\nIt is different to murder where there is criminal intention, and from causing death by an accident where no-one can be blamed.\n\nThey could, for example, have assaulted someone in an attempt to injure them, but not to kill them.\n\nThere must also not have been \"wicked recklessness\" - which is usually based on the actions of the accused and the severity of the injuries suffered by the victim.\n\nDeaths can also be treated as culpable homicide rather than murder if the accused was found to be of \"diminished responsibility\" because of some mental illness, or where there was provocation.\n\nAnyone convicted of murder in Scotland automatically faces a life sentence, but there is no such rule for culpable homicide and people convicted of it are not always jailed.\n\nThe equivalent offence in England and Wales is manslaughter.\n\nStephen Cairns, who was one of the men fishing that day, told the court he remembered speaking to the women and Foster also being there.\n\nThe 42-year-old told jurors Ms O'Donnell had been standing at the railings on the edge of the pier at one stage.\n\nHe added: \"I turned around and saw the accused pushing the girl over the railing.\n\n\"He pushed her with both hands.\"\n\nMs McTaggart called 999 to get help and emergency services were sent to the scene.\n\nPC Gary Davidson told the court that Foster had been \"quite agitated and talking a lot\" when he arrived at the pier.\n\nThe officer said Foster had told him: \"I just pushed her, it was just a bit of fun.\"\n\nPolice and paramedics were sent to the scene but were unable to save Ms O'Donnell\n\nThe trial also heard from several teenagers who tried to help Ms O'Donnell after she was pushed into the water.\n\nOne of them said he had noticed the woman's shoe floating in the water and \"a bit of blood\".\n\nFoster's lawyers had claimed that because of his mental health issues he had misunderstood an alleged remark Ms O'Donnell made about going into the water.\n\nSean Templeton, defending, had asked for Foster to be completely acquitted, saying: \"It was a young man with learning difficulties who got it wrong.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, it emerged Foster had a number of previous convictions, including assaulting a staff member at a Costa coffee shop in Helensburgh in 2018.\n\nMr Prentice told the court Ms O'Donnell had been on furlough from her job as an assistant manager at a British Heart Foundation shop. She was due to return a week after she died.\n\nLord Fairley said in the \"very unusual circumstances\" of the case he would continue bail and adjourned for reports.\n\nMs O'Donnell was pushed over the railings on the pier\n\nThe advocate depute said: \"It is clear she was much loved and her death has brought untold and continuing grief.\n\n\"She was described as a loving and selfless person.\"\n\nMs O'Donnell's mother, Jacqueline Gallacher, 50, and stepfather William King, 54, said they believed the jury had reached the right verdict.\n\n\"The past 15 months have been the most difficult time we have ever had to face,\" they said.\n\n\"Losing Charmaine has changed our lives forever. We will never be the same again. Our hearts have been broken.\n\n\"She had her whole life ahead of her. She had a great personality and sense of humour, warming the hearts of all who met her.\"\n\nMike Taylor, commercial director at the British Heart Foundation, said fellow workers at the charity were \"devastated about the tragic death of our treasured colleague Charmaine O'Donnell\".\n\nHe added: \"Charmaine made an incredible contribution to the BHF over many years, rising from apprentice to assistant manager of our Glasgow Union Street shop, and was an integral member of our team.\n\n\"We're continuing to support all our colleagues and volunteers through this extremely difficult time, and our thoughts are with Charmaine's friends and family.\"", "The price of petrol fell in July, knocking nearly £5 off the cost of filling a tank, according to the RAC.\n\nAverage petrol prices dropped by nearly 9p over the month to 182.69p per litre, while diesel fell by almost 7p to 192.38p per litre.\n\nBut the motoring group warned the reductions still don't fairly reflect the fall in the wholesale price of fuel.\n\nIt said major retailers should be cutting pump prices much further.\n\nFuel prices have soared in recent months, driven by the war in Ukraine and moves to reduce Europe's dependence on oil from Russia, a major supplier.\n\nWith food and energy bills also surging, many households are feeling financial strain.\n\nWholesale petrol prices peaked at the start of June, but have since fallen as the price of oil has dropped back. Fears of a recession in the US and elsewhere have hit demand for oil, and the price of Brent crude - the international benchmark for oil - has fallen to around $100 a barrel, after soaring when Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe RAC said nearly £5 was shaved off the cost of a 55-litre tank of petrol in July, from £105.29 down to £100.48, as retailers lowered their prices.\n\nThe cost of filling up a diesel tank dropped by £3.68 over the month.\n\nThese are the third and fourth biggest monthly reductions, respectively, in the last 20 years.\n\nHowever, the RAC says the falls are still too slow, given the significant reductions in the wholesale price of fuel.\n\nWholesale petrol prices have fallen by 20p over the last eight weeks, whereas the average price paid for unleaded by drivers has only dropped by 9p in July.\n\nBased on average wholesale prices last week, the RAC says petrol should be around 167p per litre, not 183p.\n\nIt warned that the failure of major retailers to slash petrol pump prices in line with the fall in wholesale costs of unleaded is costing drivers, who are paying nearly £9 a tank more than they should be.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the biggest retailers should have \"cut their prices more significantly on a daily basis\", given the steady and consistent fall in the wholesale price of petrol.\n\nHe said their unwillingness to do this made July \"an unnecessarily tough month for drivers\".\n\nHowever, some fuel analysts argue that is not a fair comparison.\n\n\"Over the last eight weeks, prices have jumped around; it's understandable if retailers have tried to smooth those differences out in their prices,\" said Steve Irwin, director at Portland Analytics.\n\n\"There is often a lag between wholesale prices dropping and a drop in prices at the pump. I expect we will see further price drops in petrol in forecourts over the next week or so of a further 5, 6 or even 7p a litre.\"\n\nWhile the drop in petrol prices is good news for drivers, Mr Irwin warned it is not necessarily a good sign for the economy.\n\n\"The market is clearly worried about a downturn, with people cutting back this autumn and winter, and that is being factored into the wholesale price,\" he said.\n\n\"If signs of that downturn don't materialise, prices may go back up again. If the market thinks they are, they could fall further.\"", "The name of the dating app has not been made public by the police\n\nPolice in Nigeria have urged victims of a same-sex dating app scam to come forward to give evidence.\n\nBut they have refused to offer them the assurance of an amnesty in a country that criminalises gay relationships.\n\nPeople can face up to 10 years in jail for being part of anything considered a gay social club or group - and up to 14 years if in a same-sex relationship.\n\nOn Sunday, six people were arrested for allegedly blackmailing those who signed up to the gay dating app.\n\nIts name has not been made public by the police in the central state of Nasarawa, which is investigating the case.\n\nThe arrests were made after someone complained that he had been blackmailed - police say the fraudsters threatened to publish nude photos of him on social media unless he paid them some money.\n\nThe suspects detained in a sting operation on Sunday have since confessed to luring at least eight people from around the country on a date and then taking them hostage, the police say.\n\nTheir modus operandi has been to beat up their victims until they give their pin numbers.\n\n\"Their bank account is then wiped out before they are let go,\" police spokesperson Ramhan Nansel said.\n\nInitial investigations have confirmed that up to $3,260 (£2,700) has been extorted from eight people - but the police suspect more may have fallen victim to the scam.\n\nMr Nansel told the BBC he understood that people might fear they could get into trouble if they came forward to the police, but it was not up to him to offer an amnesty.\n\nIt is not clear if the first complainant will face prosecution - this was something the police commissioner would have to decide, the police spokesperson said.\n\nBut the police did intend to pursue a case against those behind the fake match-making app, he said.\n\nThe LGBTQ+ community in Nigeria faces a huge amount of discrimination - and often face threats and blackmail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gay in Nigeria: 'Everybody sees me as an abomination'", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland's European champions have urged the Conservative party leadership candidates to ensure \"every young girl\" can play football at school.\n\nThe women's team beat Germany 2-1 at Wembley on Sunday to lift their first major trophy.\n\nIt was also England's first since the men won the 1966 World Cup.\n\nIn an open letter to Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, the 23-member Euro 2022 squad said: \"This is an opportunity to make a huge difference.\"\n\n\"A change that will impact millions of young girls' lives,\" they added. \"We ask you to make it a priority to invest into girls' football in schools, so that every girl has the choice.\"\n\nThe team highlighted only 63% of girls can play football in PE lessons, according to a Football Association (FA) campaign published last year.\n\nThey also asked that all girls should have access to a minimum of two hours a week in PE.\n\nA report by England Football, part of the FA, claimed that only 44% of secondary schools in England offer girls equal access to football in PE lessons.\n• None Sports Desk podcast: Can Euro 2022 win really change the game?\n• None England set out to inspire the nation - Kelly\n\nA campaign spokesperson for Sunak said he had been inspired by the team and had already said he would launch a review \"to make sure that all women and girls have the opportunity to take part in the beautiful game\".\n\nA spokesperson for Truss said England's Euros success would have a lasting impact on women's football and she would investigate \"what prevents schools from delivering the recommended minimum of two hours PE per week\".\n\nThe Lionesses added: \"Throughout the Euros, we as a team spoke about our legacy and goal to inspire a nation. Many will think this has already been achieved but we see this only as the beginning.\n\n\"We are looking to the future. We want every young girl in the nation to be able to play football at school.\n\n\"We have made incredible strides in the women's game but this generation of schoolgirls deserve more. We want their dreams to also come true.\n\n\"We want to create real change in this country and we are asking you, if you were to become Prime Minister on 5 September, to help us achieve that change.\"\n\nThe team celebrated their Euros triumph in front of 7,000 fans at Trafalgar Square on Monday and the Queen led tributes by sending a message of congratulations in which she called them \"an inspiration\".\n\nEngland and Manchester City forward Chloe Kelly, who scored the winning goal against Germany, said the Lionesses had set out to \"inspire the nation\".\n\nKelly grew up playing cage football with her five brothers and their friends, while also playing in the boys' school football team and at QPR.\n\n\"You also want to be in an environment where you are comfortable and that is massive for young girls,\" she told BBC sports editor Dan Roan.\n\n\"There will be a massive turning point from this summer. The girls, as a group, we want to make a change and if we can do that, that is massive.\n\n\"Girls being able to do what they love, no matter the quality, let's go and play.\"\n\nWhile football is the most popular team sport for young people in England, only a third of girls aged five to 18 participate each week, according to research by the FA.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said it was up to schools to decide which sports to offer pupils, but they should offer \"comparable activities\" to girls and boys.\n\nEngland's national curriculum is not gender specific and lists football only as an example sport, alongside others such as badminton, cricket and netball.\n\nFigures published by the FA, which is running a LetGirlsPlay campaign to give girls the same access to football as boys in schools and clubs by 2024, show that while 72% of primary schools offered equal football coaching to boys and girls last year, this fell to just 44% in secondary schools.\n\nIts research found 60% of the girls who play football in schools want to play more and 91% of girls who do not play want the opportunity to do so.\n\n\"We fully support the Football Association's ambition to give girls equal access to football in schools and clubs by 2024 and continue to work closely with them to help achieve this,\" said a DfE spokesperson.\n\n\"We're funding work to help thousands of girls take part in physical activity, including the 'Your Time' Programme, which gives thousands of girls aged 8-16 access to competitive sport and sport leadership opportunities.\"", "A woman in north London says she feels victimised after dozens of tourists turned up at her home when her private address was placed on the Booking.com accommodation website.\n\nTravellers from Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Los Angeles turned up at the home of Gillian, whose full name is not being given, throughout July.\n\nShe had to turn them away and told Booking.com it was a scam.\n\nThe firm said her home had now been \"completely removed\" from its site.\n\nGillian told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme that on 4 July she was surprised by unexpected visitors to her home.\n\n\"Someone knocked on my door. I opened it and it was this poor, very tired woman, presumably from Hong Kong, her daughter at the end of the gate, with hundreds of cases, it seemed to me, obviously [they had] just come from the airport.\n\n\"They said they'd booked my house with Booking.com.\n\n\"I said, 'No you haven't, because it's not on Booking.com'. I've never let this house.\n\n\"She looked aghast and I said, 'You'll just have to go back to them. I'm sorry, there's some misunderstanding'.\n\n\"A few hours later I had about three or four people visiting knocking on my door saying they'd booked my house with Booking.com.\n\n\"They came from all over the world: Australians who'd just arrived, there were some people from Saudi Arabia, some people from the north of England, and I just couldn't believe it.\"\n\nThe pair from Hong Kong were the first of about 100 people who thought they had reserved Gillian's property through the booking website, arriving there between 4 and 29 July.\n\nOn 5 July, Gillian reported to Booking.com that droves of people were coming to her house and the listing was eventually pulled six days later.\n\nBut Gillian said she had 23 groups of people turn up at her house throughout the month.\n\n\"It was obviously a scam, and someone had used my address. I felt so sorry for those tourists knocking on my door. All I could do was send them away.\n\n\"I feel very worried about it. They're very nice people, but perhaps one day we might get some people knocking on the door who actually are quite aggressive. I feel very vulnerable.\"\n\nJo Duckenfield had booked Gillian's home as they planned to see Lady Gaga at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium\n\nGillian found the listing for her address on the website but the pictures were from an entirely different property, in Chelsea, and had been unlawfully copied from a legitimate accommodation site.\n\nJo Duckenfield and her daughter, Olivia, were two of the tourists who turned up at Gillian's home to stay on a weekend away from their home in Portsmouth.\n\nThey had booked on 13 July and were planning to attend the Lady Gaga concert at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.\n\n\"I started looking around for somewhere to stay [and] found this flat on Booking.com,\" Ms Duckenfield said.\n\nShe said she had queried the status of the property on the morning of arrival with Booking.com, and had been assured it would be fine.\n\nMs Duckenfield said: \"I won't use them again, ever.\"\n\nGillian said she had 23 groups of tourists turn up in July to stay in London\n\nA spokesperson for Booking.com said: \"We take safety and security very seriously, and every week, we facilitate millions of stays with the vast majority taking place with absolutely no problems.\n\n\"Scams are unfortunately a battle many industries are facing against unscrupulous fraudsters looking to take advantage and it is something we are tackling head on.\n\n\"We can confirm this property has been completely removed from our site and all customers are being contacted by a member of our customer service team to apologise and offer any support required in relation to refunds, relocations and additional fees, as well as of course extending our apologies to the homeowner.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Betsi Cadwaladr health board said the move was down to \"operational challenges\"\n\nA second English hospital is to take some of north Wales' vascular patients due to the service's \"fragility\".\n\nSome already go to Liverpool for surgery but now more could go to Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's vascular services are at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, under Welsh government targeted intervention following criticism.\n\nThe board said it faced \"operational challenges\" caused by staff sickness and recruitment problems.\n\nPatients are already sometimes sent from Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, to Liverpool.\n\nIn March, it was announced four more emergency procedures each week would take place at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nThat decision followed staff shortages at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, as well as two \"concerning incidents\".\n\nHealth minister Eluned Morgan said patient safety concerns were raised last month by an oversight panel and measures were put in place for aortic patients.\n\nShe added: \"There are immediate operational pressures due to consultant availability and nurse staffing in vascular services within the health board.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said it was \"necessary to ensure a sustainable and safe provision\" in vascular services\n\nThe \"fragility of the service\" had led the health board to consider contingency plans.\n\nMs Morgan said: \"An agreement has been reached that, during August, some patients may be transferred to Royal Liverpool University Hospital or, as already happens for north Wales residents with major trauma injuries, Royal Stoke University Hospital.\"\n\nThe agreement with Royal Stoke University Hospital meant there would be extra capacity available if needed.\n\nMs Morgan said it was \"necessary to ensure a sustainable and safe provision, in particular in relation to vascular services in north Wales\".\n\nExecutive medical director Dr Nick Lyons said there were \"operational challenges\"\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr's executive medical director, Dr Nick Lyons, said: \"These contingency plans recognise the operational challenges we are experiencing due to staff sickness absence combined with recruitment difficulties.\"\n\nThere were, he said, concerns about \"a small number\" of vascular surgical cases.\n\n\"We expect these arrangements to remain in place until we are assured that the service is deliverable, robust and sustainable,\" he said.", "It is clear now that Beijing is not going to be satisfied by venting its anger at Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan with mere words, or even some targeted sanctions on Taiwan companies.\n\nThe announcement of six large exclusion zones around Taiwan starting on Thursday, and lasting for four days, has the potential to turn this into a full-scale crisis.\n\nBeijing did the same thing back in 1996, the last time there was a so called “Taiwan Straits Crisis”. But then the exclusion zones were all well outside Taiwan’s territorial waters.\n\nThis time three of the six zones intrude into Taiwan’s 12-mile limit. That is unprecedented.\n\nTaiwan’s defence ministry has already called the move a breach of UN conventions, and said it amounts to an air and sea blockade against the island.\n\nIf China were to move ships or aircraft into those areas, it would amount and invasion of Taiwan territory. This makes the stakes much higher as Taiwan may feel compelled to defend its own territorial waters.\n\nThe US Navy is watching all of this very closely, and already has the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group sailing nearby in the Philippine Sea.\n\nIn 1996 the then US President Bill Clinton moved two carrier battle groups close to Taiwan, to make it clear the US was ready to intervene if China attacked the island.\n\nBut the military balance today is very different from 1996. China has its own carrier battle groups, both of which are reported to be heading towards the Taiwan Strait.", "The four friends, who had no prior experience of ocean rowing, beat last year's record holders from the UK.", "The National Eisteddfod is an annual festival that is held in a different location each year\n\nThe decision to offer only oat milk smoothies on a stand at the National Eisteddfod has been criticised, as the event is taking place on a dairy farm.\n\nThe event hosted by Ceredigion council in Tregaron, with the local authority giving the smoothies on its Pentref Ceredigion stand.\n\nCeredigion council is now offering a dairy and non-dairy option to visitors at the cultural festival.\n\nIt said oat milk smoothies were originally the only option due to so many children being allergic or having intolerance to dairy milk.\n\nNFU Cymru President Aled Jones said: \"The National Eisteddfod is a celebration of Wales' language, culture and heritage and agriculture is an integral part of the fabric of rural communities in Wales.\n\n\"We were extremely disappointed to learn that Ceredigion County Council was only offering children visiting its Pentref Ceredigion stand oat drink smoothies.\"\n\nHe described the decision not to offer milk \"perplexing\" considering the fact the National Eisteddfod is at \"a prominent dairy farm in the heart of a rural community\".\n\nNFU Cymru representatives met council officials at the National Eisteddfod on Wednesday, with a follow-up meeting planned for after the event.\n• None Complaints over 'worst ever' toilets at festival", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Scotland's Eilish McColgan earned hugely popular Commonwealth Games titles on the loudest night yet at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium.\n\nJohnson-Thompson's heptathlon win marks her return to the top of an international podium after three years of injury and coaching changes.\n\nShe finished on 6,377 points, 144 clear of Northern Ireland's Kate O'Connor.\n\nMcColgan's 10,000m victory marks her first major title at the age of 31.\n\nHer triumph also follows in the footsteps of her mother Liz, who won the same title at Edinburgh 1986 and Auckland 1990.\n\nAs the volume rose and the laps counted down, McColgan found herself locked together with Kenya's Irine Cheptai.\n\nCheptai, who finished sixth ahead of McColgan at last year's Tokyo Olympics, opened up a metre's lead with 250m to go.\n\nBut McColgan reeled her in, surged on and, after checking over her shoulder for a response that never came, landed her biggest win yet.\n\n\"This is the most incredible moment of my career,\" McColgan said.\n\n\"I couldn't hear myself think or breathe, in that last 100m the crowd carried me.\n\n\"It's just been such an up and down year with Covid, another illness and a couple of other niggles. I knew the fitness was somewhere in me but I could not have asked for anything more tonight to have my family here.\"\n\nLiz McColgan embraced her daughter before paying tribute to her dedication and determination.\n\n\"As a mother to witness your daughter win is amazing,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"She just ran the race I always knew she was capable of running. It was amazing to watch and very nerve-wracking but it's been a long time coming and she put it together tonight.\"\n\nMcColgan ran faster than her mum did for either of her Commonwealth Games golds.\n\nHer time of 30 minutes 48.60 seconds is a Games record and adds gold to a season that has already been littered with new landmarks.\n\nMcColgan broke the European 10km, British half-marathon and Scottish 10,000m records this year, but an untimely hamstring niggle hindered her chances at last month's World Championships.\n\nFormer world champion Johnson-Thompson said she hoped this win could reinvigorate her career after a run of bad luck and behind-the-scenes disruption, after dedicating gold to her grandmother Mary who died last week.\n\n\"It has been tough couple of years so hopefully this can kickstart another part of my career,\" Johnson-Thompson said.\n\n\"It has been hard, I had moments where I didn't know if I wanted to carry on but to come out here and get the gold and prove to myself that pushing through was worth it.\"\n\nJohnson-Thompson came into the 800m finale with a healthy lead over second-placed O'Connor, but left nothing to chance as she chased hard to the line to finish more than half a second ahead of her 21-year-old rival.\n\nThe 800m may have been the coronation, but it was in the javelin that Johnson-Thompson saw off the young pretenders to her throne.\n\nThe throwing events are where the 29-year-old is most vulnerable. She had not been within three metres of her personal best of 43.93m since she threw it in 2019.\n\nIn Wednesday's penultimate event, O'Connor's opening-round 50.83m, in reply to Johnson-Thompson's initial 36.19m, heaped pressure on the defending champion.\n\nBut Johnson-Thompson mustered a final-round 44.33m before clasping her face in her hands in a mix of surprise and delight.\n\nFurther than she has ever thrown before, it was a performance few others had seen coming either after her spell of faltering form and fitness.\n\nElsewhere Wales' three-time Paralympic champion Aled Sion Davies claimed F42-44/61-64 discus gold, with team-mate Harrison Walsh taking bronze behind Sri Lanka's Palitha Halgahawela Gedara.\n\nDavies' best effort of 51.39m was short of the F42 discus world record of 56.21m he set in July, but was good enough to justify his decision to switch to the event after successive Paralympic shot put golds in 2016 and 2021.", "A senior female RAF recruitment officer has resigned amid claims of pressure to meet diversity targets.\n\nThe unnamed Group Captain is reported to have voiced frustration that white men were rejected in a bid to recruit more ethnic minorities and women.\n\nThe Royal Air Force aims to hit targets of 20% for minority ethnicity and 40% for women among new recruits by 2030.\n\nThe force insisted recruitment had not been paused and it was working to recruit more under-represented people.\n\nBritain's armed forces have made no secret they want to attract more women, black and Asian recruits.\n\nThe head of Britain's armed forces, Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, has described their under-representation as woeful.\n\nBut the RAF has gone the furthest, setting ambitious targets to more than double its recruitment of women to hit 40% by 2030, as well as to ensure ethnic minorities make up 20% of new recruits.\n\nFirst reported by Sky News, pressure to meet those targets was felt by a head of recruitment - who has now resigned and moved to another role.\n\nDefence sources suggested she was being leant on to turn away white male candidates.\n\nIn a statement, the RAF insisted recruitment had not been paused, but it said it was doing everything it could to increase recruitment of under-represented groups.\n\nA spokesperson said the force would not shy away from the challenges it faced to attract candidates from every part of the UK workforce.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said operational effectiveness was essential and insisted the RAF, like the rest of the armed forces, was determined to reflect the \"society it serves to protect\".\n\nEarlier this year a leaked internal email appealed for a pilot to attend the premier of the movie Top Gun: Maverick as the face of the RAF - it was looking for someone who was \"preferably not white and male\".\n\nThe reality is the vast majority are.", "Pay has fallen further behind the rising cost of living, according to the latest official data.\n\nWhile average wages rose 4.7% between April and June, that was outpaced by inflation - or price rises - which is growing at a much faster pace.\n\nAs a result, the \"real value\" of pay fell by 3%, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nHousehold budgets are being hit by soaring energy bills as well as higher food and fuel costs.\n\nThe rise in prices has fuelled the UK inflation rate to a 40-year high. The latest inflation figure, due out on Wednesday, is forecast to be higher.\n\nThe gap between pay growth and inflation is the biggest since records began more than 20 years ago.\n\nDarren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS said the \"real value\" of pay was continuing to fall. \"Excluding bonuses, it is still dropping faster than at any time since comparable records began in 2001,\" he said.\n\nThe data also highlighted a gap between public and private sector wage growth.\n\nPrivate sector wages grew by 5.9% while those working in the public sector saw pay growth of 1.8% - which Mr Morgan said is the \"largest difference we have seen for 20 years\".\n\nThe rising cost of living has prompted calls from workers and unions for pay rises, with some sectors, such as the rail industry, taking strike action in recent weeks.\n\nMore than 40,000 railway workers, who are members of the RMT union, are set to go on strike this Thursday and Saturday, but disruption is also expected on Friday because normal services may take time to resume.\n\nLast month, the government announced pay rises for millions of public sector workers including teachers, nurses, doctors, police officers, and members of the armed forces.\n\nHowever, most wage increases awarded were below the current rate of inflation of 9.4%, with ministers arguing large rises could cause inflation to remain higher for longer.\n\nThe Bank of England recently lifted interest rates by the largest amount in 27 years to 1.75% in a bid to cool rising prices. It also warned that the UK economy will fall into recession towards the end of this year as prices for gas and electricity continue to rise.\n\nNye Cominetti, a senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Britain was witnessing the biggest pay squeeze since the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.\n\n\"The scale of this pay pain is even deeper than official figures suggest too, as pay growth estimates are still artificially boosted by the effects of the furlough scheme last year,\" he said.\n\nIt says something about the extremity of inflation that the average pay rise is still not enough to keep up with price rises.\n\nThe key now will be what happens to inflation next year. If price inflation slows down as hoped, then pay rises may once more outstrip price rises. That's better for workers' living standards.\n\nBut the Bank of England will be worried that it means higher pay will itself become a cost fuelling inflation and that pay will have to rise by even more to make up for that - the much-dreaded 'wage-price-spiral' so that inflation takes a lot longer to get back to the 2% target.\n\nExpect an interest rate rise in September, and it might be more than a quarter of a percentage point.\n\nJulie Marson, minister at the Department for Work and Pensions, said the government recognised people were \"struggling with rising prices\".\n\n\"Being in stable employment is one of the best ways for people to get on, but we're also providing £1,200 direct payments for millions of low income households as part of our £37bn package of support to help with the cost of living,\" she said.\n\nShadow Work and Pensions Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the fall in real wages was \"further proof that the Tories have lost control of the economy\".\n\n\"Because of the Tories' failure on the economy, families face plummeting real wages and soaring energy bills. Yet, this Zombie Government is offering no solutions to the cost of living crisis,\" he said.\n\nSeparately, the ONS also revealed that quarterly job vacancies fell for the first time since 2020. Between May and July, they dropped by 19,800 to 1.274 million.\n\nThough the ONS points out that since vacancies fell to an all-time low between April to June 2020 in the beginning months of the Covid pandemic, they have increased by 945,000.\n\nOverall, the ONS said the unemployment rate held at 3.8%, while the employment rate for people aged 16 to 64 decreased slightly to 75.5%.\n\nThe number of people classed as economic inactive, not in or seeking for work, was unchanged between April to June at 21.4%. The over-50s make up the majority of people who have left work since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nNeil Carberry, chief executive of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, said the \"overall picture\" in the jobs market was \" still positive for those looking for work or to change jobs to raise their pay\".\n\nBut he said firms were still struggling with staff shortages, which he claimed would \"constrain growth and drive inflation\".\n\nLouise Juggins, who runs the Crow Bar in Felixstowe, is one of many business owners struggling to recruit staff, which she said had affected her summer trade.\n\nLouise Juggins has been missing out on busy summer trading due to a lack of staff.\n\n\"We could certainly be taking more than we are if we were doing food seven days a week and I'd got more staff so we could put the facilities out there,\" she said.\n\n\"We're not putting tables out on Mondays and Tuesdays at the moment purely because I haven't got the staff to do so\".\n\nWhile Trevor Mangan who runs TJ Painting and Decorating in Alton, said: \"It's an absolute nightmare trying to find decent people, there's so much work around so people don't want to spend the time learning the trade.\n\n\"It really holds back a small business growing, more work is there but I just haven't got the people I trust to do it so can't take it on.\"", "The German filmmaker received two Oscar nominations for Das Boot, including best director\n\nGerman director Wolfgang Petersen, who made films such as Das Boot, Air Force One and Outbreak, has died aged 81.\n\nA spokeswoman confirmed Petersen died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nPetersen directed stars such as Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, over a career spanning five decades.\n\nGlenn Close, who starred alongside Ford in Air Force One told the AFP news agency that being directed by Petersen \"remains a special memory.\"\n\n\"Even though the script was thrilling and incredibly intense, I remember a lot of laughs, especially in the scenes around the huge table in the War Room,\" she wrote of the action thriller about a group of terrorists who hijack the US President's plane.\n\n\"My memory is of a man full of joie de vivre who was doing what he most loved to do,\" she added.\n\nBorn in Emden in 1941, Petersen scored his first major success with World War Two submarine thriller Das Boot, which earned him two Oscar nominations.\n\nAdapted from a novel of the same name about the Battle of the Atlantic, the 1981 movie saw him nominated for best director by the Academy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Academy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Academy\n\nReacting to the news of his death, movie critic Bilge Ebiri paid tribute online, saying: \"No matter how good people think he was, Wolfgang Petersen was *better.*\n\n\"In the Line of Fire is an eternal masterpiece (watch it again.) Das Boot revolutionised Hollywood action for a generation. Enemy Mine, AIr Force One, Troy... All amazing movies.\"\n\nJürgen Prochnow as the submarine commander, known as the old man and in the background Bernd Tauber as the quartermaster Kriechbaum in Das Boot\n\nPetersen released his first English-language film, the children's fantasy adventure The NeverEnding Story, in 1984.\n\nAnother film and theatre critic Alan Zilberman offered: \"Wolfgang Petersen made some terrific thrillers, including In the Line of Fire and Das Boot, but I'll always associate him most with The NeverEnding Story. No children's film ever hit harder. Rest in power.\"\n\nPetersen moved into Hollywood action and disaster movies in the 1990s, working with Eastwood and John Malkovich in assassination thriller In The Line of Fire.\n\nWolfgang Petersen alongside Outbreak stars Rene Russo, Dustin Hoffman and Cuba Gooding Jr at the film's Los Angeles premiere in 1995\n\nLater, he directed Dustin Hoffman in the pandemic-themed Outbreak.\n\nMoving into the 21st Century, the German worked with George Clooney in The Perfect Storm and Pitt in Troy.\n\nThe late filmmaker died in the the arms of his wife of 50 years, Maria, at his residence in Los Angeles.", "On Instagram, the Portuguese said it was \"never easy to deal with emotions in difficult moments\"\n\nManchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo has been cautioned by police over footage which appeared to show him knocking a phone out of a fan's hand.\n\nMerseyside Police said a 37-year-old man was interviewed under caution in relation to an allegation of assault and criminal damage.\n\nThe force confirmed it concerned an incident following Everton's match against United on 9 April.\n\nThe Football Association said it would recommence its own investigation.\n\nAfter the incident, the Portuguese star, who voluntarily attended a police interview, issued a social media apology for his \"outburst\" and invited the young fan involved to watch a game at Old Trafford \"as a sign of fair play and sportsmanship\".\n\nThe force launched an investigation after a clip was circulated online of the forward appearing to knock the boy's mobile phone to the ground after his side's 1-0 loss at Goodison Park.\n\nA police spokesman said the matter had \"been dealt with by way of conditional caution\" and was \"now concluded\".\n\nRonaldo was booked in the game at Goodison Park, which saw his side lose 1-0 to Everton\n\nIn an Instagram post after the incident, Ronaldo said it was \"never easy to deal with emotions in difficult moments such as the one we are facing\".\n\n\"Nevertheless, we always have to be respectful, patient and set the example for all the youngsters who love the beautiful game,\" he added.\n\nManchester United and Ronaldo's representatives have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe Press Association said it was understood the FA, which had paused its investigation while police looked into it, would now reopen its case and seek the player's observations about what happened.\n\nThe announcement of the caution followed an earlier statement from the Portuguese international, in which he said he would soon reveal \"the truth\" about his future playing career after reading so many \"lies\".\n\n\"They will know the truth when they interview in a couple weeks,\" he said.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A post-mortem concluded Mati died of head injuries after falling from the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nA boy accidentally fell to his death from the White Cliffs of Dover on his 12th birthday, an inquest heard.\n\nMati Urb was visiting Kent with his parents and two siblings during the Easter school holidays.\n\nThe Estonian family, who moved to London in 2021, hired a campervan to holiday around the south coast of England.\n\nDuring a clifftop walk, Mati's parents lost sight of him and Coastguards later found his body at the cliff's base.\n\nA coastguard helicopter spotted a body at the bottom of the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded Mati died of head injuries on 4 April following his fall in the East Langdon cliffs area of Dover.\n\nA police report said there had been no third party involvement, the inquest sitting in Maidstone heard on Wednesday.\n\nRecording a conclusion of accidental death, coroner Katrina Hepburn said: \"I don't know how Mati came to fall from the cliff - it was unwitnessed.\n\n\"Whether he tripped and fell, whether it was the wind, or whether he was looking too far over the edge, I simply don't know.\n\n\"I know that's of no comfort to the family to have this unexplained as to how Mati came to fall.\n\n\"These were tragic circumstances and the conclusion that I return is one of accident. I can see no evidence that he intended to go over the cliff.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been widespread condemnation of the placement of poppy wreaths and flags on a bonfire in Londonderry.\n\nThe bonfire at Meenan Square also displayed an image of a PSNI Land Rover and the Queen.\n\nThe DUP called it an \"outrageous and offensive display of hate\". Sinn Féin said it was \"disgraceful\".\n\nPolice say they are treating it as a hate crime. They are also investigating reports of possible shots being fired in the Bogside area on Monday evening.\n\nAlliance deputy leader Stephen Farry said several incidents of \"casual sectarianism\" at the weekend showed Northern Ireland had not done enough to build reconciliation and integration.\n\nSectarianism is an issue that needed to be solved across all society, the Bishop of Derry told BBC Radio Ulster on Tuesday.\n\n\"We sit on a whole iceberg of sectarianism here that actually benefits power struggles that are going on,\" Donal McKeown said.\n\n\"Unless everyone looks at the sectarianism in their own hearts, we could end up condemning a small number and saying that it is all their fault.\n\n\"It's the responsibility of all of us to build a shared future.\"\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney is among the politicians to have condemned the material on the bonfire\n\nBonfires on 15 August are traditional in some nationalist parts of Northern Ireland to mark the Catholic Feast of the Assumption.\n\nTo others, they are lit to commemorate the introduction of internment without trial of republican suspects, which was introduced by the government in 1971.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said the actions of a minority in Derry were \"an insult\" to all the hard work of volunteers, community workers and youth organisations in the area.\n\n\"Whether in July or August, this kind of hatred is so far from the future we should be trying to build,\" Mr Coveney said in a tweet.\n\nSDLP leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood said the burning of posters and flags on the bonfire in the Bogside was \"totally out of order\".\n\n\"If you think the route to a united Ireland is burning your neighbour's cultural symbols we're not on the same side,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"If you actually want to achieve something get your head in gear and learn that we have to share this place. There is no other way.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Colum Eastwood 🇺🇦 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson called it an \"outrageous and offensive display of hate\" which must be \"universally rejected\".\n\n\"There is no place for these displays of hate anywhere in our society. It must stop now,\" he said.\n\n\"Displays of hate on bonfires are totally wrong and those responsible do not represent the people of Derry,\" the mayor for Derry City and Strabane District Council has said.\n\nSinn Féin's Sandra Duffy said the \"real image\" of Derry was on show when thousands flocked to the city for the Foyle Maritime Festival and the Foyle Cup last month.\n\nDUP assembly member for Foyle Gary Middleton said the placement of wreaths was \"disgraceful and utterly insulting to those who had fought and died for all of our freedoms\".\n\n\"As a society we need to move away from blatant and intentional acts of disrespect and hurt,\" he added.\n\nThe bonfire also features an image of the Queen\n\nThe police say they are treating reports of material placed on the bonfire as a hate crime and are seeking to identify those responsible.\n\n\"The vast majority of people celebrate their culture peacefully and lawfully,\" Supt Willy Calderwood said.\n\nHe added that they do not want cultural celebrations \"to be undermined by anti-social behaviour, criminal activity or hate directed towards others.\"\n\nSDLP councillor John Boyle said it was \"extremely disappointing\" that the bonfire incident occurred just days after the sale of UVF and Parachute Regiment flags in Derry.\n\nThirteen people were shot dead in Derry in 1972 when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators - that day became known as Bloody Sunday.\n\nMr Boyle said he understand the flag issue would have hurt people, \"reacting in kind serves nobody\".\n\n\"People who wish to celebrate and commemorate elements of their culture and traditions should always aim to do so in a non-confrontational way without seeking to offend or upset anyone else,\" he said.\n\nAlliance councillor Rachael Ferguson said it was \"sad to see\" the bonfire had once more \"attracted disappointing, sectarian displays\".\n\n\"I utterly condemn the placing of these items on this bonfire,\" she said.\n\n\"It also marks the latest in an incredibly horrendous few days of hatred and bigotry, including the selling of Parachute Regiment flags in this city.\"", "The man is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured T-shirt, a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter have released images of a man seen running from the scene armed with a knife.\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died on Cayton Road, Greenford, west London, after being attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said it was an act of \"unprovoked violence\".\n\nPolice now want to identify the man from CCTV as a matter of urgency.\n\nHe is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured T-shirt, a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Eastwood, who is leading the investigation, said: \"He is clearly a dangerous individual and people are advised not to approach him, but to call us immediately on 999 if they know him or have any information regarding his whereabouts.\"\n\nThe Met described the attack on Thomas O'Halloran in west London as an act of unprovoked violence\n\nSpeaking at the crime scene at midday Ch Supt Wilson said: \"We believe that Mr O'Halloran was stabbed on Western Avenue before managing to travel 75 yards or so on his mobility scooter to Runnymede Gardens where he flagged down a member of the public for help,\" he said.\n\n\"So, please. If you saw anything we do need to hear from you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police chief appeals for public's help over killing of 87-year-old Thomas O'Halloran\n\nIt is the sixth murder investigation to be launched in London in the last four days.\n\nCh Supt Wilson said Mr O'Halloran was a \"much-loved\" member of the Greenford community and lived locally.\n\nExtra officers will be deployed to patrol the area in the coming days to provide reassurance.\n\nA public meeting will also be held on Thursday evening at Greenford Community Centre organised by Metropolitan Police and chaired by Ch Supt Wilson.\n\n\"They are there to protect you and to help you,\" Ch Supt Wilson added.\n\n\"If you have any concerns or information that you want to share please approach those officers. I realised that dreadful impact that incidents like this have on our communities.\n\n\"I would like to reassure you all that we are doing all we can to solve the horrendous crimes that we have seen across London over the last few days. I stress that London remains one of the safest cities in the world.\"\n\nPolice described the attack as an \"awful incident\"\n\nAccording to BBC analysis of police crime figures, 66 murder investigations have been launched this year in London by the Met Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police (BTP).\n\nThis is slightly lower compared with this time last year where police had launched 78 murder investigations in the capital.\n\nNearly two-thirds of London homicide victims in 2022 have been stabbed to death.\n\nFour people have been fatally shot - all within the last month.\n\nSixty-two cases have led to arrests, and 52 cases have seen someone charged with murder.\n\nAn army of TV crews, satellite trucks and journalists have set up camp in this ordinary residential road in Greenford.\n\nA forensics tent remains standing ominously within the large police cordon - marking the very spot Thomas O'Halloran died.\n\nTraffic on the eastbound A40, which is parallel to Runnymede Gardens, has been slowing down while drivers and passengers take in the crime scene.\n\nThis is a narrow road, meaning this happened in plain view immediately outside people's homes, as well as afternoon traffic.\n\nIt's difficult to understand how something like this could have happened in a spot so exposed. Neighbours say this is a quiet, uneventful area, with a large number of elderly residents.\n\nThey told me that they fear becoming victims of crime themselves.\n\nFrasley Coutinho, who lives opposite where Mr O'Halloran was stabbed, said he saw the pensioner being surrounded by a group of youths.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a couple of people gathering around him and then he drove past and stopped further up, and then there was a group of young boys around him.\"\n\nMr Coutinho said he caught some of the incident on a CCTV camera but it had been obscured by a plant.\n\nNick Lambie told BBC London the community is very worried by the fatal stabbing\n\nAnother resident Nick Lambie said Mr O'Halloran was known to collect for charity.\n\nHe added: \"When you hear something like that happening on your doorstep it is very disconcerting as it is a very quiet area.\n\n\"I understand he collected for charity and was quite often at the local Tesco. By the looks of it he was making his way from there.\n\n\"Someone in their 80s in a mobility scooter can't put up much of a fight.\"\n\nFootage shared with Sky News appears to show Mr O'Halloran smiling as he plays his accordion to raise money for Ukraine earlier this year.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Spanish firefighters are forced to flee the flames while battling a wildfire\n\nTen passengers were hurt, three seriously, when they tried to escape a train that became caught up in a sweeping wildfire north-west of Valencia in eastern Spain.\n\nThe fire near Bejís has been whipped up by fierce winds, leaving several firefighters running for their lives.\n\nThe passengers were on a service from Valencia to Zaragoza in the north when the fire brought the train to a halt.\n\nThe train driver asked passengers to stay on board, but some panicked.\n\nAs he prepared to reverse the train, which had left Valencia late on Tuesday afternoon with 48 passengers on board, some broke windows in an attempt to escape as the flames drew close.\n\nSome of those who fled suffered burns and one was airlifted to hospital for treatment in Valencia. Those with the worst burns were a 58-year-old woman and a girl aged 15, Spanish reports said.\n\nNo-one who stayed on the train was hurt.\n\nThe intensity of the fire was shared on social media as it approached the train.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NoMePisesLaManguera This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe driver eventually moved to the back of the train and retreated to the nearby station of Caudiel. Passengers who had fled along the tracks rejoined the train and those who were injured received initial treatment there.\n\nMore than 2,000 people have been evacuated from Bejís and neighbouring towns.\n\nThe Castellón fire brigade shared video of firefighters fleeing flames several metres in height as the wind changed and threatened their lives.\n\n\"Run, run!\" they can be heard shouting as the fire surrounds them.\n\nFirefighters fear as many as 6,000 hectares (60 km sq) of land has been ravaged by the fire. Another blaze, started by lightning in the Vall d'Ebo area of Valencia late on Saturday, has devastated 11,500 hectares.\n\nMuch of Western Europe has seen forest fires during a long summer of sweltering heatwaves. Human-induced climate change has triggered more frequent and more intense heatwaves and the world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began.\n\nValencia regional leader Ximo Puig said high winds had caused \"tremendous disruption\" and that the Bejís fire had now spread south to Alcublas. He said the sheer scale of the two fires had made them very difficult to control but hoped that rain due in the area later would help to stabilise them.\n\nSpain has endured almost 400 wildfires so far in 2022 and seen 275,836 hectares burned, according to EU estimates.\n\nRail passengers were also caught up in a Spanish wildfire last month, when a train came to a halt in Zamora in the north-west. The rail operator said they were never in danger.", "Elon Musk sends social media into frenzy with Twitter joke about buying Man Utd Last updated on .From the section Man Utd", "The government has warned schools in England not to send children home to save on energy costs this winter.\n\nIt comes amid reports that some schools are considering three or four day-weeks to save money.\n\nA headteachers' union told the BBC schools were unlikely to bring in shorter weeks, but other cuts were possible amid soaring energy bills.\n\nIt could result in bigger class sizes or delays to building projects, the union said.\n\nLike businesses, schools are not covered by the price cap on household energy bills, and many will be facing big hikes in prices.\n\nSchool budgets in England are due to rise by 7% per pupil this year as part of a long-term funding settlement - but headteachers are warning this may not cover a predicted rise in energy prices and increased staffing costs.\n\nSchools have been asked to cover recently-announced pay rises for teachers and other staff from within the existing education budget.\n\nOver the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph reported that some headteachers were considering reducing the school week to three or four days to save money.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said it had not heard of schools planning to do this, adding it was \"unlikely\".\n\nGeneral Secretary Geoff Barton said shortening the school week would only deliver \"relatively marginal\" savings, and would be \"unpopular with families\".\n\nHowever, he warned schools were still facing \"tough decisions\" to cover costs, with headteachers looking at recruitment freezes, suspending building projects and likely \"increased class sizes in the future\" to save money.\n\nA third of respondents to a National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) survey in April said they expected energy costs to lead to budget deficits by the end of the year.\n\nSchools reported reduced spending on teachers or teaching hours and building maintenance as cut-cutting measures under consideration.\n\nPaul Whiteman, NAHT general secretary, said the increase in bills for some schools was \"the equivalent to the cost of a full-time teacher,\" and rising bills would almost certainly have a \"negative impact on education\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it expected all schools \"to be open morning and afternoon, five days a week,\" adding that regular attendance was \"vital for children's education, development, and wellbeing\".\n\nA spokesperson said around 70% of schools were already delivering a 32.5-hour week from within existing budgets.\n\nIn March, the government published guidance which said there was an expectation that all mainstream state-funded schools in England should be open for at least 32.5 hours a week by September 2023.\n\n\"Schools should be planning their budgets in line with this minimum expectation,\" they added.\n\nSchools in England run by local authorities are under a legal obligation to open for 190 days a year, the equivalent of five days a week over a 38-week school year.\n\nThe same obligation does not apply to academies, but they are expected to do so under government guidance.\n\nSchools inspector Ofsted has powers to force schools to justify a shorter week if it thinks it has an impact on the quality of education provided.", "Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, says that there are \"no easy options\" for the government in the face of soaring inflation.\n\nOn the day that inflation hit 10.1%, Zahawi tells the BBC that the high energy prices being experienced in the UK are down to \"Putin deliberately using energy as a tool to get back at us for the help that we are putting into Ukraine\".\n\nWhile the Bank of England's governor has also said Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the largest contributor to UK inflation, economists say there are many contributing factors including supply chain issues and recruitment challenges.\n\nMeanwhile, Zahawi says that the Treasury is preparing \"all the options\" for the incoming prime minister on 5 September - but adds that he is also preparing plans for a further price cap increase in January.\n\n\"We leave no stone unturned; we are looking at every option to be ready for 5 September for additional support.\n\n\"My message is ... whether they are small businesses or families who are really struggling, really worried, is that we will be ready for more support as the new prime minister comes in.\n\n\"We are working night and day to make this work.\"", "The first flight due to take refugees from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled at the eleventh-hour in June\n\nMinisters have partially lost an attempt to keep secret a series of comments about Rwanda from an adviser.\n\nThe High Court said on Wednesday some of what the adviser had told ministers must be disclosed in a major court case over the Rwandan refugee policy.\n\nLawyers for the government had argued disclosing the comments would damage relations with the African country.\n\nThe adviser had warned ministers Rwanda's government tortured and killed political opponents, the court heard.\n\nWhile that warning of political violence was disclosed in court on Tuesday, further comments from the expert remain secret.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) adviser had looked at revisions to the government's own report into Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nThat document was being updated as ministers planned to send asylum seekers on a flight to Rwanda under the controversial relocation scheme announced in April.\n\nThe one-way plan, worth at least £120m to Rwanda, aims to discourage illegal crossings of the English Channel - but it is on ice until the High Court rules whether it is legal.\n\nIn court, the government said 10 further comments from the unnamed official should be kept confidential rather than be used as evidence in that forthcoming court case.\n\nThis meant they would not be disclosed to the group of migrants and charities who were challenging the flights policy.\n\nBut in his ruling Lord Justice Lewis said six of the official's comments, or parts of them, should feature in next month's legal battle.\n\nHe ruled four should remain entirely secret because of the damage they would do to international relations.\n\n\"I accept that disclosure of the 10 extracts would give rise to a real risk of causing serious harm to the United Kingdom's international relations, particularly with Rwanda,\" he said.\n\n\"I recognise that the government... regards a policy whereby those seeking asylum have their claims determined in Rwanda as a significant means of deterring people from seeking to cross the English Channel in boats or by other means.\n\n\"Disclosing the material in issue in this case would undermine the development and implementation of that policy.\"\n\nHowever the judge said given September's major legal action had to decide whether sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was lawful, the claimants and the court needed to consider as much evidence as possible.\n\nHe said some of the official's comments would have \"evidential significance\" - and the public interest in disclosing them outweighed the government's case for keeping them secret.\n\nLord Justice Lewis said: \"I recognise that there is a strong public interest in not undermining international relations with a friendly state. Nonetheless, that consideration is outweighed by the public interest in ensuring access to relevant information in this litigation and by the extent to which the information is already in the public domain.\"\n\nThe official's precise words are not yet in public. The government has been allowed time to consider an appeal. If the judgment stands, the comments are likely to emerge in public in September.\n\nMigrants identified for the first aborted flight, and three media organisations - BBC News, including BBC Two's Newsnight, the Times and the Guardian newspapers - sought the disclosure of the material.", "London Fire Brigade has asked residents to keep doors and windows shut due to the heavy smoke\n\nTrain services have been disrupted and several buildings were evacuated after a fire broke out near London Bridge.\n\nMore than 70 firefighters tackled the blaze in a railway arch on Union Street, Southwark.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said a garage in the arch which contained vehicles had been destroyed along with another unit.\n\nFour rail lines and the Jubilee line were closed for safety reasons. Network Rail said they have all reopened but warned train delays would continue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe blaze was initially spotted by a train driver at about 09:30 BST who saw smoke rising above the railway between London Bridge and Waterloo East, according to Network Rail.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said at its peak smoke could \"be seen from miles around\".\n\nHanushe Lala, from Streatham in south London, said she was evacuated from her workplace after \"thick, black smoke\" began \"pouring out\" of the archway.\n\nThe 24-year-old added: \"All the buildings around us have been evacuated… they've told us we won't be let back in for a while because the fire is so bad and getting worse.\"\n\nEmergency personnel attending the scene of the fire in an arch under the railway in Union Street, Southwark, London\n\nStudent Lauren Chopin, who lives in an apartment two minutes' walk from the fire, said she had to wear a mask indoors due to the fumes.\n\n\"There is a lot of smoke all through Union Street and neighbouring streets,\" said the 20-year-old.\n\n\"It sometimes slows down and the smoke becomes whiter, only to be followed by another huge burst of black smoke.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNo injuries were reported following the blaze, which was under control by 11:20.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said the entire railway arch, which was being used as a garage and contained four vehicles, had been destroyed as had another unit which had vehicles and electric scooters and bikes inside it.\n\nStation commander Wayne Johnson said the blaze had produced \"heavy smoke\" and advised people living or working in the local area \"to keep their windows and doors closed\".\n\nThe brigade previously said crews were also investigating another blaze at London Bridge Tube station after smoke was seen there but it was later \"determined this was from the fire on Union Street\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNetwork Rail advised travellers using Southeastern and Thameslink services to check their routes due to \"the level of disruption\" caused by the fire.\n\n\"We are working together to get the train service back to normal but trains and crew will be out of position so please do continue to check before you travel,\" they said.\n\nEarlier, train operator Southeastern warned passengers that the fire caused severe disruption on \"all our Metro services and also our mainline services between London and Tonbridge, Hastings and Ashford\", with trains being cancelled or diverted.\n\nThe blaze broke out in a railway arch under the railway in Union Street, Southwark\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts say the ban will negatively impact the sport in India\n\nFifa's decision to suspend India's football association has cast a shadow over the future of the sport and its players in the country.\n\nThe ban, which was announced late on Monday, may prevent India from hosting the women's Under-17 World Cup, which was set to begin on 11 October.\n\nOn Wednesday, India's Supreme Court asked the federal government to take \"proactive steps\" to ensure that the suspension is lifted and the World Cup goes ahead according to plan.\n\nFifa said it suspended the All India Football Federation (AIFF) due to \"undue interference by a third party\". This occurred after India's Supreme Court disbanded the AIFF in May and appointed a three-member committee to govern the sport.\n\nBut Fifa's rules say its member federations must be free from legal and political interference.\n\nWhile the suspension doesn't apply to domestic tournaments, it will affect India's participation in international matches and tournaments.\n\nThe biggest blow is to the young players who were looking forward to participating in the World Cup.\n\nIndia was set to host the tournament in 2020, but this was postponed due to the Covid pandemic. It had got the opportunity to participate by virtue of being the host.\n\nThe news has disappointed players and fans.\n\n\"I was really excited to watch the World Cup. It would have been a great honour for India. But now the thought that it might not happen makes me sad,\" says Sai, 17, a footballer from the western Indian city of Mumbai who didn't make it to the team.\n\nIndian women's football has seen dramatic growth in recent years.\n\nLast year, Gokulam Kerala FC - a professional football team based in Kerala state - became the first Indian club to play in the prestigious Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Club Championship.\n\nThe team had reached Uzbekistan on Tuesday for this year's tournament, which is set to begin this week. On Wednesday, the club tweeted an appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the players are \"grounded in Tashkent\", and requesting him to intervene and solve the issue.\n\nPlayers such as Bala Devi and Aditi Chauhan, who have played in foreign clubs, have developed a fan following in India and are raising the bar of the sport in the country.\n\nBut the ban could affect this and dampen the morale of players.\n\n\"Since it is a World Cup, the sport would have got a lot of promotion. All eyes would have been on India and Indian players. Countless other girls might have been inspired to learn the sport after watching the games,\" Sai says.\n\nIndian women's football has seen dramatic growth in recent years\n\nIndia is not the first country to be suspended under Fifa's rule on autonomy.\n\nSimilar action has been taken against countries such as Benin, Kuwait, Nigeria and Iraq in the past. Last year, the Pakistan Football Federation was banned under the same rule but it was lifted in July 2022.\n\nIn India, AIFF was led by a former Fifa council member, Praful Patel, for more than a decade. Mr Patel is a member of parliament and belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party, one of India's leading opposition parties.\n\nMr Patel had completed three terms as the president of AIFF, which made him ineligible to hold the post again as per government regulations.\n\nBut he continued to stay on as president even after his term ended in December 2020 as AIFF did not hold fresh elections. This led to the Supreme Court disbanding the federation in May this year, and Mr Patel stepping down. It was then that the court appointed a three-member panel to govern the sport.\n\nFifa's statement said the suspension will be lifted once the order to set up the committee is repealed and \"the AIFF administration regains full control of the AIFF's daily affairs\".\n\n\"FIFA is in constant constructive contact with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in India and is hopeful that a positive outcome to the case may still be achieved,\" the statement added.\n\nIndian politician Praful Patel led the AIFF for more than a decade\n\nMore than 23 million people watch football in India, according to a recent survey by media consulting firm Ormax. The sport is hugely popular in states such as Kerala and West Bengal, which also have local clubs.\n\nAmisha Khan, a football fan from the southern city of Bangalore, hopes that FIFA will rethink its decision.\n\n\"There's not much following for women's football in India, but things have changed in recent times. We were excited to watch footballers like Bala Devi play in the World Cup. I hope this ban doesn't last long,\" Ms Khan says.\n\nBhaichung Bhutia, former captain of the Indian men's football team, called the ban a \"very unfortunate\" and \"harsh\" decision.\n\n\"But at the same time I feel it's a great opportunity for us to get our system right,\" he told reporters, adding that he is hopeful the suspension will be lifted once AIFF elections are held.", "Salma al-Shehab was interviewed by Al Thaqafia TV at the 2014 Riyadh International Book Fair\n\nLeeds University has expressed deep concern for one of its PhD students who has been jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia over critical tweets.\n\nSalma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and mother of two, was arrested in 2021 while on holiday in the kingdom.\n\nBefore the trip she had called for reforms and the release of activists.\n\nHuman rights groups said the harsh sentence gave the lie to Saudi claims it was improving women's rights and showed the situation was getting worse.\n\nA terrorism tribunal convicted Shebab of aiding dissidents seeking to \"disrupt public order\" and publishing \"false rumours\", they said.\n\nThey warned that it was \"the longest prison sentence ever for a peaceful activist\" in the Gulf state, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen a crackdown on dissent for five years.\n\nShehab, a member of Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, describes herself on her Instagram account as a dental hygienist and medical educator. In addition to being in the final year of her PhD studies at Leeds University's School of Medicine, she says she is a lecturer at the Princess Nourah University in Riyadh.\n\nHer Twitter account, which has 2,700 followers, has not been updated since 12 January 2021, three days before she was reportedly detained in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAt the end of the previous month, she tweeted or retweeted several messages calling for reforms in Saudi Arabia and the release of prominent activists, clerics and other intellectuals.\n\nOne post praised as \"prisoners of conscience\" a group of leading women's rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, who were detained just before a ban on women driving was lifted in 2018 and were later convicted crimes against the state. Ms Hathloul was released on probation a month after Shehab's arrest but is subject to a travel ban and other restrictions.\n\nUS-based human rights group The Freedom House and UK-based group ALQST reported that Shehab was initially given a six-year prison sentence after being found guilty of violating the country's counter-terrorism and anti-cybercrime laws late last year.\n\nOn 9 August, an appeals court increased her term to 34 years and added a 34-year travel ban that would start following her release, they said, citing court documents.\n\nBethany Al-Haidari, the Saudi case manager at the Freedom Initiative, described the sentence as \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"Saudi Arabia is boasting to the world that they are improving women's rights and implementing legal reforms. But there is no question with this sentence that the situation is just getting worse,\" she told the BBC's Newshour programme on Saturday.\n\n\"We also have gotten reports that there are hundreds of young women who were detained around the same time as Salma was.\"\n\nALQST's head of communications Lina al-Hathloul, Loujain al-Hathloul's sister, said the sentence showed Saudi authorities remained \"hellbent on harshly punishing anyone who expresses their opinions freely\".\n\n\"The release of Loujain al-Hathloul and other women's rights activists came about in response to sustained international pressure. However, as the spotlight on Saudi Arabia has gradually faded, the authorities have reverted to their habitual pattern of repression,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe escalation was \"connected to the growing rehabilitation\" of Crown Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, she added.\n\nA month ago US President Joe Biden met the prince in Jeddah, despite having pledged to make Saudi Arabia a \"pariah\" over its human rights record.\n\nA Leeds University spokesperson said: \"We are deeply concerned to learn of this recent development in Salma's case and we are seeking advice on whether there is anything we can do to support her.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with Salma, her family, and her friends among our close-knit community of postgraduate researchers.\"\n\nA US state department spokesman said it was studying Shehab's case and that \"exercising freedom of expression to advocate for the rights of women should not be criminalised\".\n\nThe Saudi government has so far not commented on the reports.", "Young people now watch almost seven times less broadcast television than people aged over 65, according to a report from regulator Ofcom.\n\nIt said 16 to 24-year-olds spend just 53 minutes watching TV each day, a two-thirds decrease in the past 10 years.\n\nMeanwhile, those aged 65 and over spend just under six hours on average watching TV daily.\n\nThis \"generation gap\" in viewing habits is wider than ever before, according to Ofcom's annual Media Nations report.\n\nIt attributed the gap to the use of television alternatives such as streaming services and short-form video.\n\nIn its report, Ofcom said about one in five UK homes had access to all three of the biggest streaming services - Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.\n\nIt said 5.2 million homes now had access to all three, which would cost about £300 per year if they paid for them individually.\n\nHowever, it conceded that this figure included free trials and people who are sharing accounts between households.\n\nOfcom also found that overall the number of homes subscribing to at least one streaming service had decreased by 350,000.\n\nIt blamed the pressure on household budgets as a result of a rise in the cost of living.\n\nBut it found - in a survey of people who cancelled their services - that three-quarters planned to renew their subscriptions when their circumstances changed.\n\n\"The streaming revolution is stretching the TV generation gap, creating a stark divide in the viewing habits of younger and older people,\" said Ofcom's director of market intelligence, Ian Macrae.\n\n\"Traditional broadcasters face tough competition from online streaming platforms, which they're partly meeting through the popularity of their own on-demand player apps, while broadcast television is still the place to go for big events that bring the nation together such as the Euro final or the Jubilee celebrations.\"\n\nIn 2021, Ofcom found screen time - the average amount of time people spend watching video content across all devices - hit a daily average of five hours and 40 minutes, nearly a third of an adult's waking hours.\n\nThis decreased by 25 minutes in the latest figures which found, on average, people spent 59% of their screen time watching live or catch-up TV.\n\nMeanwhile, a third of adults in Great Britain watch short-form videos - or videos less than 10 minutes in length - with 65% of 18 to 24-year-olds watching them daily.\n\nThis number is vastly increased for younger audiences, with 93% of 15 to 17-year-olds getting daily short-form videos from YouTube, 90% viewing on Instagram and 73% watching on TikTok.\n\nThe report also looked into the type of short-form videos people are watching online and found \"how to\" content - such as recipes or DIY - was the most viewed.\n\nSome 59% said they engaged with short news videos online, 32% said they watched videos about video games and just over half of the adults surveyed said they watched videos posted online by friends and family.", "Gareth Gates and Darius Campbell Danesh both appeared on the inaugural Pop Idol in 2002\n\nSimon Cowell has led the tributes to Pop Idol and West End star Darius Campbell Danesh, calling his death at 41 an \"absolute tragedy\".\n\nCowell was a judge on the show on which Campbell Danesh finished third in 2002, behind Gareth Gates and winner Will Young in the inaugural series.\n\n\"I first saw Darius on television over 20 years ago and I got to know him really well,\" said Cowell.\n\n\"He was charismatic, funny and just a great person to be with.\"\n\nCowell added: \"His passing, for someone so young, is an absolute tragedy and my heart goes out to his family and friends.\"\n\nSimon Cowell - pictured in 2019 - was a judge on Pop Idol, the talent competition which saw Darius finished third\n\nThe cause of death is not known but his family said he was found in his US apartment.\n\nGates described Campbell Danesh as a \"big brother\" who \"took me under his wing\" during their time together on the show.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he added: \"He was one of the most beautiful, intelligent and gentle souls I was lucky enough to know, a soul that lit up every room.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBroadcaster Nicki Chapman, who was also a judge on the show, tweeted that Campbell Danesh was \"a true gent with a kind soul and mischievous tinkle in his eye\".\n\nCampbell Danesh initially rose to fame on Pop Idol's ground-breaking predecessor Popstars on ITV in 2001, with his theatrical cover of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time.\n\nLater that year, he resurfaced on the follow-up, Pop Idol, which concluded in 2002, minus his ponytail and beard and with a new attitude that took him to the last three. The final was watched by more than 13 million people.\n\nMyleene Klass, Michelle Heaton and Jessica Pietersen, who also found fame on Popstars, in the bands Hear'Say and Liberty X, shared their memories of him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother former Pop Idol judge, Pete Waterman, told the BBC on Wednesday that Campbell Danesh, who left his pop career behind to star in musicals, sing opera and produce films, was a victim of his own talents.\n\n\"The truth was he never really achieved his potential because he really was larger than life, and he could have been Michael Buble if he'd chosen, if he'd stuck to singing he could've been enormous, he was so talented.\"\n\n\"If you stick to one thing and drive it you can become the best, but you can't be the best at everything.\n\n\"He was working on a major Hollywood movie when I had tea with him [recently], he was so excited.\"\n\nPresenting duo Ant and Dec, who fronted Pop Idol, also remembered the singer, tweeting: \"We are very sorry to hear of the passing of Darius Campbell Danesh at such a tragically young age.\n\n\"We had many laughs with him on his Pop Idol journey. Our hearts go out to his lovely family. RIP.\"\n\nThe five Pop Idol finalists (left to right): Will Young, Zoe Birkett, Darius Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Gareth Gates\n\nReflecting on his career in an interview with Digital Spy in 2017, the performer said his early experiences on the shows helped to shape him.\n\n\"I look back at it all with fond memories, and with deep appreciation of the support of the British public at a time when I first went through Popstars - I made mistakes and I was too cocky and I didn't have humility,\" he said.\n\n\"I came back with a willingness to learn from my mistakes and to simply share my voice and love of music,\" he added. \"I have deep respect for anyone who puts themselves in the position of being judged or being possibly put in the position of public criticism.\"\n\nAfter impressing on Pop Idol, he turned down a record deal from judge Cowell in order to work with producer Steve Lillywhite, who collaborated with him on the pop hit Colourblind.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DariusMusicOfficial This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHe later told The Guardian his reasons for turning down Cowell's \"gracious\" offer was that he had been encouraged to release two covers when we wanted to work on original material.\n\n\"Imagine, I could have done a cover of Gareth's cover of Robson and Jerome's cover of the Righteous Brothers,\" he joked. \"How great! You know, that doesn't inspire me.\"\n\nLillywhite paid tribute on Wednesday describing the late singer as a \"gentleman\", adding that his was \"such a great story of redemption\".\n\nCampbell Danesh pictured with his co-stars at the launch of Chicago in London in 2011\n\nCampbell Danesh went on to enjoy four more UK top 10 singles over the next three years - Rushes, Incredible (What I Meant To Say), Kinda Love and Live Twice.\n\nHe then forged a successful stage career, appearing as Billy Flynn in two runs of Chicago, once claiming he based his portrayal of the scheming lawyer on Cowell.\n\n\"He's the consummate businessman and a wonderful guy and there's a lot of Simon Cowell in Billy Flynn in terms of the way he approaches things, and I recognise that in terms of the character,\" he said.\n\nHe credited Cowell with persuading him to take on the role, opposite Ugly Betty star America Ferrera.\n\n\"I'm incredibly grateful for the experiences I've had and all the opportunities that it opened up and to be able to call Simon Cowell a friend and to be able to have dinner with him.\"\n\nHe featured in the Olivier Award-winning Guys and Dolls and played Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's 2008 West End musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind.\n\nCampbell Danesh also appeared in the first series of ITV's Popstar To Operastar - which saw eight pop singers train to perform world-famous opera arias in 2010 - beating Bernie Nolan in the final.\n\nThe show saw him duet with tenor Rolando Villazón on the song The Impossible Dream and helped him land his first major opera role, as the bullfighter Escamillo in a one-off production of Carmen at London's O2 Arena, the first ever opera at the venue at the time.\n\nSinger Katherine Jenkins, who mentored Campbell Danesh on the show, said she had \"great memories\" of coaching him.\n\n\"So sad to hear the news of Darius's passing,\" she said. \"Hugely enthusiastic, a passionate performer and proud Scotsman. My thoughts are with his family.\n\n\"Bernie Nolan, Meatloaf and now Darius - all friends from season one and taken too soon from us. RIP.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by katherinejenkinsobe This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCampbell Danesh later moved into the film industry and had an executive producer credit on the 2016 Daniel Radcliffe film Imperium.", "Jade Harrison suffered serious physical and psychological injuries in the incident\n\nA nursery nurse catapulted from a Hull Fair ride has agreed to a \"five-figure\" payout for physical and psychological damage caused.\n\nJade Harrison, 24, fell from the Airmaxx 360 ride at Hull Fair on 7 October 2019, resulting in a broken jaw and other facial injuries.\n\nMiss Harrison has agreed an out-of-court settlement with the ride's insurers, her solicitor said.\n\nShe said: \"I'm a different person now to that one that got on that ride.\"\n\nMiss Harrison said she had needed psychological support and thousands of pounds worth of dental treatment as a result of the incident.\n\n\"Back then I had no fears and I was up for anything really, but now I am averse to anything that has an element of risk,\" she said.\n\n\"Simple fun things, like jumping off the rocks into the sea on holiday, I just wouldn't do anymore as I wouldn't be able to get past the fear of hitting a rock. That is how my mindset has changed.\"\n\nThe Airmaxx 360 ride at Hull Fair in 2019\n\nDescribing a family trip to Skegness, Miss Harrison said: \"I couldn't go on any rides.\n\n\"Some of my family went on them, but I didn't want them to. I couldn't even watch.\"\n\nInsurers acting on behalf of Taylor's Funfairs, owners of the Airmaxx 360 ride, admitted liability for the accident and injuries caused.\n\nDespite the trauma, Miss Harrison said she no longer suffered from anxiety.\n\n\"In the weeks after my accident I was struggling and really anxious,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd have nightmares many nights and wake up in a state of panic, but over time that went away.\n\n\"When Hull Fair was on last year I just avoided it. I had to drive by it a couple of times so I just made sure I didn't look.\"\n\nRebecca Cone, of Hudgell Solicitors, said her client was grateful for the early admission of liability, which had enabled her to quickly access psychological and dental treatment.\n\nMs Cone added: \"It was, of course, a shocking incident and one from which lessons must be learned. Accidents like this simply should not happen.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Taylor's Funfairs for comment.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A non-executive director at energy regulator Ofgem has quit over changes to the way the energy price cap is set.\n\nChristine Farnish said she felt the regulator had not \"struck the right balance between the interests of consumers and interests of suppliers\".\n\nOfgem is in charge of setting the level at which domestic energy costs are capped every three months.\n\nThe watchdog thanked Ms Farnish \"for her many years of devoted service\".\n\nMs Farnish told The Times she disagreed with a decision to change the cap to enable suppliers to recoup certain wholesale costs sooner - a measure the regulator has said would prevent more suppliers going bust.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said: \"Due to this unprecedented energy crisis, Ofgem is having to make some incredibly difficult decisions where carefully balanced trade-offs are being weighed up all the time.\n\n\"But we always prioritise consumers' needs both in the immediate and long term.\"\n\nThe regulator has faced criticism for raising the energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge domestic customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - this October.\n\nThe cap is designed to protect consumers from short-term price changes and is adjusted by Ofgem every three months - based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nConsumer rights campaigner Martin Lewis has previously accused the regulator of \"selling consumers down the river\".\n\nOctober's price cap is due to be announced at the end of this month.\n\nEnergy industry analysts Cornwall Insight predict an average annual bill will reach £3,582 at this point - £200 higher than the previous estimate.\n\nIn January 2023, when the the cap is due to be changed again, Cornwall Insights expects the cap to go up to £4,266.\n\nThe higher estimate means the average household would be paying £355 a month, instead of £164 a month currently.\n\nEnergy prices have risen sharply because demand for gas increased when Covid restrictions eased, and because the invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nOfgem recently changed the rules so the cap can be revised every three months instead of every six, saying this would make it less likely that more energy suppliers would collapse, and allow consumers to feel the benefit of any future fall in prices more quickly.\n\nAround 30 suppliers have failed in the UK in the past year.\n\nResponding to Ms Farnish's resignation, an Ofgem spokesperson said that the rest of the board members had decided a shorter recovery period for energy costs was in \"the best interest\" of consumers in the \"long term\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the change reduced the \"very real risk of suppliers going bust, which would heap yet more costs onto bills and add unnecessary worry and concern at an already very difficult time\".\n\nA spokesperson from the government's business department said: \"We are aware of a resignation at the Board of Ofgem, which has been accepted.\"", "William Wragg has said he is taking a \"short break\" from his duties as an MP to recover from depression.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Hazel Grove revealed he had lived with depression and anxiety most of his adult life, and both were currently \"severe\".\n\nHe said he hoped to return \"refreshed\" and \"loving life and myself a little bit more\".\n\nHe added his constituents would continue to be able to contact his office for assistance.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the 34-year-old said: \"I am resisting the temptation to give up entirely. As such, I require a short break\".\n\nHe said that he was making his statement \"as an explanation, instead of giving recurrent excuses,\" and hoped to return \"better able to represent my constituents\".\n\n\"I know that how I feel is far from unique,\" he added.\n\n\"I would say to anyone who feels similarly, that they should speak to someone they trust, seek and accept support.\n\n\"Do not assume those who are outwardly confident and successful are without doubts and despair.\"\n\nThe NHS offers advice on how to deal with depression and anxiety disorders.\n\nBBC Headroom offers a toolkit for the mind to help people with practical tips, uplifting personal stories, as well as activities and music to take your mind off things.\n\nMr Wragg received supportive messages from a number of fellow MPs and others working at Westminster.\n\nLabour's Andrew Gwynne replied: \"Sorry to read this Will. I've been there.\n\n\"My black dog is firmly in his kennel (mainly thanks to the Citalopram)… you take some recovery time, your office can deal with casework, etc. and get yourself back to how you should be\".\n\nLabour MP Andrew Gwynne has spoken about his mental health struggles\n\nSNP MP John Nicholson said: \"Talking about this issue in public isn't easy. Wishing William some peaceful downtime and a swift return.\"\n\nDave Penman, the boss of the FDA union representing senior civil servants, said he can \"only imagine the courage it takes to explain publicly the challenges you're facing\".\n\nHe added: \"You have been a courageous public servant and I look forward to your speedy return to frontline public service.\"\n\nFormer councillor and teacher Mr Wragg has represented the Hazel Grove constituency in Greater Manchester since 2015.\n\nHe has chaired the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee since January 2020.\n\nA prominent critic of outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson, he hit the headlines earlier this year when he warned about the tactics used by No 10 to enforce party discipline.\n\nMental health has traditionally been a taboo subject at Westminster but MPs have become more open about their struggles in recent years.\n\nLabour's Kevan Jones revealed his battles with depression during a Commons debate in 2012, saying some family members would be hearing about it for the first time.\n\nDuring the same debate, Conservative MP Charles Walker also spoke out about his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, later saying it was \"liberating\" to talk about the subject openly.", "The UK government has begun what may be its final effort to resolve a dispute over the UK's membership of the EU's €100bn Horizon research programme.\n\nIt has written to Brussels urging it to \"end persistent delays\" in delivering on its promise to allow British access to EU research collaborations.\n\nSome experts say the move is the start of UK withdrawal from the programme.\n\nProf James Wilsdon the director of the Research on Research Institute at Sheffield University told BBC News that he believes that there will be no resolution, at which point the new prime minister will instead announce the UK's own international research programme - known as Plan B.\n\n\"The only thing that today's announcement does offer is a clearer path towards a pivot from the UK's association to Horizon Europe, the outcome that the science community prefer, to Plan B, which is a hastily cobbled together set of alternative funding arrangements intended to be a substitute for some, but by no means all, of what's being lost,\" he said.\n\nHorizon Europe is the EU's flagship programme which brings together leading academic and industrial researchers from across its member nations to work on the highest quality science. Brussels had agreed to the UK's continued participation following Brexit in the withdrawal agreement 18 months ago. It changed its mind last year following the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThis latest move by the government is the start of a 30-day formal consultation period to resolve the issue, after which a lengthy, legalistic arbitration process can begin if agreement is not reached.\n\nLiz Truss, who is competing with former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak to be Britain's next prime minister, said that the EU was in \"clear breach\" of its agreement to allow participation in several scientific programmes, including Horizon Europe.\n\n\"We cannot allow this to continue,\" she said. \"That is why the UK has now launched formal consultations and will do everything necessary to protect the scientific community.\"\n\nBut Prof Wilsdon shares the view of other policy experts, who fear that after the 30 days are up, there will be no resolution, and rather than going to arbitration the new prime minister will instead announce Plan B.\n\n\"Our newly anointed PM can then say that they've 'tried everything but the intransigent EU won't budge,'\" he said.\n\nBut Dr Tim Bradshaw, chief executive of the Russell Group, which represents 24 leading research-intensive universities, hopes that the consultation will lead to a resolution.\n\n\"Despite the delays, securing the UK's full association to Horizon Europe remains the best outcome for both the UK and the EU,\" he said.\n\nOther affected schemes include the nuclear research programme Euratom, and services including Space Surveillance and Tracking.\n\nMinister of State for Europe Graham Stuart said: \"It is disappointing that the EU has not facilitated UK participation in the agreed scientific programmes, despite extensive UK engagement on the issue.''\n\nDavid Lammy MP, Labour's shadow foreign secretary, said that the EU and the UK both need to show more flexibility, but described the government as having a ''reckless and law-breaking approach''.\n\n\"Instead of continuing the pattern of starting rows with the EU to appeal to their Tory base, the next prime minister should sit down with all parties to ease the tensions and find agreement in the national interest,\" he said.\n\nA European Commission spokesman previously said the EU continued to \"recognise the mutual benefit in co-operation in science, research and innovation, nuclear research and space\".\n\nBut he added there had been \"serious difficulties in the implementation of the withdrawal agreement and parts of the trade and cooperation agreement\" and looked forward to a \"prompt resolution\" of these problems.\n\nHe said: \"The Commission's objective remains to have a stable and positive relationship with the UK based on our international agreements signed and ratified by both the EU and the UK.\"", "Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will go head to head at a hustings event in Belfast\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Conservative Party leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will go head-to-head in a hustings in Belfast.\n\nTory members in Northern Ireland will have a chance to hear from each candidate.\n\nBBC News NI political correspondent Gareth Gordon spoke to some members as they prepare to cast their votes.\n\nShane Quinn rarely has a chance to vote for the political party he is a member of - but this week he will get to vote for the next prime minister.\n\nShane is from Strabane, a town dominated by the politics of Irish nationalism.\n\nShane Quinn is from Strabane and says there is no party in Northern Ireland that owns his vote\n\nHe has also chosen to be a member of the Northern Ireland Conservatives, a party many there would regard as politically untouchable.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it's difficult,\" the barrister said.\n\n\"It's probably unusual in the sense that most people from my own particular background would tend to see themselves as nationalist.\n\n\"But the way I see it is that there's no party in Northern Ireland that owns my vote. I find my values better represented by the Northern Ireland Conservatives than any of their competitors.\"\n\nThere are believed to be about 600 Conservatives in Northern Ireland. Their votes are measured in the low hundreds, when they even manage to put forward candidates.\n\nBut in the election to decide the next Conservative leader, and therefore the next prime minister, the votes of people like Shane will count as much as the votes of conservatives elsewhere.\n\nSo, what attracted him to take the political road less travelled?\n\n\"I'm a member of the Conservative Party because it reflects the values that I have,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe in hard work, I believe in the importance of the family as a social institution.\n\n\"I believe in national institutions, historically that's been things like the rule of law, representative government, and in more modern times, it's things like the NHS and, dare I say it, the BBC.\n\n\"I reject any kind of attempt to pigeonhole people into particular political backgrounds because of the town they grew up and the family they have or the church they go to.\"\n\nRoger Lomas said he was disappointed with the Conservatives' confidence-and-supply arrangement with the DUP\n\nFor years the Northern Ireland Conservatives have been a political afterthought, ignored by the voters and - they believe - the party leadership in Westminster.\n\nA few months ago footage emerged of Boris Johnson being challenged on the lack of support at a reception on his last visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nSome feel the confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at Westminster damaged their attempts to win votes as a non-sectarian party.\n\nVeteran Tyrone conservative Roger Lomas said: \"What I think of that I don't think you'd be allowed to broadcast.\n\n\"It really, really cheesed a lot of us off. It was one of my worst times in the party to see the DUP being lauded at party conference like valued brethren.\"\n\nSheila Bodel said she wanted the party to work with Conservative candidates to get them elected\n\nAnother Northern Ireland Conservative, Sheila Bodel, said: \"I was disappointed there's no doubt.\n\n\"I know that we have to try to get as much done in government as possible. But I would like to see them work with Conservative candidates to get them elected rather than work with other political parties.\"\n\nIrwin Armstrong, a former chair of the Norther Ireland Conservatives, also opposes the policy.\n\nIrwin Armstrong says it is difficult to get a breakthrough in Northern Ireland unless you have a unique position\n\n\"It's very difficult in Northern Ireland to get that breakthrough unless you have got a unique position,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment we don't have a unique position because the DUP, for example, who are not in Stormont at the moment, are using that leverage to work with the Conservative Party in London to get the Protocol Bill through and it makes life very difficult.\n\n\"For what we're about in Northern Ireland is complete non-sectarian politics.\"\n\nThe protocol is expected to feature heavily at the Northern Ireland hustings on Wednesday when the Tory leadership contenders will subject themselves to questions from members.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is the sponsor of the controversial Protocol Bill and Henry Hill, deputy editor of the website Conservative Home, believes that means former chancellor Rishi Sunak will face a harder time.\n\n\"He opposed the bill in Cabinet and now he's offering quite an insubstantial answer about what he intends to do, because all he's saying is we have a bill in Parliament that he supports now, but the bill is an enabling bill,\" he said.\n\n\"The bill doesn't actually solve the protocol. It gives the government the power to solve the protocol. And what's going to be interesting is seeing members in Northern Ireland press him on what he's going to do specifically with the new powers.\"\n\nOf the Northern Ireland conservatives the BBC spoke to Roger Lomas would have preferred Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch; Sheila Bodel and Shane Quinn are supporting Mr Sunak as is Shane Quinn and Irwin Armstrong would have preferred to stick with Boris Johnson.", "The first flight meant to take asylum seekers to Rwanda from the UK was cancelled amid legal challenges\n\nUK ministers who backed sending asylum seekers to Rwanda were warned by their own adviser that its government tortures and kills political opponents.\n\nThe warning came weeks before the British government tried to send asylum seekers to the African nation.\n\nThe adviser raised concerns about the tone and accuracy of an official note on Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nThere is an ongoing legal challenge against government attempts to keep more of the comments secret.\n\nMigrants identified for the aborted flight, and three media organisations - BBC News, including BBC Two's Newsnight, the Times and the Guardian newspapers - are seeking disclosure of the material.\n\nThe first Rwanda flight was grounded in June after the European Court of Human Rights said the High Court in London must first fully examine whether the removals policy is lawful. A hearing is scheduled for next month.\n\nOn Tuesday, the government asked the High Court to rule that the case should not include 11 specific comments about Rwanda from an unnamed Foreign Office (FCDO) official, who had been asked for their view.\n\nThe court heard that FCDO bosses had asked the unnamed official, who had some expertise in African affairs, to look at a draft of the Rwanda \"Country Policy and Information Note\".\n\nThis is an official and public document on the country and its human rights record - and it was being updated while the Rwanda flights plan was being thrashed out.\n\nIn an email sent to colleagues on 26 April - two weeks after the plan became public - the reviewer questioned the tone of the report and whether it accurately reflected the situation in the country.\n\nHigh Court judge Lord Justice Lewis was told the official had written in a covering email: \"There are state control, security, surveillance structures from the national level down... political opposition is not tolerated and arbitrary detention, torture and even killings are accepted methods of enforcing control too\".\n\nJude Bunting QC, appearing for the media organisations, told the court the withheld evidence from the reviewer was likely to be the most critical material about the Rwanda affair.\n\n\"The sensitivity of this policy cannot be understated,\" he said.\n\n\"The public needs to understand the material that was available to the [government] at the time the decisions under challenge were taken, the evidence that is said to weigh against, as well as to justify, this flagship policy, and the reasons why the [government] decided to proceed.\"\n\nLord Justice Lewis will rule in the coming days on whether any of the material should be kept secret.\n\nLast month the High Court heard that Whitehall officials had initially excluded Rwanda on human rights grounds from the list of potential partners for asylum transfers.\n\nThe court was told that Dominic Raab, the then-foreign secretary, had been warned that a deal with Rwanda would force the UK to constrain what it said to the nation about its record.\n\nThe Home Office is claiming public interest immunity on parts of the independent reviewer's response, with Neil Sheldon QC telling the court there would be a \"potential of very significant harm\" to international relations and national security issues if the extracts were disclosed.\n\nLabour said the adviser's warning was evidence the Home Office overruled advice about the scheme and accused the government of attempting to conceal the truth from the public.\n\nThe pilot scheme would see those who arrived in the UK by what the government considers \"illegal, dangerous or unnecessary\" routes - such as in small boats or hidden in lorries - flown to the African country, where they could then claim asylum.\n\nAn upfront payment of £120m to Rwanda would be followed by further payments as the country handled more cases, the Home Office has said.\n\nThe government has said the \"world-leading scheme\" would help prevent dangerous Channel crossings and when announcing it Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would \"save countless lives\" by stopping \"vile people smugglers\".\n\nMore than 20,000 people have made the crossing from France so far this year, with more than 14,500 arriving since the Rwanda policy was launched.\n\nAfter the first flight to Rwanda was cancelled Home Secretary Priti Patel said she would not be deterred from \"doing the right thing\" and told MPs she believed the policy was \"fully compliant\" with the law.\n\nMany groups have criticised the plans, with refugee organisations branding it cruel, while the Church of England and opposition MPs have also hit out at it.\n\nThe Rwandan government has said migrants would be \"entitled to full protection under Rwandan law, equal access to employment, and enrolment in healthcare and social care services\".", "Peter Coshan was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August\n\nDetectives are treating the disappearance of a former teacher at Edinburgh's Fettes College as murder.\n\nDr Peter Coshan, 75, was last seen in the Seafield Road area of Edinburgh at about 23:50 on 11 August and was reported missing the next day.\n\nTwo men, aged 27 and 63, have been arrested and charged.\n\nMr Coshan, who taught biology at former prime minister Tony Blair's old school, is presumed dead but his body has not been found.\n\nThe arrested men are due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.\n\nFettes College said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" to hear of the disappearance.\n\nMr Coshan was a member of the teaching staff from 1972 until his retirement in 2005. He joined a year after Tony Blair attended the school, from 1966 to 1971.\n\nHelen Harrison, head of Fettes College, said: \"Peter was an inspirational biology teacher and he will be remembered fondly by many.\n\n\"Not least by those who were taught by him, tutored by him and introduced to the hills through his enthusiasm for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, which he ran for 33 years.\"\n\nDetectives are appealing to the public for information.\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick said extensive inquiries were ongoing to trace Mr Coshan, whose home in Stockbridge is four miles from where he was last seen.\n\nHe added: \"I would encourage anyone with any information regarding Peter's disappearance to contact police as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"We have also set up a website that gives members of the public access to a form to send information directly to the Major Investigation Team.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaswant Singh Chail appeared in court via video-link from Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital\n\nA man charged under the Treason Act after allegedly entering the grounds of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow on Christmas Day has appeared in court.\n\nJaswant Singh Chail is said to have told a protection officer \"I am here to kill the Queen\" before he was arrested, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nMr Chail, 20, is also charged with making threats to kill and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on 14 September.\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor, rather than spending Christmas as usual on her Sandringham estate\n\nMr Chail, from Southampton, was allegedly spotted in the grounds of Windsor Castle at about 08:10 GMT on 25 December last year.\n\nProsecutor Kathryn Selby told the court he had been carrying a Supersonic X-Bow weapon which had the potential to cause \"serious or fatal injuries\".\n\nShe said the allegations were not being treated as a \"terrorism offence\" but had been dealt with by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nMr Chail, who was unemployed at the time of the alleged offence but previously worked for Co-op supermarket, appeared in court via video-link from Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital in Berkshire.\n\nThe Queen was at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day when the incident happened\n\nHe has been charged with an offence under section 2 of the 1842 Treason Act, namely \"discharging or aiming firearms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm her Majesty\".\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor Castle for Christmas, rather than spending it as usual on her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nHer Majesty was due to be joined for lunch by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nUnder the 1842 Treason Act, it is an offence to assault the Queen, or have a firearm or offensive weapon in her presence with intent to injure or alarm her or to cause a breach of peace.\n\nIn 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was jailed for five years under the section of the Treason Act after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade.\n\nThe last person to be convicted under the separate and more serious 1351 Treason Act was William Joyce, also known as Lord Haw-Haw, who collaborated with Germany during the Second World War.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Explosions seen at an arms depot in Maiske in Crimea on Tuesday 16 August\n\nA week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been hit by a series of explosions.\n\nBlaming \"sabotage\", Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts in the Dzhankoi area, another fire hit a power station and a railway was damaged.\n\nA string of blasts last week destroyed Russian warplanes at a Black Sea base on the Crimean coast.\n\nUkraine has not admitted that attack.\n\nHowever, presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has described the latest incident as \"demilitarisation in action\", indicating that the explosions were not accidental.\n\nCrimea was seized from Ukraine and then annexed by Russia in early 2014.\n\nRussia gave no indication of the kind of sabotage involved in Tuesday's attack.\n\nThe FSB security service said Ukrainian saboteurs had also blown up six electricity pylons this month inside Russia itself.\n\nThe attacks in the Kurchatov area, about 100km (60 miles) from Ukraine's north-east border, had affected the \"technological process of functioning\" of the Kursk nuclear plant, it added.\n\nHowever, Rosenergoatom, the operator of the plant, has disputed the FSB account and attributed the lowered output \"to a fault at a sub-station outside the territory of the nuclear power plant\".\n\nRussia's defence ministry said Tuesday's explosions in northern Crimea took place at a temporary ammunition storage site on a base near the village of Maiske at about 06:15 Moscow time (03:15 GMT). A Crimean Tatar leader, Refat Chubarov, called the explosions a \"hit\" that could be heard \"far across the steppe\".\n\nThe defence ministry in Moscow said there had been no \"serious\" casualties, but Russian-appointed regional head Sergei Aksyonov visited the site and said 2,000 people had been moved from a nearby village and two people had been wounded.\n\n\"One man has a shrapnel wound and one was crushed by a wall. Their lives are not in danger, fortunately,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesman for Ukraine's Air Force Command, Yuriy Ignat, said the explosions were caused by Russia \"not observing fire precautions\".\n\n\"We are of course satisfied by the fact, because Dzhankoi [where the explosions took place] was one of the locations where the enemy kept their helicopters and other equipment,\" Mr Ignat told a news conference.\n\nWhen Russian forces unleashed the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, they used their bases on the annexed Crimean peninsula to capture large swathes of southern Ukraine.\n\nRussian occupation has stretched across two southern regions in particular, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine has vowed to launch a counter-offensive to recapture areas under Russian control.\n\nAfter the Russian air base at Saky was hit last Tuesday, satellite images revealed significant damage, with at least eight warplanes destroyed. Although Russia said that incident was also accidental, there was little doubt the base had come under Ukrainian attack, because of the precise nature of the destruction.\n\nThe UK ministry of defence said the blasts had \"significantly degraded\" the aviation capability of the Russian navy's Black Sea fleet.\n\nSaboteurs were also blamed for damage to a rail route in the Dzhankoi area\n\nThe latest blasts in northern Crimea are reminiscent of a string of recent attacks behind Russian lines in eastern Ukraine.\n\nSince June, Ukrainian forces have used US Himars multiple rocket launchers to hit as many as 50 arms stores, according to the defence minister. Bridges in the south have also been hit, jeopardising vital supply lines from Crimea to Kherson.\n\nHowever, Russian media have suggested that drones are more likely to have been used in Crimea than missiles. The Kommersant website reported that a Russian military airbase also came under attack further south in Crimea on Tuesday, at Hvardiiske near Simferopol, possibly from a small drone.\n\nThe apparent ability of Ukraine's military to reach so far behind enemy lines is of significant embarrassment to the Russians. The explosions at Saky were visible from nearby beaches, while videos posted afterwards on social media showed streams of tourists leaving Crimea, across a bridge built across the Kerch Strait after the Russian annexation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Space Launch System is a new rocket for a new era of lunar exploration\n\nThe American space agency Nasa has rolled out its giant new Moon rocket to prepare it for a maiden flight.\n\nKnown as the Space Launch System (SLS), the vehicle was moved to Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the expected lift-off on 29 August.\n\nThe debut outing is a test with no crew aboard, but future missions will send astronauts back to the lunar surface for the first time in over 50 years.\n\nThe near 100m-tall (328ft) SLS rode an immense tractor to the pad.\n\nIt started moving from its assembly building at Kennedy just before 22:00 on Tuesday, local time, and had completed the 6.7km (4.2 miles) journey by just after sunrise on Wednesday morning.\n\nNo humans are aboard, but sensor-laden mannequins will record conditions during the mission\n\nThis is a key moment for Nasa, which will celebrate in December the half-century anniversary of Apollo 17, the very last human landing on the Moon.\n\nThe agency has vowed to return with its new Artemis programme, using technology that befits the modern era (Artemis was Greek god Apollo's twin sister and goddess of the Moon).\n\nNasa sees a return to the Moon as a way to prepare to go to Mars with astronauts sometime in the 2030s or soon after.\n\nThe SLS will have 15% more thrust off the pad than Apollo's Saturn V rockets. This extra power, combined with further enhancements, will allow the vehicle to not only send astronauts far beyond Earth but, additionally, so much equipment and cargo that those crews could stay away for extended periods.\n\nThe crew capsule, also, is a step up in capability. Called Orion, it is much more spacious, being a metre wider, at 5m (16.5ft), than the historic command modules of the 1960s and 70s.\n\n\"To all of us that gaze up at the Moon, dreaming of the day humankind returns to the lunar surface - folks, we're here! We are going back. And that journey, our journey, begins with Artemis 1,\" said Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson.\n\n\"The first crewed launch, Artemis 2, is two years from now in 2024. We're hoping that the first landing, Artemis 3, will be in 2025,\" he told BBC News.\n\nNasa has promised that this third mission will witness the first woman to put her boots down on the Moon's surface.\n\nOnce the SLS arrives at its launch pad, engineers will have just over a week and a half to get the vehicle ready for flight.\n\nThree possible launch opportunities exist at the end of the month, starting with Monday 29 August.\n\nIf technical issues or inclement weather prevent the rocket from getting off Earth on this date, a further attempt can be made on Friday 2 September, and, failing that, on Monday 5 September.\n\nThe scope of the mission is to send Orion looping around the back of the Moon before bringing it home for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California.\n\nA major objective of the test fight is to check the heatshield on the capsule can survive the heat of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.\n\nArtwork: The conical Orion capsule is pushed through space by the European Service Module\n\nA key partner on the upcoming mission is Europe.\n\nIt is providing the propulsion module that sits on the back of Orion, pushing it through space.\n\n\"More than 10 countries in Europe have been working on this European Space Agency (Esa) contribution. It's a hugely important moment for us,\" explained Siân Cleaver from aerospace manufacturer Airbus.\n\n\"The European Service Module is not just a payload, it's not just a piece of equipment - it's a really critical element because Orion can't get to the Moon without us.\"\n\nEurope hopes its contribution to this and future SLS/Orion missions will eventually see a European national get to be part of a lunar surface crew at some point.\n\nFor now, it will have to cheer on the British animated character Shaun the Sheep. A puppet used in the stop-motion TV films has been placed in the Orion capsule, complete with an Esa badge and Union flag on its overalls.\n\nLast man on the Moon: Gene Cernan commanded the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972\n\nWhile Nasa is developing the SLS, the American rocket entrepreneur Elon Musk is preparing an even larger vehicle at his R&D facility in Texas.\n\nHe calls his giant rocket the Starship, and it will play a role in future Artemis missions by linking up with Orion to get astronauts down to the surface of the Moon.\n\nLike SLS, Starship has yet to have a maiden flight. Unlike SLS, Starship has been designed to be totally reusable and ought therefore to be considerably cheaper to operate.\n\nA recent assessment from the Office of Inspector General, which audits Nasa programmes, found that the first four SLS missions would each cost more than $4bn to execute - a sum of money that was described as \"unsustainable\".\n\nThe agency said changes made to the way it contracts industry would bring down future production costs significantly.\n\nShaun the Sheep will ride around the Moon", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I will do whatever it takes to keep Trump from the Oval Office'\n\nA leading Republican critic of Donald Trump says the party has \"embraced his cult of personality\" after she was ousted in a primary election.\n\nLiz Cheney, 56, was defeated by the political newcomer and Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman in Wyoming.\n\nShe had faced an uphill battle to win re-election after joining the congressional committee investigating Mr Trump's attempts to cling to power.\n\nMs Cheney - once a rising star in the party - also voted to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nThe primary election in the broadly conservative state highlighted the competing wings of the Republican Party - with more traditional conservatives facing off against Trump-backed candidates around the country ahead of mid-term elections in November.\n\nThe result means Ms Cheney, a three-term congresswoman and the eldest daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney, will not contest her seat in the US House of Representatives which she has held since 2017.\n\nIt illustrated the continuing influence of Mr Trump, who has backed dozens of candidates ahead of the mid-term elections that will determine control of Congress as well as governorships and state legislatures.\n\nAnd those candidates - who have mostly repeated his false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election and defended him amid mounting legal troubles - have performed well.\n\n\"I think the Republican Party today is in very bad shape,\" Ms Cheney told the Today programme on NBC. \"The party... embraced Donald Trump [and] embraced his cult of personality.\"\n\nMs Cheney won her primary in 2020 by a wide margin, and she told the programme that she believed she would have been successful once again had she repeated Mr Trump's unfounded claims of voter fraud.\n\n\"That path would have required that I accept, that I embrace, that I perpetuate the Big Lie,\" she said.\n\nMs Hageman - who ran to be Wyoming governor in 2018 - was handpicked by the former president and has said she believes the election Mr Trump ultimately lost to President Joe Biden was \"rigged\".\n\nIn her victory speech, she said the primary result showed Republicans will \"hold our elected officials accountable for their actions\" and \"dislodge entrenched politicians\".\n\nThe 59-year-old spent decades as a trial lawyer, with a particular focus on defending the interests of the energy and mining sector while opposing environmental policies.\n\nWhile she has since praised Mr Trump's record as president, Ms Hageman described the former president as \"racist and xenophobic\" before the 2016 election.\n\n\"[I] heard and believed the lies the Democrats and Liz Cheney's friends in the media were telling at the time,\" she told the New York Times last year.\n\nHarriet Hageman was previously a friend of Liz Cheney and criticised Donald Trump before his election as president\n\nMs Cheney became a virtual outcast within her party over her criticism of Mr Trump. Only two of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him after his supporters attacked the US Capitol last year have successfully maintained their places on the ticket for re-election.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Ms Cheney said it was \"dangerous\" to elect officials who questioned the result of that election and described it as a \"red line\" that she would continue to resist.\n\n\"I am absolutely going to continue this battle,\" she said, before vowing to do \"whatever it takes\" to stop Mr Trump from returning to the White House.\n\nThere had been speculation in the lead-up to the primary that Ms Cheney was preparing to challenge Mr Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024. \"[It] is something I'm thinking about and I'll make a decision in the coming months,\" she told Today.\n\nMr Trump earlier congratulated Ms Hageman on her victory in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\n\"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others,\" he wrote. \"Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion.\"\n\nElsewhere, Republican Sarah Palin - who is eyeing a political comeback - has advanced to November's election in Alaska in the race to represent the state in the House of Representatives.\n\nShe rose to prominence as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008, and Mr Trump is her key ally and supporter.\n\nIn the state's Senate race, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, 65, who has defied Mr Trump, is through to November's poll.\n\nBut under new voting rules one of her opponents will be another Republican, Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka, 42.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: “Brave and smart as a whip” or “a swamp rat politician” - how Republican voters see Liz Cheney", "The first case of human to dog transmission of monkeypox was reported in The Lancet\n\nA dog has been infected with monkeypox after catching the virus from its owner, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.\n\nIt's the first case of its kind, and health leaders say isolating from pets when infected is important.\n\nThe WHO also warned of the need to get rid of rubbish carefully to reduce the risk of infecting other animals.\n\nThere is no evidence that dogs can transmit the disease to other dogs or humans, an expert said.\n\nMonkeypox spreads through close skin-to-skin contact and also when someone touches fabrics - such as clothing, bedding, or towels - which have been used by someone with the virus.\n\nAround 35,000 cases have now been confirmed around the world, with most in Europe and north and south America. There have been 12 deaths linked to the outbreak.\n\nMonkeypox was declared a global public health emergency by the WHO in July.\n\nAfter a steep rise in cases of monkeypox in the UK since May, cases have started levelling off, according to the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nIt comes as UK supplies of the vaccine are set to run out until a new delivery of 100,000 jabs arrives sometime in September.\n\nThe first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox occurred in Paris and was reported in The Lancet.\n\nTwo men - living in the same house - who have sex with men noticed lesions on their greyhound dog 12 days after they started getting symptoms.\n\nGenetic analysis showed that the virus which infected the dog was exactly the same as the virus infecting the men, the report said.\n\nThey said they had been co-sleeping with their dog.\n\n\"This has not been reported before, and we believe it is the first instance of a canine being infected,\" said Dr Rosamund Lewis, technical lead on the monkeypox response at the WHO.\n\nDr Mike Ryan, director of the health emergencies programme, said it was \"not unexpected\".\n\n\"But what we don't want to see happen is disease moving from one species to the next, and then remaining in that species (and) moving around within a new species because that's when the virus can adapt, and then adapting to that new species (the virus) is incentivised to evolve as such.\"\n\nDr Sylvie Briand, director of global infectious hazard preparedness at the WHO, added: \"It's the first time, so it means that dogs can be infected, but it doesn't mean that the dog can transmit the disease and infect other dogs, nor does it mean that the dog can re-infect human if it is infected.\"\n\nVaccine supplies to protect against monkeypox are currently limited worldwide.\n\nThere has been a 20% increase in cases reported over the past week, which was also 20% more than the week before.\n\nMost cases are in men who have sex with men and global health leaders stress the importance for all countries to give information to these communities to help protect their health.\n\nThis is undoubtedly attention-grabbing, but how much of a risk does it pose?\n\nIn large outbreaks - and more than 35,000 people have been infected - rare events can occur that eventually prove inconsequential.\n\nHowever, the issue of animals catching the virus will have to be monitored closely as this virus has form.\n\nMonkeypox has shown a knack for infecting a wide range of mammals including squirrels, rats, dormice, monkeys and, of course, us.\n\nAnd people do catch the virus from animals.\n\nOutbreaks in West and Central Africa were all started by an infected animal and the 2003 monkeypox outbreak in the US was driven by pet prairie dogs (a type of squirrel).\n\nThe big concern is if the virus gets into animals in countries that don't normally have monkeypox - then those creatures could become a long-term source of infection.", "Around 16 football pitches of trees per minute were lost to forest fires in 2021, a new report says.\n\nData from Global Forest Watch suggests that across the globe, the amount of tree cover being burned has nearly doubled in the past 20 years.\n\nClimate change is a key factor in the increase as it leads to higher temperatures and drier conditions.\n\nOf the 9 million hectares of trees consumed by fire in 2021, over five million were in Russia.\n\nThe new data allows researchers to distinguish between trees lost to fires, and those destroyed for agriculture, logging or during intentional burns.\n\nThe remnants of a forest after a fire\n\nIn 2021, the second worst year for fires on record, an area the size of Portugal was lost.\n\n\"It is staggering,\" says James MacCarthy, an analyst with Global Forest Watch.\n\n\"It's roughly twice what it was just 20 years ago. It is kind of astonishing just how much fire activity has increased over such a short amount of time.\"\n\nThe impacts of fire-related losses are being felt primarily in forests in more northerly countries like Canada and Russia.\n\nWhile fire is a natural part of how these forests have long functioned, the scale of destruction seen in Russia in 2021 was unprecedented.\n\nOf the 9.3 million hectares (23 million acres) burnt globally, Russia accounted for more than half.\n\n\"What's most concerning is that fires are becoming more frequent, more severe and have the potential to unlock a lot of the carbon that's stored in soils there,\" said James MacCarthy.\n\nTrees and soils store carbon dioxide - one of the key gases warming our atmosphere - and experts say they are crucial in tackling climate change.\n\nDespite the use of technology, tree losses from fires have increased\n\nClimate change is seen as a key driver of these fires, with rising temperatures creating the drier conditions in which more trees burn.\n\nNorthern regions of the world are warming at a faster rate, leading to longer fire seasons.\n\nIn Russia, the 31% increase in fire losses in 2021 was due in part to the prolonged heatwaves that experts believe would have been practically impossible without human-induced warming.\n\n\"Climate change is increasing the risk of hotter, faster and larger fires,\" said Dr Doug Morton, who's chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at Nasa.\n\n\"And that's nowhere more visible than forests and woodlands where you have plenty of fuel to burn.\"\n\nIn other parts of the world, the impact of deforestation is also leading to more fires.\n\nIn the Brazilian Amazon, which recently saw the number of trees felled climb to a six year high, the losses due to agricultural clearing and logging are having a knock-on effect.\n\n\"Deforestation changes local and regional climates and removes a lot of the evapotranspiration that help keep temperatures low and more humid,\" said James MacCarthy.\n\nFirefighters in France deal with the aftermath of a blaze\n\n\"So cutting down these forests is actually making them hotter and drier, and making them more prone to fires.\"\n\nWhile many of the trees that burn down will grow back over a period of 100 years or so, there are significant associated impacts of these losses on biodiversity, on water quality and soil erosion.\n\nThe UN says that the outlook for forest fires in the decades ahead is grim. There is an expected increase of 50% in extreme fires by the end of this century.\n\nTo address this problem, scientists say that rapid and deep cuts in global carbon emissions are key.\n\nGlobal leaders at the climate change conference COP26 in Glasgow last year pledged to end deforestation, but the promise must be honoured if it's to make a difference.\n\nMore focus on preventing forest fires, rather than fighting them, is still needed, according to Mr MacCarthy.\n\n\"About 50% of national fire budgets are for responding to fires and less than 1% is really for preparing and planning,\" he says.", "Ryan Giggs said he had not done any of the things he is accused of \"in the manner described\"\n\nRyan Giggs has told a court he has never been faithful in his relationships.\n\nGiving evidence in his defence, Mr Giggs was asked if his reputation for \"infidelity\" or being a \"love cheat\" was justified, to which he said he was \"a flirt by nature\".\n\nMr Giggs, 48, is accused of controlling behaviour, as well as assaulting Kate Greville, 38, and her younger sister Emma, 26, in November 2020.\n\nWhen questioned by his defence barrister, Chris Daw QC, if he lied to partners including Ms Greville about being unfaithful he said: \" Yes, more than once\".\n\nBut when asked if he had ever physically assaulted a woman, he said \"no\", adding that he had never set out to control or coerce a woman.\n\nMr Daw asked: \"Did you ever set out to make Kate Greville a slave to your demands, as she claims?\"\n\nMr Giggs said he met his now ex-wife around at a barbecue when he was 18 and the pair started a relationship when he was in his late 20s.\n\nHe told the court they moved to Worsley, Greater Manchester, and had two children with whom he has \"a very good\" relationship with today.\n\nRyan Giggs says he and Kate Greville's relationship progressed after they were both unhappy in their marriages\n\nHe said he was not faithful to Ms Greville and never told her about his previous infidelities.\n\n\"I wasn't honest with her, no,\" he told Mr Daw.\n\n\"The first time I met Kate I was immediately attracted to her, I thought she was attractive, I thought she was intelligent, I thought she was funny.\"\n\nHe went on to say how the pair started flirting and that he thought she \"looked hot\" after swapping pictures of each from their travels.\n\nThe pair had sex for the first time the night before a planned London photo-shoot for Cafe Football, which they had kept secret.\n\nMr Daw asked: \"What was the balance of interest in that?\"\n\nGiggs replied: \"It was equal. We went back to the hotel room. We had sex and stayed the night.\"\n\nFrom that point, he said, the two talked about how unhappy they both were in their marriages.\n\nHe said Ms Greville left her husband \"no longer than six months\" after their first sexual contact.\n\nMr Giggs said he continued to stay at his family home with his wife Stacey and their two children as the affair carried on.\n\nRyan Giggs' football career ended with him as the most decorated player in the Premier League era, with 34 trophies\n\nThat relationship with his current wife at the time came to an end after a press article related him to Ms Greville in 2016, he said.\n\n\"She (Stacey) questioned me about it. I denied it.\"\n\nShortly after in the summer of 2016 he said Ms Greville was planning to move to Abu Dhabi for a work opportunity - he \"didn't want her to go\" but the pair agreed to \"make it work\".\n\nMr Daw asked about an incident at the Westin Hotel in Dubai in 2017, when Kate Greville alleges Mr Giggs dragged her naked body across the floor of his hotel room before throwing her belongings into a corridor.\n\nMr Giggs said the pair had been \"delighted\" to have a chance to see each other again but things took a turn for the worse after he started replying to a message from his daughter in a club.\n\n\"I could just feel Kate sort of looking over and sort of wondering who I was messaging. I just got a bit irritated because she was making it quite obvious she was peering over my shoulder. I just said: 'I'm messaging Libby'.\"\n\nHe said after he \"stormed off\" to his hotel room, Ms Greville followed him and they got into an argument.\n\nDenying there was any \"physical element\" to this, he said he started packing her suitcase and told her he did not want her to stay with him.\n\n\"Kate was trying to stop me from putting clothes and various other stuff into the suitcase.\n\n\"I didn't manage to shut it but I was ushering her towards the front door with the suitcase.\"\n\nHe said they were \"half outside\" in the corridor and half in the hotel room before Ms Greville managed to get the suitcase back and get back into the room.\n\nMr Giggs said he then told Kate Greville to sleep on the sofa, but after they calmed down they had sex and spent the night together in the same bed.\n\n\"We had sex that we would have quite often which could get quite rough, but not anything weird, but just rough.\"\n\nMr Daw said: \"Was that sort of sexual activity something the two of you engaged in regularly?\"\n\nGiggs replied: \"Yes,\" adding he and Ms Greville were both the instigator after not seeing eachother for a long period of time.\n\nHe told the court there was no issue between the two of them the next day and that the incident in the relationship \"wasn't unusual but I wouldn't say it was regular\".\n\nEarlier, in a statement read to Manchester Crown Court, Ryan Giggs said his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville had attacked him on 1 November 2020.\n\nHe said this incident resulted in injuries she said she sustained when he headbutted her.\n\nThe jury heard he asked both sisters to leave his house but they refused.\n\n\"I had no option but to demand my phone to ring the police. I went to the utility room to get hers [Kate Greville's].\n\n\"At this point she gave me my phone and, rather foolishly, I decided to keep hers.\n\n\"I should not have done this but [I] was emotional, angry and upset.\"\n\nThe ex-Wales and Manchester United star said he planned to call the police but Kate Greville grabbed his hand and a scuffle developed with her sister Emma, who was \"standing in close proximity\".\n\nHe stated: \"I accept during this scuffle my head clashed with hers [Kate]. I am not sure if it was the face or head but I am sure it was not deliberate.\"\n\nEmma Greville previously told the court Mr Giggs grabbed her sister by the shoulders and headbutted her, before turning to her and saying: \"I'll headbutt you next.\"\n\nHe is charged with controlling and coercive behaviour against Kate Greville between August 2017 and November 2020.\n\nHe is also charged with assaulting Kate Greville, causing her actual bodily harm, and charged with the common assault of Emma Greville on 1 November 2020.\n\nRyan Giggs has denied being controlling or coercive with his ex-girlfriend\n\nIn a prepared defence statement given to police and read in court by prosecutor Peter Wright QC, Mr Giggs said: \"I will not accept that my behaviour towards my former partner has been in any way controlling or coercive, nor that I have done any of the incidents in the manner described.\"\n\nHe told police there were occasions Ms Greville tried to \"control our relationship,\" including one incident when she was jealous of his \"contact with other females\".\n\nHe also said he did not recall threatening to release intimate photos or videos of the couple.\n\nHis statement said even if a threat had been made \"in jest or in drink,\" it would be \"preposterous\" for Ms Greville to believe it would be carried out.", "Curtis's former bandmate Peter Hook said Aitch moving quickly to rectify the situation was a \"great gesture\"\n\nA rapper has promised to have a mural of music icon Ian Curtis \"fixed pronto\" after it was painted over with an advert for his new album.\n\nThe promo for Manchester MC Aitch's Close to Home was put up over artist Akse P19's image of the Joy Division singer in the city's Northern Quarter.\n\nThe original mural was created as part of a mental health campaign.\n\nOn Twitter, Aitch said it was \"getting fixed\", adding: \"No way on earth would I want to disrespect a local hero.\"\n\nThe mural of the singer, who took his own life at his home in 1980 shortly before the Salford band were due to go on tour in the US, was put up for World Mental Health Day in 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAkse P19, who also had to repair his image of England star Marcus Rashford after it was defaced in 2021, said on Instagram that while he did not \"have anything against hand-painted advertising\", the mural \"had become a cultural landmark and meant so much to people from Manchester and beyond\".\n\n\"It doesn't take much common sense to understand that this mural should have remained for what it represented and stood for,\" he added.\n\nThe rapper said he acted as soon as he heard that the Port Street mural had been painted over and \"me and my team are getting this fixed pronto\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Aitch This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis response was welcomed by Curtis's former Joy Division bandmate Peter Hook, who had said the mural being painted over was \"very sad to see\".\n\nThanking Aitch, he said moving quickly to rectify the situation was a \"great gesture\".\n\nMusician and journalist John Robb also praised the rapper and said there was \"room in the city centre and record collections to celebrate you and Ian Curtis\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham added that Aitch \"shouldn't have been put in this position\".\n\n\"Ian is a true icon of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"He must be fully restored and left in his place for time in memoriam.\n\n\"Thanks to everyone for showing what Ian means to us.\"\n\nWork on restoring the mural began earlier, with Aitch's advert being painted over.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Around 4,000 UK victims of the infected blood scandal are to receive interim compensation of £100,000 each, the government has announced.\n\nIt will be given to those whose health is failing after developing blood-borne viruses like hepatitis and HIV, as well as partners of people who have died.\n\nIt is the first time compensation will be paid after decades of campaigning.\n\nFamilies welcomed the news but said there were many people, such as bereaved parents, who would miss out.\n\nThe payments will be made by the end of October in England. Those living in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also receive the money.\n\nIt comes after the chair of the public inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, said there was a compelling case to make payments quickly - and victims were on borrowed time because of failing health.\n\nCurrently, victims and families get financial support payments - and for some these will have run into tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nBut this is the first time the government has agreed to a compensation payment for things such as loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nThe government said the compensation would be tax-free and not affect the support payments these people are receiving.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"While nothing can make up for the pain and suffering endured by those affected by this tragic injustice, we are taking action to do right by victims and those who have lost their partners.\"\n\nThis could be just the first stage of compensation payments as the inquiry is looking into whether more payouts should be paid to a greater number of people.\n\nThe contaminated blood scandal has been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS.\n\nThousands of NHS patients with haemophilia and other blood disorders became seriously ill after being given a new treatment called factor VIII or IX from the mid-1970s onwards.\n\nAt the time the medication was imported from the US where it was made from the pooled blood plasma of thousands of paid donors, including some in high-risk groups, such as prisoners.\n\nIf a single donor was infected with a blood-borne virus such as hepatitis or HIV then the whole batch of medication could be contaminated.\n\nAn unknown number of UK patients were also exposed to hepatitis B or C through a blood transfusion after childbirth or hospital surgery.\n\nAt least 2,400 people died after contracting HIV or hepatitis C through NHS treatments in the 1970s and 80s.\n\nRos Cooper was infected with hepatitis C as a child after being diagnosed with a bleeding disorder in 1975. She had no idea for the first 19 years of her life.\n\n\"It's affected everything - my physical health, my mental health. I was unable to continue working, I've been unable to have children because the treatment for hepatitis C rendered me infertile. It's affected my marriage, it's affected my parents and it's affected my brother and it still affects me now.\"\n\nThere is a possibility that the damage hepatitis has done to her liver could lead to her developing cancer in the future, she said.\n\nShe added that she felt \"incredible guilt\" over the people who had not been included in the current payment package.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of people who haven't had their suffering recognised,\" she said.\n\nGary Webster was diagnosed with HIV at 18\n\nGary Webster, who was diagnosed with HIV at 18 after being given blood products while at a school to treat haemophilia, said his whole life has been changed as a result of being given contaminated blood.\n\n\"It has affected relationships, my work and my finances. I had to give up work in 2012. I have struggled since. I still have a mortgage and I have debts,\" he said.\n\n\"This money will help with that, but it will not replace what I have lost. And I am one of the lucky ones. I am still here.\"\n\nOver the years, the government has put in place a number of schemes offering victims financial support without any admission of liability but, unlike in the Republic of Ireland and some other countries, compensation has never been paid to individuals or families affected.\n\nIn July public inquiry chairman Sir Brian said individuals who currently qualified for financial support, including some bereaved partners of those killed, should now be offered interim compensation of £100,000 each.\n\nFinal recommendations on compensation for a wider group of people are expected when the inquiry concludes next year.\n\nFactor VIII was imported from the US in the 1970s and 1980s\n\nAn independent study commissioned by the government, published last month, said victims should eventually be compensated for physical and social injury, the stigma of the disease, the impact on family and work life, and the cost of care.\n\nIt recommended partners, children, siblings and parents of those who had been infected should be eligible for payments too.\n\nIf the inquiry and the government accept those proposals completely then it is possible the final bill could be more than £1bn.\n\nThe recipients of the interim compensation payments are people who are already registered for financial support payments, but campaigners have said there could be tens of thousands of others who have not yet come forward.\n\nCampaigner Sue Threakall, whose husband died in 1991 after contracting hepatitis B and HIV from contaminated blood, said she would continue to campaign for those left out of the compensation announcement.\n\nShe said: \"This is not just about money - it's about recognition of people whose lives have been destroyed, young adults have grown up their whole life without their parents and they have not been recognised, and parents whose young children died in their arms.\n\n\"We still have a huge swathe of people whose lives were destroyed and who have not had anything, so we will continue to fight for them.\"", "The Mourne Wall celebrates its 100th birthday this year with special celebrations held over the weekend.\n\nA listed structure that crosses 15 mountain summits, it’s the boundary of the huge water catchment area that feeds the Silent Valley and Ben Crom reservoirs.\n\nAs well as celebrating its story, stonemasons are currently at work to maintain the wall.\n\nBBC News NI's South East reporter Cormac Campbell has been finding out what it entails.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Daryll Neita won bronze as Dina Asher-Smith pulled up with cramp in the European women's 100m, after Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs won the men's race in Munich.\n\nA three-time European gold medallist in 2018, Asher-Smith slowed after 60m because of cramp in both her calves.\n\nItaly's Jacobs ran 9.95 seconds to beat British defending champion Zharnel Hughes (9.99) to the men's title.\n\nTeam-mate Jeremiah Azu ran a personal best 10.13 to take bronze.\n\nNeita clocked 11.00 as Germany's Gina Luckenkemper (10.99) delivered a hugely popular home victory ahead of Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji in a photo finish.\n\nEarlier, Briton Jacob Fincham-Dukes thought he had clinched his first major championship medal with silver in the men's long jump at the Olympiastadion.\n\nHowever, an appeal found the 25-year-old's season-best opening leap of 8.06m was a foul and he was demoted to fifth based on his next-best jump of 7.97m\n\nIn two thrilling 100m races, Israel Olatunde - the first Irish athlete to reach the European 100m final - set a national record of 10.17 to place sixth ahead of Britain's Reece Prescod, who finished fourth in 2018.\n\nIn the women's event, Imani Lansiquot was fifth in 11.21, with Asher-Smith eventually jogging across the line.\n\nAsher-Smith entered the championship bidding to defend the three titles she won in 2018 in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.\n\nThe 26-year-old was forced to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games after pulling up with a hamstring strain while competing for Great Britain in the women's 4x100m relay final at the World Championships in July.\n\nBy then, she had equalled her British record to take an agonising fourth in the 100m in Eugene - missing out on a medal by just 0.02 seconds - before winning 200m bronze.\n\nThat success, after which she revealed she had been struggling away from the track following the death of her grandmother, marked her return to a major championship podium after her Olympics campaign was wrecked by a hamstring injury.\n\nThere was to be no repeat in Munich - though it appears the problem she suffered was not a serious one.\n\n\"I got cramp in my calves and I can't be running on two cramping calves,\" Asher-Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'll go back and have a chat about my recovery and how I'm hydrating. I feel good which is why I'm frustrated.\n\n\"I wasn't about to go and run a whole race on two cramping calves and possibly tear them. Frustrated, it's just very annoying.\"\n\nMeanwhile, team-mate Neita, who successfully added to her Commonwealth bronze, lost out in a tight finish and also said she had been suffering with cramp.\n\n\"I was cramping up a lot. I haven't cramped all year. I was saying a prayer on the start line that I got through in one piece,\" Neita said.\n\n\"I honestly wasn't going to race but who is going to believe me if I said I was cramping up before. I got a medal somehow.\"\n\nA shock winner as he claimed gold at Tokyo 2020 in a European record time, Jacobs now has his first European 100m title - having become the first reigning Olympic 100m champion to win the world indoor 60m title back in March.\n\nDespite physical problems and illness disrupting much of his outdoor season to this point, the 27-year-old had too much for 2018 champion Hughes.\n\nThe former long jumper withdrew from the men's 100m semi-finals at the World Championships last month due to injury, but he moved clear of the field to take gold in a championship record time.\n\nHughes had to settle for Commonwealth silver in the 200m - qualifying for which begins on Thursday in Munich - before helping England to 4x100m gold in Birmingham.\n\n\"I'm happy. It's been a tough season. I'm proud of myself and I'm proud of the team. I wanted the gold medal but Jacobs was just better than me tonight,\" Hughes said.\n\n\"I'm very happy and I'm looking forward to the 200m because that is my favourite event.\"\n\nBronze medallist Azu, who won the British title ahead of Hughes earlier this year, said: \"I saw first [place] come up, I saw second come up. When I saw my name, I just screamed.\n\n\"I have come away with a bronze medal, I ran a PB. People back home know how much of a struggle it has been, there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes but I came away with the medal and I'm grateful.\"\n\nDisappointment for Fincham-Dukes as silver taken away\n\nGreece's Olympic champion and world silver medallist Miltiadis Tentoglou jumped 8.52m to defend his European title by a commanding margin.\n\nBut behind him, three athletes all recorded the same mark of 8.06m, with Britain's Fincham-Dukes placed ahead of Sweden's Thobias Montler and France's Jules Pommery by virtue of his next-best effort.\n\nIt stood as Fincham-Duke's best ever outdoor jump and came after he had produced a season's best of 7.86m in qualifying.\n\nHowever, that medal-winning first attempt was later challenged and a referee decision declared it was a failure, promoting Montler to silver and Pommery to bronze.\n\nGreat Britain and Northern Ireland appealed against the verdict but the decision was upheld.\n\nCompatriot Reynold Banigo jumped 7.6m to finish seventh in the final.\n\nIn the women's discus final, Jade Lally finished ninth as Croatia's Sandra Perkovic claimed an unprecedented sixth successive title.\n\nElsewhere, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, 21, defended his men's 5,000m title as he moved clear of Spain's Mohamed Katir in the final 100m to take gold.\n\nAndrew Butchart was the first Briton over the line, finishing seventh in 13:31.47, ahead of ninth-placed Sam Atkin (13:32.35) and Patrick Dever, who finished 21st (13:45.89).\n\nLaura Muir began the defence of her European 1500m title in style as she breezed into Friday's final by winning her heat during Tuesday's early session.\n• None A funny, moving and revealing look at a marriage:\n• None Get up to speed with the latest tantalising rumours", "Serena Williams thrashed by Emma Raducanu at Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams, who was playing the Western and Southern Open for what is likely to be the final time, won the Cincinnati title in 2014 and 2015 British number one Emma Raducanu put a dampener on Serena Williams' farewell tour after thrashing the American great in the Cincinnati Open first round. Williams, 40, plans to retire after the US Open, which starts on 29 August, and lost 6-4 6-0 in what is set to be the penultimate event of her career. The 23-time Grand Slam champion lacked sharpness and her 19-year-old opponent punished her in a composed display. Reigning US Open champion Raducanu will play Victoria Azarenka in round two. \"I'm so grateful for the experience to have been able to play Serena and for our careers to have crossed over,\" said world number 13 Raducanu, who played superbly with her defence of the Grand Slam title in New York looming. \"Everything she has achieved has been so inspirational and it was a true honour to share the court with her.\"\n• None Gauff retires injured & Osaka loses with US Open on the horizon Meanwhile, British men's number two Dan Evans lost 6-3 6-4 to Serbia's Filip Krajinovic. Evans, 32, reached the Montreal semi-finals last week but was unable to sustain that form at the second successive ATP Masters event. Fellow Britons Andy Murray and Cameron Norrie meet in the second round at 16:00 BST on Wednesday, followed on the centre court by Raducanu's match against Belarus' former world number one Azarenka. Ever since Williams announced her impending retirement last week - or her evolution away from the sport, as she put it - there has been the swell of acclaim which her legendary status deserves. The respect of the locker room for Williams has been demonstrated in the following days, with world number one Iga Swiatek and Raducanu among the WTA players lavishing praise on the American's achievements and her legacy. Four-time major champion Naomi Osaka, who lost in the tournament earlier on Tuesday, cheered on her hero from the stands as Williams took on a player who had not been born when she won her first four major titles. But Williams showed, as many great athletes have in the past, that time has the knack of showing them up on the stages where they once dominated. There had been reports Williams' preparation was hampered by an injury in the build-up to the match, which was originally advertised to be played on Monday but then moved back to Tuesday. Whether she was bothered by a physical problem or not, Williams was unable to cope with the pressure caused by Raducanu's serve and groundstrokes. Now, after waving goodbye to Cincinnati with a smile, the six-time US Open champion must try to regroup for what she will want to be a more fitting farewell at Flushing Meadows. Raducanu had recalled that her first memory of seeing Williams play was when she went to Wimbledon as a seven-year-old, adding that being drawn against the American on her farewell tour was a \"great gift\". But the Briton showed there was no room for nostalgia or charity in one of her best performances since her extraordinary US Open triumph last year. Williams has long intimidated her opponents by simply being on the other side of the net, with her aura backed up by the potency of her serve and powerful game. Raducanu showed from the start she was not prepared to be overawed by the occasion. Raducanu hit 14 winners and made just one unforced error in a dominant win which took her just one hour and five minutes Williams' serve was broken to love in the first game, setting the tone for a one-sided match which slowly deflated the former world number one and, in turn, a home crowd desperate to see a national icon finish her illustrious career with a flourish. Raducanu broke serve again for a 4-1 lead and, although Williams clawed one of the breaks back to give the crowd hope, the younger player continued to dominate. A frustrating debut season on the WTA Tour has seen Raducanu struggle to gain momentum but, in what could be her one and only meeting with Williams, she returned to a similar level to the kind of form she showed in New York last year. After closing out the opening set with a hold to love, Raducanu raced through the second set by dropping just 10 points and sealed a comfortable win with a precise ace down the middle. \"I was nervous from the first point to the last,\" said Raducanu. \"Serena is dangerous and can come back from any situation. I had to stay focused. I'm so pleased I managed to keep my composure. \"Each of those wins kind of build confidence regardless of the level you're playing, every single win counts. But of course this one more so, because you're playing like the greatest. \"But I'm not trying to get too high or too low right now.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None A funny, moving and revealing look at a marriage:\n• None Get up to speed with the latest tantalising rumours", "Visitors to Rwanda are often blown away to find a country where things seem to work efficiently. It is neat and tidy with lush green views - and the wi-fi is good in the capital, Kigali.\n\nEveryone tends to pay their taxes; services are reliable; the roads are safe - the government calls it \"one of the world's safest nations\".\n\nTake the pandemic for example. Rwanda did not hesitate to take coronavirus by the horns: lockdowns were implemented quickly and enforced strictly. Today more than 60% of the population is vaccinated - something the British Medical Journal calls a feat \"in a continent that is a Covid-19 vaccine desert\".\n\nBut underlying this compliance and Kigali's landscaped flower beds is a collective fear.\n\nWalk into a bar and try to start up a controversial debate, and you will be shut down - and there is every likelihood your behaviour will be reported to the authorities.\n\nSpying on neighbours is common in Rwanda - even in bars\n\nThose deemed a real threat will be dealt with harshly.\n\n\"It does look like the Switzerland of Africa but it is an extremely repressive and frightening country,\" Michela Wrong, author of a recent book on Rwanda called Do Not Disturb, told the BBC.\n\nOn the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means \"Community Work\".\n\nOne Rwandan, who asked not to be named, explains there is no law that forces people to attend the Umuganda - but there is a fear you will gain a reputation, that someone will report you, that your name will be logged as a troublemaker.\n\nAny camp that asylum seekers are sent to under the new UK deal is likely to be a well-organised affair - not the refugee camps you sometimes see with tents or plastic sheeting tacked on to thorns.\n\nThe country, which has a population of 13 million, has already taken in more than 900 African asylum seekers from Libya since 2019 - under a deal with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the African Union (AU).\n\nThe UN-run Gashora site has permanent structures - and many of those who have come from Libya have moved on\n\nThey have been housed at Gashora, about 60km (40 miles) from Kigali. The UNHCR says it is not a refugee camp, but an Emergency Transit Mechanism - and more than half of them have already been relocated to Sweden, Canada, Norway, France and Belgium.\n\nThe UN site, which has permanent structures, aims to teach those who suffered appalling conditions in Libyan camps, the skills to help them in their new life. The camp has a driving school and offers language classes, amongst other things.\n\nBut when Denmark announced last year that it was planning a similar deal to the one the UK has just launched, the AU hit out.\n\n\"Such attempts to stem out migration from Africa to Europe is xenophobic and completely unacceptable,\" it said last August.\n\nAfrica already shouldered 85% of the world's refugees \"often in protracted situations, whereas only 15% are hosted by developed countries\", it said.\n\n\"It's all about sending a deterrent to asylum seekers… anyone who is trying to flee repression in Africa is going to be horrified at being sent to Rwanda,\" she said.\n\nUnlike the UNHCR project, details being released of the UK scheme suggest asylum seekers would be in Rwanda for longer - \"so that they can resettle and thrive\", as the home secretary put it.\n\nIt is not clear how many people Rwanda is expecting to accept, given it is one of the most densely populated countries in Africa but UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it would take \"tens of thousands in the years ahead\".\n\nOut of Kigali, Wrong says it is a \"poor agrarian society where every inch of fertile land is being cultivated and which doesn't really have room to take refugees\".\n\nNo-one expects much opposition at home to the move - as critics of 64-year-old Paul Kagame, who led the rebel forces which ended the 1994 genocide and has been president since 2000, tend to regret it.\n\nLast month, Human Rights Watch issued a report about the prosecution over the last year of at least eight YouTubers considered to be critical of the government. One, who filmed and criticised soldiers forcefully expelling residents during a slum clearance, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.\n\nCritics who flee the country have been pursued and assassinated by Rwandan agents in exile - or in the case of Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved the lives of more than 1,000 people during the genocide and on whom the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda was based, put on trial.\n\nPaul Rusesabagina, who was played by Don Cheadle in the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda, is serving a 25-year sentence\n\nAfter the genocide - in which 800,000 people were killed - Rusesabagina became a Belgian citizen and used his fame to speak out against what he said was President Kagame's repressive rule.\n\nBut in 2020, his family says he was abducted while passing through Dubai and taken to Rwanda and has been convicted to 25 years in jail for backing a rebel group.\n\nHis daughter, Carine Kanimba, told the BBC it showed Rwanda had zero respect for human rights: \"Rwanda is a dictatorship, there is no freedom of speech, there is no democracy. In the last election the president won the elections by 99%, which tells you this is not a democracy.\n\n\"I don't understand why the British government would decide to send vulnerable people to a country that is known to oppress its own people.\"\n\nThe reason perhaps lies at the door of Mr Kagame, who stands more than 6ft, is a charismatic, Arsenal football club-loving, driven man. Many Western leaders - those who may feel the guilt of not doing more to stop the genocide that defines Rwanda for many outsiders - are enamoured by him.\n\nPresident Kagame was at the official opening of the Kicukiro Oval in 2017\n\n\"He's very good at identifying the issues that keep Western leaders awake at night and presenting them with a solution which seems to be effective and cut-price,\" says Wrong, pointing to how Rwandan troops were sent to Mozambique last year to deal with a jihadist insurgency.\n\nLast year, Mr Kagame said he was offering refugee centres on \"humanitarian grounds\". One of Rwanda's few opposition parties has said it is all about money.\n\nWestern nations are impressed by Rwanda's rapid economic development since the genocide and by the fact corruption appears not to be an issue - though donors do issue human rights warnings.\n\nThe UK Conservative party's love affair with Rwanda started in 2007, while in opposition, with something called Project Umubano, founded by Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThe former development minister organised for MPs to fly out each August to work on development projects - and coach cricket.\n\nA cricket charity linked to the project began raising funds and a few years ago the state-of-the-art Gahanga Cricket Stadium, also known as the Kicukiro Oval, was opened just outside Kigali.\n\nSome see the asylum-seeker deal as part of a sophisticated strategy to improve Rwanda's image, as the country gears up to host the Commonwealth summit this June.\n\nBut Rwanda's government spokesperson dismissed its critics, saying no-one was persecuted in Rwanda for having an opinion\n\n\"We know the kind of situations that people from countries like that have been through and this is a place where they will be safe, they will be protected and can live dignified lives and have an opportunity to develop their talents,\" Yolande Makolo told the BBC.\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "James Cook was called a \"traitor\" outside the Conservative leadership hustings in Perth\n\nNicola Sturgeon has described the abuse of a BBC journalist by independence supporters as \"disgraceful\".\n\nProtesters outside the Conservative leadership hustings in Perth shouted insults including \"you're a traitor\" and \"scumbag rat\" at James Cook.\n\nThere were also reports of eggs being thrown and people being spat at as they arrived at the event.\n\nThe first minister said abusing journalists was never acceptable, and described Mr Cook as a \"total pro\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Their job is vital to our democracy and it is important to report and scrutinise, not support any viewpoint.\n\n\"James Cook is a journalist of the highest quality and a total pro - the behaviour he was subjected to last night was disgraceful.\"\n\nShe later said she did not believe those involved had been SNP members, but that \"appropriate action\" would be taken if they were.\n\nA video of the exchange between Mr Cook and protesters outside the Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday evening was posted online by one of those involved in the demonstration before later being deleted.\n\nIt showed insults being shouted at Mr Cook, the BBC's Scotland editor, before a woman asked him how long he had been in Scotland and whether he knew about the Claim of Right 1689.\n\nMr Cook replied that he was Scottish before adding: \"I'm not going to be starting asking you how long you've been in Scotland, I think it's a bit of a rude question.\"\n\nAfter abuse continued to be shouted, Mr Cook said: \"It's a waste of time. I'm very much trying to have a civilised conversation with you, in our nation, which we share.\n\n\"But I can't have a civilised conversation because this gentleman calls me 'traitor' and 'scum' and screams me down.\"\n\nThe BBC described Mr Cook as an \"exceptional correspondent\" who \"showed professionalism throughout the incident\".\n\nIt added: \"It is never acceptable for journalists to suffer abuse of any nature while doing their job.\"\n\nThe BBC has faced accusations of bias - which it strongly denies - from many within the pro-independence movement since the 2014 referendum campaign.\n\nA small group of protesters carrying signs criticising the treatment of migrants and refugees broke through barriers and ran towards the door of the venue\n\nMr Cook's predecessor as the broadcaster's Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, has previously spoken of the \"criticism, bile and hatred\" she faced while covering politics in the country.\n\nMs Smith said she was frequently subjected to insults and misogyny, and had been \"demonised quite heavily amongst certain parts of the population\".\n\nSNP MSP James Dornan had to issue an apology after initially claiming Ms Smith had \"imagined\" or \"exaggerated\" her story.\n\nThere were reports of abuse and eggs being hurled at Tory members as they arrived to hear leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak speak.\n\nProtesters hung banners saying \"Tory Scum Out\" and \"Scottish not British\" outside the venue, with one group breaking through the barriers and running towards the door of the concert hall before retreating.\n\nHolly Moscrop, the national chair of the Scottish Young Conservatives, said her coat had been grabbed, she was spat on and had misogynistic abuse screamed at her near the entrance to the venue.\n\nMs Moscrop told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"The protesters were leaning right over the railing and one of them grabbed my coat.\n\n\"They were screaming abuse right in my face to the point that they were spitting in my face.\n\n\"They were shouting that I was a Tory whore, telling me that I should die and kill myself and that we were Tory scum.\n\n\"I was genuinely really scared that they were going to come over the barrier and that they were going to do something\".\n\nScotsman journalist Alistair Grant said he was one of those who had been hit by an egg.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Can 100% confirm that when I arrived at the Tory leadership hustings, eggs were being thrown towards the queue of party members waiting to get in to the venue.\n\n\"Regret to say an egg just hit my leg. Can't stress how uncomfortable it is to have an eggy sock.\"\n\nThere were reports of eggs being thrown at Conservative members as they queued outside the Perth Concert Hall\n\nScottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy said people trying to attend the hustings had faced a \"gauntlet of hate\" outside.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone is entitled to peacefully protest and make their voice heard against politicians they disagree with - that's the essence of democracy - but, not for the first time, a mob of extremist nationalists crossed a line.\n\n\"It's shameful that journalists doing their job and ordinary party members, some of them elderly, had to run a gauntlet of hate just to get into the venue, including having eggs thrown at them and being spat at.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said there had been no arrests at the protest, with Ch Supt Phil Davison insisting that an \"appropriate policing plan was in place to maintain public safety and minimise disruption\".\n\nHe added: \"We have a duty under the European Convention on Human Rights to protect the rights of people who wish to peacefully protest or counter-protest, balanced against the rights of the wider community.\"\n\nIt wasn't a huge surprise to see a crowd of protestors outside the venue. Many of the same banners were draped over the same railings at the last hustings in 2019.\n\nSome were slightly taken aback though at the scale and ferocity of the event, with insults and the occasional egg flying while a large sound system boomed out some rather sweary speeches.\n\nThere was a fairly partisan atmosphere inside at times too, with members booing and heckling some questions from the host, broadcaster Colin Mackay.\n\nPolitical leaders are at pains to paint any abuse as the work of an extremely vocal minority.\n\nBut there is no mistaking the fact that politics has a fairly angry tinge to it right now.\n\nPeople are struggling amid rising prices and fuel bills, and it's only going to get worse as we move into winter.\n\nTrust in politicians was plumbing new depths even before the cost of living crisis, and now inflation and interest rates are on the rise and wage disputes are commonplace.\n\nWhoever wins the Tory leadership is going to face a huge challenge in cooling the atmosphere of debate and bringing people together in such circumstances.", "The UK is expected to take delivery of a shipment of gas all the way from Australia next week, as the pressure on European energy supplies grows.\n\nThe liquid natural gas (LNG) is due to arrive on 22 August, according to commodities analysts Kpler.\n\nAustralia doesn't usually sell gas this far afield, but European countries have been seeking alternatives to Russian gas following the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe UK stopped importing gas from Russia in April.\n\nWhile the UK bought only a small fraction of its gas from Russia before the conflict began, the country is connected to the European gas network. Continental Europe is much more reliant on Russian gas, and deliveries via the Nordstream pipeline have already been curtailed.\n\nMoscow has been accused of using gas as a political weapon and there are fears it could cut supplies to European countries altogether, if there is no resolution to the crisis.\n\nEnergy analyst David Cox said the Australian shipment was a sign of how \"desperate\" European countries were to secure alternative sources of gas before winter.\n\n\"European nations are desperately trying to store up before the winter comes,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"This shipment isn't necessarily for the UK, because we don't have the storage to keep it anyway. But I imagine most of it will be exported to Europe where they're racing to increase their supplies.\"\n\nThis is the first time Australia has shipped a liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to Europe in at least six years, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news.\n\nAustralia's decision to sell to Europe could also be partly due to reduced demand from China, where Mr Cox said repeated Covid lockdowns had reduced the need for energy.\n\nThe UK gets about half of its gas directly from the North Sea. A further third comes via pipelines from Norway and it also buys LNG from Qatar, the US and a handful of other countries.\n\nCommodities intelligence firm Kpler confirmed to the BBC that the LNG vessel Attalos is headed to the UK's Isle of Grain terminal near London, bringing with it a cargo from the North West Shelf liquefaction plant in Australia.", "Aran Chada was on holiday with his partner and two children\n\nThe body of a British man who jumped from a boat to save his son has been found in Italy.\n\nAran Chada, from Leicestershire, went on holiday to Lake Garda with his partner and two children last month.\n\nHe had been missing since disappearing under the water on 22 July, and the local coastguard said volunteers found his body on Tuesday.\n\nIt said the family was currently in the UK, but would be returning to Italy to identify the body.\n\nIt is thought the holiday was organised to celebrate Mr Chada's birthday, when he was due to turn 52.\n\nThe family had rented a boat when Mr Chada's son got into trouble off the coast of the resort of Limone.\n\nMr Chada disappeared under the water at Lake Garda on 22 July\n\nThe coastguard said volunteers found Mr Chada's body at a depth of 316m (1,037ft) and a distance of 800m (2,625ft) from Limone.\n\nThis was \"more or less in the area where he was seen sinking\", the coastguard said, and his drowning was \"probably caused by an illness\" following the rescue of his son.\n\n\"Thanks to the professionalism shown in this context and the equipment supplied to them, the volunteers of Lake Garda managed to locate the body of Mr Chada on Tuesday afternoon, 16 August 2022,\" the coastguard said.\n\nMr Chada's body was found by volunteers after more than three weeks of searching by authorities\n\nThe coastguard previously told the BBC that Mr Chada's partner raised the alarm by phoning 112, the European emergency number.\n\nThey said Mr Chada \"saved his son\" but then \"disappeared\" near the boat.\n\nA witness told local media: \"The mother screamed and the father jumped into the water.\"\n\nThe coastguard said it immediately sent one of its boats, which had been on patrol in the area.\n\nA helicopter, divers from the fire service, police and volunteers also joined efforts to find Mr Chada.\n\nA Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office spokesperson added: \"We are supporting the family of a British man who has died in North Italy and are in contact with the local authorities.\"\n\nThe family rented a boat while on holiday next to Lake Garda\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Police officers who are violent towards women or girls can expect to be sacked, under new guidance for misconduct within police ranks.\n\nThe College of Policing has reviewed the penalties for breaches of police standards in a bid to \"bring common sense and consistency\" to the process.\n\nIt concludes violence against women or girls by police officers will always have a \"high degree of culpability\".\n\nBehaviour will still be considered on a case by case basis.\n\nBut those found guilty should normally be dismissed and barred from the police, the college said.\n\nThe CoP - which is responsible for setting standards of ethics and training for the police service - has tightened up its guidance following recent cases where police officers have abused and attacked women. In 2021 Sarah Everard was abducted and murdered by a serving Metropolitan Police officer.\n\nPolice officers who break the law can be prosecuted. Misconduct hearings can also follow either criminal convictions or less serious breaches of police professional standards.\n\nThey are chaired either by a senior officer or a person with a legal qualification, and can result in a written warning, reduction in rank or dismissal without notice.\n\nThe new guidance is for these hearings and designed to ensure a consistent approach is taken - in order to prevent abusive officers from remaining in their jobs.\n\nSetting out the current problems, Chief Constable Andy Marsh, the college's chief executive, said: \"I have spoken before about my frustration at having to re-admit officers to my workforce who I thought should have been shown the door.\n\n\"In many cases, the guidance wasn't clear enough that legally-qualified chairs should be considering the impact an incident may have on wider public confidence, as well as the specific incident itself.\n\n\"Today's updated guidance is very clear that the undermining of public confidence caused by an officer's wrongdoing, or just the risk that it could be undermined, should be central to the decision-making.\n\n\"If someone's behaviour is so bad that it would damage the public's trust in their police service, they should be sacked. There is no place for them in policing, and neither chief constables nor their colleagues want them.\"\n\nFor misconduct hearings, the officer has to be found to have acted unprofessionally on the \"balance of probabilities\". In other words, they are more likely to be guilty than not.\n\nIn criminal courts, a jury or magistrate has to be \"beyond all reasonable doubt\" that an offence was committed - a higher bar for conviction.\n\nAccording to CoP figures, between April 2020 and March 2021, 139 serving police officers were dismissed and barred from the police, 100 officers were dismissed after they had resigned, and 18 after their retirement.\n\nIn 38 cases, officers abused their position for sexual purposes. There were 17 cases involving an assault and seven involving domestic abuse.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jason Evans's father died in 1993, when Jason was four\n\nA Coventry man whose father died after being given infected blood in the 1970s and 1980s has criticised the government's compensation scheme.\n\nVictims of the infected blood scandal will receive interim compensation payments of £100,000 each, as recommended by a public inquiry.\n\nThe scandal saw thousands infected with HIV and Hepatitis through contaminated blood products.\n\nThe government said it was \"taking action to do right by victims\".\n\nBut Jason Evans said hundreds of affected families would miss out.\n\nThe campaigner's father, Jonathan, died in 1993, after he contracted both HIV and hepatitis C during treatment.\n\nJason Evans was just four at the time, but speaking on Wednesday said families where relationships had broken down or widows and widowers had died would not get the payouts.\n\n\"It's the government's classic trick,\" he said.\n\n\"They put out a press release last night saying we're going to pay £100,000 to those impacted by the contaminated blood scandal.\n\n\"But the devil is truly in the detail.\"\n\nJonathan Evans was just 31 when he died in 1993 after contracting both HIV and hepatitis C during treatment\n\nHe said that of 1,200 haemophiliacs infected with HIV, only 457 families would receive the compensation, due in October - the 229 victims who were still alive and 228 bereaved partners.\n\nThis means 63% of those families would miss out, Mr Evans said.\n\nIn all, some 4,000 victims of the infected blood scandal, including those with other blood disorders, are set to receive interim payments.\n\nHowever, some partners, children, siblings and parents of those who had been infected are set to miss out.\n\n\"It really seems like discrimination on the basis of marital status,\" Mr Evans said.\n\n\"This impacts those who are most ill who will die in the next two months, whose families won't get anything.\"\n\nHe said the compensation scheme, however, did represent a \"step forward\".\n\n\"For those getting this money by the end of October, it will allow them some degree of financial freedom, the likes of which they've never had.\n\n\"Many of them are deeply unable to work, to put it mildly, and in very bad health as a result of what was done to them.\"\n\nThe compensation package, which will be tax-free, has been recommended by the public inquiry and marks the first time payouts for items such as loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nIt could also be just the first stage of compensation payments, as the inquiry is looking into whether more should be paid to a greater number of people.\n\nBoris Johnson said while nothing could make up for the pain of losing a family member, he said the government was trying \"to do right by victims\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The payout is the largest enforcement action made by the Gambling Commission\n\nA gambling giant has been ordered to pay a record £17m after it failed to put proper checks in place to support struggling customers.\n\nEntain, the firm behind Ladbrokes and Coral, was accused of \"completely unacceptable\" failures by the Gambling Commission.\n\nThe company could lose its licence to operate in the UK if it breaches any more rules.\n\nEntain said it had since brought in safer gambling measures.\n\nThe Gambling Commission, a government agency that supervises gambling laws, investigated the company and found a series of \"completely unacceptable failures\".\n\nIt said it had been slow to help customers who were struggling with gambling debt.\n\nOne online customer who gambled for extended periods overnight was able to deposit more than £230,000 in their account over eighteen months, but was only contacted once in an online chat.\n\nAnother, who was known to live in social housing, was allowed to deposit £186,000 in six months without sufficient checks.\n\nSome customers could also create accounts with other sites in the company, even if they had racked up debt elsewhere.\n\nOne online customer who was blocked from using Coral because they had spent £60,000 in 12 months and failed to provide source of funds was immediately able to open an account with Ladbrokes and deposit £30,000 in a single day.\n\nEntain also allowed online customers to deposit large amounts without carrying out sufficient source of funds checks.\n\nOne consumer was allowed to deposit £742,000 in 14 months but was not flagged for potentially laundering money.\n\nChief executive of the Gambling Commission Andrew Rhodes said: \"Our investigation revealed serious failures that have resulted in the largest enforcement outcome to date.\"\n\nMr Rhodes said it was the second time the operator had \"fallen foul of the rules\".\n\n\"They should be aware that we will be monitoring them very carefully and further serious breaches will make the removal of their licence to operate a very real possibility. We expect better and consumers deserve better.\"\n\nIn a statement, Entain said it had agreed to the settlement \"to bring the matter to a close\" and \"avoid further costly and protracted legal proceedings\".\n\nIt added the issues raised related \"to the period between December 2019 and October 2020, which predates the many changes in the area of safer gambling and anti-money laundering that Entain has introduced\".\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article, you can find details of organisations who can help via the BBC Action Line.\n\nThe NHS also offers help with problem gambling.", "One of the burglaries happened at the famous Claridge's hotel in Mayfair\n\nA 13-year-old boy carried out burglaries at some of London's top luxury hotels and BBC Television Centre, a court has heard.\n\nThe boy admitted to raids on Claridge's in Mayfair, the Corinthian Hotel in Whitehall, and the Milestone and Millennium Hotels in west London.\n\nHe appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court where he pleaded guilty to 11 charges of burglary.\n\nHis 14-year-old brother also admitted his involvement in two of the raids.\n\nThe court heard items stolen during the spree included cash, bank cards, cosmetics, a MacBook, phones and a scooter.\n\nDuring a burglary at one hotel, the teenager and his 14-year-old brother, then aged 13, obtained the master key and gained access to a number of rooms, the prosecution said.\n\nThe string of burglaries, which took place between April 2021 and January 2022, also included thefts from a restaurant and a number of high street shops, such as Holland & Barrett, TK Maxx and Sainsbury's.\n\nThe 13-year-old boy also targeted the offices of retailer The White Company and the Publicis media agency within the BBC complex in White City, west London, the court was told.\n\nThe two boys, who cannot be identified because of their age, were accompanied by their mother when they appeared in court for the hearing.\n\nKristin Heimark, prosecuting, said most of the offences involved the boy gaining access to private areas of the businesses.\n\nDescribing one hotel raid, she said: \"They have snuck in, gotten the master key, and then gone to various rooms looking for things.\"\n\nThe prosecution brought no evidence in relation to a further alleged burglary at a restaurant against both boys, as well as two more alleged incidents at a second restaurant and the Four Seasons Hotel in Park Lane against the younger of the two. Those charges were then dismissed.\n\nThe two brothers are due to be sentenced in September.\n\nThey were released on conditional bail until their next court appearance.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Uoc Van Nguyen had not been in touch with his family since the day of the fire\n\nA missing Vietnamese national has been identified as the first of four people whose remains were found after a huge fire at a mill.\n\nThe remains were found in July by demolition workers at Bismark House Mill in Oldham after a blaze broke out there on 7 May.\n\nUoc Van Nguyen, 31, was identified through fingerprint analysis, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nOfficers believe three other Vietnamese nationals were in the mill at the time.\n\nCuong Van Chu, 39, Duong Van Nguyen, 29, and Nam Thanh Le, 21, were also reported missing and police are continuing to search the mill site.\n\nMr Van Nguyen had been in touch with his wife until 7 May when he told her he was in a mill, police said.\n\nCuong Van Chu was in contact with his family until 7 May, while Nam Thanh Le's last contact was three days earlier\n\nPolice also revealed what was known about the other missing men.\n\nMr Van Chu arrived in the UK in June 2019 and was also in regular contact with his wife and children until 7 May, but his family has not heard from him since.\n\nMr Thanh Le arrived in the UK in January and last contacted his family on 4 May, when he said he was living in a derelict house in \"Dam\", believed to be Oldham, and looking for work.\n\nDuong Van Nguyen told family he was living in an \"abandoned house\"\n\nMr Van Nguyen had been in the UK for about a year and last contacted his family about three months ago, when he said he was living in an \"abandoned house\" and looking for work.\n\nDet Supt Lewis Hughes said the force was supporting the families in Vietnam.\n\nHe said searches of the mill site would continue for several weeks.\n\nNo-one was believed to have been in the mill at the time of the fire\n\nThe force said it was following several lines of inquiry in relation to the blaze and activities at the mill beforehand.\n\nAnyone with information has been urged to contact police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ade Goodyear was among the pupils at Treloar's College treated with contaminated blood\n\nA public inquiry has begun hearing from former students after more than 120 pupils at a school for disabled children were caught up in what has been called the worst treatment disaster in NHS history.\n\nFrom 1974 to 1987, those children were offered treatment for haemophilia at Treloar's College.\n\nAt least 72 died after being given a drug contaminated with HIV and viral hepatitis.\n\n\"We've lost so many friends from Treloar's and it's absolutely heartbreaking,\" Richard Warwick, a pupil at the Hampshire school in the late 1970s who was later diagnosed with HIV, told the BBC ahead of the hearing.\n\nThe inquiry into the use of infected blood began taking evidence from people connected to the school on Monday.\n\nFormer headmaster, Alec Macpherson, is one of those due to answer questions. \"It caused those boys a lot of anxiety and a lot of upset,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It put a rage inside them - why me, why has this happened to me, why have I got this dreadful disease?\"\n\nLord Mayor's Treloar's College was a boarding school for physically disabled children with a specialist NHS haemophilia centre on site, run by a dedicated medical team.\n\nBy the mid 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia, known as factor VIII/IX, became available for the first time.\n\nIt meant those with a serious form of the blood disorder could live a normal life without the risk of a bleed.\n\nThe NHS was not self-sufficient in the blood plasma used to make the drug so it was imported from overseas, most notably the US.\n\nBatches were widely contaminated with hepatitis A, B, C and later HIV, infecting thousands of haemophiliacs across the UK.\n\nAde Goodyear joined Treloar's in 1980 at the age of 10. He described life as \"wonderful\" with supportive teachers, nurses and good friends.\n\nLike dozens of other boys at the school, he was given factor VIII to help control his bleeding.\n\nAde Goodyear received treatment for haemophilia, along with his two older brothers\n\n\"With one of my very first shots, I got hepatitis and was placed in isolation for two weeks,\" he said.\n\nIn 1985 he was taken into a small office with a group of boys to be told he had tested positive for HIV - then a newly discovered virus with no known treatment and a short life expectancy.\n\n\"The doctor was upset and pointed at us and said, you have it, and you haven't. And I was back in science by 1.50pm. I didn't even get the afternoon off,\" he said.\n\n\"A friend of mine picked up a pot plant and threw it against the wall of the haemophilia centre. It was a beautiful summer's day and I remember thinking, how many more sunrises like this am I going to see?\"\n\nAde's two older brothers died after treatment with factor VIII - Jason from Aids in 1997 and Gary from health problems linked to hepatitis C in 2015.\n\nFor pupils like Ade and Richard it meant living with the stigma of what was then a little-known disease.\n\nStudents were followed by newspaper reporters outside the school gates and shouted questions about their HIV status.\n\nJust 32 of the 122 haemophiliacs who attended the school from 1974 to 1987 are still alive today. Most died after contracting HIV or viral hepatitis.\n\nIt's hoped the public inquiry will be able to answer questions about what happened at Treloar's and the NHS haemophiliac centre run from the site.\n\nEx-pupils Stephen Nicholls and Richard Warwick wear ties with the colours they use to support those who died - red for HIV, yellow for hepatitis, black for death\n\nFamilies want to know why they were not told about the potential risks of Factor VIII earlier and why it took many years until the drug was heat treated to kill viruses and other contaminants.\n\n\"What happened at the school comes back to haunt us every day,\" said Stephen Nicholls, a former pupil who was infected with hepatitis C after his treatment.\n\n\"We will never forget the Treloar's story and those memories of what happened here.\"\n\nIt is a rare genetic condition in which the blood does not clot properly. It mostly affects men.\n\nPeople with the condition produce lower amounts of the essential blood-clotting protein known as factor VIII and IX.\n\nFormer students are giving evidence this week, some anonymously, along with the parents of children who lost their lives.\n\nThe haemophilia centre on the site was run by NHS doctors and nurses and not staff directly employed by the school, which still cares for physically disabled children today.\n\n\"Although no-one has at any point suggested that Treloar's was at fault, it is a tragic part of our past,\" the school said in a statement.\n\n\"It was, and still is, a very difficult time for our affected alumni, their families and staff who were here at the point.\n\n\"We are completely supportive of the campaign for truth, answers and justice by our former pupils.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A RC-135W Rivet Joint was conducting a \"routine operation\" over international waters, the UK said\n\nThe UK has denied an RAF jet entered Russian airspace in the Arctic Circle, after the Kremlin accused Britain of a \"deliberate provocation\".\n\nThe flight by a RC-135 Rivet Joint was part of \"routine operation\" on Monday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.\n\nA Russian fighter made an \"unsafe close pass\" of the surveillance aircraft over international waters, it added.\n\nMoscow said it had \"been tasked with preventing the violation of Russian Federation airspace\".\n\nThe MoD denied claims the Royal Air Force (RAF) plane had violated the Russian border in the Arctic Circle, adding that \"at no time\" did the aircraft enter Russia's airspace.\n\nIt said the RC-135, based at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, was communicating with Russian civilian air traffic control and its crew operated in a \"safe and professional manner\" during the flight, which took it over the Norwegian and Barents seas in the Arctic Circle.\n\nThe RAF jet later returned safely to its base in the UK after the flight.\n\nA Russian MIG-31 conducted an \"unsafe close pass\" of the RAF reconnaissance jet, the MoD said.\n\nOn Monday, Russia said the UK had submitted a flight plan application \"to fly along a route including over Russian Federation territory\" near Cape Svyatoy Nos.\n\nThe Kremlin said it considers \"this action to be a deliberate provocation\" and its air force has \"been tasked with preventing the violation of Russian Federation airspace\".\n\n\"All the possible consequences of this deliberate provocation will be borne solely by the United Kingdom\", a Russian government spokesperson added.\n\nRussia itself has been accused of violating or approaching the airspace of other nations with military aircraft in the past.\n\nIn 2015 a Russian Su-24 jet was shot down by Turkish F-16 fighters near the Syrian border after being accused of entering Turkey's airspace.\n\nIn February, RAF aircraft were scrambled to intercept four Russian military planes - two bombers and two maritime patrol aircraft - flying to the north of Scotland, although on this occasion no airspace violation occurred.", "At 18 MP Virginia Crosbie nearly died in a car crash in Turkey\n\n\"People always say to me that I must be really tough and I'm not. I'm strong.\"\n\nRecently-elected Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie has been through a lot - at 18 she nearly died in a car crash in Turkey.\n\nThe Tory politician told BBC Walescast, she was \"very happy to talk\" about her the experiences that shaped her.\n\nShe said: \"I want people to sort of think: 'Do you know what, if Virginia can become an MP then anyone can'.\"\n\nFollowing the car crash, she needed \"a lot\" of surgery on her face. Her last operation was just three years ago.\n\nThe 55-year-old said: \"It was really hard starting university, having to have so much surgery.\n\n\"Half my head was shaved and you're trying to make an impression with people, you're trying to make new friends.\"\n\nYears later Ms Crosbie, originally from Essex, worked for HSBC and travelled the world.\n\nSometimes that meant 24-hour flights to Australia.\n\nShe was still working for the bank when she became pregnant with for the second time.\n\nHer doctors were worried about the baby's heartbeat.\n\nIn 2018 her brother Simon, right, took his own life\n\nThe mum-of-three said: \"I walked into work, and it was so important to me that I kept that baby, that I actually resigned.\n\n\"And then, unfortunately, a few days later I lost the baby, so it was a very difficult time for us.\"\n\nIn 2018 her brother Simon took his own life.\n\nShe has since campaigned on mental health issues something, she said, was close to her heart.\n\n\"We were very, very close together,\" Ms Crosbie said.\n\n\"And I mentioned him actually in my maiden speech [in the House of Commons], and I said one of the people that I would love to have listened to my speech wasn't there.\"\n\nIt was never a long-term plan to become an MP.\n\n\"We didn't talk about politics at home,\" said Ms Crosbie.\n\n\"And so it was a real surprise to my friends and family that I got involved.\"\n\nAs a teenager, she wanted to be a TV presenter.\n\nShe has since campaigned on mental health issues\n\nHoping for her big break, she wrote to programmes, including BBC children's series Animal Magic.\n\nThey said she was too young for a presenting job but they said they needed help with the dolphins, seals, and sea lions.\n\n\"They say never to work with animals and children but I survived,\" Ms Crosbie said.\n\n\"And I think it's given me a really good grounding in how to deal with the House of Commons.\"\n\nBut there was very little preparation for standing for election on Ynys Môn in 2019.\n\nShe was chosen as Conservative candidate at the last minute, and remembered taking a call asking her to stand on the island.\n\nIt took her \"one nanosecond\" to decide.\n\nMs Crosbie said: \"My grandfather is from Wales, my father went to school in Monmouth, and it was very important for me to represent Wales. And I believed it was winnable.\"\n\nAs a teenager she wrote to BBC show Animal Magic in a bid to become a presenter\n\nYnys Môn was one of six Welsh seats the Tories took from Labour in that election as the party recorded its best result in Wales since 1983.\n\nBut less than three years after winning an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives, Boris Johnson is standing down as prime minister.\n\nMs Crosbie was the first Welsh Conservative MP to publicly call on him to resign.\n\n\"He was letting down all of us and some of us in very, very challenging seats,\" she said.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss has her backing in the battle to become the next Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\n\"What we're going to see, with whoever is our new prime minister in September, is a need to focus on bringing the party together,\" Ms Crosbie said.\n\nHaving settled her family on Anglesey, she is trying to learn Welsh.\n\nThis has proven \"a real challenge\" she said.\n\nShe is committed to defending her seat at the next election and is focusing on bringing jobs to the island.\n\nA new nuclear power plant is at the top of her wish list.\n\nThe MP is now focused on getting a new nuclear plant at Wylfa\n\n\"I'm doing everything that I can to make sure that we can get Wylfa over the line,\" she said.\n\nAt the start of the year, Stena Line, which operates Holyhead's port said it had seen a 30% drop in traffic as a result of Brexit.\n\nMs Crosbie said the the whole of the UK voted to leave and \"we need to work together.\"\n\n\"We have to make it work,\" she said.\n\nPerhaps even trickier question is revealing her favourite place on the island.\n\n\"Such an unfair question!\" said Ms Crosbie, \"I'm going to upset so many people!\"\n\nIt's The White Eagle pub in Rhoscolyn.\n\nWalescast is on BBC One Wales at 22:40 BST on Wednesday, 17 August, or listen on BBC Sounds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I will do whatever it takes to keep Trump from the Oval Office'\n\nVoters in the US state of Wyoming have ousted congresswoman Liz Cheney, a rare Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, in a primary election.\n\nShe has been trounced by a relative political newcomer and Trump-backed candidate, Harriet Hageman.\n\nMs Cheney, 56, was one of only two members of her party to join the congressional committee investigating Mr Trump's attempts to cling to power.\n\nThe three-term congresswoman was once a rising Republican star.\n\nConceding defeat, Ms Cheney signalled that this was the beginning of a new chapter of her political career. \"Our work is far from over,\" she told a group of her supporters, including her father, former Vice-President Dick Cheney.\n\nAll 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Mr Trump after his supporters attacked the US Capitol building in January last year have been targeted in a scorched-earth campaign of revenge.\n\nSo far, four have retired, and now four have been defeated by his chosen candidates in primary ballots in the states of Wyoming, Washington, Michigan and South Carolina.\n\nOnly two have successfully maintained their places on the Republican ticket for re-election.\n\nMs Cheney was the last of the 10 to face the Trumpian assault.\n\nElsewhere, Republican Sarah Palin - who is eyeing a political comeback - has advanced to November's election in Alaska in the race to represent the state in the House of Representatives.\n\nMs Palin, 58, rose to prominence as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008. Donald Trump is her key ally and supporter.\n\nThis year Alaska's party primaries have been replaced with open primaries in which the top four candidates go to the general election.\n\nIn the state's Senate race, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, 65, who has defied Mr Trump, is through to November's poll.\n\nOne of her opponents will be Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka, 42.\n\nIn Wyoming, 70% of voters cast their ballots for Mr Trump in 2020.\n\nOpinion polls had consistently shown Ms Hageman - who has stated she believes that election was \"rigged\" - leading in Wyoming by a large margin.\n\nWith partial results in Tuesday night's vote count showing Ms Hageman ahead by more than 30 percentage points, most US networks called the race for her not long after polls closed.\n\nIn her concession speech, Ms Cheney made clear she would not let up in her criticism of Mr Trump, who has been hinting he may run for the White House again in 2024.\n\n\"I have said since [last year's US Capitol riot on] 6 January that I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office, and I mean it,\" she said.\n\nMs Cheney said she could easily have won re-election if she had gone along with Mr Trump's false claims that he - not President Joe Biden - won the 2020 election.\n\n\"That was a path I could and would not take,\" she said.\n\nMr Trump congratulated Ms Hageman on her victory in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\nHarriet Hageman used to be a friend of Liz Cheney\n\nHe also said: \"Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others.\n\n\"Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now.\"\n\nMs Hageman credited Mr Trump's endorsement as the reason for her victory.\n\n\"Wyoming has put the elites on notice,\" she said. \"We are no longer going to tolerate representatives who don't represent us.\"\n\nEarlier, at the state's junior rodeo finals in the city of Casper, some voters told the BBC how they had soured on Ms Cheney.\n\nThe rodeo president, Chad Westbrook, said from beneath his 10-gallon hat: \"When she goes against the masses, it doesn't work good for us.\n\n\"We really liked Dick Cheney, you know, but she's gone too far.\"\n\nMs Cheney's famous father, once a hate figure of the American left, now finds himself something of an anti-Trump fellow traveller.\n\nIn a campaign advert for his daughter, Dick Cheney had described Mr Trump as the biggest threat ever to the country.\n\nOutside one polling booth, in a charming wooden schoolroom overshadowed by the stunning Teton Mountains, Democratic voters had answered Ms Cheney's call to switch their registration to Republican in order to lend her their support - itself a sign of how poorly she had rated her chances.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: “Brave and smart as a whip” or “a swamp rat politician” - how Republican voters see Liz Cheney\n\n\"I've never agreed with one thing Liz Cheney has ever said, but I respected how she fought for democracy,\" one such voter, a middle-aged woman, told me.\n\n\"I'm a Democrat and I came out and voted for Liz Cheney because she's standing up for truth and that's what we need in this country,\" another man of similar age agreed.\n\nIn the suburbs of the state capital of Cheyenne earlier, a group of Republicans were knocking on doors in a show of last-minute support for Ms Cheney - something they clearly accepted was an uphill battle.\n\nEvan Wagner, who had driven 17 hours from Austin, Texas, said: \"She's standing for principle, she's saying I don't care if I lose my job, I'm going to do the right thing.\"\n\nBut their efforts were in vain.\n\nWyoming primary elections do not normally attract much media attention.\n\nTuesday's vote is being seen as a test - not just for party but for country too - of how much the legacy of Donald Trump and his election denying narrative continue to loom over this landscape.", "The group, who identify themselves as Syrians, have now been taken from the islet to Greece\n\nA group of 38 migrants, including a heavily pregnant woman, have been found stranded on a tiny, unnamed island along the Turkish-Greek border.\n\nThe 22 men, nine women and seven children say they have been on the Evros river islet since mid-July.\n\nAfter being located on Monday, they were taken to mainland Greece.\n\nThe country's migration minister said the group were all in a \"very good condition\" and the pregnant woman had been taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nHowever, at least one child died on the islet, which is near the Greek town of Lavara, according to the group and human rights agencies. Greek police have yet to confirm this.\n\nMigration Minister Notis Mitarachi visited the Evros region on Tuesday. While he did not confirm the child's death, he said the government would work with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to retrieve the body to ensure a dignified burial.\n\nThere had been some uncertainty over the group's location and therefore over whether Turkey or Greece should have stepped in to help.\n\nGreek authorities initially said the people - who police say all identify themselves as Syrian - were in Turkish territory.\n\nThey were eventually found about 4km (2.4 miles) south of the coordinates outside the Greek territory that was initially reported some days ago. This is why, Greek police suggest, the migrants had not been found earlier.\n\nBaida, one of the women in the group, described being treated like \"a football game between the two sides\" - Turkey and Greece.\n\n\"No-one wants us. No-one hears us. No-one wants to help,\" she added.\n\nGreece's treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe from Turkey has been highlighted for a number of years.\n\nHuman rights groups allege thousands of people seeking asylum have been pushed back before being given the chance to apply for asylum. It's also caused rows within the EU after a senior official claimed last year that the country was breaching European fundamental rights.\n\nSome refugees say they have been forcibly returned to Turkish waters.\n\nThe Greek government has always denied these claims and insists it complies with European and international law.\n\nThis incident on the Evros river \"highlights the brutality of pushbacks\", said Dimitra Kalogeropoulou, the Greece director of the International Rescue Committee.\n\nBetween January and June 2022, 232 Syrians arrived in Greece by sea according to the UN.\n\nThe islet is near the Greek town of Lavara", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Emma Raducanu produced another eye-catching display as she thrashed former world number one Victoria Azarenka less than 24 hours after beating Serena Williams.\n\nRaducanu continued her preparations for the forthcoming defence of her US Open title with a 6-0 6-2 win in Cincinnati.\n\nThe 19-year-old played Belarusian veteran Azarenka just 18 hours after beating Williams, who will retire after the US Open, 6-4 6-0 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Briton, ranked 13th in the world, will meet the American seventh seed in the last 16 of the Western and Southern Open on Thursday.\n\n\"I was playing a great match for sure and to play Vika I had to stay focused throughout,\" said Raducanu, who beat 22nd-ranked Azarenka to earn her first top-30 win since last year's US Open.\n\nRaducanu stunned the sporting world with her unexpected triumph in New York last year, when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in what was only her fourth senior tournament.\n\nThe victory propelled the previously little-known teenager into global superstardom, but she has since faced the difficulties often encountered by young players in their first full season on the WTA Tour.\n\nRegularly hampered by fitness issues this year as she adjusts to the rigours of the senior tour, Raducanu arrived in Cincinnati with a record of 11 wins and 14 losses this season.\n\nBut with her fearless and accurate groundstrokes, she has so far shown a similar level in the WTA 1000 event to the one which led to her success at Flushing Meadows.\n\nPegula, however, is likely to provide a sterner test - and a more accurate appraisal of Raducanu's current level - than Williams or Azarenka.\n\nIn what was her first career meeting with 23-time major champion Williams and likely to be the last, the teenager clinically took advantage of the 40-year-old's lack of sharpness by hitting 14 winners and making just one unforced error in a ruthless victory.\n\nAfter that night session, Raducanu returned to Cincinnati's centre court against 33-year-old Azarenka and produced another dominant display.\n\nThe forehand continued to be a potent weapon, while she was also helped by wayward returning from the two-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nAfter cruising through a 26-minute opener to record a second straight bagel, Raducanu raced into a 4-0 lead in the next set, before Azarenka finally got on the scoreboard with back-to-back holds.\n\nShe offered a little more belated resistance when Raducanu served for the match, earning two break points and saving a match point before the Briton wrapped up victory.\n\n\"In the second set I could feel the important moments and a couple of turning points that could have made the second set really difficult,\" added Raducanu.\n\n\"I am really pleased with how I dug in, and serving it out in that last game was really difficult.\"\n\nGauff plays down injury fears before US Open\n\nAmerican teenager Coco Gauff has played down the seriousness of the ankle injury which forced her to retire from a first round match against Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova on Tuesday.\n\nWith her home Grand Slam looming, the 18-year-old said it was a minor sprain that \"should be healed very soon\".\n\nRomania's Simona Halep pulled out of the Cincinnati event with a thigh injury before Wednesday's match against Russia's Veronika Kudermetova, while Polish world number one Iga Swiatek, Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and Tunisia's world number five Ons Jabeur reached the last 16.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Liz Truss said the UK needs \"more productivity\" to boost economic growth\n\nConservative leadership candidate Liz Truss said British workers needed \"more graft\" in leaked comments.\n\nIn the recording, published by the Guardian, Ms Truss suggested Britons lacked the \"skill and application\" of foreign nationals.\n\nLabour said her comments were \"offensive\" and \"effectively brand British workers as lazy\".\n\nThe foreign secretary did not deny making the comments and said productivity needed to improve.\n\n\"I don't know what you're quoting there,\" Ms Truss said under questioning at a Tory leadership event on Tuesday evening.\n\n\"But the point that I've always made is what we need in this country is more productivity across the country and we need more economic growth.\"\n\nThe leak emerged ahead of a hustings event in Perth where Ms Truss and her leadership rival former Chancellor Rishi Sunak were grilled by Scottish Conservative members.\n\nThe party's roughly 200,000-strong membership are voting for their next leader, who will succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister in September.\n\nThe Guardian report said Ms Truss made the comments in the audio when she was chief secretary to the Treasury, a role she held between 2017 and 2019.\n\nThe report did not reveal the source of the audio recording, parts of which were redacted.\n\nIn the two-minute clip, Ms Truss said British workers' \"mindset and attitude\" were partly to blame for them producing less per hour than their foreign counterparts, suggesting they needed \"more graft\".\n\nMs Truss said in the recording: \"Essentially it's partly a mindset and attitude thing I think. Yeah, its working culture basically. If you go to China it's quite different, I can assure you...\n\n\"There's a fundamental issue of British working culture. Essentially if we're going to be a richer country and a more prosperous country, that needs to change.\n\n\"But I don't think people are that keen to change that.\"\n\nSpeaking on difference in productivity in the UK, she said: \"If you look at productivity, it's very, very different in London from the rest of the country.\"\n\nA Truss campaign source said the comments were \"half a decade old\" and lacked \"context\", while acknowledging the UK does \"need to boost productivity\".\n\n\"As prime minister, Liz will deliver an economy that is high wage, high growth and low tax,\" the source said.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics says every country has seen slower growth in output per worker since 2009 when compared with the pre-financial crisis period.\n\nOECD figures show that in 2019, the UK came fourth highest in the rankings of GDP per hour worked among G7 countries.\n\nMs Truss, who has consistently led Mr Sunak in polls, has put her tax-cutting plan for boosting economic growth at the centre of her pitch to Conservative members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nThe remarks by Ms Truss echo controversial arguments made in a 2012 book she co-authored, \"Britannia Unchained\", in which British workers were described as among the \"worst idlers in the world\".\n\nAsked about it at a leadership debate last month, Ms Truss distanced herself from the contentious assessment, claiming co-author and Sunak supporter Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, had written it.\n\nMr Raab has subsequently said the authors of the book, which also included several other senior Conservative ministers, had agreed \"collective responsibility\" over its contents.\n\nLabour's shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the \"Britannia Unchained fiasco\" seemed to be \"the blueprint\" for Ms Truss's prospective government.\n\n\"Workers across the country are working all hours to keep a roof over their heads, put food on the table and provide for their families,\" he said.\n\n\"Liz Truss should be helping working people to cope with this cost of living crises, as Labour this week outlined we would do, not peddling this offensive nonsense.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat business spokesperson Sarah Olney called on the foreign secretary to apologise for her \"shameful\" comments, adding: \"Truss's mask has slipped\".\n\n\"How can Truss expect to win the support of the British public with views like this?,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC approached Mr Sunak's team for comment on the matter but received no response.", "Pollution warnings are in place for dozens of beaches in England and Wales after untreated sewage was discharged into the sea around the coast.\n\nOfficial data shows there have been a number of discharges since Monday, which Southern Water says are to protect homes and businesses.\n\nThe pollution follows a period of heavy rain across southern England, after a spell of extremely dry weather.\n\nWarnings from the Safer Seas and Rivers Service are based on water firms' data.\n\nThe service is run by charity Surfers Against Sewage.\n\nMany of the beaches contaminated are popular resorts and include:\n\nThe majority are along England's south coast.\n\nNear Bath is a popular swimming spot along the River Avon called Warleigh Weir which runs through an area belonging to landowner Johnny Palmer.\n\nUntreated sewage has been released just upstream. Mr Palmer has been working for years to make the water clean enough to gain bathing water status.\n\n\"I think it's a disgrace. You've got children swimming. And you know, you can't tell your kids to not drink the water. So you've literally got children drinking sewage, which is the kind of thing you might expect in parts of Africa or India, but, you know, Western Europe,\" he said.\n\n\"Rivers are a central part of our landscape and our ecology and our natural environment. They are a resource that everyone can and should use - and does use.\"\n\nHundreds of people were bathing in this river near Bath last weekend\n\nSouthern Water is one of the water companies responsible for those regions, along with Wessex Water and South West Water.\n\nIn a statement, Southern Water said: \"There were thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain the night before last and [Tuesday]. Storm releases were made to protect homes, schools and businesses from flooding. The release is 95-97% rainwater and so should not be described as raw sewage.\n\n\"We know customers do not like that the industry has to rely on these [discharges] to protect them, and we are pioneering a new approach.\"\n\nLast year Southern Water was fined a record £90m after admitting deliberately dumping vast amounts of sewage into the sea across the south coast.\n\nUnder EU law, these kinds of sewage discharges are legal only in \"exceptional\" circumstances. They happen mostly after heavy rain, when there is a risk that pipes that carry storm-water, along with sewage, may overflow.\n\nHowever, in 2020 and 2021, there were almost 400,000 such events.\n\nIn a statement, the Environment Agency said that sewage pollution could be \"devastating to human health, local biodiversity and our environment\". It said it would not \"hesitate to act to eliminate the harm sewage discharges cause to the environment\".\n\nIt has previously called for the top executives of England's water companies to face jail when serious incidents of pollution occur.\n\nHugo Tagholm, chief executive of Surfers Against Sewage, said: \"Our rivers and beaches are once again being treated as open sewers. Years of underinvestment is now in plain sight.\"\n\nThe government has said it intends to produce a plan by September this year to reduce storm overflows. This was made a legal requirement by the Environment Act 2021.", "Singer and actor Darius Campbell Danesh, who rose to fame on ITV talent shows Popstars and Pop Idol two decades ago, has died at the age of 41.\n\nThe Scot came third on Pop Idol behind Will Young and Gareth Gates in 2002.\n\nHe reached number one in the UK later that year with Colourblind, while his album Dive In reached the top 10.\n\nAfter his chart breakthrough, he went on to become a West End star, appearing in musicals like Chicago and the Olivier Award-winning Guys and Dolls.\n\nThe cause of death is not known, but his family said he was found in his US apartment.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Darius Campbell Danesh,\" they said in a statement. \"Darius was found unresponsive in bed in his apartment room in Rochester, Minnesota, on August 11 and was pronounced dead in the afternoon by the local medical examiners' office.\n\n\"The local police department have confirmed that there were no signs of intent or suspicious circumstances. The cause of his sudden death is unknown at this stage while medical examinations continue.\n\n\"We ask that you kindly respect our wishes for privacy at this time whilst we come to terms with the tragic loss of our son and brother.\"\n\nTributes were paid by fans and celebrities including record producer Simon Cowell, who was a judge on Pop Idol.\n\n\"I first saw Darius on television over 20 years ago and I got to know him really well,\" he said.\n\n\"He was charismatic, funny and just a great person to be with.\n\n\"His passing, for someone so young, is an absolute tragedy and my heart goes out to his family and friends.\"\n\nBroadcaster Nicki Chapman, who was also a judge on the show, tweeted that Campbell Danesh was \"a true gent with a kind soul\" adding her thoughts were with his family.\n\nGareth Gates, who finished second to Will Young on Pop Idol, described Campbell Danesh as a \"big brother\" who \"took me under his wing\" during their time together on the show.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he added: \"He was one of the most beautiful, intelligent and gentle souls I was lucky enough to know, a soul that lit up every room.\"\n\nActor Sanjeev Bhaskar tweeted: \"Sad news of Darius' shockingly untimely passing. He was a guest on The Kumars and couldn't have been a nicer, warmer guest with a great sense of self deprecation.\"\n\n\"Darius was a lovely bloke,\" added broadcaster James O'Brien. \"He came across as very confident and ambitious on TV but away from the cameras he was gentle, generous, humble and utterly devoted to his little brothers.\"\n\nThe five Pop Idol finalists (left to right): Will Young, Zoe Birkett, Darius Danesh, Hayley Evetts and Gareth Gates\n\nCampbell Danesh was born in Glasgow in 1980 to a Scottish mother and an Iranian father, and read English Literature and Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.\n\nBut he set his sights on stardom and first attracted attention on Popstars, the ground-breaking 2001 talent show, with his theatrical cover of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time.\n\nLater that year, he resurfaced on the follow-up, Pop Idol, minus the ponytail and beard, and with a new attitude that took him to the last three. The final was watched by more than 13 million people.\n\nReflecting on his career in an interview with Digital Spy in 2017, the performer said his early experiences on the shows helped to shaped him.\n\n\"I look back at it all with fond memories, and with deep appreciation of the support of the British public at a time when I first went through Popstars - I made mistakes and I was too cocky and I didn't have humility,\" he said.\n\n\"I came back with a willingness to learn from my mistakes and to simply share my voice and love of music,\" he added. \"I have deep respect for anyone who puts themselves in the position of being judged or being possibly put in the position of public criticism.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by DariusMusicOfficial This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter impressing on Pop Idol, he turned down a record deal from judge Simon Cowell in order to work with producer Steve Lillywhite, who collaborated with him on the pop hit Colourblind.\n\nHe later told The Guardian his reasons for turning down Cowell's \"gracious\" offer was that he had been encouraged to release two covers when we wanted to work on original material.\n\n\"Imagine, I could have done a cover of Gareth's cover of Robson and Jerome's cover of the Righteous Brothers,\" he joked. \"How great! You know, that doesn't inspire me.\"\n\nWith his Chicago co-stars Amra-Faye Wright (left) and America Ferrera in 2011\n\nCampbell Danesh went on to enjoy four more UK top 10 singles over the next three years - Rushes, Incredible (What I Meant To Say), Kinda Love and Live Twice.\n\nHe then forged a successful stage career, appearing as Billy Flynn in two runs of Chicago, once claiming he based his portrayal of the scheming lawyer on Cowell.\n\n\"He's the consummate businessman and a wonderful guy and there's a lot of Simon Cowell in Billy Flynn in terms of the way he approaches things, and I recognise that in terms of the character,\" he said.\n\nHe credited Cowell with persuading him to take on the role, opposite Ugly Betty star America Ferrera.\n\n\"I'm incredibly grateful for the experiences I've had and all the opportunities that it opened up and to be able to call Simon Cowell a friend and to be able to have dinner with him.\"\n\nHe also played Rhett Butler in Sir Trevor Nunn's 2008 West End musical adaptation of Gone with the Wind.\n\nCampbell Danesh also appeared in the first series of ITV's Popstar To Operastar - which saw eight pop singers train to perform world-famous opera arias in 2010 - beating Bernie Nolan in the final.\n\nThe show saw him duet with tenor Rolando Villazón on the song The Impossible Dream and helped him land his first major opera role, as the bullfighter Escamillo in a one-off production of Carmen at London's O2 Arena, the first ever opera at the venue at the time.\n\nIn an interview with Hello! magazine the same year, the star revealed he had been in a car crash in Spain, which had left him with a broken neck. He told the publication he felt like \"the luckiest man alive\", having been told by nurses he was 3mm from death.\n\nIn 2011, he married Canadian actress Natasha Henstridge, but they divorced a few years later.\n\nHe also made cameos in TV shows Hollyoaks and Hotel Babylon, and later moved into the film industry, with an executive producer credit on the 2016 Daniel Radcliffe film Imperium.", "Researchers in Australia and the US are embarking on a multi-million dollar project to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction.\n\nThe last known one, officially called a thylacine, died in the 1930s.\n\nThe team behind the bid say it can be recreated using stem cells and gene-editing technology, and the first thylacine could be reintroduced to the wild in 10 years' time.\n\nOther experts are sceptical and suggest de-extinction is just science fiction.\n\nThe thylacine earned its nickname of Tasmanian tiger for the stripes along its back - but it was actually a marsupial, the type of Australian mammal that raises its young in a pouch.\n\nThe group of Australian and US scientists plan to take stem cells from a living marsupial species with similar DNA, and then use gene-editing technology to \"bring back\" the extinct species - or an extremely close approximation of it.\n\nIt would represent a remarkable achievement for the researchers attempting it, and require a number of scientific breakthroughs.\n\n\"I now believe that in 10 years' time we could have our first living baby thylacine since they were hunted to extinction close to a century ago,\" said Professor Andrew Pask, who is leading the research from the University of Melbourne.\n\nThe population of Tasmanian tigers declined when humans arrived in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, and again when dingoes - a species of wild dog - appeared.\n\nEventually, the marsupial only roamed free on the island of Tasmania, and was ultimately hunted to extinction.\n\nThe last captive Tasmanian tiger died at Hobart Zoo in 1936.\n\nIf scientists were to succeed in reviving the animal it would mark the first \"de-extinction\" event in history, but many outside experts are doubtful of the science behind it.\n\n\"De-extinction is a fairytale science,\" Associate Professor Jeremy Austin from the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA told the Sydney Morning Herald, adding that the project is \"more about media attention for the scientists and less about doing serious science\".\n\nThe idea of bringing back the Tasmanian tiger has been around for more than 20 years. In 1999, the Australian Museum started to pursue a project to clone the animal, and various attempts have been made at intervals ever since to extract or rebuild viable DNA from samples.\n\nThis latest project is a partnership between scientists at the University of Melbourne and Texas-based company Colossal.\n\nThe US firm made headlines last year with its plans to use similar gene editing technology to bring the woolly mammoth back to life - a technological feat yet to be pulled off.", "Thames Water CEO Sarah Bentley said implementing the ban had been a \"difficult decision\"\n\nThames Water has announced a hosepipe ban for 10 million customers across the south of England.\n\nThe ban will come into force from 24 August and will impact people across the Thames Valley and London.\n\nThe temporary use ban comes after reports of the River Thames reaching its lowest level since 2005 and \"unprecedented weather conditions\".\n\nIt means people will not be able to use hosepipes to water gardens, wash cars and windows, or fill paddling pools.\n\nThose found to breach the rules could be fined up to £1,000.\n\nThames Water CEO Sarah Bentley said implementing the ban had been a \"very difficult decision\" but, she added, reservoir storage levels in London and Farmoor, in Oxfordshire had \"reduced significantly\".\n\nThe ban is the next phase in the water firm's drought plan, having already announced it was currently fixing 1,100 leaks across its 20,000-mile network every week.\n\nMs Bentley added: \"After months of below average rainfall and the recent extreme temperatures in July and August, water resources in our region are depleted.\n\n\"Customer demand is at unprecedented levels and we now have to move into the next phase of our drought plan to conserve water, mitigate further risk and futureproof supplies.\"\n\nThames Water, which also has five million wastewater customers, is the latest water provider to announce a hosepipe ban as droughts have been declared across England.\n\nThe firm previously admitted it \"must do better\" after coming under fire for having the worst record on leaks out of all nine water companies in the UK.\n\nMore than 600 million litres of water is currently lost a week by the company, mainly due to ageing pipes.\n\nA council leader has said Thames Water should stop paying its bosses bonuses and use that money to fix leaks instead of \"rewarding themselves\".\n\nClive Jones, from Wokingham Borough Council, shared analysis by his Liberal Democrat party which found executives were awarded an \"eyewatering\" £2.4m in 2021.\n\nHosepipe bans come after temperatures topped 40C in the UK for the first time on record this summer.\n\nThe recent heatwave resulted in the highest demand for water in the past 25 years, according to Thames Water.\n\nDr Gina Brown told the BBC water supply problems in her village had been \"recurrent\"\n\nThe company said it supplied 2.9 billion litres of water a day to customers across the region as temperatures spiked.\n\nIn areas with particularly hot weather, the firm said demand rose by 50% compared to the average for the time of year.\n\nTaps in the Oxfordshire village of Northend ran dry in a heatwave last week and Thames Water had to deliver emergency supplies to 68 customers.\n\nResident Dr Gina Brown, a radiologist who lives in the village with her elderly parents, p told the BBC water shortages were a \"recurrent\" problem during hot weather.\n\nIt was later found the issue was down to E.coli being found in a reservoir which supplies the village.\n\nThames Water apologised for the disruption and said the site had been disinfected.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police described the attack as an \"awful incident\"\n\nAn elderly man has died after being stabbed while riding a mobility scooter in west London.\n\nMetropolitan Police said emergency services were called to Cayton Road, Greenford, just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThe force said the man, believed to be in his 80s, was treated by paramedics but died at the scene.\n\nIt is the sixth murder investigation to be launched in London in the last four days.\n\nDetectives are working to inform the latest victim's next of kin and no arrests have yet been made.\n\nFrasley Coutinho, who lives opposite where the man was stabbed to death, said he saw the victim surrounded by a group of youths.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a couple of people gathering around him and then he drove past and stopped further up, and then there was a group of young boys around him.\"\n\nMr Coutinho said he caught some of the incident on a CCTV camera but it had been obscured by a plant.\n\nThe victim is believed to be one of the oldest homicide victims in London this year\n\nNick Lambie told BBC London the community is very worried by the fatal stabbing\n\nAnother resident Nick Lambie said the victim was known to collect for charity.\n\nHe added: \"When you hear something like that happening on your doorstep it is very disconcerting as it is a very quiet area.\n\n\"I understand he collected for charity and was quite often as I understand at the local Tesco's. By the looks of it he was making is away from there.\n\n\"Someone in their 80s in a mobility scooter can't put up much of a fight.\"\n\nThe mobility scooter was loaded on to a truck as forensics teams worked inside the police cordon\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson, lead for policing in Ealing, said: \"This is an awful incident that will understandably cause considerable alarm to people locally and across London.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the elderly victim.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Eastwood added: \"My officers are working to understand what has happened to this man, and we need the public's assistance.\n\n\"I'm asking for anyone with dash cam or cycle helmet footage to contact us if they were using the Western Avenue A40 Eastbound in the proximity of Cayton Road and Welland Gardens between 15:15 and 16:15.\n\nPolice are appealing for dash cam footage to help them with their investigation\n\n\"The elderly victim, who was riding a mobility scooter, was in the area at the time.\n\n\"If you saw the victim, or captured anyone acting suspiciously in the area, it is imperative that you make contact.\"\n\nAccording to BBC analysis of police crime figures, 66 murder investigations have been launched this year in London by the Met Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police (BTP).\n\nThis is slightly lower compared with this time last year where police had launched 78 murder investigations in the capital.\n\nNearly two-thirds of London homicide victims in 2022 have been stabbed to death.\n\nFour people have been fatally shot - all within the last month.\n\nSixty-two cases have led to arrests, and 52 cases have seen someone charged with murder.\n\nA blue and white police tent marks the spot where this shocking incident took place.\n\nSeveral side roads next to the busy A40 are cordoned off this morning and police are keeping pedestrians at a distance as they continue their investigation.\n\nThere is a sense of disbelief among some residents.\n\nEva - who didn't want to give her surname - says she and her partner are now thinking of moving away, having lived in the area for 10 years.\n\n\"It's hard to believe it's happened,\" she told me. \"I just don't understand.\"\n\n\"I'm worried about going shopping. I want to find a safe a place to live.\"\n\nRussell Taverner, who lives very close to where the stabbing took place, told me he considers it a safe area, and was shocked by what had happened.\n\n\"It looks like a scene from a TV drama with the forensic tent,\" he added. \"I just hope they catch whoever did it.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"devastated\" at the news of the killing, adding he was in close contact with the Met - which has increased patrols in the area following the \"horrific attack\".\n\nResident Simran Advani, 25, described the area as \"very quiet\" and it was \"scary for a man in his 80s to be killed here\".\n\n\"Most people on this road are elderly, you never hear any noise and never see any young people\", she added.\n\nAnother neighbour, who did not give his name, said: \"It's not nice, it's normally quiet here. It's out of the way.\n\n\"I feel sorry for his family - I'm not entirely shocked with the amount of stabbing you hear on the news.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roads have flooded around the UK, including in Port Talbot\n\nParts of Scotland have been hit by a week's worth of rain in just 24 hours as downpours batter the UK after days of hot, dry weather.\n\nHeavy rainfall has led to flooded roads across England and Wales.\n\nThe Met Office issued yellow thunderstorms warnings in both nations, with travel disruption, power cuts and lightning possible.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued nearly 20 flood alerts for areas of Midlands and south-east England.\n\nThe stormy conditions will continue to move south through the day, following the longest heatwave in 15 years in south-east England - with temperatures passing the threshold of 28C (82F) on nine consecutive days.\n\nLondon, like much of the south of England, has seen its first proper rainfall in weeks\n\nBy 07:00 BST, Strathallan near Perth, had seen 55.2mm (2in) of rain fall in less than 24 hours. This is 71% of the 77mm the area normally sees in August.\n\nThe heavy rain led to flooding on tracks in the area and a signalling fault, while speed restrictions of 40mph (64km/h) were put in place across vast swathes of the rail network.\n\nHoughton Hall in Norfolk saw 17mm (0.7in) of rain in the space of an hour on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nFootage and photos shared on social media showed torrential rain and floodwater sweeping through towns across southern England and Wales, including Newquay in Cornwall, Bishop's Tawton in Devon, Haywards Heath in West Sussex, Port Talbot in south-west Wales, and Bridport in Dorset.\n\nOther disruption caused by the stormy conditions includes:\n\nBBC Weather presenter Jennifer Bartram said while heavy rain in August is not unusual, it \"is perhaps causing problems as a result of how dry it's been in the lead up\".\n\nShe added heavy showers and thunderstorms will continue overnight and into Wednesday, becoming increasingly confined to southern England and East Anglia as the day goes on - with the continuing potential for further flooding in places.\n\nOn the roads, Traffic Scotland warned surface water was affecting many routes and urged motorists to take care.\n\nA yellow weather warning has now ended in Scotland but warnings remain in place for most of England and Wales on Tuesday, and southern England on Wednesday.\n\nYellow thunderstorm warnings mean flooding of homes and businesses could happen quickly, with fast flowing or deep floodwater possible, causing a danger to life.\n\nFlooding in a supermarket car park in car park in Loughborough\n\nTonnes of mud and potatoes were washed on to a road in Somerset by the heavy rain\n\nLocal authorities in Somerset said the A358 is set to reopen after they finished shifting more than 50 tonnes of mud off the road at Combe Florey, following a mudslide on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile, Network Rail said a suspected lightning strike near Hither Green in south-east London had caused signalling problems and power to fail, leading to passengers being stranded on trains and delays.\n\nAnd swimmers have been warned of sewage and pollution at several beaches on English coastlines, linked to the heavy rain.\n\nAccording to data gathered by environmental campaign group Surfers Against Sewage, there has been storm sewage discharge into the waters at beaches in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, Essex, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Cumbria.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWeeks of little rain caused drought across parts of the UK but the next few days is unlikely to ease the parched conditions because rainwater struggles to permeate dry ground, meaning it will run off the dehydrated surface and lead to flash flooding in some areas.\n\nStephen Dixon from the Met Office advised anyone who lives in an area prone to flooding to \"have a grab bag with things like water and insurance details and anything you might need, ready to go\".\n\nHe added people who feel their property is vulnerable to flooding could consider moving valuables upstairs.\n\nOne weather watcher in Newquay posted a video of torrential rain leading to flooding.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDespite the rain, the Environment Agency declared a drought in Yorkshire on Tuesday, the first since autumn 2018.\n\nMeanwhile, hosepipe bans are set to remain in place on the Isle of Man and in Kent and Sussex.\n\nThames Water has said one will come into force in \"the middle of next week\" and the company confirmed there has been \"less than 65% of the usual rainfall in this year\".\n\nHosepipe bans will also come into force in:\n\nRain did not dampen the spirits of spectators at the Fringe festival in Edinburgh.\n\nAmid these bans, some water companies have been told to \"up their game\" by the head of the water regulator for England and Wales, as he defended Ofwats's record of holding water companies to account.\n\nQuestioned on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Ofwat chief executive David Black singled out businesses like Thames Water and Southern Water and described the \"poor performance\" of some water firms as \"quite simply unacceptable\".\n\nDaily demand for water in England and Wales was 14 billion litres (three billion gallons), on average in 2018. In periods of hot weather this is likely to be higher.\n\nBut each day, another three billion litres were lost through leakage, according to a National Audit Office report.\n\nHow have you been affected by the storms and heavy rain? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "We're now wrapping up our coverage of today's Conservative leadership hustings in Northern Ireland.\n\nAs a reminder, here are some of the points the two candidates touched upon:\n• Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss pledged to fix the issue of the Northern Ireland Protocol - the post-Brexit deal aimed at preventing a hard border in Ireland - and support the government's bill to override parts of the arrangement\n• Truss described Northern Ireland as a \"key part of our fantastic union\"\n• She also said that all UK laws needed to apply across the whole of the UK when asked about abortion legislation in Northern Ireland\n• Sunak said tax cuts wouldn't help the most vulnerable people through the cost of living crisis\n• The former chancellor also said he wouldn't pursue policies that could make inflation worse, like, he said, the extra borrowing suggested by Truss. He also said it would be a \"moral failure\" if they did not help the most vulnerable\n\nWe'll continue to cover the Truss-Sunak race for the party leadership. The latest polls suggest Liz Truss has a large lead over Sunak. There's more on on the next PM's challenges in Northern Ireland here, and a guide to the candidates' policies here.\n\nThe next hustings are in Manchester on 19 August.\n\nThe team behind the live page was made up of Alex Therrien, Heather Sharp, Laura Gozzi, Dulcie Lee, James FitzGerald, Chas Geiger, Luke Sproule, Chris Andrews, Mike Hirst, as well as Jayne McCormack and Grainne Connolly in Belfast and political correspondent David Cornock.", "Mr Trump campaigned in Alaska last month for his preferred candidates\n\nRepublican Sarah Palin, who is eyeing a political comeback, is through to November's election in Alaska in the state's House of Representatives race, US media project.\n\nHer rivals are Republican Nick Begich III and Democrat Mary Peltola. The fourth contender is not yet known.\n\nMs Palin, 58, rose to prominence as a vice-presidential candidate in 2008.\n\nShe largely left the spotlight before the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who has become her key ally and supporter.\n\nThis year Alaska's party primaries have been replaced with open primaries - the top four runners advance to the poll.\n\nMs Palin is also running in a separate special election to serve the remaining five months of Republican Don Young, who died in March after serving for 49 years.\n\nThat race, where voters used the new ranked choice system, is too early to call.\n\nMs Palin served as the vice-presidential running mate to Arizona Senator John McCain in 2008, who went on to become a vocal Republican critic of Mr Trump.\n\nShe also served as the governor of Alaska between 2006 to 2009.\n\nHer brand of combative conservatism and anti-establishment appeal led many to consider her as the political precursor to Mr Trump.\n\nMr Begich is a tech entrepreneur and a member of a prominent Democratic family. According to the Anchorage Daily News, the family of Ms Palin's ex-husband - whom she divorced in 2020 after 31 years together - held a fundraiser last weekend for Mr Begich.\n\nMs Peltola is a former state lawmaker and advocate for increased protections for Alaska's salmon populations. If she wins she will be the first Native Alaskan to represent the state in Washington.\n\nIn the special election, it could take until the end of August for votes to be calculated in America's geographically largest state.\n\nThe new voting rules mean that only voters' first choices will be counted at the start. If none of the three candidates surpass the 50% threshold, second-choices will be counted and the candidate in last place will be disqualified and have their votes redistributed.\n\nIn the state's Senate race, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, 65, is through to November's election. In 2021, she voted to convict Mr Trump in his second impeachment trial.\n\nOut of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict the former president, she is the only one who is facing re-election this year.\n\nOne of Ms Murkowski's opponents will be Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka, 42.\n\nMr Trump travelled to Alaska last month to hold a campaign rally for her and Ms Palin.", "UK health officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered\n\nA new coronavirus vaccine aimed at protecting people against both the original Covid-19 virus and the Omicron variant should be available in Northern Ireland by autumn.\n\nStormont's Department of Health has said it is intended to be used as part of its autumn booster programme.\n\nOn Monday, the UK became the first country in the world to approve the jab for adult patients.\n\nIt is known as a bivalent vaccine as it tackles two strains of Covid.\n\nHowever, UK health officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered as all jabs provide protection.\n\nAcross the UK, 26 million people are eligible for some form of booster, but Moderna, which is manufacturing the vaccine, thinks only about half that amount of doses will be available this year.\n\nLast month, it was announced that everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster vaccine this autumn.\n\nBooster jabs will also be offered to:\n\nApproval for the dual vaccine in the UK was granted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency on Monday.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, a Stormont spokesman said: \"It is intended that the bivalent vaccine will be used in Northern Ireland as part of the autumn Covid-19 booster programme.\n\n\"The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) will advise on how this vaccine should be offered as part of the deployment programme.\n\n\"Further details on the booster programme will be issued in due course.\"", "The price of gas on global markets has surged in the last two months\n\nNorthern Ireland's energy regulator has warned that households will face further gas prices rises in the coming weeks.\n\nThe region's two suppliers, SSE and Firmus, last increased their prices at the start of July.\n\nThe price of gas on global markets has surged in the last two months.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson has said it is \"absolutely committed\" to bringing an equivalent to the £400 energy bills discount to Northern Ireland.\n\nRussia has reduced its supplies of gas to Europe, increasing competition for gas produced in other countries.\n\nNext week the UK is expected to take delivery of a shipment of gas from Australia.\n\nThe regulator, John French, warned that households will face further gas price rises of up to 30% in the coming weeks.\n\n\"Just as a rule of thumb, we have seen prices more than double, 60% of the final bill is wholesale prices,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"We are looking unfortunately at the moment, if we do the calculations today, you are looking at increases in gas at around 30% from 1 October.\"\n\nMr French said it is an \"awful picture where energy prices have gone\" and wholesale prices had \"got worse over the last six weeks\".\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to help consumers in terms of trying to make the market more efficient,\" he added.\n\n\"We are working with the Chancellor to try and get the support out sooner, but the underlying problem is the wholesale market has just risen to levels that have never been experienced historically - if you go back 20, 30 years, you have never seen the price rises we have seen in the last 12 months.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's energy market is regulated separately from the rest of the UK.\n\nSuppliers can announce price increases as and when they need to, as long as it is approved by the regulator, who scrutinises their costs.\n\nIn Great Britain the energy price cap is announced twice a year meaning cost increases are passed on in two huge chunks.\n\nHowever, GB is now moving closer to the NI model with a plan for the cap to be reviewed every three months.\n\nJohn French is warning of further gas price increases\n\nThe Treasury is setting up a joint taskforce to explore how households in Northern Ireland can receive a £400 discount on energy bills this autumn.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We are absolutely committed to bringing an equivalent to the £400 energy bills discount to Northern Ireland and have just announced a new joint taskforce to find a solution quickly.\n\n\"We will continue to work with Northern Ireland ministers and the regulator to deliver this support as soon as soon as possible to ease the burden on families.\"\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi met Stormont ministers on Monday to discuss the issue.\n\nHouseholds in Great Britain will start receiving the money from October.\n\nStormont politicians have called for the same timetable in Northern Ireland, but there are complications due to the lack of a fully functioning executive.\n\nNorthern Ireland is also in a different energy market to the rest of the UK.\n\nFollowing a virtual meeting on Monday, the Treasury said the new taskforce would be made up of officials from the UK government and Stormont ministers.\n\nMr French said a \"workable\" plan had been put forward to the Chancellor and Northern Ireland government departments in relation to the discount on energy bills.\n\nHe said he had spoken with energy companies last week and \"they believed they could get it out in a reasonable time, weeks rather than months\".\n\n\"It is now down to both the UK government and Northern Ireland government to decide the governance around that mechanism,\" he said.\n\n\"If we keep this simple, we can get the money out quickly.\n\n\"It is a very different market here in Northern Ireland, we have got six suppliers compared to the 300 in GB, so some of the governance mechanisms they are trying to do, in my opinion, are gold plated, we need to get this money out quickly, we need to get this money out simply.\n\n\"There is a simple mechanism to do that and we are just hoping the Treasury will back that.\"\n\nMr French is hopeful that people will receive their payment before Christmas.\n\n\"You have to look at all the different companies' IT systems, but all being well it could be this side of Christmas that the monies go out and hopefully a lot sooner than that,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Conservative Party leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak were both questioned on how to tackle the cost-of-living at a hustings event, at the Culloden Hotel outside Belfast.\n\nMs Truss said her first priority would be to reduce taxes in order to avoid a recession.\n\n\"We know how damaging a recession would be for people, for future government revenues,\" she said.\n\n\"I am also committed to removing the green levy to help people with their energy bills, I know it is very difficult, I know people are struggling.\"\n\nMr Sunak said that tax was the wrong focus.\n\n\"I believe we have to support vulnerable groups, those on low incomes, pensioners directly with financial support,\" he said.\n\n\"Because a tax cut does not work for those people, if Liz's plan is to say 'I believe in tax cuts not direct support', I don't think that's right.\"", "R. Kelly has a \"dark\" and \"hidden\" side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial.\n\nThe R&B singer was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York court last year. He was later sentenced to 30 years in jail.\n\nBut on Wednesday, a separate trial on child pornography and obstruction charges began in Chicago.\n\nHis lawyer urged the jury not to accept the portrayal of Kelly as \"a monster\".\n\nKelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, faces 13 charges, including creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity.\n\nIn 2008, he was also accused of trying to rig a similar trial by bribing and intimidating witnesses.\n\nProsecutors used their opening statements to tell the jury what to expect over the next four or so weeks, detailing the survivors who will testify and some of what the jury is expected to hear.\n\nThat includes hearing from one woman - who prosecutors are calling Jane - who will testify that she appeared in an alleged sex tape with Kelly when she was 13 or 14 and the singer was 31.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Kelly made four separate videos with Jane - segments of which will be shown to jurors.\n\nThat video was the centre of the 2008 trial, however at the time Kelly and Jane denied it was them in the tape. Neither testified and Kelly was acquitted on all charges.\n\nThis trial, happening in his hometown of Chicago, is being seen by many as a repeat of the 2008 trial, when he was facing 14 charges of child pornography.\n\nTwo of Kelly's former employees are also facing charges in this trial. Derrel McDavid, his former business manager, is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, and Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography.\n\nBoth men have pleaded not guilty. Mr McDavid plans to testify in court, his attorney said on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors allege Kelly and Mr McDavid sent hush money and expensive gifts to Jane and her parents over several years to keep them quiet.\n\nKelly's previous trial was highly publicised, and in her opening address, his defence attorney reminded the jury that he deserved a fair trial even if the government seeks to portray him as a \"monster\".\n\n\"There is no R. Kelly exception,\" Jennifer Bonjean said.\n\n\"It is true that Mr Kelly is imperfect. It is true that, on his journey from poverty to stardom, that he stumbled along the way. We won't deny that,\" she told the court.\n\nShe also alleged that several of the witnesses against Kelly were \"criminals\" who have \"extorted him\" and have immunity deals. Additionally, she suggested that the government is taking advantage of a series of documentaries and of social media outrage to prosecute Mr Kelly in a \"mob-justice climate\".\n\nThis trial in Chicago comes just a few months after Kelly was sentenced in a New York court to 30 years in prison.\n\nJurors at the six-week New York trial heard how he trafficked women between different US states, assisted by managers, security guards and other members of his entourage.\n\nThe court also heard how Kelly had illegally obtained paperwork to marry singer Aaliyah when she was 15 in 1994, seven years before she died in a plane crash.\n\nThe certificate, leaked at the time, listed Aaliyah's age as 18. The marriage was annulled months later.\n\nKelly is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter known for hits like Bump N' Grind, Ignition (Remix) and the hugely popular 1996 anthem I Believe I Can Fly.\n\nSexual abuse allegations and accounts of his predatory behaviour towards young girls and women go back decades. He is still facing state charges of aggravated sexual abuse in Illinois and prostitution and solicitation charges in Minnesota.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were arrested at a demonstration in London in 2011\n\nHostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police.\n\nThe hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier.\n\nOfficers identified the protest and recovered video of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey being arrested.\n\nAnalysis of their phones showed the pair's links to the cell's executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, or \"Jihadi John\".\n\nThe details were disclosed by Scotland Yard ahead of Elsheikh's sentencing in the United States on Friday.\n\nElsheikh was convicted in April of lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nCo-defendant Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and was jailed for life.\n\n\"This was an investigation into some truly horrific crimes,\" said Commander Richard Smith, head of Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe described it as a \"truly colossal investigation\", lasting eight years.\n\nThe group's actions resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - Mr Foley and fellow journalist Steven Sotloff plus aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nIt is also blamed for the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\n\"These were some of the most shocking and barbaric acts that we've seen and they were carried out with chilling callousness and brutality,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nHis officers were part of an international hunt to identify and bring to justice Jihadi John and his associates.\n\nCdr Smith described how their first breakthrough came from conversations with those hostages released by IS after ransoms were paid.\n\nThey disclosed how their masked captors, who were \"at great pains to hide their identities\", spoke of having been arrested at a demonstration against far-right group, the English Defence League, in 2011.\n\n\"Based on that snippet of conversation, our investigation team was able to go back and identify a particular EDL march in London on 11 September 2011,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nVideo of Elsheikh being arrested at the September 2011 demonstration was a crucial piece of evidence\n\nPolice records and video showed Kotey and Elsheikh were part of a group that was arrested after reports of a stabbing at the march, but later released without charge.\n\n\"The information was invaluable in helping us zero in on them as being the men the hostages had described to us,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nIt proved the two men had been associates before they went to Syria in 2012.\n\nData from their phones, which were seized when they were arrested, also revealed their contacts with Emwazi, who was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015.\n\nThe police also held on their records vital evidence against Emwazi.\n\nHe was questioned about a series of thefts in London in 2012 and his interviews with police were still on tape, Cdr Smith revealed.\n\nForensic voice analysis of these police interviews showed \"a very strong likelihood\" the recordings were of the same person as the masked executioner in the IS videos.\n\nA further breakthrough came in an unrelated case when in 2014 Elsheikh's brother, Khalid, was arrested in an Operation Trident investigation into UK gun crime.\n\nDigital interrogation analysis of Khalid's mobile phone revealed messages sent by Elsheikh from Syria on the encrypted Telegram platform.\n\nThey included an image of Elsheikh holding a firearm, which was used as evidence against him during his trial.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\n\"These men thought they were beyond the reach of law\" but were brought to justice following \"a remarkable investigation\" and thanks to the \"fortitude and courage of the hostages who gave evidence against them,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nThe pair were arrested and detained by Kurdish militia in Syria in January 2018 and were eventually sent for trial in the United States.\n\nUK ministers had argued their best chance of conviction lay in them being tried in the US.\n\nKotey pictured inside the police station in London on 11 September 2011\n\nIn August 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that a stay preventing the Home Office from supplying intelligence against the men must be lifted after the US said it would drop death-penalty charges against them.\n\nHowever, Cdr Smith disclosed that a file had been sent by his officers to the Crown Prosecution Service, after which the UK attorney general authorised 139 charges, including hostage-taking and kidnapping, against Elsheikh and Kotey.\n\nAsked why these British men were not tried in the UK, he said: \"Our job was to gather the evidence,\" adding that British detectives had been \"delighted to support\" the US prosecution.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Energy bill support is not enough\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted the current help for people struggling with energy bills is not enough, and said he expects more money to follow.\n\nMr Johnson will step down as PM in September, but said he was \"making sure there is extra cash\" for his successor to provide additional support.\n\nHe also said people were starting to receive the money which the government announced earlier in the year.\n\nThe topic of rising bills has come to dominate the Tory leadership contest.\n\nThe two candidates to replace Mr Johnson have set out differing strategies on how they would respond to the cost of living crisis.\n\nLiz Truss has argued that cutting taxes is the best way to help struggling households.\n\nRishi Sunak has proposed spending billions of pounds on further payments to pensioners and people on low incomes, contending tax cuts will not help them enough.\n\nElsewhere Labour has set out its own proposals including a plan to ensure pre-pay energy customers are charged the same as those paying by direct debit - a move they say would benefit four million people.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"outrageous and immoral\" that the poorest people on pre-payment meters paid more for their energy bills.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats have also called for the government to raise money by backdating the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nSpeaking at a hustings in Cheltenham, Ms Truss said she \"absolutely\" did not support windfall taxes, arguing it was \"all about bashing business\".\n\nMr Johnson has made it clear that he thinks further support will be needed from whoever succeeds him at the start of September.\n\nBut he isn't going to make that decision himself and several government figures have made it clear the big decisions can not be taken by the outgoing regime.\n\nThe lack of immediate action infuriates people like Martin Lewis, the money saving expert, and angers some opposition politicians too, who say the scale of the energy crisis is such that the government can't wait a month to decide what it's going to do.\n\nBut whatever options are suggested by the opposition or left on the table by the current government, it looks increasingly clear that concrete decisions are going to have to wait.\n\nNot least because the two people who could be making them - Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss - sharply disagree.\n\nConservative members are weighing up which they prefer.\n\nBut while they decide, decisions over help with the cost of living look like they are going to have to wait.\n\nLast week forecasts suggested that energy bills could rise to more than £4,000 per year next year for typical households.\n\nEarlier this year the government announced a £15bn package including a £400 energy bill discount for every household.\n\nAsked by reporters if this was enough, Mr Johnson said: \"No\", adding: \"What we're doing... is trying to make sure that by October, by January, there is further support\".\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend that things are easy for people right now, but there's more money coming anyway as a result of the decisions we've taken.\n\n\"I think over the medium term, the future's very bright.\"\n\nHe also argued that the price of energy would be brought down in the longer term by the government's investment in nuclear power and renewables.\n\nEarlier Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said new cost of living policies would be \"ready to go\" when either Mr Sunak or Ms Truss took office on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Airbus factory in Broughton in north Wales, Mr Zahawi told broadcasters: \"We're looking at all the options of what additional help we need to bring in later on in the winter months.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told one option could include expanding the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nThe current windfall tax - also called the energy profits levy - applies only to oil and gas firms, but there has been speculation that it could be extended to electricity generators.", "Noga Sella and her father Yoram Hirshfeld died when they were hit by a car in Ramsgate\n\nA suspected drug-driver has been charged after a father and daughter were killed in a Ramsgate hit-and-run.\n\nA black Alfa Romeo hit a family of five pedestrians on Wednesday in Leopold Street, killing Yoram Hirshfeld, 81, and Noga Sella, 37. Her daughter, six, also suffered serious injuries.\n\nNitesh Bissendary, 30, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nHe will appear at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on Saturday.\n\nThe family were hit by a car on Wednesday night\n\nMr Bissendary, of Highlands Glade, Manston, was additionally charged with two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.\n\nHe has also been charged with failing to stop at the scene of a road traffic collision, drug driving and failing to provide a sample for analysis.\n\nThe crash, outside a multi-storey car park, also caused injuries to Mrs Sella's husband, 40, and son, eight.\n\nThe six-year-old girl remains in a serious but stable condition in a London hospital.\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash\n\nA 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman have also been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and possession with intent to supply class A drugs.\n\nBoth have since been released on bail pending further inquiries until 8 September.\n\nAfter the crash, the Israeli government said the man and daughter who died were Israeli.\n\nKent Police has renewed its appeal for witnesses, local businesses with CCTV evidence or drivers with dashcam footage of the crash at about 21:35 BST to come forward.\n\nPeople gathered to light candles and hold a minute's silence at the scene of the crash\n\nA vigil was held on Thursday evening on Leopold Street to pay tribute to the family, who were on holiday in Ramsgate.\n\nFriends of Mr Hirshfeld, a former mathematics professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, spoke of his kindness.\n\nTributes were also paid to Mrs Sella, a Cambridge physicist, who was a girl guides leader with 2nd Milton Guides and Milton Rangers in Cambridgeshire.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of a man with schizophrenia is taking legal action against the Home Office for allegedly unlawfully deporting him to Jamaica.\n\nEric Hall, who arrived in the UK aged 10, has convictions for theft, drugs and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nThe Home Office denies relatives' claims he was sedated before a flight and says the deportation was lawful.\n\nIt says the rights of the British public are put before those of dangerous criminals.\n\nAlthough he was born in Jamaica, the 38-year-old moved to the UK with his family in the early 1990s and was granted indefinite leave to remain.\n\nHe was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in his early teens, and his family and legal team say most of his past criminal behaviour - he has 28 convictions for 55 offences - was largely down to his poor mental health. They believe he has only ever been a danger to himself, rather than wider society - and that he continues to be seriously vulnerable.\n\nCritics of the Home Office policy say Eric's deportation, on grounds of his Jamaican citizenship, has echoes of the Windrush scandal. In 2018, many adult children of post-war Caribbean migrants, despite having lived and worked in the UK for decades, were told they no longer had the right to stay. The scandal led to the government apologising for Home Office immigration mistakes against Caribbean migrants and their subsequent mistreatment.\n\nBefore he was arrested in early March, Eric had been living in supported housing in east London and was being cared for by a mental health community team. His family says if he was sent a letter by the Home Office about his deportation he would not have understood its significance.\n\nEric was taken to a detention centre where, his lawyers and family say, his mental state deteriorated considerably. He repeatedly told them he had not been served any deportation papers and did not think he was about to be flown out of the country.\n\nDeportation flights from the UK to Jamaica are among the most controversial carried out by the Home Office. Adina Campbell has been to Jamaica to meet some of the people affected.\n\nEric's legal team say they were challenging his deportation but were not sent key paperwork from the Home Office which must be served legally within three days of someone's departure.\n\nImmigration lawyer, Holly Stow, also says they asked charity Medical Justice to assess Eric - their report concluded that because of his paranoid schizophrenia he should not have been detained and he was not fit to fly.\n\nThe Home Office says foreign criminals, and their legal representatives, are served their removal directions in advance of flying.\n\n\"All claims raised are fully considered and determined before deportation, including where applicable via the courts.\"\n\nEric was put on a plane on 18 May.\n\n\"He's a sick boy. I live with him and I know,\" says Errol Brown\n\nEric is too unwell to be interviewed - but in a remote farming town in the south-west of Jamaica we meet his elderly stepfather - Errol Brown. He talks to us on a hilly main road, outside a parade of boarded-up shops.\n\n\"He's sick. He's a sick boy. I live with him and I know,\" says Errol, his hands shaking before wiping tears from his eyes.\n\nHe is now caring for Eric full-time at his home in St Elizabeth Parish - but says his stepson needs medication and face-to-face mental health support which isn't routinely available in Jamaica.\n\nBBC News has seen medical documents confirming Eric's paranoid schizophrenia - a condition also referenced in Home Office correspondence to him.\n\nBefore his removal from the UK, Eric's family say he had been refusing to take any medication, and that on his arrival in Jamaica it appeared as if he had been heavily drugged. They say he didn't recognise his stepfather in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, and had no memory of how he got there.\n\n\"Out of the blue we heard Eric was in Kingston,\" says Errol Brown. \"He can't explain to me how he got here. I have asked many times. I know he was out of it. He would have had to have been sedated or knocked out. He didn't know where he was and he didn't have a clue who I was.\"\n\nThe Home Office rejects the claim Eric was drugged. \"Passengers are never sedated on removal flights and it's wrong to suggest otherwise,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"When I used to go to school for his reports they always said good things about him,\" says Eric's mother Polly Brown\n\nEric's mother Polly Brown, who lives and works in London, decided to take legal action because she says the Home Office was aware of her son's complex, long-term medical history. Given the severity of his mental health condition his family say he is unable to legally represent himself. Mrs Brown is now acting on her son's behalf.\n\n\"He only has his stepfather to look after him in a strange country that he left when he was 10 years old,\" she says.\n\nIn her east London flat, surrounded by family photos, her mood momentarily brightens as she shares childhood memories.\n\n\"He was very loving. When I used to go to school for his reports they always said good things about him.\"\n\nShe describes how he was passionate about art and once painted a picture of his own face which was displayed in the school reception area. He was also a talented footballer playing for an academy outside of school. \"His manager used to call him the gazelle,\" she says.\n\nBut it's not long before those fond memories vanish as her mind is then thrown back to the present.\n\n\"We all know that Jamaica now has become very violent. There are guns everywhere and there are killings every day,\" she says. \"It breaks my heart thinking about it - that he's out there and he might get killed.\"\n\nDeportation flights are used to remove both foreign criminals who have finished UK jail sentences and other foreign nationals who have stayed in the country longer than legally permitted. Between April 2020 and May 2022, the Home Office carried out 130 enforced-return charter flights - at an average cost of £200,000 per trip.\n\nJamaica represents about 1% of the UK government's overall enforced returns. Between 2019-21, 104 Jamaican nationals were sent back.\n\nErrol Brown fears for Eric's health. Care in Jamaica is free for people on the lowest incomes but public sector facilities are often understaffed, with medical shortages and a lack of funding. Errol can't afford to go private.\n\n\"I took him to the doctors after he landed because I was worried about medication, but our doctors out here don't deal with these kinds of things,\" he says.\n\nIn the UK, the family has developed a close relationship with their local MP who is now challenging the government. Janet Daby raised a question in parliament on the day Eric was deported and supports all of the family's claims.\n\n\"In his younger days, he'd been groomed… coerced into getting involved in criminal activity. He's severely unwell.\"\n\nShe describes Eric's criminal activity as \"low level\" and says he has been \"demonised and shipped off to another country\".\n\nJanet Daby MP says Eric Hall has been \"demonised and shipped off to another country\"\n\nThe Home Office says it helps fund charitable organisations in Jamaica so deportees can \"re-integrate back into society\" - but Eric's family says he hasn't been offered any ongoing support. On arrival in Jamaica we were only able to locate one such charity. They told us they receive funding from the Home Office but did not want to be interviewed.\n\nWe've spoken to six other men, all with criminal convictions, who were flown from the UK and now live on different parts of the island. All say they've had no ongoing help and have been unable to find secure employment, training and housing.\n\nThey say deportees like them are stigmatised and they worry for their safety. Some have had no choice but to live with elderly relatives, while others struggle to survive on the streets of downtown Kingston, where shootings and gang crime are rife.\n\nJamaica's minister of legal and constitutional affairs, Marlene Malahoo Forte, says she takes \"serious issue\" with the UK's deportation policy of sending those who have little or no ties to the island and have been \"socialised in the British culture\".\n\nShe says there is \"disregard or insufficient regard\" for matters of family ties.\n\n\"It's almost tantamount to the old method of punishment of transportation.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Home Office said: \"We are clear that foreign criminals should be deported from the UK wherever it is legal and practical to do so. Any foreign national convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity.\"\n\nBut Eric Hall's lawyers say he deserves to continue living in the UK - and they have filed a claim of unlawful detention and deportation against the Home Office.\n\n\"Eric's human rights have been breached. It's just wrong and completely unfair,\" says Holly Stow. \"There's a sense of desperation here from the Home Office to get people on a flight who shouldn't be on that flight - and shouldn't be detained in the first place.\"\n\nThe Home Office says it remains committed to \"removing foreign nationals with no right to be in the UK\" - but Polly Brown hopes and prays her son will return.\n\nMeanwhile Errol Brown in Jamaica says he will continue to care for Eric as best as he can while he is able. But he warns that time is against them.\n\n\"There's no future at all here. He can't survive on his own.\"", "Last month saw temperatures in parts of the UK reach 40C\n\nPeople taking some mental health medication need to be extra cautious during the heatwave, the ex-head of the Royal College of Psychiatrists says.\n\nSome antipsychotic medications and antidepressants may hinder the body from regulating temperature properly.\n\nCertain drugs can also cause people to sweat excessively, not register thirst or make skin more sensitive to sun.\n\nDr Wendy Burn warns people should not suddenly stop taking their medication, and should seek advice.\n\nAround 8.3 million adults in England take antidepressants, according to recent NHS figures - but not all types of antidepressants are linked to heat sensitivity.\n\nAntipsychotic drugs, which are used to treat conditions such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, doubled in use between 2007 and 2014 - from 0.5% to 1.2% of people in England. NHS data suggests prescriptions are still on the rise.\n\nDr Laurence Wainwright, a researcher at the University of Oxford's psychiatry department, told the BBC there is \"evidence to suggest a link between tricyclic antidepressants, antipsychotics and heat-related illnesses\".\n\nTricyclic antidepressants are still licensed for use by the NHS in the UK. However, they are no longer prescribed as frequently as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), which increase the level of serotonin in the brain.\n\nSpecific advice on coping during a heatwave is available for people on antidepressants and antipsychotics\n\nTricyclic drugs block the reabsorption of neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine.\n\nDr Wainwright says the way the medications work, by impacting the hypothalamus - the part of the brain that controls body temperature, can cause a number of side effects.\n\n\"In some cases, the body is not able to regulate temperature effectively,\" he says. \"The problems that can stem from that include muscle cramps, fainting, heatstroke, heat rash and heat exhaustion.\"\n\n\"Also [typically] the body has a good way of telling us when we are thirsty, but these medications can diminish that - and they can also lower blood pressure slightly, which can lead to a chance of fainting in the heat.\"\n\nWith SSRIs, which are more commonly used to treat depression in the UK, one of the known side effects is excessive sweating and that can be exacerbated during periods of hot weather.\n\nThis can lead to dehydration and associated problems such as dizziness, headaches and fainting.\n\nDr Wainwright says there is also some early evidence to suggest that SSRIs \"may present implications for the body's ability to thermo-regulate and in turn have other implications for heat-related illnesses\".\n\nHe adds \"it's hard to make clear statements here - but there is a complex interplay between serotonin and thermo-regulation\".\n\nIt is not known how many people are likely to experience heat-related side-effects. But with more people reporting changes in how they feel during extremely hot weather, it could lead to more conclusive evidence.\n\nHallie (not her real name) is 28 and really struggled with heat exhaustion during the heatwave in July.\n\nShe takes venlafaxine, a type of SNRI, and has common side effects that include sweating, sickness and hot flushes.\n\n\"It has pretty major side effects anyway, but when we went through the first heatwave I'd never experienced nausea like it,\" she tells the BBC.\n\n\"I've been so thankful to be working from home. It also really affected my stomach..\n\n\"Given that the medication is for depression and anxiety, I'm now incredibly anxious to go out and socialise in the heat, even to leave the house,\" she says.\n\nHallie says its been really difficult trying to explain to friends that she cannot go out and enjoy the weather because she's scared about how her body could react.\n\n\"It was like the worst sun stroke I've ever experienced. And the excessive sweating was really challenging - I was soaked through, couldn't cool down and my hair was always dripping,\" she adds.", "The kelp gull was spotted at Grafham Water in Cambridgeshire by a local birdwatcher\n\nBirdwatchers at a reservoir have said it was \"extraordinary\" to see a rare gull in Britain for the first time.\n\nThe kelp gull was identified at Grafham Water near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday.\n\nThe seabird is usually found throughout the southern hemisphere, but not this far into the northern hemisphere.\n\nGary Allport from Birdlife International said it was \"amazing\" to see the gull, which is normally a \"coastal species\".\n\n\"You do get them inland in certain places but usually only when they're breeding,\" he said.\n\n\"We would expect it in a coastal area, not in a reservoir in Cambridgeshire.\"\n\nIt was believed the bird was the African subspecies vetula, known as a cape gull\n\nMr Allport travelled from the Midlands to Grafham Water on Tuesday to see the gull.\n\n\"There were about 40 or 50 people there,\" he said.\n\n\"There would certainly be thousands of people who would want to see a bird of this sort.\"\n\nThe gull could be identified by the blue and grey colouring on its legs, its heavier build and its very small dark eye structure, he said.\n\nHe added that it was a \"phenomenal find\" by a local birdwatcher, as it could be mistaken for a more common gull.\n\nHowever, the 59-year-old said the species' arrival in the country had been \"kind of expected\".\n\n\"Over the last 10 years there have been a few recordings in western Europe and one in Paris a few years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"The bird is extremely rare, but it was on our radar so it was great to see it.\"\n\nPaul French from the British Bird Rarities Committee said he was \"confident\" the bird would be accepted as a kelp gull\n\nThe British Bird Rarities Committee, one of two organisations which will verify the identification, said it was \"one of the more amazing records to reach Britain\".\n\n\"Its main range is Namibia and South Africa, although birds do range as far as Senegal and one or two pairs have bred in Morocco in recent years,\" chairman Paul French said.\n\nHe said the person who first spotted the bird would need to submit a description to the committee, which would then assess it to confirm the identification.\n\n\"We may seek external assistance on this, as large gulls are notoriously difficult to identify,\" he said.\n\nCape gulls are usually found in South Africa\n\nIf all 10 committee members agreed on the identification, the record would be passed to the British Ornithologists Union Records Committee.\n\n\"They adjudicate on all potential new species for Britain,\" Mr French said.\n\n\"If all the members of that committee agree with the identification as a kelp gull, and they accept that this is most likely a wild bird and has not been transported with human assistance, then they will accept this as the first record for Britain and we will both publish it as such.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None New Zealand uses dye to track airport seagulls", "Pear Tree's Meadowpark nursery has been closed as a precaution\n\nAn E.coli outbreak has led to the closure of two East Lothian nurseries.\n\nThe Pear Tree Nursery in Church Road, Haddington has been linked to 28 cases of the bug. Most cases are reported to be mild - with some children in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nPear Tree's Meadowpark location in the town was also closed as a precaution after symptoms were reported.\n\nNHS Lothian said a source had not been found, but tests were being done to identify the strain of the infection.\n\nThe health board said it had been working with the nursery for about 10 days.\n\nCases have been confined to the nursery, households of the children and close contacts.\n\nPear Tree Nursery in Church Road has been linked to 28 cases of the bacteria\n\nPublic health consultant Graham Mackenzie told BBC Scotland that mild stomach upsets at the Meadowpark location prompted its closure, but this was not confirmed to be E.coli.\n\nDr Richard Othieno, chairman of NHS Lothian's incident management team, said: \"We know that this will be an anxious time for many of those who are directly affected by the infection.\n\n\"We have written to parents and carers of the children and to staff at the nursery to provide the most up-to-date information and ongoing health advice.\n\n\"NHS Lothian has a robust surveillance system in place to identify E. coli cases which helped us to identify these cases early and put in place essential control measures to prevent further spread.\n\n\"This outbreak reinforces the importance of washing hands regularly, particularly before eating or preparing food, and after going to the toilet.\"\n\nHe said NHS Lothian had encouraged parents to keep their children away from others until a negative test for E. coli was confirmed.\n\nAnyone who attends or works at the school has been asked to stay at home and get tested\n\nEscherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria are found in the intestines of humans and animals. There are many different types, some are harmless and others can cause a variety of diseases.\n\nThe bacterium is found in faeces and can survive in the environment.\n\nE. coli bacteria can cause a range of infections including urinary tract infection, cystitis (infection of the bladder), and intestinal infection.\n\nE. coli infections can be serious and often cause severe diarrhoea, sometimes with blood in it, abdominal cramps and fever.", "Salman Rushdie, outside King's College chapel in Cambridge in 1993\n\nOver a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work.\n\nThe novelist is one of the most celebrated and successful British authors of all time, with his second novel, Midnight's Children, winning the illustrious Booker Prize in 1981.\n\nBut it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, which became his most controversial work - bringing about international turmoil unprecedented in its scale.\n\nIn the Islamic world, many Muslims reacted with fury to the book's publication, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nDeath threats were made against Rushdie, 75, who was forced to go into hiding, and the British government placed him under police protection.\n\nIran quickly broke off relations with the UK in protest and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for the novelist's assassination in 1989 - the year after the book's publication.\n\nBut in the West, authors and intellectuals denounced the threat to freedom of expression posed by the violent reaction to the book.\n\nThe Satanic Verses, published in 1988, brought about an international turmoil unprecedented in its scale\n\nSalman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain.\n\nAged 14, he was sent to England and to school in the town of Rugby, later gaining an honours degree in history at the prestigious Kings College in Cambridge.\n\nHe became a British citizen, and allowed his Muslim faith to lapse. He worked briefly as an actor and then as an advertising copywriter, while writing novels.\n\nHis first published book, Grimus, did not achieve huge success, but some critics saw him as an author with significant potential.\n\nRushdie took five years to write his second book, Midnight's Children, which won the 1981 Booker Prize. It was widely acclaimed and sold half a million copies.\n\nWhere Midnight's Children had been about India, Rushdie's third novel Shame - released in 1983 - was about a scarcely disguised Pakistan. Four years later, he wrote The Jaguar Smile, an account of a journey in Nicaragua.\n\nIn September 1988, the work that would endanger his life, The Satanic Verses, was published. The surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous.\n\nIndia was the first country to ban it. Pakistan followed suit, as did various other Muslim countries and South Africa.\n\nThe novel was praised in many quarters and won the Whitbread Prize for novels. But the backlash to the book grew, and two months later, street protests gathered momentum.\n\nDemonstrators were seen protesting against The Satanic Verses in Paris in February 1989\n\nSome Muslims considered it an insult to Islam. They objected - among other things - to two prostitutes in the book being given names of wives of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nThe book's title refers to a heavily disputed story about a series of verses that were claimed to have been omitted from the Quran because they were revealed to the Prophet Muhammed not by the Angel Gabriel, but by the devil.\n\nSome claimed the verses were recited to a crowd by the Prophet, but Muslim scholars have historically agreed that these verses were never part of the Quranic revelation.\n\nIn January 1989, Muslims in Bradford in the UK ritually burnt a copy of the book, and newsagents WHSmith stopped displaying it there. Rushdie rejected charges of blasphemy.\n\nIn Mumbai, Rushdie's hometown, 12 people were killed during intense Muslim rioting, the British embassy in Tehran was stoned, and a $3m (£2.5m) bounty was put on the author's head.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, some Muslim leaders urged moderation, others supported the ayatollah. The US, France and other Western countries condemned the death threat.\n\nRushdie - by now in hiding with his wife under police guard - expressed his profound regret for the distress he had caused Muslims, but the ayatollah renewed his call for the author's death.\n\nThe London offices of Viking Penguin, the publishers, were picketed, and death threats were received at the New York office.\n\nBut the book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic. Protests against the extreme Muslim reaction were backed by the EU countries, all of which temporarily recalled their ambassadors from Tehran.\n\nAn Indian Muslim wearing a mask of Rushdie was one of many protesting the author's presence in Bombay in January 2004\n\nBut the author was not the only person to be threatened over the book's content.\n\nThe Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was found slain at a university north-east of Tokyo in July 1991.\n\nPolice said the translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, who worked an assistant professor of comparative culture, was stabbed several times and left in the hallway outside his office at Tsukuba University. His killer has never been found.\n\nEarlier that same month, the Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was stabbed in his apartment in Milan, though he survived the attack.\n\nAnd the book's Norwegian translator, William Nygaard, was shot in 1993 outside his home in Oslo - he also survived.\n\nRushdie had to go into hiding and received police protection due to the backlash to The Satanic Verses\n\nA prolific writer, Rushdie's later books include a novel for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), a book of essays, Imaginary Homelands (1991), and the novels East, West (1994), The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), and Fury (2001).\n\nHe was involved in the stage adaptation of Midnight's Children which premiered in London in 2003.\n\nIn the last two decades he has published Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte.\n\nRushdie has been married four times, and has two children. He now lives in the US, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to literature.\n\nIn 2012, he published a memoir of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses.\n\nThe death sentence against Rushdie stopped being formally backed by Iran's government in 1998 and in recent years the author has enjoyed a new level of freedom.\n\nBut threats to his life always lingered under the surface, and Iran's current supreme leader - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - once said the fatwa against Rushdie was \"fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target\".\n\nUpdate 15 August: This story was updated to give additional context concerning the origins of the title of the book 'The Satanic Verses'.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nick Gardner reached the summit of Cairn Gorm on Saturday afternoon\n\nAn 82-year-old man has completed his attempt to climb Scotland's 282 Munros - mountains higher than 3,000ft.\n\nNick Gardner, from Gairloch in the Scottish Highlands, set himself the challenge after his wife Janet went into full-time care.\n\nHe was devastated when she developed Alzheimer's and osteoporosis and wanted a challenge to keep himself going.\n\nThe grandfather-of-four began in July 2020 and reached his final summit, Cairn Gorm, on Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe was met at the top by a guard of honour of supporters and family.\n\n\"I'm on cloud nine, it's absolutely surreal,\" he said. \"I have never experienced anything quite like it - it's like a little boy opening his Christmas presents.\n\n\"I was walking through the archway thinking, it's all for me.\"\n\nFriends and family joined Mr Gardner at the summit of his final Munro\n\nMr Gardner was joined by family and friends for the 1,245m (4,085ft) climb in the Cairngorms, near Aviemore.\n\nThe former physics teacher had never climbed a Munro previously.\n\nAfter scaling Cairn Gorm, he has now climbed more than 500,000ft (152,000m), the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest about 17 times.\n\nHe has walked 2,000 miles (3,218 km), a similar distance to hiking from Edinburgh to Greece.\n\nMr Gardner said the toughest part of his Munro challenge was on the Isle of Skye.\n\nHe said: \"If you're a mountaineer you'll know the Cuillin Ridge. It's not a big area but very pointed and jaggy and very dangerous.\n\n\"There are 11 Munros in a line and doing that in one go, it took two days to do it. That was the biggest challenge of the lot.\"\n\nMr Gardner has faced all types of conditions on Scotland's mountains\n\nMr Gardner has raised more than £60,000 for Alzheimer Scotland and the Royal Osteoporosis Society through the challenge.\n\n\"I couldn't look after my wife any more. She had to go into care and I had to get a project to refocus my life, he said.\n\n\"I am elated but I've not finished climbing.\n\n\"I did it because I love climbing and shall carry on. I have my eye on the Devon and Cornwall coastal path walk.\"\n\nMr Gardner thanked all the supporters who helped him to achieve his goal.\n\nOne of his two daughters, Sally McKenzie, has nominated him to the Guinness World Records for the oldest person to climb Scotland's Munros.", "Witnesses were shocked to see Sir Salman Rushdie attacked so brutally\n\nSir Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed on stage in the US, his agent says.\n\nAndrew Wylie said that the author, 75, may lose one eye after the attack at an event in New York state.\n\nSir Salman went into hiding with police protection in the UK in 1988 after Iran's top leader called for his murder over his novel, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims deemed blasphemous.\n\nPolice detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.\n\nNew York State Police said the suspect ran onto the stage and attacked Sir Salman and an interviewer at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.\n\nSir Salman was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen, authorities said. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.\n\n\"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,\" his agent said.\n\nNo motive or charges have yet been confirmed by police, who are in the process of obtaining search warrants to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.\n\nPolice told a news conference that staff and audience members had pinned the attacker to the ground where he was arrested. A doctor in the audience gave Sir Salman first aid.\n\nThe interviewer who was with Sir Salman, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury and was taken to a local hospital. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nLinda Abrams, an onlooker from the city of Buffalo, told The New York Times that the assailant kept trying to attack Sir Salman after he was restrained.\n\n\"It took like five men to pull him away and he was still stabbing,\" Ms Abrams said. \"He was just furious, furious. Like intensely strong and just fast.\"\n\nIndia-born novelist Sir Salman catapulted to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows the moments after author Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked\n\nSeveral people were killed in anti-Rushdie riots in India and in Iran the British embassy in the capital, Tehran, was stoned.\n\nIn 1991 a Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death, while a few months later, an Italian translator was also stabbed and the book's Norwegian publisher, William Nygaard, was shot - but both survived.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Sir Salman's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Sir Salman's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThere has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Sir Salman's stabbing. Iranian media were describing Sir Salman as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.\n\nThe British-American citizen - who was born to non-practising Muslims and is an atheist himself - has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions.\n\nSir Salman Rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses. Sir Salman said the main thrust of his novel was to examine the immigrant experience, but some Muslims were offended by portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad and the questioning of the nature of the revelation of the Quran as the word of God.\n\nThe Satanic Verses was banned first in the author's country of birth, India, and then several other countries before Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued his infamous fatwa.\n\nThe fatwa called for the killing of anyone involved in the publication of the book and offered rewards to those who took part in the murders. That fatwa has never formally been rescinded.\n\nSurprised by the widespread nature of the protests, Sir Salman apologised to Muslims but went into hiding.\n\nWhen Sir Salman was knighted in 2007 by the Queen, it sparked protests in Iran and Pakistan, where one cabinet minister said the honour \"justifies suicide attacks\".\n\nSeveral literary events attended by Sir Salman have been subject to threats and boycotts - but he continues to write. His next novel, Victory City, is due to be published in February 2023.\n\nFellow authors such as JK Rowling and Stephen King have written messages of support.\n\nBooker-prize winning author, Ian McEwan, called it an \"appalling attack\" that \"represents an assault on freedom of thought and speech\"\n\n\"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred,\" he added.\n\nWriter Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to flee her home in Bangladesh after a court said her novel Lajja offended the Islamic faith, said she now feared for her own safety in the wake of Sir Salman's attack.", "TV and radio presenter Helen Skelton has been announced as the 15th and final contestant for Strictly Come Dancing 2022.\n\nThe news was announced on the Radio 2 programme of Claudia Winkleman, who co-hosts the dance show with Tess Daly.\n\nSkelton, 39, has previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special. She starts presenting a new show on BBC Radio Five Live on Sunday.\n\nShe said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nThe BBC One dancing competition is to return in September. Skelton joins the line-up of celebrity contestants including singer and presenter Fleur East, Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds and Bros singer Matt Goss.\n\nSkelton, who has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Winkleman she only finally agreed to take part \"the other day\".\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the make-up is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nShe has two sons and a baby daughter and told Winkleman: \"My [dance] partner better get used to a baby in the room.\"\n\nAnd she said her sons Ernie and Louis were excited but Louis had told her she would be better dancing on her own than with a partner.\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nThe full line-up of other contestants taking part in this year's series is:\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all return to the Strictly judging panel this year.\n\nThey will be joined again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli after standing in for him during the 2021 series.\n\nLast year's contest was won by EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis and her professional partner Giovanni Pernice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Heavy gusts of wind force evacuation of partygoers at Medusa festival in Spain\n\nOne man died and at least 40 others were injured when high winds caused parts of a stage to collapse at a festival in Spain early on Saturday.\n\nFootage showed some festivalgoers running in panic, while others are seen continuing to party at the event in Cullera, south of Valencia.\n\nThe popular Medusa Festival of electronic music was later suspended.\n\nThe dead man was in his 20s, local media say. Three of the injured suffered serious traumas.\n\nSpain's meteorological agency reported gusts of winds exceeding 80km/h (50mph) in the country's eastern coastal region at the time.\n\n\"We are in a state of shock,\" one of the attendees told Spanish media. \"It could have been me, it could have been anyone,\"\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, organisers said they were \"devastated and saddened at what happened this morning\".\n\nThey said \"violent strong winds\" at about 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) had caused damage to infrastructure at the venue, and a decision was immediately taken to vacate the area.", "England's health chiefs say they will create an extra 7,000 beds to tackle \"substantial\" pressures this winter.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisers warned that \"high numbers of beds may be needed for respiratory patients\".\n\nThe extra beds will include more temporary units at hospital sites and 2,500 \"virtual ward spaces\" with patients monitored at home.\n\nThe NHS is already facing intense pressure.\n\nAccording to official figures for July, nearly 30,000 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital.\n\nJuly also saw the highest number of ambulance callouts for life-threatening conditions since records began, and only 40% of patients were able to leave hospital when ready to do so.\n\nNHS chiefs say this could be the first winter where there is likely to be combined pressures from Covid and flu.\n\nThere are around 91,000 adult beds in general wards in England.\n\nIn a letter to all NHS hospital trusts, NHS bosses say extra measures for this winter will include:\n\nProfessor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director said: \"Winter is always a busy period for the NHS, and this is the first winter where we are likely to see combined pressures from Covid and flu, so it is right that we prepare as early as we can for the additional demand that we know we will face.\"\n\nHe added: \"As ever, it is vital that the public continues to use NHS services in the usual way, including using 999 in an emergency and using NHS 111 online for other health issues.\n\n\"And when the time comes, book in for your Covid and flu vaccines if you are eligible.\"\n\nSir Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, welcomed the additional measures but said extra staff were key.\n\nHe said: \"Without any significant government intervention to retain and rapidly increase the workforce any plan will fall short. They all need people to deliver them, and it's people we're really lacking.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Planning for seasonal challenges is an all year round process, and we have already announced 100 new ambulance staff and plans to increase capacity for urgent and emergency care this winter. The Minister will make a statement on progress in the autumn.\"", "Authors around the world have expressed their shock and sadness at the attack on Salman Rushdie in New York State.\n\nThe stabbing attack came after years of Islamist death threats against the Indian-born novelist over The Satanic Verses, published in 1988.\n\nFellow authors such as JK Rowling and Stephen King have written messages of support, calling the news \"horrifying\".\n\nBooker-prize winning author, Ian McEwan, called it an \"appalling attack\" that \"represents an assault on freedom of thought and speech\".\n\n\"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred,\" he added.\n\nPlaywright Hanif Kureishi told the BBC World Service's Newshour radio programme that he was \"shocked and appalled\" at the assault.\n\nHe lamented the fact his friend Mr Rushdie was still facing threats to his life some 33 years after the Iranian supreme leader called for his killing in a fatwa (decree).\n\n\"Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,\" wrote Laurent Sourisseau, also known as Riss, the managing editor of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.\n\nRiss still lives under police protection after 17 people, including 12 of his colleagues, were killed by Islamist gunmen in 2015 over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.\n\nLisa Appignanesi, another friend of Mr Rushdie and a fellow writer, called the attack \"ghastly\", adding that she hoped \"he makes it through to give us more of his extraordinary imaginative intelligence\".\n\n\"He is a great and very courageous writer with enormous fictional intelligence, unsurpassed really,\" she added.\n\nBooker prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy said she was \"almost speechless with sorrow and anger\".\n\n\"He has also supported other writers across the world who have been suffering from other sorts of pressures. For something like this to happen to a person like Rushdie, it's really destabilising for a lot of us,\" she added.\n\nAfghan-American author Khaled Hosseini wrote: \"I'm utterly horrified by the cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie. I pray for his recovery. He is an essential voice and cannot be silenced.\"\n\nWriter Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to flee her home in Bangladesh after a court said her novel Lajja offended Muslim's religious faith, said she now feared for her own safety.\n\nSuzanne Nossel, head of PEN America, an organisation defending authors' freedom of expression, condemned the \"brutal, premeditated\" assault on the group's former president.\n\nMs Nossel said that Mr Rushdie had emailed her just hours before the incident, offering help with placements for Ukrainian writers.\n\n\"We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced,\" she added.", "It’s been a week for the obliteration of precedents.\n\nFirst the revelation that a former president’s home had been searched by the FBI, made public by Donald Trump himself.\n\nThat brought three days of him and his supporters shaping that ostensibly bad news narrative into familiar themes – namely that the “political witch-hunt” was continuing and that the state was still out to get him.\n\nThen, on Thursday the Department of Justice decided it had had enough of being traduced – doing something they do not do and requesting the details of what they were looking for and what they found be published.\n\nAnd here we are with the most top secret of classified documents being hauled away from a private, beachfront golf club and the FBI citing potential crimes involving the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.\n\nYou might think this would put anyone on the back foot, but for the former president and his backers these are as much opportunities as they are jeopardies.\n\nThey burnish his self-described position as an outsider and reinvigorate his supporters' desire for a second Trump term in which a “third world country” - to quote President Trump - can be made great again.\n\nThis isn’t over by a long chalk.", "Aida H Dee before an event on the Drag Queen Story Hour Tour at Cowbridge Library\n\nA children's story hour run by a drag queen in Cardiff was targeted by protesters claiming it was \"sexualising their children\".\n\nThe Drag Queen Story Hour Tour arrived in Wales this week, with the final event held in Cardiff Central Library.\n\nStoryteller Sab Samuel said it provided a \"positive experience\" and said there was no sexual content.\n\nPolice formed a line between protesters and counter protesters outside but the event passed off peacefully.\n\nThere were about 15 protesters in attendance, with many more in support of the event, wearing clothes adorned with the rainbow flag\n\nProtesters targeted the library entrance on Friday with placards and banners before the event, claiming it was inappropriate for children.\n\nSab, whose drag character is Aida H Dee, says the intention was to provide a positive experience about queer culture and a positive role model for people to look up.\n\nHe said the shows included no sexual language, nor were children exposed to sexual situations.\n\nSab moved to Cardiff in 2019 with the idea of capitalising on the flourishing LGBTQ community to begin the Drag Queen Story Hour.\n\nHe said: \"I came to Cardiff to join, what I know is a large LGBTQ community and large Drag Queen community. I don't think Drag Queen Story Hour would have thrived as it has without the support Wales gives with its culture and community.\n\n\"It makes me feel depressed that these hateful people exist in dark corners of every country. These people do exist and they inspire me to keep going and to write more stories. This is the exact reason I do what I do.\"\n\nThe majority of the events in Wales have sold out and the ambition is to start a series of Drag Story Hours across the city, following the end of the Covid pandemic.\n\n\"I would like to hope that Drag Queen Story Hour is the light at the end of the tunnel and to say that these types of events are going to be happening much more often,\" said Sab.\n\n\"The plan is for there to be a summer tour every year. The tour will concentrate on different parts of the country and we do plan to do a Wales-only tour at some point in the future.\"\n\nLuana Beynon (left) and Charmaine Smikle attended the event at Cardiff Central Library with their children\n\nLuana Beynon attended the event with her daughter.\n\nIt was her first experience of a drag queen story event and she said it was hugely enjoyable.\n\nShe said: \"The energy that Aida had during the story hour was brilliant. It was great fun for both adults and children. I haven't been to a Drag Story Hour before, but I'll definitely be going again in the future. I'm going to need to work on my storytelling after watching Aida! She was fantastic.\"\n\nParents were greeted by protesters before and after the event, although Luana says there was not any cohesion between their message and the event itself.\n\n\"I was surprised there were protesters but glad to see majority of people gathered were pro the event,\" she said.\n\n\"It was tailored towards children throughout so I didn't really understand their message. It's no different to the pantomime. I think these people need to experience the event before judging it.\"\n\nThere have been a small number of protesters at similar events in the UK during the summer tour, which BBC Monitoring said has been linked to far-right groups or demonstrators who have switched from anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests to meritless claims that the events are being hosted by \"paedophiles\" and \"child groomers\".\n\nCouncillors in Cardiff have received 143 letters of complaints about the drag queen story time.\n\nSouth Wales Police were in attendance wearing body cameras and will assess whether any action has to be taken at a later date.\n\nCh Insp Chris Peters, from South Wales Police, said: \"Officers have been present outside libraries across the Vale of Glamorgan this week, and Cardiff Central Library today, to facilitate peaceful protest and minimise disruption to the wider community.\n\n\"On Wednesday, a 44-year-old man from Gabalfa was arrested outside Cowbridge Library and received a penalty notice for disorder due to his behaviour.\n\n\"There have been no other arrests linked to the protests, which have passed without incident.\"\n\nSome verbal abuse was heard directed at the counter protesters during the event.", "More people chose to \"staycation\" closer to home when coronavirus travel restrictions were in place\n\nTourism in Northern Ireland has still not returned to pre-Covid levels amid cost pressures and competition from the return of international travel.\n\nIn 2019, the tourism sector in Northern Ireland hit the £1bn mark, before the pandemic hit in 2020.\n\nWhen restrictions put people off travelling abroad, more people chose to \"staycation\" closer to home.\n\nHowever, now that international travel is back, it means more competition for domestic providers.\n\nNorthern Ireland Hotels Federation chief executive Janice Gault said the industry was \"about 80% of where we were\".\n\n\"We can't compare on a similar cost base, June occupancy was slightly less than 2019 but July has been pretty much on a par,\" she said.\n\n\"Up until now we have had a strong summer with lots of events back in June.\"\n\nShe added: \"During the week we have noticed some softening from Monday through to Thursday, with people maybe choosing to go abroad for a longer time.\n\n\"I think this has been an unfortunate year.\n\n\"We have had the war in Ukraine which has driven up energy costs, food costs have increased and we've had significant wage inflation, that's something no one can budget for.\"\n\nThe summer season is crucial for tourism, as it allows the sector to build up its reserves that then keep it going through the quieter winter months.\n\nJanice Gault says energy costs, food costs and significant wage inflation are issues\n\nThe rising cost of living is putting pressure on the industry.\n\nOn the demand side, many people will not be able to afford to travel.\n\nIt is also pushing up costs which will have an impact on profitability.\n\nPeter Bradshaw owns Castle Archdale Boat hire in County Fermanagh, with a range of water activities on offer such as boat hire, kayaks and water bikes.\n\nHe said 2022 had been a strong year so far, but they had noticed some visitors are cutting back.\n\n\"We are seeing the return of international visitors, which we didn't have for two years because of travel restrictions, you definitely see more people coming from further afield.\n\n\"Definitely we are noticing people with the cost of living, they are coming and doing one or two activities rather than three or four, we have introduced a family pass to help people do more, but you definitely notice things a bit quieter in that end of things.\n\n\"We have done a bit of price reduction here and there, like off-peak times and making adjustments as required, as any business has to do when things change.\"\n\nOne cost businesses in tourism and hospitality face is VAT.\n\nPeter Bradshaw said 2022 had been a strong year for his boat hire business so far, but they have noticed some visitors are cutting back\n\nSince April, it has been back at 20%, after it was cut to 5% and then 12% during the pandemic.\n\nIn contrast, VAT in the Republic of Ireland is 9%.\n\nMr Bradshaw said VAT coming back \"was a big loss, which is difficult because 10 miles across the border VAT is much lower\".\n\n\"It would be nice to have a level playing field so people can't just go down the road and get something for cheaper down there,\" he added.\n\nMs Gault said costs had gone up across the board.\n\n\"Car hire has gone up, accommodation costs have gone up and food costs have gone up - that applies to everywhere,\" she added.\n\n\"This year is an anomaly and it's making things very difficult, we've tried to absorb a large number of those costs but some of them we've got to pass on.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBrentford produced a stunning first-half performance as they scored four goals in the first 35 minutes to condemn Manchester United to a humiliating defeat at Gtech Community Stadium.\n\nJosh Dasilva put the hosts ahead when his strike from distance somehow eluded United goalkeeper David de Gea.\n\nMathias Jensen doubled the lead after dispossessing former Brentford player Christian Eriksen, with Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo goals putting Thomas Frank's side four up during an incredible first half in which they dismantled United in stunning fashion.\n\nThe defeat is United's seventh in a row on the road - their worst run since 1936 - while it is the seventh time they have conceded at least four goals in a league game since the start of last season.\n\nWhile Brentford can bask in a historic win, United boss Erik ten Hag faces the unenviable task of lifting his players in time for the visit of Liverpool to Old Trafford on Monday, 22 August.\n• None Follow reaction to Brentford's win plus the rest of Saturday's action\n• None Go straight to all the best Manchester United content\n\nFrom bad to worse for United\n\nHaving been deservedly beaten by Brighton last week, United sought to make a quick start but it was Brentford who found early joy as the visitors' defence crumbled in spectacular fashion against their high-pressing hosts.\n\nDe Gea, who for so long has been one of United's most consistent performers, was left red-faced when he allowed Dasilva's speculative shot from distance to slip underneath him and into the net, with Cristiano Ronaldo claiming he was fouled in the build-up.\n\nHarry Maguire was then booked for a clumsy lunge on Dasilva, and while Mathias Jensen missed from the resultant free-kick, the Danish midfielder was celebrating two minutes later following another United mistake.\n\nDe Gea's pass to Eriksen on the edge of the United penalty area led to Jensen stealing the ball before slotting low into the net to double Brentford's lead.\n\nAfter falling two behind to Brighton last week, it was another stern examination of United's character, but it only got worse as Brentford struck twice in the space of five minutes to move four clear.\n\nMee nodded home at the far post to make it three before Mbeumo finished off a rapid counter-attack when he controlled Ivan Toney's pass before curling the ball beyond a helpless De Gea to put the Bees four up after a scarcely believable 35 minutes.\n\nManager Ten Hag could barely have envisaged such a catastrophic start to his reign, and while there is still time for the Dutchman to transform their fortunes, the first two games of the season have underlined the daunting task facing the former Ajax boss at Old Trafford.\n\nWhile much of the post-match discussion will focus on United's problems, Brentford - like Brighton last week - deserve praise for their approach and execution.\n\nFrom the first whistle, they tormented United, refusing to allow the visitors time on the ball and, crucially, took their chances to leave their opponents in the dust.\n\nThe first goal arrived when Jensen robbed Ronaldo inside the United half and fed the onrushing Dasilva. With Lisandro Martinez - subbed at half-time - slow to close off the space, Dasilva sent a low shot towards the goal that escaped De Gea's grasp.\n\nThat set the tone for the first half as Brentford ran riot. The impressive Jensen anticipated De Gea's risky pass to Eriksen and punished both players, before Toney used his height advantage to beat Martinez in the air and tee up Mee, who marked his home debut with a goal.\n\nThe fourth goal summed up the difference between the sides. After Jadon Sancho was muscled off the ball inside the Brentford box, the hosts pumped the ball long to Toney.\n\nWith United slow to react to the developing counter-attack, Toney slipped in Mbeumo, who shook off Luke Shaw and swept the ball home to spark delirious scenes among the home fans.\n\nTen Hag's response was to introduce Raphael Varane, Scott McTominay and Tyrell Malacia at the break, but with his players apparently in shock, United were unable to mount the miraculous comeback required to salvage something from the game as Brentford strolled to a victory that will live long in the memory.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Elanga.\n• None Attempt saved. Yoane Wissa (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Toney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vitaly Janelt (Brentford) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rico Henry (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Scott McTominay (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows a fire on the Studland peninsula in Purbeck, Dorset\n\nA huge fire which tore through a popular nature reserve and forced the evacuation of a beach was most likely caused by a barbecue, firefighters say.\n\nAt its height on Friday, 90 firefighters tackled the blaze at Studland Heath in Dorset and crews remain at the scene.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had discovered a used disposable barbecue amid the ashes.\n\nIt has urged people not to risk using barbecues in the countryside.\n\nFirefighters were alerted at about 13:00 BST on Friday and had to work in dense smoke which could be seen for miles.\n\nFlames leapt across the Isle of Purbeck, forcing police to evacuate Studland beach which had been busy with holiday-makers.\n\nCrews worked throughout the night as they attempted to contain the fire.\n\nA firefighter tackles the blaze at the Studland Heath nature reserve on the Isle of Purbeck\n\nStudland Heath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and home to all six species of native British reptiles including the rare and nationally endangered sand lizard and smooth snake; it is also home to the rare Dartford Warbler.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said: \"We found evidence of a little camp where someone had used a disposable barbecue. We can't say 100% that was the cause but when we find evidence, we have to assume that's the most likely cause - fires don't just start on their own\".\n\nArea manager Jason Moncrief said: \"There can't be many people left in Britain who don't know the advice at the moment is do not use a disposable barbecue at these places.\n\n\"Bring a picnic, use our local cafes, restaurants and takeaways - don't bring a barbecue.\"\n\nEven after the flames had been quelled the land was still smouldering\n\nOn Saturday, Dorset Police issued an appeal for people to not park in the area, after reports that hundreds of cars had ignored 'no parking' signs.\n\nThe restrictions were put in place to allow firefighters to deal with the ongoing incident.\n\nSome drivers had reportedly moved a water hose running along Ferry Road so they could park.\n\n\"Our fire colleagues are working in extreme conditions to tackle this blaze and they need the public to help them, not hinder them,\" a police spokesperson said.\n\nThe chain ferry linking Studland to Sandbanks in Poole was used to get people off the beach\n\nFirefighters worked amid dense smoke throughout the afternoon and evening\n\nIn a bid to reduce the numbers of disposable barbecues in use, several supermarket chains have stopped selling them during the UK heatwave.\n\nOn Friday, Co-op announced it was the latest to join the moratorium and said it would not sell the product while the dry spell continued.\n\nSouthern and central England and parts of Wales are subject to an amber extreme heat alert until Sunday.\n\nThe Met Office has also issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend, warning there is an \"exceptional\" risk of blazes spreading.\n\nAs the heat continues, firefighters have strived to stress the dangers of careless behaviour when out in the countryside.\n\nSmoke from the blaze, which engulfed undergrowth and gorse, could be seen from across Poole Harbour\n\nThe fire service said an overland mains supply of water had been installed\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Donald Trump has said he welcomes the warrant being made public\n\nThe FBI seized top secret files in a search of former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week, documents show.\n\nAgents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked \"TS/SCI\", a designation for material that could cause \"exceptionally grave\" damage to US national security.\n\nMr Trump denied any wrongdoing and said the items were declassified.\n\nIt was the first time an ex-president's home was searched in a criminal probe.\n\nThe list of items was made public on Friday afternoon after a judge unsealed a seven-page document that included the warrant authorising the search of Mr Trump's Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nIt said more than 20 boxes of items were taken on Monday, including a binder of photos, a handwritten note, unspecified information about the \"President of France\" and a clemency letter written on behalf of long-time Trump ally Roger Stone.\n\nAs well as four sets of top secret files, the cache includes three sets of \"secret documents\" and three sets of \"confidential\" material.\n\nThe warrant indicates that FBI agents were looking into potential violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it illegal to keep or transmit potentially dangerous national security information.\n\nThe removal of classified documents or materials is prohibited by law. Mr Trump increased the penalties for the crime while in office and it is now punishable by up to five years in prison.\n\nThe warrant notes that the locations searched at Mar-a-Lago include an area called the \"45 office\" and storage rooms, but not private guest suites not being used by Mr Trump and his staff.\n\nThe justice department had asked a court to make it public on Thursday, a move considered rare amid an ongoing investigation.\n\nIt was approved by a judge on 5 August, three days before it was carried out on Monday, 8 August.\n\nOn Friday night, Mr Trump's office issued a statement maintaining that he had used his authority while president to declassify the documents.\n\n\"He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States.\n\n\"The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated by the president, needs to approve of declassification is absurd.\"\n\nLegal experts have told US media it is unclear whether this argument would hold up in court. \"Presidents can declassify information but they have to follow a procedure,\" Tom Dupree, a lawyer who previously worked in the justice department, told the BBC.\n\n\"They have to fill out forms. They have to give certain authorisations. They can't simply say these documents are declassified. They have to follow a process [and it is] not clear that was followed here.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Trump, Taylor Budowich, said the administration of President Joe Biden \"is in obvious damage control after their botched raid\".\n\nMr Budowich accused the administration of \"leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponisation of government against their dominant political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump's conservative allies have also condemned the raid as a political hit job as he considers another run for the presidency in 2024.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies around the country are reportedly monitoring online threats against government officials that have emerged in the wake of the FBI search.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland, who personally approved the warrant, defended federal agents on Thursday as \"dedicated, patriotic public servants\".\n\n\"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,\" he told reporters.", "Drought in Spain is exposing villages that were submerged by the building of dams and reservoirs\n\nThe ongoing drought in the UK and Europe is putting electricity generation under pressure, say experts.\n\nElectricity from hydropower - which uses water to generate power - has dropped by 20% overall.\n\nAnd nuclear facilities, which are cooled using river water, have been restricted.\n\nThere are fears that the shortfalls are a taste of what will happen in the coming winter.\n\nIn the UK, high temperatures are hitting energy output from fossil, nuclear and solar sources.\n\nThat is because the technology in power plants and solar panels work much less well in high temperatures.\n\nThe prolonged dry spell is putting further pressure on energy supplies as Europe scrambles for alternative sources after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHydropower is an important source of energy for Europe, but the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs is now significantly reducing the ability of facilities to produce electricity.\n\nItaly gets around 1/5 of its power from hydro, but that's fallen by around 40% in the past 12 months.\n\nIt's a similar story in Spain, where the amount of electricity generated is down 44%, according to data from energy researchers Rystad Energy.\n\n\"Hydropower can be quite volatile, but 40% is absolutely extreme,\" says Fabian Rønningen, a power analyst with Rystad.\n\nThe figures are not just down in one part of Europe, he explains, but all the big hydropower-producing countries are making less now.\n\n\"It's really a big impact,,\" he adds.\n\nItaly has been hit hard by drought limiting energy from hydroelectricity by 40%\n\nNorway is also experiencing challenges with hydro-electricity. It warned that it may not be able to continue to export energy to countries like the UK unless its reservoirs were refilled.\n\nSome in the hydro industry say that lack of investment in modernisation and in transmission lines are also causing problems.\n\n\"We are going to face a problem this winter. And that should be a wake-up call to have more investment in the infrastructure for the next few years,\" says Eddie Rich from the International Hydropower Association.\n\nThe exceptionally hot weather is also hitting nuclear power production, especially in France. Around half of the 56 reactors in the fleet are offline, with several affected by a systemic issue with corrosion.\n\nThose reactors that are working are often cooled with water from rivers that are now running low, while temperatures are running high.\n\n\"Once the water in the rivers is very low and very hot, basically you have to stop cooling down nuclear power plants. That's because the water that's released is dangerous for fish and other species in the rivers,\" said Prof Sonia Seneviratne, from ETH Zurich.\n\nThe French government is now allowing some facilities to release very warm water back into the rivers, as a temporary measure.\n\nIt underlines the stresses the heat is putting on energy production. France is now making up the shortfall in electricity by importing from the UK among others.\n\nAnalysts say this is putting additional pressure on the UK system - at a time when the very warm weather is hitting production from gas and nuclear facilities.\n\nIt's more difficult to cool the plants in the warmer weather, explains Kathryn Porter, an energy consultant with Watt-Logic.\n\n\"Solar panels also experience quite a significant drop off above 25C. Everything just works less well when it's hot,\" she adds.\n\nPower output from solar farms in the UK will be hit at temperatures soar\n\nThe stresses in the UK system were evident this week when the National Grid triggered a capacity market notice, a technical step indicating that the safe margins for operating the grid were reduced.\n\nCountries, including the UK and France, rely on each other's electricity markets.\n\n\"If both French and UK systems are in stress at the same time, then nobody really knows what will happen,\" Ms Porter says.\n\nShe said it is a foretaste of what may happen in winter and warns that there may well be restrictions on energy use for large consumers.", "Russian forces captured Kherson city in the early days of the war\n\nUkraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region.\n\nIt says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka - which it has attacked before - is now impassable. The claim has not been independently verified.\n\nIt comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces.\n\nUkraine is waging a counter-offensive towards Kherson city, which Russia captured in the early days of the war.\n\n\"The destruction of the road bridge of the Nova Kakhovka dam was ensured, with the result that it was taken out of operation,\" the Ukrainian army's Operational Command South posted to Facebook.\n\nIn a daily intelligence update, UK defence officials said Ukrainian precision strikes were likely to have made the road crossing over the Dnieper River \"unusable for heavy military vehicles\". Nova Kakhovka lies about 55km (34 miles) north-east of Kherson.\n\nRussian forces had only succeeded in making superficial repairs to the main Antonivsky Bridge, the officials said, which Western military sources said was \"completely unusable\" after a Himars artillery rocket attack last month.\n\nThe Antonivsky Bridge was seriously damaged last month\n\nThe main rail bridge near Kherson was also further damaged last week, the UK update said.\n\n\"Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability,\" the UK defence ministry said.\n\nIt added that thousands of Russian troops west of the river were now \"almost certainly reliant on just two pontoon ferry crossing points\" for ground resupplies.\n\nMilitary analysts say there is a growing risk of the troops being cut off from the rest of main Russian occupying forces.\n\nThe attack is part of a Ukrainian effort to isolate Russian troops, with the ultimate goal of recapturing the entire region.\n\nIf it proves successful the ambitious campaign would provide a boost for Kyiv by retaking from Russia the only regional capital it has so far captured since the invasion in February.\n\nKherson, which had a population of about 290,000 before the war, is currently administered by Moscow-backed officials.\n\nLast month, Russia said its military focus was no longer only on eastern Ukraine but on its southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia too.\n\nVladimir Putin has signed a decree to make it easier for residents of Kherson to get Russian passports\n\nAccording to Russia's Tass news agency, officials in Kherson city have started moving forward with plans to hold a referendum on formally joining Russia.\n\nThe US has accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of occupied Ukraine illegally.\n\nBut Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, said this week that any referendum held in occupied-regions would never be internationally recognised.\n\nShe also advised Ukrainians remaining in Russian-held areas to evacuate, adding that 5,300 people had left the Kherson region in the last five days.", "Louis Thorold pictured with his mother Rachael just hours before the crash in January 2021\n\nA driver has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of causing the death by careless driving of a baby boy in a pram.\n\nFive-month-old Louis Thorold was hit on the pavement of the A10 near Cambridge, on 22 January 2021. His mother Rachael was seriously injured.\n\nLawyers for Shelagh Robertson, 75, said she had undiagnosed dementia at the time of the crash in Waterbeach.\n\nJurors at Cambridge Crown Court found her condition had affected her driving.\n\nMrs Robertson, of Stables Yard in Waterbeach, was driving home from the supermarket when she turned into the path of an oncoming van, forcing it on to the pavement where it hit the mum and baby, the trial heard.\n\nShelagh Robertson's defence team said she had undiagnosed Alzheimer's disease at the time of the crash\n\nLouis was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.\n\nMrs Thorold spent 10 days in a coma and 118 days in hospital, with her husband Chris describing her survival as \"miraculous\".\n\nLouis Thorold was born at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge in August 2020\n\nDuring the trial, James Leonard, defending, said Mrs Robertson was \"ill-equipped to negotiate\" the junction due to her dementia, while prosecutor David Matthew said that while there was \"strong evidence\" she had dementia, there was the question of \"where on the slope of dementia Shelagh Robertson was in January 2021\".\n\nAdam Zeman, professor of cognitive behavioural neurology at the University of Exeter, compiled a report on Mrs Robertson for the defence.\n\nHe told the court she had \"dementia caused most probably by Alzheimer's disease in a slightly atypical presentation\".\n\nHe said this would have put Mrs Robertson at \"high risk of becoming confused at that junction and one possible outcome of the confusion would be to look the wrong way\".\n\nThe judge, Mark Bishop, told jurors that if they were satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the defendant had dementia at the time, and either did not know what she was doing or did not know that what she was doing was wrong, they could return a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.\n\nThe boy's parents Rachael and Chris Thorold were in court to hear the verdict\n\nAs jurors returned their majority verdict, the boy's parents, Chris and Rachael Thorold, who sat in the public gallery, looked down at the floor, with Mr Thorold shaking his head.\n\nIn a statement released after the verdict, Mr Thorold said: \"Louis Steven James Thorold was the sweetest happiest, joyful and most beautiful baby. He was perfectly ours. He was our lives. He still is.\n\n\"Louis knew only love and cuddles before he was killed. A life sentence for us, his family, our community and everyone who hears this story.\"\n\nThe judge adjourned the case for a further hearing on 19 August.\n\nSpeaking after the trial, Det Sgt Mark Dollard, from the road policing unit for Cambridgeshire, said: \"Regardless of the verdict nothing will ever bring Louis back and his family will have to live with that for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"It is however, a stark reminder of how important it is for anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle to be competent and capable of driving safely.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is concerned about a family member or friend and their ability to drive to speak up, discuss your concerns with your loved one or alternatively speak to your GP who can submit their concerns to the DVLA.\"\n\nFollowing the crash, Louis' family had set up the Louis Thorold Foundation in their son's memory, with the aim of preventing infant pedestrian deaths.\n\nMr Thorold said: \"We must now look forward. Louis wouldn't want us to be sad or give up. Louis will live on. His legacy - that one day no-one will have to deal with a death of a child on Britain's roads.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Robert Buckland has become the first cabinet minister to publicly switch his support from Rishi Sunak to Liz Truss in the Tory leadership race.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Sir Robert said Ms Truss was the \"right person to take the country forward\".\n\nThe Welsh Secretary had previously backed former chancellor Mr Sunak, citing his experience and judgement.\n\nMr Sunak won most votes among Tory MPs, but Ms Truss is now consistently tipped to win the backing of party members.\n\nThe pair are currently travelling around the country taking part in a series of hustings - events in which they answer questions and put forward their proposals in front of invited party members.\n\nThe votes - either postal or online - will be cast over the coming weeks and a result will be announced on 5 September. As the new Conservative Party leader, the winner will also succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister on that date.\n\nIn his article, Sir Robert says he had initially backed Mr Sunak because he felt that, during the parliamentary rounds where MPs decided on the final two candidates, he was \"embodying what we needed.\"\n\n\"As the campaign has moved on, and as I have listened carefully to both candidates, I have thought deeply about the issues that move me and what I want to see the next prime minister doing,\" he said.\n\n\"Changing your mind on an issue like this is not an easy thing to do, but I have decided that Liz Truss is the right person to take the country forward.\"\n\nSir Robert has previously described himself as a \"strong Remainer\" and a \"One-Nation, moderate Conservative\". Before becoming secretary of state for Wales, he served as justice secretary and prisons minister.\n\nHe said he had switched to Ms Truss in part because she had pledged to address his concerns about the Bill of Rights, a proposed piece of legislation intended to replace the Human Rights Act.\n\nSir Robert said he also wanted to see the next prime minister prioritise growth, saying it would be necessary if the government was to make a \"real difference to people\".\n\n\"We need growth and investment, and we need to learn to love business again,\" he wrote. \"That is... the Conservative way of boosting household finances and getting the tax revenues we need to fund public services,\" he writes.\n\n\"[Ms Truss's] plans give us our best shot at reaching our potential with the high-growth, high-productivity economy that we need,\" he said.\n\nThe state of the UK economy, along with the current levels of tax and the rate of inflation, have been central issues in the leadership campaign.\n\nMs Truss has pledged immediate tax cuts while Mr Sunak has said they should be left until inflation has been brought under control, although he has pledged to scrap VAT on energy and cut income tax over the next parliament.\n\nSir Robert also emphasised the need for \"party unity\" whichever candidate becomes the next Tory leader.\n\n\"We cannot expect to have the necessary strength in government if our party is torn in two by the end of the summer,\" he writes.", "Anne Heche was an Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actress\n\nUS actress Anne Heche is legally dead but will remain on life support to allow for a possible organ donation, her representative has said.\n\nThe 53-year-old had been in a coma for a week after crashing her car into a house in Los Angeles.\n\n\"Today we lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul\", her family said in a statement on Friday.\n\nHeche appeared in films including Volcano, Donnie Brasco and the 1998 remake of Psycho.\n\nThe mother-of-two also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, in 2020.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), Heche's vehicle \"erupted in heavy fire\", which took 59 firefighters more than an hour to fully extinguish. The two-storey home she crashed into was left \"uninhabitable\".\n\nAs well as suffering burns, the actress was left with \"a severe anoxic brain injury\" - when the brain is deprived of oxygen - her family said.\n\nA representative said the late actress is \"legally dead,\" but added that her life-support treatment will continue temporarily to check if she may be a match for a potential organ donation.\n\nHeche was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s\n\n\"Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy\", her family's statement said.\n\n\"Her bravery for always standing in her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact.\"\n\nHeche was born in 1969 in Ohio and her family moved around many times during her childhood.\n\nWhen she was 13 years old, her father died of HIV/Aids, and she later said in her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy that he had repeatedly raped her as a child.\n\nIn interviews promoting the book, she said the abuse caused her to be \"insane\" for the first 31 years of her life and that she had created a fantasy world called the \"Fourth Dimension\" to make herself feel safe.\n\nThree months after her father's death, her brother was killed in a car crash, which she believed was suicide. Her mother disputed both the suicide and the abuse claims and the pair became estranged.\n\nShe was nominated for a Tony Award on Broadway in 2004\n\nAfter her family relocated to Chicago, Heche was spotted by a talent agent in a school play.\n\nShe became known in the late 1980s for portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World. The roles won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.\n\nHeche came to wider prominence in the late 1990s, playing Maggie in crime drama movie Donnie Brasco, alongside Johnny Depp. She later told interviewer Larry King it had been \"heaven\" working with Depp.\n\nShe played Amy Barnes, a geologist and seismologist in the the disaster movie Volcano, opposite Tommy Lee Jones, while cult slasher flick I Know What You Did Last Summer saw her portray Melissa \"Missy\" Egan.\n\nHeche (centre) with co-stars Sandra Oh and Alicia Silverstone at the premiere of their film Catfight in 2017\n\nShe also appeared in the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights and the drama-thriller Return to Paradise before portraying Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of the classic horror film Psycho.\n\nIn 1997, having previously only dated men, she began a relationship with US talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. The high-profile couple said they would get a civil union if it became available in Vermont, but they split up three years later.\n\nHeche later suffered from mental health problems and reportedly struggled with drug use, at one point being hospitalised after parking on a highway in California and walking into the desert.\n\nIn 2001, Heche married \"Coley\" Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met on DeGeneres' stand-up tour, and they had a son, before divorcing nearly six years later. She reportedly left her husband for Men in Trees co-star James Tupper and in 2008 her representative confirmed that the actress was pregnant with her second son. The couple split in 2018.\n\nHeche appeared alongside Sigourney Weaver in the 2011 films Rampart and Cedar Rapids\n\nA new century brought a new direction work-wise, with roles in fewer blockbusters and more acclaimed independent films, such as drama Birth, sex comedy Spread and 2011's Cedar Rapids - about a naïve insurance agent on a life-changing work trip to Iowa.\n\nShe received an Emmy nomination for her role as Roweena Lawson in the 2004 TV film Gracie's Choice, about a teenage girl who tries to raise her siblings on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail.\n\nThe same year, she was nominated for best actress at the Tony Awards after performing opposite Alec Baldwin in a Broadway production of Twentieth Century.", "The sun shining on Ballygally in County Antrim on Friday\n\nA high temperature warning is in effect across the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt will remain until 06:00 local time on Monday. A yellow heat alert is currently in place for the provinces of Leinster and Munster.\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland saw the hottest day on record for August when a temperature of 31.7C was recorded at Oak Park in County Carlow.\n\nMeanwhile, a thunderstorm warning has been issued for Northern Ireland from noon on Sunday to 06:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of the potential for flooding, damage, and disruption during this period.\n\nThe service said up to 20-30mm of rain was possible within an hour, and up to 50mm in three to six hours. Hail and frequent lightning strikes are likely during this time.\n\nA farmer in County Wexford had to create a fire break after 30 acres of land became engulfed in flames.\n\nSpeaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ farmer Paddy Walsh said \"farmers have tankers of water ready to go\" and must be vigilant.\n\nThe wildfire took hours to bring under control and was attended by six fire appliances and two water tankers from Wexford and Wicklow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barra Best This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Barra Best\n\nHosepipe bans have been introduced across England as a result of low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions.\n\nHowever, there are no plans to introduce similar restrictions in Northern Ireland, according to a senior manager in Northern Ireland Water.\n\n\"There are no concerns about our storage of raw water at the minute,\" Maynard Cowsley told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\nHe added that the company's reservoirs currently have a storage of 73%.\n\n\"All we're asking people to do at the minute is think carefully when they go to use water.\"\n\nA climate scientist has warned that the high temperatures being experienced in Northern Ireland this weekend fit with the pattern of predicted climate change that experts have warned of for decades.\n\nProfessor Paul Dunlop from Ulster University said extreme weather would have consequences for food production and flooding.\n\nHe added that we will have to deal with temperatures like these more often as the effects of climate change are felt.\n\n\"This is the future for our part of the world - hotter weather, more extreme temperatures, drier climate,\" he said.\n\n\"And then we can also get very intense rainfall because hot air can hold more moisture and if we get very intense rainfall after very prolonged dry weather we get floods because the soil can't absorb the water quick enough.\"\n\nOn Friday, Northern Ireland will be very warm to hot across most areas with the maximum temperature expected to reach 29C.\n\nTemperatures peaked at 28.5C on Thursday at Katesbridge in County Down, beating Wednesday's high and making it the hottest August day in Northern Ireland in nearly 20 years.\n\nBBC NI Weather presenter Cecilia Daly said: \"Despite such a high daytime temperature on Thursday, temperatures fell away on Thursday night and the lowest temperature recorded on Friday morning was also at Katesbridge with an overnight minimum of 5.6C.\n\n\"This is a very large diurnal range and in some ways is an indicator of how dry the ground is in this area.\n\n\"The heat will continue to build today and tomorrow and this heatwave is expected to peak on Saturday with a shift in the highest temperature values towards the west - close to 29C on Friday and possibly close to 30C on Saturday.\"\n\nShe added: \"As always it will be cooler at the beaches, though the sun is still just as strong\n\n\"Sunday will see the start of a change with a risk of showers later in the day and next week temperatures will tumble and a cool northerly breeze will set in.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Public Health Agency is continuing to warn people to take care in the sun and to spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm.\n\nNI Water has said it is not introducing any restrictions such as a hosepipe ban, but added that the situation is being \"closely monitored\".\n\n\"The demand for water has been increasing steadily over the past number of days and we expect it to continue to increase over the weekend in line with the high temperatures,\" the company's Des Nevin said.\n\n\"The amount of water in our impounding reservoirs is kept under continuous review and we are content with our current level of storage.\n\n\"However, it is imperative that customers continue to use water wisely, especially given the forecast for the next number of days.\"\n\nHe added: \"All this hot, dry weather may have our lawns looking a bit brown and it's tempting to turn on the sprinkler, but a sprinkler can use as much as 1,000 litres of clean drinking water in a single hour, more than a family of four would use in a whole day.\n\n\"Lawns are great survivors and with the next rain they will soon bounce back.\n\n\"While it is tempting, please avoid using swimming or paddling pools. Filling a 12ft swimming pool uses the same amount of water 500 people use for daily handwashing.\"\n\nLifeguard Supervisor Stuart Montgomery told BBC's Evening Extra programme there had been 10 serious rescues on north coast beaches this week.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Public Health Agency is continuing to warn people to take care in the sun\n\nThe hot weather has seen large crowds of young people gathering at Crawfordsburn beach in County Down.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, five police officers were injured after going to the area to investigate reports of anti-social behaviour.\n\nElsewhere, large areas of England are expected to be declared in drought from the National Drought Group.\n\nYorkshire Water has announced its first hosepipe ban in 27 years and joins South East, Southern and Welsh Water in enforcing restrictions\n\nA four-day extreme heat amber warning is in place for parts of England and Wales, with temperatures forecast to hit 37C (99F).\n\nThe MET Office is also warning of an \"exceptional\" risk of fires spreading over the weekend.", "Jonathan Edwards sat as the independent MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr after his suspension by Plaid Cymru, but has been readmitted to the party\n\nAn MP who assaulted his wife should resign and leave Plaid Cymru, according to party leader Adam Price.\n\nJonathan Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, was suspended from the party in the wake of the assault in May 2020, but was recently readmitted.\n\nMr Edwards has said he will not rejoin the Plaid group of MPs at Westminster.\n\nHis wife, Emma Edwards, had said she was \"appalled\" after Plaid announced he would be allowed to return to being a Plaid MP.\n\nMr Edwards has criticised senior party figures for \"vindictive and vengeful\" attacks.\n\nMr Price cannot simply expel Mr Edwards from the party because Plaid's internal democratic rules and processes mean the party leader does not have the power to do so.\n\nMr Edwards, who accepted a police caution, said he will regret his actions on the day of the assault \"to the end of my life\". Details of the incident are unknown.\n\nMr Price said: \"I would like to thank Emma Edwards for speaking out yesterday and for her to know that her voice has been heard.\n\n\"I would also like to offer my apology to her and all domestic abuse survivors for the pain this has caused.\"\n\nHe called on Mr Edwards to \"leave the party\".\n\n\"His actions do not represent our values and his position as an MP sends the wrong message out to domestic abuse survivors in Wales and beyond,\" Mr Price said.\n\nMr Edwards was first elected Plaid MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr in 2010. At the last election in 2019 he had a majority of 1,809 over the Conservatives.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Price 🏴🏳️🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Price also said work would begin immediately on changing the party's disciplinary processes to \"give victims of gender-based violence a central role in any inquiries\".\n\nMr Edwards has also issued a statement in which he criticised \"a very dangerous environment when there is no space for anyone in the public sphere to speak honestly about mistakes they make, to be allowed to show genuine remorse and to try and build a better life\".\n\nHe said: \"I am concerned that there has been no distinction in any of the discussions about the difference between an incident and a pattern of behaviour.\"\n\nMr Edwards accused \"senior figures within the party\" of misusing \"their positions of power by subjecting me to vindictive and vengeful coordinated political attacks\".\n\nThis has been a particularly difficult issue for party leader Adam Price, because he is the Senedd member for the same constituency that Jonathan Edwards represents in the House of Commons - and there has been strong support for Mr Edwards in the local party.\n\nThe Plaid leader cannot simply terminate Mr Edwards' membership, and he is facing questions about why he's taken this long to make his call for him to quit, given Mr Edwards was suspended more than two years ago.\n\nMr Price says he had to let the disciplinary process take its course - the panel ruling on Mr Edwards only readmitted him to the party last month and until legal advice forced a U-turn on Wednesday, the party's ruling body was recommending that he should be prevented from sitting as a Plaid MP.\n\nMr Price says the intervention of Emma Edwards prompted him to make his call on Saturday.\n\nBut that begs another question - if Mrs Edwards hadn't made her public statement, would he have said anything at all?\n\nIn answer, he told me that her statement contained information that changed the party's perspective - he apologised to her and said she shouldn't have been put in that position.\n\nHis membership of Plaid Cymru was restored last month by a disciplinary panel but the party's ruling executive also recommended that he should not be allowed to rejoin their group of Plaid MPs at Westminster.\n\nOn Wednesday they backtracked, after receiving legal advice, and restored the whip. His wife said she was \"disappointed\" at the decision.\n\nThe couple are getting divorced.", "A police forensic unit inspects the house where the mass shooting began in the city of Cetinje\n\nAt least 11 people have been killed in a shooting following a family dispute in the city of Cetinje in Montenegro.\n\nAccording to officials, a single gunman shot dead three members of the same family before shooting at passers-by.\n\nA mother and her two children all staying in the shooter's house were killed, prosecutor Andrijana Nastic told journalists.\n\nThe attack finally ended when the 34-year-old gunman was shot dead by a civilian.\n\nAfter killing three members of the same family who were staying at his house, officials said the gunman left the property and fatally shot seven local residents using the same hunting rifle.\n\n\"For now, it is not clear what prompted [the suspect] to commit such a heinous act, on which occasion he himself was deprived of his life,\" Ms Nastic told a press conference on Friday evening.\n\nAnother six people are currently being treated in hospital.\n\nPrime Minister Dritan Abazovic said the government was declaring three days of mourning following the tragedy.\n\n\"I invite all the citizens of Montenegro to be with the families of the innocent victims,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nThe city of Cetinje is home to the picturesque Adriatic nation's former royal capital, and is situated in a mountainous valley around 36km (22 miles) west of the capital Podgorica.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows the moments after author Salman Rushdie was attacked\n\nSalman Rushdie said he felt his life was \"relatively normal\" in an interview conducted just two weeks before he was stabbed on stage in the US.\n\nThe award-winning writer is in a critical condition after being attacked at an event on Friday.\n\nHe has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of support, with the attack condemned as an assault on freedom of expression.\n\nMr Rushdie, 75, has been put on a ventilator, is unable to speak, and may lose one eye, his agent said.\n\nStern magazine had planned to publish its interview with the author next week, but brought it forward after the stabbing attack.\n\nThe magazine described how Mr Rushdie had arrived for the interview with no security at all, appeared relaxed as he said the Iranian fatwa was decades old.\n\nPolice detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey, shortly after he ran onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie and an interviewer at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.\n\nMr Matar was arrested for attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree, said police.\n\nHe was transported to Chautauqua County Jail and was due to face charges later on Saturday.\n\nMr Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen, authorities said. He has sustained liver damage, too.\n\nPolice told a news conference that staff and audience members had pinned the attacker to the ground where he was arrested.\n\nThe interviewer who was with Mr Rushdie, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury and was taken to a local hospital. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nThe motive has not been confirmed by police, who have said they want to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.\n\nA review of Mr Matar's social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nThe IRGC is a major military and political force in Iran - however, no link has been definitively established.\n\nMr Matar was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nTwo security officials were on duty at the centre at the time of the attack - one making the subsequent arrest.\n\nHowever, some of the visitors have questioned why security was not tighter for a man with a bounty of more than $3m on his head (£2.5m).\n\nMembers of the audience said the venue lacked basic security measures like bag checks and metal detectors.\n\nLike other people planning to attend the author's lecture, Mr Matar had obtained a pass to enter the Chautauqua Institution grounds, the group's president said.\n\nIndian-born novelist Mr Rushdie shot to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThere has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Iranian media described Mr Rushdie as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.\n\nMr Rushdie British-American citizen has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions. He has also continued to write, with his next work due out in 2023.", "Britney Spears's wedding was attended by a number of starts including Madonna and Paris Hilton\n\nBritney Spears' first husband has been convicted of trespassing and battery after turning up unannounced at the US singer's wedding in June.\n\nJason Alexander, 40, accepted the charges. A judge sentenced him to 64 days - the time he has already served.\n\nHe was tackled by security after gate-crashing the wedding between Spears and her long-time partner, Sam Asghari.\n\nAlexander was married to the pop star, a childhood friend, in 2004. But the union was annulled after 55 hours.\n\nSpears, 40, and Asghari, 28, tied the knot in a private ceremony at her home in California's Ventura County on 9 June.\n\nBut preparations were disrupted by Alexander's arrival. Shortly beforehand he had posted an Instagram Live story in which he said he was there to \"crash\" the wedding.\n\nHis video showed him walking through Spears' home looking for her, and then going into a marquee where the finishing touches were being put to a large display of roses.\n\nHe claimed Spears had invited him, saying: \"She's my first wife, my only wife.\" Alexander was arrested and taken to a local jail.\n\n\"He was able to find his way onto the property and was confronted by security,\" a police spokesman said at the time.\n\n\"An altercation occurred with the security officers and that's where the battery occurred... and during the altercation an item was broken, so that's where the vandalism comes into play.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe ceremony went ahead despite the disturbance, attended by stars including Madonna, Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Ansel Elgort and will.i.am.\n\nIn November, the singer was released from a controversial 13-year legal guardianship, under which her father Jamie controlled many aspects of her life.\n\nHer father, mother and sister were reportedly not at the wedding after relations broke down over the arrangement, and Spears' legal battle to end it.\n\nSpears met her new husband, a personal trainer, in 2016 on the set of her music video for the song Slumber Party. She was previously married to dancer Kevin Federline from 2004 to 2007.", "Passengers are being disrupted as rail services are hit by more strikes, with some firms running no trains at all.\n\nSome 6,500 train drivers at nine rail companies, who are members of the Aslef union, are staging their latest 24-hour walkout in a dispute over pay.\n\nThere have been several rail strikes this summer, with unions calling for pay increases more in line with the rising cost of living.\n\nBut rail companies said they could only fund a pay rise through reform.\n\nAvanti West Coast, Southeastern, CrossCountry, London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway are running no Saturday services at all, while other operators will have an extremely limited service.\n\nTransport for London has also advised passengers there will be no service on the entire London Overground network - which is operated by Arriva Rail London, whose drivers are part of the strike.\n\nThe other operators affected by the strike are Great Western, Greater Anglia, LNER and Hull Trains.\n\nTrain companies not involved in the strikes will be running services, but these are expected to be busy.\n\nLondon Euston and Birmingham New Street are among the stations that will be closed on Saturday.\n\nAt Euston, a picket line with about 50 Aslef members has formed. People have been arriving at the station hoping to catch trains only to find the entrances closed.\n\nThe disruption is expected to spill over into Sunday morning - so passengers have been told to check with their operator and consider starting their journey later in the day.\n\nEvents including Coldplay's second night at Wembley Stadium and Premier League games in Manchester, London, Birmingham and Brighton will be affected by the disruption, with thousands of travelling fans having had to make other arrangements.\n\nPhoebe Clifford, 20, was planning to travel by train from her home in Canterbury to London for a Rex Orange County gig on Saturday with her boyfriend.\n\nHowever, the pair now have no way of getting there as no services are running. It means they will lose the £100 they spent on the concert tickets.\n\nShe booked the tickets back in February as a birthday treat and had been looking forward to the gig for months.\n\n\"I can't sell my tickets because it's too late. I was looking to book a hotel in case I could go down tonight, and I can't do that either because they're all fully booked,\" she told the BBC. \"It's been an absolute nightmare.\"\n\nPhoebe said she had been affected by every single train strike this year but still had sympathy for the workers and felt they deserved better pay.\n\nKarim Ullah, who owns an Indian restaurant in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, will also be impacted.\n\nOne of his chefs normally travels to work from London by train but no services are running on Saturday.\n\n\"It really makes life such a misery because Saturday is one of our busiest, if not the busiest evening,\" he said.\n\nMr Ullah is also worried about last-minute cancellations from customers who were planning to travel by train as this happened during previous strikes.\n\nKarim Ullah is worried the strikes will have an impact on footfall at his restaurant\n\nPassengers with advance, off-peak or anytime tickets affected by the strike on 13 August can use their ticket either the day before, or up to and including Tuesday, 16 August. Passengers can also change their tickets to travel on an alternate date, or get a refund if their train is cancelled or rescheduled.\n\nSeason ticket holders who choose not to travel can claim compensation through the delay repay scheme.\n\nMick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, said drivers did not want to strike but unless the deadlock was broken there was a \"big possibility\" of more walkouts.\n\nThe union is also balloting drivers at Chiltern Railways, Northern Trains and TransPennine Express for strikes, with the results due later this month.\n\nMembers of the RMT and TSSA unions are also striking on 18 and 20 August, while industrial action will be taken on 19 August by London Underground and London bus drivers.\n\nMr Whelan pointed out there was also industrial action taking place in a number of other industries. \"There is a summer of solidarity coming - not a summer of discontent - where everybody is making their views known to the government,\" he said.\n\nThere will be formal talks between Aslef and rail companies next week - a move welcomed by both sides in the dispute.\n\nSteve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, described this as \"a really good step forward\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It is important we get round the table and we start to have meaningful discussions about how we can look at reform so that we can then offer our staff a pay increase.\n\n\"It is really important we take this opportunity and try and hopefully prevent further strikes and get some result to this situation.\"\n\nMr Whelan also told the BBC his union was always willing to talk but said if the meetings \"just go round and round in circles again, they're not going to go very far are they?\".\n\nHe said the government was not allowing train companies to offer a pay rise of more than 2%.\n\n\"Let's not forget we work for companies that are making profits, we work for companies that take those profits and pay them to their shareholders,\" he said. \"The only people that are not getting a share of the revenue that's being generated are the people that work for the rail companies.\"\n\nPassengers in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday were being warned to expect disruption\n\nAsked about Network Rail saying it had offered workers a pay rise of more than 5%, he said those negotiations had been with other unions and had to be looked at in the context of the cost of living crisis and the fact the offer was coming alongside redundancies.\n\n\"If you've had no pay rise for three years and someone's offering you 5% when inflation is 11%... I can quite possibly see why that's not attractive to any workers in the rail industry at all.\"\n\nThe union leader has joined a picket line at Willesden Junction in north-west London, where he was joined by Labour MPs Barry Gardiner and Dawn Butler.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"entirely false\" to claim the government was blocking negotiations.\n\n\"We have said from the outset we urge the unions and industry to agree a deal that is fair for railway staff, passengers and taxpayers,\" the department said.\n\nIt said rail workers had seen above average pay increases over the past decade, with their wages increasing by around 25% from £35,000 in 2011 to £44,000 in 2021. It added that rail staff pay rises must be \"fair and in line with the wider public sector\".\n\nSteve Montgomery, chairman of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train companies, said it was positive news that Aslef had agreed to meet them next week.\n\n\"The good news is that we had informal talks with Aslef and there will be formal talks next week. That is a really good step forward,\" he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.\n\nHe told the BBC companies wanted to offer a pay rise to workers but revenue had fallen since the pandemic.\n\nMr Montgomery added that reforms were needed to terms and conditions, to save money by allowing staff to be more productive during their working hours.", "Climate activists have targeted golf greens to protest the water ban exemption\n\nClimate activists in southern France have filled golf course holes with cement to protest against the exemption of golf greens from water bans amid the country's severe drought.\n\nThe group targeted sites near the city of Toulouse, calling golf the \"leisure industry of the most privileged\".\n\nThe exemption of golf greens has sparked controversy as 100 French villages are short of drinking water.\n\nGolf officials say greens would die in three days without water.\n\n\"A golf course without a green is like an ice-rink without ice,\" Gérard Rougier of the French Golf Federation told the France Info news website. He added that 15,000 people worked in golf courses across the country.\n\nThe recent action targeted courses in the towns of Vieille-Toulouse and Blagnac. It was claimed by the local branch of the Extinction Rebellion movement.\n\nIn a petition, the activists said the exemption showed that \"economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason\".\n\nWhile residents cannot water their gardens or wash their cars in the worst-hit municipalities, golf courses have escaped the nationwide restrictions.\n\nThe water bans are decreed nationally, but enforcement is at the discretion of regional officials. So far only one area, Ille-et-Villaine in western France, has diverged, banning the watering of golf courses.\n\nThe Green mayor of the south-eastern city of Grenoble city, Éric Piolle, criticised the exemption saying: \"We continue to protect the rich and powerful.\"\n\nSome constraints on the golf course remain. Watering must be carried out at night with no more than 30% of the usual volume of water.\n\nSome parts of the Loire river have virtually dried up. Across two-thirds of France, a state of crisis has been declared, with rainfall down by some 85%.", "Jerry Sadowitz, 61, is known for his provocative stand-up material\n\nAn Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz has been cancelled by venue bosses.\n\nThe comic and magician had been due to play two nights at The Pleasance at Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe Pleasance said the second night would not go ahead as his material \"does not align with our values\".\n\nSadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is known for aggressive stand-up performances.\n\nHe said on Twitter: \"Did a show last night, 75 mins, thought it went well. Didn't see any walkouts.\n\n\"Today I'm told my show's been cancelled. Great stuff. I'm truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.\"\n\nThe venue's original listing carried the warning: \"This show contains strong language and themes some may find distressing.\"\n\nHowever, on Saturday the Pleasance Theatre Trust said the second performance was cancelled \"with immediate effect\".\n\nIt said in a statement: \"Opinions such as those displayed on stage by Sadowitz are not acceptable and The Pleasance are not prepared to be associated with such material.\"\n\nIt is understood complaints had been received from some audience members who attended Friday night's performance.\n\nThe Pleasance declined to give detail about what aspects of Sadowitz's material led to the cancellation.\n\nIts director, Anthony Alderson, added: \"The Pleasance is a venue that champions freedom of speech and we do not censor comedians' material.\n\n\"While we acknowledge that Jerry Sadowitz has often been controversial, the material presented at his first show is not acceptable and does not align with our values.\n\n\"This type of material has no place on the festival and the Pleasance will not be presenting his second and final show\"\n\nThe venue said that refunds would be issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.\n\nDid you attend Jerry Sadowitz's comedy gig? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland Euro 2022 winners Millie Bright, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze have been nominated for the women's Ballon d'Or, awarded to the best female footballer of 2022.\n\nLionel Messi, the seven-time men's winner, misses out as 15 Premier League players - including 12 from Liverpool and Manchester City - are nominated.\n\nMead was named Euro 2022's best player after winning the Golden Boot award given to the tournament's top scorer.\n\nOrganisers will announce the winners on 17 October.\n\nThe Lionesses defeated Germany 2-1 after extra time in the final of Euro 2022 at Wembley to secure a first major trophy for a senior England team since the men won the 1966 World Cup.\n\nBronze, 30, came second behind United States legend Megan Rapinoe for the 2019 Ballon d'Or.\n\nBarcelona and Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas, the 2021 Ballon d'Or winner, is nominated too, as is Chelsea's Sam Kerr, who scored 20 goals in the Women's Super League in 2021-22.\n\nArsenal's Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema has also been nominated.\n\nThere are 30 players in total nominated for the men's prize - with half of the names on that list playing in this season's Premier League.\n\nThe England-based players are Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Luis Diaz (Liverpool), Fabinho (Liverpool), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Erling Haaland (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Son Heung-min (Tottenham) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool).\n\nReal Madrid's Karim Benzema, one of the strong favourites, is listed but Messi does not make it after an underwhelming first season at Paris St-Germain.\n\nEngland players Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka are among 10 players nominated for the Kopa Trophy, presented to the best performing player under the age of 21.\n\nMeanwhile, four Premier League keepers - Alisson (Liverpool), Ederson (Manchester City), Edouard Mendy (Chelsea) and Hugo Lloris (Tottenham) are in the running for the Yashin Trophy, presented annually by France Football to the best performing goalkeeper.", "An official drought has been declared as low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions continue across the UK.\n\nEight parts of England, including Devon, Kent, East Anglia and Lincolnshire are affected.\n\nThe move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nMillions are expected to be impacted but the Environment Agency said essential water supplies were safe.\n\nJohn Curtin, director of operations, said the drought would go on for \"a long time\" and warned of possible restrictions on crop growing and further hosepipe bans.\n\nIt comes as the prolonged dry weather - combined with the current heatwave and July's record-breaking temperatures - have depleted rivers, reservoirs and aquifers.\n\nLarge swathes of England are bone-dry, with scenes of parched earth and grass turned yellow.\n\nThe conditions have prompted the Environment Agency to move eight of its 14 areas into drought status:\n\nYorkshire and the West Midlands are also expected to move into a drought later in August.\n\nThe decision to declare a drought was taken after a meeting of the National Drought Group - made up of government and agency officials, water firms and groups including the National Farmers' Union.\n\nAnnouncing a drought means government and water companies will put into action their plans to deal with it, with measures including hosepipe bans and taking more water than usual from rivers.\n\nMembers of the public and businesses in drought-affected areas are also being urged to use water wisely following the driest first seven months of the year since 1976.\n\nElsewhere, Wales Drought Liaison group is also looking at the effect of the dry weather.\n\nFive water companies - Welsh Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, South East Water and, most recently Yorkshire Water - have all announced hosepipe bans, while Yorkshire Water said on Friday that a ban would start on 26 August.\n\nThe latter firm, which has more than five million customers, says parts of the region have seen the lowest rainfall since records began more than 130 years ago.\n\nIt also said rivers and reservoirs in the region were running at 20% lower than expected for the time of year.\n\nSouth East Water, whose ban came into force on Friday, is now asking people to observe restrictions on using hosepipes to water plants, wash the car and fill paddling pools - with rule-breakers facing fines of up to £1,000.\n\nDominic Gardener, a farmer in West Sussex, said the dry weather was posing huge challenges for farmers.\n\n\"Everything is starting to struggle a bit - our grass is not growing at all - and livestock, we're having to feed them extra food,\" he said, adding crop yields had also been reduced by the dryness.\n\nFarmers in parts of Fife are being temporarily banned from using water from the River Eden on their fields.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says the measure will come into effect from midnight on Saturday to tackle critical water shortages.\n\nA four-day amber warning for extreme heat from the Met Office is in place for many parts of England and Wales until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to be lower early next week, however, and the Met Office has issued yellow warnings for thunderstorms on Monday, covering most of England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nAnd its fire severity index - which assesses how severe a blaze could become - is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThe situation facing firefighters across the UK has been described as \"unprecedented\", with increasing numbers of wildfires.\n\nFires have broken out across the nation, including in Leytonstone, east London, Studland Bay, Dorset, Creswell, in Derbyshire, The Dower House in Bristol, and Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.\n\nPolice have evacuated about 50 homes in Creswell after a major incident was declared due to a field fire.\n\nFire crews are also tackling a large blaze which broke out at a Leicestershire recycling centre.\n\nMeanwhile, homeless people struggling with the extreme heat in Bristol said it was \"making us sick,\" and even sitting in the shade was \"tiring and sweaty and uncomfortable\".\n\nBristol Street Outreach Team, operated by charity St Mungo's, has been carrying out additional shifts and giving out water, advice and sun protection to those in need.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK temperatures have been rising day-on-day through the week. According to the Met Office, on Friday the highest temperatures were recorded in:\n\nOver the weekend temperatures could peak at 36C.\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Andy Page said there would be \"increasingly warm nights\" with temperatures not expected to drop below the low 20s in some places in the south.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has accused the government of failing to fully prepare the UK for drought, and also out at the response of water companies.\n\nWater firms have been criticised over leaks, with about three billion litres of water lost each day in the UK - between 20% and 24% of the total water supply.\n\nThe Labour leader said the drought was \"predictable\" but \"as usual we had no plan from the government\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was \"no reason for people to be alarmed\".\n\nHe told BBC News that the UK's water supply \"remains resilient\" and that \"we're in a stronger position than ever\" to withstand droughts, with progress made on leaks and infrastructure to move water between reservoirs.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nResearch institute UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) said it would require \"exceptional\" rainfall over the next one to three months to bring river, reservoir and groundwater levels back up to normal.\n\nIt said analysis showed exceptionally low levels would probably continue until October in southern England and Wales.\n\nBut scientists have warned bouts of heavy rain after a prolonged period of hot weather can cause flash flooding.\n\nRobert Thompson, a professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, said \"the ground has effectively become like urban concrete\" and will not absorb water quickly enough to cope with longer showers.\n\nThe situation in the UK is being mirrored across Europe. Much of the continent is baking in record heat, exposing riverbeds and triggering restrictions on water use in many areas.\n\nA drought has also hit Germany's Rhine River, where the water is already too low to allow some larger vessels through.\n\nRestrictions on usage during hosepipe bans can vary between water providers but generally people are not allowed to use hosepipes or anything that connects to a hosepipe or an outside tap.During a ban, people cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nBut you can use other water sources, like using your mains water supply but with buckets or watering cans instead of hosepipes, or using stored rainwater from a water butt and there are some exceptions when a hosepipe can be used.\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nHave you been affected by the hot weather and restrictions? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Amateur detective Becky Harrington says she wants to study criminology and law after the experience\n\nA woman who turned detective to find her father's stolen car said she has been inundated with requests to find other missing vehicles.\n\nBecky Harrington, from Bournemouth, got frustrated after police failed to make progress finding the £12,000 Jaguar which was stolen in July.\n\nShe managed to find the car four miles away after using social media and scouring CCTV.\n\nDorset Police said inquiries to identify the offenders were continuing.\n\nThe Jaguar XF was stolen from the Bournemouth home of Ms Harrington's father\n\nMs Harrington, 32, said her father woke to find his car missing on Sunday 24 July and contacted police.\n\n\"But I just wasn't happy with how they dealt with it. I'm pretty savvy with social media so I put it in 45 odd groups and before I knew it was being shared all over the place, it just went everywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought nobody is gonna walk down the street and not know about this car. If we were still waiting for the police, my dad would have no car.\"\n\nMs Harrington eventually found the abandoned 2020 Jaguar after going through CCTV from petrol stations and local shops.\n\nThe car was found with rubbish in the footwell behind a block of flats about four miles from where it was stolen\n\nThe experience has inspired the mother-of-two to study criminology and law at Open University.\n\n\"I've been approached by somebody asking me to help find their son's stolen BMW and other people have contacted me asking for help,\" she added.\n\nBut she said she was \"less than impressed\" about how the police had dealt with the investigation and was convinced a gang was responsible for the theft.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours after I'd told them it had been found I got a call from the police and the woman said it was still marked as stolen,\" she said.\n\nDorset Police said: \"Local officers made a number of attempts to visit the victim and consequently made contact with the victim's daughter, who then updated the police that the vehicle had been recovered.\n\n\"As part of the ongoing investigation, officers carried out house-to-house enquiries in the vicinity of where the vehicle was located and have successfully obtained significant evidence.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Water levels are low at many reservoirs, including this one in West Yorkshire\n\nEveryone who uses water must rethink and make sure they use it wisely, the chairman of the body that has declared droughts around England says.\n\n\"We have got to rethink... and that means everyone, not just regulators and government,\" said Harvey Bradshaw, chairman of the National Drought Group.\n\nHe is also executive director of the Environment Agency, which has warned the drought could last into next year.\n\nA Met Office warning of extreme heat is continuing into Sunday.\n\nThe amber alert covers southern and central England and parts of Wales.\n\nRain is forecast for Monday but the agency says weeks of showers are needed to replenish water sources.\n\nAn official drought was declared in eight areas of England on Friday by the National Drought Group, which comprises representatives from the government, water companies, the Environment Agency and others.\n\nJohn Curtin, executive director of local operations for the Environment Agency, told the BBC \"this is not a normal summer\" and warned lack of water would be an issue for several months.\n\n\"We'll need probably average or slightly above average rainfall this autumn into this winter for us to not be in a drought next year,\" he said.\n\nHis colleague Mr Bradshaw told BBC Radio 4: \"We have enough water for public supply but as you run into ever drier conditions you take more serious actions to conserve the water you have and we are on that process now.\n\n\"We have got an exceptional set of circumstances which has led to this drought and we've all got a responsibility to play out now, including and principally the water companies.\n\n\"We expect water companies to bear down on leaks, we expect water companies to put in more pipes to connect their network.\"\n\nHe said that firms needed to move \"faster and harder\", adding that the Environment Agency, the regulator Ofwat, and the Drinking Water Inspectorate had formed an alliance encouraging them to come forward with plans for necessary infrastructure improvements.\n\n\"We've also produced a national framework that says 'this is the water we will need in 50 years' time and this is where it might come from',\" he said.\n\n\"I've just been looking over the last 12 months and nearly every month we've had below average rainfall - low levels or exceptionally low levels.\n\n\"There is real stress in the environment and people are suffering.\"\n\nHe said that the group is also helping farmers, including putting those who are not using all of their water supply in touch with farmers who need it.\n\n\"But the bottom line is there isn't much water around,\" he added.\n\nThames Water has apologised after around 7,000 households in Surrey have been left with little or no water on one of the hottest days of the year following technical issues at a treatment works facility.\n\nThe water company, which is expected to implement a hosepipe ban in the next couple of weeks, has been handing out bottled water in Cranleigh and Dorking after supply problems at the Netley Mill Water Treatment Works.\n\nSome customers are starting to see water return to their homes after disruption began on Friday, but Thames Water said fixing the issue was \"not straight-forward\".\n\nThe fire risk in several parts of England is at its highest level, according to the Met Office Fire Severity Index, with hot, tinder-dry conditions creating what has been described as an \"unprecedented\" situation.\n\nA large wildfire broke out in the Cornish town of Camborne on Saturday, while around 30 firefighters have also been tackling a blaze which has spread across five corn fields in Pembrokeshire, Wales.\n\nAnd a leading firefighter in Dorset and Wiltshire, which faced a major fire on heathland on Friday, said there had been a 429% increase in the number of wildfires for the first 10 days of August compared to the same period last year.\n\nArea manager Jason Moncrief said fire crews in his area were \"massively stretched\" as they deal with the increased demand.\n\nWater companies are being told they must do more to reduce the number of leaks\n\nLabour has called on the government to summon a meeting of the Cobra civil contingencies committee to ensure water supplies were protected amid the ongoing drought.\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Conservative inaction on drought warnings is creating a dust bowl Britain.\n\n\"Instead of stepping in, ministers have fallen asleep in the midday sun. They lecture the public on the use of hosepipes, but where is their plan to protect our vital water system?\"\n\nWater Minister Steve Double said: \"All water companies have reassured us that essential supplies are still safe, and we have made it clear it is their duty to maintain those supplies.\n\n\"We are better prepared than ever before for periods of dry weather, but we will continue to closely monitor the situation, including impacts on farmers and the environment, and take further action as needed.\"", "Plumes of smoke were seen coming from the yacht off the Gower coast\n\nTwo people have been rescued after their boat caught fire off Caswell Bay on Gower.\n\nEmergency services were called on Saturday, with HM Coastguard sending out the Mumbles RNLI lifeboat and Mumbles Coastguard Rescue Team.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service also attended the scene.\n\nThe 37ft (11m) yacht has since gone aground near Brandy Cove, while the two people on the board were safely taken ashore.\n\nSwansea council had tweeted on Saturday advising people to avoid swimming at Caswell Bay as a precaution following the boat fire and a small oil leak.\n\nOn Sunday, a council spokesman said its pollution control team had visited the site again and it is now fine to swim in the bay.\n\nIeuan Williams, team leader with HM Coastguard, said: \"This looked and was incredibly dramatic, the lifeboat did an incredible job of taking two people off a burning vessel.\n\n\"We're also very grateful to all those in the area on their own pleasure boats who used their VHF radios to alert us to what was happening, and also stayed in the vicinity in case they were able to help.\"\n\nCounter pollution officers at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency have been informed, along with the local authority.", "More now from National Drought Group chair Harvey Bradshaw who is calling on water companies to bear down on issues like leaks.\n\nHe's been telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme it is not just the public who need to re-think about how to use and consume water.\n\n\"We in the Environment Agency have teamed up with Ofwat and the Drinking Water Inspectorate to provide a regulatory alliance to encourage water companies to come forward with this infrastructure that we need.\n\n\"We’ve also produced a national framework that says this is the water we will need in 50 years time and this is where it might come from.\n\n\"We have got an exceptional set of circumstances which has led to this drought and we have all got a responsibility to play out now including, and principally, the water companies.\n\n\"So, yes, we expect water companies to bear down on leaks.\n\n\"We expect water companies to put in more pipes to connect their network and we are seeing evidence they are doing that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTaliban fighters have dispersed dozens of female protesters in Kabul, almost a year after the militant group seized power.\n\nAbout 40 women marched through the Afghan capital demanding rights, before the Taliban broke it up by firing into the air.\n\nThe fighters seized their mobile phones, stopping one of the first women's protests in months.\n\nSince the Taliban takeover, women rights' have been severely restricted.\n\nThe protesters chanted demands for \"bread, work and freedom\", carrying a banner reading \"August 15 is a black day\" - a reference to the day the Taliban captured Kabul in 2021.\n\n\"They didn't beat us much this time,\" one of the protesters told the BBC.\n\n\"They acted differently than earlier protests [when we were beaten]. They fired shots in the air. Though we're afraid we came out to advocate for the rights of girls, so that at least the Taliban will open schools for them.\"\n\nIn the year since the Taliban returned to power, they have issued various orders restricting the freedom of women - barring them from most government jobs, secondary education and from travelling more than 45 miles (70km) without a male guardian.\n\nIn May, the militants decreed that Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades.\n\nIf a woman refuses to comply, her male guardians could be sent to jail for three days - although this is not always enforced.\n\nThere have been minor sporadic protests over the past year, but any form of dissent is being crushed.\n\nAfghanistan is the only country in the world that officially limits education by gender - a major sticking point in the Taliban's attempts to gain international legitimacy.\n\nGirls have been banned from receiving secondary education, the ministry for women's affairs has been disbanded, and in many cases women have not been allowed to work.", "The man suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie at an event in the United States on Friday has been charged with attempted murder.\n\nHadi Matar has been remanded in custody without bail after pleading not guilty, said the prosecutor in Chautauqua County, New York State.\n\nMr Matar is accused of running onto the stage and attacking Mr Rushdie and an interviewer at the event held by a local educational centre.\n\nThe writer is in a critical condition.\n\nMr Rushdie, 75, has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nPolice detained Mr Matar from Fairview, New Jersey, shortly after the attack at the Chautauqua Institution.\n\nAppearing in court on Saturday afternoon, the suspect wore a facemask and prison uniform before entering his plea of not guilty.\n\n\"This is the very early stage of what will invariably be a protracted legal process,\" District Attorney Jason Schmidt said in a statement.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of support for Mr Rushdie, with the attack condemned as an assault on freedom of expression.\n\nLater on Saturday, President Joe Biden said in a statement that he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the \"vicious attack\".\n\nMr Rushdie had refused to be \"intimidated or silenced\" in his career, and stood for \"essential, universal ideals\", Mr Biden added.\n\nThe writer was stabbed at least 10 times - including in the face, neck and abdomen, which damaged his liver, authorities said.\n\nHe has been put on a ventilator, is unable to speak, and may lose one eye, his agent said.\n\nThe interviewer who was with Mr Rushdie, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nNo motive has yet been confirmed by police, who said on Friday that they wanted to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows the moments after author Salman Rushdie was attacked\n\nA review of Mr Matar's social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nThe IRGC is a major military and political force in Iran - however, no link has been definitively established.\n\nMr Matar was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nTwo security officials were on duty at the centre at the time of the attack - one making the subsequent arrest.\n\nHowever, some of the visitors have questioned why security was not tighter for a man with a bounty of more than $3m (£2.5m) on his head.\n\nMembers of the audience said the venue lacked basic security measures like bag checks and metal detectors.\n\nLike other people planning to attend the author's lecture, Mr Matar had obtained a pass to enter the Chautauqua Institution grounds, the group's president said.\n\nIndian-born novelist Mr Rushdie shot to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThere has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Iranian media described him as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.\n\nMr Rushdie, a British-American citizen, has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions. He has also continued to write, with his next work due out in 2023.", "A senior ally of Liz Truss says the Tory leadership candidate has not ruled out giving help to families struggling with the cost of living crisis.\n\nPenny Mordaunt claimed that to say so was \"overinterpreting\" what Ms Truss had previously said.\n\nThe foreign secretary had said she would focus on \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nRishi Sunak, her leadership rival, said she was \"simply wrong\" to rule out more cost of living payments.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, trade minister Ms Mordaunt said Ms Truss had not ruled out expanding direct payments to help people struggling financially.\n\nThe former Conservative leadership candidate said: \"There'll be different things required for different people - there's the package of support that's already been put in place [and] Liz is looking at other measures.\"\n\nIn an interview with the Financial Times this weekend, Ms Truss said she would \"look at what more can be done\", adding: \"The way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.\"\n\nMs Truss has also said she would seek to immediately reverse the rise in National Insurance contributions if elected.\n\nHer team, who initially thought the plan could not be implemented until April 2023, have said they now believe it would be within weeks.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has said the tax proposals would not be a significant help for \"people like pensioners or those on low incomes who are exactly the kind of families that are going to need help\".\n\nInstead, the former chancellor said he would give more direct help to those hardest hit by inflation.\n\nMs Truss and Mr Sunak are vying for support from Conservative party members to be elected the next party leader, and prime minister.\n\nVoting has started and the result is due to be announced on 5 September.\n\nOliver Dowden, former Tory party co-chairman and a supporter of Mr Sunak, said the foreign secretary's approach was \"insufficient\".\n\n\"This isn't the way to help people through this very difficult period\", he said.\n\nSince April, workers have been paying more in National Insurance - an extra 1.25p in the pound - although Mr Sunak later raised the threshold at which employees start contributing.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Ms Truss said she wanted to \"immediately tackle the cost of living crisis\", adding: \"I would hit the ground running by bringing in an emergency budget, charting a firm course to get our economy growing in order to help fund our public services and NHS.\"\n\nBut Mr Sunak, who has argued that inflation must be brought under control before taxes are lowered, told the Sunday Times: \"The priority for me is to not do things that make it worse.\"\n\nHe said the public needed \"clear-eyed realism and not starry-eyed boosterism\", and said his rival's plans would give back less than £200 a year to many families, and \"are not going to help very significantly\" pensioners and those on low incomes.\n\nMr Sunak pledged to introduce a fresh multi-billion pound package of help.\n\nBoth candidates agree that people will need more help with the cost of living this autumn, but fixing it with tax cuts alone will be tricky.\n\nTax cuts will only bring relief to taxpayers. Cutting the health and social care levy doesn't put money in the pockets of pensioners or anyone earning less than £12,570 - as they don't pay it.\n\nSomeone earning £24,100 a year would save £180, according to HMRC, while higher-paid workers would gain considerably more.\n\nSo the help is poorly directed at those who will feel the pressure of rising bills most acutely.\n\nAnd with the public finances under growing pressure from a predicted recession, whoever is chancellor will have limited resources at their disposal.\n\nSo they may decide that tax cuts alone aren't the most efficient way to provide help.\n\nThe new prime minister won't start the job for another four weeks. Until then the candidates will come under increasing pressure to spell out their plans.\n\nIt comes as former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said an emergency budget was needed now.\n\nWriting in the Observer, he said Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Ms Truss and Mr Sunak should agree on one this week, warning \"a financial timebomb will explode for families in October\" when the energy price cap next rises.\n\nA report commissioned by Mr Brown suggests some families are set to be £1,600 worse off per year.\n\nThe additional money from the government offered to low income households falls short of offsetting the losses they face, the research led by Prof Donald Hirsch at Loughborough University says.\n\n\"It is the urgent task of the next prime minister to ensure that families have enough to live, through this crisis and beyond,\" Mr Brown said.\n\nA government spokesperson said they understood people were struggling with rising prices, which was why an extra £1,200 was being made available to eight million of the most vulnerable households.\n\n\"Through our £37bn support package we are also saving the typical employee over £330 a year through a tax cut in July, allowing people on Universal Credit to keep £1,000 more of what they earn and cutting fuel duty by 5p, saving a typical family £100,\" they added.", "Ten miners have been trapped underground for more than three days in Coahuila, Mexico.\n\nMore than 300 soldiers and other personnel have joined the rescue effort, including six divers from Mexican Special Forces.\n\nThe coal mine opened in January and had no \"record of complaints for any type of abnormality\", according to the country's labour ministry.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nTory leadership contender Liz Truss has defended her plans to lower taxes, describing them as the best way to avoid a recession.\n\nShe was speaking after she had told a paper she favoured lowering taxes over \"giving out handouts\" to help households hit by higher fuel bills.\n\nOn a visit to Solihull, she said lowering taxes would help ease the cost of living crisis.\n\nHer rival Rishi Sunak wants to tackle inflation before cutting taxes.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise, cancel a planned corporation tax rise and temporarily suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nAsked by the Financial Times about how she would help households faced with fuel bills due to rise again in October, she said: \"Of course I will look at what more can be done.\n\n\"But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.\"\n\nQuestioned later about these comments, she said: \"What I will do from day one is reduce taxes, reverse the National Insurance rise and also have a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy so people are spending less of their money on fuel bills.\n\n\"But what I'm about as a Conservative is people keeping more of their own money, growing the economy so we avoid a recession and the best way to do that is lower taxes, but also unleashing investment into our economy.\"\n\nMs Truss also took aim at Mr Sunak's economic legacy as chancellor after the Bank of England warned this week that the UK would fall into recession as it raised interest rates by the highest amount in 27 years.\n\nShe added: \"Under the plans at present, what we know is Britain is headed for a recession.\n\n\"That is not inevitable, but we need to avoid that by making sure our economy is competitive, that we're encouraging businesses to grow and that we are keeping taxes low.\"\n\nHer rival Mr Sunak has said he would focus on getting a grip on inflation.\n\nResponding to Ms Truss's comments, the former chancellor said it is \"simply wrong to rule out further direct support at this time\".\n\n\"Her tax proposals are not going to help very significantly, people like pensioners or those on low incomes who are exactly the kind of families that are going to need help\", said Mr Sunak.\n\nHe said he wants to ensure \"that the people who really need our help do get the support that they need to get through the winter\".\n\nSpeaking at a leadership hustings in Eastbourne on Friday, he said the Tories can \"kiss goodbye\" to winning the next election if inflation is not brought under control quickly.\n\nHe highlighted a warning by the Bank of England that inflation could become embedded.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation - currently 9.4% - could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to its 2% target in 2024.\n\nHe said there would be \"no hope that we're going to win that next election\" amid continuing rising prices.", "Gordon Brown calls on the government to provide an emergency budget to mitigate the UK's \"financial timebomb\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has called for an emergency budget before the UK hits a \"financial timebomb\" this autumn.\n\nMr Brown said millions would be pushed \"over the edge\" if the government does not address the cost of living crisis.\n\nConservative leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have clashed over how they will address high inflation.\n\nHe wants them to agree an emergency budget with PM Boris Johnson this week, or for Parliament to be recalled.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Mr Brown said: \"The reality is grim and undeniable: a financial timebomb will explode for families in October as a second round of fuel price rises in six months sends shock waves through every household and pushes millions over the edge.\"\n\nA new report commissioned by Mr Brown, carried out by Professor Donald Hirsch from Loughborough University, found that 35 million people in 13 million households across the UK are under threat of fuel poverty in October.\n\nThis is \"an unprecedented 49.6% of the population of the United Kingdom\", said Mr Brown.\n\nFindings from the report suggest the additional one-off £1,200 support for low-income households will fail to compensate for three major blows to income from October 2021 to October 2022.\n\nThe loss of the £20-a-week benefits uplift, the rise in the energy price cap and an annual uprating out of line with inflation forecasts all mean the worst-off families will find it hard to bridge the gap.\n\nMr Brown told BBC Radio 4's World at One that action is needed promptly to ensure the benefits system - and the computers that operate it - are able to get help to people before October.\n\nHe said there is a vacuum at the centre of government, with both Mr Johnson and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi on holiday.\n\n\"Not enough thinking is being done about the major social crisis,\" he added.\n\nIf elected as the next Tory leader, Ms Truss has promised to reverse some of former Chancellor Mr Sunak's tax rises, including the rise in National Insurance contributions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak said the Tories can \"kiss goodbye\" to winning the next elections if inflation is not under brought under control quickly.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation - currently 9.4% - could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to its 2% target in 2024.", "A truck carrying fuel imports for the one power plant of Gaza enters the territory\n\nA ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appears to be holding.\n\nThe Egypt-brokered truce followed three days of violence with Israel targeting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and militants firing rockets into Israel.\n\nAt least 44 Palestinians died in the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in May 2021.\n\nOn Monday, Israel began lifting its blockade of the Strip, allowing the first fuel tanks to enter.\n\nThe latest violence began with attacks by Israel on sites in the Gaza Strip, which its military said was in response to threats from a militant group. It followed days of tensions after Israel arrested a senior PIJ member in the occupied West Bank.\n\nBy Sunday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said that 15 children had been confirmed among the 44 deaths recorded.\n\nGaza's health ministry has blamed \"Israeli aggression\" for the deaths of Palestinians and for the more than 300 people wounded.\n\nIsrael, for its part, says it hit 170 PIJ targets during the operation, codenamed Breaking Dawn, killing several high-ranking PIJ members and destroying tunnels and weapon storage sites.\n\nA spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had information about 35 Palestinian deaths: \"11 of them were uninvolved civilian casualties, including the wives of the terror group's commanders in the south - victims of the IDF attacks.\"\n\n\"Another 15 civilians were killed by PIJ fire,\" Brig Gen Ran Kochav said.\n\nGen Kochav said 1,100 projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip during the flare-up, with 200 landing inside Gaza.\n\nHe said more Palestinians had died from those rockets that exploded inside the Strip than from IDF fire, and added that Israel would investigate the deaths of civilians, including children.\n\nNo Israeli casualties have been reported, with the exception of a few people lightly injured from debris on Saturday.\n\nThe ceasefire was mediated by Egypt, which has acted as an intermediary between Israel and Gaza in the past.\n\nBut as it came into effect late on Sunday, the Israeli military confirmed it was striking Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) targets in Gaza, in response to rockets fired just before.\n\nIsraeli media also reported some isolated rocket fire from Gaza in the minutes after the deadline.\n\nUS and United Nations leaders urged both sides to continue to observe the ceasefire.\n\nIn a statement, US President Joe Biden praised the truce and called on all parties \"to fully implement [it] and to ensure fuel and humanitarian supplies are flowing into Gaza\".\n\nHe also urged that reports of civilian casualties should be investigated in a timely manner.\n\nConcerns over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where health officials warned that hospitals only had enough fuel to run generators for another two days, led to the ceasefire deal being agreed.\n\nAs the truce held, restrictions on Gaza began to be lifted.\n\nHumanitarian aid started arriving as the major crossings into the Strip, closed six days ago, were reopened, Israel said.\n\nThey would return to \"full routine... subject to calm in the area,\" a statement said.\n\nThe latest conflict closely follows Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank, a week ago.\n\nHe was held in the Jenin area as part of a series of arrest operations, after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nLarge crowds gathered on Sunday for the funerals of those killed in strikes on Rafah, in the south of the territory. These included senior PIJ commander Khaled Mansour - the second top militant to have died. Demonstrations in support of Gaza have also been held in the West Bank city of Nablus.\n\nPIJ, which is one of the strongest militant groups operating in Gaza, is backed by Iran and has its headquarters in the Syrian capital, Damascus.\n\nIt has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIn November 2019, Israel and PIJ fought a five-day conflict following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said had been planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit while preparing to launch rockets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has killed a second top militant from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, as the death toll continues to rise from air strikes in Gaza.\n\nSix children and several PIJ fighters - including leaders Khaled Mansour and Tayseer Jabari - are among the 31 Palestinians reported to have died.\n\nNearly 600 Palestinian rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel since Friday, an Israeli official said.\n\nIsrael says it launched the operations due to \"immediate threat\" from PIJ.\n\nThe latest violence is the most serious flare-up between Israel and Gaza since an 11-day conflict in May 2021 left more than 200 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis dead.\n\nThe Israeli military is warning this latest operation - codenamed Breaking Dawn - could last for a week.\n\nOn Sunday, Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reached Jerusalem for the first time since the 2021 conflict.\n\nThe attacks came after Israel killed senior PIJ leader Khaled Mansour in an air strike on a house in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza.\n\nThe commander had previously survived five assassination attempts by the Israeli military, who accused him of planning militant operations out of Gaza.\n\nAs well as air strikes on Gaza, where Israel said its targets included a PIJ tunnel network, there have been continued arrest raids in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of members of PIJ have been detained, according to Israel\n\nGaza's health ministry blamed \"Israeli aggression\" for the deaths of Palestinians, and for the more than 200 people wounded.\n\nIsrael accused PIJ militants of accidentally causing at least some of those deaths - claiming on Saturday that the group fired a stray rocket killing multiple children in Jabalia, in the Gaza Strip. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.\n\nSo far Hamas, the biggest militant group in the area - which has similar ideology to Islamic Jihad and often coordinates its actions with it - does not seem to be firing from its large rocket arsenal.\n\nAs a result, there are no reports of Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas, which would mark an escalation in the violence.\n\nHamas has issued strong statements saying that \"resistance groups\" are united. But because it governs Gaza it has its own practical considerations which may stop it from getting more involved.\n\nThe calculations of Hamas could change, if for example the civilian death toll in Gaza rises rapidly.\n\nIf it does decide to join the fighting then it would quickly get much more intense.\n\nThere is growing concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory. Israel closed its crossing with Gaza last week amid fears that Islamic Jihad would retaliate for the arrest of one of its leaders in the northern West Bank.\n\nOn Saturday, Gaza's only power station closed down because it had not received any fuel deliveries, an electricity company spokesman said.\n\nThe US State Department urged all sides to avoid further escalation - confirming its support for Israel's right to self-defence while noting the US's concern over reports of civilian casualties, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nHoping to prevent further violence, Egypt has also stepped in as a mediator between the two sides and reportedly sent a delegation of officials to Israel on Saturday to act as a go-between.\n\nSmoke rises above the southern Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike\n\nThe latest conflict closely follows Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank, on Monday night.\n\nHe was held in the Jenin area as part of an ongoing series of arrest operations after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nPIJ, which is one of the strongest militant groups operating in Gaza, is backed by Iran and has its headquarters in the Syrian capital Damascus.\n\nIt has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket-fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIn November 2019, Israel and PIJ fought a five-day conflict following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said had been planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit preparing to launch rockets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dozens of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza Strip", "A 58-year-old man died following an altercation at a resort in Camber Sands\n\nSix people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man at a holiday park.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Parkdean Resort, in Camber Sands, East Sussex, on Friday to reports of an altercation involving a group of people.\n\nSussex Police said a 53-year-old man had died in the early hours of Saturday following the incident.\n\nThe force said all six people arrested are being held in custody.\n\nDet Supt Jon Hull said: \"Our investigation is at a very early stage, but I would like to reassure the public that this appears to be an isolated incident with no wider risk of harm.\n\n\"Officers are now working to establish the full circumstances while the victim's next of kin are supported by specialist officers.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the holiday park said: \"On the evening of Friday 5 August a serious incident occurred within our complex area.\n\n\"As this is a live police investigation we cannot comment further, but our team is doing everything they can to assist inquiries.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To sit or not to sit? The Eisteddfod sign has had letters taken from it\n\nFestival-goers at the National Eisteddfod were surprised to see letters from its sign missing on Saturday morning.\n\nThe E, F, O and D were taken overnight from the display that overlooks the Gorsedd stone circle on The Maes.\n\nThose remaining read \"ISTEDD\", which also means \"to sit\".\n\nOrganisers of the Welsh-language cultural festival, in Tregaron, Ceredigion this year, said they had no idea where the letters went.\n\nChief executive Betsan Moses said the disappearance of the letters was being looked into.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that the letters had not been stolen after all but the Eisteddfod admitted \"hiding them drew a lot of attention in Wales and beyond.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said \"a brand new set of iconic red letters\" would be ready in time for the 2023 event.\n\nMeanwhile, at the festival on Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards were inducted into the Gorsedd of the Bards.\n\nIt is an association of poets, writers, musicians, artists and other people who have made a distinguished contribution to the Welsh nation, the language, and its culture.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Drakeford said it was an \"incredible privilege to receive this honour on behalf of all the key workers in Wales\".\n\n\"They did so much to help us all during the pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"It is very important that we thank them for their heroic work during a very hard time for everyone.\"\n\nBBC newsreader Edwards said it was \"emotional\" to be inducted.\n\nHe said he was proud his mother was there but \"a little sad\" his dad was not, especially as it was in his home county of Ceredigion.\n\nHywel Teifi Edwards was a historian and author who was at the forefront of a number of campaigns to safeguard the future of the Welsh language and specialised in 19th Century history and the National Eisteddfod.\n\nBorn in Llanddewi Aberarth, Ceredigion, he died in 2010, aged 75.", "Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant - the biggest in Europe - in March but kept its Ukrainian employees\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to any military action near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, warning of a \"very real risk of a nuclear disaster\".\n\nIAEA chief Rafael Grossi said he was \"extremely concerned\" by reports of shelling at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.\n\nIt comes as Ukraine said parts of the facility were \"seriously damaged\" by Russian military strikes.\n\nRussia has kept on its Ukrainian employees, but Kyiv accuses Russian forces of firing rockets at civilian areas from the site, employing \"terror tactics\".\n\nFriday's strikes underline \"the very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond\", Mr Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said, in a statement.\n\n\"Any military firepower directed at, or from, the facility would amount to playing with fire, with potentially catastrophic consequences,\" he added.\n\nUkrainian staff must be able to carry out their important duties \"without threats or pressure\", he said, adding that the IAEA should be allowed to provide technical support.\n\n\"For the sake of protecting people in Ukraine and elsewhere from a potential nuclear accident, we must all set aside our differences and act, now. The IAEA is ready,\" said Mr Grossi, days after stating the plant was \"completely out of control\".\n\nThe operator of the Zaporizhzhia plant said the Russian missile strikes had forced the closure of one \"power unit\", adding that there was a risk of radioactive leaks.\n\nThe strikes \"caused a serious risk for the safe operation of the plant\", operator Enerhoatom wrote on Telegram.\n\nMoscow said Ukraine carried out the attack.\n\nThe BBC was unable to verify the reported damage at the nuclear plant.\n\nHowever, the EU has hit out at Moscow over the latest shelling - with the bloc's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, saying it \"condemns Russia's military activities\" around the plant.\n\n\"This is a serious and irresponsible breach of nuclear safety rules and another example of Russia's disregard for international norms,\" he said, and called for the IAEA to be granted access to the plant.\n\nRussian forces hold the plant and surrounding areas, close to Ukrainian-held territory. It consists of six pressurised water reactors and stores radioactive waste.\n\nCivilians in nearby Nikopol, which lies across the river and is still under Ukrainian control, told the BBC that the Russians were firing rockets from the area around the plant and moving military hardware into the compound.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky said, on Friday, that \"any bombing of this site is a shameless crime, an act of terror\".\n\nThe plant is in the city of Enerhodar, in the south-east of Ukraine, along the left bank of the River Dnieper (Dnipro in Ukrainian).\n\nThe UK defence ministry says Russia is using the area to launch attacks - taking advantage of the \"protected status\" of the nuclear power plant to reduce the risk of overnight attacks from Ukrainian forces.", "One professor believes carbon capture and storage is the answer, but an economist suggested the technology would not be a viable solution.\n\nThe UK's largest steelworks is facing \"crunch time\" over reducing carbon emissions, a professor has warned.\n\nThere have been warnings the Port Talbot plant could be closed if a deal isn't reached for subsidies to reduce carbon emissions.\n\nTata Steel said it was committed to cutting its impact on the environment and climate change.\n\nProf John Gibbins said the technology could cost up to £1bn and take years to implement, but would save jobs.\n\nHe told BBC Wales carbon capture and storage was the answer. But an economist said the technology would not be viable.\n\nSo, what are the issues when it comes to making steel greener?\n\nProf Gibbins, Director of the Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre, said carbon capture and storage would allow the plant to make low or zero-carbon steel beyond 2050.\n\nCarbon Capture and Storage is the process of capturing carbon dioxide before it's released into the atmosphere, and then transporting and storing the carbon.\n\nHe said the technology would take two to three years to implement, and cost between £500m and £1bn.\n\nHe said: \"This is something that will preserve jobs, real jobs. What needs to be done, is for the Welsh government first of all to latch onto the idea.\n\n\"This is crunch time, if that plant gets closed then God help us.\"\n\nThousands of jobs in Wales are linked to Port Talbot's steelworks\n\nBut Cardiff University Business School economics professor, Calvin Jones, said carbon capture would not work at Port Talbot and would add \"significantly\" to steelmaking costs.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, carbon capture and storage has not been proved at commercial scale - for fossil energy generation or industry.\n\n\"In the case of Port Talbot, there is simply nowhere near to store the carbon. Newly leased UK storage sites are all in the North Sea.\n\n\"This will require either an entirely new CO2 pipe-distribution network, or a fleet of CO2 carrier ships to take Port Talbot's CO2 to where it can be geologically stored.\n\n\"Either will add very significantly to steelmaking costs.\"\n\nHe did not believe carbon capture would be able to fix the climate problem for energy, industry or Port Talbot.\n\nDespite disagreeing on how to solve the problem, both scientists agree Port Talbot's Carbon emissions need to be addressed\n\nProf Jones said there were alternatives.\n\nHe said: \"There is some steel-making under development using hydrogen instead of coke. For example Volvo are procuring this for their cars.\n\n\"This of course requires a surplus of hydrogen, which can only be made in a zero carbon way with green electricity.\n\n\"Unfortunately, Wales has been slow to develop green electricity. South Wales has one of the highest carbon electricity supplies in the UK.\n\n\"So again, there would need to be, probably, billions in investment in and around the area to make this a reality for Tata.\n\n\"We have a lot of catching up to do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do people in Port Talbot think about the possible closure of the steelworks?\n\nTata Steel said it was committed to cutting its impact on the environment and climate change.\n\nThe firm said its ambition was to produce net-zero steel by or before 2050, and to have reduce 30% of CO2 emissions by 2030.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The company continues to make progressive strides in reducing the environmental impact of its processes through innovation, investment and collaboration.\n\n\"Additionally, its steel products remain critical not only for UK manufacturing supply chains, but also in the UK's transition to a green economy.\"\n\nTata Steel knows it has to dramatically reduce the amount of CO2 it emits to reach its own targets as part of the UK's transition to net zero.\n\nBut, because the Port Talbot steelworks is vast and complex, radically changing the way it makes steel doesn't just take millions of pounds, it also takes years.\n\nThat is exactly why the steelworks' owners want to know whether the UK government favours an economy based on renewable energy or hydrogen.\n\nIt needs an answer quickly because transferring to an electric powered furnace or building a system to capture and store the carbon it emits would take years.\n\nThe steel industry also sees itself as fundamental to building a new economy in Wales and the United Kingdom: whether that is building more nuclear power stations , wind farms or or transport infrastructure.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and did not regain consciousness\n\nThe family of Archie Battersbee have said nobody should go through what they had to and have called for an inquiry into the legal battle surrounding the withdrawal of his life support.\n\nThe 12-year-old, who was at the centre of a court row between his parents and doctors, died on Saturday.\n\nIn a statement, they said they were \"stripped of all our rights\".\n\nBarts Health NHS Trust said Archie's treatment was withdrawn in line with court rulings about best interests.\n\nThe family's long legal battle to continue Archie's life-sustaining treatment ended when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said it \"would not intervene\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.\n\nThey had hoped to move him to a hospice, but doctors had warned he was too unstable to move by ambulance and it would \"hasten premature deterioration\".\n\nArchie had been in hospital since being found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.\n\nHe suffered severe brain injuries and needed life-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatment. He never regained consciousness.\n\nThe family called for a public inquiry into the role of the NHS and the High Court Family Division in end-of-life cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Archie Battersbee's mother Hollie Dance: \"I'm the proudest mum in the world\"\n\nHis mother Hollie Dance and father Paul Battersbee had asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to intervene in the case as they fought for life support to be continued, but were told it fell outside its scope.\n\nThree Court of Appeal judges supported the High Court ruling that life-support treatment should end.\n\nHis family then made bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and ECHR to have him transferred to a hospice, but these were rejected.\n\nIn a court ruling, it was concluded that it was not in Archie's best interests to be moved.\n\nMrs Justice Theis said: \"Archie's best interests must remain at the core of any conclusions reached by this court.\"\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, the family said the pressure of the process had been \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"We want something good to come out of this tragedy and the horrendous experience we have been put through by the system,\" they added.\n\n\"No parent or family must go through this again.\n\n\"We have been forced to fight a relentless legal battle by the hospital trust while faced with an unimaginable tragedy.\n\n\"We were backed into a corner by the system, stripped of all our rights, and have had to fight for Archie's real 'best interests' and right to live with everything stacked against us.\n\n\"This has now happened too often to parents who do not want their critically-ill children to have life-support removed.\n\n\"There must be an investigation and inquiry through the proper channels on what has happened to Archie, and we will be calling for change.\"\n\nArchie's family say they want \"something good to come out of this tragedy\"\n\nAfter Archie's death, the trust expressed its condolences to the family and said its staff had provided \"high quality care with extraordinary compassion\".\n\nBarts said its staff had cared for him, often in \"trying and distressing circumstances\".\n\nBaroness Ilora Finlay, professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University, told the BBC: \"The problem of the adversarial system, once it gets to court, is that it takes everybody's time away - from the family being at the bedside of the person who's dying and the clinicians it takes them away from the care of that patient and other patients - quite apart from the fact there are enormous costs involved for everybody.\n\n\"So anything we can do to try to avoid things escalating would be worth looking at.\n\n\"Of course there always will be some cases that do end up in court.\n\n\"It's not to say it's wrong to go down that route ever, but I do think it may be helpful if we can find a way of intervening early.\"\n\nMs Dance has previously called for reform through \"Charlie's Law\", a campaign by the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard, who were in a public battle with doctors in 2017.\n\nGreat Ormond Street Hospital said Charlie had an extremely rare genetic condition causing progressive brain damage and his life support should end, with the High Court ruling in its favour.\n\nHis family failed in a series of attempts to overturn the decision and since his death have called for parents to have more support and choice in the treatment of their child.\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.", "The bus ended up in a ditch by the roadside\n\nTwelve people have been killed after a bus carrying Polish pilgrims veered off a road in Croatia on Saturday and ended up in a ditch.\n\nAll 32 surviving passengers are said to be injured, 19 of them seriously.\n\nThe trip, organised by the Brotherhood of St Joseph Catholic group, included three priests and six nuns. They were travelling to Medjugorje, a Catholic shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nThe passengers were all Polish adults, said the Polish Foreign Ministry.\n\nThe bus left from the Polish city of Czestochowa on Friday night following a prayer service. The passengers were from various regions of Poland, the foreign ministry said.\n\nThe accident happened at around 05:40 local time (04:40 BST) when the bus they were travelling in veered off the A4 road between Jarek Bisaski and Podvorec, north-east of Zagreb.\n\nPoland's justice minister and prosecutor general have ordered the Warsaw Prosecutors Office to launch an investigation into the cause of the tragedy, and two Polish ministers are heading to Croatia in the wake of the incident.\n\nIt was initially reported that 11 people had been killed, but one more person died later in hospital.\n\n\"Some of the injured passengers are fighting for their lives,\" Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said.\n\nCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, adding in a post on Twitter that emergency services were doing all they could to help.\n\nPilgrimages to the small town of Medjugorje are very popular in Poland following reports that local children saw a vision of the Virgin Mary there in the 1980s.", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "The Commissioner requested the Met Police data following the case of Child Q, which sparked protests in London\n\nThe strip-search of a black girl by police at school in east London was not an isolated case, England's children's commissioner has said.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza requested Met Police data after details of the \"Child Q\" incident became public in March.\n\nOf the 650 strip-searches of children from 2018 to 2020, almost a quarter took place without an appropriate adult present, figures show. More than half of those searched were black boys.\n\nThe Met said it has since made changes.\n\nIt added that it had given officers advice around dealing with schools and children, and had reviewed its policy for strip-searches of children.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, who became children's commissioner last year, said she requested the figures from the Met Police after details surrounding the strip-search of the 15-year-old black girl, known as Child Q, at her school in Hackney in 2020 were revealed earlier this year.\n\nDuring the incident, the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by two female Met police officers, who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted, and no drugs were found.\n\nThe girl's intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, according to the review.\n\nA safeguarding report, published in March this year, found that the search was unjustified, and that racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor in the incident - sparking protests over the student's treatment.\n\nAccording to the latest Met Police figures, analysed by the children's commissioner for England, 650 children were strip-searched by police in London between 2018 and 2020.\n\nMore than 95% of those children were boys, and 58% of the boys searched were black.\n\nIn one year - 2018 - 75% of the boys searched were black.\n\nWhen police strip-search a child, they are legally required to make sure there is another adult present - designated an \"appropriate adult\" - unless there is an urgent risk of serious harm.\n\nThis is usually the child's parent or guardian, but can also be a social worker, carer or volunteer.\n\nDespite this, 23% of the strip-searches carried out in the two-year period specified were done without an appropriate adult.\n\nDame Rachel said she was \"extremely concerned\" by the findings.\n\n\"I am not reassured that what happened to Child Q was an isolated issue, but instead believe it may be a particularly concerning example of a more systemic problem around child protection within the Metropolitan Police,\" Dame Rachel said.\n\n\"I remain unconvinced that the Metropolitan Police is consistently considering children's welfare and wellbeing.\"\n\nIn response, the Met Police told BBC News it \"recognises the significant impact such searches can have\".\n\n\"We have reviewed the policy for 'further searches' for those aged under 18,\" the force said. \"This is to assure ourselves the policy is appropriate, and also that it recognises the fact a child in these circumstances may well be a vulnerable victim of exploitation by others involved in gangs, County Lines and drug dealing.\"\n\nThe force added that before strip-searching a child, officers must now also have permission from an inspector from a local command unit.", "Flowers were laid outside Liquid Leisure Windsor on Sunday morning\n\nAn 11-year-old girl has died after going missing at a water sports and activity park.\n\nPolice were called to the lake at Liquid Leisure Windsor in Datchet, Berkshire, about 15.55 BST on Saturday after the child got into difficulty.\n\nShe was found more than an hour later by emergency services and was rushed to hospital, but later died.\n\nMembers of the public who went into the water to look for her have been praised for their bravery.\n\nThames Valley Police said her death is being treated as unexplained and an investigation has been launched.\n\nThe water park, in Datchet, Berkshire, has an obstacle course\n\nSupt Michael Greenwood said: \"This has been an extremely traumatic and upsetting incident for all involved.\"\n\nSeveral members of the public got into the lake shortly after she got into difficulty \"but were unable to locate her\", he said.\n\n\"I would like to commend them for their courage and bravery,\" he added.\n\nA mother-of-two, who did not want to be named, was at the water park when the girl went missing.\n\nShe said lifeguards and friends of the girl's family ran along the lake shouting her name at about 15:45.\n\n\"I later learnt that they were hoping she'd somehow managed to make it back to the shoreline and was in shock or passed out,\" the woman said.\n\n\"They were asking all of us to shout her name, describing her as shoulder height on an adult, with shoulder-length brown hair.\"\n\nShe said between 30 and 40 people - lifeguards and other swimmers - jumped into the water to look for the girl before emergency services arrived.\n\n\"As the situation unfolded, with every minute that passed by you could see the rising panic amongst the onlookers,\" the woman added.\n\nThe Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and South Central Ambulance Service joined police officers at the site.\n\nThe National Police Air Service was also involved in the search, although it is not clear exactly where the girl was found.\n\nThe girl's family have been informed and they are being supported by officers.\n\nThe water park is closed on Sunday following the girl's death\n\nSupt Greenwood, the local policing area commander for Windsor and Maidenhead, offered his \"sincere condolences\" and requested that the privacy of the girl's family be \"respected\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the early stages of investigating this incident to understand the full circumstances.\"\n\nLiquid Leisure Windsor describes itself as home to \"Europe's largest aqua park\", with a floating obstacle course on the lake.\n\nIt also has outdoor activities including wakeboarding, open water swimming and boat rides.\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, the company said it would be closed on Sunday.\n\nIt said its thoughts were with all those affected \"by this desperately tragic and upsetting incident\".\n\nLiquid Leisure Windsor added it would not be right to comment further while police are in the early stages of an investigation, but it would \"continue to fully support and assist them throughout the process\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geraint Radford, from Ystalyfera in the Swansea Valley, photographs bugs and plants in his garden.\n\nHe uses social media to try to encourage more people to get into macro photography.\n\nHe said: \"Insects get a hard time, we're conditioned to find them scary. I try to take pictures of them that show them in a new way.\n\n\"I think they've got personalities, I think they're funny.\"", "The payments will be made to survivors 'as soon as possible'\n\nPayments of £100,000 will be made to victims of the contaminated blood scandal, the government is expected to announce this week.\n\nBoris Johnson wants payments, recommended by a public inquiry, to be made to more than 4,000 survivors \"as soon as possible\", said Downing Street.\n\nThousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s through NHS treatments.\n\nMore than 2,400 people have died as a result.\n\nA No 10 source said: \"The infected blood scandal was a tragedy for everyone involved, and the prime minister strongly believes that all those who suffered so terribly as a result of this injustice should receive compensation as quickly as possible.\n\n\"He has tasked ministers with resolving this issue so that interim payments can be made to all those infected as soon as possible, and we will set out the full details later this week.\"\n\nVictims and families get an annual financial support payment but have not been compensated for loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nThe chairman of the infected blood public inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, said last month individuals who currently qualify for financial support, including some bereaved partners of those killed, should now be offered interim compensation of £100,000 each.\n\nHe said there was a case to make those interim payments to surviving victims quickly.\n\nThe idea would be to fund bills and care needs, with final recommendations on compensation for a wider group of people expected when the inquiry concludes next year.\n\nThe inquiry has looked at how NHS patients with haemophilia and other blood disorders became seriously ill after being given a new treatment imported from the US.\n\nThe medication, factor VIII or IX, was made from the pooled blood plasma of thousands of paid donors.\n\nIf a donor was infected with a blood-borne virus such as hepatitis or HIV then the whole batch of medication could be contaminated.\n\nAn unknown number of UK patients were also exposed to hepatitis B or C though a blood transfusion after childbirth or hospital surgery.\n\nThe government has introduced schemes offering victims financial support but, unlike in the Republic of Ireland and some other countries, compensation has never been paid to individuals or families affected.", "Emergency services rushed to the scene of a building in Gaza hit by an Israeli air strike on Saturday. The Israeli military had earlier warned residents to evacuate the block.\n\nThe attacks come amid Israeli operations against the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Israel's PM has said the moves followed \"an immediate threat\" by PIJ after the arrest of one of its members early this week. The group fired more than 100 rockets into Israel \"in an initial response\" with most intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system.\n\nFifteen people have been killed in the air strikes in Gaza, including a child and PIJ leader Tayseer Jabari.\n\nThe latest violence is the most serious flare-up between Israel and Gaza in just over a year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Large flames and plumes of smoke were seen in west London\n\nAbout 60 people have been evacuated from their homes as fire crews tackled a blaze in west London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Hereford Road in Feltham where trees, undergrowth and decking were alight at the rear of properties.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said crews had managed to stop flames spreading to about 30 homes.\n\nTen fire engines and about 70 firefighters were sent to the scene. The cause of the fire was unknown.\n\nA number of cylinders were removed due to a risk of explosion in the heat, LFB said.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines were sent to the scene on Sunday\n\nStation Commander Tamer Ozdemir said firefighters had \"worked incredibly hard in hot, arduous conditions\" to stop the fire spreading.\n\n\"Their hard work has saved approximately 30 homes in Hereford Road.\n\n\"Around 60 residents were evacuated due to the amount of smoke.\"\n\nDecking was alight at the rear of properties during the fire\n\nLFB said it had received 44 calls about the blaze.\n\nCrews from Hillingdon, Kingston, Southall, Surbiton and Tooting have been at the scene.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you see the fire? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zed says the local food pantry has been a \"massive help\" to feed her sons\n\nHoliday food vouchers for children on free school meals have been cut in value by councils across England this summer, BBC News research reveals.\n\nOut of 97 responses from local authorities, 43 said they had either stopped giving out vouchers or reduced the amount they were worth.\n\nSome councils blame government rule changes for the cutbacks.\n\nThe government says funding is available to help councils support families in various ways.\n\nFamilies with children on free school meals across the UK have been offered food vouchers during school holidays, since a successful campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford during the pandemic.\n\nIn England, about 1.9 million children have free school meals.\n\nThe funding for this summer's food vouchers comes from the £421m Household Support Fund.\n\nUp to two-thirds can be spent on families with children and councils can decide how best to spend the cash in their area, to help those struggling financially.\n\nBut at least a third must be spent on pensioners - a rule change several councils have told BBC News has contributed to the reduction in the value of holiday food vouchers.\n\nBBC News contacted all 152 local authorities in England. Of the 97 responses:\n\nSince the school term finished, Zed, from Yardley, in Birmingham, has been coming to her local food pantry, for discounted food for her sons, Jacob and Elijah.\n\nJacob is on free school meals, so in the summer holidays last year, the family received £15 a week in food vouchers from the council - but this year, the vouchers have been scrapped.\n\nZed says the pantry has been a \"massive help\" to fill the gap.\n\n\"£15 might not sound like a lot of money - but in the grand scheme, it is,\" she says.\n\n\"When you've got two children to be paying for, it is a big loss.\"\n\nChildren on free school meals in the area this year have instead been offered events on weekdays providing a free healthy meal through a scheme called Bring it on Brum, funded by the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFamilies could also apply for hardship grants.\n\nCouncil-funded events such as this one in Birmingham provide meals for children in the holidays - but do not reach all those eligible for free school meals\n\nThe HAF programme is a £200m government scheme to provide childcare, healthy meals and activities for children from low-income families during the holidays, which was rolled out across England last summer.\n\nSome 36 councils who responded to BBC News said they were expanding their HAF events this year, offering help not just to those on free school meals.\n\nZed has taken her sons to one of the council-funded events, in her local park, but travelling to those further from home can be \"extremely difficult\".\n\n\"As much as I do try to get my children out, I am restricted sadly in terms of getting there,\" says Zed, who does not drive.\n\n\"Taxis are easier - but I don't have the money for that.\n\n\"Unfortunately it is a situation where I'd love to go but I can't always do it.\"\n\nOfficial figures show 498,000 children on free school meals (29%) attended HAF events last summer.\n\nThe Children's Society, which is campaigning for more children to be given free school meals, said it was \"deeply concerned\" many struggling parents would miss out on help this summer.\n\nExecutive director for social impact Joe Jenkins said: \"Depending on which part of the country a child lives in, they get a completely different set of support put in place for them.\n\n\"What we really need is a standard across the country that means every young person has access to food all the way through the day - whether it's in summer holidays or during the school term.\"\n\nA government official said food vouchers were not the only way councils could support families with children on free school meals.\n\n\"More widely, we are protecting eight million low-income families with at least £1,200 of direct payments, while additional support for disabled people and pensioners is also on the way,\" they added.", "Thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate Pride in Brighton, as the celebration returned after being cancelled for the last two years due to Covid.\n\nA Brighton Pride spokesperson said: \"2022 will be a joyous commemoration of the brave trailblazers, campaigners and supporters who shaped the Pride movement in the city and helped us achieve the LGBT+ equality we all enjoy today.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Archie Battersbee's mother Hollie Dance: \"I'm the proudest mum in the world\"\n\nArchie Battersbee, the 12-year-old who had been at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, has died.\n\nHis mother, Hollie Dance, said: \"Such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end.\"\n\nShe said she was \"the proudest mum in the world\" as she spoke outside the Royal London Hospital in east London, where he died.\n\nHer son's life support was withdrawn earlier on Saturday.\n\nHe died at 12.15 BST, Ms Dance said, adding: \"I'm so proud to be his mum.\"\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and did not regain consciousness\n\nArchie had been in hospital since being found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.\n\nHe suffered severe brain injuries and needed life-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatment. He never regained consciousness.\n\nMs Dance earlier said she had done everything she promised Archie she would do, but that the hospital had made it clear there were no more options for her son.\n\nShe and Paul Battersbee, Archie's father, had asked the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the case last week as they fought for life support to be continued, but were told it fell outside its scope.\n\nThey then wanted him to be moved to a hospice but the High Court, taking medical evidence into account, ruled he was too unstable to be transported by ambulance.\n\nMs Dance said: \"It's with my deepest sympathy and sadness to tell you Archie passed at 12.15 today.\n\n\"And can I just tell you, I'm the proudest mum in the whole world.\n\n\"Such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and I'm so proud to be his mum.\"\n\nHollie Dance said Archie was \"such a beautiful little boy\"\n\nThe High Court ruled Archie should remain at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.\n\nThe family sought permission to appeal against the decision, but that bid was rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThey then asked the ECHR to intervene, but late on Friday, the court said the request could not be dealt with.\n\nHollie Dance (left) with family friend Ella Carter outside the Royal London hospital\n\nIn a statement after Archie's death, Barts Health NHS Trust said: \"Members of his family were present at the bedside and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain with them at this difficult time.\n\n\"The trust would like to thank the medical, nursing and support staff in the paediatric intensive care department who looked after Archie.\"\n\nThe trust said staff had provided \"high quality care with extraordinary compassion\" in often \"trying and distressing circumstances\".\n\n\"This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country\" the trust added.\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the family's case, said: \"Our thoughts, prayers and support are with Archie's family at this tragic moment.\"\n\nFlowers, candles and cards have been left outside the hospital\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nKenya's Mary Moraa gatecrashed Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir's Anglo-Scottish duel to take 800m gold at the Commonwealth Games.\n\nThe 22-year-old world bronze medallist showed devastating speed down the home straight to outlast Hodgkinson, winning in one minute 57.07 seconds.\n\nScotland's Muir took bronze by one hundredth of a second ahead of Jamaica's Natoya Goule.\n\nMuir will have another shot at glory in Sunday's 1500m final.\n\nHodgkinson however said she was \"fuming\" to have missed her chance to claim a first international title in front of a home crowd.\n\n\"I am not quite sure what happened, it went so quick,\" the world and Olympic silver medallist told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The first lap I went a bit hard, maybe I could have been a bit more patient.\n\n\"There are positives but I want gold so I am fuming. I wanted to stand on top of that podium in front of my home crowd.\n\n\"Unfortunately I came away with a silver, again. But I have got one more chance.\"\n\nHodgkinson, like Muir, is part of a large British team travelling to Munich for the European Championships next week.\n\nThey, like the winner, will doubtless review this action-packed race before they arrive in Germany.\n\nMoraa initially appeared to have misjudged her pace, cantering clear of the pack in the opening 300 metres, before slowing around the bell.\n\nBut there was still plenty of sting left in her legs and, as Hodgkinson and Muir attempted to crank up the pressure 200 metres from home, Moraa tracked them and found a gear beyond either.\n\nAs Hodgkinson and Muir flopped to the track after the line, Moraa gleefully broke out a celebratory jig for the television cameras.\n\nOther than American Olympic and world champion Athing Mu, Moraa is the only athlete to have beaten Hodgkinson over 800m this year.\n\nShe triumphed in Stockholm in June with a similarly ferocious kick from home and the former 400m specialist, who only changed up to two laps last year, looks set to make Mu and Hodgkinson's rivalry into a three-hander drama.\n\n\"Oh my goodness, these girls are fast,\" Muir told BBC Sport after finishing in 1:57.87, 0.47 seconds behind Hodgkinson.\n\n\"I was in fourth with 100 metres to go and I was just like 'no way'.\n\n\"Kids, that's why if your coach says run all the way to the line, you run all the way to the line.\"\n\nThree-time British champion Alastair Chalmers claimed Guernsey's first Commonwealth medal ever outside shooting and lawn bowls with a superb bronze in the 400m hurdles.\n\nThe 22-year-old, running in lane two, followed home British Virgin Islands' Kyron McMaster, who successfully defended his title, and Jamaica's Jaheel Hyde in 49.97 seconds.\n\n\"You are absolutely amazing, all of you,\" Chalmers told the crowd after they had roared him home over the final 100 metres.\n\nUganda's Jacob Kiplimo surged past Kenyan rivals Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop to seize 5,000m gold and complete a distance double following his 10,000m triumph four days before.\n\nEngland's Marc Scott finished fourth in a season's best 13:19.84, but was more than 10 seconds off the leading trio.\n\nIn the first track final of the evening, Jamaica's Janieve Russell kept her composure to defend her 400m hurdles title as compatriot Rushell Clayton went out fast and faded even faster. Clayton finished in fourth, one place ahead of England's Jessie Knight", "One of the key areas of disagreement between the two candidates in the race to be prime minister - Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss - is tax.\n\nThe contest comes amid warnings from the Bank of England of a long recession later this year, and big expected increases in energy bills this winter.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) economic think tank, said he was surprised not to be hearing more from the candidates about help for families.\n\n\"They're going to have to find many more billions to support households,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"This is a much bigger increase in energy bills than was expected even a few months ago when the support packages were announced and that's not going to be helped by the sorts of tax cuts that are being talked about.\"\n\nSo, what are the tax cuts being promised?\n\nWhat has she pledged and how much would it cost?\n\nNational Insurance (NI) is a tax on earnings and self-employed profits - paid by all workers, until they reach the state pension age. It is also paid by employers.\n\nSince April, they have been paying more in NI - an extra 1.25p in the pound. The rise - announced by Mr Sunak when he was chancellor - was initially to help the NHS clear its backlog and then to help fund social care.\n\nTo try to ease its impact, Mr Sunak then raised the threshold at which employees people start paying NI from £9,880 to £12,570 a year.\n\nReversing the NI rise would cost about £13bn a year, according to the IFS.\n\nCorporation tax is a tax on the profits of businesses.\n\nThe tax rate is currently 19% but it is due to increase to 25% in April 2023.\n\nThe government estimates that cancelling this rise would cost £17bn a year.\n\nHowever, the IFS points out that doesn't take into account whether lowering tax could lead to increased investment by companies.\n\n\"We would therefore expect the long-run cost to be considerably lower than £17bn a year,\" the IFS said, \"though the effect would certainly not be big enough for the tax cut to pay for itself\".\n\nMs Truss hopes that extra investment would stimulate growth, although that would be difficult because the Bank of England says there is not currently much spare capacity in the economy, which means there is not a lot of scope for the production of more goods and services.\n\nThe government makes energy companies add an environmental and social element on to energy bills. This pays for things like schemes to help fund renewable energy and provide grants for insulation.\n\nThey make up about £153 of an average dual fuel bill, according to Ofgem.\n\nIn 2020-21, the levies raised £12.2bn, of which about 70% (£8.5bn) went on environmental programmes.\n\nMs Truss has said she is still committed to the net zero target, so is likely to have to fund the projects another way.\n\nThere is little detail of how Ms Truss would fund all this, although she has said that she wants to pay off the government's Covid debt more slowly.\n\nHer team said that up to £8.8bn a year could be saved by paying public sector workers different amounts depending on where they were based, but she quickly abandoned the policy after widespread criticism.\n\nIn the BBC debate, she said that her tax cuts could be paid for because: \"There is already headroom of approximately £30bn in the budget.\"\n\nThe headroom is the amount of money the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) estimated in March that the government could spend without breaking its own borrowing rules.\n\nBut the IFS said that changes since March, with the economy now expected to go into recession, meant this £30bn figure was now \"massively out of date\".\n\nOn the prospect of a recession later this year, Ms Truss said: \"What the Bank of England have said... is of course extremely worrying, but it is not inevitable. We can change the outcome and we can make it more likely that the economy grows.\"\n\nPaul Johnson said: \"I think we're going to struggle to avoid a recession and certainly you're not going to avoid a recession by doing what she seems to be suggesting, which is big tax cuts. That's more likely to stimulate inflation and create a bigger recession later on.\"\n\nWhat has he pledged and how much would it cost?\n\nMr Sunak was chancellor until 5 July (when he resigned), so announcing wholesale changes to his own policies could be seen as politically problematic.\n\nHe launched his leadership bid saying: \"Once we have gripped inflation, I will get the tax burden down. It is a question of 'when', not 'if'.\"\n\nThe OBR said in March that on current plans, by 2026-27 the UK's overall tax burden would be at its highest level since the late 1940s.\n\nMr Sunak has promised to cut the rate of VAT on domestic fuel bills from 5% to zero for one year from October, if average bills rise above £3,000 a year.\n\nAt the moment, VAT costs £94 of an average bill. Mr Sunak claim his measure will save an average household £160 - although clearly it depends on how much the energy price cap rises by.\n\nThe cost of the policy would be about £4.3bn for the year, depending again on how much prices rise.\n\nIn May, Mr Sunak rejected the idea of a VAT cut, saying in Parliament: \"A flat rate payment has the benefit of being more progressive than VAT, which obviously gives very high, or higher, tax discounts to those who are particularly wealthy or have large houses and energy bills.\"\n\nAs Chancellor, he announced that all households in England, Scotland and Wales would receive £400 towards their fuel bills between October and March.\n\nWhen he was chancellor, Mr Sunak announced that income tax would come down from 20p in the pound to 19p - in April 2024.\n\nHe has now said he will cut another 3p in the pound by the end of the next Parliament, expected to be by the end of 2029.\n\nThat's likely to cost in the region of £19bn a year.\n\n\"This is a very substantial tax cut,\" the IFS said.\n\n\"But it is still considerably smaller than the net tax rise announced by Mr Sunak as Chancellor, which was comfortably more than twice as large.\"\n\nMr Sunak said that it would be funded by a combination of growth in the economy and lower spending, promising not to increase debt to fund the tax cut.\n\nHe has not specified where the cuts in spending would be.\n\nHe plans to go ahead with increases to corporation tax, but says he is planning to bring in ways to make it cheaper for companies to invest at the same time.\n• None How Truss won the race to become PM", "LGBT Ugandan refugees who fled the country due to persecution, pictured here in 2018\n\nUgandan officials have banned a prominent LGBT rights group in a major setback for the community there.\n\nSexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) has been ordered to shut down with \"immediate effect\" for not registering properly with authorities.\n\nThe campaign group decried the order as a \"clear witch hunt\" by the government against LGBT Ugandans.\n\nSexual minorities face widespread persecution in Uganda, where anti-gay and transphobic views are common.\n\nGay relationships are illegal in Uganda, where they can be punished by up to life in prison for committing \"unnatural offences.\"\n\nOfficial police data shows that 194 people were charged under the offence between 2017 and 2020, including 25 who went on to be convicted.\n\n\"This is a clear witch hunt rooted in systematic homophobia, fuelled by anti-gay and anti-gender movements,\" said Smug's director Frank Mugisha, who is a gay Ugandan activist.\n\nHe accused authorities of treating members of Uganda's LGBT minority as second-class citizens and trying to erase their existence completely.\n\nOn Friday Ugandan officials announced they were halting Smug's operations because the campaign group, founded in 2004, had failed to register its name with the National Bureau for Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) properly.\n\nIt is the same reason given last year when dozens of civil society groups - including pro-democracy organisations - were also banned by Ugandan authorities.\n\nThis time officials say that the issue stems from Smug's name itself - Sexual Minorities Uganda.\n\nIn a statement the NGO Bureau acknowledged that Smug had attempted to register with authorities in 2012, but that the application had been rejected because Smug's full name was considered \"undesirable.\"\n\nPresident Yoweri Museveni, who has been in office since 1986, has made homophobic comments in the past - including in a 2016 CNN interview when he called gay people \"disgusting.\"\n\nAlthough there are no laws specifically criminalising being transgender in Uganda, trans people are regularly prosecuted for other offences including \"personation\" (false representation), according to reports compiled by rights organisations.\n\nSince its establishment almost two decades ago, Smug has campaigned for the rights of LGBT people in Uganda by promoting access to health services and supporting members of the LGBT community to live openly.\n\nIt has also taken legal action to protect gay people from hostility, including in 2010 when it successfully petitioned a Ugandan judge to order a newspaper to stop publishing the names and photographs of gay Ugandan men under the headline \"hang them\".\n\nThe group said several of its members had been attacked or harassed as a result of the article - including one woman who was almost killed when her neighbours began throwing stones at her house.\n\nAt the time, Ugandan politicians were preparing to debate whether or not to introduce the death penalty for same-sex relationships - a legislative amendment that attracted widespread international condemnation before eventually being dropped.\n\nMore recently, Smug has vocally criticised anti-gay speeches delivered by Ugandan politicians - including in the run up to national elections in 2021.\n\n\"The politicians are using the LGBT community as a scapegoat to gain support and win votes and it is fuelling homophobia,\" Smug's director Frank Mugisha told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"They've empowered the people to do anything towards people who are innocent\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Biden seen leaving White House for first time since contracting Covid-19\n\nUS President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 days after getting a second bout of the virus, his doctor says.\n\nMr Biden, 79, first tested positive for the virus more than two weeks ago.\n\nHe had been in isolation for a second time after getting what White House doctor Kevin O'Connor described as a \"rebound\" case.\n\nThe president will now return to public life, after he tested negative on both Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The White House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The White House\n\nDr O'Connor said on Saturday that \"the president continues to feel very well\".\n\nMr Biden - who is fully-vaccinated and has twice received booster jabs - first tested positive for Covid-19 on 21 July. He tested negative six days later, only to then test positive again on 30 July.\n\nIn a previous statement, Dr O'Connor said the president was taking the antiviral medicine Paxlovid, which can lead to rebounds of the virus in a small percentage of the people who take it.\n\nThe president experienced mild symptoms while he had the virus, including a runny nose and fatigue, and continued working while in isolation, the White House said.\n\nHe is scheduled to visit the southern state of Kentucky - which has been devastated by floods - on Monday, according to his official schedule.\n\nMr Biden is now the second US president to contract Covid-19 while in office. His predecessor, Donald Trump, was admitted to hospital for three days in October 2020 after falling ill with the virus.\n\nTo date, there have been 91.8 million Covid cases in the US and more than one million deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).", "One of Brazil's greatest Jiu-Jitsu champions of all time, Leandro Lo, has been declared brain dead after being shot in the head in a São Paulo club.\n\nLo was one of the most successful Jiu-Jitsu athletes of all time, having won the World Championships eight times.\n\nWitnesses said Lo and his friends were approached by a man in a threatening manner, Lo immobilised the man, but after he let him go, the man shot Lo.\n\nThe suspect fled the scene but has since handed himself in to police.\n\nAn investigation for attempted murder has been opened.\n\nA friend of Lo who was with him at the time, said a lone man approached their table, took a bottle from it and waved it around in a menacing way.\n\nLo had pinned the man to the ground to \"calm him down\". But after he let him go, the man shot Lo in the head, the unnamed friend told Brazilian news site G1.\n\nA lawyer for the Lo family, Ivan Siqueira Junior, said Lo and his friends had tried to prevent the incident from escalating.\n\nAccording to Mr Siqueira, the suspect kicked Lo twice while the latter was already lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head.\n\nLo was rushed to hospital, where he was declared brain dead. His family said his condition was irreversible.\n\nThe 33-year-old won the World Championships eight times in five different weight classes, an all time record.\n\nThe International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation called him \"one of the greatest athletes our sport has ever produced\".\n\n\"An example of a true black belt, martial artist and champion on and off the mats,\" the federation tweeted.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland were denied a dramatic 4x400m Commonwealth relay gold after officials ruled they committed a lane infringement before anchor Jessie Knight edged the tightest of finishes.\n\nKnight initially seemed to have secured victory by a hundredth of a second ahead of Canada's Kyra Constantine.\n\nBut the hosts were denied a fairy tale end to the athletics programme as judges spotted Jodie Williams' foot straying on the first changeover.\n\nTheir team of Zoey Clark, Beth Dobbin, Jill Cherry and Nicole Yeargin, rather than England, climbed the podium in front of a half-empty Alexander Stadium when the medal ceremony took place.\n\nThe infringement and decision denied England one of the moments of the Games as Knight, a 400m hurdles specialist, flung out her baton-holding arm to thrust her torso across the line and edge out Constantine by the slimmest of margins.\n\nConstantine's flat personal best is more than one and half seconds faster than Knight's, but, after a wait to analyse the photo finish, the England anchor's lunge seemed to have done just enough.\n\nVictoria Ohuruogu, Williams and Ama Pipi, all of whom had competed in the individual final earlier in the day, had done superbly to set Knight up in a promising position.\n\nBut while the Alexander Stadium rocked in celebration and the quartet posed for pictures, the officials were scrutinising the start of the second leg, when Williams' foot strayed out of her lane.\n\nLike Knight's apparent victory, it seemed a matter of millimetres. But it was clear and decisive and England, who did not appeal, were stripped of their eighth track-and-field gold of the Games.", "Many disabled people report inconsistencies in the prices and policies for concessionary tickets\n\nThere are huge inconsistencies in the availability and price of concessionary and companion tickets for people who need a personal assistant or carer to support them, many disabled people say.\n\nIt comes after news a free national Arts Access Card for disabled people to use at theatres, concerts and festivals is being delayed by two years.\n\nArts Council England (ACE), which is responsible for creating the card together with the BFI, told BBC Radio 4's Front Row that pilots will not be up and running until early 2024.\n\nAndrew Miller, until recently the government's first disability champion for arts and culture, championed the idea of the card after seeing how a similar scheme, Hynt, worked in Wales.\n\nHe told Front Row: \"One of the principle reasons for my advocating a national arts access scheme was the lack of any consistency in venues' approach to companion tickets and disabled access.\n\n\"As I've experienced, through a lifetime of event attendance as a wheelchair user, buying tickets for 40 years, it's the Wild West out there for disabled consumers.\n\n\"There's no consistency between how companion tickets are priced. Some make them half price and the disabled person goes full price, others you get a free companion and the disabled person pays a reduced rate.\"\n\nThe national Arts Access Card had been due to launch in March 2022, according to the government's previously-published National Disability Strategy. The High Court later ruled that strategy unlawful due to inadequate consultation with disabled people - the government has applied for permission to appeal - but the card is still being rolled out independently.\n\nDuring the course of the research, a number of theatres agreed their websites were confusing\n\nTherese Heath, an arts lover and university arts lecturer, agrees that policies and prices vary from venue to venue. She says it's not fair if a disabled person who needs a companion to attend, ends up paying more.\n\n\"It's discriminatory to expect someone to pay double to do something that a non-disabled person does not have to pay double for,\" she said.\n\n\"Sometimes events I've been to will say that there is a PA [personal assistant] scheme, but it can be very difficult to get hold of anyone. At one event I went to, the so-called access helpline was also their ticketing helpline so it was completely rammed and you couldn't get through to anybody.\"\n\nRecently she wanted to buy tickets for a festival, but said she was surprised to find there was no information at all.\n\n\"They didn't have a shred of access information on their website,\" she recalled. \"I was looking for whether they offered PA tickets. I was looking for information as to whether I could get my wheelchair onto the site, whether there were disabled toilets. And unfortunately at that point there was absolutely nothing on their website whatsoever.\"\n\nThe Equality Act applies to any business that provides goods, facilities or services to members of the public including theatres, cinemas, music venues, comedy clubs and festivals.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published guidance on responsibilities that entertainment venues have towards their customers,\n\n\"Reasonable adjustments are not just about changes to physical features or the addition of auxiliary aids such as a hearing loop, although these can be important to some disabled people,\" it says.\n\n\"Consider providing information (such as programmes and publicity material) in alternative formats and offering an additional ticket for free to a disabled person who needs to bring an assistant.\"\n\nAndrew Miller described the market as a \"Wild West for disabled consumers\"\n\nBut research by Front Row revealed that doesn't always happen.\n\nStephanie Sirr CEO of the Nottingham Playhouse and co-president of UK Theatre confirmed the \"big 12\" subsidised theatres all offer free companion tickets, as do many other UK Theatre members.\n\nHackney Empire and Belgrade Coventry offer disabled concessions plus a free carer ticket for those who need one.\n\nThe Tron in Glasgow no longer does concessions, instead offering three price options to choose from. No-one has to prove eligibility for any concession. A companion ticket is free.\n\nBut the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton confirmed they charge half price for a companion ticket.\n\nDuring the course of the research, a number of theatres agreed their websites were confusing.\n\nThe Bristol Old Vic has now updated its site making clear free companion tickets are not only available for people with \"restricted mobility\", but also those who are hearing or visually impaired or neuro-divergent.\n\nThe Mercury in Colchester, the Birmingham Rep and the Leeds Playhouse all said if people join their free access schemes to book tickets it overrides links which wrongly appear to charge for companion seats. The Mercury added that barriers to the arts aren't always to do with price, and not everyone wants the free seat.\n\nThe Birmingham Rep said being on the access list means they can be sure customers get the right seat for them, for example the end of a row, near the loos, or the best position to read the subtitled captions.\n\nThe Leeds Playhouse said they are currently updating their website but that disabled people can book tickets online, in person or over the phone.\n\nAll venues stress they work hard to make sure the companion seats are protected for those who really need them, and say abuse won't be tolerated.\n\nSome require proof of eligibility, like the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne, where recipients must be in receipt of disability benefits PIP, DLA, or Attendance Allowance, or a Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI ).\n\nAs well as the Hynt card in Wales, Nimbus Disability (previously known as CredAbility) operate the Access Card, which is already accepted by companies including Ticketmaster, Merlin theme parks, the O2 Academies, SSE arenas, Delfont Mackintosh and Ambassador Group Theatres (ATG).\n\nNimbus Disability operate the Access Card, which is accepted by many events companies (mock-up pictured)\n\nTrained experts have assessed 60,000 members so far, deciding what reasonable adjustments an individual needs. It is noted on the card and then universally accepted.\n\nFrom this week, ATG is rolling out online booking for all access tickets. Its access and safeguarding lead, Cate Gordon, says all 37 venues will be included.\n\n\"By registering with Nimbus's Access Card, customers will be able to log on to our website and book their own accessible seats, and also an essential companion ticket if required… at the time of day that you want to, just in the same way that any non-disabled person could,\" she said.\n\nMiller, who is now a trustee at Bafta and the Royal Shakespeare Company, is confident the government-backed national Arts Access Card will happen eventually.\n\n\"It could be well be that it builds on what Hynt has established in Wales, what CredAbility Nimbus have done, and also what the UK cinema card (CEA) does. But the essential element for me is that the card is made free to disabled users. That for me is a red line.\n\n\"When this scheme gets rolled out, it will transform the lives of disabled audiences, making the arts and the venue sector far more accessible and radically change the access approach to all the venues who sign up to it.\"\n\nFront Row airs at 19:15 BST from Mon-Thurs on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.", "The Benin plaque of Chief Uwangue and Portuguese traders is one of the objects being returned to Nigeria\n\nA London museum says it has agreed to return to Nigeria artefacts looted in the 19th Century from the Kingdom of Benin.\n\nThe Horniman Museum said ownership of 72 objects would be transferred to the Nigerian government.\n\nItems include 12 brass plaques, known as Benin Bronzes, a brass cockerel and a key to the king's palace.\n\nIt follows a request by Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) in January.\n\nThe museum, in south-east London, says it has consulted with community members, visitors, schoolchildren, academics, heritage professionals and artists based in Nigeria and the UK.\n\n\"All of their views on the future of the Benin objects were considered, alongside the provenance of the objects,\" the museum explained.\n\nThe museum's chair said it was \"moral and appropriate\" to return them.\n\nThe Horniman was recently named Museum of the Year 2022\n\nIn recent years, there has been increased political pressure on European governments and museums to hand back looted artefacts.\n\nThese include ivory carvings and metal sculptures known as the Benin Bronzes.\n\nEve Salomon, chair of the museum, said: \"The evidence is very clear that these objects were acquired through force, and external consultation supported our view that it is both moral and appropriate to return their ownership to Nigeria.\n\n\"The Horniman is pleased to be able to take this step and we look forward to working with the NCMM to secure longer-term care for these precious artefacts.\"\n\nThe items from the Horniman's collection are just some of the artefacts returned to Nigeria in the last few months from museums in the West.\n\nLast year, Jesus College in Cambridge and Aberdeen University gave back a cockerel sculpture and the head of an oba (king).\n\nGerman authorities also returned more than 1,100 artefacts to the west African country.\n\nNCMM says some of the priceless sculptures will be stored in the national museum in Benin once it has been expanded, and others will be stored at the museum in Lagos.\n\nThe British Museum holds the world's largest collection of Benin bronzes.\n\nIt says it is prevented from permanently returning items by the British Museum Act of 1963 and the National Heritage Act of 1983.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archie's mum Hollie says it has been a battle over every decision around her son's care\n\nCases like Archie Battersbee's are extremely rare. But when disagreements occur over whether a child's life support should end, they present terrible anguish for those involved, as well as lengthy court battles.\n\nTragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits, says Prof Dominic Wilkinson, an expert in medical ethics, and Consultant Neonatologist at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"For children like Archie, doctors cannot make them better, and advanced medical techniques and technologies may end up doing more harm than good. Sometimes, all medicine can do is to prolong the inevitable.\"\n\nProf Wilkinson says that in the vast majority of cases, parents and doctors are able to come together to agree on what would be best for a seriously ill child. Sometimes medical teams may need external help to reach an agreement.\n\n\"For example, they may draw on a clinical ethics committee, or independent mediation, or may seek second opinions from specialists in other hospitals.\n\n\"In a tiny proportion of cases, if parents and doctors cannot agree what would be best for a child who is stuck on life support in an intensive care unit, the right thing to do is to ask the court to help.\"\n\nThe court does not side with either doctors or parents. It focuses exclusively on what would be best for the child.\n\nArchie's case had been heard in several top courts. His doctors had said it would be in his best interests for treatment to be withdrawn.\n\nThe 12-year-old had spent months in hospital on life support, since being discovered unconscious at his home in April. The medics who treated him at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel said he had suffered such devastating brain injury at the time of the incident that there was no way he would recover.\n\nArchie, pictured with his mother Hollie Dance, who asked for more time to allow her son to recover\n\nArchie's parents said they did not understand the rush to end his life-support.\n\nSo who should decide that medical care should stop, and how?\n\nPalliative care professor Baroness Finlay of Llandaff hopes independent mediators can be used in future as \"adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody\".\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, she said: \"I'm hoping that by the end of the summer we'll have an inquiry into different ways of handling these very, very difficult cases so that there is independent mediation.\n\n\"And I say independent because, if it's supplied by the hospital, or it's supplied by the parents, one side may feel mistrustful of the other.\n\n\"But to be in the situation of adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody. The parents don't want to go to court. The doctors don't want to go to court. The managers don't want to go to court.\n\n\"My worry is that these cases are going forward to court too quickly and too early, and that we need an alternative way of managing the communication between the doctors and the parents, and sometimes others in the family as well.\"\n\nWhat that independent mediation might look like is unclear.\n\nDr Daniel Sokol, medical ethicist and barrister, said sometimes the courts must be the independent adjudicator. But that doesn't stop society drawing judgements.\n\n\"When these cases reach the press and social media, a distorted, sometimes one-sided picture of what is really happening is painted,\" said Dr Sokol.\n\n\"Without reading the court judgments or knowing the full details, people suddenly become experts in medical ethics, commenting aggressively on the rights and wrongs of the case, blaming the clinicians, the hospital, the relatives or whoever holds a different position to their own.\n\n\"This can cause real harm to the targets of their abuse and may dissuade clinicians from challenging parents in the future, even though the latter may be making decisions contrary to the interests of vulnerable patients.\n\n\"I have been told by paediatric doctors that they are reluctant to go against the views of parents, given the torrent of abuse they received in previous high-profile cases.\"", "Four more ships carrying grain and sunflower oil have left Ukraine ports via a safe maritime corridor.\n\nMillions of tonnes of grain have been stuck in Ukraine due to Russian blockades, leading to shortages and higher food prices in other countries.\n\nBut last week the first ship left Ukraine's ports since February.\n\nThe latest ships to set sail are bound for Turkey where they'll be inspected as part of a deal reached with Russia and the United Nations.\n\nThey left on Sunday from the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk, and will all travel through the Bosphorus strait.\n\nAfter the inspections, two are then scheduled to dock in Turkey, while the others are headed for Italy and China.\n\nAnother empty ship arrived in Chornomorsk on Sunday afternoon, ready to be loaded with grain for export.\n\nUnder a deal brokered by Turkey and the UN last month, Russia agreed not to target ships which were in transit, while Ukraine said it would guide vessels through mined waters.\n\nThe deal, set to last 120 days, can be renewed if both sides agree.\n\nThe complex arrangement seems to be working, at least for now.\n\nThe success of this deal, a rare diplomatic breakthrough in this five-month-old conflict, is vital for Ukraine - and the rest of the world.\n\nTwenty million tonnes of grain are stuck in the country, as a result of the blockade imposed by Russia on Ukrainian ports. If the deal holds, Ukraine expects to export up to three million tonnes of grain per month.\n\nUkrainian authorities say there are good signs that the grain exports are safe, and have urged companies to return to the country's ports. The hope is that the exports will help ease the global food crisis while bringing in much needed foreign currency.\n\nBut fears persist. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the resumption of exports, but said security concerns remained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We hope nothing will happen' - Razoni ship crew member\n\nThe first ship to leave Ukraine last week - the Razoni - departed Odesa carrying 27,000 tonnes of corn bound for the Lebanese port of Tripoli.\n\nHowever officials have said it will not dock in Tripoli on Sunday as planned.\n\nThe Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon told Reuters news agency on Sunday that the ship was \"delayed\", with no details on the cause or an updated arrival date.\n\nA Joint Coordination Centre which was set up to oversee the exports said the Razoni's voyage would be a trial run, with its experience used to fine-tune procedures for the following voyages.", "Owami Davies has not been seen for a month\n\nDetectives have arrested a fifth man in the case of a missing student nurse.\n\nOwami Davies, 24, who was studying at King's College London, was recorded on CCTV in the company of a man on 7 July - the day she was last seen.\n\nFour men previously arrested in connection with the disappearance have been bailed until September.\n\nThe fifth suspect is aged 27 and being held on suspicion of kidnap. Two of the earlier four were arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe CCTV footage showed Ms Davies on Derby Road, west Croydon, in the early hours of 7 July.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said on Sunday a \"second, unconfirmed sighting\" of Ms Davies on 7 July had been reported. She was said to have been seen on nearby Clarendon Road at about 07:00 BST - later than the CCTV footage, which was shot shortly after midnight.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney from the Met described the ongoing investigation as complex and said it involved a significant number of officers.\n\nHe added: \"We are working tirelessly to follow every line of inquiry, including extensive CCTV trawls, as we continue to search for Owami.\n\n\"We are now a month on from the last confirmed sighting of her. I cannot imagine what that time has been like for her family.\n\n\"We continue to provide them with whatever support we can.\"\n\nPolice say Ms Davies was seen in a shop in West Croydon shortly before she went missing\n\nMs Davies was originally reported as missing by Essex Police - on 11 July.\n\nThe force said she had left the family home in Chafford Hundred, Grays, on 4 July.\n\nCCTV then showed Ms Davies in west Croydon in the early hours of 7 July walking along Derby Road. It is the last confirmed sighting.\n\nShe was wearing a black jumper, grey jogging bottoms and a grey cap.\n\nPolice searched a property on Derby Road, west Croydon, as men were arrested\n\nA spokesperson for King's College London said Ms Davies is a valued member of the university's community.\n\nShe said: \"We are deeply concerned about her disappearance, and we continue to hope for her swift and safe return.\n\n\"We are keeping Owami, her family, and her friends in our thoughts during this difficult time.\n\n\"Our immediate priority is cooperating with the Metropolitan Police in their investigation.\"\n\nCCTV footage shows Owami Davies in a shop in west Croydon before her disappearance\n\nThe Met said two men, aged 27 and 23, who were detained on suspicion of murder, had been bailed until September.\n\nA 32-year-old man and a 22-year-old man who were arrested on suspicion of kidnap have also been released on bail until next month.\n\nPolice released CCTV of Ms Davies' last known movements on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said Owami Davies was with a man as she crossed Derby Road on the last night she was seen\n\nOfficers are keen to speak to the driver of a white van that was parked on Derby Road.\n\nPolice said Ms Davies, and the man she was with, crossed the street \"just as the van pulled out\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beijing is expected to continue military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan until Sunday\n\nThe United States has accused Beijing of \"provocative\" and \"irresponsible\" actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack on the island.\n\nTaiwan said it responded to the Chinese drills, now in their fourth day, by deploying aircraft and ships on Sunday.\n\nThe heightened tensions follow a trip to Taiwan by a US delegation led by senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi.\n\nChina views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over Taiwan, which sees itself as distinct.\n\nTaiwan's defence ministry said Chinese ships and planes carried out missions in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, with some crossing the median line - an unofficial buffer separating the two sides.\n\nThe Taiwan military said it responded \"appropriately\" to the live-fire exercises, which it described as a simulated attack on the island, by dispatching multiple aircraft and ships on Sunday morning, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Taipei, premier Su Tseng-chang accused China of \"arrogantly\" using the exercises to disrupt regional stability and appealed for restraint from the Chinese side.\n\nBeijing has not commented on the latest exercises, but its four-day long series of military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan are expected to finish on Sunday.\n\n\"These activities are a significant escalation in China's efforts to change the status quo. They are provocative, irresponsible and raise the risk of miscalculation,\" a White House spokesperson said.\n\n\"They are also at odds with our long-standing goal of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, which is what the world expects.\"\n\nChina said Ms Pelosi's visit \"seriously threatened\" peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.\n\nChina sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control. However, Taiwan is a self-ruled island that sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nBut any hint of recognition of this by world leaders enrages China. It announced on Friday that sanctions have been placed on Ms Pelosi and her family over the visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBeijing also announced it was halting co-operation with the US in several key areas including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of taking \"irresponsible steps\" by blocking key communication channels with Washington.\n\nMs Pelosi - a long-time China critic and the highest-ranking US politician to travel to the island in 25 years - arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, despite Beijing's warnings.\n\nDuring her visit, Ms Pelosi said that \"the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy\".", "Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, we found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nAnd eight in 10 NHS practices are not taking on children.\n\nThe Department of Health said it had made an extra £50m available \"to help bust the Covid backlogs\" and that improving NHS access was a priority.\n\nBBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) called it \"the most comprehensive and granular assessment of patient access in the history of the service\".\n\nWhile NHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, it is subsidised.\n\nThe BBC heard from people across the UK who could not afford private fees and said the subsidised rates were crucial to getting care.\n\nThe lack of NHS appointments has led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia, resort to making their own improvised dentures and restrict their long-term diets to little more than soup.\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nNot only did we find that in many places routine dental care was difficult to access quickly, most practices did not even have waiting lists. For those that did, the majority told us the waiting time was a year or longer, or were unable to say how long people might have to wait.\n\nOne practice in Norfolk told the BBC it had more than 1,700 people on its list, while another, in Cornwall, warned that it would take five years to be taken on as a patient.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents high-street NHS dentists in the UK, said NHS dentistry was at a \"tipping point\" after a decade of under-investment.\n\nCaroline Young, from Blackpool, had crowns fitted to her damaged teeth by an NHS dentist, but when her practice stopped treating patients on the health service four years ago, she was unable to find a new one.\n\nAlmost every week she goes through the dentists in the phonebook to ask whether they are taking on new patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've even called dental practices as far as 20 miles away, in Preston. I've re-called all my local ones many times. I can't even get on a waiting list,\" she said.\n\nMs Young's crowns gradually fell out and she has now resorted to improvised solutions involving a form of plastic, which she found on social media.\n\n\"It was supposed to be temporary, but my temporary became twice a week,\" said Ms Young.\n\nDentists warn that these homemade dentures are not only a dangerous choking hazard, but also food traps that can lead to worse tooth decay and gum damage.\n\n\"There are times when I've tried to fit it, and it's not worked, and I'll sit in floods of tears because I can't go out,\" she says. \"It's demoralising. I shouldn't feel that this holds me back, but it does. If I could afford private dentistry, I'd be there tomorrow.\"\n\nScotland had significantly better access to NHS dentistry for adults than the other UK nations, with 18% of practices taking on new health-service patients.\n\nWales, England and Northern Ireland had broadly similar rates of access, at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nAmong the areas where BBC News researchers could not find a single practice accepting new adult patients were Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon and Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMost of the UK's NHS dentists are independent businesses and are not employed by the health service directly.\n\nIf they fail to fulfil their NHS contract, the money that they have been paid is taken back.\n\nNHS England said it had recently made changes to the dentistry contract and would \"support practices to improve access, including giving high-performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients\".\n\nIt said discussions on further changes were \"still ongoing\".\n\nThe Welsh government also said it was working on reforming the dental system to improve access and quality of dental care. Wales announced in July that most adults would be offered dental check-ups once a year instead of every six months.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said more than 95% of the population of Scotland were registered with an NHS dentist and it was \"in a position of relative strength in terms of workforce numbers and capacity\".\n\nAll the devolved governments pointed out that the coronavirus pandemic had affected the availability of NHS dental care. Northern Ireland's Department of Health said it was \"inevitable that access levels are not as favourable today as they were before Covid\".\n\n\"Patients who are currently not registered with a health-service dentist, and wish to become registered may unfortunately have to contact multiple practices and consider travelling further than normal,\" it added.\n\nAccess to NHS dentistry has been a problem ever since the health service was created. Free treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.\n\nEver since, a subsidised system - where some patients pay towards the cost - has been in place.\n\nAlongside this, a strong private market has developed. An estimated one in seven adults relies on it. It leaves dentists with a real choice about how much NHS work they do.\n\nOver recent years NHS access has been getting harder.\n\nThe current NHS contract in England and Wales, which dates back to 2006, is unpopular with dentists, who feel unrewarded for the work they do.\n\nAusterity also squeezed budgets and then the pandemic hit, creating a backlog of patients with worsening oral health.\n\nThis combination of factors appears to have prompted more dentists to walk away - the numbers doing NHS work dropped by 10% last year.\n\nIt's fair to say the difficulties patients are facing are unprecedented.\n\nThe dentists' union blamed the current NHS contract for the lack of accessible dental care.\n\n\"There doesn't appear to be a commitment, really, from the Treasury to actually invest in [dentistry],\" said BDA chairman Eddie Crouch.\n\n\"Patients are having teeth removed because it's a cheaper option than actually saving the teeth. The whole system is set up for health inequalities, and that significantly needs to change.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues do not see enough emphasis on improving the situation in the short term.\"\n\nPaul Woodhouse, dentist and BDA board member, told BBC Breakfast emergency appointments at his practice were filled within five minutes of being open.\n\nHe said the government was only providing 50% of the funding the UK needed to care for every patient, meaning half of the population were being left without an NHS dentist.\n\n\"If you said that about GPs or cancer screening, there would be riots on the street,\" he said.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health think-tank the Nuffield Trust, said NHS dentistry was \"on life-support\" in some areas of the country.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it's premature to say we're witnessing the death of it.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be any real appetite for the sort of big structural and investment decisions that are required to fix NHS dentistry.\"\n\nBBC researchers aimed to contact every dental practice with an NHS contract in the four nations to ask whether they were taking on new patients.\n\nUsing lists from NHS organisations, we identified 8,523 dental practices across the UK that were believed to hold NHS contracts and tried to call them all during May, June and July.\n\nWe then narrowed down this list, excluding practices that\n\nWe were left with a list of 6,880 practices.\n\nFor our analysis, we looked at the distribution of the practices across the UK's 217 upper-tier local authorities.\n\nWe classified a practice as accepting new child NHS patients if they would take on those under the age of 16.\n\nA practice that required a referral to take on a patient was not treated as accepting new NHS patients, since a referral requires an initial appointment with a dentist, which is a barrier to entry.\n\nAdditional reporting by Eve Mattison, Leah Dunderdale-Smith, Ellie Butler, Robert Tait, Lucy Gilder, Alison Benjamin, Becky Dale, Jana Tauschinski, Christine Jeavans and the BBC Data Journalism team", "A 12-year-old girl has made hundreds of survival blankets for homeless people out of crisp packets.\n\nAlyssa, from Prestatyn, Denbighshire, flattens them out, cleans them and uses an iron to fuse them together into a single sheet.\n\nDuring the past year, she has made more than 200 blankets using almost 10,000 waste crisp packets.\n\nThe blankets have been given to organisations which support homeless people in Llandudno, Wrexham and Rhyl.\n\nEach one takes an hour to make, but Alyssa said the effort was worth it because it helps homeless people and stops the crisp packets from being thrown in the bin.\n\n\"The bit I don't like is washing them,\" she said.\n\n\"Each packet has to be opened out so it's flat and then washed in the sink.\n\n\"Then you take four of them, put them under a piece of baking paper, and iron them so that the heat fuses them together.\n\n\"Finally, you sandwich the crisp packets between two thin sheets of clear plastic, and you use the iron again to seal that in place.\"\n\nShe explained the finished blankets look very similar on one side to the silver blankets given to marathon runners after they cross the finish line.\n\nThe idea originally came from a woman in East Sussex called Pen Huston, who has now set up a company called the Crisp Packet Project to make blankets and survival bags and to support others around the UK who are doing the same.\n\nAlyssa started making the blankets in August 2021 and asked her mum to get colleagues at work to start collecting old crisp packets for her.\n\n\"I saw on Facebook that people were starting to turn crisp packets into blankets, and thought I'd like to have a go at making them myself,\" she said.\n\n\"When you put the blanket around your body, the heat reflects back off the silver part of the crisp packet.\n\nHer finished products are made up of various brands of crisp packets\n\n\"You wouldn't think you could turn a crisp packet into something so helpful, but homeless people like the blankets because they're really lightweight and waterproof.\n\n\"Crisp packets are really hard to recycle, so this is a new way to stop them going in the bin.\"\n\nAlyssa and her mum put the blankets into a bag along with other essential items like gloves, socks and toothpaste.\n\nThe packs are given to homeless shelters in Wrexham and Rhyl or support organisations such as The Salvation Army and Hope Restored in Llandudno. Some have also been sent to Ukraine.\n\nAlyssa's mum, Darlene, said: \"she makes the blankets after school - it certainly keeps her away from her phone.\n\n\"She's passionate about the environment, and the homeless support organisations in north Wales have been very positive about the blankets.\"\n\nAlyssa makes use of packets which would otherwise be thrown in the bin, and helps her community as a result", "Lisa is contemplating dentures after her crown treatment left her with serious complications\n\nHundreds of British dentists have treated patients with serious complications after they travelled abroad to get cut-price crowns, a BBC documentary has learned. The latest cosmetic look, seen on ITV's Love Island and via the hashtag #Turkeyteeth, has given some people their dream smile but left others asking the NHS to pick up the pieces.\n\nLisa Martyn never expected she would contemplate getting dentures at the age of 48. But after travelling abroad for an invasive cosmetic dental procedure, she believes there are few other options.\n\n\"My teeth are gone. They're filed down so much,\" she says. \"They never said your teeth can die, that you can get an abscess.\"\n\nLast year, Lisa flew to Turkey for 26 veneers, usually thin shells placed around teeth that are minimally shaved down, hoping to achieve a perfect smile for her son's wedding.\n\nMonths later she discovered she had actually been given crowns. These involve 60% - 70% of the natural tooth being filed down to fangs or stubs, before a tooth cap is glued on top. Patients can choose the shape, material and colour of these caps, often opting for a bright, white, symmetrical smile.\n\nThe trend of travelling to countries like Turkey for dental treatment has been dubbed \"Turkey teeth\". It is popular on social media, where a TikTok hashtag has reached more than 130 million views, and with several reality TV influencers.\n\nThe BBC explores the TikTok trend in which young people are travelling to Turkey to get a brand new smile.\n\nBut 10 months on, Lisa, from Ireland, has been plagued by ongoing nerve sensitivity and excruciating pain. She has lost more than two stone (12.7kg) as she is unable to eat properly and has spent months relying on painkillers.\n\nThe pain culminated in an infection and abscess which Lisa says nearly paralysed half of her face. Her original procedure in Turkey cost her 3,500 euro (£3,000) but her private remedial treatment, which includes two rounds of root canal surgery, will cost her more than 2,000 euro.\n\nShe has been told the only long-term treatment available is implants or dentures.\n\n\"Financially it's going to cripple me, but that's just the price I have to pay after going to Turkey and filing all my teeth down,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC contacted Lisa's clinic in Turkey, but did not receive a response.\n\nWe spoke to some UK dentists who say they'd be concerned their regulatory bodies would not allow them to conduct such work. Dr MJ Rowland-Warmann, director of a dental clinic in Liverpool, emphasised crowns can cause major complications.\n\n\"If I did 20 crowns on a 21-year-old for the purposes of improving the colour, I would have my licence revoked, I would be struck off,\" she says.\n\nAn exclusive survey for BBC News of 1,000 dentists, by trade union the British Dental Association (BDA), found 597 respondents said they had treated both patients with crown complications and seen patients who visited Turkey for their dental treatment.\n\nNearly one in five of those surveyed said the repair costs exceeded £5,000. Three-hundred-and-forty-six dentists said some of this remedial treatment was provided by the NHS.\n\nIt is not known how many people from the UK have had such treatment abroad.\n\nStudies also suggest on average, a quarter of crowns have to be extracted after 15 years. Crowns also increase the risk of having root canal treatments, extractions and dentures in future.\n\nOne of the first to sport the trend was ex-Love Island winner Jack Fincham, who travelled to Turkey for 10 crowns before entering the villa in 2018.\n\n\"My mum used to be a dental nurse, so I know how expensive it is to get your teeth done. I knew it would be about £10,000 - £15,000 easily in England. So I thought I'd rather just go to Turkey get a bit of sun, have a laugh.\"\n\nJack Fincham during and after treatment\n\nThe week Jack appeared on the reality show and spoke about his teeth, Google searches for \"Turkey Teeth\" spiked.\n\nBut he admits, \"I didn't really know what a crown was. And I didn't know it was quite as invasive as it was.\"\n\nNot all patients return with complications.\n\nTilly, 22, has had no regrets since travelling to Turkey for 16 crowns in January.\n\n\"Ever since a young age, I was bullied for my teeth,\" she explains. \"I was called things like Bugs Bunny and told how pretty I'd be if I didn't have the teeth I had.\"\n\nShe says the treatment has significantly changed her life.\n\nTilly booked her treatment by messaging the clinic on Instagram\n\n\"I'm smiling a lot more, I'm laughing. I'm not hiding my mouth which I did constantly,\" she says. \"I'm just more and more myself, it's given me my confidence back.\"\n\nLike many others travelling to Turkey for crown procedures, Tilly booked her treatment by messaging her clinic via Instagram. The clinic then asked her to send some photographs of her teeth, before providing her with a treatment plan.\n\nThe BBC contacted 150 dental clinics in Turkey and 50 cosmetic dental clinics in the UK via Instagram with a picture of our documentary presenter's teeth with the following message: \"Hi, hoping to come to Turkey to get my teeth done for my 26th birthday. I'm not happy with my bottom teeth and want them more in line with the rest of my mouth. What do you recommend, how much would it cost in pounds and how long will it last? Here are some pictures of my mouth.\"\n\nSeventy of the 120 Turkish clinics that responded offered treatment that involved shaving down the natural teeth, such as crowns or veneers.\n\nNone of the 34 UK clinics that responded offered a treatment plan of veneers or crowns, although some did suggest less invasive treatments such as aligners or composite bonding.\n\nEddie Crouch, chairman of the BDA, warns: \"Patients need to provide informed consent for any treatment they have and be wary of a hard sell, as the reality is rarely as simple as it appears on Instagram. Sadly, many UK dentists are now picking up the pieces when things go wrong.\n\n\"We strongly advise people considering this to check a dentist's qualifications and experience and whether they are insured if things go wrong.\"\n• None 'The screeching drill, the burnt flesh - my dental nightmare'", "Interest rates up, already spiralling prices set to rise yet further and the prospect of a lengthy recession.\n\nWhile the governor of the Bank of England gave a sombre press conference, the candidates to be the next prime minister were preparing for their next turn in a TV studio.\n\nThe pair have taken part in a series of televised debates and hustings events, offering themselves up for scrutiny in front of the public and the Tory party members who'll pick between them.\n\nIn the latest - hosted by Sky News - their approach to the economy was once again the defining point of difference.\n\nThe two candidates - once again - took the chance to have a pop at each other's economic plans.\n\nLiz Truss claimed the tax levels Rishi Sunak advocates will lead to recession not growth; Rishi Sunak claimed Liz Truss' plan to cut taxes will exacerbate inflation and prolong economic pain.\n\nIt is territory the two have clashed over before, but while the wannabe PMs keep exchanging blows on the finer points of fiscal policy, there will be many worried families and businesses simply wondering whether the help on offer will be anywhere near enough - or what more may come.\n\nIt is true that some of the measures announced earlier this year to help people with rising bills have yet to kick in and the business minister has insisted the government is working \"flat out\" to tackle the cost of living.\n\nBut in reality all the while this leadership contest plays out, there is a limit to what more the existing government can - or will - do.\n\nIt has said it won't make any major economic announcements until a new prime minister is in place.\n\nThis week Boris Johnson is on holiday while the current Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, is away for a few days with his family, although he is said to be working remotely and taking calls.\n\nBut ultimately it will fall to the next prime minister to grapple with the scale of the challenge the country faces.\n\nThe two candidates have set out some further measures to help households come the autumn - Mr Sunak says he'd cut VAT on domestic fuel bills while Ms Truss would suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nBut they are likely to come under significant pressure to do more.\n\nIn just a matter of weeks whoever gets the keys to Number 10 will have to turn the big ideas and promises made while touring the TV studios into practical policies to help struggling families and businesses - and they'll have to do it pretty quickly if they want to stay there for long.", "Barristers gathered outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London\n\nCriminal cases in courts across England and Wales face disruption for a second week as barristers pledge to extend their strike action into August.\n\nRallies have taken outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, plus Liverpool and Birmingham Crown Courts.\n\nMembers of the Criminal Bar Association have rejected the government's 15% pay offer, saying it will not kick in immediately or apply to existing cases.\n\nMinisters blame the strikes for worsening a backlog of 58,000 cases.\n\nBut the Criminal Bar Association says long-term legal-aid cuts are the cause.\n\nThe CBA is asking for a 25% rise in pay for legal aid work, representing people who could not otherwise afford lawyers.\n\nIt says some junior barristers currently make less than the hourly minimum wage.\n\nMinisters say a typical criminal barrister would get £7,000 more a year under the offer, adding that before expenses, median earnings for criminal barristers in 2019-20 were £79,800, although it admits junior barristers often earn a fraction of this.\n\nThe CBA's four weeks of action escalates to a three-day walk-out this week, increasing by one day a week to a five-day strike from 18 July - and from August, barristers will strike on alternate weeks.\n\nMinisters say the number of backlogged cases is coming down, due to government initiatives - but say the strikes will lead to more delays and more people waiting for justice.\n\n\"Our energetic efforts to tackle the courts backlog are working but the strike action by criminal barristers threatens all that progress, despite the very generous pay offer on the table,\" argues Justice Minister James Cartlidge.\n\nBut the CBA says a 28% cut in legal aid fees over the past decade has forced barristers out of the sector, with their numbers down a quarter compared to five years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two young lawyers share their concerns about the profession\n\n\"There are simply too few criminal justice barristers to prosecute, to defend and even to provide the judges the government relies on and the public expects to be there, to crack a record backlog and ensure victims of crime and the accused are not left in agonising limbo,\" said a CBA spokesperson.\n\n\"The criminal justice system has been grinding to a halt for a number of years, not because of us but because the government has simply mismanaged the system and underfunded it considerably,\" said CBA chairman Jo Sidhu.\n\nThe CBA says its own analysis of government figures suggests that in the year to March 2022 more than 1,000 criminal trials were postponed at the last moment because there was no prosecuting or defence barrister available.\n\nSolicitors working in the criminal justice system have told the BBC they face similar problems.\n\n\"We believe the years of underfunding have lead to a crisis in the criminal justice system,\" said Hashem Puri, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association.\n\n\"Large numbers of barristers and criminal solicitors are leaving the profession because of the low pay...\n\n\"Our members are considering taking similar action and joining the bar in days of action.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dancing officers were later joined in their routine by members of the public\n\nPolice officers who were criticised after being shown on social media dancing at an LGBTQ+ Pride event have been defended by their chief constable.\n\nVideo posted online featured officers performing the Macarena at Lincoln's annual Pride celebration on Saturday.\n\nThe tweet attracted several negative responses, with some users calling it \"embarrassing\" and a \"disgrace\".\n\nBut Lincolnshire Chief Constable Chris Haward said the officers' actions did not \"detract from their duties\".\n\nPosted on Saturday evening, the original tweet from Lincoln Police showed four uniformed officers dancing along to the music.\n\nThey were then seen being joined by members of the public also performing the routine.\n\nSome Twitter users complained, suggesting the officers should have been solving crimes.\n\nBut Mr Haward said he expected Lincolnshire Police officers \"to engage with people attending Pride\".\n\nThe event was a \"celebration of inclusivity and representation within the LGBTQ+ community\" and the force was there to offer support and to build confidence, he added.\n\nOfficers at other forces have previously been criticised on social media for taking part in earlier events, while uniformed Met Police officers were asked not to join the London march by organisers in July.\n\n\"I expect my officers and staff...to chat, laugh, join in, and even dance, where it is appropriate to do so and does not detract from their duties,\" Mr Haward said.\n\nThe chief constable said policing was about \"engagement, understanding and being part of the community\", as well as enforcement.\n\n\"Pride is one of the many wonderful community events in the county we are there to police, but also to allow people to look behind the uniform and see who we are,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSingapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state.\n\nThe decision, announced by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on national TV, comes after years of fierce debate.\n\nLGBT activists in Singapore have hailed the move as \"a win for humanity\".\n\nThe city-state is known for its conservative values, but in recent years an increasing number of people have called for the colonial-era 377A law to be abolished.\n\nSingapore is the latest place in Asia to move on LGBT rights, after India, Taiwan and Thailand.\n\nThe government's previous stance was to keep 377A - which bans sex between men - but it also promised not to enforce the law in an effort to appease both sides.\n\nBut on Sunday night, Mr Lee said they would abolish the law as he believed \"this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will accept\".\n\nHe noted that \"gay people are now better accepted\" and scrapping 377A would bring the country's laws in line with \"current social mores, and I hope, provide some relief to gay Singaporeans\".\n\n\"We finally did it, and we're ecstatic that this discriminatory, antiquated law is finally going to be off the books. There's a sense that maybe it took a little too long, but it had to happen, you know. Today we are very, very happy,\" gay activist Johnson Ong told the BBC.\n\nA coalition of LGBT rights groups called it a \"hard-won victory and a triumph of love over fear\", adding it was the first step towards full equality.\n\nBut they also expressed concern over another announcement Mr Lee made in the same speech.\n\nHe had said the government would ensure better legal protection for the definition of marriage as one between a man and a woman. This would effectively make it harder for gay marriage to be legalised.\n\nHe said Singapore remains a traditional society with many keen on maintaining family and social norms.\n\nLGBT activists called this \"disappointing\" and warned that it would only further entrench discrimination in society.\n\nMeanwhile Protect Singapore, a conservative group, said they were \"deeply disappointed\" that the repeal was going ahead without assurance of \"comprehensive safeguards\".\n\nThey called for the definition of heterosexual marriage to be fully enshrined in the constitution, as well as laws banning \"LGBT promotion\" to children.\n\nSingapore inherited 377A from the British and chose to retain it after independence in 1965.\n\nThough the law technically criminalises sex between men, it is effectively seen as a ban on homosexuality.\n\nAs it has not been actively enforced in recent years, a thriving and increasingly visible LGBT scene has developed in Singapore, including gay nightclubs.\n\nBut LGBT activists have long called for 377A to be scrapped, saying the law perpetuates social stigma against gay people, goes against Singapore's constitution which forbids discrimination, and has trickled down to influence other aspects of life.\n\nFor instance, any content deemed as \"promoting homosexuality\" can be banned from broadcast in Singapore, and TV shows and movies have in the past been censored.\n\nThe law is also at odds with Singapore's image as an open, diverse global financial hub and multinational companies based in the state have said it would hinder their efforts to attract talent.\n\nWhile many in Singapore still support retaining 377A, in recent years the call for its abolition has grown stronger, with surveys showing growing support for LGBT rights.\n\nAt the same time both LGBT activists and conservatives - many of whom come from religious groups - have mobilised on both sides of the issue.\n\nProtests and political gatherings are strictly regulated in Singapore, but every year LGBT activists hold the island's biggest civil society rally - known as Pink Dot - which draws tens of thousands of participants.\n\nMeanwhile, conservatives have organised social media campaigns and events calling for the preservation of traditional values, and some churches have promoted controversial gay conversion programmes.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Lee appealed to both camps for understanding.\n\nIn his National Day Rally speech - Singapore's equivalent of a State of the Union address - he said: \"All groups should exercise restraint, because that is the only way we can move forward as a nation together.\"\n\nLGBT activists in Singapore have consistently called for 377A's repeal\n\nSingapore is not the only former colony with a version of 377 - the law continues to exist in many parts of Asia, Africa and Oceania.\n\nIt was introduced by the colonial British government in India in the 19th Century, and forbade \"carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal\".\n\nIt soon spread outside of India as the British used the Indian Penal Code as the basis for criminal law codes in other territories they controlled. Several former British colonies such as Kenya, Malaysia and Myanmar still have some version of 377.\n\nIn 2018, India's Supreme Court abolished 377 in a historic verdict, prompting hopes among activists that other former colonies would eventually follow suit.\n\nIn recent years, other parts of Asia have also moved to legalise gay marriage.\n\nTaiwan became the first place to do so in 2019, and in June Thailand approved draft legislation allowing same-sex unions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SG Boys is the first LGBTQ podcast in Singapore", "The condoms will feature several slogans approved by the LGBT+ Conservatives\n\nConservative activists will be offered free condoms and dental dams at this year's party conference.\n\nThe prophylactics - featuring humorous slogans such as \"strong and stable\" and \"honourable member\" - will be handed out by the LGBT+ Conservatives group.\n\nChair Elena Rose Bunbury said: \"We all know people like a good time at conferences, and we're here to help ensure that happens safely.\"\n\nThey have ordered 500 protective items for the four-day event in Birmingham.\n\n\"We don't know if that's enough but, all our money is fundraised and we have to justify where our money is being spent,\" said Ms Bunbury.\n\nShe added that the group's volunteers would \"use the chance to talk about our campaigns and the importance of wearing condoms and consent\".\n\nCommenting on the current monkeypox outbreak, which can be spread through sexual contact, Ms Bunbury said: \"We advise all condom users to stay up to date with the relevant health care advice.\n\n\"If you do have monkeypox please refer to your GP or any local sexual health professional for advice on when to resume sexual or intimate activity.\"\n\nDental dams are protective latex squares designed for use during oral sex.\n\nPolitical parties have used promotional condoms before, including UKIP, who sold them to raise funds at their 2018 conference in Birmingham.\n\nNigel Farage condoms were on sale in 2018\n\nBut this is thought to be the first time such items have been handed out at a Conservative Party conference.\n\nThe packaging will feature slogans including \"Unleash Britain's Potential\" and \"Labour isn't working, but this condom will (*99% of the time)\".\n\nSome patrons of the LGBT+ Conservatives group, including two MPs also have personalised slogans, including:\n\nMr Gibson, the Conservative MP for Darlington, said he was happy to lend his name to \"a bit of fun for conference to get a safer sex message out there\".\n\n\"I'm sure there are some people out there that think it's a complete turn-off and naming condoms after MPs is a better way of promoting abstinence,\" Mr Gibson said.\n\n\"But this is all about promoting safer sex. I've had friends who've died from HIV and if they'd known about safer sex then that wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nAndrew Boff, deputy chair of the Conservative group on the London Assembly, said: \"I've had to bear this name my whole life so I might as well use it for something good.\"\n\nHe added: \"The message of safer sex has been lost over the years - some young people believe that they are invincible to the problems that come from unsafe sex.\n\n\"Politicians should be recognising that just telling people to abstain from sex isn't going to work if we want to reduce sexually transmitted infections. As politicians we should be wedded to the idea of harm reduction.\"\n\nMr Boff, who has attended Conservative Party Conferences since 1975, said he was sure the condoms \"will get used\".\n\nThe BBC understands dozens of MPs were approached to feature on the contraceptives but either declined or did not respond.\n\nEvery year political parties - including Labour, the Conservatives, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats - hold a conference for their members and affiliate groups.\n\nConferences usually involve late nights and intense socialising as members have a chance to meet, debate and hear speeches by key figures - including the party leader.", "Almost half the country's schools resumed in-person classes after more than two years of distance learning\n\nMillions of students across the Philippines have returned to the classroom on Monday, after one of the world's longest school closures.\n\nAlmost half the country's schools resumed in-person classes after more than two years of distance learning.\n\nThe Philippines was one of the last few countries to transition back to face-to-face learning after Covid struck.\n\nBut some experts say the prolonged suspension of in-person lessons has worsened an education crisis.\n\nAround 24,000 of the country's public schools - or just less than half - will implement five days of face-to-face classes.\n\nThe rest will hold a mix of in-person and online classes, education officials say, at least until November, when all 27 million registered students are expected to head back to the classroom full-time.\n\nSome schools will have to split classes up in shifts because of classroom shortages and to avoid overcrowding, due to fears that schools could turn into new virus hotspots, said the Department of Education.\n\nThe protracted school closures have been attributed to fears of the virus spreading rapidly in a country where it is common for schoolchildren to be living with parents and elderly grandparents.\n\nIn-person classes were replaced with online classes, printed materials and lessons broadcast on television and social media.\n\nThe Philippines saw one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in South East Asia, with close to three million cases and around 50,000 deaths.\n\nOn Monday, at San Pedro Elementary School in Manila, sixth-grade student Sophia Macahilig said she was \"excited\" to meet her classmates and teachers after two years of Zoom lessons.\n\n\"We used to have fun and now I can have fun again,\" the 11-year-old told news agency AFP.\n\nMeanwhile, other children dressed in uniforms and wearing masks lined up to receive a dollop of hand sanitizer and undergo a temperature check before being admitted into the school premises.\n\nBut there are lingering concerns about the effects online learning have had on children's educational development the last two and a half years, especially when students were already struggling to meet basic literacy standards pre-pandemic.\n\nNine out of 10 Filipino children could \"not read a simple text with comprehension\" by age 10 before the pandemic, said a World Bank study last year.\n\n\"Prolonged school closures, poor health risk mitigation, and household-income shocks had the biggest impact on learning poverty,\" said organisation UNICEF in a statement.", "Kenneth Jones was found guilty by a jury at Gloucester Crown Court\n\nA stalker who torched a campervan while his ex-partner was asleep inside it, has been jailed for more than 11 years.\n\nKenneth Jones, who admitted arson, but denied it was with intent to endanger life, was found guilty of the more serious charge.\n\nHis ex-partner had escaped injury only because a neighbour had spotted the flames, Gloucester Crown Court heard.\n\nJones, 64 and of Dames Road, Wanstead, London, also admitted stalking involving fear of violence.\n\nThe defendant, who also pleaded guilty to several counts of criminal damage, was issued with a life-long restraining order.\n\nThe jury had heard he hired a car in Cheltenham on 18 February this year and filled up a drinks bottle with fuel at a petrol station before driving to Alderton, near Tewkesbury, and setting the vehicle alight at around midnight.\n\nJones's ex-partner was sleeping inside the van with her new partner.\n\nJones had stalked the victim in the lead up to the arson, travelling into Gloucestershire on several occasions and repeatedly damaging his ex-partner's car, the court was told.\n\nJones caused tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage to the campervan and other vehicles\n\nDet Con Allun Johnson said it had been \"a miracle\" that no-one was seriously injured or killed due to Jones' \"atrocious actions\".\n\n\"His unacceptable behaviour escalated from damaging the victim's car on multiple occasions, turning up unannounced at her address, stalking her in his vehicle and culminated in him endangering both her and her partner's lives,\" he said.\n\n\"Jones decided to use a hire car that night and thought he could get away with what he did.\n\n\"However, we were able to show his stalking behaviour where he followed her in his car prior to the arson, which the victim hadn't known had been happening,\" added Det Con Johnson.\n\nJones was sentenced to 11 years and six months for arson with intent to endanger life and 12 months for stalking and criminal damage, to run concurrently.\n\nHe was also banned from entering Cheltenham and Alderton.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bernie Ecclestone was met by photographers and camera crews as he entered court on Monday\n\nBernie Ecclestone has denied fraud over an alleged failure to declare about $650m in overseas assets.\n\nThe 91-year-old former Formula 1 boss indicated a not guilty plea to a charge of fraud by false representation at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe is accused of failing to declare a trust in Singapore with a bank account containing funds that at the time would have been worth more than £400m.\n\nPolice warned photographers not to mob him outside court because of his age.\n\nAfter arriving at court for his first hearing in a white Range Rover, the business magnate was escorted through the exit of the court building by his legal team and court security.\n\nChief magistrate Paul Goldspring allowed Mr Ecclestone to stand outside the dock after his barrister, Clare Montgomery QC, said her client was \"having a little bit of trouble hearing\".\n\nMr Ecclestone stood to confirm his name and address in Knightsbridge, central London, before indicating a not guilty plea.\n\nThe charge brought against him in July followed an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs, which said the probe had been \"complex and worldwide\", relating to a period between 13 July 2013 and 5 October 2016.\n\nProsecutor Robert Simpson told the court: \"During the course of that investigation he was asked about any trusts placed abroad that he was involved with.\n\n\"The Crown has based this charge on the basis he failed to declare a trust in Singapore with a bank account containing approximately $650m.\"\n\nEcclestone is alleged to have disclosed \"only a single trust\" to tax authorities, one in favour of his daughters, according to the charge read in court.\n\nThe court heard he said he was \"not the settler or the beneficiary of any other trust\" and the prosecution alleged the businessman acted \"with the intention of making a gain for yourself\".\n\nMr Ecclestone was granted unconditional bail ahead of his next appearance at Southwark Crown Court on 19 September during the hearing, which lasted about five minutes.\n\nHe ran Formula 1 from the late 1970s until January 2017 when he was removed as its chief executive.\n• None Ecclestone to be charged over alleged fraud", "Anthony Joshua says emotions got the better of him and he let himself down with his bizarre post-fight antics after losing to Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia on Saturday.\n\nJoshua was defeated by split decision in the heavyweight world title rematch.\n\nAfter the contest, the Briton picked up two of Usyk's belts, dropped them out of the ring and strode towards the dressing room, before returning to the ring to give an impassioned speech.\n\n\"I let myself down,\" Joshua tweeted.\n\nAfter returning to the ring, the 32-year-old confronted Usyk, saying, \"you're not strong, how did you beat me? How? I had character and determination'.\n\nJoshua then picked up the microphone and produced a expletive-filled speech in which he reflected on the fight and his shortcomings as a boxer.\n\nHe also talked about several topics, including his troubles with police as a teenager, the war in Ukraine, his career and led the crowd in saluting 35-year-old Usyk.\n\nIn his post-fight news conference, Joshua said he had acted that way because he was mad at himself. \"When you're angry you might do stupid things,\" he added.\n\nIn his tweets on Sunday , he wished Usyk, who also beat him on points last September in London, \"continued success in your quest for greatness\".\n\n\"You are a class act, champ,\" he said. \"Yesterday I had to mentally take myself into a dark place to compete for the championship belts! I had two fights, one with Usyk and one with my emotions and both got the better of me.\n\n\"I'll be the first to admit, I let myself down. I acted out of pure passion and emotion and when not controlled it ain't great. I love this sport so so much and I'll be better from this point on. Respect.\"\n\nJoshua, who took super-heavyweight Olympic gold at London 2012, won his first 22 professional fights, but has now lost three of his past five contests, all of them for world titles.\n\nJoshua hopes to compete again in December\n\nMeanwhile, Joshua says he has the \"hunger\" to fight again and hopes to return to the ring in December.\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn wants him to have three or four fights next year with the ultimate goal of the Englishman becoming a three-time world heavyweight champion.\n\n\"I spoke to Eddie and asked him if it's possible to get out in November because momentum is important in boxing - Eddie said December,\" Joshua said.\n\n\"If it's about who I fight, it's come one, come all. Whoever wants it can get it, I don't mind.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We've tried for about seven or eight minutes and we're just going now because we can't use it\"\n\n\"Very complicated\" parking machines need replacing to stop deterring tourists, a councillor has said.\n\nCeredigion councillor Elizabeth Evans said the machines \"must be changed\" to stop future difficulties for visitors.\n\nMs Evans said the problems have existed since they were first installed in 2020, and that \"nothing\" has changed.\n\nCeredigion council said changes to its machines were \"not being actively considered or pursued at this stage\".\n\nMotorists have complained about being unable to easily pay for daily, rather than weekly, parking or being unable to easily change the language on the machines.\n\nIt comes after long queues formed in a north Wales car park where the ticket machine defaulted to Welsh, causing non-Welsh speakers to struggle to use it.\n\n\"People are not using them, as we've seen this morning, because they can't use them, and driving off,\" Ms Evans said.\n\n\"Visitors are driving off out of Aberaeron and that's a massive impact for local businesses. Small businesses are complaining, not just in Aberaeron, but in Lampeter and in Aberteifi as well.\n\n\"If you're older and there's a queue behind you, it puts a lot of pressure on you to use it.\"\n\n\"You can't use the machine. We've tried,\" said day trippers Tom and Diane Edwards\n\nTom and Diane Edwards were on holiday in nearby Aberystwyth and hoped to come to Aberaeron for the day.\n\nHowever, BBC Wales spoke to them on their way out of the town, following a fruitless experience using one of the parking machines.\n\n\"So many people have told us how nice Aberaeron is so we thought we'd come down for a couple of hours,\" they said.\n\n\"But you can't use the machine, we've tried to [pay] daily but it's only [showing to pay] weekly. We've just tried for seven to eight minutes and we're going now because we just can't use it.\"\n\nVerena Edgeworth said having to ask for help made her feel \"awkward and annoyed\"\n\nVerena Edgeworth from Bristol, who is in Ceredigion on holiday, needed help in order to pay for her parking.\n\n\"I couldn't even work out how to select the language properly and then it kept coming up as weekly and I wanted just two hours,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the whole experience made her feel, \"awkward and annoyed because if I hadn't been able to pay I would have just driven back to where I'm staying\".\n\nShop owner Lucy Watson said the card payment-only machines exclude a lot of elderly people from parking\n\nBusinesses also feel that the machines prevent people from stopping in the towns.\n\n\"Locals and shopkeepers are talking about how it's more and more difficult to nip into town and do their regular shopping,\" shop owner Lucy Watson said.\n\nCerdin Price said shops were missing out due to the complicated parking\n\nCerdin Price, who owns a business in Lampeter, said the machines had a detrimental effect there as well.\n\n\"People come to town, they can't use these machines, because they are not easy at all,\" he said.\n\nThe council said it understood the machines were used by five other Welsh local authorities and the information provided at the machines to support the public had also been updated and improved to reflect people's feedback and experience.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Following a system upgrade during the summer 2022, the processing and speed of transactions has improved.\"\n\nCabinet member for highways Keith Henson said: \"We constantly take on feedback and it's all about continuous improvement.\n\n\"In terms of the machines used by the local authority, we understand there are five other local authorities in Wales and they are a constantly evolving machine in terms of the software available.\"\n\nHe said officers were looking at resolving the default weekly option to a daily payment option.\n\nMr Henson said having the Welsh language as the default was unlikely to change but he would find ways to make it easier to change to the desired language setting.\n\nHowever, changing the payment method to accept coins was unlikely.\n\n\"The machines were invested in, at a cost of around £150,000 so I can't see that being changed in all honesty because of the potential cost to change them back.\n\n\"On an already stretched local authority budget would that be the best investment?\" said Mr Henson.", "Rico Burton died in hospital after he was stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nBoxer Tyson Fury has called on the government to introduce stronger punishments for knife crime after his cousin was killed in a stabbing.\n\nThe heavyweight champion said on social media \"RIP Rico Burton\", who was \"stabbed in the neck\" overnight.\n\nFury compared knife crime to a \"pandemic\", adding, \"you don't know how bad it is until it's one of your own\".\n\nTwo men have been arrested in connection with the incident, in which a 17-year-old also suffered serious injuries.\n\nSupt Ben Ewart said one of the men, aged 21, was arrested at the scene and the other, aged 20, was arrested later. Both remain in police custody.\n\nIn an impassioned plea on social media earlier, Mr Fury wrote: \"This is becoming ridiculous - idiots carry knives. This needs to stop.\"\n\nThe boxer demanded the government \"bring back higher sentencing for knife crime\".\n\nHe ended the post in tribute to his cousin: \"Life is very precious and it can be taken away very quick. Enjoy every moment.\n\n\"RIP Rico Burton - may the lord God grant you a good place in heaven, see you soon.\"\n\nTyson Fury said his cousin Rico Burton died after a stabbing\n\nSupt Ewart, of Greater Manchester Police, said the emergency services had received multiple calls at about 03:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nArriving at the scene in a courtyard area, paramedics found the 17-year-old and Mr Burton with stab wounds and receiving first aid from members of the public.\n\nHe said both victims were taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary where Mr Burton later died.\n\n\"This is without doubt a senseless attack and both victims should have returned home this morning after enjoying a night out with friends,\" Supt Ewart said.\n\nHe added: \"Goose Green is a popular nightspot and would have been busy at the time and I appeal for anyone who was there overnight on Saturday or anyone with information about this incident - including phone photograph footage or videos - to come forward, in particular any friends of any of the victims or suspects who may have been out with them that night who have not yet come forward.\n\nAsked what police had been told about a possible argument, Supt Ewart said it was a \"very live\" investigation and that was \"obviously a factor we're looking into\".\n\nKnife crimes rose by 10% to 49,027 offences in England and Wales during the year to March 2022, according to records.\n\nPublic concern about stabbings and firmer guidance for judges since 2015 have led to longer sentences, although offenders under 18 are still more likely to be cautioned than jailed.\n\nA statue made of weapons confiscated by police - known as the Knife Angel - has been recently touring the country\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Laura Whitmore has announced she is stepping down as host of Love Island.\n\nThe 37-year-old has fronted the ITV2 dating programme and its spin-off series Aftersun since 2020, following the death of former host Caroline Flack.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Whitmore said flying to South Africa for the upcoming series would be very difficult and also cited \"conflicting projects\".\n\nShe has hosted the last three series of Love Island, which started in 2015.\n\nWhitmore said: \"There are certain elements of the show I've found very difficult that cannot be changed, some due to the format, including the flying back and forth to South Africa along with my new conflicting projects.\n\n\"I wish it was still possible but know you'll be in safe hands. I was only planning to fill in for Caroline for a series and it turned into 3 series. I hope I did you proud Caroline.\"\n\nThe announcement came after Whitmore revealed last month that she had left her Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live, to be replaced by Helen Skelton.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by thewhitmore This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said Whitmore had been a \"fantastic\" host.\n\n\"We are so grateful for everything she has brought to the programme but understand and respect her decision, and we look forward to working with her on upcoming ITV projects.\"\n\nThe Love Island finale earlier this month drew in 3.4 million viewers at its peak.\n\nWhitmore's husband, Iain Stirling, has been the narrator of the show since it began.", "Fast food boxes, bottles and cans have piled up next to Edinburgh's overflowing bins during the strike\n\nBin strikes across Scottish local authorities are to continue as planned after unions queried a new pay offer.\n\nRubbish has been piling up in Edinburgh where hundreds of GMB and Unite union members in the city's waste and recycling service are striking.\n\nLocal authorities have increased their pay offer from 3.5% to 5%.\n\nBut Unite said it would not take the offer to its members because there was not enough detail about how it affects lowest paid workers.\n\nThe strike in Edinburgh is due to last for 12 days until 30 August - the day after the end of the city's International and Fringe festivals.\n\nIt is the first in a series planned across Scotland.\n\nFurther strike action from workers in waste and recycling services is planned in the following councils:\n\nUnison - 26 to 29 August and 7 to 10 September Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and South Lanarkshire\n\nGMB - 26 to 29 August and 7 to 10 September Aberdeen, Angus, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Highland, Midlothian, Orkney, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian, Perth and Kinross, and North Lanarkshire.\n\nOn Monday, following a meeting of Unite's local government representatives committee, the union said it would not take the new 5% offer to members.\n\nAlison Maclean, Unite industrial officer, said the union's local government committee had reaffirmed that the strike action taking place in Edinburgh, and scheduled to take place in another 14 councils, continued as planned.\n\nShe said there was not enough detail about the 5% pay offer, and what it means for the lowest paid workers.\n\n\"At this moment the offer from Cosla remains a vague aspirational pledge but Unite can't take anything to our wider membership unless we have specifics and guarantees,\" she said.\n\nUnite and GMB Scotland are to meet with Cosla on Tuesday - after which Unite said it would \"reassess the situation\".\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said members wanted clarity from Cosla about whether the 5% proposal came with the assurance of a flat rate award - a key demand of the union pay claim.\n\nHe added: \"The prospect of the highest paid getting the biggest cash increases in any offer would be unacceptable, let alone one that is still well below inflation.\"\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council leader Cammy Day said the news that strikes would continue was disappointing.\n\nHe said: \"I'm continuing to push hard for a resolution as quickly as possible. We also need to carry on pressing the Scottish government to give us more flexibility on how we use our resources and as well as providing fairer funding for our services.\n\n\"I'd like to thank everyone for their patience as the strike continues and please continue to follow our advice on how to deal with your waste safely and responsibly to help us manage the impact of the strike action.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon previously said council leaders should make a 5% pay offer to staff to avert further strikes.\n\nReiterating that councils were the employers of the workers, she added: \"We've provided more resources to local authorities to try to facilitate a fairer pay deal and I'm glad to see that Cosla has now put on the table a 5% pay offer and I hope that now paves the way to these issues being resolved.\"\n\nMeanwhile. Edinburgh North and Leith MP Deirdre Brock, of the SNP, said the Labour-run council had failed to put forward a decent pay offer.\n\nShe said: \"The SNP in government put an extra £140m on the table, on top of the £100m extra given to councils earlier in the year, yet Labour refused to offer that money to refuse workers for over a week, leaving our capital streets an eyesore.\n\n\"Residents and tourists alike need to see a plan from Labour to clean up the capital starting today. All we've seen so far is ineptitude.\"\n\nScottish Conservative local government spokesman Miles Briggs said there had been an \"astounding\" lack of contingency planning ahead of the strike.\n\nHe said: \"More could have been done to prepare the city, such as working with private companies or providing additional bins.\n\n\"The SNP government must get around the table and fix this before it's too late. They cannot stand by and watch while a situation that they created by giving councils a poor funding settlement spirals out of control.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, who represents Edinburgh Western at Holyrood, said there were now \"mountains of filth piling up\".\n\nHe added: \"We all know that August is perhaps the most important month in Edinburgh's calendar. This situation risks jeopardising the capital's reputation among festival visitors from across the UK and the world.\n\n\"Refuse workers are being hit hard by the cost of living crisis. They need emergency changes to the budget which will properly fund local government and support those in need.\"", "Scientists have discovered they can boost people's memory for a least a month by harmlessly stimulating parts of the brain with electricity.\n\nVolunteers performed better at word memorisation games, which tested both their immediate \"working\" memory and their long-term memory, experts found.\n\nExactly what the results mean for day-to-day life is still unclear.\n\nBut ideas range from helping old people cope with memory decline, to treating disease and aiding exam preparation.\n\nDr Robert Reinhart, from Boston University, described the stimulation technique as \"an entirely different approach to isolating and augmenting parts of the brain\" which offered \"an entirely new realm of potential treatment options\".\n\nPeople on the trial wore a cap filled with electrodes. A controlled electrical current, which feels similar to an itch or a tingle, was then used to precisely alter brainwaves in targeted regions of the brain.\n\nThe volunteers underwent 20 minutes of stimulation daily for four days in a row. Throughout the study they had to memorise lists of words, which they were again asked to recall one month later.\n\nDr Reinhart said the treatment \"could cause selective memory improvement that lasts for at least one month\".\n\nThe results, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, showed those volunteers who were struggling with the memory games at the beginning of the experiment were those whose memory improved the most.\n\nThe electrical signals changed the rhythm of brain activity - brainwaves - in the areas targeted.\n\nScientists think the four rounds of stimulation reinforced those patterns and led to lingering improvements as the brain adapted and rewired itself - known as neuroplasticity.\n\n\"It's sort of connecting to the so-called language of the brain, that speaks to itself and communicates with itself through electrical impulses,\" said Dr Reinhart.\n\nHowever, it takes different types of stimulation to boost the different types of memory:\n\nAll 150 people who took part in the trial were healthy, with no cognitive impairment, and were aged between 65 and 88.\n\nBecoming more forgetful is often a sign of age, but whether this form of stimulation could aid the aging brain in the real world, beyond word games, is still unknown.\n\nDementia, including Alzheimer's disease, is caused by a diseased brain with dying brain cells - leading to memory problems.\n\nThe researchers are investigating whether the technology can be used in Alzheimer's disease to stimulate the surviving brain cells, as well as in schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder.\n\nDr Susan Kohlhaas, the director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: \"We don't know if brain stimulation techniques have potential to help people with dementia but there is research under way in this area.\"\n\nAt present, the stimulation method used - transcranial alternating current stimulation - is only possible in research laboratories.\n\nSo while you may be thinking of using cognitive enhancement to get through an exams - or just a pub quiz - the scientists say those sort of homegrown applications are for the distant future.\n\nHowever, researcher Shrey Grover said he can ultimately see them being used alongside more traditional methods which people use to keep their mind sharp, such as crosswords and Sudoku.\n\n\"Any efforts to remain cognitively engaged are always welcome, this kind of approach is perhaps something that could be added on to things that people are already doing.\"", "Kate Stott finds it difficult to keep up with her two youngest children Beau and Jude\n\nAn Aberdeen mother-of-three whose life has been put on hold by Long Covid will travel to Germany this week for experimental treatment.\n\nKate Stott says her world has been transformed since she contracted the virus more than two years ago.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland her continuing symptoms were debilitating.\n\nBut Mrs Stott has now agreed to therapy targeting tiny blood clots which some doctors believe could be a core cause of the condition.\n\nThe latest ONS figures estimate 164,000 people are living with Long Covid in Scotland and 57,000 of those have been dealing with the illness for more than 12 months.\n\nThe Scottish government has allocated £3m this year to improve care for Long Covid patients.\n\nBut for some sufferers, the lack of treatment options has seen them look further afield for help.\n\nMrs Stott suffers constant fatigue as well as numerous other symptoms\n\nMrs Stott, 36, woke up in March 2020 with a sore throat. Two-and-a-half years later her life is unrecognisable.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"First I was so incredibly tired. I was sleeping a lot of the time.\n\n\"Then, as the weeks progressed, stranger symptoms would arrive, like shortness of breath, lots of problems with my mobility, rashes everywhere.\n\n\"That was the beginning of questioning what was wrong.\"\n\nThe former Scottish businesswoman of the year had Long Covid.\n\nThe go-getting entrepreneur had to close her business and was soon spending most of her time on the couch.\n\nShe also had to rely on crutches to get around.\n\nMrs Stott said: \"That feeling you get before you get an operation, and you are put under anaesthetic and they say count down from ten - that is what living with Long Covid fatigue is like.\n\n\"You just feel like you are sedated.\n\n\"I feel like I have got concussion and that sounds bizarre to anybody else who hasn't experienced it.\n\n\"But I can do something as little as taking the washing out of the washing machine and I feel like I have hit my head and I am sick and dizzy and have to immediately sit down again.\"\n\nMrs Stott has been hospitalised several times and suffered from ptosis of her left eye, causing it to droop.\n\nMrs Stott has been hospitalised numerous times but it took two years to get her diagnosis.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland in May that she was willing to go on drug trials to find relief.\n\nOn Tuesday she will head to Europe for treatment.\n\nMrs Stott said: \"When I get to Germany I will have my blood taken. It will be tested initially for microclots and hyperactive platelets. I will then have a follow-up consultation with the doctor there.\n\n\"What I hope to come home with is prescription drugs that I will be able to take here and speak to my GP and specialist here about and try this trial.\n\n\"I just want to try to relieve some of these symptoms. I am not expecting a magic pill.\"\n\nMicroclots are emerging as a potential key to unlocking Long Covid treatment.\n\nSome symptoms of Long Covid could be down to tiny clots blocking up the smallest blood vessels called capillaries.\n\nOur major arteries and veins are like motorways around our bodies, but capillaries do the actual job of getting oxygen and nutrients to the individual cells of our bodies.\n\nCrucially, capillaries also clear away the waste products of our metabolism. Blocked capillaries could lead to cells becoming rapidly distressed.\n\nDr David Strain, from the NHS Long Covid Taskforce, said: \"That could account for why some people start the day feeling great because the body's had time to replenish itself, but very, very quickly, they become exhausted.\"\n\nResearch has also shown the brain can shrink by between 0.2% and 2% even after mild infection so unrepaired damage is a potential cause of symptoms like brain fog.\n\nKevin Deans, a consultant chemical pathologist at NHS Grampian, is studying how dissolving the tiny clots will allow oxygen back into the organs, effectively \"rebooting the body\".\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"They are these very hard to break down little clots - if we can use medicines to dissolve them, the question then is if this allows things to reset.\n\n\"Does that allow the formation to settle down, and hopefully allow improved oxygen supply and blood supply to the body's organ systems?\n\n\"Understanding the mechanism is key, and then, can we exploit that mechanism to actually have treatments that benefit people, improve their symptoms and become all or part of a treatment regime that can help people with Long Covid?\"\n\nExperimental treatments are being offered at private clinics in Cyprus, Germany, and Switzerland where medics use apheresis, a \"blood washing\" treatment, and anticoagulants - blood thinning drugs.\n\nHowever, there is, as yet, no published and peer reviewed evidence showing that apheresis and anticoagulation therapy reduce microclots.\n\nThe ONS publishes updates on the numbers of people who self-report Long Covid symptoms such as fatigue, muscle weakness, breathing difficulties or brain fog. It is likely to be an overestimate as many of these symptoms could also be an indication of something else.\n\nNevertheless there are thousands of people in Scotland living with debilitating symptoms, desperate for help and who feel like they have nowhere to go.\n\nLong Covid is a very new disorder and there is not a great deal of data about what treatments work. There is also no internationally agreed treatment pathway for the condition.\n\nIn 2021, the Scottish government allocated £10m to be spent on Long Covid support with the first £3m going to health boards in May this year. Some believe it is taking too long to set up clear routes to treatment leaving GPs and patients in limbo. They say more could be done to improve diagnosis and to train clinicians as well as investing in research.\n\nBut many medics also issue a word of caution about spending thousands of pounds on private treatments without clear evidence that they work.\n\nTreatments for the condition are limited in Scotland.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was up to individual health boards to develop and deliver the best models of care which, in time, could include specific Long Covid clinics.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Initiatives being supported by the Scottish government's Long Covid Support Fund include key elements of care that are also offered by Long Covid assessment clinics elsewhere in the UK.\"\n\nDr Amy Small is living with Long Covid and is Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland's clinical advisor.\n\nShe said: \"Some progress has been made in Scotland but it's not enough.\n\n\"Long Covid is having a huge impact on people's daily lives and it's affecting people in a number of different ways. Not all treatments out there will be right for everyone so it's important to seek advice.\"\n\nMs Stott said she could not wait any longer and she had lost enough of her life already.\n\nHer mother Adele said it had been agony to watch: \"It's catastrophic. It just affects every member of the family.\n\n\"It is distressing because you don't know what the future holds.\n\n\"It's not like she has been diagnosed with a condition that you know what the outcome is going to be.\"\n\nHer daughter vowed she was willing to try anything.\n\nMrs Stott added: \"For me, the hope would be to get back to normal again, and get on with life.\"", "Catherine Salmond is currently editor of The Scotland on Sunday\n\nThe Herald newspaper has appointed Catherine Salmond as the first female editor in its 239-year history.\n\nMs Salmond joins from Scotland on Sunday where she has been editor since August last year.\n\nShe has previously held senior roles including live news editor at Scotland on Sunday's sister titles The Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News.\n\nMs Salmond will replace Donald Martin who is standing down as editor-in-chief of the Newsquest paper on 31 August.\n\nShe said: \"I am honoured to be joining The Herald and am confident this new chapter in its rich history will be an exciting one.\n\n\"I will lead with passion and firmness, championing the title and its staff, while ensuring we offer the robust, incisive, and energetic journalism expected online and in print from what is one of Scotland's great news brands.\n\n\"We are all aware of the pressures facing our industry, but The Herald is well placed to meet them head on, with a talented, determined, and forward-thinking team.\"\n\nNewsquest Scotland editor-in-chief, Callum Baird, added: \"It was clear that Catherine's ambition for the title matched our own and we look forward to seeing how she can work with the team to deliver her vision.\"", "The 45-minute-show has been taking place since 1982\n\nThe annual fireworks display which traditionally signals the end of the Edinburgh International Festival will not take place this year.\n\nThe 45-minute show from Edinburgh Castle, which began in 1982, usually attracts more than 250,000 spectators.\n\nThe display did not take place in 2020 or 2021 due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOrganisers said the pandemic had also led to the cancellation of the fireworks this year, which is the 75th anniversary of the festival.\n\nThey said that at the time a decision was due to be made on going ahead with the event, they were not confident it could be delivered within the guidance at the time.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Edinburgh International Festival said: \"We won't be staging the fireworks this year due to planning times coming out of the pandemic.\n\n\"However, we will still have a large-scale free event in Princes Street Gardens.\"\n\nA live performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Edinburgh Playhouse will be streamed to the Ross Bandstand on Saturday 27 August.\n\nThe waterfall of fireworks cascading down the castle rock is the highlight of the annual display in the centre of Edinburgh\n\nThe fireworks have been described as one of the biggest pyrotechnic shows on earth.\n\nPeople buy tickets to watch the event from Princes Street Gardens, which sits under Edinburgh Castle.\n\nHuge crowds also watch from Princes Street, which is not ticketed, and other vantage points across the city.\n\nThe fireworks usually accompany a live performance from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a bandstand in Princes Street Gardens, which is aired on radio for people outside the gardens to hear.\n\nThere are usually about 400,000 fireworks in the display, using four tonnes of explosives synchronised to music from the orchestra.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people were travelling in the Range Rover which ended up on the tracks\n\nA woman died when the car she was travelling in crashed through a barrier, hit another vehicle and ended up on Piccadilly line tracks.\n\nThe driver of the Range Rover, a man in his 20s, is in a critical condition in hospital after the car hit a Tesla by Park Royal Tube station at 03:50 BST.\n\nAnother female passenger in her 20s was also taken to hospital.\n\nA man aged in his 50s, who had been with the stationary Tesla, was treated at the scene in west London.\n\nThe damaged Tesla has been removed from the scene\n\nThe woman killed in the crash, aged 33, was treated by paramedics but died at the scene, Scotland Yard said.\n\nThe second woman in the Range Rover is in a non life-threatening condition.\n\nKatee Moore, 30, lives in Baronet House, overlooking the scene and said she was woken a couple of hours before the crash by loud engine noises from a group of cars.\n\nShe said: \"About 2am I was woken up by the noise of cars going on for about an hour and a half.\n\n\"There was a Range Rover parked up watching their friend in a BMW spinning around the roundabout.\n\n\"Later on we heard this horrendous bang and then all of a sudden the police were there.\n\n\"A lot of us went to put flowers down as apparently she's a young mother with a six-year-old child.\"\n\nThe crash happened in the early hours of Monday\n\nAndrew Wood, who lives in a block of flats next to the station, said he heard a \"huge bash\" and \"thought it was somebody breaking into one of the garages\".\n\n\"The car must have smashed the fence, because behind that is the pedestrian walkway and it's come right over that.\"\n\nNada Alobaidi, who lives in the same block, said there was \"a lot of smoke\" and \"a lot of police and an ambulance as well\".\n\nShe added that the \"A40 can be quite dangerous\" and \"car accidents do sometimes happen\".\n\nThe A40 westbound is expected to remain closed for a long period of time, according to police\n\nThe Piccadilly line was suspended between Uxbridge and Acton Town due to the crash.\n\nTransport for London said the line was running again with minor delays but eastbound trains were not stopping at Park Royal due to damage to the platform edge.\n\nThe A40 was closed for several hours causing severe congestion in the area but has since reopened.\n\nThe injuries of the man in his 50s were non life-threatening, police said.\n\nThe Met previously reported that the person who was with the Tesla was a woman.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Results are due in a barristers' vote on whether they should go on an all-out strike in England and Wales next month.\n\nCourts have seen several days of disruption over lawyer walkouts in recent weeks, but members of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) have been voting on whether to stage an indefinite, uninterrupted strike.\n\nIt is part of an ongoing row with the government over pay and legal aid cuts.\n\nThe ballot closed at midnight on Sunday, with results expected on Monday morning.\n\nThe CBA is asking for a 25% rise in pay for legal aid work, when they represent defendants who could not otherwise afford lawyers.\n\nCriminal barristers are due to receive a 15% fee rise from the end of September, with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) saying the increase would see the average barrister earn about £7,000 more annually.\n\nBut members of the CBA have rejected the government's pay offer, saying it would not kick in immediately or apply to existing cases.\n\nSome 6,235 court cases were disrupted during the first 19 days of industrial action between 27 June and 5 August - including 1,415 trials - according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data.\n\nCriminal barrister and former Conservative MP Anna Soubry said more than 500 trials could not go ahead last year due to a shortage of criminal barristers.\n\nShe posted on Twitter that since 2006 their fees have been cut by 28%, adding: \"We can't recruit or retain.\"\n\nThe former minister urged the government to settle the dispute. \"We want to get back to work and shift the backlog,\" she said.\n\nThe CBA said the walkouts have had a \"devastating impact on the ability of our crown courts to function with any semblance of normality\".\n\nEvery barrister who has taken part in the walkouts \"has made the decision to withdraw their labour with a heavy heart\", the CBA said.\n\nThey added: \"It is a decision to which we have been driven after years and years of abject neglect of the criminal justice system and the cynical exploitation of our time, effort and goodwill by successive governments determined to deliver justice on the cheap.\"\n\nThe CBA said the \"continuing refusal of the justice secretary to negotiate a fair settlement with criminal barristers comes at a very heavy price\".\n\nThis price can be measured by the financial waste of courtrooms sitting idle and the impact on complainants, defendants and witnesses, the CBA added.\n\nAn MoJ spokesman said: \"The only outcome of escalating strike action is further distress for victims forced to wait longer for justice.\"\n\nThe MoJ added that backdating pay would require a \"fundamental change\" in how fees are paid.\n\n\"That reform would cost a disproportionate amount of taxpayers' money and would take longer to implement, meaning barristers would have to wait longer for payment,\" a spokesperson said.", "Vanessa Feltz is an English TV and radio personality\n\nVanessa Feltz has announced she is to present a daily three-hour drivetime show on TalkTV from 5 September.\n\nShe will replace Jeremy Kyle, who is moving to a new primetime show.\n\nFeltz revealed in July she was leaving her BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio London after almost 20 years.\n\n\"The allure of a retirement reclining on a chaise longue while the fragrant Ben (Ofoedu, her partner and Phats & Small singer) peeled me a grape was fleeting,\" she said online on Monday.\n\n\"While there are politicians to be tackled, fat cats to be flattened, scams to expose and lovely listeners to champion, it's my mission to breathe fire into the microphone.\"\n\n\"After an elegant sojourn at the BBC I am effervescent with joy at the invitation to unleash my hitherto hidden side on TalkTV.\"\n\nTalkTV was launched in April by News UK and Feltz has appeared as a frequent panellist.\n\nNews UK broadcasting president Scott Taunton said he was \"delighted\" she had joined the team full-time as she was \"not only a world-class broadcaster\" but also \"a national treasure\".\n\n\"With no alarm clock needed, I'm sure our viewers and listeners will be getting the full force of Feltz,\" he continued.\n\nIn July, Feltz was one of only three women to feature in the top 10 on the list of the BBC's best-paid talent, earning upwards of £400,000.\n\nOn leaving the corporation she said she had \"loved every moment\" and would miss her \"beloved\" listeners and colleagues.\n\nBut, she said, she had had to step down \"to catch up on a much needed decade's deficit of beauty sleep\".", "The GLD is an executive agency that gives legal advice to government departments.\n\nA government department has launched an investigation after the names of civil servants claiming expenses was published last week.\n\nThe names were included in spending disclosures from the Government Legal Department (GLD), which gives legal advice on policy.\n\nThe department said the \"regrettable\" incident was now being investigated under data protection rules.\n\nThe document, which has since been taken down, included details of spending of more than £500 on government debit cards at the GLD between November 2021 and May 2022.\n\nAs first reported by the Sun, it contained details of a pottery painting course for civil servants at a team building session costing £1,120.\n\nThe newspaper said the ceramics workshop was attended by 35 officials.\n\nAs well as the £1,120 on the ceramics course, the expenses claims also include £965 on a height-adjustable desk.\n\nHeadquartered in London, the GLD is overseen by cabinet minister and the attorney general for England and Wales Suella Braverman.\n\nThe Labour Party had earlier accused the department of a \"data breach\" by publishing the document, which among other things identified an individual who claimed for a ticket to an online summit for LGBT leaders.\n\nShadow attorney general Emily Thornberry said: \"I don't know what's worse, the attorney-general breaching her own data protection rules by mistake or her civil servants spending their working days painting pottery.\"\n\nA GLD spokesperson added it would be reviewing \"the process which resulted in the names of some staff members being released accidentally on a public website\".\n\n\"We won't be commenting publicly further at this time,\" the spokesperson added.", "A BBC investigation has found that women's intimate pictures are being shared to harass, shame and blackmail them on a massive scale, on the social media app Telegram.\n\nWARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT OF A SEXUAL NATURE\n\nIn the split second Sara found out a nude photo of her had been leaked and shared on Telegram, her life changed. Her Instagram and Facebook profiles had been added, and her phone number included. Suddenly she was being contacted by unknown men asking for more pictures.\n\n\"They made me feel like I was a prostitute because [they believed] I'd shared intimate pictures of myself. It meant I had no value as a woman,\" she says.\n\nSara stopped going out after her images were shared on Telegram\n\nSara, not her real name, had shared the photo with one person, but it had ended up in a Telegram group with 18,000 followers, many from her neighbourhood in Havana, Cuba. She now fears strangers in the street may have seen her naked. \"I didn't want to go out, I didn't want to have any contact with my friends. The truth is that I suffered a lot.\"\n\nShe's not alone. After months of investigating Telegram, we found large groups and channels sharing thousands of secretly filmed, stolen or leaked images of women in at least 20 countries. And there's little evidence the platform is tackling this problem.\n\nThousands of miles from Cuba, Nigar is having to adjust to a new life.\n\nNigar says she has been forced to leave her country\n\nShe's from Azerbaijan, but says she has been forced to leave her homeland. In 2021, a video of her having sex with her husband was sent to her family, and then posted in a Telegram group.\n\n\"My mum started crying and told me: 'There's a video, it was sent to me',\" she says. \"I was devastated, absolutely devastated.\"\n\nThe video was shared in a group with 40,000 members. In the footage, Nigar's now ex-husband's face is blurred but hers is clearly visible.\n\nShe believes her ex secretly filmed her to blackmail her brother, a prominent critic of Azerbaijan's president. She says her mother was told the video would be released on Telegram unless her brother stopped his activism.\n\n\"They look at you as if you are a disgrace. Who cares if you were married?\" says Nigar.\n\nNigar says she confronted her ex-husband about the video and he denied making it. We tried to get a comment from him, but he didn't reply.\n\nNigar is still struggling to move on with her life: \"I can't recover. I see therapists twice a week,\" she says. \"They say there is no progress so far. They ask if I can forget it, and I say no.\"\n\nThe pictures of Nigar and Sara were both reported to Telegram, but the platform did not respond. Their experience is far from unique.\n\nThe BBC has been monitoring 18 Telegram channels and 24 groups in countries ranging from Russia to Brazil, and Kenya to Malaysia. The total number of subscribers is nearly two million.\n\nPersonal details like home addresses and parents' phone numbers were posted alongside explicit pictures.\n\nWe saw group administrators asking members to send intimate images of ex-partners, colleagues or fellow-students to an automated account, so they could be published without revealing the identity of the sender.\n\nTelegram now says it has more than half a billion active users worldwide - that's more than Twitter - with many attracted by its emphasis on privacy.\n\nMillions moved to Telegram in January 2021 from WhatsApp, which changed its privacy terms.\n\nTelegram has long been popular with pro-democracy protesters in countries with media censorship. Users can post without sharing their name or phone number, and create public or private groups with up to 200,000 members, or channels which can broadcast to an unlimited number of people.\n\nTelegram was used to organise mass anti-government protests in Belarus\n\nDespite Telegram's reputation for privacy, only the \"secret chat\" option provides end-to-end encryption, which ensures just the two people talking can see the message. It's the default setting on secure chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe platform also attracts users seeking a less regulated space, including those who have been banned from other platforms.\n\n\"According to Telegram and its owner, they don't want to censor users,\" says Natalia Krapiva, tech legal counsel at digital rights group Access Now.\n\nBut our research has shown this light-touch approach to moderation has led Telegram to become a haven for the leaking and sharing of intimate images.\n\nTelegram does not have a dedicated policy to tackle the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, but its terms of service make users agree \"not to post illegal pornographic content on publicly viewable Telegram channels, bots, etc\".\n\nIt also has an in-app reporting feature across both public and private groups, and channels where users can report pornography.\n\nTo test how rigorously Telegram enforced its policies, we found and reported 100 images as pornography via the in-app reporting feature. One month later, 96 remained accessible. We could not locate four others, as they were in groups which we could no longer access.\n\nDisturbingly, while we were investigating these groups, an account from Russia also tried to sell us a folder containing child abuse videos for less than the price of a coffee.\n\nWe reported it to Telegram and the Metropolitan Police, but two months later the post and the channel were still there. The account was only removed after we contacted the Telegram media team.\n\nDespite its lenient moderation, Telegram does take action against certain content.\n\nAfter Apple briefly removed Telegram from its app store because of videos like the ones we were offered, Telegram took a more proactive stance on child abuse images. The platform also co-operated with EU crime agency Europol in 2019 to eliminate a huge amount of Islamic State content that had proliferated on the platform.\n\n\"We know that Telegram can remove and [has] been removing terrorist-related content or some kind of very radical political content,\" says Dr Aliaksandr Herasimenka, researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.\n\nBut the removal of intimate images appears not to be a priority.\n\nWe spoke to five Telegram content moderators on condition of anonymity. They told us they receive reports from users via an automated system, which they said they sort into \"spam\" and \"not spam\".\n\nThey said they don't proactively search for intimate images and, as far as they know, Telegram doesn't use artificial intelligence to do that either. This lack of action has led some women to take steps themselves.\n\nJoanna reported images that were shared without consent in Telegram\n\nJoanna found a naked image of herself from when she was 13 years old in a notorious Malaysian Telegram group.\n\nShe created a fake Telegram profile to join the group, where she anonymously searched for nude pictures and reported them. She also shared her findings with her friends.\n\nAmid intense media pressure, the group was eventually closed down. But during the course of our investigation, we found at least two duplicate groups sharing the same kind of images.\n\n\"Sometimes you just feel so helpless, because we tried to do so much to remove these groups. But they're still coming up, so I don't know if there's an end to it, honestly,\" says Joanna.\n\nTelegram declined an interview with us, but in a statement it told us it does proactively monitor public spaces and process user reports about content which violates its terms of service.\n\nTelegram did not confirm if posting people's intimate images without consent is allowed on the platform, or whether they are removed.\n\nThe rollout of ads on some public channels on Telegram - along with investment - has signalled that founder Pavel Durov is intending to monetise the platform.\n\nThis is likely to increase pressure on Telegram and its libertarian founder to fall more in line with social media rivals such as WhatsApp, which has started to introduce polices against sharing intimate pictures.\n\nIt remains to be seen how long the company will resist greater moderation as it moves into new markets and starts to generate revenue.\n\nFor the women whose reputations have been destroyed and lives damaged by the sharing of their intimate images on Telegram, change cannot come soon enough.\n\nDo you work for a social media company and would like to share your experience anonymously with us? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze the justice department's investigation of files seized from his Mar-a-Lago home.\n\nIn a lawsuit, his legal team asked that an independent lawyer be appointed to oversee the documents that FBI agents took earlier this month.\n\nEleven sets of classified files were taken from Mr Trump's Florida estate on 8 August, according to the FBI.\n\nMr Trump is being investigated for potentially mishandling documents.\n\nUS presidents must transfer all of their documents and emails to a government agency called the National Archive - and the FBI is investigating whether Mr Trump improperly handled records by taking them from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after he left office in January 2021.\n\nHe has denied any wrongdoing and said the items were declassified.\n\nIn the 27-page document filed in a Florida court, Mr Trump's legal team accuses the justice department's search as \"simply wanting the camel's nose under the tent so they could rummage for either politically helpful documents or support efforts to thwart President Trump from running again\".\n\n\"President Donald J Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run,\" it says.\n\n\"Law enforcement is a shield that protects Americans,\" it continues. \"It cannot be used as a weapon for political purposes.\"\n\nThe \"shockingly aggressive move\" on Mar-a-Lago by about two dozen FBI agents took place \"with no understanding of the distress that it would cause most Americans\", said Mr Trump's lawyers.\n\nThe Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a brief statement that prosecutors were aware of Mr Trump's lawsuit, and would respond in court. The \"search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorised by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause\", said spokesman Anthony Coley.\n\nIt comes as the New York Times reported on Monday that agents had so far recovered over 300 documents with classified markings from Mr Trump, including material from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the FBI.\n\nMr Trump's legal action was filed in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday, before a judge that Mr Trump nominated to the bench in 2020.\n\nMr Trump is suing for a more detailed list of exactly what was taken from his estate and is asking for the government to return any item which was not in the scope of the search warrant.\n\nHis lawyers have also asked that a \"neutral\" third-party attorney - known as a special master - be brought in to determine whether the seized files are covered by executive privilege, which allows presidents to keep certain communications under wraps.\n\nSpecial masters are normally appointed in criminal cases where there are concerns that some evidence may be protected under attorney-client privilege, or other protections that could make it inadmissible in court.\n\nThe court filing argues that Mr Trump had been co-operating with agents before the FBI turned up unannounced at his home.\n\nHis lawyers say the warrant was overly broad and the search violated the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure.\n\nHis legal team also accuse the government of leaking \"ever-changing, and inaccurate, 'justifications'\" for the search to favoured media outlets.\n\nMr Trump's legal team says that three days after the search they contacted an FBI agent that had visited Mar-a-Lago in June to ask for his help in passing along a personal message from the former president to Attorney General Merrick Garland.\n\nThe brief message recorded in Monday's lawsuit said that Mr Trump had heard \"from people around the country about the raid\".\n\n\"If there was one word to describe their mood, it is 'angry',\" the message from Mr Trump continued.\n\n\"The heat is building up. The pressure is building up. Whatever I can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know.\"\n\nThe judge who approved the warrant - an unprecedented criminal investigation of a former US president's home - is still determining whether to release the affidavit, the sworn evidence that was presented as a justification for the FBI search.\n\nOn Monday, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said proposed government redactions to the affidavit were so extensive as to make it \"meaningless\" if disclosed, though he said he still believed it should not remain completely sealed given public interest in the case.\n\nMr Trump has previously maintained he had done nothing wrong, arguing that all of documents he took from the White House when he left office in January 2021 had already been declassified by himself.", "Darya Dugina was vocal in her support for the Russian government over the invasion of Ukraine\n\nThe daughter of a close ally of Russia's President Vladimir Putin has been killed in a suspected car bombing.\n\nDarya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow, Russia's investigative committee said.\n\nIt is thought her father, the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of the attack.\n\nMr Dugin is a prominent ultra-nationalist ideologue who is believed to be close to the Russian president.\n\nAlexander Dugin and his daughter had been at a festival near Moscow, where the philosopher gave a lecture on Saturday evening.\n\nThe \"Tradition\" festival describes itself as a family event for art lovers which takes place at the Zakharovo estate, where Russian poet Alexander Pushkin once stayed.\n\nThe pair were due to leave the venue in the same car, before Mr Dugin reportedly made a decision at the last minute to travel separately.\n\nFootage posted on Telegram appears to show Mr Dugin watching in shock as emergency services arrive at the scene of the burning wreck of a vehicle.\n\nInvestigators confirmed that Ms Dugina, who was driving the car, died at the scene near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy.\n\nThey said an explosive device planted under the car went off and the vehicle caught fire. Forensic and explosive experts are investigating.\n\nA Ukrainian official has dismissed accusations of Ukrainian involvement in the incident.\n\n\"Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with this, because we are not a criminal state, which is the Russian Federation, and even less a terrorist state,\" said Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.\n\nMaria Zakharova, spokeswoman for Russia's foreign ministry, said in a Telegram post that if any Ukrainian link was found it would amount to \"state terrorism\".\n\nWhile Alexander Dugin is not a state official himself, he is nevertheless a symbolic figure in Russian politics.\n\nHis anti-Western, ultranationalist philosophy has become the dominant political ideology in Russia and has helped shape President Putin's expansionist foreign policy, most prominently on Ukraine.\n\nAttention will now turn to who was behind this attack. Denis Pushilin, the \"head\" of the self-declared pro-Russian \"Donetsk People's Republic\", has already laid the blame on Ukraine, writing on Telegram: \"Vile villains! The terrorists of the Ukrainian regime, trying to eliminate Alexander Dugin, blew up his daughter… In a car. We cherish the memory of Daria, she is a real Russian girl!\"\n\nIncidents like this will make officials in Moscow nervous, especially in the aftermath of a series of explosions and attacks in occupied Crimea and in Russian regions near the border with Ukraine.\n\nKremlin propaganda consistently stresses how Vladimir Putin has brought security and stability in Russia following the turbulent 1990s, when car bombs and assassinations were commonplace. This car bomb in the Russian capital undermines that narrative.\n\nDespite not holding an official position in government, Alexander Dugin is believed to be a close ally of the Russian president and has even been branded \"Putin's Rasputin\".\n\nDarya Dugina was herself a prominent journalist who vocally supported the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nEarlier this year she was sanctioned by US and UK authorities, who accused her of contributing to online \"disinformation\" about Russia's invasion.\n\nIn May, she described the war as a \"clash of civilisations\" in an interview and expressed pride in the fact that both she and her father had been targeted by Western sanctions.\n\nRussian investigators at the scene of the vehicle explosion\n\nAlexander Dugin was sanctioned by the US in 2015 for his alleged involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nHis writings are said to have had a deep influence on Mr Putin and the philosopher is regarded as a chief architect of the ultra-nationalist ideology endorsed by many in the Kremlin.\n\nFor years, Mr Dugin has called on Moscow to assert itself more aggressively on the global stage and has supported Russian military action in Ukraine.", "Liz Truss is avoiding scrutiny of her \"dangerous\" plans to tackle the cost of living crisis, her Tory leadership rival Rishi Sunak has claimed.\n\nMs Truss has promised an \"emergency budget\" if she becomes prime minister in two weeks' time.\n\nShe will reverse National Insurance rises and stop business tax hikes - and has hinted at further cash support for families struggling with energy bills.\n\nBut she will not ask for a forecast of how this will impact the economy.\n\nMr Sunak - who is trailing Ms Truss in polls of Tory members who are selecting the next PM - has seized on this as evidence that her sums do not add up.\n\nThe former chancellor has insisted he still has a \"shot\" at Downing Street, even though many Tory members will have already cast their ballots.\n\nHe says Ms Truss' plans will put the UK's public finances in \"serious jeopardy\" and fuel inflation, leading to even higher prices in the shops.\n\nIn an interview with Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio 2, he said: \"Liz's plans are promising the earth to everybody. I don't think you can have your cake and eat it.\n\n\"I don't think life's that simple, and I think her plan risks making the situation worse when you're borrowing that much money for tax cuts at a time when inflation's already going up.\"\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which scrutinises government tax and spending plans, warned that UK debt is already on an \"unsustainable path\" because of inflation and other factors.\n\nMs Truss has argued that tax cuts will help to grow the UK's economy and boost prosperity.\n\nHer team say there is no need for the OBR to produce new forecasts, because she is not planning a full budget, though will introduce tax cuts.\n\n\"The cost of living crisis means immediate action is required,\" a spokeswoman for Ms Truss' campaign said.\n\n\"A Truss government would seek to act as soon as possible to help people across the UK, by cutting taxes and introducing a temporary moratorium on energy levies.\"\n\nThe OBR usually requires 10 weeks to carry out an analysis of government economic plans, such as a budget.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the OBR said: \"We would be prepared to publish a forecast for the new chancellor, should they request it.\"\n\nThe chairman of the Treasury Committee, Mel Stride, has written to the chancellor and the OBR to ask whether preparations were being made for a potential emergency budget when a new prime minister takes office.\n\nMr Stride - a supporter of Mr Sunak - said bringing in \"significant tax cuts without a forecast would be ill advised\", likening it to \"flying blind\".\n\nMs Truss' campaign defended her economic plan as \"sensible\" and said a \"new approach\" to the economy was needed.\n\nHer team say they will not reveal what she will do to help families with bills until the leadership contest is over, on 5 September.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, a Truss ally who is being tipped as her chancellor, said: \"Of course, she will look at what more can be done to help families, but it is entirely reasonable not to detail the exact shape of that support until she has all the information to hand.\"\n\nThe Sunak campaign says Ms Truss' plans are a \"mystery\" because she cannot deliver help with bills and £50bn worth of unfunded tax cuts in one go.\n\n\"It's no wonder they want to avoid independent scrutiny of the OBR in their emergency budget - they know you can't do both and it's time they came clean about that now,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nMr Sunak has said he would prioritise bringing down inflation before cutting taxes if he becomes prime minister.\n\nHe has said he would introduce more targeted support for households, and has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero and to cut 3p off income tax by 2029.\n\nTory MP Kevin Hollinrake, a supporter of Mr Sunak, urged Ms Truss to stop offering \"the magic money tree\" and instead focus on what support she could offer to low-income households.\n\n\"These people are going to be on the streets,\" Mr Hollinrake told Sky News. \"Things are going to be that bad for some households.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer joined in with criticism of Ms Truss' decision not to ask the OBR to scrutinise her plans.\n\nHe said: \"We need an emergency budget. We should have had that months ago, to deal with the cost of living crisis. But the OBR is there to make sure that money is spent wisely and properly. So of course you need the OBR in place for that.\"\n\nHe added: \"Labour is leading on this, we have said freeze those bills this winter, make sure people don't pay any more for their energy.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has called pledges by both Tory leadership candidates \"unrealistic\" unless they are matched by spending cuts.\n\nThe cost of living crisis is being driven by several factors, including soaring energy bills and inflation outstripping wage increases.\n\nLast week, the UK's inflation rate hit 10.1%, with rising food and drink prices making the largest contribution to the change.", "Plans to enable households to get discounts on electricity bills if they cut use at peak times are set to be announced in the next two weeks.\n\nThe scheme would allow people to save cash if they avoid high-power activities, such as cooking or using washing machines, when demand is high.\n\nIt is understood the service is likely to apply to homes which have smart meters installed.\n\nThere are hopes it can be put in place this winter, when energy bills rise.\n\n\"We are developing a new service that will be available for consumers to benefit from across this winter and will be announcing further information soon,\" a spokesman for National Grid ESO - which will run the scheme - said.\n\nIt is understood the company's proposals of how it will work, such as how money will be paid back to customers, are expected to be revealed in the next fortnight, with consultations taking place with energy providers and the UK's energy regulator Ofgem.\n\nIt has been reported that rebates for minimising the use of goods such as tumble dryers, dishwashers and games consoles during the peak hours of 17:00 and 20:00 could be as high as £6 per kWh saved.\n\nNational Grid ESO previously told the BBC the service is \"not about energy rationing\", despite fears over supplies, with Russia's invasion of Ukraine affecting oil and gas supplies to Europe.\n\nThe typical household energy bill is forecast to reach £3,553 a year in October.\n\nThat is when the price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - goes up again. It has been forecast to rise further to £4,650 in January.\n\nJack said the scheme would be a huge help for people struggling with energy bills\n\nJack Beckwith, 25 and from County Durham, said the scheme would mean he is able to put his heating on this winter.\n\nHe expects his bill to go up to £238 per month in October - from his current monthly average of £100 - wiping out his savings.\n\n\"I generally keep on top of my usage and pay for what I use. I have some savings - but that was meant for emergencies - my leaky roof fund. That'll all go towards paying for the price increase,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"It's been a gradual realisation that I can't afford it.\"\n\nJack said he was expecting to not meet up with friends, and has already said no to taking on a gym membership. He is also considering cutting back on his Spotify subscription, which could save around £10 per month.\n\n\"Off peak heating will be a lifeline,\" he said. \"It will literally will save lives if people can be made aware of it, and can use it, because it will mean they can put the heating on.\"\n\nNational Grid ESO has hosted webinars with energy firms to ask for feedback on its proposals.\n\nThe move follows a trial where Octopus Energy offered incentives for 100,000 customers who reduced consumption.\n\nOctopus Energy has said during the trial its consumers received credit on their energy accounts and also had a \"self-refund option\" where they could get cash transferred to their bank accounts.\n\nHow will this scheme affect your energy use? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWater companies are facing mounting criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians over sewage being pumped on to British beaches.\n\nPollution warnings remain in place across more than 20 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after heavy rain overwhelmed sewers.\n\nDowning Street condemned the industry for not reducing sewage discharge and putting shareholders before customers.\n\nBut Labour and a leading campaigner said ministers had not done enough.\n\nAt the height of the recent problems last week there were warnings in place at more than 40 locations.\n\nEnvironmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey said issues with sewage showed the water industry was in an \"extraordinary state of chaos\" and said decades of regulatory failure, underinvestment and profiteering had led to the current situation.\n\nA government spokesperson said ministers expected water companies \"to take urgent action on this issue or face fines\".\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA), which covers England, says the capacity of the sewerage system can be exceeded at times during heavy rainfall, especially when the dry ground is unable to absorb water quickly.\n\nThis could lead to inundation of sewage works and potential flooding of homes, roads and open spaces and for this reason, the system is designed to overflow occasionally and discharge excess wastewater directly to the sea and rivers.\n\nUntreated sewage is normally screened and passed through storage tanks before being dumped.\n\nThe government said firms had already faced legal action from regulators, pointing out the Environment Agency's prosecutions against water and sewage companies since 2015 had resulted in fines of more than £137m.\n\nLast year Southern Water was fined a record £90m for \"deliberately\" dumping billions of litres of raw sewage into the sea, which the company said was the result of \"negligence\".\n\nBut Mr Sharkey told BBC Breakfast: \"I'm afraid what you're looking at is simply the result of 30 years of underinvestment by the water industry, 30 years of profiteering, 30 years of regulatory failure, and 30 years of a vacuum of political oversight and government failing to take proper control for this industry.\"\n\nThe Downing Street spokesperson said since the industry was privatised in 1989, the equivalent of £5bn had been invested to upgrade water infrastructure.\n\nNeil Cutts, an activist from Surfers Against Sewage, said water firms \"tend not to listen\" to the group's calls for investment in water infrastructure.\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio on Sunday, Mr Cutts said: \"They tend to hide because they are protected slightly by the government as well - and a series of governments, not just the one that's currently in power at the moment.\"\n\nMiddlesbrough's mayor has warned people to stay away from beaches in Teesside because of \"totally unacceptable\" sewage discharges.\n\nHe said there was never a good time to make such a call but pointed out he had been left needing to do so in the holiday season when he would normally want people to head to his region's coast.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government had its head in the sand and accused ministers of not being tough enough on water companies, while cutting funding for the Environment Agency.\n\nHe said: \"I think there is huge anger about the sewage situation, because we're seeing yet again sewage pumped into our rivers and into our seas. What it shows is that the government hasn't been tough enough on the water companies and the enforcement against the water companies.\"\n\nMeanwhile, data analysed by the Liberal Democrats found water firms were not monitoring sewage discharges along the coastline.\n\nThe party said the data revealed many monitoring devices used by firms across the UK did not work at least 90% of the time or had not been installed at all.\n\nWater firms have insisted they are committed to taking action.\n\nIn a statement, a Water UK spokesperson said water firms \"agree there is an urgent need\" for action and were investing more than £3bn to improve overflows as part of a wider national environmental programme between 2020 and 2025.\n\nThey said processes needed to be streamlined to investment could be quickly targeted where it was needed and said new investment should be met with action from the government and regulators on delivering a comprehensive national plan.", "Shoana Qureshi-Khan reckons she has spent more than £300 this summer on school clothes for her two sons\n\nA new law to protect parents in England from unnecessary school uniform costs comes into effect from September 2022.\n\nState schools will be forced to remove unnecessary branded items from their uniform requirements, allowing parents to shop around or hand clothes down more easily.\n\nHowever, Shoana Qureshi-Khan is one mother who has not seen the price of school clothes come down.\n\nShe has still had to fork out for a number of items of clothing bearing the school logo for her sons aged 11 and 13.\n\n\"The school blazer alone costs between £45 to £60,\" she said. \"It's just a phenomenal amount that you just don't prepare for.\"\n\nThe boys are in the same secondary school and can pass on some items, but Shoana still reckons she has spent more than £300 kitting them out this summer.\n\n\"It is just crazy if I'm honest. I suppose I can understand one logo so the kids feel part of the school family, but it's just so unnecessary,\" she said.\n\n\"I can get something else from the supermarket for a few pounds. It's just not fair on hard-working families and pushes the equality gap further.\"\n\nShoana's story will ring true for hundreds of other parents.\n\nAn issue for some is that September's new rules come with a loophole.\n\nIt means schools which need to secure a new uniform contract with a supplier have until December 2022 to put that in place. They then have until the start of the September 2023 school year to introduce those garments.\n\nThe new legislation requires branding to be kept to a minimum, but does not ban it, so some children will continue to wear some items with school logos, for example blazers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emma Prosser, founder of the Uniform Project Nottingham, says that this summer has seen a “massive increase in users”\n\nFor those parents who struggle to afford school uniforms some help is available, from people like Emma Prosser who runs the Uniform Project Nottingham.\n\nShe started off facilitating uniform swaps between the parents of children attending two primary schools.\n\nBut demand has grown so much that she now has a uniform bank available to the parents of pupils at 19 schools across Nottinghamshire, where those who need it can access free uniforms.\n\nWe met her surrounded by piles of jumpers, pinafores and donated warm coats.\n\n\"You have three types of parents,\" she said. \"Those who like to buy new, and like brands. Those who really can't afford it and really need the help. And also a growing number of those with a decent income but just don't see any sense in buying new. Buying second-hand is so much greener.\"\n\nNow, Emma partners with local food banks to offer items of uniform alongside food staples and she tells us she's never been busier. But the logos place a limit on how easily good clothes can be shared.\n\n\"You have got to cater to your parental community,\" Emma said. \"You're not doing that if you're insisting on having logos and expecting everyone to have a spare £300 for each child they have.\"\n\nWhile we were at the Uniform Project, a mum of four came in. She was emotional and did not want to give her name, but was relieved to receive free jumpers, cardigans, trousers, shirts and skirts for her family. \"I've been panicking,\" she admitted.\n\n\"To kit out my son in secondary, it'll cost me £98 because he has to have logo-ed everything except shirts,\" she tells us. \"When you're spending as much on one uniform as you do on a big shop, it's difficult. It's really hit us hard this year.\"\n\nThe Children's Society said it expected the average cost of school uniform this year to be £315 per primary pupil and £337 per secondary pupil, unchanged from 2020.\n\nBut the charity, which helped push through the new legislation, believes it should empower parents to push back when uniforms feel too much.\n\nChief executive Mark Russell said: \"If parents think that the school uniform policy hasn't changed in their local school, they should contact the headteacher, they should contact the governing body.\"\n\n\"Failing that, if they are still not satisfied, they should contact their local MP or the Department for Education itself. The department will then contact the school and require them to implement the law.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"School uniform must never be a burden for parents or a barrier to pupils accessing education.\"\n\nThe new law coming into effect next month should help families to keep down costs, they added. \"We know schools and families are facing increased cost pressures more broadly, which is why this government is providing over £37bn to help households with the greatest need and supporting families through the Household Support Fund.\"\n\nUnlike many other products at the moment, school uniforms have not gone up much in price this year. The difference is that for an increasing number of families, the ability to make a big one-off payment at the start of the academic year has become much harder to achieve.\n\nThe new guidelines are supposed to help with that but there are a lot of grey areas, with parents and schools likely to have differing opinions of what might be considered \"necessary\" or \"reasonable\".\n\nParents who don't think their school is complying with the new guidance are being told to approach the school's governors in the first instance.\n\nThat's not an easy step to take, but the hope when this legislation received cross-party support was that a gentle reminder from parents that schools must comply with the new guidelines will be enough to bring most uniform policies down in price.", "Ukrainian emergency teams near the Zaporizhzhia plant have been rehearsing what to do in case disaster strikes\n\nBritain, France, Germany and the US have stressed the need to ensure the safety of nuclear installations threatened by the conflict in Ukraine.\n\nIn a phone call on Sunday, the four leaders also reiterated their support for Ukraine against Russia's invasion.\n\nMoscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling a Russian-held nuclear plant, raising fears of a catastrophe.\n\nMeanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to be vigilant ahead of Independence Day celebrations.\n\n\"Russia could try to do something particularly disgusting, particularly cruel,\" he said in a weekend address.\n\n\"One of the key objectives of the enemy is to humiliate us,\" he added, but \"we have to be strong enough to resist all provocation\".\n\nUkraine's Independence Day on Wednesday, 24 August, will also mark six months since Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe conflict was the subject of a conference call on Sunday bringing together the UK's Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.\n\nFollowing its conclusion, they urged military restraint around the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in southern Ukraine, where renewed fighting has led to fears of disaster worse than that in Chernobyl in 1986.\n\nThe leaders welcomed a deal - approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday - to allow UN inspectors to visit the plant at a future date.\n\nThe four leaders also said they had \"agreed that support for Ukraine in its defence against Russian aggression would be sustained\".\n\nUkraine reported more missile strikes on Sunday, notably in the town of Nikopol, near the Zaporizhzhia power station.\n\nOn Saturday, a fresh drone attack targeted Russia's Black Sea fleet in the city of Sevastopol in Russian-annexed Crimea. The Russian authorities there said a Ukrainian drone had been shot down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show smoke rising from an area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based\n\nSeveral drone strikes have been reported in Crimea in recent days, including one on an airbase near Sevastopol on Thursday and another on the harbour on Friday.\n\nEarlier in the month, nine Russian jets were destroyed at a Russian military base on Crimea's western coast.\n\nThe peninsula was invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014 and Ukraine has vowed to retake it. However, Kyiv has not confirmed or denied involvement in the recent attacks.\n\nIn Russia itself, the daughter of a close ally of President Putin, the ultra-nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a suspected car bombing late on Saturday.\n\nDarya Dugina, 29, died after an explosion on a road outside Moscow.\n\nIt is thought her father, who is known as \"Putin's brain\", may have been the intended target of the attack.\n\nBoth had been guests at a patriotic festival. Aleksandr Dugin's writing about the need to restore the Russian empire is believed to have inspired President Putin.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nationalised energy should be an option - Sturgeon\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said renationalising energy companies should be \"on the table\" to tackle the crisis caused by rising power costs.\n\nScotland's first minister warned a \"looming disaster\" was set to get worse if the next household energy price cap rise comes into effect in October.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Ofgem's next increase, to be announced on Friday, should not be allowed to go ahead.\n\nThe UK government said struggling households will receive some support.\n\nLast week the Scottish government estimated 36% of homes will be in fuel poverty.\n\nIt is defined as the cost of heating a home being more than 10% of household income, after tax and housing costs have been deducted.\n\nBased on an Ofgem price cap of £2,800, by October the status would apply to 906,000 of all households across Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon is to convene a summit this week with energy companies on improving advice and support for people struggling with energy bills.\n\nScotland's major energy suppliers, including Scottish Power, OVO Energy, Centrica, Octopus and E.ON, will attend, as well as industry bodies and anti-poverty groups such as the Poverty Alliance and Energy Action Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon told BBC Scotland: \"I want us to come together to call on the UK government to take the action only it can take.\n\n\"There is a looming disaster that is already unfolding but it is going to get worse.\n\n\"This is going to cause destitution and devastation, this will cause loss of life if real action is not taken to stem this crisis.\"\n\nShe called for a cancellation of the next increase in the energy price cap, and for the financial support already offered by the UK government to be doubled.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"This further increase in people's energy bills can't be allowed to go ahead because it is making it impossible for people to provide the basics for themselves and their families, but it is also continuing to fuel inflation, which, of course, is causing the problem in the first place.\"\n\nThe first minister said renationalisation of energy companies \"should be on the table\", but Scotland did not have the power to do that.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had argued for these powers to lie with the Scottish government but they needed to \"focus on reality\" as it stands now and push the UK government to act.\n\nShe said: \"Let's focus on getting them to exercise the powers they have campaigned to keep in their hands rather than constantly deflect the questions to a government that doesn't hold these powers.\"\n\nBoris Johnson has agreed to talks between the UK and devolved governments over the cost of living crisis but no date has been set for the discussions.\n\nMeanwhile, UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said households struggling with the rising cost of living in the UK would receive some help this winter.\n\nMr Kwarteng, an ally of Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss who has been linked to the chancellor position, has not yet outlined how the government intends to support people.\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday he insisted Ms Truss' pledges to reverse an increase to National Insurance and introduce a temporary moratorium on energy levies were examples of her willingness to \"look at what more can be done\".\n\nThe cost-of-living crisis has been driven by a series of issues, including inflation outstripping wage increases and record energy bills due to a surge in wholesale gas prices.\n\nCustomers have been warned to expect annual household energy bills to reach more than £3,500 after October.\n\nNationalise the energy companies: it's a slogan that is proving attractive to the public as they watch bills soar.\n\nAnd First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks it should be at least \"considered\" at Westminster, where they have the powers to make it happen.\n\nThe first minister has previously engaged with the energy market. Before the current crisis, when it was felt energy retailers were over-charging, there was a high-profile conference speech pledge to set up a Scottish government-owned supplier.\n\nBut as other suppliers went bust, that idea has been ditched.\n\nWith 30 fewer retail suppliers than last year, and more concentration on the big five suppliers, what would public ownership mean, and how might it work?\n\nFirst, that retail sector of the market is only one part of the energy industry - the vast profits are being made by companies, or bits of firms, that drill and produce oil and gas and there are some big margins for those who do the refining.\n\nRetail is seen as the terrain where government could step in and replace private companies, perhaps with regional suppliers, such as we used to have until the 1980s.\n\nThose advocating public ownership say the UK government could buy out shareholders, through legislation. They would have to pay a fair market rate.\n\nIf they don't, and simply seize the assets, that would surely skewer private investment in the economy more widely.\n\nEnergy consultancy Auxilione used Friday's gas prices to suggest typical household energy bills in the UK could hit as much as £6,000 a year from April 2023.\n\nLabour has pledged to extend the oil and gas windfall tax to fund a freeze to the energy price cap at its current level of £1,971 for six months.\n\nStuart McIntyre, economics professor at Strathclyde University's Fraser of Allander Institute, told BBC Scotland rising energy prices was one of of the key drivers of inflation, which could exceed 13% over the next few months.\n\n\"I'd urge people to be sceptical of politicians promising quick fixes to what is a very difficult problem,\" Prof McIntyre said.\n\n\"What we need is a thoughtful, detailed redesign of energy markets, not something designed to win an election... to try and get something that will deliver more realistic and stable energy prices going forward.\"\n\nFish and chip shop owner John Pagani said energy price rises were going to \"sting hard\"\n\nThe energy price cap only applies to domestic energy customers but business owners are also facing steep rises in their bills.\n\nJohn Pagani, who co-owns a fish and chip shop and cafe in Annan, Dumfries and Galloway, said they had been left with \"no wiggle room\" in their budget.\n\n\"We are coming to the end of our contract in about a month's time and it really is going to sting hard,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The cheapest quote we've had is four times what we are paying now and that is going to be almost £5,000 a month, just for electricity.\"\n\nHe said profits had also been hit by VAT returning to 20% and fish prices going up, partly due to Russia's war in Ukraine.\n\nChinese-made biodegradable packaging has also increased in price after Covid shutdowns hit manufacturing.\n\nSet up in 1967 by his parents, the business now employs 20 people but is once again relying on family to keep going.\n\nMr Pagani said: \"This morning I was in at 06:30 and I'm working right through to 21:00 tonight. I'd rather have another member of staff in helping me but we simply cannot afford it.\n\n\"We as the the owners have to put in the extra hours and our families have to put in the extra hours because we don't get paid by the hour.\"", "Ms Dale's relatives said her killing was \"a senseless crime that has torn a family apart\"\n\nA woman who died after being shot at her own home was not the intended target of the attack, police have said.\n\nAshley Dale was found wounded in her back garden in Old Swan, Liverpool, in the early hours of Sunday and died a short time later in hospital.\n\nHer door had been forced and several shots fired, Merseyside Police said.\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said the 28-year-old was \"an innocent member of the public\" who had been \"callously and thoughtlessly shot\".\n\nA force spokesman said the council worker was found with gunshot wounds in the garden of her house in Leinster Road at about 00:40 BST and died in hospital a short time later.\n\nIn a statement, her family said Ms Dale had been \"a hard working young woman, who had her entire life ahead of her\" and had \"just been promoted at her job with Knowsley Council\".\n\nThey said she had a degree and \"so many plans for her bright future that had only just begun\", adding that her \"laugh, smile and energy was infectious in any room\".\n\n\"We can't come to terms with how this would happen to a defenceless woman in her own home,\" they said.\n\n\"None of this makes sense and our lives will never be the same again.\n\n\"A senseless crime that has torn a family apart.\"\n\nMs Dale was the half-sister of 16-year-old Lewis Dunne, who was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity in Liverpool in 2015.\n\nMs Dale was found in the back garden of her home on Leinster Road in Old Swan\n\nConfirming that no arrests had been made, Mr Kameen said he wanted the community to \"have a sense of utter disgust, revulsion and shock\" at the \"tragic\" and \"senseless\" death.\n\nHe urged people to \"come together\" to identify those responsible.\n\nHe said Ms Dale was \"an innocent member of the public\".\n\n\"She was in her own house... and she has been callously and thoughtlessly shot by individuals who have no regard for anyone in our community, no regard for the law,\" he said.\n\nAppealing for witnesses, he added that the force was particularly interested in information about a vehicle which was seen being driven erratically on nearby Prescot Road.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways will cut roughly 10,000 short-haul flights to and from Heathrow Airport between late October and March.\n\nThe move is aimed at minimising disruption over the winter and some long-haul flights will also be affected, the airline said.\n\nBA said it will also cut a dozen round-trips per day - totalling 629 flights - until the end of October.\n\nHeathrow, which is BA's main hub, has capped passenger numbers flying from the airport due to staff shortages.\n\nAirports and airlines, which cut jobs during the height of Covid restrictions, have found it difficult to recruit enough staff as demand for holidays has returned.\n\nHeathrow has struggled to cope with rising passenger numbers and issues with its baggage handling systems caused long delays in returning luggage.\n\nBA said it was \"protecting key holiday destinations over half-term\". Most schools in England are off during the last week of October.\n\nMost cancellations will be on routes which have other daily services to the same destinations, it said in a statement.\n\nPassengers affected by the changes will be offered an alternative flight with BA or another airline or a refund, it added.\n\nBA insisted the impact for customers was \"minimal\", with the majority of flights unchanged.\n\n\"Customers booked for winter will be able to travel as planned and are being given several months' notice of any changes,\" a statement said.\n\nThe airline said it was expecting to operate an average of 290 round-trips per day from London Heathrow over the winter. Its total capacity for the winter schedule will be reduced by 8%.\n\nJohn Strickland, an aviation consultant, said the amount of flights cut appeared to be a \"very negligible amount in the context of what they would plan to operate\".\n\n\"At this point they are likely to inconvenience very few people and I wouldn't expect any noticeable impact on price,\" he added.\n\nBritish Airways is the largest operator at Heathrow, and earlier this month suspended sales of tickets on short-haul flights from the airport for two weeks. This is to avoid exceeding its share of the airport's 100,000 per day passenger limit.\n\nThis cap had been due to end on 11 September but was recently extended until 29 October.\n\nAnnouncing the extension, Heathrow said that the cap had worked, resulting in fewer last minute cancellations and delays, and better baggage delivery.\n\nBA had already cut more than 30,000 flights over the wider summer period, and had been planning a slow ramp-up towards the winter. But the passenger cap means it cannot run as many as hoped.", "Alexander Dugin is a vocal supporter of Russia’s war in Ukraine, as was the late Darya Dugina.\n\nThe FSB Security Service has said that Ukrainian intelligence agents were responsible for her murder.\n\nIn a statement released today, the FSB claimed that Ukrainian operatives fled to Estonia after blowing up Dugina's car.\n\nAn adviser to the Ukrainian president has denied Ukraine was involved.\n\nThis morning, the Time Will Tell programme on Russian state TV paid tribute to Dugina, a regular guest.\n\n“She died for the idea of the ‘Russian World’,” said presenter Olesya Loseva.\n\nOne studio guest suggested the response would be “holy fury” and the programme showed a photograph of mortar shells, apparently belonging to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, one of which had “this is for Darya!” scrawled on the side.\n\nIf Dugina’s killing was meant to intimidate Russia, bellowed several of the guests, “it will have the opposite effect”.\n\nAnalyst Yekaterina Shulman says the outpouring of anger amongst pro-Kremlin commentators in response to the car bomb attack appears suspicious.\n\n“The reaction…was immediate. It looks as if they were waiting for something like this to happen,” she says.\n\nWhoever was responsible, says Shulman, the killing “could possibly be used to ramp up some public outrage within the country to justify even more active repressive actions on the part of the state”.\n\nAmongst ordinary Russians though, the killing of Dugina - a very minor figure in Russia - will have made little impact, if any.\n\nBut many here will be worried about the worsening security situation in Russia.\n\nA series of explosions have hit Russian bases in occupied Crimea, and in Russian regions near the border with Ukraine, in recent weeks.\n\nAnd some opinion polls do show that more Russians are becoming concerned that the ‘special military operation’ – what the Kremlin likes to call its invasion of Ukraine – is dragging on, and is unsuccessful.", "Actors will get prior written warning about the scope and extent of nudity and any simulated sex requested\n\nEquity has committed to ensuring actors are given nudity warnings as part of a move \"against bullying, harassment and inappropriate behaviour in TV\".\n\nThe performing arts and entertainment trade union shared its fresh \"statement of commitment\".\n\nIt brings together 21 major organisations, in the UK and abroad, including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.\n\nThe commitment, also backed by Sky, HBO and Warner Bros, comes with the warning that \"no one is untouchable\".\n\nIn a statement, the union said it was part of a \"move towards a culture in which everyone working in the TV industry feels able to call out unacceptable behaviour, and that nobody is above being challenged: no one is untouchable\".\n\nIt added \"everyone has a responsibility for creating an inclusive and respectful culture - and that by working together we can deliver real and lasting change in the industry\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEquity president Lynda Rooke applauded the move, saying: \"On behalf of every performer who has experienced bullying and harassment during their on screen working lives, I welcome this commitment by industry representatives to create a safe working environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.\n\n\"But to establish an inclusive and respectful culture requires actions not just words, and I encourage all those working in this sector to recognise their individual responsibility to report inappropriate behaviour and unite against any pressure to remain silent on these issues.\"\n\nPrior written warning about the scope and extent of nudity and any simulated sex requested will be provided going forward, the collective has agreed, followed by a discussion and agreement with the artist.\n\nAnd for scenes of an intimate nature, an intimacy co-ordinator will be engaged, if acceptable to the actors involved.\n\nEarlier this month, actresses including Dame Emma Thompson defended the use of intimacy co-ordinators - increasingly used on film and TV sets and in theatres in the years - after actor Sean Bean had said they \"spoil the spontaneity\" of sex scenes.\n\nThe union also discussed and agreed to ensuring safe casting and audition spaces, and for producers to have clear respect at work policies, which include a process for addressing concerns and making complaints about bullying and harassment.\n\nThe statement also included the prominent display of contact information relating to safeguarding and support - from proactive trained senior staff - for each production.\n\nAnti-bullying and harassment training will now be mandatory for every cast and crew too.\n\nRalph Lee, director of content at BBC Studios Productions said it was \"important that as an industry we work together to ensure there is a safe and respectful working environment within the production community\".\n\nSigning up to the statement of commitment, he stressed, would \"strengthen our ability to continue to improve making this happen\".\n\nDavid Osborn, chief people officer at ITV, said it was \"crucial that all contributors to our industry work together to combat bullying and inappropriate behaviour\".\n\nThe commitment comes in the period following the emergence of the #MeToo movement, which saw widespread allegations of abuse in the entertainment industry.", "The planned Sizewell C plant is expected to cost about £20bn\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has backed plans to part-fund the Sizewell C nuclear power plant on the Suffolk coast, Whitehall sources said.\n\nThe government is expected to confirm it will invest in the estimated £20bn project within weeks.\n\nIt gave the go-ahead for the new plant in July with negotiations on raising funds for the development continuing.\n\nOther sources have said a final decision will be made in 2023 and will be for the new prime minister to make.\n\nThe project, mainly funded by the French energy company EDF, is expected to generate about 7% of the UK's electricity needs and operate for 60 years.\n\nIt would be built next to the existing Sizewell B, which is still generating electricity, and Sizewell A, which has been decommissioned.\n\nEDF has said the new two-reactor plant could generate 3.2 gigawatts (GW) of electricity, enough for about six million homes.\n\nSizewell C would be built just south of RSPB Minsmere\n\nA government confirmation of its investment decision would allow private capital to be raised to help fund the development.\n\nBut sources have said a final decision will be made by the new prime minister.\n\nSizewell C, on the right, would be built next to Sizewell B, centre, which is still generating, and Sizewell A, far left, which operated until 2006 and is being decommissioned\n\nA letter leaked to the Sunday Times shows the chief secretary to the Treasury - Simon Clarke - has raised concerns that a decision now, could tie the hands of the next prime minister.\n\nAccording to the paper, Mr Clarke says the costs of Sizewell C are \"sufficient to materially affect spending and fiscal choices for an incoming government, especially in the context of wider pressures on the public finances\".\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Clarke for comment but a government source suggested he was fulfilling his duty as chief secretary.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Nuclear power has a key role to play as we work to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and exposure to volatile global gas prices.\n\n\"Negotiations are still ongoing on Sizewell C and as these are active and commercially sensitive discussions we cannot comment further.\"\n\nLocal anti-nuclear campaigners have objected to the plant on several grounds, including that it would have a negative effect on wildlife and campaign group Stop Sizewell C has said it will continue to oppose the project.\n\nAnti-nuclear campaigners protesting on the beach in the shadow of the decommissioned Sizewell A, which generated electricity between 1966 and 2006\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our next prime minister should call Sizewell C in.\n\n\"There are so many better ways to spend billions of pounds of taxpayers' money than on a project that won't light a single lightbulb for at least a decade.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The father of a sex-assault victim is backing barristers' strike action, even though it could add to the court delays that drove his son to attempt suicide.\n\nThe fourth week of the action, over pay, will last for five days, adding to trial delays in England and Wales.\n\nThe government says the strikes are exacerbating court backlogs, but the lawyers say the criminal-justice system has been grinding to a halt for years.\n\nDespite the prospect of further delays, the father says he supports their case.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says the courts backlog rose during the pandemic but it is making progress in tackling it.\n\nAnd it says the barristers' strike is hampering that progress.\n\nBut \"James\", father of a teenage victim in a sexual-assault case, says the family, from near Manchester, have suffered delays at every stage - long before the barristers' action - and his son has twice attempted suicide, causing them to lose faith in the system.\n\nAfter a three-year wait, James says the trial was finally scheduled for two weeks ago but then suddenly postponed until March.\n\nHe blames disarray in the criminal-justice system, compounded by the strike, for leaving his son in limbo for so long.\n\nYet he has sympathy for the barristers. \"I completely agree with what they're doing but it's put us in quite a position,\" he says.\n\nThe barristers have rejected the government's offer of a 15% rise in the fees for legal-aid work, saying they need 25% to make up for a decade of underfunding.\n\nOn Monday the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) have held rallies in Manchester, Birmingham and Winchester, plus a lobby of Parliament.\n\nThe trials delayed include two murder cases, scheduled to start on Monday at the Old Bailey.\n\nBarristers will continue to hold week-long strikes, every other week from August - and courts will be further disrupted when security staff walk out over pay on 29 July and 2,3 and 4 August.\n\nJames's son, \"Joe\", was 13 when he revealed he had been sexually assaulted a number of times.\n\nJames, who asked the BBC not use their real names, describes the discovery as \"horrifying\", his \"worst nightmare\".\n\nThe family had high hopes that the full hearing, expected to last five days, would bring them closure and allow them to rebuild their lives.\n\nBut at the last minute, James was told an earlier trial had overrun, so Joe's case was delayed, moved to another court and then postponed until next March.\n\n\"This court system is a sinking ship,\" says James. \"And when the lifeboats are thrown out, the first we put on are the women and the children.\n\n\"So why is it that my child is not looked at by the courts in the same way?\"\n\nJoe is now nearly 17 and, says his dad, \"should be out with his friends, looking forward to university\".\n\nInstead, he says: \"He's gone inward on himself, keeps himself in his room...\n\n\"He's got himself hyped up to thinking, 'I'm gonna find out, whichever way, win lose or draw, this trial goes.'\n\n\"You know, that little light at the end of the tunnel has well and truly been snuffed out, yet again.\"\n\nDiana Fawcett, chief executive of the Victim Support charity said: \"We hear every day from people facing excruciatingly long waits for trial, and many of the victims we're supporting have been affected by the strikes.\n\n\"However, when it comes to backlogs in our courts these strikes are only part of the picture and long court delays have been an issue for nearly a decade.\n\n\"The government needs to take urgent action and invest across the whole system to tackle far-reaching problems, ensure justice is done and to stop victims from losing faith in the criminal-justice system altogether.\"\n\nJo Sidhu, who chairs the CBA said: \"If we haemorrhage specialist criminal barristers, who provide prosecutors, defence advocates and judges, then victims of crime take the added pain of more months to their trial dates.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice official said: \"Outstanding cases in the crown court fell to a record low in 2019 but the pandemic caused severe delays.\n\n\"We are making progress in tackling the backlog with the crown court caseload down by over 2,000 and the magistrates' court caseload a fifth lower than the peak last summer.\n\n\"The current strike is now forcing victims to wait for justice, despite a generous £7,000 pay rise for the typical criminal barrister coming in September. We encourage barristers to put victims first and prevent any further delays.\"", "Russia has accused Ukrainian special services of killing the daughter of one of President Vladimir Putin's allies in a car bombing at the weekend.\n\nDarya Dugina, aged 29, died on Saturday when a vehicle she was driving exploded near Russia's capital Moscow.\n\nHer prominent ultra-nationalist father, Alexander Dugin, said to be close to Mr Putin, may have been the intended target of the attack.\n\nUkrainian officials have denied any involvement in the explosion.\n\nBut Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday it had solved the case and said that Ukraine was directly responsible.\n\nThe FSB told Russian media that a Ukrainian woman had moved to Russia in July alongside her young daughter - but that she was in fact a Ukrainian special services contractor.\n\nThe woman, it said, rented an apartment in the same building as Ms Dugina for a month, preparing for the attack. In that time, she allegedly followed Ms Dugina through Moscow in a Mini Cooper - for which she used three different licence plates.\n\nThe suspect then escaped to Estonia after the explosion, the FSB said.\n\nAn adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, said the FSB's version of events was \"Russian propaganda\" from \"a fictional world\".\n\nThe FSB later released video allegedly showing the suspect's car entering Russia, security footage of her entering what is said to be Ms Dugina's building, and leaving Russia.\n\nMs Dugina and her father were attending a festival near Moscow on Saturday evening where Mr Dugin, a philosopher, gave a lecture. They had reportedly intended to leave in the same car, but changed their plans at the last minute.\n\nInvestigators said explosives had been planted underneath the Toyota Land Cruiser Ms Dugina was driving.\n\nVideo from the scene posted online appeared to show a shaken Mr Dugin watching emergency services attend the burning vehicle.\n\nA family friend, Konstantin Malofeev, published a statement on behalf of Mr Dugin which branded his daughter's killing \"a terrorist act by the Ukrainian Nazi regime\".\n\nHe was referencing the unfounded yet oft-repeated claim by Russian leadership of a powerful Nazi presence inside Ukraine - one of the main reasons put forward for Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\n\"My daughter Darya Dugina was brutally murdered in front of me,\" the statement on Telegram read. \"She was a beautiful Orthodox woman, patriot, war reporter, an expert for central TV and philosopher.\"\n\n\"We only need our victory. My daughter sacrificed her young woman's life to its altar. So please, achieve it!\"\n\nPresident Putin personally paid tribute to Ms Dugina in a statement from the Kremlin on Monday, and called her death \"a vile, cruel crime\". He also posthumously awarded Ms Dugina the Order of Courage, praising her \"dedication shown in the performance of professional duty\".\n\nMs Dugina was a political commentator for her father's International Eurasian Movement organisation, and wrote regularly for pro-Kremlin media outlets.\n\nOn Monday morning, the Time Will Tell programme on Russian state TV paid tribute to Darya, a regular guest. \"She died for the idea of the 'Russian World,'\" said presenter Olesya Losyeva.\n\nOne studio guest suggested the response would be \"holy fury\" and the programme showed a photograph of mortar shells, apparently belonging to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, one of which had \"This is for Darya!\" scrawled on the side.\n\nIf Ms Dugina's killing was meant to intimidate Russia, bellowed several of the guests, \"it will have the opposite effect\".\n\nAnalyst Yekaterina Shulman says the outpouring of anger amongst pro-Kremlin commentators in response to the car bomb attack appears suspicious: \"The reaction… was immediate. It looks as if they were waiting for something like this to happen.\"\n\nWhoever was responsible, says Ms Shulman, the killing \"could possibly be used to ramp up some public outrage within the country to justify even more active repressive actions on the part of the state\".\n\nMs Dugina was a vocal supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She had been placed under sanctions by the UK in July as \"a frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine\".\n\nHer father, Alexander, is also known as \"Putin's brain\" and has long expressed an anti-Western, ultranationalist philosophy that has made him a significant figure in Moscow - despite holding no political office himself.\n\nSeen as the founder of Russia's anti-European movement, he told the BBC in 2014 that war with Ukraine \"is inevitable\", and had long called for the annexation of Crimea - something which happened that year.\n\nAlso that year, a video emerged apparently showing Mr Dugin saying in Russian: \"I think, kill, kill and kill [Ukrainians], there can't be any other talk.\" The comments outraged many Ukrainians.", "A still from the bodyworn camera of one of the Met Police officers who interviewed Owami Davies on 6 July\n\nPolice officers had contact with a student nurse on the day she was reported missing by her family, it has emerged.\n\nOwami Davies, 24, who is studying nursing at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was last seen in Croydon on 7 July.\n\nThe Met said its officers had spoken to her in Croydon on 6 July but did not yet know she was a missing person.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has received a referral.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We are currently assessing the available information to determine what further action may be required\".\n\nMs Davies's family reported her missing to Essex Police on 6 July and the force handed the investigation over to the Met on 23 July.\n\nOwami Davies was last seen on 7 July\n\nIn a statement, the Met said officers were called to an address in Clarendon Road, Croydon, over concerns about the welfare of a woman on 6 July.\n\nPolice attended and called the London Ambulance Service, but the woman told them she did not want help and left.\n\nMs Davies had not yet been marked as a missing person on the police database at the time.\n\nThe force said it only later established the woman they had spoken to was Ms Davies as a result of their missing person investigation.\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nThe force's own professional standards body has said it will not investigate the officers involved but the IOPC requested the matter to be referred to them.\n\nIn a statement, Scotland Yard said: \"The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) were consulted and as there has been contact with police the IOPC were informed.\n\n\"The officers are not subject to any current investigation by the DPS.\n\n\"The interaction recorded on the officers' bodyworn video has been viewed by members of the Independent Advisory Group and Owami's family to ensure openness and transparency,\" they added.\n\nFive people have been arrested - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - but have since been released on bail, pending further investigation.\n\nThe force issued a fresh appeal at the beginning of this week, saying Ms Davies could be in Croydon and \"in need of help\".\n\nOn Thursday, British Transport Police tweeted that Ms Davies could still regularly be taking trains, may appear dazed or confused and may be seeking to engage with women travelling alone.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thor: Love And Thunder is one of the biggest movie releases this year\n\nCineworld has confirmed it is considering filing for bankruptcy in the US, as the cinema chain continues to struggle with $5bn worth of debt.\n\nBut the company, which also owns the Picturehouse chain in the UK, insisted its cinemas \"remain open for business\" and that there would be \"no significant impact\" on jobs.\n\nLike other cinema chains, Cineworld was hit hard by the pandemic.\n\nMany theatres were forced to close for extended periods during the lockdowns, or had to operate at a reduced capacity due to social distancing rules.\n\nCinema chains had hoped blockbusters such as the latest Bond film, Top Gun: Maverick and Thor: Love And Thunder would draw audiences back in after lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nTop Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, has taken $1.8bn at the global box office, making it one of the top 10 highest grossing films of all time.\n\nBut last week, Cineworld warned there had still not been enough major releases to attract cinema audiences and said this was hitting admissions.\n\nIn 2019 before the pandemic, global box office takings hit a record $42.5bn according to Comscore, buoyed by films such as Avengers: Endgame and Frozen 2.\n\nSo far in 2022, films such as Jurassic World Dominion and Minions: The Rise of Gru have performed strongly.\n\nBut box office takings this year are down by around a third, or 32%, compared with 2019.\n\nMinions: The Rise of Gru is one of the best performing films of 2022\n\nCinema chains have also been facing tough competition from streaming services, which soared in popularity during the lockdowns.\n\nIn 2020, a row broke out when Cineworld and rival AMC, which owns the Odeon Cinemas chain, criticised Universal Pictures for releasing Trolls: World Tour online at a time when theatres were forced to close because of coronavirus.\n\nCineworld subsequently signed a deal with Warner Bros to show films in theatres before they are streamed.\n\nMore recently, Netflix reported a sharp fall in subscribers, as the rising cost of living leads to people cutting back.\n\nOn Friday, shares in Cineworld plunged 60% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the firm was preparing to file for bankruptcy \"within weeks\".\n\nCineworld said on Monday it was looking at various options for how to restructure the business, including a Chapter 11 filing in the US.\n\nThis allows a company to continue to operate while it negotiates with its creditors.\n\nThe company would not comment on whether it was also considering entering liquidation in the UK, or what the potential impact could be on its 4,600 employees there.\n\nIt also would not be drawn on what will happen to people who pay for Cineworld or Picturehouse membership, or who have vouchers, in the event of it filing for bankruptcy.\n\nIn a statement, the firm said: \"Cineworld would expect to maintain its operations in the ordinary course until and following any filing and ultimately to continue its business over the longer term with no significant impact upon its employees.\"\n\nCineworld has 128 cinemas in the UK and Ireland. Globally, it has 9,189 screens across more than 750 sites.\n\nIt operates in 10 countries, including the US, Poland and Israel.\n\nCineworld currently has a market value of around $69m but is carrying close to $5bn of debt.\n\nThe firm has expanded through acquisitions around the world. However, two years ago it ditched a plan to take over Cineplex, leading to a protracted legal battle as the Canadian firm sought substantial damages from Cineworld.\n\nShares in Cineworld recovered slightly on Monday morning. But at just over 4p, the share price is still a long way off from where it was at the start of 2020 when it reached 220p before the pandemic struck.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nGreat Britain won 60 medals as they finished second in the medal table behind host nation Germany at the European Championships in Munich.\n\nMeanwhile, a further 27 medals were won at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome, where GB ended the competition second to hosts Italy.\n\nBritish teams topped the standings in both gymnastics and rowing in Munich.\n\nDiving was the nation's most successful sport across the two championships, as Britain won six golds among 12 medals.\n\nJack Laugher and Anthony Harding claimed the men's synchronised 3m springboard title on Sunday to ensure the British team's best-ever European performance - surpassing the three golds and 11 medals they won in 2016.\n\nIn gymnastics, Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser also won golds on the final day as Britain recorded their best-ever artistic gymnastics European Championship medal haul, ending with five golds, three silvers and three bronzes in total.\n\nMeanwhile, Britain failed to win Olympic rowing gold for the first time in 41 years at the Tokyo Games last year but claimed six golds and a total of 10 medals this time around, in a European performance described by British Rowing's director of performance as a \"stepping stone\" for September's World Championships.\n\nThere was notable success too for Britain in athletics (six golds, 20 medals in total), swimming (four golds, 15 medals in total) and Canoe Sprint (five golds, 11 medals in total).\n\nElsewhere, Tom Pidcock rode to cycling mountain bike cross-country gold and Non Stanford won triathlon gold in her final major competition.\n\nThe track cycling team contributed five medals and Kieran Reilly won BMX cycling silver, while GB did not medal in road cycling, beach volleyball, sport climbing and table tennis in Munich.", "Women are facing threats and blackmail from a mob of anonymous strangers after their personal details, intimate photos and videos were shared on the social media platform Reddit. The BBC has unmasked the man behind one of the groups, thanks to a second-hand cigarette lighter.\n\n\"£5 for her nudes, DM me.\"\n\n\"I've got some of her vids looking to trade.\"\n\n\"What are we gonna do to her?\"\n\nI felt sick as I scrolled through the images and comments online.\n\nThere were thousands of photographs. A seemingly endless stream of naked or partially dressed women. Underneath, men were posting vicious commentary about the women, including rape threats. Much of what I saw was too explicit to share here.\n\nA tip-off from a friend had brought me to these images. One of her pictures had been lifted from Instagram and posted on Reddit. It was not a nude but was still accompanied by sexual and degrading language. She was concerned for herself and other women.\n\nWhat I found was a marketplace. Hundreds of anonymous profiles were dedicated to sharing, trading and selling explicit images - and it all appeared to be without the permission of the women pictured.\n\nIt seemed like a new evolution of so-called revenge porn, where private sexual material is published online without consent, often by embittered ex-partners.\n\nNot only were these intimate images being shared for an audience of thousands, but men - lurking behind the mask of anonymity - were teaming up to expose the real-life identities of these women, a practice known as doxing.\n\nAddresses, phone numbers and social media handles were being swapped online - the women then being targeted with lurid sexual comments, threats and blackmail.\n\nIt felt like I had stumbled into a very dark corner of the internet, but this was all happening on a major social media platform.\n\nReddit brands itself as \"the front page of the internet\". It has built an audience of about 50 million daily users - roughly four million in the UK - by letting people set up and run forums, known as \"subreddits\", dedicated to all kinds of interests. Most subreddits are harmless, but Reddit has a history of hosting controversial sexual content.\n\nIn 2014, a huge cache of private images of celebrities was shared on the site, and four years later Reddit shut down a group which was using \"deepfake\" technology - a kind of artificial intelligence - to superimpose celebrities into porn videos.\n\nResponding to these controversies, the US-based company introduced stricter rules and strengthened its ban on posting or threatening to post intimate or sexually explicit media of people without their consent.\n\nI wanted to understand how women's intimate photographs were still being shared on Reddit and what it was like for those affected.\n\nThen I wanted to find out who was behind it.\n\nI could see that Reddit's ban wasn't working.\n\nWe found dozens of subreddits dedicated to sharing intimate images of women from all over the UK.\n\nThe first one I looked at was focused on South Asian women and had more than 20,000 users, most of whom seemed to be men from the same community, with comments in English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. Some of the women I recognised because they had large social media followings. A few I even knew personally.\n\nThere were more than 15,000 images. We looked at a thousand of them and found sexually explicit pictures of 150 different women. All were being dehumanised as sexual objects in the comments. I was sure none of the women would have consented to appearing on this forum.\n\nSome, like the one my friend discovered of herself, were images lifted from the women's social media and weren't explicit. But they were accompanied by degrading comments and sometimes requests to hack victims' phones and computers for nudes.\n\nOne woman we contacted says she now gets intrusive, sexual messages on social media \"every day\" after the group posted an image of her in a crop top from Instagram, alongside comments about raping her.\n\nThe men on the subreddit were also sharing and selling naked photos of the women. These images looked like selfies which had been sent between partners and were not meant for public consumption.\n\nThere were also videos - even more graphic - where it appeared as though the women had been secretly filmed during sex.\n\nOne thread of messages featured images of a naked woman giving oral sex.\n\n\"Anyone got any vids of this [expletive]?\" an anonymous user asked, using a derogatory name for her.\n\n\"I have her whole folder for £5, snap me,\" another said.\n\nAyesha - not her real name - discovered videos of her were being shared on the subreddit last year. She believes she had been secretly filmed by an ex-partner.\n\nShe didn't just have to deal with the violation of her trust, she also faced a wave of harassment and threats on social media when her personal details were posted on the forum.\n\n\"If you don't have sex with me, I'll send it to your parents. I will come and find you… If you don't agree to having sex with me, I will rape you.\" Her harassers tried to blackmail her for more images as well.\n\n\"Being a Pakistani girl, it's not right in our community for us to even get sexual before marriage or anything like that - that's not acceptable,\" she says.\n\nAyesha stopped socialising or even leaving the house, and eventually tried to take her own life. After her suicide attempt, she had to tell her parents what had happened. Her mother and father both fell into depression, she says.\n\n\"I felt so ashamed of everything that was going on and that I'd put them in this situation,\" she says.\n\nAyesha contacted Reddit several times. On one occasion, a video was deleted almost immediately but it took four months to remove another. And it didn't end there. The deleted content had already been shared on other social media sites and eventually appeared back on the original subreddit a month later.\n\nThe subreddit that shamed and harassed Ayesha was set up and moderated by a user called Zippomad - a name that would eventually provide the clue to tracking him down.\n\nForum users worked together to share women's personal details to find them in real life\n\nAs moderator, Zippomad was supposed to make sure his subreddit discussion group followed Reddit's rules. But he did the opposite.\n\nSince first tracking his subreddit, I've seen him create new versions of it three times - after each previous version was shut down by Reddit due to complaints. Each new incarnation used a variation of the same name, which includes a racial slur too offensive to repeat. Each one was filled with the same material - and each had thousands of active users.\n\nThe trade in nudes has become widespread enough for experts in online abuse to give it a name: collector culture.\n\nClare McGlynn, a law professor at the University of Durham who's an expert on this kind of online abuse, says: \"This is not a phenomenon of perverts or weirdos or other oddballs who are doing this. There are too many of them, and it's tens of thousands of men.\"\n\nTrading images takes place in small, private chat groups in messaging apps as well as websites where tens of thousands of men gather, Prof McGlynn says.\n\nShe says many of the men involved gain status in these communities by building up large collections of non-consensual images. This obsessive hoarding can make it hard to stamp out, as Ayesha found out when deleted videos were simply reposted from other collections.\n\nMonika Plaha investigates the disturbing online trade in sexually explicit images and video of women, often taken and posted on social media without their consent.\n\nSeven women who've tried to get their images removed from Reddit told me they didn't feel the company was doing enough to help. Four said the material was never removed by Reddit and some had to wait eight months before content was deleted.\n\nReddit has told us it removed just over 88,000 non-consensual sexual images last year and says it takes the issue \"extremely seriously\".\n\nIt says it uses automated tools and has a team of staff to find and remove intimate images published without permission. It adds that it regularly takes action, including closing down forums.\n\n\"We know we have more work to do to prevent, detect, and action this content even more quickly and accurately, and we are investing now in our teams, tools, and processes to achieve this goal,\" a company spokesperson said.\n\nLike tech companies, UK law is struggling to protect women from having their private images shared online.\n\nGeorgie says a loophole in the law meant her ex-partner could not be prosecuted after he shared explicit images of her\n\nWhen Georgie was contacted by a stranger and told explicit images of her were being shared on the internet, she went to the police. She knew that only one person should have had access to them.\n\n\"I can't even compute how many people might have already seen them? And there is no way of stopping more people seeing them. In this moment, right now, people might be looking at them,\" she says.\n\nHer ex-partner texted her to admit sharing the images, but she says he told her \"he didn't mean to hurt or embarrass me\".\n\nThat part of his confession turned out to be a legal loophole. Existing legislation against revenge porn across the UK requires proof that the person sharing photos without permission is doing it to cause distress to the victim. The Law Commission, an independent advisory body to the government, has recommended removing the requirement to prove intent to cause harm. But the Online Safety Bill currently progressing through Parliament does not include that change.\n\nI wanted to track down Zippomad, the Reddit user who created the forum targeting South Asian women - including Ayesha. As I looked through his history of comments on the site, there was no real name, email address or pictures to be found. Only his username provided a clue as to who he was - he collected Zippo lighters and had one for sale. So I got in touch using a fake account and offered to buy it.\n\nHe agreed to set up a meeting and our undercover reporter finally came face-to-face with the man who had created the forum where the privacy of so many women had been violated.\n\nHis name is Himesh Shingadia. He's university-educated and works as a manager at a large company. It wasn't who I expected to find at all.\n\nHimesh Shingadia says he set up the Reddit forum to \"appreciate South Asian women\"\n\nAfter Panorama contacted him, Mr Shingadia deleted his subreddit. In a statement, he says the group had been intended to \"appreciate South Asian women\". Due to the high number of users, he says he found it impossible to moderate the forum.\n\nHe says he never shared anyone's private details or traded images himself and says he helped to remove some sexually explicit material when asked to by women.\n\n\"Zippomad is deeply embarrassed and ashamed of his actions, this does not reflect his real personality,\" the statement says.\n\nReddit has also removed the other, similar groups that we highlighted to the company.\n\nIt means almost a thousand women have, at last, had their images taken down - but that's little comfort after the pain of unwanted exposure.\n\nTech companies and legislators will need to make changes to prevent more women from being exploited by this trade.\n\nAs Georgie says about the ex-partner who shared her images: \"I don't want to punish him. I want him to never do it again.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues raised, help and advice can be found here", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThousands of Manchester United fans marched to Old Trafford before Monday night's game against Liverpool in protest of the club's ownership.\n\nThe Red Devils have been owned by the Glazer family since 2005.\n\nA \"United for sale\" banner featuring a photo of British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who wants to buy the club, was on display during the walk.\n\nManchester United's home league game against Liverpool in May last year was postponed because of fan protests.\n\nThat fixture was meant to be played behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic but thousands of United supporters gathered outside the ground in the hours before the scheduled kick-off and around 200 fans then broke into the stadium.\n\nOn this occasion, supporters lit flares and gathered outside the ground and chanted \"we want Glazers out\" in the 30 minutes before the game got under way.\n\nManchester United supporters' group 'The 1958' organised the march in protest of what it called \"an ownership that is systematically starving and killing the greatest football institution in world football, for greed\".\n\nThe discontent felt by some United fans dates back to the Glazers' takeover of the club 17 years ago, but there have been multiple protests against the Americans' ownership in recent years.\n\nOn 7 August, thousands of supporters marched from outside Media City in Salford Quays to Old Trafford, prior to Erik ten Hag's first game in charge of United against Brighton, which the home side lost 2-1.", "Elon Musk has launched legal action to summon Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to appear in court as part of his legal battle with the tech company.\n\nMr Musk is seeking to end his $44bn deal for Twitter after alleging the firm failed to provide enough information on fake account numbers.\n\nBut the social media site is suing Mr Musk to try to force him to buy it.\n\nThe case will be heard in Delaware, US, in October unless both parties decide to settle outside of court beforehand.\n\nTwitter hopes that a judge will order Mr Musk - who is the world's richest man - to complete the takeover at the agreed price of $54.20 per share.\n\nBut as part of the trial preparations, lawyers for Mr Musk have called on his friend, the former boss of Twitter Mr Dorsey, in the hope that he will help support the Tesla boss's argument that the social media company hasn't been honest about the volume of fake accounts on its platform.\n\nA subpoena legal writ or document summons a person to attend court or orders the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court.\n\nIn July, the billionaire said he planned to walk away from his deal to buy Twitter, which prompted the company to sue him.\n\nMr Musk accused the company of withholding information about fake accounts, but Twitter argued that these were excuses to cover buyer's remorse.\n\nThe site has issued its own subpoenas to people who had planned to invest in the deal with Mr Musk.\n\nJack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter\n\nMr Dorsey stepped down as chief executive of Twitter in November last year and tweeted in support of Mr Musk when he announced his bid to buy the company in April, saying: \"Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.\"\n\nLast month, a US judge ruled that Twitter's lawsuit against Mr Musk should go to trial in October.\n\nEarlier in August, Mr Musk sold another 7.92 million shares in Tesla, worth around $6.88bn (£5.7bn), stating that he needed the money in case he is forced to buy Twitter.\n\nMr Musk has countersued Twitter, claiming a third of visible Twitter accounts, assessed by his team, were fake. Using that figure the team estimated that a minimum of 10% of daily active users are bots.\n\nBut filings made by his legal team in his battle with Twitter have been questioned by leading bot researchers.\n\nTwitter says it estimates that fewer than 5% of its daily active users are bot accounts.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative for drugs, the government says, after she was seen dancing, singing and drinking at a recent party.\n\nMs Marin, 36, agreed to take the test on Friday to allay concerns about her behaviour.\n\nShe says she has never taken drugs and denies doing anything illegal at the party, but says she drank alcohol.\n\nA government statement (in Finnish) said \"no drugs were found\" in the test. It added that the prime minister had paid the costs of the test herself.\n\nSpecial adviser Iida Vallin, quoted by AFP news agency, said Ms Marin's urine sample had been tested for cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis and opioids.\n\nFollowing the release of the videos, Ms Marin faced criticism from several politicians, with one opposition party leader demanding she take a drug test.\n\nAt a news conference held last week, reporters questioned whether the prime minister, who has been in power since December 2019, would have been able to make snap governmental decisions if necessary.\n\nShe defended herself, saying her ability to function was \"really good\", and said she had never used drugs, even as a teenager.\n\nAt one time the world's youngest head of government - a title currently held by Montenegrin Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic - Ms Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.\n\nLast year she apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms Marin was dubbed the \"coolest prime minister in the world\" by German news outlet Bild.\n\nMs Marin became prime minister in 2019, aged just 34", "Rising energy prices could push UK inflation as high as 18% next year, the highest rate in nearly 50 years, economic analysts have predicted.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 10.1% in July, five times the Bank of England's (BoE) target.\n\nInvestment bank Citi said inflation was \"entering the stratosphere\" and could rise to 18%, while the Resolution Foundation said it could reach 18.3%.\n\nThe BoE predicted inflation will rise to more than 13% in the coming months.\n\nCiti's forecast - which would be the UK's highest rate of inflation since 1976 - comes ahead of Friday's energy price cap announcement on the maximum amount suppliers can charge households for gas and electricity from October.\n\nThe investment bank's forecast is at the higher end of the scale compared to those made by other economists, such as EY-Parthenon which has forecast inflation to be at 15.4%.\n\nHowever, economists at the Resolution Foundation think tank told the BBC that based on the current price cap predictions and the latest data on the rate prices are rising at, inflation could go as high as 18.3%.\n\nCiti's chief UK economist, Benjamin Nabarro, said affordability concerns were \"growing more deafening by the day\".\n\n\"The question now is what policy may do to offset the impact on both inflation and the real economy,\" he said.\n\nConsultancy Cornwall Insight now expects a typical household energy bill to £3,554 a year from October. This is slightly below its previous forecast.\n\nHowever, it now expects energy regulator Ofgem to announce a price cap in January of £4,650, which is higher than its previous estimate of £4,266.\n\nIts calculations reflected a 15% increase in wholesale prices in the last week, Cornwall said.\n\nBut the \"highly volatile nature of the market\" means these figures are expected to go up and down over the next couple of months, it added.\n\nFrom October, all UK households will see their energy bill reduced by £400 through monthly instalments over six months, with a reduction of £66 in October and November, and of £67 a month from December to March 2023.\n\nEight million low-income households have already begun to get support for the rising cost of living, with the first instalment of payments totalling £650 hitting bank accounts in July.\n\nBut Citi said, without further government support, the price cap could hit £3,717 in October and £4,567 in January, reaching £5,816 in April.\n\nOctopus Energy chief executive Greg Jackson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that if the price of beer had risen as much as gas prices, buying a pint would cost £25.\n\n\"People don't know what a therm is, but, underneath it, the price per therm has gone from 60p to around £5 at the moment and that's what's passing through to customers if we don't do something,\" he said.\n\nSarah Coles, a senior personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said there were 10 food groups that have seen their prices rise more than 18.6% in the past year, including bread, milk, pasta and butter.\n\n\"Inflation at 18.6% would push millions of people into dire straits,\" she said.\n\n\"And because these horrible price hikes are being driven by the essentials people need to stay alive - like food and heat - it's going to hit those on lower incomes hardest, who've got nothing left to give.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has been raising interest rates since December and earlier this month implemented its largest increase - 0.5% - in 27 years to take borrowing costs to 1.75%.\n\nBut Citi said it expects the Bank to increase interest rates even higher, to as much as 7%, to control inflation.\n\nOn Monday European gas prices rose sharply due to supply fears, after Russian energy firm Gazprom announced it would shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline - the main gas export route to Germany - to complete three days of unplanned maintenance.\n\nBritish gas for immediate delivery was also up 37% to 503p per therm.\n\nOil and gas analysts at Investec said, in a briefing note, that it anticipated UK gas prices to remain elevated if Russia continues to restrict supplies to Europe.\n\n\"This is remarkable in summer, when gas demand for heating is at its lowest,\" its analysts said.\n\n\"The outlook for UK/European gas prices are to remain high - even in 2025 it is three-times the 10-year average.\"\n\nPredicting the peak of inflation levels has been a mug's game in the last nine months.\n\nThe Bank of England originally predicted last year it would peak at 5%, then 10, then 13. HSBC recently revised its forecasts to 14% and on Monday global investment bank Citi set a new high watermark of 18%.\n\nAlmost all of this inflation of inflation estimates has been caused by rocketing gas prices, which find their way into almost everything we buy.\n\nWhat is clear is that the forces that have propelled prices higher look like they are going to get worse before they get better.\n\nRead more of Simon Jack's analysis here.\n\nThe government has previously said there would be no new policies before a new prime minister is in place.\n\nThe new Conservative Party leader will be announced on 5 September and will face immediate pressure to tackle the nation's energy bills.\n\nThe current favourite, Liz Truss, has promised tax cuts - and recently hinted at direct financial help for hard-pressed households.\n\nHer rival, Rishi Sunak, has said he would introduce more targeted support for households, and has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero.\n\nThe energy price cap is the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy. The figure is based on how much gas and electricity a typical customer uses, so each household's bill will vary.", "UK intelligence agencies are accused of tipping off Indian authorities about a British national before his abduction and alleged torture by Punjab police.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was in India in 2017 when his family say he was forced into an unmarked car.\n\nHe says he was then tortured over days, including with electrocution. He has remained in detention since then.\n\nSuccessive British prime ministers have raised his case but India's government denies he was tortured or mistreated.\n\nMr Johal was an active blogger and campaigner for Sikh human rights, which are said to have brought him to the attention of the Indian authorities.\n\nIn May, he was formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder and being a member of a terrorist gang. He will be presented with a full list of the charges against him next month and faces a possible death penalty.\n\nThe Indian authorities say the charges are related to Sikh nationalism, though he denies any wrongdoing.\n\nNow the human rights group Reprieve has shown the BBC documentation that it says is compelling evidence that his arrest followed a tip-off from British intelligence.\n\nThe UK government says it will not comment on an ongoing legal case.\n\nReprieve says it has matched several details relating to his case to a specific claim of mistreatment documented in a report by the watchdog that oversees the intelligence agencies.\n\n\"In the course of an investigation\", says the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office (IPCO) report, \"MI5 passed intelligence to a liaison partner via the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).\n\n\"The subject of the intelligence was arrested by the liaison partner in their country. The individual told the British Consular Official that he had been tortured.\"\n\nMr Johal is not named in the report, but Reprieve's investigators are adamant the facts match his case due to the dates concerned, the lobbying by British prime ministers and supporting evidence detailed in the Indian press.\n\nIn 2017, the Hindustan Times reported that Mr Johal had \"come under the scanner\" after \"a source in the UK\" provided the Punjab police with \"vague information\" about a key man, \"Johal\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he raised Mr Johal's case with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, during a trip to India in April this year\n\nBut his brother Gurpreet told the BBC he was not aware of any activity that could be considered illegal.\n\nMr Johal is currently being held in a Delhi prison. He has alleged that, following his arrest, he was held incommunicado, was brutally interrogated for hours on end, and was initially denied access to lawyers or British consular officials.\n\nHe says he was made to sign blank sheets of paper that were later used against him as a false confession.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he raised Mr Johal's case with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, during a trip to India in April this year. His predecessor, Theresa May, also raised the case with the Indian government during her tenure.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nOn 12 August, Mr Johal lodged a claim in the High Court against the Foreign Office, the Home Office and the attorney general, alleging that UK intelligence agencies unlawfully shared information with the Indian authorities when there was a risk he could be tortured.\n\nReprieve says this case suggests the government has failed to fix longstanding shortcomings in its policy on torture and the death penalty, and has learned little from past failings such as the MI6 tip-off that led to the rendition and torture of Libyan dissident Abdulhakim Belhaj.\n\nCommenting on the allegations, MP Steve Baker said: \"This appalling case, where UK intelligence sharing has been linked to brutal torture, illustrates vividly why the National Security Bill needs to be improved.\"\n\nResponding on behalf of all three accused government departments, the Foreign Office said: \"It would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing legal case.\"", "Ukrainian officials previously staged an exercise in case of possible nuclear disaster\n\nUN nuclear inspectors have made an appeal for fighting to stop at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant - close to the front line in Ukraine - to help prevent a nuclear accident.\n\nRafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. He has led a team to the plant where Ukrainian staff have worked in highly challenging conditions for months.\n\nRussia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant on the left bank of the River Dnipro at the start of its war and the two sides have since accused each other of repeatedly shelling it.\n\nWhen the plant was temporarily cut off from Ukraine's power grid for the first time in its history in late August, Ukraine's president said the world had narrowly avoided a radiation accident. Russian officials have even produced a map of how a radioactive cloud might spread to neighbouring countries.\n\nWhat, then, is the risk to this nuclear plant which houses six reactors - and is Europe facing a Fukushima-type meltdown?\n\nMuch of the anxiety has been about the plant coming under fire from artillery shells or rockets. Ukraine has accused Russian forces of using it as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities. Russia denies that is the case, but satellite photos have shown their military stationed near some of the buildings.\n\n\"Zaporizhzhia was built in the 1980s, which is relatively modern,\" says Mark Wenman, head of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy Futures. \"It has a solid containment building. It's 1.75m [5.75ft] thick, of heavily reinforced concrete on a seismic bed [to withstand earthquakes]... and it takes a hell of a lot to breach that.\"\n\nHe rejects comparisons with either Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima in 2011. Chernobyl had serious design flaws, he explains, while at Fukushima the diesel generators were flooded, which he believes would not happen in Ukraine as the generators are inside the containment building.\n\nAfter 9/11, nuclear plants were tested for potential attacks involving large airliners and found to be largely safe, so damage to a reactor's containment building may not be the biggest hazard.\n\nMore worrying is loss of power supply to the nuclear reactors. If that happens and the diesel back-up generators fail, that would lead to a loss of coolant. With no electricity to power the pumps around the hot reactor core, the fuel would start to melt.\n\nThe plant was temporarily disconnected from Ukraine's grid on 25 August, when fires twice brought down its last remaining 750 kilovolt power line. The other three were put out of action during the war.\n\nIn the event, electricity was sourced to a less powerful line from a coal-fired thermal power station near by and officials said the diesel generators were also used.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's nuclear agency says the generators do not provide a long-term solution and if that last power line from the national grid is broken then nuclear fuel could begin melting, \"resulting in a release of radioactive substances to the environment\".\n\nLt Gen Igor Kirillov of Russia's nuclear protection corps says shelling has already damaged the plant's support systems, so a pump and generator failure could lead to the reactor core overheating and the plant's facilities being destroyed.\n\n\"That wouldn't be as serious as Chernobyl, but it could still lead to a release of radioactivity and that depends which way the wind's blowing,\" says Claire Corkhill, professor of nuclear material degradation at the University of Sheffield.\n\nFor her, the risk of something going wrong is genuine - and Russia would be just as much at risk as Central Europe.\n\nBut Prof Iztok Tiselj, chair of nuclear engineering at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, believes the risk of a major radioactive incident is minimal as only two of the six reactors are now operating.\n\n\"From the standpoint of European citizens there's no reason to worry,\" he says. The other four are in a state of cold shutdown, so the amount of power needed to cool the reactors is smaller.\n\nMark Wenman is full of praise for the Ukrainian staff at the plant for reducing the number of reactors in operation.\n\nThat means that even though the radioactive products continue to be radioactive, the so-called \"decay heat\" after a shutdown decays exponentially with time. \"Provided the diesel generators are in good shape, even if they lost electricity from the grid they should be able to cool the reactor,\" he says.\n\nAnother major safety risk could come from the spent fuel at Zaporizhzhia. Once the fuel is finished the waste is cooled in spent fuel pools and then moved to dry cask storage.\n\n\"If these were to be damaged there would be a release of radioactivity but it wouldn't be anywhere near as serious as the loss of coolant,\" says Prof Corkhill. And Iztok Tiselj believes any release would be so small as to be negligible.\n\nAt the heart of this crisis are the plant's original staff, working under Russian occupation and under a great deal of stress. Two workers have told the BBC of the daily risk of being kidnapped.\n\nIn August, the UN secretary general called on Russia to pull its troops out and demilitarise the area with a \"safe perimeter\". Russia has refused, arguing that would make the plant more vulnerable.\n\nEmployees have warned of disaster if Russia tries to shut the whole plant down, in order to disconnect the supply from Ukraine and reconnect it instead to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nDr Wenman believes it is the human factor that represents the biggest risk of a nuclear accident, whether because of chronic fatigue or stress: \"And that violates all the safety principles.\"\n\nIf something were to go wrong, they would need to be on top form, and one can imagine they are not, says Claire Corkhill.\n\nA letter signed by dozens of employees has called on the international community to stop and think: \"We can professionally control nuclear fission,\" it said, \"but we are helpless in the face of people's irresponsibility and madness.\"", "Average energy bills in the UK are predicted to reach £3,582 a year in October\n\nUK households cannot carry the cost of the Ukraine war which is set to push energy bills even higher, the boss of Octopus Energy has said.\n\nGreg Jackson was speaking as UK households brace for average energy bills to reach a predicted £3,554 a year in October and £4,650 in January.\n\nHe called for the government to double its financial support or freeze the amount suppliers can charge for energy.\n\nNo 10 previously said there would be no new policy before a new PM is in place.\n\nThe new Conservative Party leader will be announced on 5 September and will face immediate pressure to tackle the nation's energy bills.\n\nThe current favourite, Liz Truss, has promised tax cuts and recently hinted at direct financial help for hard-pressed households.\n\nHer rival, Rishi Sunak, has said he would introduce more targeted support for households, and has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero.\n\nThe upcoming jump in energy prices has prompted investment bank Citi to raise his forecast of UK inflation to 18% in early 2023.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at 10.1% and the Bank of England's target is 2%.\n\nOn Friday, the energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - will be announced.\n\nEnergy prices have risen sharply because demand for gas increased when Covid restrictions eased while the war in Ukraine has disrupted supplies from Russia.\n\nMr Jackson, founder and chief executive of Octopus Energy Group, said: \"You can't expect the energy customers, or indeed the retailers to carry the cost of a war.\"\n\nAsked what the solution could be, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government \"could double the existing support package\".\n\nIn October, all UK households will get a £400 discount on their fuel bills and some eight million low-income households will get an additional £650.\n\nPlans to enable households to get discounts on electricity bills if they cut use at peak times are set to be announced by the National Grid in the next two weeks.\n\nMr Jackson also suggested a \"tariff deficit fund\" which would involve the government freezing the energy price cap roughly where it is.\n\nThe government would borrow money from banks to pay the difference between the wholesale cost and the price to the consumer while energy prices were high.\n\nThis money would be paid back when energy prices came down, he said.\n\nDale Vince, chief executive of renewable energy generator and supplier Ecotricity, told the BBC: \"The government does need to intervene we shouldn't expect customers to pay the cost of this failure and the Ukraine war.\"\n\nHe said the problem pre-dated the invasion of Ukraine and there was a \"systemic failure in the energy market\".\n\nBut he said the deficit scheme Mr Jackson had outlined would force taxpayers to foot the bill over the next decade.\n\n\"The government simply needs to step in and pick up this cost like it did in the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"We need £40bn to get through this winter. That's 10% of what was spent during the pandemic and that's the only thing that will really sort this problem out.\"\n\nThis summer has seen forecasts, suggestions and a lot of political debate. What it has not seen is certainty.\n\nOn Friday, households will finally be told exactly by how much domestic energy bills will rise in October. Remember, individual bills will vary, depending on how much gas and electricity you use. But the percentage increase in the domestic energy price cap for England, Wales and Scotland will be official and expressed in clear terms.\n\nEnergy will be more expensive, but at least people will have some basis to plan for the financial hit.\n\nThat said, the uncertainty won't be over. What extra support, if any, that is provided by government won't be clear until a new prime minister is in place. Energy prices for the second half of the winter are also unclear.\n\nEnergy bosses say fundamental change in the sector doesn't come quickly, but help for householders facing soaring bills as the nights draw in cannot come quickly enough.\n\nMeanwhile Bill Bullen, founder and chief executive of energy supplier Utilita,said that energy prices must be frozen at their current level.\n\n\"That's not going to be enough even still for those customers who are on low incomes and vulnerable, maybe have some medical dependencies so some extra help is going to be required,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The reality is when you get up to £3,500 a huge number of homes won't be able to afford this.\"\n\nMr Vince said there needed to be an overhaul of how electricity prices were decided.\n\n\"The price of gas sets the price of electricity in our country and we should break that link - other European countries are looking to do exactly that,\" he said.\n\n\"We let global commodity markets set the price that we pay for gas from our own North Sea and we are paying up to 10 times more for that right now.\"\n\nHe added: \"Half of the gas that Britain uses come from our North Sea if we price cap that we take away half the problem.\"", "Owami Davies has not been seen for more than six weeks\n\nMissing student nurse Owami Davies could be sleeping rough, detectives have said.\n\nMs Davies, who was studying nursing at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.\n\nShe was last seen on CCTV in west Croydon three days later.\n\nPolice continue to trawl footage for 117 reported sightings of Ms Davies, who had experienced periods of depression.\n\nDetectives said the 24-year-old has no money left on her Oyster card, used to pay on public transport, and no access to her phone or bank cards.\n\nShe was found asleep in a doorway in Clarendon Road, Croydon on 6 July while waiting for a friend, but told Metropolitan Police officers that she did not need help and left.\n\nMs Davies left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was reported missing to Essex Police two days later\n\nInvestigators said Ms Davies had used different names, but would not reveal what they were.\n\nOfficers said that she had experienced periods of depression in the past for which she needed medical treatment, and had also used alcohol to deal with the condition.\n\nFive people have been arrested and bailed in connection with her disappearance - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - but the Met has said there was no evidence that she had come to harm.\n\nDuring a briefing with journalists on Monday, Det Ch Insp Nigel Penney was asked if it was realistic to still believe Ms Davies was still alive.\n\nHe said they were \"hopeful\", but had \"grave concerns\" over her not being sighted for so long, adding \"there is no evidence that she's come to harm. We're still hopeful that we'll find her alive and well\".\n\nPolice have CCTV showing her entering West Croydon station on 6 July and said she had gone to Croydon, a place she didn't know well, to meet a friend, but not managed to do this.\n\nOfficers have spoken to that friend, and have searched the house she went to visit.\n\nA service was held by the chaplaincies of King’s College London and Guys and St Thomas' Hospital\n\nAsked whether she could be sleeping rough, he said: \"We're open to all possibilities and that is one current working hypothesis, that she is in that current situation with her life.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Penney did not rule out that someone could be exploiting her, telling journalists \"that is a line of enquiry\".\n\nMs Davies left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was reported missing to Essex Police two days later.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police officers who spoke to her on 6 July did not yet know that she was a missing person.\n\nEssex Police initially graded Owami as a medium risk but she was classed as a \"high risk\" case when she was referred to the Met.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney urged people who don't feel comfortable speaking to police then to call the independent charity Crimestoppers\n\nMr Penney said: \"On Wednesday 6 July, officers were called to the Clarendon Road area of Croydon.\n\n\"There were concerns for the welfare of a woman at the location.\n\n\"Officers attended and called the London Ambulance Service, but the woman stated she did not want assistance and left.\"\n\nHe said the student nurse had no injuries when police spoke to her and that an ambulance would always be called under the circumstances.\n\nHer family and members of an Independent Advisory Group have seen body worn camera footage of the interaction, but it will not yet be released publicly.\n\nThe police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IPOC), is considering whether to investigate the police contact with Ms Davies that day.\n\nThe missing persons investigation was passed to the Metropolitan Police from Essex Police on 23 July, and taken over by the Specialist Crime squad on 1 August.\n\nAbout 50 officers are currently working on the investigation, and they are getting advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA).\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tens of thousands of Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the start of the war, say Western officials\n\nThe town of Volosovo, near St Petersburg, is booming. Not the economy - it's the loudspeakers.\n\nLike many towns in Russia, Volosovo has them installed on tall poles that line the main street. Traditionally they are used for playing patriotic music during national holidays. Now, though, they have a different purpose.\n\n\"Two volunteer artillery battalions are being formed. We invite men from 18 to 60 years old to join,\" the speakers blare out.\n\nIt's a message that's being repeated up and down this vast country. On social media, on TV and on billboards, men are being urged to sign short-term contracts with the military to fight in Ukraine.\n\nIn the face of significant losses in the conflict, the authorities have launched a recruitment drive for the Russian army.\n\nI stop one man on the street in Volosovo and ask him if he supports the call-up for volunteers. \"Yes! If I were young I'd go, but I'm too old now,\" he tells me, clenching his fists. \"We should bomb them!\"\n\nBut most people in the town seem less enthusiastic. \"[The war] is too painful to even talk about,\" one woman complains. \"Killing your brothers is wrong.\" I ask her what she would say if one of her relatives wanted to join. \"Why go? Only their bodies will be brought back.\"\n\nRecruitment videos are urging young men to join the Russian military\n\nRussia does not give numbers, but Western officials say between 70,000 and 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since it launched its invasion six months ago.\n\nIn order to attract fresh recruits, the authorities are offering volunteers huge sums of money, plots of land and even premium places for their children in Russian schools.\n\nRecruiters have even been visiting Russian prisons to sign up inmates, promising them freedom and money.\n\nInvestigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov says the recruitment drive is a sign of desperation on the part of the authorities: \"This is not the type of soldiers needed for a victorious war. The Kremlin still hopes that quantity can win over quality. That they can get these hundreds of thousands of desperate people with their debts and just throw them into the conflict zone.\"\n\nDespite the eyewatering amounts of cash on offer to potential recruits - up to £4,700 ($5,700) a month in some cases - Roman says the reality is different.\n\n\"People don't actually see this money,\" he says. \"They are returning [from Ukraine] now and telling us journalists about how they were deceived. This is also influencing the situation, this lack of trust in our government, so I don't think this strategy will be successful.\"\n\nBut some are happy to join up.\n\nNina Chubarina's son Yevgeny left their village in the northern region of Karelia to join a volunteer battalion. Nina says her son, who had no military experience, was given a gun and sent straight into Ukraine.\n\nHe was killed just days later. He was 24 years old.\n\nNina Chubarina says she tried to stop her son going to fight in Ukraine\n\nNina agrees to meet me in a park near Moscow, where she has found part-time work in a bread factory. She says the monotonous task of packing loaves takes her mind off the loss of her son.\n\nShe remembers pleading with her son not to go to Ukraine.\n\n\"I tried to talk him out of it. I cried. I said, 'There's a war, you'll be killed!' He said, 'Mum, everything will be fine.'\"\n\nNina is critical of how the authorities recruit volunteers to fight in Ukraine.\n\n\"They just send them in like dumb little chickens! They'd hardly even held a gun before. They're cannon fodder. The generals think, 'We've got a volunteer: great, in you go!'\"\n\nNot everyone is as keen to sign up as Yevgeny.\n\nTravelling around this country, you are not left with the impression that the Russian people are all fully behind the \"special military operation,\" as the Kremlin likes to call it.\n\nYevgeny Chubarin was killed within days of joining the Russian army to fight in Ukraine\n\nThe number of cars on Russian roads displaying the pro-war \"Z\" symbol is still relatively few. Experts say that the numbers of volunteers joining up are low.\n\nMilitary analyst Pavel Luzin says people here are not ready to sacrifice themselves for their president.\n\n\"The problem for the Kremlin is that most Russian people are not going to die for Putin or for the restoration of 'the great Empire'. Recruitment isn't possible in current circumstances because there is no civil consensus in Russia for the war.\n\n\"Compare this with Ukraine. The Ukrainians are ready to fight.\"\n\nWith thanks to Alla Konstantinova from Mediazona.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nManchester City and England striker Ellen White has announced her retirement from football.\n\nThe 33-year-old scored a record 52 goals for the Lionesses and helped them win Euro 2022.\n\nWhite started her career at Chelsea in 2005 and also played for Leeds, Arsenal, Notts County and Birmingham before joining City in 2019.\n\nShe made her international debut against Austria in March 2010 and went on to make 113 England appearances.\n\nWhite, a three-times England women's player of the year, led the line as the Lionesses beat Germany in a dramatic Euro 2022 final at Wembley last month to win their first major women's tournament.\n\nShe retires one short of equalling Wayne Rooney's record of 53 goals for England.\n\n\"This has been one of the hardest decisions of my life but one that I know is the right decision for me,\" said White.\n\n\"This decision has always been one I have wanted to make on my terms. And this is my time to say goodbye to football and watch the next generation shine.\n\n\"It has been my greatest honour and privilege to play this game. Playing for England has and always will be the greatest gift.\n\n\"My dreams came true on 31 July, winning the Euros and becoming a European champion.\"\n\nWhite enjoyed most of her success at club level with Arsenal, winning two Women's Super League titles as well as two FA Cups and three League Cups. She also won the FA Cup and League Cup in her three years at Manchester City.\n\nWhite began her goalscoring exploits for England on her debut against Austria 12 years ago and demonstrated her prowess in front of goal on the global stage with a spectacular lob against Japan at the 2011 World Cup in Germany.\n\nShe missed most of 2014 with an anterior cruciate ligament injury and in June 2016, the then Notts County striker scored her first international goals in nearly three years when she twice found the net in England's 7-0 win over Serbia in European Championship qualifying.\n\nSeven more goals followed in 2017 and 2018 before a fruitful spell in 2019 when White finished joint-top scorer at the 2019 World Cup having struck six times during England's run to fourth place.\n\nLater that year, White was on target in England's friendly defeat by Germany at Wembley - a game which attracted a record-breaking crowd for a Lionesses home international of 77,768.\n\nIn November 2021, White became the Lionesses' record goalscorer, surpassing Kelly Smith's record of 46, as England thumped Latvia 20-0 to record their biggest-ever competitive victory.\n\n'World class' and 'my hero' - tributes to White\n\n\"Ellen has given so much for England and we are all so proud of her,\" she added.\n\n\"I have only had the pleasure of working with her for this past year, but her professionalism, work rate and finishing ability is world class.\n\n\"This summer she did an amazing job for the team, she is the perfect team player and helped the younger players to find their way in international football.\n\n\"I already knew she was a great player but I found an even better person.\n\n\"We will miss her, but I fully understand her decision to take a new direction.\"\n\nArsenal forward Beth Mead, who won the golden boot playing alongside White for England at Euro 2022, said the striker was her \"hero\".\n\n\"Words can't describe how proud & lucky I am to have called you a team-mate but also a friend. The biggest professional & goalscorer. The game didn't deserve you but you'll be missed greatly. ellsbells89 my hero,\" she posted on Twitter.\n\nFellow Euro 2022 winner Rachel Daly was also quick to praise White's contribution to the game, tweeting: \"The absolute best of the best. Thank you, Ellen.\n\n\"You truly are (one) of a kind. I'm so excited for your future and so proud of everything you've achieved.\"\n\nGary Lineker also tweeted: \"A wonderful career and a fabulous goalscorer. Wish ellsbells89 all the very best with what comes next.\"\n\nSpurs and England captain Harry Kane posted: \"Congratulations on an amazing career ellsbells89 and what a way to finish! A real inspiration for the next generation of Lionesses.\"\n\nBrighton women's manager Hope Powell, who gave White her England debut in 2010, said: \"Ellen has had such a wonderful career and I'm proud of the small part I played when I gave Ellen her first England cap back in 2010 when she scored in our win over Austria.\n\n\"I have worked with few players as selfless and dedicated as Ellen. Those qualities and many others helped her give so much to the game both at international and domestic level and maintain such high standards.\"\n\n'The game will miss her greatly'\n\nWhite will go down in history as one of England's greatest players and she leaves the game at the top following this summer's success at the Euros.\n\nHer goalscoring records for both club and country are nothing short of exceptional, while there are few players in history who can say they have competed in six major tournaments, alongside two Olympic Games.\n\nShe will be widely celebrated for her goals but her contribution off the pitch to the growth of women's football cannot be understated.\n\nWhite has been a senior figure for women's football in this country for many years and became a household name in the 2019 World Cup where she finished joint-top scorer.\n\nShe has shown leadership, experience and huge pride in both playing for her country, as well as pushing for better opportunities in the domestic game.\n\nHer iconic 'goggle-eyes' goal celebration has become a familiar image among football fans and her enjoyable post-match dancing at the Euros will be fondly remembered.\n\nWhite has earned legendary status after a stunning career that has spanned more than two decades. The game will miss her greatly.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWater companies have been accused of failing to monitor sewage discharges at popular British seaside resorts.\n\nData analysed by the Liberal Democrats found that many monitoring devices had either not been installed or do not work \"90% of the time\".\n\nThe Lib Dems said the data showed a quarter of sewage discharges went unmonitored last year as a result of a lack of monitors or faults.\n\nWater firms have insisted they are committed to tackling the issue.\n\nIn Seaford, East Sussex, where the beach is popular with swimmers and families, a monitor was only working a third of the time, according to a review of data from the Environment Agency.\n\nSouthern Water was forced to apologise last week after beaches in East Sussex were closed due to untreated wastewater being released into the sea at the shoreline.\n\nPollution warnings were put in place across more than 40 beaches and swimming spots in England and Wales after heavy rain overwhelmed sewer systems.\n\nParticular concern was raised over a handful of beaches that have bathing water status - including Littlehampton in West Sussex and Lee-on-Solent in Hampshire - where the Lib Dems said some Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) devices were not installed at all.\n\nAcross Devon and Cornwall, one in eight of South West Water's sewage monitors installed at designated bathing locations were also either faulty or not installed, they said.\n\nBathing water status is given to locations where ministers expect \"a large number of people to bathe\" based on past trends.\n\nRaw sewage was pumped into rivers and coasts around 375,000 times in 2021, down 25,000 from the previous year, according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThe agency said it increased the number of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) monitored across the network from 800 in 2016 to more than 12,000 in 2020. All 15,000 will have them by the end of 2023, it added.\n\nThe government previously said it wanted to reduce discharges into bathing waters by 70% by 2035, and eliminate 160,000 incidents of sewage overflows by 2040.\n\nWater minister Steve Double said earlier this week: \"We are the first government to take action to tackle sewage overflows.\n\nDr Imogen Napper, a postdoctoral researcher in marine pollution at the University of Plymouth, said for such goals to be met more \"investment and accountability is required from water companies to ensure this environmental disaster is not repeated\".\n\n\"The protection of our environment, and the community that enjoy it, is paramount,\" she told BBC News, adding it was \"environmental vandalism\" for raw sewage to \"enter our environment due to [companies] cutting corners and a lack of appropriate infrastructure\".\n\nWhen all monitors were considered - not just those in spots with bathing status - the Lib Dem analysis found that the water company with the worst record was Anglian Water, which had less than half (49%) its sewage discharges measured due to a faulty monitor or the fact one was never installed.\n\nThis was followed by South West Water (30%) and Severn Trent Water (29%).\n\nStanley Johnson, the prime minister's father, blamed his son's administration for the sewage problem, saying it should have been pressed harder.\n\nLinking the problem to Brexit, he said Britain's beaches got a \"clean up\" after joining the European Union in 1973. Without the \"EU push\", he added, the UK faces a \"very dangerous and difficult situation\".\n\nBoth Anglian Water and Southern Water told BBC News work had already been done to improve the issue.\n\n\"All but three of the places designated for bathing in our region are rated as good or excellent for bathing water quality, and all have EDM monitors installed on them,\" an Anglian Water spokeswoman said.\n\nShe added the company planned to have devices installed \"across all CSOs by the end of 2023\".\n\nAt Southern, a spokesman said the company has monitors on \"87.8% of our storm overflows, giving us the ability to report pollutions more accurately\".\n\nHe added: \"This covers 959 of our 974 overflows - one of the highest levels in the industry.\n\n\"We have committed to £145m of investment to drive down pollutions by 2025.\"\n\nLib Dem MP Tim Farron, the party's environment spokesperson, described a \"national scandal\" in which water companies could be guilty of \"gross negligence by failing to install sewage monitors\".\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for water regulator Ofwat said it was currently investigating \"all wastewater companies\" in England and Wales due to \"concerns\" over how they \"manage their treatment works\".\n\nCases are currently open in relation to six of them, he told BBC News, adding: \"Where we find issues, we will act\".\n\nTory MPs last year defended themselves after 256 voted with the government to reject an attempt by the House of Lords to bolster the Environment Bill.\n\nPeers wanted to force water companies and the government to demonstrate progressive reductions in discharges of untreated sewage and make it standard for them to \"take all reasonable steps\" to avoid using combined sewer overflows.\n\nSome MPs said the proposed amendment was unnecessary, while others argued dumping sewage into open water was better than it coming into people's homes or businesses.", "Strike action at the port is expected to last until 29 August\n\nA second day of strike action is under way at the UK's busiest container port after workers walked out on Sunday in a pay dispute.\n\nThe union Unite said about 1,900 of its members were taking action, expected to last eight days, at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nA 7% pay offer from the port operator was described as \"significantly below\" the rate of inflation by Unite.\n\nThe decision to strike was described by the port as \"disappointing\".\n\nA picket line formed for a second time on Monday, with the union saying it would be staffed until 22:00 BST each day of the strike.\n\nThe Port of Felixstowe handles about 48% of container trade, and employs about 2,550 people, Unite said.\n\nPort spokesman Paul Davey said the pay offer of \"7% plus £500 was \"a very fair offer indeed.\"\n\nOn Monday, he told Sky News that \"a lot of [its] employees, Unite members, don't want to be on strike\" but crossing a picket line was \"a very intimidating atmosphere\".\n\n\"We've spoken to a lot of them,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a lot of people at home who are quite angry with Unite, that they haven't given them an opportunity to vote on a pay deal which we know many of them would accept. They've told us they would.\"\n\nUnite national officer, Robert Morton, acknowledged it had not put the employer's offer to its members but said they had wanted an improved pay offer in line with at \"least the rate of inflation\".\n\n\"So when we get further up the negotiations, perhaps we will put an offer to them, but it certainly won't be at 7%,\" he said.\n\nHe suggested a figure between \"7% and 12.3%\" would be \"acceptable\".\n\nStrike action is expected to last for eight days\n\nDocker Andrew Damant, on the picket line on Monday, said workers wanted a 10% rise.\n\n\"My rent was increased by £90 six months ago,\" he said.\n\n\"We're on pay-as-you-go gas and electric meters [and] whereas gas was £20 a month in the summer before, it's now £40 a month, the electricity is £100 a month and this is only going to go up and up and up.\"\n\nThere is also concern about the impact of the strike on shipping companies.\n\nMark Woodward, from DFDS Seaways, said: \"Longer term, if the situation isn't resolved, it's going to have a reputational impact both on ourselves as DFDS and the Port of Felixstowe as a safe operating zone and customers will look necessarily elsewhere.\"\n\nThe port handles about 48% of the UK container trade\n\nContainer logistics company, Maersk, has said eight days of no operation will have a \"significant impact\" and it has been left with \"no choice but to omit three services\".\n\nUK managing director, Gary Jeffreys, said the containers on those vessels will be \"dropped off\" in Europe and transferred back to Felixstowe or an alternative UK port based on customer preferences within the \"quickest time possible\".\n\n\"This is normal practice when we invoke a contingency situation which can be for various reasons from industrial action, labour availability or even weather,\" he said.\n\nMr Jeffreys added that while most customers have told them they are \"well-stocked\", there will be \"fast-moving consumer goods that will be needed quickly\".\n\n\"Not everyone, especially small/medium size companies, will have the luxury of significant stocks, they will be hit harder.\n\n\"Ultimately everyone is impacted, we will always find ways to keep cargo moving but we need the port and the unions to reach an agreement which means we can return to normal service.\"\n\nStrike action at the port is expected to last until Monday, 29 August.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian investigators released this photo of teams inspecting the site of the explosion\n\nMuscovites on Monday morning awoke to a smoky haze that had enveloped the city - nearby wildfires were to blame, said the authorities. The other topic of conversation was equally murky - who killed the ultranationalist Darya Dugina, and was she the intended target?\n\nThe 29-year-old journalist was killed in a car bomb explosion on Saturday night.\n\nRussian media reported that her father, radical philosopher Alexander Dugin, was supposed to be travelling in the vehicle, but changed his mind at the last minute. This led to speculation that Mr Dugin, 60, was the intended victim.\n\nHe is a controversial figure in Russia. His political ideology, Eurasianism, sees Russia as the centre of a new empire that will challenge liberal democracy and Western culture. Previously on the fringes of political life here, Mr Dugin's ideology went mainstream as Russia became more belligerent on the world stage.\n\nBut he has never held any official positions in state structures.\n\nRussian political analyst Yekaterina Shulman told me that theories of Mr Dugin being \"close to Putin\" or \"Putin's brain\" are wrong.\n\n\"He may have been influential indirectly - some things he wrote may appeal to [people in the security services]... but he did not have any direct influence on the decision-making process, ever,\" she insisted.\n\nBut Mr Dugin was a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, as was his daughter.\n\nRussia's FSB Security Service has said that Ukrainian intelligence agents were responsible for the murder. In a statement released on Monday, the FSB claimed that Ukrainian operatives fled to Estonia after blowing up her car.\n\nAn adviser to the Ukrainian president has denied Ukraine was involved.\n\nOn Monday morning, the Time Will Tell programme on Russian state TV paid tribute to Ms Dugina, who had been a regular guest. \"She died for the idea of the 'Russian World',\" said presenter Olesya Loseva.\n\nOne studio guest suggested the response would be \"holy fury\" and the programme showed a photograph of mortar shells, apparently belonging to pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, one of which had \"This is for Darya!\" scrawled on the side.\n\nIf Ms Dugina's killing was meant to intimidate Russia, bellowed several of the guests, \"it will have the opposite effect\".\n\nMs Shulman says the outpouring of anger amongst pro-Kremlin commentators in response to the car bomb attack appears suspicious: \"The reaction… was immediate. It looks as if they were waiting for something like this to happen.\"\n\nShe says that whoever was responsible, the killing \"could possibly be used to ramp up some public outrage within the country to justify even more active repressive actions on the part of the state\".\n\nAmongst ordinary Russians though, the killing of Darya Dugina - a very minor figure in Russia - will have made little impact, if any.\n\nBut many here will be worried about the worsening security situation in Russia. A series of explosions have hit Russian bases in occupied Crimea, and in Russian regions near the border with Ukraine, in recent weeks.\n\nAnd some opinion polls do show that more Russians are becoming concerned that the \"special military operation\" - what the Kremlin likes to call its invasion of Ukraine - is dragging on, and is unsuccessful.\n\nDarya Dugina was vocal in her support for the Russian government over the invasion of Ukraine", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children are moving from Kensington Palace in west London to a cottage on the Queen's Windsor Estate.\n\nTheir new home, Adelaide Cottage, is a 10-minute walk from Windsor Castle.\n\nIt marks a new chapter according to their friends, an attempt to ensure as normal an upbringing as possible for their three children.\n\nThe move underlines the strength and importance of the relationship between William and his grandmother.\n\nIt is a relationship which grows in significance as the Queen relies more and more on Princes Charles and William for their advice on the issues facing the monarchy and the family.\n\nAnd the choice of Adelaide Cottage sends another message - that the Cambridges are content to live in what, by royal standards, is a modest home.\n\nThere will inevitably be comparisons between the four-bedroom cottage chosen by the Cambridges and the very much more expansive, multi-roomed accommodation selected by the Sussexes in California.\n\nWilliam and Catherine want privacy and a rural setting for themselves and their three children - George, nine, Charlotte, seven, and four-year-old Louis.\n\nAll the children will be starting at nearby Lambrook School, a private co-educational school near Ascot in Berkshire.\n\nThe school's prospectus says it has \"first-class teaching and superb facilities\" - including a 25-metre swimming pool, a nine-hole golf course, an orchard with bees, chickens and pigs, as well as woodland where it says children can get muddy.\n\nSending their three children there as day pupils will cost more than £50,000 a year in total, presuming no sibling discounts.\n\nNo major refurbishment will be needed at Adelaide Cottage\n\nAdelaide Cottage has a long history of royal usage. It was built in 1831 as a home for the wife of William IV, Queen Adelaide - hence its name.\n\nIn more recent times it was home to Group Captain Peter Townsend, the Battle of Britain pilot who became an equerry to King George VI and who became the close confidante of the King's younger daughter, Princess Margaret.\n\nTownsend lived at Adelaide Cottage with his first wife from 1944 to 1952.\n\nNo major refurbishment will be required and the inevitable security considerations have all apparently been satisfied.\n\nThe Cambridges will keep their Norfolk home, Anmer Hall, and their apartment at Kensington Palace - both of which are sizeable.\n\nBut now their principal home will be where they hope their family can enjoy as uninterrupted a life as possible.", "Three NHS sites are set to begin a pilot offering eligible patients smaller doses of monkeypox vaccine, amid global shortages of the jab.\n\nExperts say the reduced shots are just as effective and will mean more people are protected.\n\nThe fractional dosing approach has been authorised in the US and the EU, as well as the UK.\n\nMore than 3,000 people have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK since the epidemic began in May.\n\nMost cases of the virus have been among gay and bisexual men.\n\nHowever, anyone who comes into close contact with someone who has monkeypox could potentially contract the virus.\n\nVaccination can help prevent new cases.\n\nUK officials say more than 33,000 regular dose shots have been given to some of those at the greatest risk of contracting the virus.\n\nBut many more, who could benefit from being vaccinated, have not yet been immunised - and stocks of the vaccine are running low.\n\nFractional dosing could maximise the number of doses that can be administered currently, without compromising protection, says the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).\n\nClinics in Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Locala Health and Wellbeing in Greater Manchester are to begin offering people the lower dose option.\n\nAlthough the dose is a fifth of the volume of the regular one - 0.1ml rather than 0.5ml - studies suggest it still gives good protection.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisation at UKHSA, said: \"Adopting this tried-and-tested technique will help to maximise the reach of our remaining stock, including the 100,000 doses due to arrive in the country next month - potentially enabling us to offer protection for many more thousands of people.\n\n\"We will continue to remain agile in our response to the monkeypox outbreak and will adapt our approach as new science and advice becomes available.\"\n\nDr Claire Dewsnap, President of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV, said: \"We absolutely support the UKHSA-led fractional dosing pilots assessing feasibility in UK sexual health clinics. If acceptable, this would offer us the opportunity to roll out vaccine to those eligible much faster, and would address the issues of short supply of vaccine across the world.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nArkansas State Police have launched an investigation after three local law enforcement officers were seen on video beating a man during an arrest.\n\nOne of the officers repeatedly punches the man in the head and bashes his head against the pavement.\n\nState police said the man had been accused of making threats in a shop earlier on Sunday morning.\n\nAll three officers have been removed from active duty on paid leave pending an investigation into their conduct.\n\nPolice said that when officers confronted the suspect, 27-year-old Randall Worcester, he pushed a deputy to the ground and punched the back of his head, leading to the arrest seen in the video.\n\nMr Worcester, who was taken to hospital, faces terroristic threatening, resisting arrest, criminal trespass, criminal mischief and assault charges, police said.\n\nA video of the arrest appears to show one officer beating the suspect while another repeatedly knees him in the back. Both are dressed in the uniform of the Crawford County Sheriff's office.\n\nThe third officer restrains the man on the ground.\n\nThe suspect covers his head with his hands and appears to be trying to roll up into a ball to protect himself.\n\nThe officers were identified as Deputy Zack King, Deputy Levi White of the Crawford County Sheriff's office and Mulberry police officer Thell Riddle.\n\nThe clip has been viewed millions of times on social media.\n\nA woman who is not seen in the video can be heard saying: \"Don't beat him! He needs his medicine!\"\n\nOne officer responds with an expletive while another orders her to get in her car.\n\nThe person who posted the video online said her sister witnessed the altercation in the town of Mulberry.\n\nCrawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante said his office is \"co-operating with all aspects\" of the probe launched by the Arkansas State Police and the FBI.\n\n\"The conduct that appears in the video that is circulating is not indicative of the Crawford County Sheriff's Department or any law enforcement agency in this area,\" Mr Damante told reporters on Monday.\n\n\"We condemn all violence against any civilian or any person being detained by the sheriff's office,\" he continued.\n\nIn a statement released Sunday evening, Mulberry Police Chief Shannon Gregory said: \"The city of Mulberry and the Mulberry police department takes these investigations very seriously.\"\n\nArkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Sunday night on Twitter that the \"incident in Crawford County will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney\".", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's men's 4x100m team defended their title at the European Championships, after Jake Wightman had to settle for silver in a close finish to the men's 800m final in Munich.\n\nThe men's quartet ran a championship record 37.67 seconds to beat France and Poland to gold.\n\nHowever, the women's team were unable to finish after dropping their baton.\n\nGold for hosts Germany in the women's 4x100m meant they edged Britain in the final medal table.\n\nGermany finished on 26 golds - two more than Britain - as both nations ended with 60 medals at the end of a thrilling 11 days of competition across nine sports.\n\nIn athletics, Britain finished with 20 medals - more than any other nation - with their six golds second to Germany (seven). In 20182, they won 18 medals, including seven golds.\n• None Great Britain win 60 medals to finish second in Munich\n\nBritain's 1500m world champion Wightman missed out on 800m gold to Spain's Mariano Garcia by just 0.06secs.\n\nThe 28-year-old clocked a season's best one minute 44.91 seconds in the two-lap race, as Ireland's Mark English clinched bronze.\n\nThe European silver completed a sweep of major medals this summer for Wightman, who also won Commonwealth 1500m bronze.\n\n\"I felt I was in the right place and I was just willing him [Garcia] to come back. I didn't quite have enough to get it at the end,\" Wightman told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I really went into this thinking I could win, but coming away with silver is a really nice way to end my season.\"\n\nBritain lined up as defending champions in both the men's and women's 4x100m events - but the two teams had varying fortunes at the Olympiastadion.\n\nThe men's quartet, which won world bronze behind Canada and the USA at the World Championships in July, stormed to victory as Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake brought the team home following legs by Jeremiah Azu, Zharnel Hughes and Jona Efoloko.\n\n\"Its a great feeling to come out with the gold,\" said Mitchell-Blake. \"To come out of it with the championship record is a bonus. It's been a true team effort.\"\n\nThe women's team had run the fastest time in qualifying - with only Spain also managing to clock under 43 seconds - as they looked to bounce back from their disappointment at the worlds.\n\nTheir medal hopes were ended in Eugene after Dina Asher-Smith pulled up with injury.\n\nSet to race the final leg on Sunday, Asher-Smith replaced Bianca Williams for the final, joining Asha Philip, Imani Lansiquot and Ashleigh Nelson.\n\nBut Philip was unable to hand the baton over to second-leg runner Lansiquot, as Germany took the title in 42.34 ahead of Poland and Italy.\n\n\"This team is really consistent and so I'm really shocked about what happened out there,\" said Philip. \"I can't get my head around it just yet. We wanted to defend our title but things just didn't go my way in that race.\"\n\nAsher-Smith said: \"We're such a strong squad, we know what we're capable of and we have a phenomenal time in us.\n\n\"Unfortunately this is why the relay is one of everyone's favourite races - there are so many factors to get right. Things do happen, it's unfortunate but it's OK, we will just grow from it.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC TV, British sprinter Richard Kilty said: \"Britain should be dominating absolutely every European Championships in the 4x100m. We have the talent, we have big investment.\n\n\"Mistakes do happen and the girls will learn from it. I'm glad this has happened now and not next year or going into the Olympics, because that team is definitely a constant medal-winning quartet.\"\n\nIn July, Wightman became the first Briton to win the men's 1500m world title since Steve Cram in 1983.\n\nHowever, he admitted he struggled to refocus following that success and said he was \"relieved\" to earn bronze for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in early August.\n\nDespite initially planning to go for three major 1500m medals this summer, he subsequently chose to switch to the 800m in Munich as a way to \"refresh\".\n\nThe Briton ran a smart race on Sunday and was well positioned at the start of the final straight, but he was unable to overhaul Garcia in the closing stages.\n\n\"I really wanted to add the European 800m title to my world 1500m title and I felt in the shape to do it,\" Wightman added.\n\n\"The toughest bit [of the season] was after winning the 1500m at the Worlds. I'm pleased with how I managed to come back and I'm still running well.\n\n\"It's something that I can reflect on at the end of the season and be proud of - that I got something from each of these championships.\"\n\nBritain's Ben Pattison, who won Commonwealth Games 800m bronze for England earlier this month, finished sixth in Munich in 1:45.63.\n\nIn the women's 100m hurdles final, Cindy Sember clipped the second hurdle as she finished outside the medal positions.\n\nThe Commonwealth bronze medallist started as favourite, with the quickest time of the field this season, but crossed the line eighth.\n\nPoland's Pia Skrzyszowska won the title in 12.53 seconds, Hungary's Luca Kozak took silver and Switzerland's Ditaji Kambundji earned bronze.\n\nIn the men's 10,000m final, Britain's Emile Cairess finished 11th in 28:07.37, one place ahead of compatriot and World Indoors 3,000m bronze medallist Marc Scott (28:07.72).\n\nMeanwhile, Morgan Lake finished tied seventh in the women's high jump final with a clearance of 1.90m.", "The event was held for the first time since 2019\n\nEurope's largest pride celebration for LGBTQ+ people of African, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle-Eastern descent has taken place in London.\n\nIt is the first time UK Black Pride has been held in person since 2019, as celebrations in 2020 and 2021 were online due to Covid.\n\nThe event at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London featured music, speeches and workshops.\n\nMore than 10,000 people attended the last Black Pride in 2019.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said on Twitter he was \"proud to support\" an event that was \"more vital and relevant than ever\".\n\n\"London gets its power from diversity,\" he said.\n\nSexual health teams attended to offer testing for HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It is a medication taken by people who are HIV negative to stop them acquiring HIV.\n\nDominic Reilly, from Central London Action on Sexual Health, said: \"We are really pleased to have a presence at this fantastic event, which provides a supportive, inclusive space for LGBTQI+ people.\n\n\"Our testing offer provides an easy, convenient service for people who may find it challenging to attend sexual health services in clinics during the week, and our PrEP promotion work will help spread the word about this highly effective HIV prevention technology, which many of those who may benefit from it are not currently aware of.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bus driver said the gunman opened fire at the vehicle and people on the street\n\nEight people have been wounded after a Palestinian gunman opened fire at two locations in Jerusalem, officials say.\n\nThe assailant targeted a bus carrying Jewish worshippers who had just prayed at the Western Wall as well as people in a car park near the holy site.\n\nTwo of the wounded are in a serious condition, including a pregnant woman. US citizens were among the victims.\n\nThe gunman, identified as a resident of occupied East Jerusalem, fled the scene but later turned himself in.\n\nIsraeli police said he had a criminal record but no known affiliations with Palestinian militant groups.\n\nThey believe that he acted alone, but they are concerned that he might inspire copycat attacks.\n\nThe driver of the bus targeted by the gunman said it had been full of passengers coming from the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews are allowed to pray, when it stopped at the Tomb of David station in the early hours of Sunday.\n\n\"We opened the ramp for someone on a wheelchair, and then the shooting started,\" Daniel Kanievsky told Israel's Kan radio.\n\n\"Everyone got down on the floor, screaming. I tried to escape, but the bus couldn't drive with the ramp open.\"\n\nThe pregnant woman was shot in the stomach and had to have an emergency Caesarean section at Jerusalem's Shaarei Tsedek Hospital. A hospital spokesman told AFP news agency that the woman was in a serious condition and that her baby was in a serious but stable condition.\n\nLocal media reported that the wounded also included four members of a family from New York who were waiting for a taxi at the bus stop. The father was said to have suffered wounds to the head and neck and was in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nUS ambassador Tom Nides confirmed that US citizens were among the victims and said he strongly condemned the attack.\n\nIsrael's prime minister said security in Jerusalem was being reinforced to prevent copycat attacks\n\nIsraeli police said that after a manhunt that lasted several hours the suspected attacker turned himself in along with the pistol he apparently used.\n\nIsraeli media identified him as Amir Sidawi, a 26-year-old from East Jerusalem's Silwan district, and reported that he took a taxi to the Moriah police station, where he surrendered.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told a cabinet meeting: \"There is one conclusion from this incident, as from previous incidents: Whoever harms Israeli citizens has nowhere to hide. We will pursue them, find them wherever they are, and deal with them to the fullest extent of the law.\"\n\nMr Lapid said security in Jerusalem was being reinforced significantly in order to prevent copycat attacks.\n\nPalestinian militant groups praised the shooting, which came a week after the latest violent escalation in the Gaza Strip.\n\nAt least 47 people were killed in Gaza over three days as Israeli forces targeted leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and militants fired more than 1,000 rockets into Israel.\n\nGaza's health ministry said 35 civilians were killed, including 17 children, while PIJ said it lost 12 fighters.\n\nSeveral Israelis sustained minor injuries as a result of PIJ rockets that landed inside Israel.\n• None Truce brings relief to Gaza, for now", "The force was heavily criticised for its handling of the vigil for Sarah Everard\n\nThe prosecution of six protesters who attended a vigil for Sarah Everard has been dropped.\n\nHundreds attended the event at Clapham Common in March 2021 after Ms Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens.\n\nThe Met accused six people of breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules at the vigil.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said \"our legal test for a prosecution was not met\".\n\nDania Al-Obeid was one of six people who were facing prosecution for attending the vigil\n\nOne of the six, Dania Al-Obeid, described the decision to drop her case as a \"victory\".\n\nShe is taking legal action against the Met over its policing of the vigil and its conduct towards her.\n\nHer barrister, Pippa Woodrow, said she was \"delighted\" that the \"ordeal\" was over.\n\nSarah Everard was kidnapped in south London on 3 March 2021 as she was walking home from a friend's house\n\nThe Met was heavily criticised for its handling of the unofficial vigil held on 13 March last year, after a planned socially distanced event was cancelled when organisers were threatened with £10,000 fines.\n\nFootage showed women being handcuffed on the ground and led away by officers.\n\nIt took place while Covid restrictions in London meant household mixing, aside from support bubbles and two people meeting in public outdoor places, was banned.\n\nNine fixed penalty notices were handed out by the Met after the vigil.\n\nTwo of those were paid and another was dropped with no further action.\n\nHundreds gathered at the vigil with many laying flowers for Ms Everard\n\nSix people had been due to stand trial in November. Several of them had already been convicted without their knowledge via a new fast-track system, but appealed against the decisions and secured full hearings.\n\nThe CPS confirmed the six prosecutions had been discontinued.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have a duty to keep cases under continuous review and we concluded that our legal test for a prosecution was not met.\"\n\nMet Police Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said: \"We know how important it was for people to remember Sarah Everard and voice their anger.\n\n\"Officers took very seriously their duty to safeguard the public during the pandemic and to balance this with the rights of individuals.\n\n\"The decision to pursue a prosecution in these circumstances is entirely a matter for the CPS.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nIf last weekend's defeat at home by Brighton served as a warning for Manchester United and their new manager Erik ten Hag, then Saturday's embarrassing loss at Brentford will have sent alarm bells into overdrive.\n\nThe Red Devils' first away match of the new campaign ended in a sobering 4-0 reverse, which leaves the Red Devils without a point - and bottom of the league - after two games and desperately searching for answers.\n\nBBC Sport expert Chris Sutton believes United may have \"hit rock bottom\", Sky Sports pundit Karen Carney said the situation \"can't get any lower\" for Ten Hag and his players, and Gary Neville said the club's owners are overseeing a \"collective rot\".\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer told BBC Match of the Day: \"It is an absolute mess. Years of failure, years of mismanagement. There is a lack of leadership and the recruitment has been terrible.\n\n\"It will take time and an unbelievable amount of money to get things right, and a lot of patience from the Manchester United fans. They are miles away from where they want to be.\"\n\nSo just how bad is the situation at Old Trafford? BBC Sport takes a closer look.\n\n'Bullied, mauled and messed about with'\n\nIf United's travelling fans were hoping for a fast start from their team in response to last Saturday's loss to Brighton, they were left disappointed.\n\nThe Red Devils fell behind after just 10 minutes in west London, Josh Dasilva's long-range shot somehow squirming underneath goalkeeper David de Gea, and eight minutes later Mathias Jensen capitalised on De Gea's poor pass to double the Bees' lead with a cool finish.\n\nBen Mee nodded Brentford further in front, before Bryan Mbeumo latched on to a long ball to put the hosts 4-0 up after just 35 minutes.\n\nSky Sports pundit and former captain Neville did not mince his words at full-time, telling viewers: \"We are witnessing the annihilation of Manchester United.\n\n\"I thought United would do better but they have been mauled, bullied, messed about with like you wouldn't believe, and there's nowhere to hide.\n\n\"I have been watching United for 42 years and I can't think of a moment when I have thought things have been as bad as that in the first half.\"\n\nThis is the first time United have started a league campaign with consecutive losses since the first edition of the Premier League - which, funnily enough, they went on to win.\n\nThe stats do not make pleasant reading for Ten Hag either, the Dutchman becoming the first manager since John Chapman in 1921 to lose his opening two games in charge of the club.\n\nThe Red Devils' recent away record is atrocious - this is the first time they have suffered seven straight league defeats on the road since 1936, when they tumbled to 11 consecutive away losses.\n\nRemarkably, United have now conceded four goals in a game seven times since the beginning of the 2021-22 season. They have also let in four first-half goals on three occasions since October 2020.\n\nTo add insult to injury, this is Brentford's biggest top-flight win since they beat Grimsby Town 6-1 in April 1938.\n\nLiverpool, who visit Old Trafford a week on Monday, must be licking their lips.\n\nThen there are the club's owners.\n\nThere have been multiple protests against the Glazer family's ownership of the Old Trafford side in recent years - including one in May 2021 which caused the Red Devils' match against Liverpool to be postponed.\n\nUnited fans are planning another protest against the American family, who have owned the club since 2005, during their latest meeting with their bitter rivals.\n\n#EmptyOldTrafford has even been trending on Twitter as supporters call for a boycott of the game a week on Monday.\n\n\"Joel Glazer has to get on the plane tomorrow,\" Neville said. \"He has to get over to Manchester and he has to start to divert the issues away from the club and tell everybody what his plan is with the football club.\n\n\"When a business is failing and not performing, it is the owner of that business' fault. It is failing miserably.\n\n\"They took £24m out of the club two months ago, now they have a decrepit, rotting stadium that is second rate, when it was one of the best stadiums 10 to 15 years ago.\n\n\"You've got a football project where they haven't got a clue. You can look at the players all you like, but there are big things that need to be put right.\n\n\"They have to show up and face the music. The club is rotten.\"\n\nMUST, the club's Supporters' Trust, issued a statement in the aftermath of Saturday's defeat, saying the result feels like \"the culmination of a long-term direction of travel\".\n\nIt added: \"What we have witnessed tonight is an embarrassment - no, a humiliation - for Manchester United fans. And yet in many ways it was not a surprise.\"\n\nUnited seen as 'a joke' in Europe\n\nA stunned Ten Hag admitted after the full-time whistle that United need quality players - but on this evidence, who would want to join them?\n\nUnited's protracted move for Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong appears to have stalled, with the Dutchman reluctant to leave the Spanish giants because of a contractual disagreement which centres on deferred payments.\n\nThey have already splashed out over £65m on Tyrell Malacia, Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez this summer, which takes the club's spending since their last trophy - the 2017 Europa League - to about £672m.\n\nUnited ended their recent interest in Bologna striker Marko Arnautovic because of a combination of the Italian club's transfer fee demands and the negative reaction from Red Devils fans.\n\nHowever, negotiations are reported to be at an advanced stage with Juventus midfielder Adrien Rabiot.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's #EuroLeagues podcast, French journalist Julien Laurens said: \"They are not helping themselves.\n\n\"The non-existence of a transfer strategy, not just now but since Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson] left, is not just baffling, it's outrageous.\"\n\nFormer United midfielder Robbie Savage, speaking on 5 Live, added: \"How many more times will these players cost Manchester United managers their jobs?\n\n\"The recruitment has not been good enough over the last 10 years. Look at the centre forwards they have signed - [Edinson] Cavani, [Zlatan] Ibrahimovic, Falcao, [Odion] Ighalo. Now they're linked with Arnautovic. Where is the recruitment process?\"\n\n'Sick to our stomachs' - how social media reacted\n\nDean: It's fitting we chose a bright green kit as that's the face of every Man United fan watching. Sick to our stomachs.\n\nAndrew: If *Brighton* and *Brentford* are able to take Manchester United to the cleaners... what will the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester City do to this team? Utterly clueless. United are going to be relegation candidates & Erik ten Hag will be out by Christmas.\n\nZahi: I reckon most of these Man United players will have plenty of time for Xmas shopping when the season breaks. No way any of them will be in Qatar.\n\nBaron: Frenkie de Jong's chance of signing for United just went from 0% to 0%.\n\nBarotta: Man U will get their first points before the World Cup break for sure.\n\nAlex: It's great to see the Man Utd fans crying. Very loud when they are winning but when the club goes through a bad patch they soon turn. Real fans?? Glory hunters!\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "The age of motherhood is shifting relentlessly upward\n\nThe number of women giving birth aged over 40 has overtaken the number under 20 years of age for the first time.\n\nThe change is part of a general rise in maternal age, with more births also among 35-39 year olds than 20-24 year olds for the first time.\n\nA third of births in 2021 were to women aged 30 to 34, the largest category, figures from the Welsh government show.\n\nA health expert said policies would need to be put in place if governments wanted people to have children earlier.\n\nSince the turn of the millennium, there has been a steady downwards trend in births among younger women.\n\nIn 2001, just over 10% of births in Wales were to those aged 19 and under. This number has fallen every year since 2004, with last year's figures showing just 2.8% of births were to teenagers.\n\nIncreased education and career roles are big factors in later motherhood\n\nHowever, it is still the case that in certain areas, teenage motherhood remains a normalised experience for a significant number.\n\nAlthough figures from the 2021 census show the population of Wales and England has grown since the previous one a decade before, it also shows that the population as a whole - like its mothers - is getting older, with the percentage of people aged over 65 at 21.3%, up from 18.4% in 2011.\n\nWales has a lower number of under-15s than any part of England, except the south-west, at 16.5%, which has implications for future populations both in terms of looking after today's expanding numbers of elderly and for the future impact on workforce size.\n\nIs this something society should be concerned about looking to the future?\n\nWales is catching up with birth trends elsewhere, Prof Jacky Boivin says\n\nProf Jacky Boivin, a professor in health psychology at Cardiff University, said one of the clear impacts of moving towards an older age of motherhood is that women have fewer children overall.\n\nShe said: \"Wales is catching up to the rest of the world. These are trends that have been happening in other countries and it's just taken a little longer in Wales.\n\n\"As people get older and they postpone having children, the number of children they have drops off. It's rare that people who want to have a child will decide not to have a child at all; they'll have fewer children.\n\n\"That's the impact of waiting a long time.\"\n\nShe said there were multiple factors contributing to the rise of older mothers.\n\n\"It takes longer to be in education and therefore people kick the can of parenthood [further down the road] and that could be just education per se takes a long time, or it could be the choices people are making, so certain courses are more difficult to make more compatible with parenthood,\" she said.\n\n\"Because education is time intensive and more people are going through higher degrees, and those are also time intensive, then more people are postponing having children.\n\n\"People want their career to be at the right stage in order to start having children and ostensibly it's just for stability, especially for women, because they could lose opportunities for advancement or if they're out of the market, completely lose opportunities for training and so on.\"\n\nThe changing role of women had meant more options for them might also make having children a harder choice than it once was.\n\nAnd, with the increased likelihood that women are equally or more educated than men, finding a suitable partner can be a barrier, as traditionally women like to \"marry up\", according to the professor.\n\n\"As women have become more and more educated, there are fewer men to marry up to, and so we need a cultural shift in the fact that women ought to marry up. There's no need for this now anymore but it still exists,\" she explained.\n\nYoung people have lost opportunities to socialise because of increased time online\n\nThe cost of childcare in the UK could also be a factor.\n\n\"In countries where you have very liberal policies about childcare, where you get the money at an early age, like in Scandinavia under the age of three, more women will have children sooner,\" said Prof Boivin.\n\n\"But in countries like Germany where they don't provide any childcare until the baby is five, it's because they have a pro-natalist policy that says you should have your children at an early age and we want the mother to stay home, basically.\n\n\"So obviously, these women are even more likely to postpone for reasons to do with that.\"\n\nAt the other end of the age spectrum, early stage research being done at the Vienna Institute of Demography is pointing to two things, Prof Boivin says: one being the relative ease of access to contraception for teenagers to help them avoid unwanted pregnancy.\n\nThe other will come as no surprise to parents of teenagers everywhere.\n\n\"Young people have got out of the socialisation style that could lead to sexual encounters and unplanned births, basically which is usually when we say less than 20 is what we're thinking about,\" she said.\n\n\"[My colleague in Vienna] relates that back to screen time and a loss of opportunity for young people to meet, and to want to meet.\"\n\nWhat are her solutions to encourage more people to have children earlier?\n\n\"We need to destigmatise things like solo parenthood or sufficient policies like being a parent while in [higher] education,\" she said.\n\n\"There may need to be policies around that facilitate people starting early, despite not having reached their career stages and not completed their education.\"", "HMP Parc held more than 1,600 prisoners at the time of an inspection in 2019\n\nA 38-year-old inmate has died at Parc Prison in Bridgend.\n\nNext of kin have been informed after his death on Friday, and the prison said its thoughts were with his \"family and friends at this difficult time\".\n\nIt will be investigated by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman as with all prison deaths, according to HMP Parc.\n\nIt is a category B men's prison for adult and young adult offenders which held more than 1,600 prisoners at the time of an inspection in 2019.\n\nIt is operated by G4S Care and Justice Ltd as the only privately-run prison in Wales, and opened in 1997.\n\nA prison spokesperson said: \"Staff at HMP Parc take the health and wellbeing of prisoners extremely seriously.\n\n\"We provide an extensive range of services including a dedicated safeguarding officer on site and all prisoners have 24 hours access to the Samaritans lines as well as being able to speak to Samaritan trained prisoners about their mental health.\n\n\"We also provide an in-house health care team. All of our staff undertake mental health training during their employment.\"", "Lucy Mills (left) and Elen Kelly picked up 80 different dog poos around Brecon in a short space of time\n\nTwo dog walkers say they picked up 80 different dog poos in 90 minutes during an attempt to clean up a town centre.\n\nBusiness owners Lucy Mills and Elen Kelly said they were astonished they were able to pick up about one poo a minute on their \"poo patrol\" in Brecon.\n\nMs Mills said there were signs warning people to clean up after their dogs but a lack of enforcement.\n\nPowys council said it was up to dog walkers to be responsible and clean up after themselves.\n\nBut Ms Mills said a lack of visible wardens was an issue.\n\n\"In Brecon there seems to be a big problem with dog poo around the place, whereas in Bristol, where I lived previously, there was less,\" she said.\n\n\"In Bristol there are dog wardens and you get called out on it if you don't pick up after your dog whereas here, the most we have is a sign but nothing actually happens if you don't.\"\n\nShe added: \"Brecon is a lovely place. It's a beautiful spot and it attracts lots of tourists who come for walks and I just think it creates a terrible impression if you're having to pick your way through piles of dog poo.\"\n\nThe pair had set aside an hour-and-a-half for their clean up but only managed to get a short way into their planned route because of the volume of dog mess they encountered.\n\nMs Mills said dog owners should be responsible for hygiene and health reasons.\n\nAnother poo patrol is planned in the autumn\n\n\"You can't claim ignorance. Everybody that owns a dog knows you are supposed to carry poo bags and you are supposed to pick up after a dog,\" she said.\n\n\"So I don't think its ignorance, I think it's laziness potentially, just assuming that someone else will come along and do it for you.\"\n\nMs Mills said she intended to repeat her clean-up in the autumn.\n\n\"We've had lots of comments saying 'thank you so much'. People seem to really appreciate it,\" she added.\n\nPowys County Council said it was a \"minority\" of dog owners who \"let their communities down\".\n\nLucy believes the council should have wardens to encourage owners to pick up after their pets\n\n\"We have waste awareness and enforcement out and about adding signs and engaging with dog owners, whilst our street cleaners are doing their best to clean up after the irresponsible few who refuse to take responsibility for their own pets,\" a council spokesperson said.\n\n\"It is an offence to allow a dog in your control, even if you're walking someone else's dog, to foul in a public place and to fail to clean it up immediately after it has fouled and could be issued with a £75 fixed penalty notice.\"\n\nThe council urged residents to report people who do not pick up after their dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From the scene where Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage\n\nAuthor Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and can talk again, nearly two days after being stabbed.\n\nMr Rushdie, 75, was attacked while speaking at an event in New York state and was in a critical condition.\n\nHe has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nThe man charged over Friday's attack has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, and has been remanded in custody without bail.\n\nHadi Matar, 24, is accused of running onto the stage and stabbing Mr Rushdie at least 10 times in the face, neck and abdomen.\n\nFollowing the attack, his agent Andrew Wylie said the novelist had suffered severed nerves in one arm, damage to his liver, and would likely lose an eye.\n\nHenry Reese, who had been due to interview Mr Rushdie at the event, suffered a minor head injury. He is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nBefore the attack, Mr Rushdie was about to give a speech about how the US has served as a haven for such writers.\n\nThe novelist was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. Many Muslims reacted with fury to it, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nHe faced death threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for Mr Rushdie's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's head.\n\nThe fatwa remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nLittle is known about the suspect who attacked the acclaimed author on Friday.\n\nMr Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official has told the media.\n\nA review of his social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nPolice have not disclosed his motive - or what an examination of a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre may have yielded.\n\nHowever, no link has been definitively established with the IRGC - a major military, political and economic force with close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures.\n\nMr Rushdie was born in Bombay, India in 1947. He was sent to boarding school in England before going on to study history at the University of Cambridge. In 2007, he was knighted for services to literature.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of support for him, with the attack widely condemned as an assault on freedom of expression.", "Salman Rushdie, outside King's College chapel in Cambridge in 1993\n\nOver a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work.\n\nThe novelist is one of the most celebrated and successful British authors of all time, with his second novel, Midnight's Children, winning the illustrious Booker Prize in 1981.\n\nBut it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, which became his most controversial work - bringing about international turmoil unprecedented in its scale.\n\nIn the Islamic world, many Muslims reacted with fury to the book's publication, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nDeath threats were made against Rushdie, 75, who was forced to go into hiding, and the British government placed him under police protection.\n\nIran quickly broke off relations with the UK in protest and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for the novelist's assassination in 1989 - the year after the book's publication.\n\nBut in the West, authors and intellectuals denounced the threat to freedom of expression posed by the violent reaction to the book.\n\nThe Satanic Verses, published in 1988, brought about an international turmoil unprecedented in its scale\n\nSalman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain.\n\nAged 14, he was sent to England and to school in the town of Rugby, later gaining an honours degree in history at the prestigious Kings College in Cambridge.\n\nHe became a British citizen, and allowed his Muslim faith to lapse. He worked briefly as an actor and then as an advertising copywriter, while writing novels.\n\nHis first published book, Grimus, did not achieve huge success, but some critics saw him as an author with significant potential.\n\nRushdie took five years to write his second book, Midnight's Children, which won the 1981 Booker Prize. It was widely acclaimed and sold half a million copies.\n\nWhere Midnight's Children had been about India, Rushdie's third novel Shame - released in 1983 - was about a scarcely disguised Pakistan. Four years later, he wrote The Jaguar Smile, an account of a journey in Nicaragua.\n\nIn September 1988, the work that would endanger his life, The Satanic Verses, was published. The surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous.\n\nIndia was the first country to ban it. Pakistan followed suit, as did various other Muslim countries and South Africa.\n\nThe novel was praised in many quarters and won the Whitbread Prize for novels. But the backlash to the book grew, and two months later, street protests gathered momentum.\n\nDemonstrators were seen protesting against The Satanic Verses in Paris in February 1989\n\nSome Muslims considered it an insult to Islam. They objected - among other things - to two prostitutes in the book being given names of wives of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nThe book's title refers to a heavily disputed story about a series of verses that were claimed to have been omitted from the Quran because they were revealed to the Prophet Muhammed not by the Angel Gabriel, but by the devil.\n\nSome claimed the verses were recited to a crowd by the Prophet, but Muslim scholars have historically agreed that these verses were never part of the Quranic revelation.\n\nIn January 1989, Muslims in Bradford in the UK ritually burnt a copy of the book, and newsagents WHSmith stopped displaying it there. Rushdie rejected charges of blasphemy.\n\nIn Mumbai, Rushdie's hometown, 12 people were killed during intense Muslim rioting, the British embassy in Tehran was stoned, and a $3m (£2.5m) bounty was put on the author's head.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, some Muslim leaders urged moderation, others supported the ayatollah. The US, France and other Western countries condemned the death threat.\n\nRushdie - by now in hiding with his wife under police guard - expressed his profound regret for the distress he had caused Muslims, but the ayatollah renewed his call for the author's death.\n\nThe London offices of Viking Penguin, the publishers, were picketed, and death threats were received at the New York office.\n\nBut the book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic. Protests against the extreme Muslim reaction were backed by the EU countries, all of which temporarily recalled their ambassadors from Tehran.\n\nAn Indian Muslim wearing a mask of Rushdie was one of many protesting the author's presence in Bombay in January 2004\n\nBut the author was not the only person to be threatened over the book's content.\n\nThe Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was found slain at a university north-east of Tokyo in July 1991.\n\nPolice said the translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, who worked an assistant professor of comparative culture, was stabbed several times and left in the hallway outside his office at Tsukuba University. His killer has never been found.\n\nEarlier that same month, the Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was stabbed in his apartment in Milan, though he survived the attack.\n\nAnd the book's Norwegian translator, William Nygaard, was shot in 1993 outside his home in Oslo - he also survived.\n\nRushdie had to go into hiding and received police protection due to the backlash to The Satanic Verses\n\nA prolific writer, Rushdie's later books include a novel for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), a book of essays, Imaginary Homelands (1991), and the novels East, West (1994), The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), and Fury (2001).\n\nHe was involved in the stage adaptation of Midnight's Children which premiered in London in 2003.\n\nIn the last two decades he has published Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte.\n\nRushdie has been married four times, and has two children. He now lives in the US, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to literature.\n\nIn 2012, he published a memoir of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses.\n\nThe death sentence against Rushdie stopped being formally backed by Iran's government in 1998 and in recent years the author has enjoyed a new level of freedom.\n\nBut threats to his life always lingered under the surface, and Iran's current supreme leader - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - once said the fatwa against Rushdie was \"fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target\".\n\nUpdate 15 August: This story was updated to give additional context concerning the origins of the title of the book 'The Satanic Verses'.", "The army and National Guard on patrol in Tijuana\n\nThousands of federal troops have been deployed to several Mexican border cities, including Tijuana, amid a flare up in gang violence.\n\nThe northern state of Baja California was hit by a wave of arson that saw nearly 30 vehicles burned and highways blocked on Friday night.\n\nIt followed a week of violence and shootings in other Mexican states.\n\nThe central government has blamed the chaos on the powerful Jalisco New Generation drug cartel.\n\nOfficials have suggested that several cartels are involved in a power struggle and at least 17 people have been arrested in the most recent unrest, local media reported.\n\nOn Saturday, few people ventured out on the streets in Tijuana, with shops remaining closed and university classes cancelled. Many bus services also stopped running.\n\n\"Today we are saying to the organized crime groups that are committing these crimes, that Tijuana is going to remain open and take care of its citizens,\" she said in a video.\n\n\"We also ask them to settle their debts with those who didn't pay what they owe, not with families and hard-working citizens.\"\n\nSome 350 additional troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday, and Ms Caballero said around 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 police officers have been deployed across the state to restore order.\n\nState Governor Marina Del Pilar pledged to \"apply all the strength of our Government so that there is peace and we find those responsible for these attacks\".\n\nThe US consulate said in a statement that it \"is aware of reports of multiple vehicle fires, roadblocks and heavy police activity\" in several cities in the region and urged its employees to shelter in place.\n\nTijuana sits on the US border and the area around the city is a lucrative drug trafficking route. While it has long been controlled by the Arellano Felix cartel, it is believed to have become a battleground between several other gangs.\n\nEarlier this week drug cartel gunmen burned vehicles and businesses in the western states of Jalisco and Guanajuato after authorities attempted to detain a leader of the Jalisco cartel.\n\nAnd a gang riot at a prison in the border city of Ciudad Juarez quickly spread onto the streets, killing 11 people on Thursday.", "Homes were destroyed, trains delayed and flights cancelled as Tropical Storm Meari swept over parts of central Japan.\n\nAerial footage showed the extent of the damage to community infrastructure - which prompted a major clean-up operation.\n\nSome areas saw 50% more rain than the entire amount expected in August.", "Motorist: \"You don't expect to stand in a queue for half an hour whilst people try and work out how the machine works\"\n\nSome visitors to a seaside town were left frustrated when a pay and display parking machine gave instructions in Welsh.\n\nQueues developed as non-Welsh speakers struggled to work out how to use the ticket machine at the underground car park in Rhyl, Denbighshire.\n\nThe council is looking into it, but said drivers had other payment options.\n\nIt also said the machines default to Welsh, but users can change that by pressing a \"language button\".\n\nQueues were made worse when the machine failed to recognise debit cards.\n\nOne local motorist, who is not fluent in Welsh, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that one driver was so frustrated he gave up trying to figure out the machine.\n\nIn another instance, a crowd gathered around a family from Merseyside \"trying to solve the problem\".\n\n\"The whole point of a car park is you can park quickly and easily,\" said the motorist, who did not want to be named.\n\n\"You don't expect to stand in a queue for half an hour whilst people try and work out how the machine works - or doesn't work in this case.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said: \"Our pay and display machines default to Welsh, but there is a large grey 'language button' that people can press to change the language.\n\n\"This is explained on the machines; however, customer service management is also patrolling to assist customers on site.\"\n\nThe council said there were two other machines available in the Rhyl Central car park and people could also use the smartphone app.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Heavy gusts of wind force evacuation of partygoers at Medusa festival in Spain\n\nOne man died and at least 40 others were injured when high winds caused parts of a stage to collapse at a festival in Spain early on Saturday.\n\nFootage showed some festivalgoers running in panic, while others are seen continuing to party at the event in Cullera, south of Valencia.\n\nThe popular Medusa Festival of electronic music was later suspended.\n\nThe dead man was in his 20s, local media say. Three of the injured suffered serious traumas.\n\nSpain's meteorological agency reported gusts of winds exceeding 80km/h (50mph) in the country's eastern coastal region at the time.\n\n\"We are in a state of shock,\" one of the attendees told Spanish media. \"It could have been me, it could have been anyone,\"\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, organisers said they were \"devastated and saddened at what happened this morning\".\n\nThey said \"violent strong winds\" at about 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) had caused damage to infrastructure at the venue, and a decision was immediately taken to vacate the area.", "Authors around the world have expressed their shock and sadness at the attack on Salman Rushdie in New York State.\n\nThe stabbing attack came after years of Islamist death threats against the Indian-born novelist over The Satanic Verses, published in 1988.\n\nFellow authors such as JK Rowling and Stephen King have written messages of support, calling the news \"horrifying\".\n\nBooker-prize winning author, Ian McEwan, called it an \"appalling attack\" that \"represents an assault on freedom of thought and speech\".\n\n\"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred,\" he added.\n\nPlaywright Hanif Kureishi told the BBC World Service's Newshour radio programme that he was \"shocked and appalled\" at the assault.\n\nHe lamented the fact his friend Mr Rushdie was still facing threats to his life some 33 years after the Iranian supreme leader called for his killing in a fatwa (decree).\n\n\"Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,\" wrote Laurent Sourisseau, also known as Riss, the managing editor of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.\n\nRiss still lives under police protection after 17 people, including 12 of his colleagues, were killed by Islamist gunmen in 2015 over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.\n\nLisa Appignanesi, another friend of Mr Rushdie and a fellow writer, called the attack \"ghastly\", adding that she hoped \"he makes it through to give us more of his extraordinary imaginative intelligence\".\n\n\"He is a great and very courageous writer with enormous fictional intelligence, unsurpassed really,\" she added.\n\nBooker prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy said she was \"almost speechless with sorrow and anger\".\n\n\"He has also supported other writers across the world who have been suffering from other sorts of pressures. For something like this to happen to a person like Rushdie, it's really destabilising for a lot of us,\" she added.\n\nAfghan-American author Khaled Hosseini wrote: \"I'm utterly horrified by the cowardly attack on Salman Rushdie. I pray for his recovery. He is an essential voice and cannot be silenced.\"\n\nWriter Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to flee her home in Bangladesh after a court said her novel Lajja offended Muslim's religious faith, said she now feared for her own safety.\n\nSuzanne Nossel, head of PEN America, an organisation defending authors' freedom of expression, condemned the \"brutal, premeditated\" assault on the group's former president.\n\nMs Nossel said that Mr Rushdie had emailed her just hours before the incident, offering help with placements for Ukrainian writers.\n\n\"We hope and believe fervently that his essential voice cannot and will not be silenced,\" she added.", "Regulated train fares in England will rise below the rate of inflation next year to help people with the cost of living crisis, the government has said.\n\nBefore the Covid pandemic, fares were raised in January each year, based on the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation from the previous July.\n\nThe normal formula is RPI plus 1%. RPI in June was 11.8% - but it is not known what next year's increase will be.\n\nAs well as being lower than RPI, the increase will be delayed until March.\n\nThe pledge was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nRegulated fares cover about 45% of fares, including season tickets on most commuter journeys, some off-peak return tickets on long distances journeys and anytime tickets around major cities.\n\nThe June rate of RPI figure was the highest rate in more than 40 years.\n\nIn March, England and Wales saw the steepest increase in regulated train fares since January 2013, with a rise of 3.8%.\n\nRail fare increases are normally introduced on the first working day of every year but have been delayed until March every year since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nFares for rail services in Northern Ireland are set by state-owned operator Translink, which does not use RPI. The Scottish government has not announced its plan for next year yet. Wales usually matches changes made in England.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"The government is taking decisive action to reduce the impact inflation will have on rail fares during the cost of living crisis and will not be increasing fares as much as the July RPI figure.\n\n\"We are also again delaying the increase to March 2023, temporarily freezing fares for passengers to travel at a lower price for the entirety of January and February as we continue to take steps to help struggling households.\"\n\nThe pandemic saw a steep drop in the number of train passengers, as more people worked from home, and numbers have remained well below pre-Covid levels.\n\nRail workers continue to strike over pay, with unions calling for pay increases to match the rising cost of living.\n\nOn Saturday around 6,500 train drivers who are members of the Aslef union walked out in a dispute over pay with nine rail companies.\n\nMore strikes are planned for the coming week, with members of the RMT and TSSA unions walking out on 18 and 20 August\n\nIndustrial action will also be taken on 19 August by London Underground and London bus drivers.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nBrentford produced a stunning first-half performance as they scored four goals in the first 35 minutes to condemn Manchester United to a humiliating defeat at Gtech Community Stadium.\n\nJosh Dasilva put the hosts ahead when his strike from distance somehow eluded United goalkeeper David de Gea.\n\nMathias Jensen doubled the lead after dispossessing former Brentford player Christian Eriksen, with Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo goals putting Thomas Frank's side four up during an incredible first half in which they dismantled United in stunning fashion.\n\nThe defeat is United's seventh in a row on the road - their worst run since 1936 - while it is the seventh time they have conceded at least four goals in a league game since the start of last season.\n\nWhile Brentford can bask in a historic win, United boss Erik ten Hag faces the unenviable task of lifting his players in time for the visit of Liverpool to Old Trafford on Monday, 22 August.\n• None Follow reaction to Brentford's win plus the rest of Saturday's action\n• None Go straight to all the best Manchester United content\n\nFrom bad to worse for United\n\nHaving been deservedly beaten by Brighton last week, United sought to make a quick start but it was Brentford who found early joy as the visitors' defence crumbled in spectacular fashion against their high-pressing hosts.\n\nDe Gea, who for so long has been one of United's most consistent performers, was left red-faced when he allowed Dasilva's speculative shot from distance to slip underneath him and into the net, with Cristiano Ronaldo claiming he was fouled in the build-up.\n\nHarry Maguire was then booked for a clumsy lunge on Dasilva, and while Mathias Jensen missed from the resultant free-kick, the Danish midfielder was celebrating two minutes later following another United mistake.\n\nDe Gea's pass to Eriksen on the edge of the United penalty area led to Jensen stealing the ball before slotting low into the net to double Brentford's lead.\n\nAfter falling two behind to Brighton last week, it was another stern examination of United's character, but it only got worse as Brentford struck twice in the space of five minutes to move four clear.\n\nMee nodded home at the far post to make it three before Mbeumo finished off a rapid counter-attack when he controlled Ivan Toney's pass before curling the ball beyond a helpless De Gea to put the Bees four up after a scarcely believable 35 minutes.\n\nManager Ten Hag could barely have envisaged such a catastrophic start to his reign, and while there is still time for the Dutchman to transform their fortunes, the first two games of the season have underlined the daunting task facing the former Ajax boss at Old Trafford.\n\nWhile much of the post-match discussion will focus on United's problems, Brentford - like Brighton last week - deserve praise for their approach and execution.\n\nFrom the first whistle, they tormented United, refusing to allow the visitors time on the ball and, crucially, took their chances to leave their opponents in the dust.\n\nThe first goal arrived when Jensen robbed Ronaldo inside the United half and fed the onrushing Dasilva. With Lisandro Martinez - subbed at half-time - slow to close off the space, Dasilva sent a low shot towards the goal that escaped De Gea's grasp.\n\nThat set the tone for the first half as Brentford ran riot. The impressive Jensen anticipated De Gea's risky pass to Eriksen and punished both players, before Toney used his height advantage to beat Martinez in the air and tee up Mee, who marked his home debut with a goal.\n\nThe fourth goal summed up the difference between the sides. After Jadon Sancho was muscled off the ball inside the Brentford box, the hosts pumped the ball long to Toney.\n\nWith United slow to react to the developing counter-attack, Toney slipped in Mbeumo, who shook off Luke Shaw and swept the ball home to spark delirious scenes among the home fans.\n\nTen Hag's response was to introduce Raphael Varane, Scott McTominay and Tyrell Malacia at the break, but with his players apparently in shock, United were unable to mount the miraculous comeback required to salvage something from the game as Brentford strolled to a victory that will live long in the memory.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Anthony Elanga.\n• None Attempt saved. Yoane Wissa (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Toney.\n• None Attempt blocked. Vitaly Janelt (Brentford) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rico Henry (Brentford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Scott McTominay (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Majuro, the nation's most populous atoll, has been particularly badly affected\n\nCovid-19 infection numbers have surged in the Marshall Islands, just days after the Pacific nation recorded its first local spread of the virus.\n\nIn the capital city of Majuro, total cases have nearly doubled since Friday.\n\nThese latest figures mean one in ten of the city's residents have been infected in recent days.\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Jack Niedenthal said about 75% of tests across the country were returning positive results.\n\nA number of Pacific islands had success with keeping coronavirus at bay early in the pandemic through stringent restrictions.\n\nThe Marshall Islands, which has a population of 59,000, was one of the last nations in the world to be untouched by Covid-19, before two cases were identified in October 2020. The pair had arrived from the US and were isolated from others.\n\nAs recently as one week ago, it had seen no community transmission of the virus - meaning that Covid had not been detected passing from person to person.\n\nBut on Monday, the first local spread was confirmed. The government responded by declaring a \"state of health disaster\", closing schools and introducing a range of public health measures.\n\nThe explosion in cases has seen the Marshall Islands shift from a \"prevention to mitigation\" strategy, Mr Niedenthal wrote in a Facebook update.\n\n\"The days of quarantine upon arrival are now over,\" he said.\n\nNo lockdown has been ordered, but Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reports that many people have chosen to stay at home, with church services cancelled and restaurants appearing quiet.\n\nSince October 2020, two deaths have been reported across the Marshall Islands, and a cumulative total of 3,036 cases have been logged.\n\nHowever, only nine hospitalisations had been recorded at the time of Mr Niedenthal's Facebook update on Monday - with figures showing that 70% of Marshallese had been fully vaccinated.\n\nMr Niedenthal, who posted earlier in the week that he too had tested positive, urged anyone severely unwell to report their case as an emergency at the hospital.\n\nHe urged people to avoid special \"alternative care sites\" which had been set up to deal with minor Covid symptoms.\n\n\"Much of the chaos is beginning to die down\" he said, promising that \"this will continue to get better.\"\n\nExtra help would arrive from overseas including from the US, he added, with extra \"boots on the ground\" expected over the coming week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows a fire on the Studland peninsula in Purbeck, Dorset\n\nA huge fire which tore through a popular nature reserve and forced the evacuation of a beach was most likely caused by a barbecue, firefighters say.\n\nAt its height on Friday, 90 firefighters tackled the blaze at Studland Heath in Dorset and crews remain at the scene.\n\nDorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had discovered a used disposable barbecue amid the ashes.\n\nIt has urged people not to risk using barbecues in the countryside.\n\nFirefighters were alerted at about 13:00 BST on Friday and had to work in dense smoke which could be seen for miles.\n\nFlames leapt across the Isle of Purbeck, forcing police to evacuate Studland beach which had been busy with holiday-makers.\n\nCrews worked throughout the night as they attempted to contain the fire.\n\nA firefighter tackles the blaze at the Studland Heath nature reserve on the Isle of Purbeck\n\nStudland Heath is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and home to all six species of native British reptiles including the rare and nationally endangered sand lizard and smooth snake; it is also home to the rare Dartford Warbler.\n\nA fire service spokeswoman said: \"We found evidence of a little camp where someone had used a disposable barbecue. We can't say 100% that was the cause but when we find evidence, we have to assume that's the most likely cause - fires don't just start on their own\".\n\nArea manager Jason Moncrief said: \"There can't be many people left in Britain who don't know the advice at the moment is do not use a disposable barbecue at these places.\n\n\"Bring a picnic, use our local cafes, restaurants and takeaways - don't bring a barbecue.\"\n\nEven after the flames had been quelled the land was still smouldering\n\nOn Saturday, Dorset Police issued an appeal for people to not park in the area, after reports that hundreds of cars had ignored 'no parking' signs.\n\nThe restrictions were put in place to allow firefighters to deal with the ongoing incident.\n\nSome drivers had reportedly moved a water hose running along Ferry Road so they could park.\n\n\"Our fire colleagues are working in extreme conditions to tackle this blaze and they need the public to help them, not hinder them,\" a police spokesperson said.\n\nThe chain ferry linking Studland to Sandbanks in Poole was used to get people off the beach\n\nFirefighters worked amid dense smoke throughout the afternoon and evening\n\nIn a bid to reduce the numbers of disposable barbecues in use, several supermarket chains have stopped selling them during the UK heatwave.\n\nOn Friday, Co-op announced it was the latest to join the moratorium and said it would not sell the product while the dry spell continued.\n\nSouthern and central England and parts of Wales are subject to an amber extreme heat alert until Sunday.\n\nThe Met Office has also issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend, warning there is an \"exceptional\" risk of blazes spreading.\n\nAs the heat continues, firefighters have strived to stress the dangers of careless behaviour when out in the countryside.\n\nSmoke from the blaze, which engulfed undergrowth and gorse, could be seen from across Poole Harbour\n\nThe fire service said an overland mains supply of water had been installed\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of using \"nuclear blackmail\" at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest.\n\nRussia seized the plant in March and has been accused of turning it into a base from where it hits nearby towns.\n\nBoth countries have traded blame for shelling it in recent days, prompting UN warnings of a nuclear disaster.\n\nMr Zelensky says any Russian soldier who shoots at or under the cover of the plant will be a \"special target\".\n\nThe six-nuclear reactor Zaporizhzhia station is located in the city of Enerhodar, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River (Dnipro in Ukrainian) in southern Ukraine.\n\nRussia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, seizing the plant within days. Moscow has kept Ukrainian personnel to operate the facility.\n\nThe UN has warned that continued hostilities around the station could lead to a nuclear disaster affecting much of Europe.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing at the plant.\n\nIt says it seized control of the plant to prevent leaks of radioactive materials during fighting in the region.\n\nDuring his video address late on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said Russia had engaged in \"constant provocations\" by firing on the plant and said forces stationed there had used it as a base to shell the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets - on the other bank of the river.\n\nThis was being done, the president said, to \"blackmail our state and the entire free world\". But he stressed that \"Russian blackmail only mobilises even more global efforts to confront terror\".\n\n\"Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or shoots under the cover of the plant, must understand that he is becoming a special target for our intelligence, for our special services, for our army,\" the president said.\n\nHe added that \"every day\" of Russia's occupation of the plant \"increases the radiation threat to Europe\".\n\nUkraine's defence intelligence agency also accused Russia of a provocation by parking a Pion self-propelled heavy artillery piece outside a nearby town and painting a Ukrainian flag on it, in an attempt to discredit Kyiv.\n\nA BBC investigation revealed earlier this week that many of the Ukrainian workers at the site are being kept under armed guard amid harsh conditions.\n\nOn Thursday, foreign ministers from the G7 group of industrial democracies demanded that Russia withdraw from the site immediately.\n\nTheir warning echoed statements from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called for an end to \"all military activities that endanger nuclear security\".\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres has warned that the situation at the plant could \"lead to disaster\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMuch of the UK has been experiencing another day of high temperatures - but the spell of extreme hot weather is coming to an end with thunderstorms.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland had rain and lower temperatures on Sunday, and rain started falling in parts of north-west England late on Sunday.\n\nOther parts of England and Wales will see rain on Monday.\n\nExperts have warned a lengthy period of rain would be needed to end the drought declared in parts of England on Friday.\n\nA lot of land has been left parched and hard by the heat, so rain is likely to hit the ground and run off - as it would on concrete - which could lead to flash flooding.\n\nA Met Office extreme heat warning has been in place for a large part of England and Wales for four days - making it the lengthiest alert since the system was introduced last year.\n\nIt has not been as high as July's heatwave - when recorded temperatures in the UK topped 40C for the first time - but the extreme heat has lasted longer.\n\nTemperatures reached as high as 34.1C in Charlwood in Surrey on Sunday - while Edinburgh had thunder and heavy rain.\n\nDan Stroud, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \"We've had high pressure dominating, now we're having low pressure dominate, so the air is becoming more unstable.\n\n\"As we've had some very high ground temperatures, it doesn't actually take too much for the air to become even more unstable and for thundery showers to develop quickly.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed a teenage boy died on Saturday in the sea at Skegness as temperatures prompted many people to flock to the beaches.\n\nThe hot weather has also led to wildfires around England, from the North York Moors National Park to Dorset on the south coast.\n\nMark Hardingham, from the National Fire Chiefs' Council, said: \"We've had 745 wildfires this year and that's gone up by 150 in just the last week. Last year we had 247 across the whole of the 12 months.\"\n\nThere are hundreds of other less serious fires in grassland every day, he said.\n\nTwo men, both 44 and from Boston in Lincolnshire, were arrested on suspicion of arson and criminal damage after a fire broke out in Norfolk, the county's police forced said.\n\nEmergency services had been called to Bawsey Country Park, near King's Lynn, on Sunday at about 11.40am, after a disposable barbecue in a woodland caused a small fire.\n\nNorfolk Constabulary said two men, both 44 and from Boston in Lincolnshire, had been arrested on suspicion of arson and criminal damage and taken to King's Lynn for questioning.\n\nExtreme heat warnings are based on the impacts of the weather conditions, rather than when specific temperatures are reached, the Met Office said.\n\nThis means different conditions in different areas of the UK may trigger an extreme heat warning.\n\nThe heat warning only covered England and Wales but Northern Ireland experienced its warmest August day for nearly 20 years on Thursday.\n\nMeanwhile, temperatures were high enough in Scotland to cause a wildfire in West Lothian that has burned for several days.\n\nAnd farmers in Fife have warned a newly-imposed ban on extracting water from the River Eden could lead to complete failure of some crops, with the National Farmers' Union calling the move \"devastating for agriculture\".\n\nBut in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a yellow warning for thunderstorms came into effect on Sunday morning, due to last until the end of Monday.\n\nCustomers at a Tesco supermarket in Inverness had to be evacuated on Sunday after water poured in through the ceiling.\n\nRain fell in parts of north-west England on Sunday evening too, including Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale, ahead of the yellow thunderstorm warning spreading to England and Wales across Monday and Tuesday.\n\nSouth-west and south-east England face a third day of yellow warnings on Wednesday when northern areas are expected to be drier.\n\nThe hot weather has parched the grass in Greenwich Park, south-east London\n\nA boat sits in the dried up Huddersfield narrow canal in West Yorkshire\n\nAn official drought was declared for eight areas of England on Friday. The move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nJohn Curtin, executive director of local operations for the Environment Agency, told the BBC \"this is not a normal summer\" and warned lack of water would be an issue for several months.\n\n\"We'll need probably average or slightly above average rainfall this autumn into this winter for us to not be in a drought next year,\" he said.\n\nThe agency has said there is enough water for public supply but has urged everyone to think about their water use.", "Tributes have poured in for Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who has died at the age of 62.\n\nJhunjhunwala, who made a fortune from the stock market, died on Sunday at a hospital in Mumbai city.\n\nThe hospital said that the cause of death was a \"sudden cardiac arrest\".\n\nOften called India's Warren Buffett, Jhunjhunwala had an estimated net worth of around $5.8bn, according to Forbes magazine.\n\nHe was part of a generation of investors who benefitted from the historic 1991 reforms, which opened up India's economy.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi led the tributes to Jhunjhunwala, who was steadfastly bullish on Indian stock markets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"He was very good at reading businesses and had conviction, passion and very blunt opinions about things,\" said businessman Motilal Oswal, who set up one of India's leading brokerages.\n\nJhunjhunwala had recently backed Akasa Air, India's newest budget airline, which began operations earlier in August. While the Covid pandemic had ravaged domestic air travel for the past two years, passenger traffic has risen sharply this year.\n\nThe son of an income tax officer, Jhunjhunwala has said that he became fascinated with stocks as a child after watching his father balance his market investments.\n\nJhunjhunwala began investing in the stock market in 1985, when he was 25 years old - he started off with $100 that he had borrowed from a relative, reports say.\n\nHe later set up Rare Enterprises - the name was coined from the first two letters of his name and that of his wife Rekha.\n\nHe had the reputation of being a risk-taker in his investments, many of which paid off spectacularly.\n\nIn a 2021 profile, Forbes wrote that while Jhunjhunwala \"acquired his legendary Midas touch by picking winning stocks\", he has also recently started seeing his private equity investments pay off.\n\nA decade ago, he told Reuters in an interview that he didn't like being called \"India's Warren Buffett\", adding that the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was \"far, far ahead\" of him.\n\n\"I'm not a clone of anybody. I'm Rakesh Jhunjhunwala,\" he had said.\n\nMarket veteran Ajay Bagga told the BBC that Jhunjhunwala \"personified the India story\".\n\n\"[He was] a young middle-class boy rising up the ranks to build such a vast fortune, and setting the stage for the growth momentum in the Indian financial markets,\" he said.\n\nMr Bagga added that Jhunjhunwala had an infectious \"optimism for India\". That optimism was reflected in Jhunjhunwala's other famous nickname - the Big Bull of Dalal Street, a reference to the address of the Bombay Stock Exchange.\n\nJhunjhunwala remained optimistic till the end - a week before his death, he told news channel CNBC-TV18 that regardless of global economic conditions, he believed that Indian markets would grow, \"but at a slower pace\".\n\nHe was also a strong advocate for Indian businesses doing philanthropy.\n\n\"Rakesh was keen to make a positive social difference to India - and willing to invest significantly in India's social and educational development. He once told me that the reason for his success was that his father had encouraged him to be curious as a child.\" Ramji Raghavan, founder of the Agastya International Foundation, told the BBC.\n\nJhunjhunwala was an early investor in Agastya, donating 500 million rupees ($6.3m; £5.1m) to the foundation's mission to inculcate scientific thought and curiosity in children.", "Russian forces captured Kherson city in the early days of the war\n\nUkraine says it has taken out another bridge that is vital for Russian forces occupying the southern Kherson region.\n\nIt says the bridge on the dam at Nova Kakhovka - which it has attacked before - is now impassable. The claim has not been independently verified.\n\nIt comes just weeks after the key Antonivsky Bridge was put out of action by Ukrainian forces.\n\nUkraine is waging a counter-offensive towards Kherson city, which Russia captured in the early days of the war.\n\n\"The destruction of the road bridge of the Nova Kakhovka dam was ensured, with the result that it was taken out of operation,\" the Ukrainian army's Operational Command South posted to Facebook.\n\nIn a daily intelligence update, UK defence officials said Ukrainian precision strikes were likely to have made the road crossing over the Dnieper River \"unusable for heavy military vehicles\". Nova Kakhovka lies about 55km (34 miles) north-east of Kherson.\n\nRussian forces had only succeeded in making superficial repairs to the main Antonivsky Bridge, the officials said, which Western military sources said was \"completely unusable\" after a Himars artillery rocket attack last month.\n\nThe Antonivsky Bridge was seriously damaged last month\n\nThe main rail bridge near Kherson was also further damaged last week, the UK update said.\n\n\"Even if Russia manages to make significant repairs to the bridges, they will remain a key vulnerability,\" the UK defence ministry said.\n\nIt added that thousands of Russian troops west of the river were now \"almost certainly reliant on just two pontoon ferry crossing points\" for ground resupplies.\n\nMilitary analysts say there is a growing risk of the troops being cut off from the rest of main Russian occupying forces.\n\nThe attack is part of a Ukrainian effort to isolate Russian troops, with the ultimate goal of recapturing the entire region.\n\nIf it proves successful the ambitious campaign would provide a boost for Kyiv by retaking from Russia the only regional capital it has so far captured since the invasion in February.\n\nKherson, which had a population of about 290,000 before the war, is currently administered by Moscow-backed officials.\n\nLast month, Russia said its military focus was no longer only on eastern Ukraine but on its southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia too.\n\nVladimir Putin has signed a decree to make it easier for residents of Kherson to get Russian passports\n\nAccording to Russia's Tass news agency, officials in Kherson city have started moving forward with plans to hold a referendum on formally joining Russia.\n\nThe US has accused Russia of preparing to annex parts of occupied Ukraine illegally.\n\nBut Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories, said this week that any referendum held in occupied-regions would never be internationally recognised.\n\nShe also advised Ukrainians remaining in Russian-held areas to evacuate, adding that 5,300 people had left the Kherson region in the last five days.", "JK Rowling is among authors who have have voiced support for Salman Rushdie\n\nPolice are investigating an online threat to JK Rowling, after she tweeted support for Salman Rushdie following his attack in the US.\n\nThe Harry Potter author, 57, shared screenshots of a message stating: \"Don't worry, you are next\".\n\nThe same Twitter account also posted messages praising the man who attacked Mr Rushdie on stage at an event in New York state.\n\nMs Rowling said she felt \"very sick\" at the news and hoped he would recover.\n\nShe shared a screenshot of the threat, writing: \"To all sending supportive messages. Thank you. Police are involved (were already involved on other threats).\"\n\nThe tweet, from an account in Pakistan, had been removed on Sunday morning.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We have received a report of an online threat being made and officers are carrying out enquiries.\"\n\nOfficers had previously investigated online criticism targeted at Ms Rowling over her views on transgender issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From the scene where Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage\n\nMs Rowling is among many authors and public figures who have have voiced support for Mr Rushdie.\n\nWarner Bros Discovery, the entertainment company behind the Harry Potter film series, said it strongly condemned the threats against her.\n\nIt said in a statement : \"We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely express their creativity and opinions.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Sir Salman Rushdie and his family following the senseless act of violence in New York.\"\n\nThe 75-year-old novelist faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nHe was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after it was published in 1988.\n\nThe man charged over Friday's attack has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, and has been remanded in custody without bail.\n\nHadi Matar, 24, is accused of stabbing Mr Rushdie at least 10 times in the face, neck and abdomen.\n\nThe author has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk again, a day after being stabbed.", "As temperatures are set to reach as high as 35C across parts of England and Wales this weekend, dermatologists have issued a warning to people about skin conditions caused or aggravated by the heat.\n\nDermatologist Adeline Kikam told the BBC \"extreme or high temperatures can have adverse impact on skin\".\n\nShe says several skin conditions can develop, or worsen, during persistently high temperatures.\n\nHeat rashes, tiny bumps or blisters in the skin, happen when there is an obstruction in the sweat ducts and inflammation.\n\nThey are more common during the summer because they are triggered by heat and humidity.\n\nDr Kikam says high temperatures can also worsen or aggravate eczema.\n\nHigh temperatures lead to increased sweating, which in turn can make the skin even drier and the salt residue from the sweat can cause inflammation in the skin. This combination leads to redness, and general discomfort.\n\nSpots and breakouts are common during high temperatures because there is an excess secretion of oil from our sebaceous glands. This combined with sweating and products like make-up can clog pores and trap dirt in the skin.\n\nSunburn is the result of long exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation.\n\nIf you have darker skin, and therefore more melanin, your body has a base protective layer to UV radiation and it might take longer to notice the symptoms of sunburn (redness and blisters).\n\n\"Damage to the skin is just not as visible, but you're still getting the damage,\" Dr Kikam says.\n\nDr Adeline Kikam warns conditions can develop, or worsen, during high temperatures\n\nFor those suffering from heat rashes, Dr Kikam says patients should remove themselves from hot and humid environments when possible and ensure they have access to good ventilation, by using fans and air conditioner - and keep the affected area of the skin dry.\n\nThe same goes for chafing - rubbing on the skin from clothing or other surfaces. Wearing loose clothing, ensuring your skin is dry and avoiding friction are the best ways to avoid it, says Dr Kikam.\n\nFor those suffering from aggravated eczema, it is important to keep your skin moisturised with neutral lotions, she adds.\n\nFor sunburns, Dr Kikam says everyone should ensure they are wearing sunscreen to protect themselves from exposure to UV radiation and avoid direct sun exposure for long periods of time.\n\nShe adds regularly cleansing your skin ensures you can minimise your risk of having breakouts, as you are avoiding product build up and keeping your pores unclogged.", "Jonathan Edwards sat as the independent MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr after his suspension by Plaid Cymru, but has been readmitted to the party\n\nAn MP who assaulted his wife should resign and leave Plaid Cymru, according to party leader Adam Price.\n\nJonathan Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, was suspended from the party in the wake of the assault in May 2020, but was recently readmitted.\n\nMr Edwards has said he will not rejoin the Plaid group of MPs at Westminster.\n\nHis wife, Emma Edwards, had said she was \"appalled\" after Plaid announced he would be allowed to return to being a Plaid MP.\n\nMr Edwards has criticised senior party figures for \"vindictive and vengeful\" attacks.\n\nMr Price cannot simply expel Mr Edwards from the party because Plaid's internal democratic rules and processes mean the party leader does not have the power to do so.\n\nMr Edwards, who accepted a police caution, said he will regret his actions on the day of the assault \"to the end of my life\". Details of the incident are unknown.\n\nMr Price said: \"I would like to thank Emma Edwards for speaking out yesterday and for her to know that her voice has been heard.\n\n\"I would also like to offer my apology to her and all domestic abuse survivors for the pain this has caused.\"\n\nHe called on Mr Edwards to \"leave the party\".\n\n\"His actions do not represent our values and his position as an MP sends the wrong message out to domestic abuse survivors in Wales and beyond,\" Mr Price said.\n\nMr Edwards was first elected Plaid MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr in 2010. At the last election in 2019 he had a majority of 1,809 over the Conservatives.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam Price 🏴🏳️🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Price also said work would begin immediately on changing the party's disciplinary processes to \"give victims of gender-based violence a central role in any inquiries\".\n\nMr Edwards has also issued a statement in which he criticised \"a very dangerous environment when there is no space for anyone in the public sphere to speak honestly about mistakes they make, to be allowed to show genuine remorse and to try and build a better life\".\n\nHe said: \"I am concerned that there has been no distinction in any of the discussions about the difference between an incident and a pattern of behaviour.\"\n\nMr Edwards accused \"senior figures within the party\" of misusing \"their positions of power by subjecting me to vindictive and vengeful coordinated political attacks\".\n\nThis has been a particularly difficult issue for party leader Adam Price, because he is the Senedd member for the same constituency that Jonathan Edwards represents in the House of Commons - and there has been strong support for Mr Edwards in the local party.\n\nThe Plaid leader cannot simply terminate Mr Edwards' membership, and he is facing questions about why he's taken this long to make his call for him to quit, given Mr Edwards was suspended more than two years ago.\n\nMr Price says he had to let the disciplinary process take its course - the panel ruling on Mr Edwards only readmitted him to the party last month and until legal advice forced a U-turn on Wednesday, the party's ruling body was recommending that he should be prevented from sitting as a Plaid MP.\n\nMr Price says the intervention of Emma Edwards prompted him to make his call on Saturday.\n\nBut that begs another question - if Mrs Edwards hadn't made her public statement, would he have said anything at all?\n\nIn answer, he told me that her statement contained information that changed the party's perspective - he apologised to her and said she shouldn't have been put in that position.\n\nHis membership of Plaid Cymru was restored last month by a disciplinary panel but the party's ruling executive also recommended that he should not be allowed to rejoin their group of Plaid MPs at Westminster.\n\nOn Wednesday they backtracked, after receiving legal advice, and restored the whip. His wife said she was \"disappointed\" at the decision.\n\nThe couple are getting divorced.", "Police are asking people to avoid the area around the recycling plant fire in Milford Haven\n\nAbout 100 firefighters are dealing with a fire at a recycling centre.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said multiple agencies were now involved in trying to set up a plan to extinguish the blaze \"in the next few days\".\n\nMotorists are asked to avoid the area near the centre at Waterston, near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Residents are asked to stay indoors with the windows closed.\n\nCrews are also dealing with a large number of grass fires across Wales.\n\nThe police force said a large storage unit had been destroyed by the Waterston fire, which broke out at about 14:00 BST on Sunday and has spread to an adjacent waste recycling centre.\n\nA spokesperson said crews were working to extinguish the fire at both locations and mitigate further spread.\n\nThe B4325 road is closed, and motorists have been asked to avoid the area\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service had about 100 staff at the scene on Sunday night, with 14 appliances and specialist assets including a drone to help tactical officers tackling the blaze.\n\nThere have been no injuries, and there are no particular concerns for any nearby dwellings, so no evacuations are being considered at this time, the police spokesperson said.\n\nBut they added: \"Significant smoke is billowing from the scene of the fire, and residents in the Johnston, Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock, and Neyland areas as well as the other side of the estuary are advised to keep windows and doors closed, and remain indoors until further notice.\"\n\nFirefighters also attended Newgale beach, in Pembrokeshire, when fire broke out on a hillside there.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Llandod Fire (Stn 13) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Fire Officer Roger Thomas said: \"Crews have worked extremely hard tackling the fire in hot and challenging conditions, to mitigate against the effects to the environment and from a public health perspective.\n\n\"Crews are also attending a large grass fire in Newgale, meaning approximately 20 appliances have been in attendance in the area tackling fires. This has placed a great deal of strain on our local resources.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, a serious fire closed the Rhigos Mountain Pass.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the mountain fire had melted fencing on the roadside, allowing boulders to fall onto the roadway. The road has been closed until further notice.\n\nThe service added that there were several hotspots that were inaccessible and the fire had been left to burn out, with the fire service due to check on the blaze periodically throughout the night.\n\nFirefighters were dealing with fires across south and mid Wales, including this one on a hillside near Newgale beach\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf Council warned people to not attempt to cross the mountain road under any circumstances. They said the damage created a significant danger to road users and they hope to provide a further update on Monday.\n\nElsewhere in south-east Wales there was a blaze in the open at Duffryn, near Newport, another at Abercarn, in Caerphilly county, another at Devauden, in Monmouthshire and another in Sebastapol, in Torfaen.\n\nThere was also a grassfire at Maidenhall Point, in Pembrokeshire.\n\nIn mid Wales there was a fire near the main road between Welshpool and Montgomery, in Powys.", "There are growing calls to impose a windfall tax on oil giants' earnings as living costs soar\n\nSaudi oil giant Aramco has broken its own record with a $48.4bn (£40bn) profit for the second quarter of 2022.\n\nIt is a 90% year-on-year increase and marks the biggest earnings for the world's largest energy exporter since its public listing three years ago.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has seen oil and gas prices skyrocket.\n\nRussia is one of the world's biggest exporters but Western nations have pledged to curb their dependence on the country for their energy needs.\n\nAccording to Bloomberg, the Saudi oil giant's figure represents \"the biggest quarterly adjusted profit of any listed company\".\n\nAs well as the record profits, the state-owned Saudi energy giant announced it would keep its dividend unchanged at $18.8bn for the third quarter.\n\nThe company said it would keep expanding to satisfy demand.\n\n\"While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during the first half of this year support our view that ongoing investment in our industry is essential both to help ensure markets remain well supplied and to facilitate an orderly energy transition,\" Aramco president and chief executive Amin Nasser said.\n\n\"In fact, we expect oil demand to continue to grow for the rest of the decade, despite downward economic pressures on short-term global forecasts,\" he added.\n\nOil prices were already rising before the Ukraine war as economies started to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and demand outstripped supply.\n\nThe world's biggest oil producers, including ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, have all posted huge earnings this year - leading to growing calls on governments to impose a windfall tax amid an alarming rise in living costs.\n\nIn June, US President Joe Biden said Exxon had made \"more money than God this year\".\n\nSaudi Arabia is the largest single producer in Opec, a group representing the world's biggest oil producers.\n\nLast week Opec+ agreed to raise production slightly in an effort to help ease high oil prices. However, the latest production output increase is at a much slower pace than in recent months.\n\nThe decision was a blow to leaders including Mr Biden, who have called for production to be ramped up.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOfficials in Poland and Germany are trying to work out the cause of a mass fish die-off along the Oder river, which runs between the two countries.\n\nThousands of dead fish have been appearing along hundreds of kilometres of the river since late last month.\n\nIt is thought that a toxic substance entered the water, although the exact chemical remains unknown despite tests.\n\nPeople have been told to avoid the river amid warnings of an environmental catastrophe from the German government.\n\nBut authorities in both countries have been accused by activists of failing to work together to quickly respond to the disaster and protect humans.\n\nOn Friday, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki sacked a pair of environmental officials over their handling of the incident.\n\nHe explained that the problem had initially been assumed to be a \"local\" one - but it later revealed itself to be \"very large\" in scale.\n\nThe river could take \"years\" to recover, he added.\n\nMr Morawiecki suggested that \"enormous quantities of chemical waste\" had been dumped in the waterway, with no heed for the risks for wildlife.\n\nGerman Environment Minister Steffi Lemke called for a comprehensive investigation of the incident, saying authorities were working \"flat out\" to work out the cause.\n\nTonnes of dead fish are said to have been retrieved from the river after the first reports of an issue from Polish fishers and anglers as early as 28 July.\n\nThe Oder has generally been considered a clean river which acts as a home to 40 domestic species of fish, the news agency AFP reports.\n\nBut an official in Germany's eastern Brandenburg state said test results were showing increased levels of oxygen in the water, hinting at the presence of a foreign substance.\n\nBeavers, birds and ducks have also been affected, said Katarzyna Kojzar, a journalist from the Polish investigative website OKO.press.\n\nIndications that the Oder had been contaminated with mercury were concerning, Ms Kojzar told the BBC.\n\nBut she noted there was still no confirmation of the substance or its origin - or whether it had an effect on humans.\n\n\"We know it's serious, but we don't know what it is,\" Ms Kojzar said.\n\nDredging work on the river could have released embedded mercury, one fisheries researcher told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.\n\nBut historically low water levels on the Oder combined with a heatwave meant that fish were already struggling, said Christian Wolter of the Leibniz Institute.\n\nThe fish were removed from the Oder in the Polish border village of Krajnik Dolny", "There was a large police presence at the airport and some flights were rescheduled following the shooting\n\nA 63-year-old man has been charged with firearm offences after firing shots inside Australia's Canberra airport on Sunday afternoon.\n\nPolice said the man, from New South Wales, sat on seats in a check-in area before shooting a number times into the building's windows.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident, which sent passengers running in fear.\n\nGun violence is rare in Australia, which has some of the toughest firearms laws in the world.\n\nThe suspect was quickly detained, and a gun recovered, however police say his motives are still unclear.\n\nThe capital's airport was evacuated as a precaution and several flights were cancelled or rescheduled.\n\nAustralian media reported that the suspect fired approximately five shots. Bullet holes could be seen in the glass windows of the terminal.\n\nFootage has emerged on social media purportedly showing a man being arrested by police officers at the airport.\n\nWitnesses described chaos and confusion, with one woman telling the BBC she hid under a desk in one of the airport lounges.\n\nAlison, another witness, said she had just put her bags onto the security check belt when she heard the gun shots.\n\n\"I turned around and there was a man standing with a pistol, like a small one, facing out towards the car drop-off,\" she was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.\n\nLily Thomson, a reporter for public broadcaster ABC, said she heard the shots and realised something was wrong when people started screaming \"run\".\n\n\"I saw this grandma with a baby and the fear in her face and I knew it was something serious.\n\n\"So we all ran and I stayed with that grandma and her baby and hid behind an information desk. We stayed there for a couple of minutes until security told us to evacuate out to the car park.\n\n\"Everyone was hiding behind chairs and people were running. It was terrifying,\" Ms Thomson said.\n\nSome passengers were stuck on board planes on the tarmac as police officers swept the terminal. The passengers were later allowed to disembark.", "A fire has torn through a popular shopping area in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, following powerful explosions that local media say came from a fireworks warehouse.\n\nAt least three people died and dozens were taken to hospital following the blast at the Surmalu market.\n\nVideo showed people running away as a massive plume of smoke spread quickly following the blast.\n\nSome 200 firefighters and medical workers were sent to the scene.\n\nA digger was used to pull people out of the rubble and volunteers assisted with rescue efforts using their bare hands, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nWhat caused the fireworks to explode has not yet been established.", "Last updated on .From the section Rowing\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app.\n\nErin Kennedy helped Great Britain claim a dominant European Championship Para-rowing gold three months after being diagnosed with breast cancer.\n\nThe 30-year-old cox had had two rounds of chemotherapy when she was named in the squad for Munich.\n\nFrankie Allen, Giedre Rakauskaite, Ed Fuller and Ollie Stanhope defended their PR3 mixed coxed four title ahead of France and Germany.\n\n\"Today's been really emotional for me,\" a tearful Kennedy told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm really holding it together. I'm just really proud of the team. It's a lot for me to take but it's also a lot for them. They've picked me up every time.\"\n\nBritain finished the 2,000m course in 19.33 seconds clear of France in seven minutes 6.73 seconds.\n\nKennedy, who has won one Paralympic and two world titles, will now step away from the crew to continue her treatment.\n\nShe said leaving the squad for the rest of the season was \"a wrench\" that \"really hurts\", but that she remains focused on the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.\n\n\"If there's anything motivating me to get better it's to come back and take this crew to Paris,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a privilege to have something I love so much to really drive me.\"\n\nHaving claimed four gold medals, two silvers and a bronze on Saturday, Britain kicked off the final day of rowing with two early wins.\n\nFollowing the PR3 victory, Imogen Grant and Emily Craig won lightweight women's doubles sculls gold.\n\nThe women's eight - six of whom had already won medals in Munich - took silver after being passed by Romania in the final 500m.\n\nGraeme Thomas finished fifth in the men's single sculls, the final race of the regatta.\n\nBritain failed to win Olympic rowing gold for the first time in 41 years at the Tokyo Games in 2021, but appear renewed under new men's head coach Paul Stannard and women's head coach Andrew Randell.\n\n\"Coming into Andrew's programme and the culture he's brought to the women's squad... it's a completely different vibe,\" Craig said.\n\nBritish Rowing director of performance Louise Kingsley said the European Championships were a \"stepping stone\" for September's World Championships in the Czech Republic.\n\n\"It's fantastic after the trials and tribulations of Tokyo to get back on the front foot and be standing on the podium,\" she said.\n\n\"We've got another month to build on this. It's great to have European champions, but we're looking for world champions.\"\n• None Watch the latest highlights of the new Premier League season\n• None 'I have said 'no' to some winners...!':", "The body of a teenage boy was recovered from the sea at Skegness after a five-hour search\n\nA teenager has died after going into the sea in Lincolnshire.\n\nEmergency services were called at about 18:15 BST on Saturday to attend to a child under 16 in the water at Skegness.\n\nThe body of the boy was found after a five-hour search by police and the coastguard, Lincolnshire Police said.\n\nThe force said the incident was one of 10 calls about missing children it received in just two hours, adding its thoughts were with the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lincolnshire Police Control Room This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSupt Lee Pache said: \"All of the those who were reported missing, other than the child who sadly died, were located safe and well.\"\n\nThe search was carried out by two RNLI lifeboats from Skegness and Mablethorpe, the HMCG Helicopter from Humber and Sutton Bridge, Skegness and Wrangle coastguard rescue teams, along with Lincolnshire Police and East Midlands Ambulance Service crews.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Author Sir Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition but \"his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact\", his son says.\n\nZafar Rushdie said his father had sustained life-changing injuries, but was able to speak to his family.\n\nSir Salman, 75, was left severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York state.\n\nHe has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nThe man charged over Friday's attack has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.\n\n\"Following the attack on Friday, my father remains in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment,\" Zafar Rushdie tweeted.\n\nThe family were \"extremely relieved\" when Sir Salman was taken off a ventilator on Saturday, he said, adding that his father was able to \"say a few words\".\n\n\"Though his life-changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Zafar Rushdie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, the author's agent Andrew Wylie said his \"road to recovery has begun\".\n\n\"It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nThe suspect Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of running onto the stage and stabbing Sir Salman at least 10 times in the face, neck and abdomen.\n\nA judge ordered he be held without bail after District Attorney Jason Schmidt said Mr Matar had purposely put himself in a position to harm the author.\n\n\"This was a targeted, unprovoked, pre-planned attack on Mr Rushdie,\" Mr Schmidt said.\n\nMr Wylie has said the celebrated novelist suffered severed nerves in one arm, damage to his liver, and would likely lose an eye.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and the First Lady, Jill Biden, have joined the widespread condemnation of the attack, saying that Mr Rushdie \"stands for essential, universal ideals\".\n\nHadi Matar has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder\n\nThe novelist was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. Many Muslims reacted with fury to it, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nSir Salman faced death threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for Sir Salman's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's head.\n\nThe fatwa remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nMr Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official has told the media.\n\nA review of his social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nHowever, no link has been definitively established with the IRGC - a major military, political and economic force with close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From the scene where Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage", "Climate activists have targeted golf greens to protest the water ban exemption\n\nClimate activists in southern France have filled golf course holes with cement to protest against the exemption of golf greens from water bans amid the country's severe drought.\n\nThe group targeted sites near the city of Toulouse, calling golf the \"leisure industry of the most privileged\".\n\nThe exemption of golf greens has sparked controversy as 100 French villages are short of drinking water.\n\nGolf officials say greens would die in three days without water.\n\n\"A golf course without a green is like an ice-rink without ice,\" Gérard Rougier of the French Golf Federation told the France Info news website. He added that 15,000 people worked in golf courses across the country.\n\nThe recent action targeted courses in the towns of Vieille-Toulouse and Blagnac. It was claimed by the local branch of the Extinction Rebellion movement.\n\nIn a petition, the activists said the exemption showed that \"economic madness takes precedence over ecological reason\".\n\nWhile residents cannot water their gardens or wash their cars in the worst-hit municipalities, golf courses have escaped the nationwide restrictions.\n\nThe water bans are decreed nationally, but enforcement is at the discretion of regional officials. So far only one area, Ille-et-Villaine in western France, has diverged, banning the watering of golf courses.\n\nThe Green mayor of the south-eastern city of Grenoble city, Éric Piolle, criticised the exemption saying: \"We continue to protect the rich and powerful.\"\n\nSome constraints on the golf course remain. Watering must be carried out at night with no more than 30% of the usual volume of water.\n\nSome parts of the Loire river have virtually dried up. Across two-thirds of France, a state of crisis has been declared, with rainfall down by some 85%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Egypt church fire survivor: 'We saved who we could'\n\nDozens of people have died after a fire broke out at a church in Egypt, many of them crushed during a desperate scramble to escape.\n\nOfficials say the number of dead is at least 41, with dozens injured. Children are believed to be among the dead.\n\nAn electrical fire broke out as 5,000 worshippers gathered for Mass at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza, security sources told Reuters.\n\nThe fire blocked an entrance, causing a stampede, they said.\n\nCiting hospital records, CNN reported that some 18 children, aged between 3 to 16 years old, were killed.\n\nFire services said the exact cause of the fire remains unclear. However, Father Farid Fahmy, from another nearby church in the Imbaba neighbourhood, told the AFP news agency that it was sparked by a short circuit.\n\n\"The power was out and they were using a generator,\" he said. \"When the power came back, it caused an overload.\"\n\nWorshippers have been explaining their moments since the blaze ignited.\n\n\"People were gathering on the third and fourth floor, and we saw smoke coming from the second floor. People rushed to go down the stairs and started falling on top of each other,\" Yasir Munir told Reuters.\n\n\"Then we heard a bang and sparks and fire coming out of the window,\" he said, adding that he and his daughter were on the ground floor and able to escape.\n\nThe exact cause of the fire is not clear\n\nEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered his \"sincere condolences to the families of the innocent victims that have passed on to be with their Lord in one of his houses of worship\".\n\nHe has ordered the armed forces to rebuild the church.\n\nThe prosecutor's office said it had sent a team to the scene to investigate the cause of the blaze.\n\nGiza lies just across the Nile from Cairo and is part of the Greater Cairo metropolis.\n\nCoptic Christians make up at least 10 million of Egypt's 103 million people.\n\nCopts claims they face discrimination and play a lesser part in Egyptian public life than their numbers justify.", "Jerry Sadowitz, 61, is known for his provocative stand-up material\n\nAn Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz has been cancelled by venue bosses.\n\nThe comic and magician had been due to play two nights at The Pleasance at Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday and Saturday.\n\nThe Pleasance said the second night would not go ahead as his material \"does not align with our values\".\n\nSadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is known for aggressive stand-up performances.\n\nHe said on Twitter: \"Did a show last night, 75 mins, thought it went well. Didn't see any walkouts.\n\n\"Today I'm told my show's been cancelled. Great stuff. I'm truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.\"\n\nThe venue's original listing carried the warning: \"This show contains strong language and themes some may find distressing.\"\n\nHowever, on Saturday the Pleasance Theatre Trust said the second performance was cancelled \"with immediate effect\".\n\nIt said in a statement: \"Opinions such as those displayed on stage by Sadowitz are not acceptable and The Pleasance are not prepared to be associated with such material.\"\n\nIt is understood complaints had been received from some audience members who attended Friday night's performance.\n\nThe Pleasance declined to give detail about what aspects of Sadowitz's material led to the cancellation.\n\nIts director, Anthony Alderson, added: \"The Pleasance is a venue that champions freedom of speech and we do not censor comedians' material.\n\n\"While we acknowledge that Jerry Sadowitz has often been controversial, the material presented at his first show is not acceptable and does not align with our values.\n\n\"This type of material has no place on the festival and the Pleasance will not be presenting his second and final show\"\n\nThe venue said that refunds would be issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.\n\nDid you attend Jerry Sadowitz's comedy gig? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane's equaliser six minutes into stoppage time earned Tottenham a dramatic draw as a fiery London derby at Stamford Bridge ended in an angry confrontation between Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte that resulted in red cards for both managers.\n\nTempers were running high throughout as Chelsea twice led before Kane's glancing header seconds from the end gave Spurs a point.\n\nChelsea dominated the first half and fully deserved the 19th minute lead they earned when their two summer signings combined, Kalidou Koulibaly flashing home a powerful volley from Marc Cucurella's corner.\n\nSpurs struggled to make any sort of impression, Kane missing their best opportunity, but drew level after 68 minutes when Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's shot beat Edouard Mendy.\n\nChelsea were furious that referee Anthony Taylor had failed to penalise Rodrigo Bentancur for a challenge on Kai Havertz, the ensuing melee leading to face-to-face fury between the two managers which ended with both Chelsea boss Tuchel and Spurs counterpart Conte receiving yellow cards.\n\nOnce order had been restored, Chelsea were back in front as James scored from Raheem Sterling's pass, the fired up Tuchel celebrating by sprinting past Conte along the touch in elation.\n\nChelsea thought they had made it six points from two games until Kane headed in Ivan Perisic's corner - the antipathy not ending there as a handshake between Tuchel and Conte developed into another bust-up between the pair which ended with them both getting their marching orders.\n• None 'Fight, character and depth - how Conte has changed Spurs'\n• None 'New-look Chelsea are a force to be reckoned with'\n\nChelsea will feel this was an opportunity lost as they were the better side for long periods only to lose the lead twice, once in contentious circumstances, and then with the pain of it being virtually the last action of the game.\n\nTuchel, once his very obvious anger subsides, will be satisfied with large parts of Chelsea's performance, which really ought to have brought a win.\n\nChelsea pressed with greater efficiency than they did when Romelu Lukaku was leading the line and were a more composed and compact side than Spurs, who struggled to find any rhythm but still had enough to get a point.\n\nTuchel will question why Anthony Taylor did not award a foul when Bentancur dived in on Havertz, and Chelsea also felt Cucurella was fouled before Perisic's corner that was turned home by Kane.\n\nThe scenes between the two managers were part of the drama and showed how high feelings were running, but both Tuchel and Conte can expect to hear from the authorities.\n\nChelsea's summer signings made their contributions as Koulibaly and Cucurella combined for one goal and Sterling set up James but there was no doubt who was the more satisfied manager at the final whistle.\n• None Go straight to all the best Chelsea content\n\nConte's animation throughout, and especially after the final whistle, showed how much this result meant to him on his return to the club where he won the title.\n\nHe raced towards opposite number Tuchel when Hojbjerg equalised and the pair were involved again when Chelsea's manager seemed reluctant to let go of Conte's hand after the final whistle.\n\nIn the end, Spurs will be happy with a draw because they were disappointing for long spells, although predictably it was Kane who came to their rescue in those dying moments.\n\nSpurs are accompanied by big expectations under Conte this season but will have to show character and resilience at times when they fail to hit their best.\n\nThis was one of those occasions and the way they celebrated with their fans after the melee at the final whistle had broken up was a sign of their satisfaction.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Yves Bissouma (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Conor Gallagher.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Conor Gallagher replaces N'Golo Kanté because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "An official drought has been declared as low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions continue across the UK.\n\nEight parts of England, including Devon, Kent, East Anglia and Lincolnshire are affected.\n\nThe move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nMillions are expected to be impacted but the Environment Agency said essential water supplies were safe.\n\nJohn Curtin, director of operations, said the drought would go on for \"a long time\" and warned of possible restrictions on crop growing and further hosepipe bans.\n\nIt comes as the prolonged dry weather - combined with the current heatwave and July's record-breaking temperatures - have depleted rivers, reservoirs and aquifers.\n\nLarge swathes of England are bone-dry, with scenes of parched earth and grass turned yellow.\n\nThe conditions have prompted the Environment Agency to move eight of its 14 areas into drought status:\n\nYorkshire and the West Midlands are also expected to move into a drought later in August.\n\nThe decision to declare a drought was taken after a meeting of the National Drought Group - made up of government and agency officials, water firms and groups including the National Farmers' Union.\n\nAnnouncing a drought means government and water companies will put into action their plans to deal with it, with measures including hosepipe bans and taking more water than usual from rivers.\n\nMembers of the public and businesses in drought-affected areas are also being urged to use water wisely following the driest first seven months of the year since 1976.\n\nElsewhere, Wales Drought Liaison group is also looking at the effect of the dry weather.\n\nFive water companies - Welsh Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, South East Water and, most recently Yorkshire Water - have all announced hosepipe bans, while Yorkshire Water said on Friday that a ban would start on 26 August.\n\nThe latter firm, which has more than five million customers, says parts of the region have seen the lowest rainfall since records began more than 130 years ago.\n\nIt also said rivers and reservoirs in the region were running at 20% lower than expected for the time of year.\n\nSouth East Water, whose ban came into force on Friday, is now asking people to observe restrictions on using hosepipes to water plants, wash the car and fill paddling pools - with rule-breakers facing fines of up to £1,000.\n\nDominic Gardener, a farmer in West Sussex, said the dry weather was posing huge challenges for farmers.\n\n\"Everything is starting to struggle a bit - our grass is not growing at all - and livestock, we're having to feed them extra food,\" he said, adding crop yields had also been reduced by the dryness.\n\nFarmers in parts of Fife are being temporarily banned from using water from the River Eden on their fields.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says the measure will come into effect from midnight on Saturday to tackle critical water shortages.\n\nA four-day amber warning for extreme heat from the Met Office is in place for many parts of England and Wales until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to be lower early next week, however, and the Met Office has issued yellow warnings for thunderstorms on Monday, covering most of England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nAnd its fire severity index - which assesses how severe a blaze could become - is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThe situation facing firefighters across the UK has been described as \"unprecedented\", with increasing numbers of wildfires.\n\nFires have broken out across the nation, including in Leytonstone, east London, Studland Bay, Dorset, Creswell, in Derbyshire, The Dower House in Bristol, and Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.\n\nPolice have evacuated about 50 homes in Creswell after a major incident was declared due to a field fire.\n\nFire crews are also tackling a large blaze which broke out at a Leicestershire recycling centre.\n\nMeanwhile, homeless people struggling with the extreme heat in Bristol said it was \"making us sick,\" and even sitting in the shade was \"tiring and sweaty and uncomfortable\".\n\nBristol Street Outreach Team, operated by charity St Mungo's, has been carrying out additional shifts and giving out water, advice and sun protection to those in need.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK temperatures have been rising day-on-day through the week. According to the Met Office, on Friday the highest temperatures were recorded in:\n\nOver the weekend temperatures could peak at 36C.\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Andy Page said there would be \"increasingly warm nights\" with temperatures not expected to drop below the low 20s in some places in the south.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has accused the government of failing to fully prepare the UK for drought, and also out at the response of water companies.\n\nWater firms have been criticised over leaks, with about three billion litres of water lost each day in the UK - between 20% and 24% of the total water supply.\n\nThe Labour leader said the drought was \"predictable\" but \"as usual we had no plan from the government\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was \"no reason for people to be alarmed\".\n\nHe told BBC News that the UK's water supply \"remains resilient\" and that \"we're in a stronger position than ever\" to withstand droughts, with progress made on leaks and infrastructure to move water between reservoirs.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nResearch institute UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) said it would require \"exceptional\" rainfall over the next one to three months to bring river, reservoir and groundwater levels back up to normal.\n\nIt said analysis showed exceptionally low levels would probably continue until October in southern England and Wales.\n\nBut scientists have warned bouts of heavy rain after a prolonged period of hot weather can cause flash flooding.\n\nRobert Thompson, a professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, said \"the ground has effectively become like urban concrete\" and will not absorb water quickly enough to cope with longer showers.\n\nThe situation in the UK is being mirrored across Europe. Much of the continent is baking in record heat, exposing riverbeds and triggering restrictions on water use in many areas.\n\nA drought has also hit Germany's Rhine River, where the water is already too low to allow some larger vessels through.\n\nRestrictions on usage during hosepipe bans can vary between water providers but generally people are not allowed to use hosepipes or anything that connects to a hosepipe or an outside tap.During a ban, people cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nBut you can use other water sources, like using your mains water supply but with buckets or watering cans instead of hosepipes, or using stored rainwater from a water butt and there are some exceptions when a hosepipe can be used.\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nHave you been affected by the hot weather and restrictions? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Joe says the expected lower grades for this year's A-level students feels \"a little bit harsh\"\n\nTeenagers applying to go to university are being reassured that most of them will get their first choice place.\n\nEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland A-level grades are expected to fall when results are announced on Thursday.\n\nBut the BBC has seen a letter being sent to students from exams regulator Ofqual and university admissions service UCAS saying the marks should not be compared with those from 2021.\n\nAnd Ofqual says universities are fully aware of how grades were awarded.\n\nCompetition for some courses and universities has been expected to be tougher, but the letter says students will have lots of options for further study.\n\nOverall grades for A-levels are expected to be lower than 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled and teacher assessment led to a boom in top grades.\n\nThis year, grades will be roughly halfway between those of 2021 and 2019.\n\nDr Jo Saxton, whose job at Ofqual is to ensure exam results overall are fair and consistent in England, said she had met universities in recent days to make sure they understood how students' grades were being awarded this year.\n\n\"Tempting as it is to compare grades with 2021, the meaningful [comparison year] is 2019 when exams were last sat,\" she said.\n\nJoe, 18, from Manchester, is among those waiting for A-level results this year, the first major public exams most students have taken because all GCSE exams were cancelled in 2020.\n\nHe hopes to study English Literature at the University of Liverpool and said he understands the plan to get grades halfway back to 2019 levels.\n\nEven so he said it feels \"a little bit harsh\" for a year group that has been through so much, but \"everyone is in the same boat so you can't complain too much about how it has been handled\".\n\nThe joint letter to students from Dr Saxton and the chief executive of Ucas, Clare Marchant, tells students not to worry that lower grades this year will put them at a disadvantage.\n\n\"In 2019, when exams last went ahead, around three-quarters of UK 18-year-old applicants were placed at their first choice. Come results day this year, Ucas again expects most students will secure their place at their first choice,\" they wrote.\n\nIn 2019, only 21% got the grades predicted by their teachers, but 86% ended up with a university place through Ucas.\n\nBut for some students, the competition will be tougher than ever before.\n\nMedicine is one of a handful of courses in England where numbers are limited by the government, because the cost is heavily subsidised.\n\nIn 2020 and 2021 the government lifted the cap on numbers, which led last year to 10,460 medical school places being accepted across the UK.\n\nBut this year the cap is returning in England, which means about 7,500 places will be available.\n\nTia, 18, from Leicester, wants to study medicine at University College London and is \"incredibly nervous\" about her results.\n\n\"As soon as August hit, I started panicking a bit more,\" she said.\n\nTia wants to study medicine - one of several courses where a cap on numbers is returning this year\n\nTo apply for medical school there is a separate test called the University Clinical Aptitude Test (Ucat), which Tia sat in addition to her A-level exams.\n\nIn 2019, 29,446 students across the UK took the test, but by 2021 when students were applying it was 37,397 because the pandemic had led to an increased interest in training as a doctor.\n\nThe Medical Schools Council is calling for a long-term increase in the number of medical school places to meet the demand in the NHS.\n\nCompetition for places at the most academically selective universities could also feel greater this year, although most of the Russell Group universities contacted by the BBC said they would only know how many places they are putting into clearing on results day.\n\nUcas said there are about 30,000 courses overall in clearing, and students could put themselves in the \"strongest possible position\" by thinking ahead and having a plan B.", "Water levels are low at many reservoirs, including this one in West Yorkshire\n\nEveryone who uses water must rethink and make sure they use it wisely, the chairman of the body that has declared droughts around England says.\n\n\"We have got to rethink... and that means everyone, not just regulators and government,\" said Harvey Bradshaw, chairman of the National Drought Group.\n\nHe is also executive director of the Environment Agency, which has warned the drought could last into next year.\n\nA Met Office warning of extreme heat is continuing into Sunday.\n\nThe amber alert covers southern and central England and parts of Wales.\n\nRain is forecast for Monday but the agency says weeks of showers are needed to replenish water sources.\n\nAn official drought was declared in eight areas of England on Friday by the National Drought Group, which comprises representatives from the government, water companies, the Environment Agency and others.\n\nJohn Curtin, executive director of local operations for the Environment Agency, told the BBC \"this is not a normal summer\" and warned lack of water would be an issue for several months.\n\n\"We'll need probably average or slightly above average rainfall this autumn into this winter for us to not be in a drought next year,\" he said.\n\nHis colleague Mr Bradshaw told BBC Radio 4: \"We have enough water for public supply but as you run into ever drier conditions you take more serious actions to conserve the water you have and we are on that process now.\n\n\"We have got an exceptional set of circumstances which has led to this drought and we've all got a responsibility to play out now, including and principally the water companies.\n\n\"We expect water companies to bear down on leaks, we expect water companies to put in more pipes to connect their network.\"\n\nHe said that firms needed to move \"faster and harder\", adding that the Environment Agency, the regulator Ofwat, and the Drinking Water Inspectorate had formed an alliance encouraging them to come forward with plans for necessary infrastructure improvements.\n\n\"We've also produced a national framework that says 'this is the water we will need in 50 years' time and this is where it might come from',\" he said.\n\n\"I've just been looking over the last 12 months and nearly every month we've had below average rainfall - low levels or exceptionally low levels.\n\n\"There is real stress in the environment and people are suffering.\"\n\nHe said that the group is also helping farmers, including putting those who are not using all of their water supply in touch with farmers who need it.\n\n\"But the bottom line is there isn't much water around,\" he added.\n\nThames Water has apologised after around 7,000 households in Surrey have been left with little or no water on one of the hottest days of the year following technical issues at a treatment works facility.\n\nThe water company, which is expected to implement a hosepipe ban in the next couple of weeks, has been handing out bottled water in Cranleigh and Dorking after supply problems at the Netley Mill Water Treatment Works.\n\nSome customers are starting to see water return to their homes after disruption began on Friday, but Thames Water said fixing the issue was \"not straight-forward\".\n\nThe fire risk in several parts of England is at its highest level, according to the Met Office Fire Severity Index, with hot, tinder-dry conditions creating what has been described as an \"unprecedented\" situation.\n\nA large wildfire broke out in the Cornish town of Camborne on Saturday, while around 30 firefighters have also been tackling a blaze which has spread across five corn fields in Pembrokeshire, Wales.\n\nAnd a leading firefighter in Dorset and Wiltshire, which faced a major fire on heathland on Friday, said there had been a 429% increase in the number of wildfires for the first 10 days of August compared to the same period last year.\n\nArea manager Jason Moncrief said fire crews in his area were \"massively stretched\" as they deal with the increased demand.\n\nWater companies are being told they must do more to reduce the number of leaks\n\nLabour has called on the government to summon a meeting of the Cobra civil contingencies committee to ensure water supplies were protected amid the ongoing drought.\n\nDeputy leader Angela Rayner said: \"Conservative inaction on drought warnings is creating a dust bowl Britain.\n\n\"Instead of stepping in, ministers have fallen asleep in the midday sun. They lecture the public on the use of hosepipes, but where is their plan to protect our vital water system?\"\n\nWater Minister Steve Double said: \"All water companies have reassured us that essential supplies are still safe, and we have made it clear it is their duty to maintain those supplies.\n\n\"We are better prepared than ever before for periods of dry weather, but we will continue to closely monitor the situation, including impacts on farmers and the environment, and take further action as needed.\"", "MP Mark Pritchard said the operator had \"lost a huge amount of goodwill\"\n\nAn MP says he will write to a rail operator asking it to reconsider a decision to suspend a direct service from London to Shropshire.\n\nTravellers from Shrewsbury, Wellington and Telford Central were advised to use connecting services from Wolverhampton, ahead of Avanti West Coast introducing a reduced timetable on Sunday.\n\nConservative MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, said the direct London to Wellington service was \"well-used\".\n\nThe firm apologised over the timetable.\n\nIt has stated changes were being brought in because of \"the current industrial relations climate which has resulted in severe staff shortages in some grades through increased sickness levels\".\n\nThe majority of drivers had made themselves \"unavailable for overtime in a co-ordinated fashion\" and at short notice, the company said.\n\nSpeaking about the London to Wellington service, Mr Pritchard stated the operator had, \"in one ill-advised decision, just lost a huge amount of goodwill throughout Shropshire\".\n\nHe said he would write to the managing director \"as a matter of urgency\" asking the firm to reconsider the decision.\n\nMr Pritchard stated he was \"hugely disappointed\" MPs were \"neither informed nor consulted in advance of the decision\".\n\nAvanti West Coast has said the decision over the reduced timetable \"was not taken lightly\"\n\nAlthough there were only two direct trains a day connecting the county with London, they were introduced after intense lobbying by Shropshire businesses and politicians.\n\nAvanti West Coast has said the amended timetable was being introduced \"to ensure a reliable service is delivered so our customers can travel with greater certainty\".\n\nIt plans to run four trains an hour from London Euston, one to each of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, and said the decision over the reduced timetable \"was not taken lightly\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Davy Zyw is living with MND and has raised £200,000 for charity\n\nA man who was given a terminal diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND) four years ago has completed a gruelling bike ride on Scotland's highest roads.\n\nDavy Zyw and his support team rode the 265-mile route through the \"high five\" roads in the Cairngorms.\n\nThe mission has raised cash for rugby international Doddie Weir's charity.\n\nMr Zyw, 34, from Edinburgh, said the 20-hour challenge \"pushed us to the edge of our capabilities\".\n\nSince being diagnosed with MND in 2018 Mr Zyw had raised £150,000 for the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, set up by former Scottish rugby union international Weir who also has the condition, with £50,000 pledged towards the high five challenge.\n\nMr Zyw's team included his twin brother Tommy Zyw, brother Sorley Richardson, and friends Craig Paul, Dan Elswood, Malcolm Holwill, George Besant, Chris Asquith, Murray Buchan and Ryan Brennan.\n\nDavy is living with MND in Edinburgh with his wife Yvie and his son Alek\n\nMr Zyw, who still works as a wine expert and author, trained for up to 10 hours at a time for the challenge.\n\nHis fingers now unable to operate regular gears, he used an adapted bike with electric gears.\n\nSpeaking after completing the ride, he said: \"We are battered but not broken, after close to 20 hours in the saddle cycling 265 miles across the toughest terrain Scotland had to offer.\n\n\"The high five takes in the highest road climbs - over 19,000 feet - this physical challenge pushed us to the edge of our capabilities.\n\nHe added: \"The road was long, and many of the hours were dark, but it was the climbing which stretched us, the Lecht in 31C was particularly taxing.\"\n\n\"But wow, we were sustained and fuelled by our dedication to this cause and the incredible support we have received.\n\n\"The high five is complete but my battle against MND continues, fortified by the steadfast support of so many who believe, like me, that this disease isn't incurable, but underfunded.\"\n• None Epic challenge for MND cyclist who has defied the odds", "A group of people thought to be migrants were taken to Dover from a Border Force vessel on Saturday\n\nMore than 20,000 people have crossed the English Channel in small boats this year, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.\n\nOn Saturday 607 made the crossing in 14 boats - the third time the total has exceeded 600 in 2022.\n\nThere were 28,526 crossings detected in 2021. By this point last year, just over 11,300 crossings had been made.\n\nIn April, the government announced plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda in a bid to deter migrants.\n\nEarlier this year, 47 people were told they would be flown the 4,000 miles (6,500km) to Rwanda and a flight was booked for 14 June.\n\nHowever, after a series of legal challenges and a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights, the flight was cancelled.\n\nLast month, a Home Affairs Committee report found the Rwanda scheme had not been effective.\n\n\"There is no clear evidence that the policy will deter migrant crossings - numbers have significantly increased since it was announced in April,\" the report said.\n\nThe MPs concluded one of the reasons the policy was not reducing numbers \"may be attributed to scaremongering from people traffickers, that because of new regulations coming in across the Channel it will be much harder to access the UK in future, so they had better get on with it\".\n\nThere have been 3,618 crossings detected so far this month, with 1,694 in the past week, according to the MoD.\n\nThe highest daily total this year was recorded on 1 August, when 696 people crossed in 14 boats.\n\nSaturday's 607 crossings also involved 14 boats - the equivalent of around 43 people per vessel.\n\nThe calm weather is thought to have been a factor in the recent increase in numbers.\n\nHowever, one group working with refugees in Calais (that did not want to be named) said it heard people smugglers had lowered their prices, as rival groups tried to achieve dominance in the market.\n\nLast week, BBC South East reported how suspected people smugglers were using TikTok to advertise illegal entry to the UK via the English Channel.\n\nFierce competition between gangs saw various groups boasting they were the \"best\" operator for successful crossings, and stating \"Rwanda has been cancelled\".\n\nPosts from various TikTok accounts proclaim to be able to offer safe crossings on set dates\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The Nationality and Borders Act makes it a criminal offence to knowingly arrive in the UK illegally and we have introduced life sentences for those who facilitate illegal entry into the country.\n\n\"Since the introduction of the Act, 23 people have been arrested.\"\n\nThe government figures do not include those who arrive in the UK undetected, or where there have been reports of people making the crossing, but no actual encounters.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Why are we seeing such brutal temperatures?\n\nClimate scientists say the answer is climate change.\n\nThe Met Office estimates that the extreme heat we are seeing has been made ten times more likely because of it.\n\nWe are being warned it can pose a life-threatening risk to even normally healthy people, and just look at the impact it is having in our hospitals, schools and transport systems.\n\nNow remember, this is happening when average world temperatures have only risen just over 1C beyond levels seen before many parts of the world became industrialised.\n\nOne degree doesn't sound much, does it? But we're living in the hottest period for 125,000 years, according to the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nWe know what's behind this - the greenhouse gas emissions caused by our burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, which trap heat in our atmosphere. They have helped push the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest levels seen for 2 million years, according to the IPCC.\n\nSo where is our climate headed?\n\nThe target set by the UN is to limit global temperature increases to 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels. It says that should avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.\n\nTo do that, emissions need to have peaked by 2025 - yes, in only two and half years.\n\nCO2 emissions from energy increased by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion tonnes - the highest ever level, the International Energy Agency estimates.\n\nThey need to virtually halve by 2030 - we need a minimum 43% reduction by the end of this decade, according to the IPCC.\n\nThen the world needs to scale back emissions to net zero by 2050. That means cutting greenhouse gases as much as possible and finding ways to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere to make up for any that remain.\n\nIt is a huge challenge - many people believe the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.\n\nRemember that big UN conference in Glasgow last year? If all the promises governments made there were actually implemented, then we'd be looking at temperatures rising by something like 2.4C from pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.\n\nBut the truth is even if we do succeed in reducing emissions to that really ambitious 1.5C target, UK summers will continue to get hotter.\n\n\"In a few decades this might actually be a quite a cool summer,\" says Professor Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.\n\nWe should expect more and longer heatwaves in the future, says Professor Nigel Arnell, a climate scientist at Reading University.\n\nWe will be seeing more heat-health alerts, more heat-stress days - days when it is too hot to work - and damaging heat extremes to increase, he warns.\n\nSo what is the UK doing about it?\n\nNowhere near enough, is the stark conclusion of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government's advisors on climate change.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson warned the world was at \"one minute to midnight\" on climate change in his speech opening the Glasgow climate conference.\n\nBut in a report on the UK's progress towards net zero the CCC warned that his government's current policies are very unlikely to do the job.\n\nIt said the government has set a lot of targets and put a lot of policies in place but warns there is \"scant evidence\" these goals will be delivered.\n\nAnd the country is not doing enough to prepare itself for the more frequent and intense heatwaves climate change will bring.\n\nHeatwaves caused an additional 2,000 deaths in 2020, according to the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nThat figure is likely to triple in coming decades without government action, according to Baroness Brown, deputy chair of the Climate Change Committee.\n\n\"We've been telling the government for over 10 years that we are nothing like well enough prepared in the UK for the really hot weather we are seeing now,\" she says - particularly the extreme heat many people experience in their homes.\n\nIt is a \"disgrace\" people are dying of heat - or for that matter cold - in the UK, says Professor Hannah Cloke of the University of Reading.\n\nMost UK buildings and infrastructure were not designed to cope with the kind of temperatures we are seeing this week and much more needs to be done to adapt them, she says.\n\n\"We have made great strides in forecasting extreme weather and climate conditions in recent years. Now we need the systems in place so that people and governments act on the warnings we can provide, whether three hours, three days, or three decades in advance.\"", "Jerry Sadowitz, 61, is know for his controversial stand-up material\n\nAn Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for \"extreme racism and misogyny\", venue bosses have said.\n\nThe Pleasance axed the second of his two nights at Edinburgh's International Conference Centre on Saturday.\n\nSadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows.\n\nThe venue said it received an \"unprecedented\" number of complaints from audience members and staff.\n\nSadowitz performed at the 1,300-seat Lennox room at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday. It is understood less than half the tickets were sold.\n\nThe Pleasance said a \"large number\" of people walked out as they \"felt uncomfortable and unsafe to remain in the venue\".\n\nIt declined to give any detail about what material by Sadowitz prompted the complaints.\n\nHowever, in a further statement on Sunday, it said: \"We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny.\n\n\"We will not associate with content which attacks people's dignity and the language used on stage was, in our view, completely unacceptable.\n\n\"We received an unprecedented number of complaints that could not be ignored and we had a duty to respond.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jerry Sadowitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Pleasance also said that \"unacceptable abuse\" was directed towards some staff on Saturday from people phoning to criticise the cancellation.\n\nOn Saturday, Sadowitz posted on Twitter that he thought his show \"went well\" and he did not see any walkouts the night before.\n\nHe wrote: \"I'm truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.\"\n\nThe Pleasance said refunds were issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.\n\nIt declined to cover costs for those who had booked travel or accommodation.\n\nSadowitz was booked by The Pleasance for the Edinburgh International Conference Centre\n\nSadowitz, a stand-up and magician, made his name on the UK comedy circuit in the 1980s and 90s with deliberately offensive and aggressive stage routines.\n\nHe has performed at The Pleasance numerous times at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\nThe venue's original listing carried the warning: \"This show contains strong language and themes some may find distressing.\"\n\nHowever, The Pleasance said it did not vet Sadowitz's material in advance and it \"could not have known the specifics\" of his act when he was booked for 2022.\n\nThe Pleasance added: \"In a changing world, stories and language that were once accepted on stage, whether performed in character or not, need to be challenged.\n\n\"There is a line that we will not cross at the Pleasance, and it was our view that this line was crossed on this occasion.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Sadowitz for comment.", "Taiwan's foreign ministry tweeted an image of members of the group being greeted at a Taipei airport\n\nA US congressional delegation has arrived for an unannounced visit to Taiwan, 12 days after a tour of the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nFive members of Congress will visit until Monday, said Washington's de-facto embassy in the capital Taipei.\n\nChina launched its largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan after Ms Pelosi's visit earlier in August.\n\nBeijing sees the self-governing island as its own, renegade territory that must be united with the mainland.\n\nIt believes that mission could be necessary with force, if other attempts at unification are unsuccessful.\n\nMs Pelosi became the most senior American politician to visit the island in 25 years during her appearance earlier this month.\n\nHer brief, but controversial, stopover was labelled \"manic, irresponsible and irrational\" by the Chinese foreign minister.\n\nSpeaking during a meeting of south-east Asian foreign ministers in Cambodia, Wang Yi insisted that Taiwan would \"eventually return to the embrace of the motherland\".\n\nBeijing continues to carry out military drills near the island. Earlier on Sunday, Taipei said it had detected 22 Chinese aircraft and six naval ships in and around the Taiwan Strait.\n\nAt the height of China's military exercises, Taiwan accused its neighbour of trying to change the status quo in the region.\n\nOn Sunday, its foreign ministry published photos of members of the US congressional delegation being greeted at an airport.\n\nA statement from the American Institute in Taiwan said the team's visit was part of a wider visit to the Indo-Pacific region.\n\nIt added that the five members - led by Democratic Senator Ed Markey - would discuss issues including regional security, trade and investment with Taiwanese leaders.\n\nThe group are due to meet President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday.\n\nPresident Tsai's office said the month's second high-level American visit signalled \"firm support\" for Taiwan.\n\nThe US does not officially recognise Taiwan - only a few countries do - however, it does maintain a strong relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.", "Hervé Trentin, right, and Christophe Dubois. \"This fire is engraved in my mind forever,\" Trentin said\n\nHervé Trentin, a 34-year veteran of the Gironde fire department, stood on the edge of a charred section of forest wiping tears from his cheeks. It was the second time he had cried that morning.\n\n\"I'm sorry,\" he said, composing himself. \"This is our forest. It is heart-breaking to watch it burn.\"\n\nTrentin and his small team were moving around an area south of the French city of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region, on Saturday morning, trying to stay ahead of a megafire.\n\nTheir job was to burn the forest, to create firebreaks - a tactic they had trained for years to master and which put them in a small band of firefighters in the region capable of doing the job. But Trentin also grew up just down the road, and it was making him emotional setting his home soil alight.\n\n\"It's hard for me to think that I will not see this forest again like it was,\" he said. \"I'm 53 years old, and this forest will need more than 30 years to recover.\"\n\nHervé Trentin wept as he described watching his home region on fire. \"It is heartbreaking to watch it burn.\" he said\n\nTrentin has a three-year-old daughter, and when he thinks about the future of the forest he thinks about her too. \"I wonder what will happen,\" he said, looking up towards the tops of the trees and beyond to the sky. \"I don't want to say our future looks like what we are living this summer, but... you know.\"\n\nThe people of Gironde had barely had time to catch their breath since the last megafire, in July, which burned about 14,000 hectares in the same area. That blaze had appeared to be under control, but the heat was still in the earth - a so-called \"zombie fire\" that can re-emerge in persistent dry conditions and accelerate new fires.\n\nTrentin worked the July fire too, up to 48 hours straight among the flames. \"I had never seen such a huge blaze,\" he said. \"I remember the big fires in 91 and 97 but they didn't spread that fast.\" Somehow the new fire was worse. The vegetation was drier than ever. \"Even the hardwoods burn like straw,\" Trentin said. \"Usually we use the hardwoods to help us against the fire.\"\n\nSmoke from nearby fire in a forest in Gironde, near Bordeaux\n\nOn Saturday morning, Trentin's small crew of specialists was burning sections of forest around several family homes, to protect them. They work by torching sections ahead of the blaze, to remove the flammable material.\n\nIt is so dry in Gironde that the flames they light can sweep along the long burn sections in seconds and rip up tree trunks to head height. The firefighters can only do this work when the wind is low, to minimise the risk of their counter-fires spreading, but they cannot control the wind.\n\nLast Tuesday night, Trentin and his team were carrying out a controlled burn near the village of Hostens when the wind turned on them. The first sign was the feeling of cool air rushing past their legs, he said, creating the sensation of a breeze. It was the fire sucking air towards it as it approached.\n\nThe men moved quickly into an area that they had already burned and dropped to their knees. They tried to breathe calmly amid the thick smoke. The flames could easily surround them. \"We had lost control of the situation,\" Trentin said. \"We knew the fire was coming.\"\n\nA tactical fire burns a patch of land next to a family home. The work has to be precise to avoid setting new wildfires\n\nThere are more than 1,000 French firefighters now in Gironde battling this blaze, assisted by colleagues from various European nations. Not all of them share Trentin's years of experience, and for some it is their first time facing a megafire that can move faster than you.\n\nWhen the new fire was at its peak in the middle of last week, Trentin and his colleague Christophe Dubois were working in the forest when they saw a fireball flying towards them. \"It's like a wave coming over you, you cannot outrun it,\" Dubois said. \"You have to drop and lie flat on the ground.\"\n\nBut four younger colleagues from Toulouse froze, bolt upright. Dubois and a colleague scrambled to spray them with water and pull them down, but mere seconds were too long, and two were injured with second degree burns on the legs and face.\n\nLater that night, Dubois worked lighting counter-fires along a highway until 4am. Their hours were dictated by the whims of the fire, he said.\n\n\"If you don't have a passion for this work you cannot do it. We may seem like tough guys but we are sensitive. We have a passion for the forest, for nature. It is painful to watch it burning, and painful to burn the pines ourselves to save it.\"\n\nAfter a hard morning creating firebreaks around several houses, Dubois and the team headed back for lunch to a base camp where there are hundreds of firefighters at any given time. Between the members of the team, there are decades of experience performing tactical burning.\n\nFirefighters plan over a map on Saturday, near the edge of the wildfires in Gironde\n\nAs they ate, they talked about the rate they had lost ground to the fire that past week - about 6,200 acres in one night alone.\n\n\"I have been a firefighter for 40 years and I had never seen such a fire,\" said Jean-Pierre Le Cunff, tactical fire chief for the Haute-Garonne region, who has two sons in the force. \"We are waiting for rain, for snow, for winter, for God,\" he said.\n\nThere was no disagreement that the climate was changing for the worse. \"We talk about global warming of course,\" Le Cunff said. \"We see it, we feel it. This year, it is striking. In the mountains there is no glacier any more, everything is dry, the herds have nothing to eat.\"\n\nFlames lick along the set perimeter of a tactical fire near Hostens\n\nAfter lunch, the team was called to an area of forest on the outskirts of Belin-Beliet, an abandoned village that was burned badly in July and again in August. They set a large tactical fire only about 25 metres from a house, to protect it after the owner called to say a new fire had broken out on her land.\n\nFirefighters had already told Claudie Decourneau to leave home when the July fire brought towering flames near her perimeter fence, but she declined. On Saturday, she stood and watched as they burned yet more of her land, where she rears livestock to live off and sells her wood.\n\n\"I don't want to leave my animals, and I feel more useful here because I can watch for new fires,\" Decourneau said. But she wept as she watched Trentin and Dubois and the team burn the land. On Friday, her power died. \"I am afraid of losing everything,\" she said. \"We will not give up but it is very hard. Pines take many years to grow.\"\n\nClaudie Ducourneau has lost hundreds of acres of her land, which she lives off. “I am afraid of losing everything,” she said\n\nThe heat was fierce as Ducourneau's land burned. When the flames licked up the trees the firefighters moved quickly to douse them, but the area would be left completely charred. The rich forest reduced to a wasteland.\n\nWhen the burning part was over, and the air full of smoke, the firefighters pulled back to their trucks, and talk turned to the coming night. A storm was forecast - high winds, maybe lightning, but little rain.\n\n\"It is frightening,\" Trentin said. \"We don't know if there will be rain. If there is wind, and lightning, the fire will get worse.\"\n\nThe storm was forecast to roll in about midnight. About 11pm, the lightning and thunder began, but so did the rain.\n\nHervé Trentin at work in the forest. \"When my day starts, I have no idea when it will end,\" he said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTaliban fighters have dispersed dozens of female protesters in Kabul, almost a year after the militant group seized power.\n\nAbout 40 women marched through the Afghan capital demanding rights, before the Taliban broke it up by firing into the air.\n\nThe fighters seized their mobile phones, stopping one of the first women's protests in months.\n\nSince the Taliban takeover, women rights' have been severely restricted.\n\nThe protesters chanted demands for \"bread, work and freedom\", carrying a banner reading \"August 15 is a black day\" - a reference to the day the Taliban captured Kabul in 2021.\n\n\"They didn't beat us much this time,\" one of the protesters told the BBC.\n\n\"They acted differently than earlier protests [when we were beaten]. They fired shots in the air. Though we're afraid we came out to advocate for the rights of girls, so that at least the Taliban will open schools for them.\"\n\nIn the year since the Taliban returned to power, they have issued various orders restricting the freedom of women - barring them from most government jobs, secondary education and from travelling more than 45 miles (70km) without a male guardian.\n\nIn May, the militants decreed that Afghan women will have to wear the Islamic face veil for the first time in decades.\n\nIf a woman refuses to comply, her male guardians could be sent to jail for three days - although this is not always enforced.\n\nThere have been minor sporadic protests over the past year, but any form of dissent is being crushed.\n\nAfghanistan is the only country in the world that officially limits education by gender - a major sticking point in the Taliban's attempts to gain international legitimacy.\n\nGirls have been banned from receiving secondary education, the ministry for women's affairs has been disbanded, and in many cases women have not been allowed to work.", "A walrus that had become a popular attraction in the Oslo Fjord has been put down out of concern for the safety of the public, Norwegian officials say.\n\nThe walrus, nicknamed Freya, rose to fame after clambering on to boats to sunbathe - sometimes sinking them.\n\nPeople refused warnings not to get too close to the 1,300lb (600kg) animal, putting her and themselves at risk.\n\nOn one occasion, police blocked off a bathing area after the walrus chased a woman into the water, local media say.\n\nLast week, Norway's fisheries ministry issued a photograph of a large group of people, including children, standing within touching distance of the animal.\n\nThe fisheries ministry released a picture of people gathered very close to the walrus, with faces blurred to protect privacy.\n\nOn Sunday, the director general of fisheries, Frank Bakke-Jensen, said the decision to put the animal down had been based \"on an overall assessment of the continued threat to human safety\".\n\n\"Through on-site observations the past week it was made clear that the public has disregarded the current recommendation to keep a clear distance to the walrus. Therefore, the Directorate has concluded, the possibility for potential harm to people was high and animal welfare was not being maintained,\" Mr Bakke-Jensen said in a statement.\n\nHe added that other options had been considered, including moving Freya out of the fjord, but they had been discarded out of concern for the welfare of the walrus.\n\nThe operation to euthanise her had been carried out \"in a humane fashion\", with the body taken for further examination by vets.\n\nFreya, who was first spotted in the Norwegian capital in mid-July, was named after the Norse goddess of beauty and love.\n\nA protected species, walruses normally live further north in the Arctic.\n\nThey do not usually attack humans, but there have been some rare incidents.\n\nAt a wildlife park in China in 2016, a tourist and a zookeeper were killed by a walrus. The tourist had reportedly been taking selfies with the creature when he was grabbed and pulled underwater, while the keeper went in to rescue him but was also pulled under.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A whale is cut free from ropes in Norwegian Sea", "The man suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie at an event in the United States on Friday has been charged with attempted murder.\n\nHadi Matar has been remanded in custody without bail after pleading not guilty, said the prosecutor in Chautauqua County, New York State.\n\nMr Matar is accused of running onto the stage and attacking Mr Rushdie and an interviewer at the event held by a local educational centre.\n\nThe writer is in a critical condition.\n\nMr Rushdie, 75, has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nPolice detained Mr Matar from Fairview, New Jersey, shortly after the attack at the Chautauqua Institution.\n\nAppearing in court on Saturday afternoon, the suspect wore a facemask and prison uniform before entering his plea of not guilty.\n\n\"This is the very early stage of what will invariably be a protracted legal process,\" District Attorney Jason Schmidt said in a statement.\n\nThere has been an outpouring of support for Mr Rushdie, with the attack condemned as an assault on freedom of expression.\n\nLater on Saturday, President Joe Biden said in a statement that he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the \"vicious attack\".\n\nMr Rushdie had refused to be \"intimidated or silenced\" in his career, and stood for \"essential, universal ideals\", Mr Biden added.\n\nThe writer was stabbed at least 10 times - including in the face, neck and abdomen, which damaged his liver, authorities said.\n\nHe has been put on a ventilator, is unable to speak, and may lose one eye, his agent said.\n\nThe interviewer who was with Mr Rushdie, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nNo motive has yet been confirmed by police, who said on Friday that they wanted to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows the moments after author Salman Rushdie was attacked\n\nA review of Mr Matar's social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nThe IRGC is a major military and political force in Iran - however, no link has been definitively established.\n\nMr Matar was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official told the Associated Press news agency.\n\nTwo security officials were on duty at the centre at the time of the attack - one making the subsequent arrest.\n\nHowever, some of the visitors have questioned why security was not tighter for a man with a bounty of more than $3m (£2.5m) on his head.\n\nMembers of the audience said the venue lacked basic security measures like bag checks and metal detectors.\n\nLike other people planning to attend the author's lecture, Mr Matar had obtained a pass to enter the Chautauqua Institution grounds, the group's president said.\n\nIndian-born novelist Mr Rushdie shot to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThere has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Mr Rushdie's stabbing. Iranian media described him as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.\n\nMr Rushdie, a British-American citizen, has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions. He has also continued to write, with his next work due out in 2023.", "Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won this year's contest with overwhelming support from the public vote\n\nNo large arena in the UK currently has enough of a gap in its event listings to host Eurovision next year.\n\nSeveral council officials told BBC News that organisers told them a venue would be needed by producers six to eight weeks ahead of the song contest.\n\nCities hoping to host the event will find out on Friday if they will be shortlisted.\n\nIt's now almost certain other tour dates will need to be postponed or cancelled to make room for it in May.\n\nMagic Mike, André Rieu and Elton John all have shows booked in places bidding to hold the contest during that period, including Liverpool, Leeds and Glasgow.\n\nProducers of the Magic Mike tour - who have dates scheduled in April and May in potential host cities such as Newcastle and Manchester - confirmed to BBC News that they had not been asked to move any tour dates as yet.\n\nTickets remain on sale for the shows, as a final decision on the venue won't be made until the autumn, compounding logistical issues.\n\nTypically the country that wins the contest hosts Eurovision the following year, but next year - amid the ongoing war in Ukraine - the UK will host, after Sam Ryder emerged as the 2022 runner up.\n\nThis year's head of show in Turin, Claudio Santucci, confirmed that organisers would need access to the venue for several weeks.\n\n\"The set up takes around three weeks, then three or four weeks of rehearsals - but one of those weeks is the show\", Mr Santucci explained.\n\nHe was responsible for the opening, interval and closing sequences of this year's competition, after working with Italian broadcaster RAI on its winning entry the previous year.\n\n\"It's a long period of rehearsals to make it work,\" he said. \"It's an event that would normally take two years to organise but instead you have less than a year because you only know when you win.\"\n\nThe BBC accepted the invitation to host the event in 2023 after organisers ruled - for safety reasons - that it couldn't take place in Ukraine, following Kalush Orchestra's triumph in May.\n\nIt means the broadcaster, which will have to pay between £8m and £16m to host, has even less time to organise the complex production.\n\nThis year's Armenian entrant Rosa Linn is currently charting around the world after going viral online\n\nNeither the BBC nor the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - which puts on the song contest - would confirm how long a site would be needed.\n\nOrganisers also refused to detail the exact requirements they had requested from cities in the first stage of the application process - instead pointing to an FAQ website.\n\nIt says: \"Last year the EBU's host city criteria was based on providing a venue able to accommodate at least 10,000 spectators (as well as a press centre), that should be within easy reach of an international airport and with ample hotel accommodation.\"\n\nBristol's mayor said it has applied to host, despite not having an arena - and is committed to build a bespoke venue for the event in less than nine months.\n\nLast week Cardiff said it would no longer be putting forward a bid for the song contest, explaining \"a significant number of scheduled events\" would need to be cancelled.\n\nAll other cities with an arena that can fit 10,000 fans - and are therefore eligible to bid - face the same problem.\n\nMany arenas told BBC News that if their venue is chosen, then discussions will take place with those productions already booked, but said they could not respond to financial costs queries because the hosting opportunity was only hypothetical at this stage and every event contract is different.\n\nDutch violinist André Rieu will play his UK tour next April and May across the UK\n\n20 May - Anything For Love\n\nCeline Dion won for Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1988\n\nMåneskin will play London's O2 Arena almost two years to the day after they won Eurovision for Italy in 2021", "Hertfordshire Police was contacted just before 17:00 BST after the teenager had not resurfaced\n\nPolice searching for a 14-year-old boy who got into difficulties in a lake have recovered a body.\n\nHertfordshire Police received reports of a teenager failing to resurface in North Met Lake in Cheshunt just before 17:00 BST on Monday.\n\nA police helicopter and divers were joined by fire and ambulance crews.\n\nA body was recovered just before 23:00. Formal identification has not yet taken place but the boy's next of kin have been informed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alisha Pegg said she and her baby were neglected\n\nA Kent hospital trust has apologised to a grieving mother who was told her baby was dead, then alive, before dying hours later.\n\nDespite going to the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford with labour pains, Alisha Pegg claims doctors sent her home, where she gave birth to Grace.\n\nGrace was premature at 22 weeks, and Ms Pegg said staff \"neglected\" her.\n\nThe East Kent Hospitals Trust apologised for failing to \"provide the standard of care and support\" needed.\n\nThe day before the birth, in February 2021, Ms Pegg went to the hospital with pain and cramps.\n\nShe said medical staff told her there was no movement of the baby, but there was a heartbeat\n\n\"In my head I was thinking my daughter is OK, she has a heartbeat. I told them I'm in labour and I felt I needed to push, but the doctor said go home.\"\n\nLess than 24 hours later she returned to hospital by ambulance and was told Grace had died.\n\nMinutes later she was told the baby was actually alive.\n\nFour hours after that Grace died in her mother's arms.\n\nMs Pegg said she was sent home from the William Harvey Hospital\n\nShe said appropriate medical intervention was not given to Grace, because she was presumed dead.\n\n\"In all their reviews they say they did try to tube her, but she was showing no signs of life. Yet she survived four hours by herself.\n\n\"I want answers as to why I was not listened to when I persistently told them what my body was doing. I want an apology.\"\n\nRebecca Martin, chief medical officer at the trust, gave her \"heartfelt sympathies\" and said: \"We are truly sorry that we didn't provide the standard of care and support needed.\n\n\"We have changed our practices and policies following Grace's sad death, including introducing further monitoring for those at risk of preterm labour.\n\n\"We will continue to ensure we provide ongoing support to answer all the family's questions.\"\n\nThe death comes during an inquiry into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals, which will be published in the autumn.\n\nIt is looking at up to 200 incidents involving mothers and babies and is expected to be damning.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 90% of polling stations across the country have reported results\n\nProvisional results suggest a tight presidential race in Kenya between Deputy President William Ruto and Raila Odinga, a former prime minister\n\nWith more than 90% of results posted from thousands of individual districts, local tallies of the raw data suggest little separates the pair.\n\nHowever it could be several days before the official result is known.\n\nTuesday's vote followed a campaign dominated by debates about living costs, unemployment and corruption.\n\nTurnout is estimated at around 64%, well short of the 80% in the last election five years ago.\n\nHowever, electoral commission head Wafula Chebukati has said this figure will go up once data comes in about voters who were verified manually, instead of via an electronic ID kit.\n\nA largely peaceful election day was marred by logistical delays and a failure of these identification kits in some parts of the country.\n\nAt his latest briefing, Mr Chebukati said the commission had received 97% of presidential results sent in electronically, but official tallying would not begin until the physical results were received for verification.\n\nHe also referred to one of the incidents of violence reported on voting day involving an MP who is on the run for allegedly shooting dead his rival's bodyguard at a polling station.\n\n\"A murder case is a matter to be dealt with by the police, the law will take its course and justice will be served,\" he said.\n\nThe two frontrunners in the presidential race are seasoned politicians.\n\nMr Odinga, 77 - a long-serving opposition leader, nicknamed Baba (\"father\") by his supporters - is running for president for a fifth time. Mr Ruto, 55, who has tried to emphasise his connection with ordinary Kenyans by calling himself a \"hustler\", is taking his first stab at the presidency.\n\nTwo other candidates - David Mwaure and George Wajackoya - are also in the race.\n\nOutgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta is backing Mr Odinga, a foe turned ally, to succeed him, after a falling out with Mr Ruto.\n\nTo win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs:\n\nAfter counting the votes, local officials take a photo of the final tally sheet and send the image to both the constituency and national tallying centres.\n\nThe media, political parties and civil society groups have been compiling their own tallies using these final results declared at the more than 40,000 polling stations.\n\nBut only the electoral commission can declare the winner of the presidential election after verifying the physical and digital forms sent to the national tallying centre.\n\nIt has seven days to announce the result.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Enas Taleb was pictured at the Babylon International Festival\n\nAn Iraqi actress says she is suing the Economist newspaper for using a picture of her to illustrate an article about Arab women being \"fatter\" than men.\n\nEnas Taleb said that the image was used out of context without her permission, and violated her privacy. She also claimed it had been photoshopped.\n\nThe well-known actress and talk show host said in an interview that she has begun legal action in the UK.\n\nThe Economist did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\n\nThe article, entitled Why Women Are Fatter Than Men in the Arab World, was published in late July, using a picture of Ms Taleb taken nine months ago at the Babylon International Festival in Iraq.\n\nIt argues that poverty and societal restrictions keeping women in the home are among the reasons why more Arab women than men are overweight.\n\nAnother reason, the article states, may be that \"curves\" are viewed by some men as more attractive.\n\n\"Iraqis often cite Enas Taleb, an actress with ample curves (pictured), as the ideal of beauty,\" it says.\n\nMs Taleb labelled the article an \"insult to the Arab woman in general and Iraqi women in particular\", asking why the Economist \"takes interest in fat women in the Arab world and not in Europe or the USA\".\n\nSpeaking to Saudi-funded al-Arabiya TV from Jordan, she said she had faced \"bullying comments\" on social media.\n\nShe also told New Lines magazine she was healthy and happy with the way she looks.\n\n\"To me that is all that matters,\" she said.\n\nMs Taleb, 42, is among Iraq's best-known actresses, and has nine million followers on Instagram.\n\nIn her interview with al-Arabiya TV she said the Economist was unlucky to have angered her.\n\n\"They did not know that I'm a celebrity and a public figure,\" she said.\n\nThe Economist article also faced criticism on social media, accused it of being \"racist\", \"sexist\" and \"shaming\" Arab women.", "Supermarkets are not cutting fuel prices by as much as they should do to match the \"significant\" drop in the cost of wholesale fuel, the RAC has said.\n\nThe motoring group said the gap between pump prices and wholesale prices was the widest in almost a decade.\n\nThe price of petrol on Tuesday was about £1.76 per litre, but RAC analysts suggested it should be about £1.62.\n\nFuel prices have hit record highs this year, but are slowly starting to fall.\n\nThe RAC said at the start of the week, the average petrol price at the big four supermarkets, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, was £1.74 per litre. Diesel was £1.86.\n\nMeanwhile the average for the delivered wholesale petrol price last week was £1.24, while diesel was £1.38.\n\nAfter factoring in VAT, fuel duty and a \"generous\" retailer margin of 10p per litre, the RAC said \"forecourts should soon be selling unleaded for no more than £1.62\".\n\n\"There appears to have been a big shift in the last few months in the behaviour of the four major supermarkets, which dominate UK fuel retailing, as they are now commonly being undercut by independent retailers that are passing on the wholesale cost savings they're benefitting from to drivers at the pumps,\" said Simon Williams, RAC's fuel spokesman.\n\n\"This is unheard of as the supermarkets are normally at least 3p a litre cheaper than the UK average.\"\n\nThe reason supermarkets are usually cheaper than independent retailers is because they buy fuel more frequently meaning they can react quickly when wholesale prices move up or down.\n\nMr Williams said that was \"often demonstrated by the speed at which they pass on increases on their forecourts when wholesale prices rise\".\n\n\"As the supermarkets account for so much of all the fuel sold across the country and they haven't lowered their prices as much as they should have, it means average UK prices have not come down in line with the significant drop in wholesale fuel,\" he added.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe gap between retail and wholesale prices, excluding VAT, is the widest since the RAC started monitoring them in 2013.\n\nThe RAC said the current gap exceeded the difference between wholesale and retail prices at the start of the pandemic, when the country went into lockdown, and the price of oil plunged to about $13 a barrel. Oil has been consistently at around $100 per barrel in recent months.\n\nFuel prices were already rising before the war in Ukraine started in February, but the fallout from Russia's invasion has made things worse.\n\nRussia is one of the world's largest oil exporters, but is facing sanctions as a result of its actions in Ukraine. This has pushed up demand for oil from other producers, leading to higher prices.\n\nAlthough the UK imports just 6% of its crude oil from Russia, it is still affected when global prices rise.\n\nPetrol and diesel prices usually move when the price of crude oil goes up or down.\n\nIn mid-June, the RAC revealed petrol prices hit new record highs every day for a month, which led to the average family car costing more than £100 to fill up.\n• None Why are petrol prices going back up?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration there said.\n\nSergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula's western coast.\n\nFootage circulating on social media appeared to show several explosions.\n\nRussia's defence ministry later said ammunition was detonated, but this has not been independently verified.\n\nThe ministry said there was no \"fire impact\" on the ammunition storage area, Russia's state-run Ria news agency reports.\n\nThe Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014 is a popular destination with Russian tourists, and one video appeared to show visitors fleeing from a beach as smoke rose in the background.\n\nLocal witnesses told the Reuters agency that they heard at least 12 blasts, beginning at about 15:20 local time (12:20 GMT).\n\nAfter arriving in the area, Mr Aksyonov said a 5km (3 mile) no-go zone around the blast site had been established.\n\nSpeaking to Dozhd TV channel, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Kyiv was not responsible for the explosions.\n\nEarlier, Ukraine's military posted a sarcastic statement on Facebook which hinted at the sinking of the Moskva warship and other military setbacks, reminding Russia of its \"fire safety rules and the ban of smoking in unsettled places\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devoted his nightly video address to Crimea, but did not directly mention the explosions.\n\n\"Crimea is Ukrainian, and we will never give it up,\" Mr Zelensky said in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe war \"began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - with its liberation\", he added - suggesting that he believes Ukraine must retake the peninsula before the war can end.\n\nRussia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, after a referendum which was seen as illegitimate by the international community. The vote was hastily organised after unmarked Russian troops took control of several strategic locations around the peninsula.\n\nEarlier that year, months of pro-European protests had culminated in the ousting of Ukraine's Russian-backed president.\n\nOn 24 February this year, Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, using Crimea as a springboard to move Russian troops deeper inside Ukraine.\n\nNovofedorivka and Saky are about 50km (30 miles) north of the port of Sevastopol, home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which has been leading a blockade of the Ukrainian coastline.\n\nIf it emerges Ukraine was responsible for this attack, that would be a significant escalation. It would be the first major attack on a target inside Crimea proper.\n\nThe Ukrainians have come close: in June 2022, the Russia-appointed \"leader\" of Crimea said that Ukrainian forces had fired on Black Sea oil drilling platforms in Crimean waters, resulting in several casualties. And at the end of July, Russian authorities said a drone had struck a Russian naval facility in the city of Sevastopol, injuring six.\n\nCrimea is internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory, but Russia has ruled the peninsula for eight years and Russian state structures and military facilities are very well established.\n\nFor the Kremlin, Crimea has a quasi-sacred status, seen as \"historically\" Russian land that Moscow \"re-acquired\" triumphantly in 2014. An attack so deep inside Crimean territory would be a major embarrassment for President Putin.\n\nAnd there are fears that if the Ukrainians begin systematically attacking Russian targets inside Crimea, then the Russian response could be very serious indeed. Last month, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the powerful Security Council, said that if Crimea were attacked, then \"Judgement Day will instantly await all those [involved]. It will be very fast and very hard.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWarning: This article contains descriptions of distressing incidents\n\nToni Minichiello will \"never\" be allowed to coach again by UK Athletics after being found to have committed \"gross breaches of trust\" with sexually inappropriate conduct.\n\nThe 56-year-old, who had been subject of multiple complaints from women in athletics, was found to have committed 11 serious charges by an independent case-management group.\n\nVarious other charges were not proven.\n\nAn independent panel found Minichiello's actions to \"have had severe consequences for the mental health and mental wellbeing of the athletes under his charge\".\n\nThe findings relate to anonymous athletes over a 15-year period.\n\nHis coaching licence has expired and therefore cannot be subject to a sanction, however UKA says it has decided that it will not entertain any future application made by Minichiello.\n\n\"UKA is firmly of the view that there will never be a time in the future at which it would be appropriate to grant that assurance and issue such a licence,\" it said.\n\nMinichiello said he was \"disappointed\" with the decision and the process and strongly denies the charges.\n• None failed to respect the athletes' right to a private life by making intrusive enquiries and personal comments about their personal lives.\n• None engaged in sexually physical behaviour, namely inappropriate and unwanted touching of athletes to whom he owed a duty of care.\n• None engaged in inappropriate and sometimes aggressive behaviour, bullying and emotional abuse.\n\nThe panel added that Minichiello had mimicked sexual activity with athletes and inappropriately and unwantedly touched some, while also making intrusive enquiries and derogatory comments about their personal lives.\n\nThis included making inappropriate comments about some of his athletes' relationships and boyfriends, telling one she would \"never get married\" and \"never have kids\".\n\nMinichiello was also found to have made one athlete sit in a corner with a cone on their head as a dunce's hat.\n\nUKA said it \"wishes to recognise those who came forward to give evidence in this case. We thank them and strongly encourage anyone with a concern to come forward\".\n\nIt is understood UKA is liaising with the complainants over whether they wish for the matter to be passed on to the police.\n\nMinichiello guided Jessica Ennis-Hill to Olympic glory at London 2012. He has also commentated on athletics for BBC TV.\n\nEnnis-Hill said she had found the news \"shocking and upsetting\".\n\nPosting on Instagram she added: \"The allegations are awful and although I was never on the receiving end of any sexual physical behaviour, any such inappropriate behaviour or language has no place in any coaching or work environment.\n\n\"Everyone should feel safe from any form of physical or mental abuse.\"\n\nIn a response to the findings, Minichiello said: \"I have not behaved inappropriately towards any of my athletes as very many of them would confirm.\"\n\nHe also said the investigation was \"one-sided\" and that \"the tribunal failed to engage properly with the available evidence\", citing an example in which he said he was in a different country to a complainant at the time of one allegation.\n\n\"It is very important that UK Athletics respond quickly and seriously to serious allegations of misconduct, especially when those allegations are made by young people,\" he continued.\n\n\"However, those investigations and tribunals need to be conducted carefully, with due process and fairly. I do not believe that I have been treated fairly in this instance.\"\n• None How can you save money on meat? Here are some helpful tips on reducing your spend\n• None Why are some people still unvaccinated? Hannah Fry meets some of them to find out the reasons", "All children aged one to nine and living in Greater London will be offered a polio vaccine after the virus was detected in sewage.\n\nThe virus, which can cause paralysis, has been found 116 times in London's waste water since February.\n\nThe urgent immunisation campaign will see nearly a million children offered the vaccine - including those already up to date with their jabs.\n\nParents and carers will be contacted by their GP within the next month.\n\nPolio is seen as a disease of the past in the UK after the whole of Europe was declared polio-free in 2003.\n\nHowever, what is happening now is slightly complicated as the samples detected are linked to a polio vaccine used in other countries.\n\nParts of the world still dealing with polio outbreaks use the oral polio vaccine - which is safe, but uses a live virus. This gives a huge amount of immunity, but has the potential to spread from person to person in areas where not a lot of people are protected.\n\nThis becomes a problem if it continues to spread, as the safe form of the virus used in the vaccine can mutate and evolve until it can once again lead to paralysis.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says most of the samples detected are the safe vaccine form of polio, but \"a few\" have mutated enough to be dangerous.\n\nThe alarm was first raised in June after a series of tests at Beckton Sewage Works, which serves north and east London. More detailed analysis of the sewage system has since found the virus in:\n\nThe UKHSA says genetic analysis of the samples suggests that spread of the virus \"has gone beyond a close network of a few individuals\".\n\nA meeting of the government's vaccine experts - the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - recommended a rapid booster campaign for children aged one to nine.\n\nThe aim is two-fold. First to reduce the risk of any child catching the virus and being paralysed and also to raise immunity levels so the virus finds it harder to spread.\n\nDr Vanessa Saliba, a consultant epidemiologist at UKHSA, said: \"All children aged one to nine years in London need to have a dose of polio vaccine now - whether it's an extra booster dose or just to catch up with their routine vaccinations.\"\n\nShe said the risk for the majority of the population who are vaccinated remains \"low\" but said it was \"vital\" parents ensure their children are fully vaccinated.\n\nBetween one-in-100 and one-in-1,000 people develop paralysis after catching polio, with most cases in young children.\n\nChildren will be offered the inactivated vaccine - which contains a \"dead\" virus and has no risk of spreading. This is the form of polio vaccine the UK has used since 2004.\n\nPolio starts as a tummy infection, which is why it can be detected in waste water.\n\nThe UKHSA is increasing surveillance to another 15 sites in London and at least 10 outside the capital to see whether the virus is spreading in other regions.\n\nThe samples detected in London's waste water are connected to those being found in Jerusalem, Israel, and New York State in the US, where a young adult developed paralysis.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"I recognise parents and guardians will be concerned about the detection of polio in London, however I want to reassure people that nobody has been diagnosed with the virus and the risk to the wider population is low.\"\n\nThe majority of people with the infection have no symptoms but some feel as if they have the flu, with:", "Fish are under pressure from hotter temperatures and lower river flows\n\nEnvironmental groups say the prolonged dry spell is having a \"serious\" impact on wildlife in rivers.\n\nWith rivers already under pressure from pollution and use for drinking water, they say the looming drought is adding to the strain.\n\nChalk streams, which support iconic species such as the salmon, kingfisher and otter, are of particular concern, according to the Rivers Trust.\n\nOnly 200 exist globally, 85% of which are in southern and eastern England.\n\n\"This is our Barrier Reef or our Amazon rainforest; it's our unique contribution to global wildlife and biodiversity,\" said Christine Colvin of the Rivers Trust.\n\nThe River Anton in Hampshire is much lower than usual\n\nShe said some small chalk streams were starting to dry up, while larger rivers were experiencing low flows.\n\n\"The wildlife here is already stressed as a result of the hotter temperatures and their habitat is shrinking as the water levels are getting lower and lower,\" she added. \"We don't want them to go any lower than they are now.\"\n\nJamie Marsh, reserves manager for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, warned of \"a serious situation\" for wildlife as rivers run low in parts of the region.\n\nAt one nature reserve on the banks of the River Itchen in Winchester, a pond has completely dried up, while low river flow is hitting food sources for fish, insects and invertebrates, with knock-on effects for animals higher up the food chain such as water voles and otters.\n\n\"Our water resources are under a lot of pressure and this long period of drought is exacerbating those issues,\" he said.\n\n\"What we can do to help is we as a society can look at our water consumption and try and reduce down our consumption.\n\n\"For many of our rivers, they're not in a natural state; they've been heavily modified and engineered. Many of our river systems are acting more like drains than actual rivers now.\"\n\nA dried-up pond at the Winnall Moors Nature Reserve in Winchester\n\nChalk streams and rivers rise from springs in chalk bedrock - a layer of spongy rock found beneath much of southern and eastern England, that can hold vast quantities of water.\n\nThis layer of white limestone is composed of the same material that makes up the white cliffs of Dover and supplies water for rivers and taps in much of the south east of England.\n\nWater is pumped out of the ground or taken directly from rivers, to the tune of millions of litres a day.\n\nSouthern Water, which supplies water to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, said the decision to introduce a hosepipe ban was a \"vital step\" to protect the habitats of the River Test and the River Itchen, where it extracts water.\n\nThe company has said river flows were about 25% lower than they should be for July.\n\nAlgae blooms are appearing on lakes during the hot weather\n\nAnd according to the latest projections by scientists, river flows are expected to remain exceptionally low in central and southern England for the rest of the summer.\n\nWater UK, which represents the water industry, has said water companies with chalk streams in their regions have invested hundreds of millions of pounds in reducing and ending abstractions of water and further reductions will take place over the next few years.\n\nHowever, the Rivers Trust has called for a total rethink in the way we use water to cope as dry hot summers likely become more frequent.\n\n\"We want to see government and the water companies responding in a coordinated way,\" said Christine Colvin.\n\n\"This hot spell and this prolonged dry period is a pressure test for us now to get ready for the long haul because we're going to be seeing many more summers like this in years to come.\"\n\nMammals such as otters can struggle to find food if river levels run too low\n\nOther wildlife is also struggling to find food during the long dry spell, including birds that feed on worms in the soil and ground-feeding mammals such as badgers.\n\nButterflies, solitary bees, hoverflies and insects may also be suffering as plants produce less nectar when they are experiencing water stress, said the Royal Horticultural Society.\n\nHelen Bostock, RHS senior wildlife specialist said: \"With many species of wild pollinator still in decline they need all the help they can get, but we can think of gardens as service stations for these pollinating insects. In a drought your garden might be the only reliable place a bumblebee or hoverfly can find water and nectar. \"", "Bin collectors will strike as part of a coordinated campaign by unions in Scotland\n\nBin workers at 15 Scottish councils will go on strike in a new wave of industrial action later this month.\n\nThe Unite union said about 1,500 members would walk out from 24 August to 31 August over a pay dispute.\n\nIt follows a first wave of strikes in Edinburgh next week during the city's International and Fringe festivals.\n\nUnite said the action would hit all council waste services in response to a \"pitiful\" 2% local government pay offer.\n\nThe councils affected are Aberdeen, Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian.\n\nIt is part of a coordinated campaign by Unite, Unison and the GMB unions to persuade the Scottish government and local authority body Cosla to make an improved pay deal.\n\nUnite is the only union involved in this phase of strikes.\n\nGeneral secretary, Sharon Graham, said: \"Unite's members play a crucial role in keeping Scotland's bins emptied and streets clean and they have had enough of the procrastination between Cosla and the Scottish government.\n\n\"Our members across all councils will receive the union's complete support until this dispute is resolved and a fair pay offer secured.\"\n\nSchool and nursery staff have also voted to strike\n\nThe union said more than half of Scotland's 250,000 council staff are earning less than £25,000 a year for a 37-hour week.\n\nThousands of workers in schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres voted last month to take industrial action.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney last week announced that the Scottish government would give councils an extra £140m to help give staff a bigger pay rise.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"This additional funding demonstrates our commitment to local government and their staff and will allow local authorities to make a significantly enhanced pay offer.\"\n\n\"Without the ability to borrow or change tax policy, this will have a significant and ongoing impact upon our fixed budget that ministers are taking steps to address.\n\n\"Finding a solution must be a collaborative endeavour and local authorities now need to do the same.\"\n\nUnite said there had been \"no indication\" of how this additional funding would be used.\n\nCosla said it had held \"constructive discussions\" with the Scottish government last week.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Given the importance of a pay award for our workforce, council leaders wanted to seek further clarification from both the Scottish government and UK government and will reconvene this week to further consider this matter.\"", "Police said officers attended a linked incident in Dornie after the first incident was raised in Tarskavaig\n\nA man has died and three people have been injured in a series of shootings around Skye.\n\nPolice Scotland were initially called to a report of a 32-year-old woman being injured at a property in Tarskavaig, on Skye, shortly before 09:00.\n\nOfficers were then called to an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Teangue at about 09:30.\n\nPolice said a gun was fired and a 47-year-old man died at the scene.\n\nOfficers were later called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh on the Scottish mainland, where a gun was also fired.\n\nA man was seriously injured and taken to hospital in Inverness, while a woman was taken to hospital on Skye.\n\nPolice said the incidents were linked and a 39-year-old man had been arrested. He has also been taken to hospital.\n\nThe rescue operation saw multiple ambulances, air ambulances and special rapid retrieval emergency teams, which are only summoned for incidents in rural locations when people are in critical need of medical attention.\n\nCh Supt Conrad Trickett said: \"Incidents such as this are thankfully extremely rare but I understand that this will have a significant effect on the local community in these rural areas.\n\n\"I would like to reassure people that we are treating these incidents as contained with no wider threat to the public.\n\n\"There will a significant police presence in the area over the coming days and we will be working with partners to provide support to the local community.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said multiple ambulances, air ambulances, a special operations response team and an emergency medical retrieval service team attended the scenes.\n\nPolice at a property at Teangue on Skye\n\nPolice said the incidents were linked and a 39-year-old man had been arrested\n\nIan Blackford, SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, told BBC Scotland it was very concerning news and that his thoughts were with all those affected.\n\nHe said: \"As more details come to light, the response of the emergency services seems to have stopped this incident spreading even further than it did.\n\n\"Thank you for the work that you do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Shock and horror\" after Skye and Lochalsh shootings - Ian Blackford\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes and Highland Council convener Bill Lobban have also praised the work of the emergency services.\n\nMr Lobban said: \"We are thankful to our emergency services colleagues for bringing this very serious and shocking incident to a close.\n\n\"We will be providing support to the communities and our partners in every way possible.\n\n\"The communities of Skye and Dornie will be shocked and saddened by these incidents and our thoughts are with the individuals affected.\"\n\nSkye councillor John Finlayson said it was \"a very tough day\" for islanders.\n\nMr Finlayson told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I've never known tragedy like this and there's two communities that have been affected here - one on Skye and one on the mainland.\n\n\"So, it's a sad day, it's a tragic day, and it's a very tough day for us all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFurious allies of former President Donald Trump are demanding an explanation for the FBI's raid on his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe FBI and Department of Justice have yet to comment on the search, which Mr Trump disclosed on Monday evening.\n\nIt is reportedly linked to an investigation into his handling of classified and sensitive material.\n\nIt was the first time a former US president's home has ever been searched by law enforcement.\n\nReports suggest the FBI activity is connected to an investigation into whether Mr Trump, a Republican, removed classified records from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe search was approved at the highest levels of the Department of Justice (DoJ), an unnamed US official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nRepublicans have depicted the investigation as politically motivated, with leading figures demanding a briefing from Attorney General Merrick Garland, head of the DoJ.\n\nMr Trump's former Vice-President, Mike Pence, who has subtly distanced himself amid speculation they may both launch 2024 White House runs, called on the attorney general to give \"a full accounting\" of why the search warrant was carried out.\n\n\"No former President of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nMr Trump's allies in Congress, meanwhile, vowed to launch an investigation if they win back control of the House of Representatives and Senate in November's mid-term elections, when the balance of power in Washington will be decided.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was given no advance notice by the FBI of the raid, and that he \"learned about this from public reports\".\n\n\"The president was not briefed and was not aware of it. No-one at the White House was given a heads-up,\" she said.\n\nShe told reporters that Mr Biden had gone to great lengths to preserve the independence of the justice department, adding: \"President Biden believes in the rule of law.\"\n\nAn anti-Trump protester outside Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday\n\nThe raid was first announced on Monday evening in a statement by the former president, who was at Trump Tower in New York City.\n\nLindsey Halligan, a lawyer for Mr Trump, said she had received a call around 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) that the FBI had a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago and that she should come to the property.\n\nShe said she saw 30 to 40 gloved FBI agents, some in suits and others dressed casually, and around 10 to 15 FBI vehicles, including a rental truck.\n\nMs Halligan told CBS she and another lawyer for Mr Trump were barred from entering the complex, and that the search was divided into three sections: a bedroom, office and storage area.\n\n\"Complete overkill,\" she said. \"If they needed documents, they could have asked.\"\n\nThe Secret Service agents protecting Mr Trump were notified shortly before the warrant was served, an unnamed law enforcement official told CBS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mar-a-Lago is a private members' club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway\n\nIn a fundraising email to supporters on Tuesday, Mr Trump - who is currently at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club - said he and other Republicans were being targeted because of his political influence and \"my dominance in all polls\".\n\n\"They are trying to stop the Republican Party and me once more,\" he said, adding: \"The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt, must be exposed and stopped.\"\n\nRepublican Senate leader Mitch McConnell released a statement on Tuesday saying the justice department \"should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately\".\n\nWhile many Democrats welcomed the raid, several urged the DoJ to provide more information. Some aired concerns that it could boost support for the former president.\n\n\"This could be very useful to him as many people rally around him during this time,\" Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach, where Mar-a-Lago is based, told the BBC. \"Trump will use this to regain his martyr status.\"\n\nDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she first learned of the \"visit\" by FBI agents through public reports on her phone.\n\n\"To have a warrant, you need justification,\" she told NBC News. \"And that says that no-one is above the law, not even a president or former president of the United States.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams has suggested she is set to retire from tennis, saying she will be \"evolving away\" from the sport after the US Open.\n\nWriting for Vogue, the American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion said she is moving towards \"other things that are important to me\", adding she does not like the word \"retirement\".\n\nIn an accompanying Instagram post, she wrote that \"the countdown has begun\".\n\n\"I'm gonna relish these next few weeks,\" the 40-year-old said.\n\nWilliams made her singles return at Wimbledon in June after a lengthy injury lay-off that had led to speculation about her retirement.\n\nShe says she will play at the US Open, where she has won six of her major singles titles, later in August.\n• None A look back at Williams' iconic moments as she prepares to say goodbye\n\nWilliams has won more major singles title than any female player in the Open era and the second most of all time, behind Margaret Court's 24.\n\n\"Unfortunately I wasn't ready to win Wimbledon this year. And I don't know if I will be ready to win New York. But I'm going to try,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I know there's a fan fantasy that I might have tied Margaret that day in London, then maybe beat her record in New York, and then at the trophy ceremony say, \"See ya!\"\n\n\"I get that. It's a good fantasy. But I'm not looking for some ceremonial, final on-court moment.\n\n\"I'm terrible at goodbyes, the world's worst. But please know that I am more grateful for you than I can ever express in words.\"\n\nOn Monday, she had her first singles win in 14 months, beating Spain's Nuria Parrizas Diaz to reach the second round of the National Bank Open in Toronto.\n\n'It is the hardest thing I could ever imagine'\n\nIn the lengthy essay, Williams says she has been \"reluctant to admit to myself or anyone else that I have to move on from playing tennis\".\n\n\"Alexis, my husband, and I have hardly talked about it; it's like a taboo topic,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I can't even have this conversation with my mom and dad. It's like it's not real until you say it out loud. It comes up, I get an uncomfortable lump in my throat, and I start to cry.\n\n\"I know that a lot of people are excited about and look forward to retiring, and I really wish I felt that way. \"\n\nIn singles, Williams has won the Wimbledon and Australian Open seven times, along with six US Open trophies and three French Open titles.\n\nHer first major title was the 1999 US Open, when she was 17.\n\nShe won her last Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open when she was eight weeks' pregnant with daughter Olympia.\n\nShe says there is \"no happiness\" in the possibility of no longer playing tennis.\n\n\"I know it's not the usual thing to say, but I feel a great deal of pain. It's the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I hate it. I hate that I have to be at this crossroads. I keep saying to myself, I wish it could be easy for me, but it's not.\n\n\"I'm torn: I don't want it to be over, but at the same time I'm ready for what's next.\"\n\nWilliams nearly died in childbirth with Olympia but returned to the sport, reaching four major finals after coming back from maternity leave. She lost them all, leaving her, tantalisingly, one short of Court's record.\n\nShe discusses having more children in her essay, stating: \"I definitely don't want to be pregnant again as an athlete.\n\n\"I need to be two feet into tennis or two feet out.\"\n\nThe numbers behind an all-time great\n• 23 Grand Slam singles titles - the most of any woman in the Open Era\n• 73 WTA titles overall, including all four Slams at least three times\n• 319 weeks at the top of the world rankings\n• 186 consecutive weeks at number one - a joint-record with Chris Evert\n• 71.3% winning record against players ranked in the top 10\n\n'I did it - and so can you'\n\nWilliams is one of sport's most iconic stars, attracting full stadiums and devoted fans throughout her career.\n\nShe and older sister Venus have been widely regarded as changing the face of tennis and inspiring future players, as well as pushing for gender equality.\n\nWilliams describes the \"essence of being Serena\" as \"expecting the best from myself and proving people wrong\".\n\n\"There were so many matches I won because something made me angry or someone counted me out. That drove me,\" she said.\n\n\"My sister Venus once said that when someone out there says you can't do something, it is because they can't do it. But I did do it. And so can you.\"\n\nWilliams also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles alongside Venus, two mixed doubles Slam titles and four Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles.\n\nAs well as her many highs she had several near-misses when it came to adding to her major tally, including emotional exits at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2021.\n\nShe also had some controversial moments at the US Open, including the 2018 final in New York where she accused umpire Carlos Ramos of being a thief.\n\nRanked by Forbes as the highest-earning female athlete of all time, Williams has moved into business in recent years, starting a venture capital firm.\n\nShe is also part of a group that funded a new Los Angeles-based women's team in the National Women's Soccer League season.\n\n\"I don't particularly like to think about my legacy. I get asked about it a lot, and I never know exactly what to say,\" Williams added.\n\n\"But I'd like to think that thanks to opportunities afforded to me, women athletes feel that they can be themselves on the court.\n\n\"They can play with aggression and pump their fists. They can be strong yet beautiful. They can wear what they want and say what they want and kick butt and be proud of it all.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to be able to look at this magazine when it comes out, knowing that this is it, the end of a story that started in Compton, California, with a little Black girl who just wanted to play tennis.\"\n\n'One of the all-time greatest athletes' - reaction\n\nAmerica's world number 11 Coco Gauff: \"I grew up watching her. I mean, that's the reason why I play tennis.\n\n\"Tennis being a predominantly white sport, it definitely helped a lot. Because I saw somebody who looked like me dominating the game. It made me believe that I could dominate too.\"\n\nFormer world number one Billie Jean King: \"When Serena steps away from tennis, she will leave as the sport's greatest player.\n\n\"After a career that has inspired a new generation of players and fans, she will forever be known as a champion who won on the court and raised the global profile of the sport off of it.\"\n\nBritain's US Open champion Emma Raducanu: \"She definitely changed the game. There's not really been someone who has dominated like her in the women's game.\"\n\nFormer world number one John McEnroe: \"She's an icon. Her place in American society has gone to a place where she deserves it after everything she's accomplished, everything she's done.\n\n\"She's one of the all-time greatest athletes in the history of any sport - male or female.\"\n\nAmerican player Taylor Townsend: \"Thank you for the road you and Venus have paved to allow me to be here and make a life for myself and my son! You will be missed, but so excited to see what comes next.\"\n• None How can you save money on meat? Here are some helpful tips on reducing your spend\n• None Why are some people still unvaccinated? Hannah Fry meets some of them to find out the reasons", "A quarter of sponsors of Ukrainians as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme do not want to continue the arrangement beyond six months, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found.\n\nLaunched in March, it has seen about 75,000 refugees arrive in the UK.\n\nSponsors agreed to provide accommodation in their own home for a minimum of six months.\n\nBut there are concerns at what will happen when those arrangements reach the end of that time.\n\nThe scheme was set up by the government to help those fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and worked alongside the Ukraine Family Scheme - which allowed refugees to join relatives already living in the UK.\n\nAn ONS survey of Homes for Ukraine hosts found 26% want to end their sponsorship after six months or less.\n\nSix out of 10 sponsors said they were happy to accommodate their Ukrainian guests for more than the agreed minimum with almost a quarter saying they would be prepared to continue the arrangement for more than a year.\n\nHowever, almost all sponsors said they had provided support and help to their guests that went beyond the official arrangement.\n\nEight out of 10 said they had given them food, two-thirds had helped them find work and 45% had provided financial support.\n\nThe ONS research also found that 18% of those signed up for the scheme were still waiting for guests to move in.\n\nOf those who did not wish to accommodate Ukrainians for more than six months, just under a quarter said their decision was down to the rising cost of living.\n\nSponsors currently receive £350 a month but the survey found four in 10 might be prepared to host for longer if there was more financial help.\n\nMaria Divid has been hosting a Ukrainian refugee since April and said she was \"very happy\" to host her guest for another six months.\n\nThe refugee, a woman from the Ukraine capital Kyiv, lives in Ms Divid's spare room in her London home.\n\n\"I'm originally from Russia and was devastated by the conflict, so I was very keen to counteract the consequences of the war in any way I could,\" she told BBC News.\n\nShe said being a sponsor had led to her bills going up but that was more than covered by the £350 she received each month from the government.\n\n\"My guest also buys her own food, so the costs are managed. But I can imagine for other households it could be more of an issue,\" she added.\n\nAnother Londoner, who asked not to be named, took in a single Ukrainian man into the home he shares with his wife.\n\nBut after three months the arrangement broke down.\n\nThe young man left their home and is now staying in free council housing for the remaining three months that he would have spent with his original hosts.\n\nHis sponsor said they had tried to help their guest settle with lots of chats and loans but it became challenging when he would not claim benefits or meet up with other Ukrainians in the UK.\n\n\"It meant there was a lot of pressure on us, apart from hosting him.\"\n\nThe young man also had mental health difficulties and was \"understandably struggling with some issues,\", his sponsor said, but there was no support for ending the scheme.\n\n\"What the government are asking from you is to provide a full social security system. As soon as there's any problem or confusion or challenge, there was nowhere to turn or no one to help,\" he added.\n\nThe ONS surveyed all UK adults registered with the scheme as of 7 July, in collaboration with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), with 17,702 people responding.\n\nRecent government figures show 145 placements have ended with Ukrainian refugees finding themselves homeless, 90 because the relationship broke down and 55 where the accommodation was deemed unsuitable before they moved in.\n\n\"We see a lot of generosity and goodwill in what hosts report doing for their guests,\" Tim Gibbs, from the ONS, said.\n\n\"The majority are still hosting and many indicate a willingness to host beyond the initial six months.\n\n\"However, we also see the additional work and expense involved in hosting with some saying more or ongoing support would be welcomed.\"\n\nRefugees minister Lord Harrington said the vast majority of sponsors wanted to provide support for longer than six months which was a \"testament to the goodwill the British public has shown the people of Ukraine since tanks first rolled across the border\".\n\nSponsors would continue to receive thank you payments for up to 12 months and the government is contacting hosts to outline the next steps and support available, he said.\n\n\"We initially asked sponsors to host for a minimum of six months and we are working closely with councils to ensure Ukrainians have a safe place to live if they decide to move on,\" Lord Harrington said.\n\nThere are concerns from councils about the number of hosts who say they do not want to continue with the scheme, and Local Government Association chairman James Jamieson said they were talking to the government about how they might be encouraged to do so.\n\n\"For instance, increasing the thank you payment to a higher amount so the sponsors can be sure it's not costing them,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a significant risk - even if re-matching is available - that many Ukrainian families may need to present as homeless because of a lack of sponsors or options.\"", "Author-illustrator Raymond Briggs, best-known for his 1978 classic The Snowman, has died at the age of 88.\n\nHis death was confirmed by his family, who said he \"was much loved and will be deeply missed\".\n\n\"We know that Raymond's books were loved by and touched millions of people around the world, who will be sad to hear this news,\" they said, in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nThe Snowman was turned into a Bafta TV award-winning animated TV film in 1982.\n\nFrancesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children's, said: \"Raymond's books are picture masterpieces that address some of the fundamental questions of what it is to be human, speaking to both adults and children with a remarkable economy of words and illustrations.\"\n\nBriggs' original wordless children's picture book, The Snowman, finished the runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British writer.\n\nIt has gone on to sell more than 5.5m copies in various formats around the world.\n\nThe TV film adaptation, which also received an Oscar nomination for best animated short film, told the story of a young boy, waking up after a heavy snowfall and building a large snowman who later magically comes to life.\n\nThe Snowman was turned into a Bafta TV Award-winning animated TV film in 1982\n\nIt was first broadcast on Boxing Day 1982, Channel 4's inaugural year, and has been shown almost every Christmas since.\n\nThe film, directed by Dianne Jackson and produced by John Coates, was wordless apart from the hit song taken from it, Howard Blake's Walking in the Air, sung by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty.\n\nA recorded version performed by Welsh choirboy Aled Jones reached the UK top five in 1985.\n\nJones reacted to the news of Briggs' death on his Classic FM radio show on Wednesday, telling listeners: \"What a legacy he leaves behind. \"His books have touched millions of people all around the world, and what a debt of gratitude I owe to his greatest creation of all,\" he added. \"Thank you, Raymond.\"\n\nChildren's authors Michael Rosen and Cressida Cowell both also paid tribute to Briggs online.\n\nRosen, who wrote We're Going On A Bear Hunt, tweeted the late writer was \"fantastic\". While How To Train Your Dragon author Cowell said: \"His books brought so much joy and inspired so many, touching, hilarious and heartbreaking work.\"\n\nSpeaking of how the story had originally come about, Briggs said: \"I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snow I had ever seen.\n\n\"Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness.\n\n\"It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made The Snowman.\"\n\nBriggs was born in London in 1934 and he attended Wimbledon School of Art and Central School of Art.\n\nAfter undergoing national service he returned to study painting at University College London.\n\nHe became a professional illustrator, working in advertising, and then creating books as well as teaching illustration at Brighton College of Art.\n\nHis 1966 book of nursery rhymes, The Mother Goose Treasury, won the Kate Greenaway medal.\n\nBriggs went on to become one of the country's popular author-illustrators, with titles in the 1970s such as Father Christmas, Father Christmas Goes on Holiday, Fungus the Bogeyman and, of course, The Snowman.\n\nThe following decade he produced When the Wind Blows as well as The Tin-Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman.\n\nHis books have been translated into several languages and adapted into films, plays and TV animations.\n\nIn their statement, his family said they \"would like to thank all of the team on Overton Ward at Royal Sussex County Hospital for their kind and thoughtful care of Raymond in his final weeks\".\n\nThe late writer's literary agent, Hilary Delamere, added he would be remembered \"for his stories of love and of loss\", adding:\"I know from the many letters he received how his books and animations touched people's hearts.\"\n\n\"He kept his curiosity and sense of wonder right up to the last. He was fascinated by, and interested in us all and how we live our lives.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "Some 115,000 Royal Mail workers are set to strike on four days in August and September in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) said workers would walk out on 26 and 31 August and 8 and 9 September.\n\nThe move comes as Royal Mail said the union had rejected a pay rise offer \"worth up to 5.5%\" after three months of talks.\n\nUnion bosses the action was \"for a proper pay rise\" and said the strikes would be the biggest this summer.\n\nThe union has demanded that Royal Mail increases wages to an amount that \"covers the current cost of living\".\n\nInflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, is at a 40-year high of 9.4% and is expected to peak at 13% later this year.\n\nDave Ward, CWU general secretary, said: \"Nobody takes the decision to strike lightly, but postal workers are being pushed to the brink.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that postal workers are completely united in their determination to secure the dignified, proper pay rise they deserve,\" he said.\n\nPeople \"can't keep on living in a country where bosses rake in billions in profit while their employees are forced to use food banks\", he added.\n\n\"The CWU's message to Royal Mail's leadership is simple - there will be serious disruption until you get real on pay,\" he added.\n\nRoyal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m the year before.\n\nThe CWU is the latest of several unions to ballot for strikes in recent weeks, as the cost of living soars.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised to customers in advance of the industrial action, but said it had plans in place to minimise the disruption.\n\nThe company also called for further talks with the union to avert the strikes, but said they \"must be about both change and pay\".\n\nWorkers on the railways and at airports are also in pay disputes with employers, with train drivers set to strike on Saturday.\n\nBut while there have been calls for pay rises, there are concerns that higher wages to cope with the current cost of living could fuel further inflation.\n\nRicky McAulay, operations director at Royal Mail accused the union of failing to engage in \"any meaningful discussion\" after more than three months of talks on changes to modernise the company.\n\n\"The CWU rejected our offer worth up to 5.5% for CWU grade colleagues, the biggest increase we have offered for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"In a business that is currently losing £1m a day, we can only fund this offer by agreeing the changes that will pay for it.\"\n\nIt is understood that after talks ended between the CWU and Royal Mail, the company announced it would give members a non-conditional 2% pay increase backdated to 1 April.\n\nThe union had been told an additional 3.5% rise is available, subject to further talks and agreements - which would total a 5.5% rise.\n\nMr McAulay said the company needed to modernise to \"offer more of what our customers want, at a price they are willing to pay - all whilst protecting jobs on the best terms and conditions in our industry\".\n\n\"Royal Mail can have a bright future, but we can't achieve that by living in the past,\" he said.\n\n\"The CWU's failure to engage on the changes we need is an abdication of responsibility for the long-term job security of their members.\"", "The Kite Runner has become the first show on Broadway to require audiences to wear masks at certain performances.\n\nThe move is particularly notable as the show's weekly mask-only evening will be on Fridays - one of the most popular nights in New York's theatre district.\n\nFans who are disabled or have other health vulnerabilities have long called for theatres to host mask-only nights.\n\nBut the major theatres in London's West End have yet to introduce such a scheme.\n\nProducers said they scheduled the performances after some ticket buyers \"expressed trepidation\" about coming to see the show.\n\nIn England and Wales, the mask mandate was lifted in January, in line with a significant fall in Covid cases and deaths following the rollout of the vaccine.\n\nAs a result, it has become increasingly rare in recent months to see audience members wearing facemasks at the vast majority of West End performances.\n\nHowever, the US was much slower than the UK to do away with facemask rules.\n\nBroadway theatres only lifted the industry-wide mask mandate on 1 July, and two plays - The Minutes and American Buffalo - kept their mask requirements in place until they closed later that month.\n\nThe decision to offer mask-only performances of The Kite Runner means immunocompromised ticket buyers, or indeed anyone who is uncomfortable sitting in a mask-free environment, will be able to see the show.\n\n\"There were a number of people, including friends, colleagues, even a doctor who had expressed some trepidation about attending our show, or any show, without a masked audience,\" The Kite Runner's lead producer Victoria Lang told The Hollywood Reporter.\n\nUshers at the Hayes Theatre, which is currently hosting The Kite Runner, will enforce the policy on Fridays\n\n\"We thought, why not dedicate at least one performance a week to make it a masked audience, so that anyone and everyone who wants to see the show has the opportunity to do that?\n\n\"You always hope to boost sales, but it wasn't done specifically to boost sales,\" she added. \"It was done really just to accommodate the requests from the people that were looking for a masked show.\"\n\nThe Kite Runner is an adaptation of the 2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini and opened on Broadway on 21 July, with a planned 17-week running.\n\nThe first mask-only performance of the show, which is directed by Giles Croft, will take place on 19 August.\n\nUshers inside the theatre will enforce the policy, Lang said, and signage outside the theatre and box office will make the policy clear to audiences.\n\nSome venues in the UK have scheduled occasional mask-only performances, including the Hampstead Theatre, the Nottingham Playhouse, the Birmingham Rep, the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.\n\nTheatres and cinemas already offer showings and screenings for a variety of audiences - such as subtitled or signed performances for people who are hard of hearing, and parent-and-baby screenings for adults who don't want the sound of their infant crying to disrupt others.\n\nAs there would be very little public enthusiasm for bringing mask mandates back to entertainment venues in the UK, individual nights dedicated to masks could be a way for theatres to keep most ticket-buyers happy.\n\nLiz Carr, pictured at the Olivier Awards in April, previously suggested UK theatres could host socially distanced performances with a facemask requirement\n\nEarlier this year, Silent Witness star Liz Carr called for UK theatres to host \"Covid-safer performances\".\n\n\"Theatre should remain accessible even to those of us who have health conditions,\" she told BBC News at the Olivier Awards in April.\n\n\"I think they should have facemask performances that are more socially distanced. In the same way you might have a British sign language performance, I think you should have Covid-safer performances.\"\n\nCarr recalled: \"Some of my friends who weren't ready to come and see my show, they came to see the dress rehearsal, because they didn't feel safe enough to come.\n\n\"So I think performances with less capacity and mandatory facemasks, every show should be doing that to make sure theatre remains accessible even to those of us who have health conditions.\"\n\nSome high-profile West End stars encouraged live audiences to wear masks before the mask mandate was fully lifted in the UK.\n\nFrozen star Stephanie McKeon tweeted in October: \"A plea to amazing London audiences: Please please please wear your masks in the theatre. We are working so hard on our end to ensure everyone is safe and to keep our shows running.\n\n'We would be so grateful if you could help us out and do your bit too. Thank you.\"", "Marcus Mumford is the lead singer of Mumford & Sons and now also a solo artist\n\nMarcus Mumford, the frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has revealed he was sexually abused as a six-year-old.\n\n\"Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people's assumption,\" he told GQ magazine.\n\nThe 35-year-old singer said he addressed the issue in the lyrics to his recent solo single, Cannibal.\n\n\"Like lots of people - and I'm learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people - I was sexually abused as a child,\" he said.\n\n\"But I hadn't told anyone about it for 30 years.\"\n\nMumford, whose parents were international leaders of evangelical Christian denomination the Vineyard Churches, said he had sought therapy after hitting \"rock bottom\" at the end of his band's 2018 tour in support of their latest album, Delta.\n\n\"I'd had the people closest to me hold up a mirror and say, like, 'Dude, something's not right here and it's your responsibility to go figure it out,'\" he said.\n\nMumford and Sons rose to fame with hits such as Little Lion Man and I Will Wait and headlined Glastonbury Festival in 2013\n\nIn his second session with a therapist, who specialises in trauma, Mumford was physically sick talking about his childhood experiences.\n\n\"Apparently, it's very common,\" he noted. \"Once you basically unhook the denial and start the process of removing some suppression, then it's very natural for that stuff to come out.\n\n\"I'd had problems breathing all my life - not asthma but just, like, catching my breath.\"\n\nMumford described the abuse as \"the first of a string of really unusual, unhealthy sexual experiences at a really early age\".\n\n\"And for some reason, and I can't really understand why,\" he said, \"I didn't become a perpetrator of sexual abuse - although, I've done my fair share of [bad] behaviour.\"\n\nMumford, who is married to the British actress Carey Mulligan, added he had spent his life until now \"in layers of shame\" he had become \"addicted to\".\n\nThe lyrics to the aforementioned and deeply personal new track, which will feature on his forthcoming self-titled debut solo album, go as follows:\n\n\"I can still taste you and I hate it / That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it / You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw / Ripped it in with your teeth and your lips like a cannibal / You [expletive] animal\".\n\nSteven Spielberg directed the video for the song, shot in a high-school gym in New York.\n\nIn the comments section under Mumford's tweet plugging the GQ article, fans thanked him for sharing.\n\n\"This article is everything,\" wrote one.\n\n\"It's so so we'll written and moving and thought provoking. Thank you.\"\n\n\"So beautiful,\" wrote another. \"Thank you for sharing this. This will help so many people.\"\n\nRising to fame with hits such as Little Lion Man and I Will Wait, they headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2013.\n\nLast year, banjo player Winston Marshall said he had quit the band to spare his bandmates from abuse, after he endorsed a book by conservative journalist Andy Ngo.", "Similar restrictions on water use are already in place in parts of England\n\nThames Water has announced it is planning to introduce a hosepipe ban.\n\nThe firm supplies 10 million people across parts of southern England, including London.\n\nThe company said it was planning to announce the temporary ban \"in the coming weeks\" but the timing is yet to be confirmed.\n\nIt comes as a new heatwave nears and the Met Office has issued an amber extreme heat warning for much of England.\n\nIn a statement Thames Water said: \"Given the long term forecast of dry weather and another forecast of very hot temperatures coming this week we are planning to announce a temporary use ban in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe ban would be the third implemented in England this year, following Southern Water's ban which began last Friday in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nSouth East Water will introduce similar restrictions across Kent and Sussex from 12 August. The Isle of Man has also had a ban in place since July.\n\nThames Water added: \"Our aim is always to ensure that we will have enough water to supply our customers, regardless of the weather.\"\n\nThe statement explained the firm is not able to give an exact date for the start of the ban, due to \"a number of operational and legal procedural requirements\" and added that in the meantime customers were being urged to \"only use what they need for their essential use.\"\n\nThames Water provides water to 10 million people in an area that covers parts of London, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Kent.\n\nTemperatures are set to reach up to 35°C (95°F) in some areas this week.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning which applies to southern and central England and parts of Wales from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nIt follows the first-ever red warning issued in July, when temperatures exceeded 40°C for the first time.\n\nHow are you going to be affected by the hosepipe ban? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Jonathan Edwards was suspended in July 2020, two months after being arrested at home\n\nAn MP cautioned for assaulting his wife will be allowed to represent his party again at Westminster.\n\nPlaid Cymru has returned the whip to Jonathan Edwards, who had been sitting as an independent, despite having been given his party membership back.\n\nThe decision comes despite a ruling body of the party having earlier recommended to not re-admit Mr Edwards to the group.\n\nThe MP was suspended in July 2020, two months after being arrested at home.\n\nDetails of the incident are not known, but at the time he said he was \"deeply sorry\", adding it was \"the biggest regret of my life\".\n\nSplits emerged in the pro-independence party last month after a disciplinary panel gave the go-ahead for Mr Edwards to have his membership restored, but while the party considered whether to represent the party in the Commons again.\n\nWriting on website Nation Cymru, Member of the Senedd Sian Gwenllian, communications director on the Plaid's National Executive Committee (NEC) said: \"If an elected politician has severely damaged the integrity, the credibility and the reputation of our party by contravening one of its core values, then that person should no longer represent the collective, democratic voice of our members.\n\n\"So now as a party, we must review our standing orders to reflect the views of our democratically-elected body in the future.\n\n\"We must also build upon recommendations I made in a report before the pandemic to tackle misogyny within our party.\"\n\nIn May, former party leader Leanne Wood called for Mr Edwards to be banned from Plaid if it \"is serious about stamping out misogyny and domestic abuse\".\n\nThe party's chairwoman Beca Brown said Plaid's decision came following \"procedural advice\" it received, but added that a review would look at how the party could be \"truly free from a culture of misogyny\".\n\nMr Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr who had been sitting as an independent, said: \"I wish to apologise unreservedly again for the action that led to my suspension and express my deep remorse for the hurt which I have caused.\n\n\"My colleagues in the Westminster group and the wider party have championed the rights of women and all victims of abusive behaviour. I regret that my actions took the focus away from this important work.\"\n\nHe added that the past two years had been \"a period of deep reflection in which I enrolled on a domestic violence awareness course which has helped me understand the impact my action had on others\".\n\nMr Edwards rejoined the party after Plaid's disciplinary panel found he had expressed \"sincere remorse\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's chairwoman said Mr Edwards had the whip restored following \"further procedural advice\"\n\nBut Ms Brown confirmed that after the panel's decision, the NEC voted by a \"significant majority\" to recommend to Plaid's Westminster group that Mr Edwards was not re-admitted.\n\nThis prompted the resignation of the previous party chairman, Alun Ffred Jones, who disagreed with the NEC's actions.\n\n\"The principle of allowing members of the party's ruling executive to discuss a matter of such significance was of the utmost importance,\" Ms Brown said.\n\n\"Having received further procedural advice Plaid Cymru has now notified Mr Edwards that the processes relating to his membership of the Westminster group has concluded. The whip has been restored to Mr Edwards.\"\n\nShe said the NEC would review the party's processes to identify lessons that can be learned in the case and commission an independent review \"to identify the steps required for the party to be truly free from a culture of misogyny, and to actively and meaningfully promote, defend and extend women's participation in Plaid Cymru and wider politics\".\n\nA statement issued after the 2020 incident on behalf of Mr Edwards' wife Emma, said she had accepted her husband's apology.\n\nThe local Plaid Cymru party in Carmarthenshire said: \"We are delighted Jonathan will resume his role as a much valued and respected Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament.\n\n\"He has served this constituency with great dignity and integrity for over a decade.\"", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ferry's construction, along with a second vessel, is running five years late.\n\nThe new boss of Ferguson shipyard has predicted a brighter future after years of controversy over the delayed construction of two CalMac ferries.\n\nMV Glen Sannox returned to the Port Glasgow shipyard on Tuesday after three weeks of major work in dry dock.\n\nThe ship and another ferry are five years late, which has compounded problems for the ageing CalMac fleet.\n\nFerguson Marine chief executive David Tydeman said he was confident both ships would be delivered next year.\n\nThe two large ferries, which are dual fuel diesel/LNG (liquefied natural gas) vessels, were originally due to be delivered to CalMac in 2018 but the build has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.\n\nThe shipyard collapsed into administration and was nationalised in 2019 amid an acrimonious dispute between former owner Jim McColl and the government's ferries agency CMAL, who both blamed each other for the problems.\n\nMr Tydeman, who took over as chief executive earlier this year, said Ferguson Marine were \"on programme\" to meet the latest delivery schedule for Glen Sannox between March and May next year, with the ferry - Hull 802 - due to be finished by the end of 2023.\n\nThe Victorian dry dock at Garvel in Greenock was used for the latest work on Glen Sannox\n\nHull 802 remains on the slipway but has had much of its equipment pre-installed prior to launch.\n\nThe ship is expected to be significantly heavier than Glen Sannox was when it first entered the water in 2018.\n\nMr Tydeman insisted the shipyard was now in much better shape and was ready to re-establish its reputation with new orders.\n\n\"We have the opportunity, starting with 802 over the next year, to show we are as good as we were 10 years ago,\" he said.\n\nGlen Sannox is now back at the Ferguson shipyard, with delivery currently scheduled for next spring\n\nThe yard has recently secured some new work for BAE Systems, delivering Type 26 frigates.\n\nMr Tydeman said there was potential for more substantial orders for modules for those ships, as well as for the Type 31 frigates currently being built by Babcock at Rosyth.\n\nDespite the difficulties with the current CalMac ships, the yard is also hopeful of future work for the state-run ferry operator, particularly for smaller vessels similar to ferries the yard has successfully delivered in the past.\n\nHe said the seven planned CalMac vessels, along with Ministry of Defence work, could potentially provide a \"solid base\" of work for the next five to 10 years.\n\nFerguson chief executive David Tydeman believes the yard can re-establish its reputation for excellence after a decade of controversy\n\nMr Tydeman added: \"They are exactly in our sweet spot of what we could do well.\n\n\"We've just got to price them properly and deliver them on time - and win some hearts and minds to give us that contract.\"\n\nThe latest work to Glen Sannox, carried out at Dales Marine in nearby Greenock, involved the propulsion systems, seals and bow doors.\n\nThe ship was also given a fresh coat of paint.\n\nThe next key milestone is testing of the main engines and generators, scheduled for this autumn.\n\n\"It's all internal now: we've bought everything we need, we've got the plan for finishing the piping, the electrics, the mechanical connections - we're gradually commissioning system by system,\" Mr Tydeman said.\n\nGlen Sannox is destined for the busy Arran service while the still unnamed Hull 802 is expected to serve the Skye, North Uist and Harris route.", "The war in Ukraine has been impacting on other parts of the world in various ways since the invasion began in February.\n\nGermany's reliance on Russia for gas and oil has seen it introduce measures to try to reduce energy use amid concerns over whether it can rely on those supplies continuing to arrive at affordable prices - or at all.\n\nIn Cologne, the city council has this week begun dimming lights on public buildings and structures and the city's most famous landmark - its huge skyline-dominating cathedral close to the banks of the River Rhine - is now having its spotlights turned off at 23:00.\n\nThe council says it's one of more than 130 sites with a total of over 1,000 spotlights that will be switched off to save energy. Others include the historic town hall and pylons outside FC Cologne's football stadium.\n\nMeanwhile, Germany's economy ministry says it has no new information on whether a turbine that Russia says is holding back gas supplies to Europe is on its way to Russia.\n\nRussian gas exporter Gazprom has said sanctions prevent the equipment needed for the key Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline from being shipped back to Russia.\n\n...but after the clock strikes 11 the lights go out Image caption: ...but after the clock strikes 11 the lights go out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew CCTV footage of missing student nurse Owami Davies has been released by police.\n\nIt was taken at about 12:30 BST on Thursday 7 July on London Road, Croydon, and is the last confirmed image of Ms Davies.\n\nShe is seen wearing a dark jacket, red T-shirt and light grey joggers, and is carrying a white handbag.\n\nMs Davies, 24, who is studying at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.\n\nOwami Davies had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nFive people arrested in connection with Ms Davies' disappearance - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - have been released on bail, pending further investigation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney, who is leading the investigation, said: \"This latest CCTV shows Owami wearing a distinctive red top and heading towards the Norbury area. I would ask members of the public who were in this area, or nearby roads, to think back and call us if they remember seeing Owami and please do not underestimate how important your call could be.\n\n\"CCTV enquiries are very detailed to ensure nothing is missed.\n\n\"Every time a person reaches a junction it can mean that several new roads have to be examined to see which way Owami went. If a member of the public can give us a positive sighting in a particular road, even if they just saw her walking, that could save hours of delay and could be a huge help in finding what has happened to Owami.\"\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nMs Davies was nearing the end of her studies and had secured a job with Guy's and St Thomas' health trust.\n\nShe had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic and was interested in doing research on diseases.\n\nMs Davies, who is nicknamed \"Princess\" due to her love of Disney, had family holidays planned to Spain and Disneyland Paris.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Energy bills could increase ahead of the expected rise in October, the UK's energy regulator has revealed.\n\nOfgem and industry body Energy UK said it was \"possible\" for suppliers to raise customers' direct debits before the new cap on energy prices kicks in.\n\nAny rises would be to help spread the cost of higher energy use in the winter months, Ofgem said.\n\nHouseholds have been warned of sharp rises in energy prices, with average bills forecast to reach £4,200 in 2023.\n\nOfgem said direct debits are usually charged in a way so that customers build up \"credit\" during the warmer summer months when usage is lower, to spread out the cost of using more energy in the colder months.\n\n\"It's therefore possible for direct debits to increase ahead of a price cap rise or even when a customer's use has remained constant,\" an Ofgem spokesperson said.\n\nHowever, Ofgem said customers can ask for their excess credit to be \"returned at any time and can contact their suppliers to change how their direct debit is spread\".\n\n\"For example, they pay for exactly what they used in that month and do not build up a credit ahead of winter,\" Ofgem said.\n\nOfgem confirmed direct debits could be increased before October, after Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert, told the Today programme that direct debits were going to \"start rising pretty much immediately on the 26 August before the new prime minister's in place\".\n\n\"As soon as the announcement is made from Ofgem on the 26 August, that crystallizes the direct debits going up,\" he said.\n\nBritish gas owner Centrica confirmed to the BBC that direct debits could go up before the start of October.\n\n\"We constantly review direct debits to help customers who have chosen to spread their payments throughout the year. We contact these customers on an individual basis to advise of any changes.'\n\nOctopus Energy said it constantly review direct debits to make sure its customers were paying an \"appropriate amount\" for the energy they use. However, it said it \"wouldn't suggest any changes based on the price cap until the new price cap has come into effect\".\n\n\"Even if we do suggest Direct Debit changes - our customers are always completely in control and can get in touch to change them anytime,\" it added.\n\nEDF said direct debits were not automatically increased or decreased due to price cap increases or decreases.\n\nThe company said it reviewed direct debits every six months and made \"any necessary direct debit amount changes, to reflect the latest meter reading received and any changes in their tariff\".\n\nHowever, it added: \"Customers do have the option to increase direct debits themselves, aligning themselves to increases in the price cap.\"\n\nEon and Ovo Energy did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nEnergy UK, the trade body for the energy industry, said direct debits were \"reviewed periodically\" with suppliers taking into account factors including estimated usage, current tariffs, debit/credit balances and recent meter reads.\n\n\"It is, therefore, possible some customers' direct debts will change in advance of October,\" a statement said.\n\n\"All suppliers must, however, ensure that direct debits are set correctly based on all relevant information available at the time of review, and that they communicate any changes in a way that helps consumers understand their payments for energy.\"\n\nA new price cap - determining the maximum suppliers can charge customers for energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales - is due to be announced at the end of this month, but will come into effect in October.\n\nConsultants Cornwall Insights expects this to rise to £3,582 a year, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine pushing up global wholesale gas prices, and have warned of further rises over the winter.\n\nOfgem said protecting consumers was its \"top priority\", adding \"suppliers must ensure that direct debit payments are based on the best and most current information available to them\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak said he wants to \"restore trust in politics\"\n\nRishi Sunak has said he would rather lose the Tory leadership race than \"win on a false promise\".\n\nIn a BBC interview, the former chancellor said he would tell people what \"they needed to hear\" and stay \"true\" to his values.\n\nHe added the next prime minister had a \"moral responsibility\" to support poorer households with payments for energy bills.\n\nAnd he said rival Liz Truss's plan for tax cuts would not help the most needy.\n\nHe told the BBC's Nick Robinson he would spend billions of pounds on further targeted payments to pensioners and those on low incomes.\n\nThe plan marks a contrast with Foreign Secretary Ms Truss, who argues tax cuts are a more Conservative way to help with rising living costs.\n\nHow to help households with rising energy bills has become a key dividing line in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as next UK prime minister.\n\nNick Robinson sits down with Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak to see where he stands on the issues that matter to you.\n\nAs the war on words over energy turned increasingly bitter on Wednesday, Ms Truss's team said Mr Sunak's \"socialist tax and spend\" proposals would tip the UK into recession.\n\nThe foreign secretary said helping people with tax cuts would be better for the economy and would be her \"first port of call\" if she becomes prime minister.\n\nBut in his BBC interview, Mr Sunak said her plan would not help \"millions of people\" who only pay low or no taxes, whilst his winter payments would ensure support for those \"that most need our help\".\n\nMs Truss has not ruled out extra payments this winter if she enters No 10 - and said earlier that she would do \"all that I can to help struggling households\".\n\nMr Sunak's campaign argued the comments showed she was considering direct payments, calling it a U-turn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sunak said it was too early to put a precise figure on how much his extra payments would be worth, or what they would cost.\n\nHowever, he suggested they would compensate for a projected £400 increase in bills compared to predictions earlier this year.\n\nThese extra payments would come on top of a £15bn package of payments he announced as chancellor in May.\n\nPushed on whether the extra payments would cost a \"few billion\" or more than £10bn, he replied: \"It's much closer to former than the latter.\"\n\nHe said the \"temporary\" support would be made by increasing the scale of payments to pensioners and low-income households due in the autumn.\n\nHe said his plan to cut VAT on energy bills, announced earlier in the campaign, would ensure people of all incomes receive some help.\n\nHe has said public borrowing required to fund his plans can be minimised through \"efficiencies\" in government spending - although he has not set out detailed plans.\n\nIt comes after a forecast on Tuesday suggested bills for a typical household could hit £4,266 next year, higher than predictions made earlier this year.\n\n\"That's why I do feel a moral responsibility as PM to go further, and get extra help to people over the autumn and the winter,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Truss said her plan for tax cuts would \"turbocharge our economy, grow the size of the pie and increase prosperity for everyone\".\n\nA spokesperson for her campaign added: \"people didn't vote for the Conservative Party to be subjected to old fashioned Gordon Brown-style politics of envy\".\n\nThe BBC has also invited Liz Truss to a one-on-one interview with Nick Robinson and says it has been discussing timings with her team.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss believe they are on the right side of the moral argument over the cost of living crisis that is dominating this leadership election.\n\nLiz Truss argues that putting up taxes is immoral - but Rishi Sunak told Nick Robinson the government had a \"moral responsibility\" to go further to help those who cannot afford to heat their homes.\n\nHe suggested bills could be £400 higher than anticipated when he was chancellor. How much further would he go? Anyone hoping for specific figures will have to wait but there were strong hints of targeted help for pensioners and those on the lowest incomes.\n\nThis interview may be seen and heard by millions but both candidates have tried, to varying degrees, to target their message at the 160,000 or so Conservative Party members who will choose our next prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak, the self-styled underdog in this contest, appeared to acknowledge that those members may prefer to hear Liz Truss's message on tax cuts.\n\nHe said he went into the contest prepared to tell people \"what they needed to hear rather than what they needed to hear, not necessarily what they wanted to hear\".\n\nThat doesn't mean he hasn't refined his own message during the campaign - he's promising to cut VAT on energy bills, a position he rejected in government - but he made clear he would rather lose (or win) on his own terms.\n\n\"Our Next Prime Minister: The Interviews\" is available on BBC iPlayer now, and is on BBC One at 7pm", "Energy bills for a typical household could hit £4,266 next year, consultancy Cornwall Insight has warned.\n\nThe higher estimate means the average household would be paying £355 a month, instead of £164 a month currently.\n\nCornwall cited regulator Ofgem's decision to change the price cap every three months instead of six and higher wholesale prices for its high forecast.\n\nBut Ofgem said no forecast for next year could be \"robust\" at this stage and had \"limited value\".\n\nThe latest price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for average energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales for October - is due to be announced at the end of this month.\n\nCornwall expects this to rise to £3,582 a year, compared to the regulator's prediction of £2,800 a year.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall, said its price cap forecasts had been steadily rising but the big jump was \"a fresh shock\".\n\nThe energy bill warning comes as the government rejected calls for further help on energy bills until a new prime minister was in place.\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said it \"made no sense to wait\" for a new Conservative party leader.\n\nRegulator Ofgem warned wholesale prices were moving so quickly that future forecasts were not reliable.\n\n\"We cannot stop others from making predictions, but we would ask that extreme caution is applied to any predictions for the price cap in January or beyond.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the government announced how households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn, with the money paid in six instalments.\n\nBut Dr Lowrey called on the government to use the latest predictions of higher bills to review the support package.\n\n\"If the £400 was not enough to make a dent in the impact of our previous forecast, it most certainly is not enough now.\n\n\"The government must make introducing more support over the first two quarters of 2023 a number-one priority.\"\n\nHannah Absalom has been stocking up on thermal clothing ahead of winter.\n\nHannah Absalom, a PHD student in Birmingham, lives on £850 per month in a one-bed flat and has spent £80 already on thermal clothing and a heated blanket so she can avoid heating her home in winter.\n\n\"I'm doing everything I can but there's not enough support. I'll more than likely end up in debt, or eat into my buffer savings - saved for getting a job,\" she says.\n\nSupermarket head office worker Stuart Lane, 47, who lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and their three children, currently pays £100 a month for a fixed price deal. but that ends in September.\n\n\"When I looked at getting a new deal, the only fixed prices was pushing up to £420. We will be having to look at our outgoings,\" he says.\n\nSylvia Simpson, chief executive at debt help charity Money Buddies in Leeds, told the BBC there were limited options for helping people with soaring energy bills: \"The tools that we used to have before, for example, for switching utility providers to get the best deal - that has gone now. There is no switching to get the best deal anymore.\n\n\"People are really, really struggling.\"\n\nConservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has said he would provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister.\n\nHis rival for the leadership, Liz Truss, has pledged tax cuts to help people hit by cost of living increases.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has suggested that the government should scrap the energy price cap rise in October, which he said would save the typical household £1,400 this year.\n\nMr Davey said the cost of the plan - which the party puts at nearly £36bn - could be funded through backdating the windfall tax on oil and gas companies' profits.\n\nDr Lowry said that without the more frequent changes to the price cap, more energy suppliers might be in danger of collapse - though he questioned whether it should exist at all.\n\n\"If it is not controlling consumer prices, and is damaging suppliers' business models, we must wonder if it is fit for purpose - especially in these times of unprecedented energy market conditions,\" he said.\n\nHowever, if wholesale prices remain at current rates, it expects lower bills in the second half of next year than it had previously forecast.\n\nThe energy price cap sets a limit on the amount that can be paid for each unit of energy. It is based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nThis has risen sharply, fuelled by the war in Ukraine which has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nMany families are already facing soaring costs, with UK inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - at the highest in 40 years.\n\nThe Don't Pay group, which is demanding bills be reduced to to an affordable level, says tens of thousands of people have pledged to cancel their direct debit payments from 1 October.\n\nHowever, charities have said not paying energy bills has very serious consequences for consumers, including being threatened with disconnection and damage to their credit rating.\n\nHouseholders who are struggling to meet their bill payments are advised to contact their suppliers to come up with a payment plan.\n\nThe warning comes as the government dismissed reports of disruption to energy supplies, following reports that plans for a \"reasonable worst case scenario\" included organised blackouts for firms and households.\n\nA source told the BBC that such scenarios are \"made up\" and \"extreme\" so that the government's response can be tested.\n\nPredictions of January energy bills were already sending shivers down spines, as the wholesale prices suppliers have to pay spiked due a fear of Russia withholding gas supplies.\n\nBut it's partly a technical tweak that's caused those estimates to jump by another 10% in just a few days.\n\nAt present, suppliers are often having to buy energy at a higher price to meet the needs of customers. But those customers, under the cap, may be paying a lower tariff.\n\nThe regulator, under new plans, is allowing suppliers to recoup those extra costs from customers over the space of six months, a shorter period than previously thought.\n\nIt's not just about protecting profits; 28 suppliers have already folded in the last couple of years, leaving customers to pick up a tab £2.7bn, nearly £100 per household, due to their failures. On top of that, over £1bn of taxpayer funds are expected to be needed to deal with the largest collapse, that of Bulb.\n\nThe idea is to protect customers from the cost of future failures. But in the short term, it could mean devastating choices in the depths of winter.\n\nAnd the extra help currently on offer from both Tory leadership hopefuls is unlikely to offset even the increase in the estimate unveiled today.", "Aine Davis has previously said he posed in this photo as a \"joke\"\n\nA man accused of being part of a notorious Islamic State group cell which murdered hostages, has been arrested on terror charges in the UK.\n\nAine Davis, of west London, flew into Luton airport after his release from a Turkish jail where he was serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for membership of the terror group.\n\nDuring his trial, Davis denied being part of the cell, nicknamed the Beatles because of members' British accents.\n\nDavis is being held in police custody.\n\nThe 38-year-old was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and taken to a police station in south London.\n\nHe was arrested in relation to offences under the Terrorism Act, 2000, including fundraising and possession of articles for terrorist purposes.\n\nThe 'Beatles' cell is believed to have been made up of four members - all thought to have grown up in west London - who volunteered to fight for IS in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages.\n\nThey were nicknamed the Beatles, after the Liverpudlian band, by hostages due to their English accents.\n\nUS authorities have said the group killed 27 hostages, beheading several of them.\n\nVideos of the murders were sent around the world, causing outrage.\n\nBefore being radicalised Davis was convicted on drugs offences and was jailed in 2006 for possessing a firearm.\n\nAfter converting to Islam, he changed his name to Hamza and met Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed Jihadi John by the media.\n\nThe two were part of a group that radicalised Muslims living in London. Davis left the UK to join IS in 2013.\n\nDavis was arrested near Istanbul in 2015 and was convicted by a Turkish court two years later of being a senior member of a terrorist organisation.\n\nAt his trial, Davis admitted knowing Emwazi from praying in the same mosque in west London, but denied being his friend, or a member of the \"IS Beatles\" group.\n\nThe group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig - British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nEmwazi was killed in Syria in 2015. The two other group members are in custody in the US after being captured by Kurdish forces in Syria in 2018.\n\nKotey pleaded guilty to eight offences, including lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to support terrorists, while Elsheikh was found guilty of charges which included lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder after a trial.\n\nBoth men were stripped of their British citizenship in 2018.\n• None Who were the Islamic State 'Beatles'?", "Gareth Kelly and Mikey Lennon, owners of the Kings Arms in Fenwick, have tried to shield customers from price rises\n\nThe spiralling cost of energy is worse than the Covid pandemic for the hospitality industry, according to one Scottish pub owner.\n\nMikey Lennon said his electricity bill for the King's Arms in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, has risen from £960 a month to more than £3,300.\n\nThe gas bill has jumped by £1,200 in the last three months.\n\nWithout immediate government action, he fears businesses like his will be forced to turn off the lights for good.\n\nIt came as consumer expert Martin Lewis warned that the situation with domestic energy bills was a \"national crisis\" on the scale of the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Lennon told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that trying to shield customers from price rises was pushing his business to the brink.\n\n\"We have absorbed a lot of the cost ourselves trying to not put prices up and push rises on to customers, but with the current climate we find it increasingly hard,\" he said.\n\n\"It is already apparent it is more difficult than Covid. We thought that was going to be the worst thing that was ever going to happen to the hospitality industry.\n\n\"In the pandemic, there was a lot of support, funding and grants to get our industry through Covid and right now there is nothing - not even the right conversations happening from the right people.\n\n\"There is no price cap for commercial units' utilities and we can't see where it is going to stop.\"\n\nThe pub is the hub of the village of 1,500 people and Mr Lennon and co-owner Gareth Kelly feel that pulling the shutters down on the only place to meet would be devastating.\n\n\"This can't continue,\" said Mr Lennon. \"The sad truth is that businesses are going to be pushed under if these costs don't get under control very quickly.\"\n\nColin Wilkinson, the managing director of the Scottish Licenced Trade Association, has called for the introduction of an energy price cap for commercial businesses.\n\nHe said: \"We are deeply concerned. Many businesses are saying this is worse because there is no financial support as there was with Covid. That wasn't enough, but it was something.\n\n\"We are hearing talk of businesses closing over winter. Energy bills are increasing threefold.\n\n\"They are trying to absorb it, and are conscious that customers are also looking at a severe reduction in disposable income.\n\n\"We need a price cap for commercial businesses, and a realistic cap for commercial rates. The government needs to support businesses through this.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said ministers were in regular dialogue with business organisations and leaders who had made clear that the high cost of doing business in the UK was \"significantly hampering\" their ability to recover from the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"We support the calls from businesses for measures related to energy prices, VAT reduction, staff shortages and handling business loans, direct support which falls within the reserved responsibilities of the UK government.\n\n\"Without action from UK ministers, an overall rise in business failures is to be expected and the Scottish government urges them to take immediate action on the interventions requested by businesses.\"\n\nThe Kings Arms is the hub of Fenwick village and is where locals meet up\n\nEarlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote to Boris Johnson to request an \"emergency meeting\" over the cost of living crisis.\n\nShe told the prime minister only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\".\n\nThe UK government said in May that oil and gas companies would be taxed an additional 25% for the next 12 months to help households with rising bills.\n\nHowever Boris Johnson has said he has no plans to introduce a windfall tax on the profits of electricity firms before he steps down as prime minister.\n\nThe UK government said Scotland had been granted record funding levels.", "Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka\n\nThe war in Ukraine began with Crimea and must end with its liberation, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.\n\nUkraine's president was speaking after a string of explosions hit a Russian airbase there, killing one person.\n\nMr Zelensky did not mention Tuesday's blasts but said: \"Crimea is Ukrainian and we will never give it up.\"\n\nRussia's defence ministry said ammunition detonated at the base. Meanwhile, Ukraine denied any responsibility for the explosions.\n\nIn a separate development, Ukrainian officials say 13 people were killed in overnight Russian strikes in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, and another one in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south.\n\nCrimea is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine - but the Black Sea peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014 after a referendum which the global community sees as illegitimate. Many Ukrainians see this as the start of their war with Russia.\n\nOn Tuesday, a series of explosions rocked the Saky military base near Novofedorivka, in the west of Crimea - which is near seaside resorts popular with Russian tourists.\n\nNovofedorivka and Saky are about 50km (30 miles) north of the port of Sevastopol, home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which has been leading a blockade of the Ukrainian coastline. The airbase had been used by Russia to launch attacks on targets deep inside Ukraine.\n\nFootage on social media showed beachgoers running as the explosions hit, with witnesses saying they had heard at least 12 blasts. Crimea's Russian-appointed health department said one civilian had been killed and another eight injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRussia's defence ministry insisted the blasts were down to ammunition that had exploded in a store and that there was no \"fire impact\" from outside - although this has not been independently verified.\n\nAnd Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak denied that Ukraine was behind the blasts, telling the Dozhd online television channel: \"Of course not. What do we have to do with this?\"\n\nAny attack on Crimea by Ukraine would be considered deeply serious by Moscow. Russia sounded a warning last month when ex-President Dmitry Medvedev threatened last month that \"Judgement Day will instantly await\" if Ukraine targeted Crimea.\n\nMr Zelensky did not refer to the blasts in his speech late on Tuesday, but spoke at length about the peninsula, saying: \"We will not forget that the Russian war against Ukraine began with the occupation of Crimea.\n\n\"This Russian war...began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - with its liberation,\" he said.\n\nMr Zelensky's latest remarks suggest he believes that Ukraine must retake the peninsula before the war can end - but in the past he has said different things on the issue.\n\nHe previously indicated Ukraine could accept peace if Russia returned to their positions before 24 February, meaning retaking Crimea could be a subject of further negotiations.\n\nIf it emerges Ukraine was responsible for this attack, that would be a significant escalation. It would be the first major attack on a target inside Crimea proper.\n\nThe Ukrainians have come close: in June 2022, the Russia-appointed \"leader\" of Crimea said that Ukrainian forces had fired on Black Sea oil drilling platforms in Crimean waters, resulting in several casualties. And at the end of July, Russian authorities said a drone had struck a Russian naval facility in the city of Sevastopol, injuring six.\n\nCrimea is internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory, but Russia has ruled the peninsula for eight years and Russian state structures and military facilities are very well established.\n\nFor the Kremlin, Crimea has a quasi-sacred status, seen as \"historically\" Russian land that Moscow \"re-acquired\" triumphantly in 2014. An attack so deep inside Crimean territory would be a major embarrassment for President Putin.\n\nAnd there are fears that if the Ukrainians begin systematically attacking Russian targets inside Crimea, then the Russian response could be very serious indeed.\n\nRussia annexed Crimea in March 2014, after the territory - which has a Russian-speaking majority - voted to join Russia in a referendum that Ukraine and the West deem illegal.\n\nThe vote was hastily organised after unmarked Russian troops took control of several strategic sites around the peninsula.\n\nEarlier that year, months of pro-European protests culminated in the ousting of Ukraine's Russian-backed president.\n\nOn 24 February this year, Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, using Crimea as a springboard to move Russian troops deeper inside Ukraine.", "Molly, 4, pets a beagle rescued from Envigo breeding facility as her parents fill out adoption papers\n\nNearly 4,000 beagles are looking for new homes after what is thought to be one of the biggest ever dog rescue efforts in the US.\n\nThe dogs were being bred at a facility in Virginia that then sold them on to laboratories for drug experiments.\n\nBut the company has now been shut down because of animal rights violations - and charities are on a mission to rehome the dogs.\n\n\"Four thousand is a big number,\" said Humane Society head Kitty Block.\n\n\"And it's going to take 60 days to get all of these animals out, and working with our shelter and rescue partners across the country, working with them to get these dogs eventually into ever-loving homes,\" she told Reuters.\n\nThe breeding facility in Cumberland, owned by company Envigo RMS, was sued in May by the US Department of Justice which accused it of multiple acts of animal cruelty.\n\nInspectors found some dogs were being killed instead of receiving veterinary care for conditions that could be easily treated. They were also being fed with food that contained maggots, mould and faeces, while some nursing mothers were denied anything to eat.\n\nIn another instance, 25 puppies died from cold exposure.\n\nFollowing the lawsuit, the company denied the allegations but announced it was closing that facility, and placing the dogs with the animal rights charity Humane Society, CBS News reported.\n\nThe beagles are now being given medical examinations and vaccinations before being made available for adoption.\n\n200 beagles - these included - have already been given to a charity in Chino Hills in California\n\nVirginia state Senator Bill Stanley told Reuters the rescue was the result of a years-long fight.\n\n\"I can attest to how great these dogs are because I have two of them,\" he told Reuters. \"I bought two of those Envigo beagles back in 2020 and 2021... Those beagles I bought because I did not want them to be experimented on. And now I know that their brothers and sisters are not going to be experimented on either.\"\n\nSome of the dogs have already been rehomed across the US - including 200 that went to southern California.\n\nRehoming charities say many of the animals show signs of trauma, and some of the puppies had never been held and did not know how to play.\n\nA staff member laughs as she is licked by a beagle at Homeward Trails Animal Rescue in Fairfax, Virginia\n• None How to save money on caring for your pets", "Nadhim Zahawi will meet Stormont's economy and community ministers again next week to discuss the delivery of an equivalent £400 energy bill discount.\n\nThe chancellor made the announcement following meetings with the ministers and the utility regulator on Wednesday.\n\nIn May, the government drew up plans to help all households in the UK with rising fuel bills.\n\nBut the lack of a functioning executive meant it was unclear how the scheme would reach Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Zahawi said he was confident about bringing similar measures to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"The reason that I wanted a meeting next Monday is to make sure we make progress urgently,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nThe chancellor added he wanted to find a \"pragmatic solution\" to allow families to avail of the £400 discount.\n\n\"The United Kingdom government has promised to deliver this £400 to families in Northern Ireland as quickly as possible,\" he said.\n\nCommunities Minister Deirdre Hargey said a solution needed to be found quickly\n\n\"My colleagues here collectively are focused to deliver this and I'm confident that we will do it.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme earlier, the chancellor also said the government's priority was to get the power-sharing executive restored.\n\n\"But operationally, to help people with the cost of energy, I have to focus now to make sure we get this money out the door, the £400 for families and households in Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThe Treasury would have ordinarily made the payment via a Barnett Consequential to Northern Ireland, as it had previously done with a £200 energy loan payment scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We're stretched to our limits' - parents worried over rising cost of living\n\nIt uses the Barnett formula to calculate additional funding when there are changes to UK government spending that affect devolved services.\n\nHowever, the Treasury said without a functioning government at Stormont to sign off on the money, it was considering other ways of applying the discount.\n\nCommunities Minister, Sinn Fein's Deirdre Hargey, said a solution needed to be found quickly.\n\n\"The quickest solution here is to have a functional government, but in the absence of that we're having to find work arounds,\" she said.\n\nEconomy Minister Gordon Lyons said that time was of the essence to bring the scheme to Northern Ireland\n\nFollowing Wednesday's meeting, Economy Minister Gordon Lyons said it was accepted that the Treasury directly paying energy companies was the easiest solution.\n\n\"I see this now as the quickest way of getting this money into people's pockets,\" he said.\n\nThis is Nadhim Zahawi's first visit to Northern Ireland since he took over as chancellor last month.\n\nHe's got to work out how to get that discount off the electricity bills of people here.\n\nIn Great Britain, people will get that discount from October.\n\nThe Treasury has said that the absence of a functioning executive is going to make it a lot more difficult to do that here.\n\nThere's clearly a commitment there, but the problem is we still don't know how, or when, people here will get this money.\n\nTwo of the ministers at Stormont that are still in place have been pushing Mr Zahawi to get this money out as quickly as possible.\n\nOne further complication is that the utility regulator may also have to carry out a 90-day public consultation before it can direct the local electricity providers to make that discount on people's bills.\n\nThat could delay people getting that discount even further into the new year, just when they might be needing it most.\n\nStormont has been without a power-sharing executive since February, due to the DUP's ongoing protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe party is refusing to nominate a deputy first minister until the post-Brexit trading arrangements are changed, meaning a decision-making executive cannot be formed and the legislative assembly cannot operate.\n\nOther ministers can remain in post, but they are unable to take major policy decisions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a children's doctor said she feared what the winter would bring for families facing pressure due to the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nDr Julie-Ann Maney, a consultant at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, said more than one quarter of children in Northern Ireland were living in poverty.\n\nIn Great Britain, the first of six instalments of the discount will be applied to households' energy bills in October.\n\nThe Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland has urged politicians to do \"whatever it takes\" to help older people with their energy payments.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle on Wednesday, Eddie Lynch said that many older people were worried about the coming winter months and any assistance to their energy payments would go a long way.\n\n\"We understand officials are working behind the scenes to try and find a way to introduce this payment to people,\" he said.\n\nEddie Lynch says there is a real concern among older people over rising energy costs\n\n\"But what we are still unclear about is when this is going to happen, and how this is going to happen.\n\n\"I think in the absence of that information, the fear and concern amongst older people about the cost of living will continue to rise.\n\n\"My message to the authorities today would be to just get it done, get this in place whatever it takes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The whale was trapped for several days before the failed rescue mission\n\nA beluga whale that became stranded in France's Seine river had to be put down, ending a dramatic rescue mission that captivated world audiences.\n\nOfficials say vets took the decision as the four-metre (13ft) mammal was being moved in a refrigerated truck.\n\nOvernight, rescuers spent nearly six hours lifting the 800kg (1,763lb) whale from the river using a crane and nets.\n\nThey had planned to release the animal in the sea but its health deteriorated after failing to eat.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts we announce that the beluga did not survive,\" Sea Shepherd France conservation group wrote in a Twitter post on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are devastated by this tragic outcome that we knew was very likely,\" it added.\n\nMeanwhile, Florence Ollivet-Courtois, a vet for the local emergency services, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that \"the animal was not getting enough air and [was] suffering visibly.\"\n\n\"We therefore decided that it made no sense to set it free and proceeded to euthanasia,\" the vet added.\n\nExperts are still puzzled as to how the whale - who had been trapped more than 100km (62 miles) inland - managed to stray so far south, away from its natural habitat.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds were seen gathering on the banks of the river in the northern town of Saint-Pierre-La-Garenne to watch the rescue.\n\nBut interest in the whale's survival spread far beyond France, and conservation groups and a number of individuals have made financial donations to help the rescue operation.\n\nBelugas occasionally venture south in the autumn to feed as ice forms, but it is rare for them to travel so far from their native home.\n\nAccording to France's Pelagis Observatory which specialises in sea mammals, the nearest beluga population is off the Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway, 3,000km (1,870 miles) from the Seine.", "If you're facing an emergency who do you want to come to your aid?\n\nIs it the clever guy who tells you you can trust him because, after all, he did a pretty good job in the last emergency?\n\nThe guy who says you have to get used to the idea that you can't have your hopes and dreams - not now at least?\n\nOr do you pick the woman who insists that there's no need to be so gloomy? Who promises she can deliver the future you've craved for so long?\n\nThat, in a nutshell, is the choice Rishi Sunak is presenting to the Conservative members who get to choose our next prime minister.\n\nIt is also the reason that he has gone from being the favourite to - in his own words - the underdog.\n\nIn an interview for Our Next Prime Minister on BBC One at 19.00 BST he told me he'd rather lose the race to replace Boris Johnson than win it on false promises.\n\nMr Sunak has told the 160,000 or so Conservative members that will choose our next prime minister that the country faces not one, but a whole series of emergencies.\n\nSo, that is what I explored with him starting with the soaring price of energy.\n\nMartin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, has called on Mr Sunak to pledge to match the £15bn he pledged as chancellor to help people with their bills before they soared again.\n\nMr Lewis is going to be disappointed.\n\nMr Sunak says he will give more help to pensioners and to those on benefits. But he'll only spend \"a few billions\".\n\nThis means that millions of ordinary families will have to pay hundreds of pounds a year extra without additional help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Sunak said he wants to \"restore trust in politics\"\n\nHe was very keen to point out that his opponent Liz Truss - who has still not come up with a date on which she will be interviewed - has made promises of tax cuts that will do nothing for the old or the poor.\n\nInstead, he says it will give people on big salaries like hers a big handout of over £1,000 whilst folk on low wages get just a few quid.\n\nOne reason, perhaps, for Mr Sunak's reluctance to promise to spend more and to spell out his plans in detail is because he'd then have to put a price on them and explain where the many billions required would come from.\n\nHe can't say borrowing because he's condemned his main rival, Ms Truss, for mortgaging the futures of our children and grandchildren with her promise to borrow more to pay for tax cuts.\n\nHe says the money will come from efficiency savings. But the figures he needs to find would dwarf the savings that he needs to raise £1bn to spend on arms for Ukraine.\n\nWhen it comes to another emergency - the huge backlog in the NHS - Mr Sunak is not promising to spend more.\n\nThis is despite warnings from those running NHS services that inflation will mean that they may have to employ fewer employees, build fewer hospitals or carry out fewer operations\n\nTwo-thirds of Tory members in a recent poll said they thought the health device had enough money already.\n\nHe has identified the control of our borders as another emergency, and I asked him about that Brexit promise that Britain would take control of its borders.\n\nI also asked him: Is the promise made repeatedly by the Conservatives to cut net migration - the difference between the number coming into the country and the number leaving it - now dead?\n\nThe figure, about 240,000, is now well over double that target.\n\nMr Sunak appears not to mind providing people come here legally if their skills are needed.\n\nHe cares much more about illegal crossings of the channel even though the numbers doing that are much much lower.\n\nPerhaps Rishi Sunak's biggest problem is that he is not Boris Johnson.\n\nMany in his party wish that the ballot paper gave them the option to keep Mr Johnson in Number 10.\n\nI asked Mr Sunak whether Mr Johnson was unfit to stay in office. It's a question he's tried to avoid up until now speaking in code about the prime minister being \"on the wrong side of an ethical issue\".\n\nHe said that that was why he'd resigned from the cabinet and declining trust in the standards in public life did itself constitute another emergency.\n\nSo, is Mr Sunak like the plumber who comes to fix your broken boiler and tells you: \"It's worse than you think, it'll cost you a lot more and things are really bad?\" when all people want is someone who says \"yes, I can fix it?\"\n\nIs he, in Boris Johnson's words, a gloomster and not a booster?\n\nNo, he insisted, when I put that to him, I'm the guy you can trust to put things right.\n\nEven though he keeps being told he is going to lose, he looks like a man who still believes there's an argument worth having.\n\nNick Robinson sits down with Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak to see where he stands on the issues that matter to you.", "The plans for an asylum centre in North Yorkshire were opposed by villagers and Hambleton District Council\n\nPlans to turn a former RAF base into an asylum seeker centre have been withdrawn, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nIn April, the Home Office announced plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse, in North Yorkshire, into an asylum centre for up to 1,500 men.\n\nBut villagers and Hambleton District Council opposed the decision and said they would mount a legal challenge.\n\nMr Wallace said he had withdrawn the offer of the site to the Home Office.\n\nThe minister was asked about the plans during a visit to West Yorkshire on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"I have withdrawn the offer to the Home Office for that site. It's been with them for a number of months.\n\n\"I have obligations to do something else with that site, and you know there are other sites we made available to the Home Office if they wish to take it up.\"\n\nOlga Matthias, of the Linton-on-Ouse Action Group which was set up to oppose the plans, said she was \"over the moon\" at the news.\n\n\"The government had effectively put the sword of Damocles over the whole village for the past four months, so the sense of relief that I have got has to be echoed by everybody else now the uncertainty has gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We have said all along that this was 'wrong plan, wrong place' and if the Home Office had done even a tiny bit of research before the announcement they would have seen this was the wrong place.\"\n\nVirginia Sharpe, who lives in the village, said she wanted to \"see it in writing and get confirmation for sure\".\n\n\"Then we'll cross fingers and hope that it is the end of this ridiculous plan,\" she added.\n\nThe Home Office previously said the centre at the former RAF station would be as self-sufficient as possible\n\nAnnouncing the plans in April, the Home Office said the facility would provide \"safe and cost-effective\" accommodation for single adult men who are claiming asylum in the UK, and meet suitability criteria.\n\nKevin Hollinrake, Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton, who has campaigned against the plans, tweeted: \"Delighted Linton-on-Ouse plans now scrapped. Wonderful team effort.\"\n\nConservative party leadership contender and North Yorkshire MP Rishi Sunak was \"delighted\" the plans had been withdrawn, a spokesperson for his campaign said.\n\nThe government said it remained committed to \"tackling illegal migration and stopping dangerous small boat crossings\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The government will continue to identify appropriate sites for Greek-style asylum reception centres which will play a key role in reducing the number of asylum seekers in hotels, which cost the taxpayer more than £5m each day.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flowers have been laid near to the scene in Galpin's Road in Thornton Heath, where a child died when a terraced home collapsed following an explosion\n\nA gas explosion in south London in which a four-year-old girl was killed will be investigated by a specialist crime unit, Met Police have said.\n\nThe child, Sahara Salman, has not been formally identified but she can now be officially named, detectives said.\n\nAn 11-year-old boy and a 54-year-old woman who were also in the house on Galpin's Road, Thornton Heath, remain in hospital.\n\nNeither is in a life-threatening condition.\n\nAbout 80 homes have been evacuated and road closures will remain in place until engineers ascertain the area is safe.\n\nA post-mortem examination of Sahara will be held in due course, police said.\n\nOther houses on Galpin's Road were also damaged in the blast\n\nThe explosion and a subsequent fire happened at about 07:00 BST on Monday morning.\n\nA force spokesperson said: \"Due to the sensitive and complex nature of the incident, the Met's Specialist Crime Command are now investigating, working in conjunction with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"The thoughts of all of us... remain with Sahara's family, and those who have been injured following this fire and explosion in Galpins Road\".\n\n\"This has been a shocking event that has understandably had a deep impact on the local community.\n\n\"The patience and understanding of local residents and the wider community in Mitcham and Thornton Heath is very much appreciated while this work remains ongoing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Lewis: Rising prices are a crisis on a scale with the pandemic\n\nMinisters will hold talks with energy giants on Thursday to discuss measures to ease the cost of living.\n\nThe government says talks will focus on how energy companies can alleviate pressure on consumers.\n\nBut Treasury officials have stressed that any big decisions will be decided by the next prime minister, when they take office in early September.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he would make sure options and ideas were in place for the new PM.\n\nConcerns over what will happen this winter come as figures suggest many households are already in energy debt.\n\nConservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak said he would be \"happy\" to meet his rival Liz Truss to agree emergency support ahead of the winter.\n\nMs Truss has dismissed the proposal telling reporters \"now is not the time to pre-empt those decisions\".\n\nYet new figures from comparison service Uswitch laid bare the challenge facing Mr Johnson's successor.\n\nAlmost a quarter of households owe £206 to energy firms, on average, with the total debt owed by the public triple that of September last year, according to a survey of 2,000 households.\n\nForecasts predict average annual energy bills could rise to over £4,200 by January - while the state pension is typically worth between £7,376 and £9,628.\n\nMr Johnson has faced growing criticism for not announcing further support beyond the £15bn package set out in May, while the government is under pressure to do more to help with bills.\n\nMr Zahawi said he was focused on ensuring that the money the government had already promised was getting \"into people's bank accounts\".\n\nHe added that he would make sure \"we have the ideas and the options available to whoever becomes prime minister on the 5 September\".\n\nBut consumer expert Martin Lewis has called on what he described as the \"zombie\" government to \"wake up\" and put together a plan immediately.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he compared the current situation to the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. \"We are currently in that position of watching the beds in European hospitals and doing nothing about it,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Ms Truss did not rule out making cash payments to help people with energy bills but said her priority would be to reverse April's National Insurance rise and temporarily drop green levies on energy bills arguing that low taxes were \"vitally important\" for growing the economy.\n\nShe also said she would boost energy supply by \"getting more gas out of the North Sea\" and allowing more fracking to take place.\n\nLiz Truss is trying to appeal to two different electorates at the same time.\n\nThe first and arguably most important (right now) is the Conservative membership. Her message of tax cuts seems to be going down well with the people who will decide the next prime minister.\n\nBut she'll also have one eye on the future electorate she might one day face - the general public and those voters who gave the Conservatives a chance last time and might not give them a second one if they are struggling with day-to-day costs. That might explain why Liz Truss's language has been very careful in recent days.\n\nBecause while she is convinced tax cuts are the way to help the economy grow, she isn't categorically ruling out direct support to those who are vulnerable.\n\nShe's left herself enough room to change her mind in the future if she does become prime minister and the growing calls for financial help become deafening.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have argued that the energy profits levy - or windfall tax - should be backdated to October 2021 and the extra money raised should be used to help people with energy bills.\n\nA windfall tax is a one-off charge imposed by a government on a company, designed to target firms that have benefited from circumstances they were not responsible for.\n\nCompanies supplying energy are getting much more money for their oil and gas than they were last year, partly because demand has increased as the world emerges from the pandemic, but more recently because of supply constraints following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe levy - which the Treasury previously said could raise up to £5bn - came into effect on 26 May. Energy firms like BP have reported recorded quarterly profits this year that will not be impacted by the levy.\n\nAsked about backdating the windfall tax, Ms Truss replied: \"The answer to our problems is not more taxes.\"\n\nSpeaking at a leadership hustings, former Chancellor Mr Sunak warned that the Conservative Party would be \"hammered\" at the next election without offering further direct support to households.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Bridget Philipson says the party has been \"consistently ahead of the government\" on energy bills\n\nHe has not set out in detail what further payments he would make to households, saying the exact scale of the rise is still unclear, and any payments would come on top of existing support.\n\nLabour's shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told BBC Breakfast the situation was \"deeply worrying\" and said Labour would cut VAT on gas and electricity bills.\n\nShe also said her party would set out further proposals \"very soon\" but added that they \"wouldn't have let things get to this point in the first place\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Lewis: Rising prices are a crisis on a scale with the pandemic\n\nThe situation with energy bills is \"a national crisis\" on the scale of the Covid pandemic, Martin Lewis has said.\n\nThe consumer expert told the BBC support needed to double to make up for the huge expected rise in bills.\n\nThe government said it had \"continually taken action to help households\".\n\nIt comes as a survey by comparison site Uswitch suggested many people are already behind on energy bill payments with total debt owed three times higher than in September last year.\n\nAlmost a quarter of households owe £206 on average, according to the survey of 2,000 people.\n\nUswitch advised people falling into debt to speak to their provider to work out a more affordable payment plan.\n\nThe figures come a day after consultancy Cornwall Insight warned energy bills could rise much higher than previously thought in October.\n\nCornwall also expects bills to increase much more sharply in January, with the average household paying £355 a month, instead of the current £164 a month.\n\nMr Lewis said according to forecasts, the price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - would effectively double between May of this year and October.\n\nThe latest price cap is due to be announced at the end of this month by the energy regulator Ofgem.\n\nIn May the government announced a package of support, including a £400 discount on energy bills for all UK households and an additional £650 for more than eight million low-income households.\n\nBut Mr Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"If [the chancellor] is going to be consistent, he will need to double every number in that package.\"\n\nMinisters are set to hold talks with energy giants on Thursday to discuss measures to ease the cost of living.\n\nHowever, Mr Lewis said ultimately it was \"government alone\" which could help by putting \"more money into people's pockets\".\n\nThe boss of Octopus Energy also said he thought the government needed to improve its offer of £400 for households to help with rising energy bills.\n\nGreg Jackson told the BBC that while the initial package of support may have been \"right\" at the time, \"clearly it's not sufficient now and we need to look at a similarly significant assistance from the government for this winter\".\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of energy supplier Utilita, called for a social tariff, which offers discounted rates for lower income households, to be introduced.\n\nHe also said the government needed to \"dramatically\" increase support by £800 - £1,000 per household.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi said the Treasury had been preparing \"options\" for the next prime minister on what further support could be offered.\n\nHowever, Treasury officials have stressed that any decisions on major fiscal issues will be decided after the new PM takes office.\n\nLeadership frontrunner Liz Truss rejected the idea of holding talks with Boris Johnson and her rival Rishi Sunak before the end of the contest, saying \"now is not the time to pre-empt those decisions\".\n\nShe denied she was ruling out payments to help with energy bills. However, stressing her support for tax cuts, Ms Truss said her priority was \"making sure we're not taking money off people and then giving it back to them later on\".\n\nJames has had to take out a loan to cover his family's energy bill\n\nJames Gilmour, who lives with his partner and three children in Essex, has taken out a £5,000 loan to help cover his energy bills when they go up in October.\n\nHis gas and electricity bill has already doubled from £145 per month to £320 a month and from October he said he will be paying more than £600 per month, according to the latest forecasts.\n\n\"As a family of five we simply cannot afford to pay this monthly as we are already getting half way into the month with no money left for food and essentials,\" he told the BBC.\n\nJames, who works in the automotive industry, said the loan was \"the only way to survive through this crisis\".\n\nThere are two main reasons households end up in debt to their supplier: the first reason, their direct debit payments may be set too low to cover the amount of energy being used.\n\nAnyone who finds themselves in that position should contact their supplier as quickly as possible to avoid a sudden bill shock, and give it their correct meter readings.\n\nThe second reason is because people are just not keeping up with their payments.\n\nThe Uswitch survey revealed that in addition to the group in debt, eight million households have no credit balances, meaning they have no cushion against the bill rises this winter.\n\n\"This is an alarming situation, as summer is traditionally a time when households are using less power for heating, which helps bill payers to build up energy credit ahead of the winter,\" said Justina Miltienyte, head of policy at Uswitch.com.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said its \"priority\" is to \"protect consumers\" and make sure suppliers treat their customers in a \"fair and reasonable manner\".\n\nA spokesperson from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We know the pressures people are facing with rising costs, which is why we have continually taken action to help households by phasing in £37bn worth of support throughout the year.\"\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, E.On reported first-half profits of just under €4.1bn (£3.5bn), which was about €700m below the previous year.\n\nThe company, which is one of the UK's biggest energy suppliers, described the energy crisis as \"extraordinary\", and said it highlighted the need for Europe \"to transform its energy system. To be independent of Russian gas. To ensure supply security\".\n\nIt is worth saying again that the old advice to shop around to find a better energy deal just does not apply anymore. The default price cap, although super high, is the best rate available at the moment, so don't be pushed into signing up for a new fixed deal unless you want to, as you may end up paying more in the long-run.\n\nIf you are falling behind on your energy payments, or are unable to keep-up with the increases in direct debits being suggested by your supplier, then the first thing to do is let them know you're struggling.\n\nMaking that call might be tough, as it's never easy to admit you're finding things difficult, however it's likely to be the best protection for your household this winter.\n\nTaking action is important because there is an extra layer of legal help available for people who are unable to pay, which forces suppliers to work through lots of different options with their customers. That includes agreeing a payment plan, giving temporary credit for prepayment customers, and arranging for payment directly through benefits.\n\nCrucially, making that call to explain that you're struggling means they can't just cut you off.", "The Zaporizhzhia is the largest in Europe\n\nForeign ministers from the G7 group of nations say Russia must immediately hand back control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Ukraine.\n\nThey accused Moscow's forces of putting the entire region in danger.\n\nThe facility and its surrounding area saw shelling last week, which Russia and Ukraine blamed on each other.\n\nUkraine says Russia has turned the site into a military base, launching attacks from there knowing that Ukrainian forces are unlikely to retaliate.\n\nThe complex, Europe's largest, has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.\n\nPetro Kotin, the head of Enerhoatom, Ukraine's nuclear power operator, told the BBC earlier this week that about 500 Russian soldiers were at the site, using it as a nuclear shield.\n\nMr Kotin said the threat was grave, but that the plant remained safe.\n\nMinisters from the G7, an organisation of some of the world's wealthiest nations, said they were profoundly concerned over the serious threat to safety at the nuclear plant.\n\nTheir warning echoed statements from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called for an end to \"all military activities that endanger nuclear security\".\n\nHowever, the chances that Russia will take heed appear extremely remote at best, say analysts.\n\nThe G7 also said Russia's actions undermined the IAEA's ability to monitor the safety of nuclear activities in Ukraine.\n\nFor its part, Russia has accused Ukraine of creating \"artificial obstacles and difficulties\" to a potential IAEA mission to the nuclear power plant.\n\nRussia has requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation at the power plant. The meeting will be held on Thursday in New York.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling in central Ukraine overnight killed at least 16 people.\n\nThirteen of the victims were in the Dnipropetrovsk region, two died in the Donetsk region, and a woman was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region.", "The interest rate on student loans in England and Wales is to be capped at 6.3% this autumn.\n\nIt had been due to rise from the current 4.5% to 7.3%, but is being altered to \"align with the most recent data on market rates\" for loans.\n\nEngland's universities minister said she wanted to \"provide support\" amid the rising cost of living.\n\nBut the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the change did \"nothing at all to protect current students\".\n\nStudent loan interest rates will be reviewed again in December.\n\nThe interest rate on the loan for those currently at university in England and Wales is calculated by adding 3% to the retail price index (RPI) - a measure of inflation which indicates the rate at which prices are rising.\n\nThe RPI figure confirmed in April set the interest rate for the forthcoming academic year. Meanwhile, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) predicted the maximum rate on student loans would jump from 4.5% to 12% from September this year.\n\nSubsequently, in June, the government said the rate would be capped at 7.3% to provide \"peace of mind for graduates\".\n\nAnnouncing the government's latest move, which sets the cap at 6.3%, Universities Minister Andrea Jenkyns said the further reduction in interest rates was intended to offer reassurance to anxious students.\n\n\"We understand that many people are worried about the impact of rising prices and we want to reassure people that we are we are stepping up to provide support where we can,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh government said it would follow suit.\n\nThe announcement from the government does not change the amount that borrowers repay each month - it changes the total amount that they owe.\n\nBen Waltmann, senior research economist at the IFS, said most graduates' repayments would not be affected by the latest adjustment.\n\n\"Only the minority of, mostly high-earning, graduates set to pay off their loans in full will ever actually benefit from this,\" he said - adding that it would reduce a typical student loan balance by about £100 this autumn for recent graduates.\n\n\"Importantly, this does nothing at all to protect current students from the rising cost of living.\"\n\nIFS analysis suggests that in the coming academic year, the real-terms value of maximum maintenance loans - for students from the poorest backgrounds - will fall to its lowest level in seven years.\n\nCommenting on the research, Mr Waltmann said: \"Unless the government changes course, students from the poorest families will be at least £100 out of pocket - per month.\"\n\nFor students starting degree courses from 2023, the interest rate will be fixed at a lower level.", "The couple have been struggling with the water situation\n\n\"When it gets very hot, I have trouble breathing, so I try to drink a lot more water.\"\n\nPaul Allen is in a wheelchair, has diabetes, the lung condition COPD and has had three heart attacks.\n\nHowever, Mr Allen has been struggling in the heat with no water or low water pressure at his Llandysul, Ceredigion home for three weeks.\n\nWelsh Water said the problem was from a leak and high demand from customers.\n\n\"You feel dirty, you can't shower, you can't have a cup of tea. It's more the frustration than anything else, they just don't seem to bother,\" Mr Allen said.\n\nHe described having to take 12 to 14 tablets a day, adding: \"I need a fair bit of water for that.\"\n\nMr Allen said he and his wife Barbara called the water provider every day and have been waiting for over an hour at times to get through.\n\nHe added: \"I'd like to see the water pressure sorted out, and I'd like to see a recognition from Welsh Water that they've caused grief not just to me, but to the whole community around here.\"\n\nResidents in Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend have also complained about their tap water turning brown because of \"unprecedented demand\".\n\nIt comes during a second period of hot weather this summer, with the Met Office issuing an extreme heat warning for parts that will last from Thursday until Sunday in parts of Wales.\n\nIn Llandysul, the Allens, who have been married 50 years, had bottled water delivered to them belatedly by Welsh Water at their address in Coed y Bryn on Tuesday.\n\n\"The water out of the main tap in the kitchen dribbles out. There's no way you can have a pint of water in five seconds like it's recommended on the website. You'd be likely to get less than a third of a pint of water,\" Mrs Allen said.\n\nShe said supply has been \"on and off for three weeks\" - they were left with no water at all from 06:30 BST Monday and 23:30 that night.\n\nThe heat warning covers much of eastern Wales and will last from Thursday to Sunday\n\nMrs Allen added: \"That was pretty dire, especially as we had guests here as well.\n\n\"So unfortunately I wasn't able to offer them a shower, they weren't able to use the toilet very easily, and we couldn't make tea or coffee or anything like that.\n\n\"We ended up going out to lunch because we couldn't produce any food here because we couldn't do any washing up or cleaning or preparing at all. It was pretty difficult.\"\n\n\"To be honest yesterday evening, because we couldn't have tea or coffee we ended up resorting to drinking alcohol.\"\n\nWelsh Water apologised for belatedly delivering water to a customer in the area and said future requests will be dealt with promptly.\n\n\"We are aware of some issues affecting the supplies to some customers in the Coed y Bryn area of Llandysul since the end of July,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"The issues have been caused by a leak on the water supply pipe combined with high demand for water during the hotter weather.\n\n\"Due to the rural nature of the area, the leak did take longer than originally anticipated to locate and repair and we are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. Our team will continue to monitor the system in the area over the coming days during the high temperatures which are forecast.\"", "'You get made to feel like you've done something wrong'\n\nPaige, from Gravesend in Kent, is on a key meter, which is a \"pay-as-you-go\" system so she pays for her energy for the day or week. The 30-year-old says she used to pay £20 per week on gas, but that has now doubled. And it is not just energy she is worrying about, with a water bill of £492 coming through and her provider telling her she was \"in arrears even though I've never not made a payment\". \"You almost get made to feel like you've done something wrong and you know, everybody's in the same situation,\" she says. \"I just find it really upsetting.\" Paige has previously had to \"postpone payments by a couple of weeks\" because of the timing of her pay day. \"It's frustrating enough having financial worries without having someone on the end of the phone making you feel like a failure.\"", "Nobody in a sham marriage has been removed in the past two years - and the last prosecution was four years ago.\n\nHundreds of people using sham marriages to stay in the UK have not been prosecuted and remain in the country.\n\nBBC News has obtained figures showing 365 couples have tried to fraudulently exploit a post-Brexit scheme giving EU citizens and their spouses the right to remain in the UK.\n\nNobody in a sham marriage has been removed in the past two years - and the last prosecution was four years ago.\n\nThe Home Office said there were fewer investigations during the pandemic.\n\nIn 2018, the EU Settlement Scheme mapped out how European Union citizens, their spouses and family members could continue to live in the UK after the country left the EU.\n\nThey had to be resident by December 2020 and apply for permission to stay. Spouses from any country were eligible to apply.\n\nBBC News has found couples have tried to fraudulently exploit the scheme by entering into a sham marriage - with the EU national extending their residency rights to their non-EU bogus partner.\n\nSome individuals do it for money. Organised crime gangs are often involved.\n\nAll proposed marriages where one of the partners has no immigration status are referred to the Home Office for investigation.\n\nDr Ervin Muco: \"These networks know how to cheat the system and they are making money from people who are prepared to pay\"\n\nDr Ervin Muco, in Albania, told BBC News people paid criminal gangs for what they saw as a ticket to a new life.\n\n\"These networks know how to cheat the system and they are making money from people who are prepared to pay.\n\n\"In recent years, most Albanian men who have left this country have gone to Italy or Greece - but some of them haven't been able to get citizenship in these countries.\n\n\"So some do try to find women from European countries they can marry.\n\n\"They can have all the benefits of being a European citizen.\n\n\"And because Britain was an EU member, many Albanians have been attracted to the UK.\"\n\nKrenar Ahmeti: \"Anyone aspiring to live in a wealthy country knows that there are certain key documents they need\"\n\nFormer police chief Prof Krenar Ahmeti, at the University of Tirana, agrees crime gangs are pivotal.\n\n\"Anyone aspiring to live in a wealthy country knows that there are certain key documents they need if they are going to integrate into that society,\" he said, \"but they also often need an organisation to help them achieve this.\"\n\nThe Home Office said \"As the public rightly expects, we take abuse of the spouse-and-partner immigration routes very seriously - and to suggest otherwise is wrong.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to take enforcement action against individuals found to be in a sham marriage or civil partnership, including cancelling their leave and removing them from the UK.\"", "John, who finished ninth in Saturday's event, couldn't swim two months ago\n\nEight weeks ago John McDermott couldn't swim and had a fear of water.\n\nHe had never in his life been in a swimming pool. At the seaside, he wouldn't let the water rise above his ankles.\n\nBut the 36-year-old from Strabane, County Tyrone, a keen runner and cyclist, had a burning desire to compete in a triathlon - a sport which combines swimming, cycling and running.\n\nTo do that he'd need to challenge himself to overcome his fear.\n\nOn 14 June, he entered a swimming pool for the first time in his life.\n\n\"I signed up to the triathlon nine weeks out, my first [swimming] lesson was the following week,\" John told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe had two months to learn to swim.\n\nLast Saturday, he completed his debut triathlon, including a 350-metres open-water swim, finishing ninth in the Omagh Try A Tri event at Loughmacrory.\n\n\"I am still on a high,\" he said.\n\n\"It sounds weird to say but I felt so proud of myself. It is the biggest thing I have overcome.\"\n\nJohn's daughters Fiadh and Meabh are \"very proud\" of their daddy\n\nAccording to official figures, swimming is the most popular sport for adults in Northern Ireland but the thought of diving in can fill many people with dread.\n\nAs many as one in every four adults in the UK struggles to swim for 25m (82ft) unaided, with many having been put off learning by a bad experience or a lifelong fear of water.\n\nJohn said his fear of the water had gathered its own momentum over the years.\n\n\"I think it is more a confidence thing. I am scared of the unknown with the water, never really swam, actively avoided it,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"It probably got into my own head more the longer it went on, building up, being more scared of it than I should have been.\"\n\nBut having signed up for the triathlon there was no going back.\n\nJohn's always been a keen runner and cyclist - two of the three disciplines of a triathlon\n\nHis first lesson at the leisure centre in Ballybofey in County Donegal was a daunting experience.\n\n\"That first lesson wasn't great,\" John said.\n\n\"If I hadn't signed up for the triathlon I'm not sure I would have gone back.\n\n\"The feeling of being in the pool, in the water, suddenly the enormity of the challenge was real. I had to stick with it.\"\n\nHis determination took him back the next evening. As the weeks progressed, he found every lesson as challenging as the one before.\n\n\"Every training session I had to build myself up, start nice and slow, get my face into the water. I still have to actively work at it, something I am dealing with.\"\n\nAs the date of the triathlon loomed ever closer, John knew swimming in open water could be a whole different experience to that in the pool.\n\nHe wanted to test himself in the lough.\n\n\"I went three times [before the triathlon]. On the first trip again, the enormity of it all set in, it's a different type of water, it's dark, it moves in a different way,\" he said.\n\nOn his first attempt at the 350m distance, he recorded a time of 25 minutes. Last Saturday, he finished the swim leg of the triathlon in just over 13 minutes.\n\n\"I was second last out of the water, it took a while, but I was clapped like I was first out.\"\n\nEveryone he says, was cheering and clapping, including his wife, Grace, and their daughters Fiadh, four and Meabh, two.\n\nHis family, he said, were \"very proud\" with all he has achieved.\n\nNow he is training for his second triathlon on 20 August in County Donegal - an event with an increased swimming distance of 450 metres.", "Donald Trump arrived at the New York attorney general's office for questioning on Wednesday\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has declined to answer questions as part of a New York state investigation into his family's business practices.\n\nMr Trump had sued in an effort to block the interview at the New York attorney general's office on Wednesday.\n\nState officials accuse the Trump Organization of misleading authorities about the value of its assets in order to get favourable loans and tax breaks.\n\nMr Trump denies wrongdoing and has called the civil probe a witch hunt.\n\nAn hour after he was pictured arriving at the Manhattan office where he was questioned under oath, Mr Trump released a statement in which he criticised New York Attorney General Letitia James and the broader investigation.\n\n\"Years of work and tens of millions of dollars have been spent on this long simmering saga, and to no avail,\" he said. \"I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nMs James' office confirmed that the interview took place on Wednesday and that \"Mr Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination\".\n\n\"Attorney General James will pursue the facts and the law wherever they may lead,\" the statement added. \"Our investigation continues.\"\n\nHis deposition comes just days after the FBI executed an unprecedented search warrant at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as part of a separate investigation that is reportedly linked to his handling of classified material.\n\nWhile the attorney general's investigation is a civil one, a parallel investigation is being carried out by the Manhattan District Attorney's office which could result in criminal charges.\n\nLegal analysts suggest Mr Trump may have declined to answer questions on Wednesday because his answers could have been used against him in that criminal investigation. The former president invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from being compelled to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on people pleading the Fifth Amendment: 'Disgraceful'\n\nThe questioning lasted around four hours, and included lengthy breaks, his lawyer Ronald Fischetti told US media.\n\nMr Trump began by reading a statement into the record condemning the attorney general and her investigation and invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.\n\nHe proceeded to say \"same answer\" to every question he was asked.\n\nMs James' office has said that the depositions - a legal term that means testimony not given in court - were among the last remaining investigative procedures to be carried out.\n\nOnce the investigation concludes, the state attorney general could decide to bring a lawsuit seeking financial penalties against Mr Trump or his company.\n\nMs James had sought Mr Trump's deposition - and that of two of his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr - for more than six months while the family resisted subpoenas through the New York court system.\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump had also attempted to sue Ms James in a bid to prevent her from questioning the former president and his children.\n\nBut in February, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that all three must sit for depositions. Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr were questioned earlier this month.\n\nThe judge said the investigation had uncovered \"copious evidence of possible financial fraud\" giving the attorney general a \"clear right\" to question under oath the former president and two of his children involved in the business.\n\nMs James hailed the judge's decision as a victory, saying that \"justice has prevailed\".\n\nThe investigation, which was first opened in 2019, seeks to prove that Mr Trump and the Trump Organization misrepresented the value of assets in order to obtain favourable loans and tax breaks. The alleged fraud is said to have taken place before Mr Trump took office.\n\n\"The mob takes the Fifth,\" Donald Trump said at an Iowa campaign rally in 2016.\n\nHis target? You've guessed it - Hillary Clinton. Some of her former staffers had exercised their right to silence during a congressional inquiry.\n\nThe boot is now on the other foot, as they say.\n\n\"I once asked,\" said his statement on Wednesday - published while his deposition by the New York attorney general was still ongoing - \"If you're innocent why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\"\n\n\"Now I know the answer to that question,\" he concluded, suggesting that he had been left with no choice.\n\nThere are parallels here - in terms of Mr Trump's response - with the separate investigation into his handling of official documents, thought to have been the reason for the recent search of his Florida estate.\n\nWhile his allies have been demanding answers from officials over the unprecedented action, he could choose to provide some himself. That's because he'll have a copy of the warrant and the inventory of material removed from his property.\n\nYet his public statements suggest he's been left in the dark, and he has repeatedly attacked the process.\n\nHis supporters may believe the narrative that he is being persecuted. But - as Trump himself once did - others may see his refusal to answer questions as a sign there's substance to the case against him.", "People are going back to cash to keep tighter control on their spending as living costs soar, according to new research by the Post Office.\n\nPost offices handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, the most since records began five years ago.\n\nThat's up more than 20% from a year earlier.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, chair of the Cash Action Group, said it showed people are \"literally counting the pennies\" as they grapple with rising prices.\n\n\"It's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" said Ms Ceeney, who chaired the government's independent Access to Cash review.\n\n\"People will be taking out cash and physically putting it into pots, saying 'this is what I have for bills, this is what I have for food, and this is what's left'.\"\n\nPrices are currently rising faster than they have for 40 years.\n\nThe increase in the cost of living is putting a squeeze on people's finances, as incomes fail to keep up.\n\nIn total, £3.32bn in cash was deposited and withdrawn at Post Office counters in July, £100m higher than in June.\n\nPersonal cash withdrawals, at £801m, were up almost 8% month-on-month and up more than 20% year-on-year.\n\nIt is the highest amount since records began five years ago, and only the second time that personal cash withdrawals have exceeded £800m. The last time was December 2021, and there's always an increase in withdrawals around that time of year, the Post Office said.\n\nThe Post Office put the extra volume of withdrawals at its 11,500 branches down to more people turning to cash to help manage their budgets on a week-by-week and often a day-by-day basis.\n\nIt also said it was partly due to more people choosing to have staycations, with recent research by the Post Office finding that 71% of Brits planning on going on holiday in the UK this year intended to take out cash before leaving.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said: \"We're seeing more and more people increasingly reliant on cash as the tried and tested way to manage a budget.\n\n\"Whether that's for a staycation in the UK or if it's to help prepare for financial pressures expected in the autumn, cash access in every community is critical.\"\n\nCash deposits also rose, according to the research.\n\nIndividuals deposited £1.35bn in cash in July, up 2% month-on-month, while cash deposits for businesses totalled £1.13bn, up 1.9% from a month earlier.\n\nMr Kearsley said the figures showed Britain is \"anything but a cashless society\".\n\nMs Ceeney told the BBC that it was easy to see why cash use was going up, given the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Cash has been in decline for well over a decade, the pandemic accelerated this, but now it's going back up, and that's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps people budget, as using cash means you literally can count the pennies. We all know that if you pay with a card, it's so easy to spend money you don't have and then go overdrawn.\n\n\"If you've only got £30 to last you the week, holding that in notes and coins is still the most effective way of budgeting and controlling how much you spend.\"\n\nSalford University student Kira Hayward turned to social media for inspiration to help her cope with rising costs by taking cash out of her bank account.\n\nStudent Kira Hayward limits her spending by using \"budget binders\" for cash\n\nShe puts it in different labelled envelopes to ensure she has money for food and bills.\n\n\"I went on Instagram and YouTube and I saw these physical budget binders,\" she told the BBC in May. \"I take the money out of the bank and I budget for things like my shopping. If I know I have £80 in my personal shopping for the month I know I can't go over that.\"\n\nWith more high street banks closing branches, Ms Ceeley said there's a need for post offices and shared banking services to allow people to get the cash that they need, especially for vulnerable or elderly people or those who don't have access to digital banking.\n\n\"The reality is digital doesn't work for everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Millions of people don't have access to computers or smartphones, and so we need to keep cash viable.\"", "The Met Office has issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning, meaning vulnerable people's health could be impacted and travel could be disrupted.\n\nThe warning applies to southern and central England and parts of Wales from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are set to reach up to 35C (95F) in some areas and Thames Water has become the latest water firm to announce hosepipe ban plans.\n\nMeanwhile, a 14-year-old boy has died in a lake in Hertfordshire.\n\nEmergency services were called to North Met Lake, off Cadmore Lane in Cheshunt, just after 17:00 BST on Monday, with his body recovered six hours later, Hertfordshire Constabulary said.\n\nA second search is under way for a man in his early 20s who has gone missing in a lake in Hounslow, west London, the Metropolitan Police confirmed.\n\nThe amber alert is the longest the Met Office has issued since it introduced the warning system in 2021 and is lower than the first-ever red warning in July, when temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time.\n\nBut the Met Office said while temperatures this week would remain below last month's record highs, this heatwave could last longer.\n\nThe Met Office warning is one of several alerts aimed at preparing the country for the heat:\n\nWhile the warnings remain lower than those issued during last month's record temperatures, the UKHSA's Dr Agostinho Sousa emphasised it was important vulnerable people, like the elderly who live alone or anyone with underlying health conditions, were \"prepared for coping during the hot weather\".\n\n\"The most important advice is to ensure they stay hydrated, keep cool and take steps to prevent their homes from overheating,\" he added.\n\nDisabled people could be particularly affected by heat, and may suffer fatigue, difficulty regulating their body temperatures, or problems moving to cooler spots in the home, Fazilet Hadi, from Disability Rights UK, said.\n\nMeanwhile, a dairy farmer in Shropshire has said he might have to send some of his cows to slaughter if there is no rain in August as a result of the reduced amount of grass available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe amber warning for extreme heat comes as Thames Water has had to provide bottled water to residents in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe water company said supplies were disrupted due to a technical issue, later adding that customers should now have water, but the pressure could be lower than normal.\n\nOne farmer told the BBC the situation had become \"dire\" - explaining that he had almost considered filling up cattle troughs with bottled water.\n\nAnother Northend resident said they had not been able to shower, flush the toilet or prepare food - apart from when using bottled water.\n\nThames Water supplied bottled water to a village in Oxfordshire when supplies ran out\n\nEngland had its driest July this year since 1935, according to the Met Office, while south-east and central southern England had the driest month since records began in 1836.\n\nBetween the start of this year and 6 August, the south-east recorded 144 days with average rainfall of less than 0.5mm. Of those, 57 saw no rain at all.\n\nCathryn Ross from Thames Water said the water company was \"seeing unprecedentedly low storage\" and this summer saw \"less than 65% of rainfall\" than expected.\n\n\"We're looking at less than 75% of our storage at the moment as to where we would expect it to be.\n\nShe said Thames Water was planning ahead for hotter, drier summers by becoming more water efficient, increasing storage and \"potentially\" new reservoirs.\n\nMeanwhile, a disabled man from Llandysul, Wales says he has been struggling in the heat with no water or low water pressure for three weeks.\n\nData from the Environment Agency has shown River Wye levels are now as low as 2cm and water temperatures are expected to rise in coming days.\n\nWarnings of the threat posed by wildfires have been issued, with fire services urging people not to light bonfires or barbecues, or let off fireworks or sky lanterns.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 70 firefighters battled a blaze over five hectares (12.36 acres) of grass and shrubland in Enfield, north London, while there were also fires on the outskirts of Ipswich, in Northamptonshire and near Reading.\n\nAn aerial view of a fire on Rushmore Heath on the outskirts of Ipswich\n\nThe heatwave combined with months of dry weather have also led to increasing problems for farmers, with grass not growing and irrigation water running low cited as two key concerns.\n\nThames Water said it would be announcing restrictions on water use in response to forecasts of more hot and dry weather, with the exact timings to be confirmed later.\n\nHosepipe bans are already in force in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, and others are due to come into force in Kent, Sussex, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire.\n\nThe UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has warned river flows are set to remain exceptionally low in central, southern and eastern England until October.\n\nRiver Action founder Charles Watson called for the government to act to prevent an \"ecological emergency\", warning that if river flows slowed down the ecology of rivers could be killed and the concentration of pollution in them would increase.\n\nChristine Farnish, a former board member of water regulator Ofwat, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme water companies \"need to get their houses in order\" over leakage and said they had been \"very slow\" to wake up to the realities of climate change.\n\nBut Water UK's director of policy Stuart Colville said Ofwat figures showed companies were at the lowest ever levels of leakage on record and said the industry was doing \"everything we can\" to avoid restrictions on water use.\n\nThe National Trust has warned that bats, lichen and stately gardens have been hit hard by the hot summer weather, with its climate change adviser describing the impact as \"stark\".\n\nConcerns have also been raised by the River Tweed Commission about the impact of low water levels and high temperatures on Atlantic salmon, sea and brown trout.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Before and after pictures of Norfolk show hot weather's impact\n\nMet Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Rudman said temperatures would be \"rising day-on-day through this week\" and were expected to peak at 35C on Friday and Saturday in some areas.\n\nAny showers would be to the far north-west of the UK and would be short-lived in nature, he said, adding there would be \"no relief for parched land\" in the south.\n\nA heatwave is defined as above average temperatures being reached for three days or more. Heatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nWe are living in the hottest period for 125,000 years, according to the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\n\nHow is the hot weather affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "An independent Wales is \"less likely\" to come about if Scotland does not vote to leave the UK first, a former Plaid Cymru leader has said.\n\nLord Dafydd Wigley said if Scotland again voted \"no\" to independence, there would be a \"greater focus\" on a redesigned United Kingdom.\n\nHe was speaking to the BBC Walescast podcast in the first of a series of interviews with Welsh politicians.\n\nThe Scottish government wants to hold a second independence referendum in 2023.\n\nBut UK government ministers are opposed to the vote.\n\nLord Wigley served as MP for Caernarfon from 1974 up to 2001, and was the constituency's assembly member from the opening of the institution until 2003.\n\nHe led Plaid Cymru twice, in the early 1980s and from 1991 to 2000. He will retire soon from the House of Lords, where he has been a peer since 2011.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview, Lord Wigley talks about his \"difficult\" time in Cardiff Bay, and how he witnessed the election of a new prime minister from Downing Street.\n\nLord Wigley served as MP for Caernarfon from 1974 until 2001\n\nThe former Plaid leader questioned where England and Wales would be left \"as a unit\" if Scotland became independent.\n\n\"Is that what we want,\" he asked, \"to be a small pimple on the western side of England that doesn't count for anything?\n\n\"We get precious little voice now in the UK, we'll get even less when it is so dominated by the needs of England.\"\n\nBut he said if Scotland rejected independence a second time it was \"less likely\" that Wales would become independent.\n\n\"In realistic terms, if Scotland was to have a referendum and it went 'no', I think what we then have is a greater focus on a federalism or confederal argument.\"\n\nUnder a federal set-up, more powers could shift from London to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland but power would still ultimately reside in Westminster.\n\nLord Wigley prefers a confederal system, where authority would lie with the four individual countries of the UK, but \"certain functions\", like defence, are pooled together.\n\nThe current Welsh government, led by Labour's Mark Drakeford, supports the union and is opposed to Welsh independence.\n\nPlaid Cymru, the third largest party in the Welsh parliament and now in a co-operation agreement with Mr Drakeford, campaigned to hold a vote at the last Senedd election.\n\nLord Wigley's Plaid Cymru campaigned for the then National Assembly to be established in the 1997 referendum, as did Welsh Labour at the time. The Yes side won, but just, with 50.3% of the vote.\n\nA quarter of a century on and the slender victory for Welsh devolution is still emotive for the former Plaid leader.\n\nAs the results first came in, he said it was \"as if you were going in half-time in a football match losing 10-0… I knew in my heart if we'd have lost that we'd have lost it for my lifetime\".\n\nBut the fortunes of devolution supporters would change as the counting continued.\n\n\"A civil servant came down and said: 'The Secretary of State [for Wales Ron Davies] would like to have a word with you.'\n\n\"I went down a long corridor, I knocked on the door, and the door opened. Ron just came and flung his arms around me and said: 'We've won, Dafydd.'\n\n\"And that was a night, a moment of a night that I will never forget, never forget.\"\n\nFighting back tears, he adds: \"It was a changing of our fortunes in a flick of a switch.\"\n\nLord Wigley, pictured with his wife Elinor, saw his party reach a high watermark at the 1999 Assembly election\n\nThe first election for the National Assembly - the institution now known as the Welsh Parliament - took place in 1999.\n\nAs the results and early gossip started coming in, Lord Wigley \"went ashen white\" because Plaid could well be the largest party and \"the reality was we were not ready for that\".\n\nIn the end, Plaid won 17 out of the 60 seats. It was a high watermark that the party is yet to beat.\n\n\"We got to a position where there was a danger of Plaid talking to its heartlands, and there is a need now, as always, to have an agenda that touches the nerve in each of those industrial seats and in Cardiff, and Swansea, and Newport, there's no reason on earth why we can't relate there,\" he reflected.\n\nHe recalls his brief time in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2003, while he was still an MP, as \"difficult\".\n\n\"I'd wrongly, I believe, made the decision to continue as MP for Caernarfon up until the next election in 2001.\n\n\"It's one of the worst decisions I've made in my life. I should've stood down immediately in Westminster.\"\n\nHaving then had a \"heart operation in December 1999\", Lord Wigley laughs as he explains he was then told \"to avoid stressful positions\".\n\nShortly afterwards, it was suggested by Plaid colleagues Ieuan Wyn Jones and Cynog Dafis that he should stand down as leader.\n\n\"I don't feel betrayed because I don't see other people's ambitions as anything you should try restricting,\" he said.\n\nDespite dedicating his political life to the establishment of a Welsh Parliament, Lord Wigley has spent much more time in Westminster.\n\nThere are many highlights, from securing compensation payments to former slate quarry workers suffering from pneumoconiosis, to his campaigning work on disability politics following the death of two of his boys, Alun and Geraint, to a genetic illness.\n\nHe has also struck up some unexpected friendships, including with a former prime minister.\n\nOn the night John Major was chosen to enter 10 Downing Street, Lord Wigley was invited to his home for a family party\n\nOn the night John Major was chosen to enter 10 Downing Street, Dafydd Wigley was invited over for a \"small family party\".\n\nDafydd Wigley continues the story: \"There about 40 or 50 people milling around.\n\n\"John Major then goes through next door to join Margaret Thatcher for a night cap and the party starts dying down.\n\n\"Anyway, Newsnight was coming on and they only had one television.\"\n\nThat television was in John and Norma Major's bedroom.\n\nLord Wigley added: \"So, there was I and a couple of other family friends and Norma sitting on the prime minister-elect's bed watching coverage of him being elected as prime minister.\"\n\nHe eventually left, not wanting to overstay his welcome.\n\nLord Wigley is now preparing to leave Westminster once and for all. But after more than 50 years in frontline politics, he isn't quite done yet.\n\nWatch the interview on Walescast on BBC One Wales at 22:40 on Wednesday, or on iPlayer after broadcast, or listen to it on BBC Sounds.", "The sign has proved a popular attraction in the area\n\nA Hollywood-inspired sign welcoming visitors to a campsite will be taken down after a row over planning permission.\n\nFarmer Mark Rutherford said the \"Camp Llandudno\" display had brought a smile to the faces of everyone passing.\n\nHowever, he did not gain permission to advertise his pop-up campsite in such a way and would reluctantly remove it.\n\nConwy council said it was \"disappointed\" permission was not sought.\n\nFarm owner Mr Rutherford explained he gained the required permission under the 28-day rule - which allowed him to temporarily change the use of the land - to create a pop-up campsite.\n\nHowever, he did not realise he would need to gain a different form of permission to promote it.\n\n\"The problem is that the sign has been put up without a planning application to the local authority,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"They deem it visual clutter and even though it's only there to promote the pop-up campsite that will go at the end of the month, they're not happy.\"\n\nMr Rutherford turned his land into a pop-up campsite for the summer\n\nHe said after requests from council officials, he will take it down on Wednesday.\n\nMr Rutherford added: \"I'm not a rule breaker, I have enough on my plate ensuring the success of the pop-up campsite. I will remove it today, I don't want to aggravate the situation.\n\n\"The public have been unanimously supportive, it just puts a smile on people's faces when they drive past.\n\n\"Maybe I'll have it next year, but with the correct agreement.\"\n\nConwy council said it received a complaint about the \"unauthorised advertising\".\n\n\"We're disappointed that the owner hadn't sought advice from us and instead proceeded to display an advertisement without consent,\" a spokesman added.\n\n\"As the advertisement doesn't have consent, we informed the owner that he should remove the advertisement and he agreed to remove the advertisement on 9 August.\"", "The former Marchon chemical works on the outskirts of Whitehaven is the site of the proposed mine\n\nA decision on whether to go ahead with a new coal mine in Cumbria has been delayed for a second time.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it would now be made \"on or before 8 November\".\n\nThe Planning Inspectorate's report has been with the government since April and a decision was due in August.\n\nIf allowed it would be the first deep coal mine to open in the UK for more than 30 years.\n\nThe department said officials were \"not yet in a position to complete their consideration before providing advice to ministers\".\n\nIt added: \"This is a quasi-judicial decision so it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nThe proposed mine at Whitehaven would remove coking coal from beneath the Irish Sea for the production of steel in the UK and Europe.\n\nThe coal would not be used for power generation.\n\nA public inquiry was held by the Planning Inspectorate into whether West Cumbria Mining could mine coking coal at the former Marchon chemical works site.\n\nSupporters claim it will create jobs and reduce the need to import coal for steelmaking.\n\nThe Conservative mayor of Copeland Mike Starkie, who has previously said local support for the mine is strong, called the latest delay \"outrageous and totally unacceptable\".\n\n\"To now move the goalposts to November is appalling and there is no justification whatsoever.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"dreadful way\" to treat private investors and called on Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak \"to use their influence to bring this to a conclusion\".\n\nOpponents of the mine have previously protested outside the Home Office in London as well as at the site in Whitehaven\n\nVictoria Marsom, from Friends of the Earth, who have campaigned against the mine said areas like Cumbria should be \"at the heart of building the greener future we need\".\n\n\"The UK and European market for coking coal is set to rapidly diminish as manufacturers switch to greener steel, while coal from this mine won't replace Russian imports,\" she added.\n\n\"However, this new mine will increase carbon emissions, with the government's climate watchdog describing it as 'absolutely indefensible'.\"\n\nThe original deadline for the decision was 7 July, and it is believed the Prime Minister Boris Johnson was scheduled to be in Cumbria on that day.\n\nHowever, in a twist of fate, it was the same day Mr Johnson announced he was to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister.\n\nA second deadline for a decision was set for 17 August but that too has now been pushed back - potentially until after a new prime minister is announced on 5 September.\n\nThe mine was approved to operate until 2049 by Cumbria County Council in October 2020, but just four months later the authority suspended its decision.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining previously said exploratory works led it to estimate there were about 750m tonnes of \"excellent quality\" coking coal in the area.\n\nHowever, planning conditions would limit the company to producing no more than 2.78m tonnes a year.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Luna was one of the cats poisoned by Tristian Paul Pearson\n\nA cat killer who poisoned the pets of two neighbours has been given an eight month suspended prison sentence.\n\nTristian Paul Pearson, 44, of West Street, Bargoed, gave the animals food containing ethylene glycol, which is toxic to them.\n\nHe pleaded guilty to an Animal Welfare Act offence and was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nThe RSPCA described the sentence as a \"shocking, landmark case\" which \"sends a clear message\".\n\nThe cats, named Luna and Bailey, belonged to a father and daughter who lived in two separate properties near Pearson's home in Caerphilly county.\n\nThree children - aged eight, five and 18 months - lived at the same property as one of the animals.\n\nThe RSPCA said Bailey fell ill on 3 September, becoming weak and wobbly.\n\nAn appointment was made for the male Persian cat, to see a vet but he died before it took place.\n\nOn 7 September Luna, a female domestic short haired cat returned to her home with wobbly back legs.\n\nAs she became more sick vets found she had a fast heart rate and her muscles were twitching.\n\nPersian Bailey also fell victim to Pearson, who dosed the both with ethylene glycol\n\nTests confirmed Luna had kidney failure and she was put down, the RSPCA said.\n\nAfter the deaths the owners looked in Pearson's back garden, which backed on to theirs.\n\nOne contained a bright blue liquid, the other a food mix, including meat.\n\nThese were retrieved and given to the RSPCA.\n\nFood and poison was found in Pearson's garden\n\nTests confirmed the contents of the pots contained a high concentration of ethylene glycol.\n\nOne appeared to have been mixed with tuna.\n\nThe RSPCA said an expert veterinary witness report concluded it was \"very highly likely\" this caused the deaths of Luna and Bailey.\n\nSentenced on 5 August, Pearson was also ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work, and banned from keeping animals for five years.\n\nHe was ordered to pay £2,000 costs and a £154 surcharge.\n\nAfter the hearing, RSPCA inspector Simon Evans, hoped the \"shocking\" case would send a clear message.\n\n\"This is wrong, illegal and will not be tolerated,\" he said.", "The Scottish Parliament \"plainly\" does not have the power to set up an independence referendum, UK government law officers have argued.\n\nThe Supreme Court is to look at whether MSPs can legislate for a vote without Westminster's backing in October.\n\nThe Scottish government has argued that any vote would be \"advisory\" and would not directly break up the union.\n\nBut UK law officers said there was \"no secret\" that Scottish ministers would want the vote to lead to independence.\n\nPapers published on Wednesday said a referendum was \"not designed to be an exercise in mere abstract opinion polling at considerable public expense\", and it would clearly be used to push for \"the secession of Scotland\" from the UK.\n\nJudges will hear arguments at the court in London on 11 and 12 October.\n\nThe SNP has also applied to intervene in the case to make additional arguments in favour of a referendum.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a vote on independence in October 2023, and has been pushing the UK government to agree to this.\n\nHowever in the absence of a deal she also wants judges to rule on whether Holyrood has the power to set up a vote without Westminster support.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Supreme Court by Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, the Scottish government's top law officer, in a bid to clarify whether MSPs can pass legislation paving the way for a poll.\n\nConstitutional matters including the union are reserved to Westminster, but Ms Bain has argued that an \"advisory\" referendum would not necessarily cut across this.\n\nThe QC said that the vote would have \"no prescribed legal consequences arising from its result\", and that it would be for politicians to decide what to do afterwards.\n\nMs Sturgeon has argued this was also the case with the 2014 independence referendum and the 2016 vote on EU membership, which led to years of negotiations and bills being passed before Brexit actually happened.\n\nThe UK government meanwhile does not want judges to rule on the case at all, arguing that it would be premature to decide anything before a bill has been passed by MSPs.\n\nPapers lodged on behalf of the Advocate General for Scotland - Lord Stewart of Dirleton, the UK government's top Scots law officer - argue that the court would not normally give \"advisory opinions on abstract legal questions\".\n\nLegislative disputes between the Scottish and UK governments are heard in the Supreme Court in London\n\nThe submission also states that \"the Scottish Parliament plainly does not have the competence to legislate for an advisory referendum on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom\".\n\nOn the idea of a vote being \"advisory\", the submission said there was \"no secret\" about the Scottish government's intentions.\n\nIt added: \"It cannot be credibly suggested that the outcome of the referendum will be 'advisory' in the sense of being treated as an academic interest only.\n\n\"A referendum is not, and is not designed to be, an exercise in mere abstract opinion polling at considerable public expense.\n\n\"Were the outcome to favour independence, it would be used - and no doubt used by the SNP as the central plank - to seek to build momentum towards achieving that end: the termination of the union and the secession of Scotland.\"\n\nThere are few surprises in the UK government submission - it is fairly straightforward, that Holyrood doesn't have the authority to set up a referendum.\n\nIt is however slightly awkward for this to be stated so baldly.\n\nUK ministers have previously preferred to stress the breadth of devolved responsibilities, painting Holyrood as one of the world's most powerful devolved parliaments.\n\nThat allows them to put pressure back on the SNP over the running of services in Scotland, and avoids the impression of telling MSPs to get \"back in your box\".\n\nIt's also why they tend to say \"not now\" to a referendum, rather than a flat \"no\". But putting it into bare legal terms removes the softer edges of political messaging.\n\nIt all underlines that the outcome of this case will cause a political storm no matter the result.\n\nShould the UK government's legal arguments win out in the Supreme Court, they will immediately become political arguments for Ms Sturgeon to use in the court of public opinion.\n\nA very public demonstration of the limits of Holyrood's powers could be a cornerstone of her case for why it should have more.", "Owami Davies has not been seen for nearly a month\n\nA fourth man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who vanished in south London last month.\n\nStudent nurse Owami Davies, 24, was captured on CCTV in the company of a man on Derby Road, Croydon on 7 July - the night she was last seen alive.\n\nThe Met Police has been granted extra time to question three other men, aged 23, 27 and 32, previously arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe fourth arrest, a 22-year-old man, remains in custody after being detained at an address in Croydon on Wednesday evening, Det Ch Insp Nigel Penney said.\n\nHe added: \"While a further arrest has been made, this remains a missing person investigation and our priority is, and has always been, finding Owami.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police said Owami Davies was with a man as she crossed Derby Road on the last night she was seen alive\n\n\"We are working hard to find Owami but we really do need the public's help - the longer she is missing the more we worry that she has come to harm.\"\n\nIn particular, officers are keen to speak to the driver of a white van that was parked in Derby Road.\n\nPolice said Ms Davies and the man she was with had crossed the street \"just as the van pulled out\".\n\nHer mum Nicol Davies has said: \"This is such a terrible time for all those who love Owami and I am pleading for anyone who can help find her to contact police.\"\n\nOwami Davies' mother Nicol spoke at New Scotland Yard as police did a public appeal for her daughter's whereabouts\n\nShe said her daughter had been nearing the end of her nursing studies when she vanished and had secured a job with Guy's and St Thomas' health trust.\n\nNicknamed \"Princess\" because of her love of Disney, she had also worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic and was interested in doing research on diseases, her mum said.\n\nPolice say Owami Davies was seen in a shop in West Croydon before she went missing\n\nShe also had family holidays planned to Spain and Disneyland Paris.\n\nMs Davies was first reported missing by Essex Police on 11 July. The force said she had left the family home in Chafford Hundred, Grays, on 4 July.\n\nIn an updated statement on 16 July, the force said Ms Davies was last seen in Croydon on 6 July.\n\nShe was wearing a black jumper, grey jogging bottoms and a grey cap.\n\nAnother image of Owami Davies in a shop in West Croydon before she went missing\n\nDet Ch Insp Penney added: \"As a result of extensive CCTV inquiries, we have a clearer idea of Owami's movements, but we still need the public to contact us and tell us what they know.\n\n\"We would obviously like to speak to the driver of the white van that passed Owami in Derby Road, but anyone with information should call.\n\nHe also said: \"If you don't feel comfortable speaking to police, then you can call the independent charity Crimestoppers - they will not ask for your identity and will not trace your call.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Commonwealth Games: Cycling crash was nearly 'complete catastrophe', say family involved Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCycling crash was nearly 'complete catastrophe', say family A family involved in the horror cycling crash during the Commonwealth Games say they came \"close to a complete catastrophe\" that could have \"seriously injured or killed\" their two young children. On the final lap of a qualifying heat for the men's scratch race on Sunday, a high-speed collision involving several riders resulted in England's Matt Walls being catapulted over the barriers and into the crowd with his bike. The incident has led to calls from Sir Chris Hoy and Dame Laura Kenny for improvements to velodrome safety, with Hoy saying it is a \"disgrace\" that there are not protective screens at venues. Walls flew into the front two rows of the stands, where Hugh Colvin was sitting with his two younger children, aged five and seven, and some family friends. \"It all happened so incredibly quickly at the speed the cyclists were going,\" Mr Colvin told BBC Sport. \"You can see the trajectory of the bike, it came through, grazed my daughter's shoulder, and one of the photos you can see we are obviously underneath the wheel. \"I was facing the other way because I'd turned my head, but looking back at the photos it must have been within centimetres, millimetres, of our heads and obviously close enough to graze my daughter.\" He added that where Walls' bike landed was in the two seats where his five-year-old son and his friend's son had been sitting, before they moved back a row to get a better view. For Hugh's wife, Laura, who was not at the velodrome, it has sunk in over the past few days how much worse it could have been. Team England cyclist Matt Walls did not sustain any serious injuries in the crash \"What has been quite hard for us to get our head around is being able to see from the photographs that were taken of the incident exactly how close this came to being a complete catastrophe,\" she said. \"And how close our two younger children came to being seriously injured or killed. And that has been the main thing we've had to reflect on over the last few days.\" Contrary to an early statement from the organisers that no members of the public required hospital treatment, a friend who attended the event with the Colvins is awaiting surgery for a serious arm injury. \"He suffered a laceration to the bone which the hospital have described as being like a machete injury,\" said Mrs Colvin. \"It's been really difficult for him, he's still waiting for surgery. In addition to the soft tissue and muscle injury he's got a partially severed tendon in his arm, so it is the start of a long road to recovery for him.\" They said the three children were deeply concerned about the condition of the three cyclists - Walls, the Isle of Man's Matt Bostock and Canada's Derek Gee - who went to hospital after the crash. On Monday, Walls video-called the Colvins' daughter, which they said was a \"massive step forward\" in helping her come to terms with what she had seen. The Colvins praised the quick response of volunteers, paramedics and team coaches who helped them in the aftermath of the crash. However, the family want the incident to trigger a review of velodrome safety, to give them the reassurance that \"no family is ever going to find themselves in our situation\". They said they were \"completely unaware\" that a cyclist had ever flown off the track before. \"If we had known for a moment that there was a risk that a bike with an adult male going at that speed could come into contact with my seven-year-old daughter, my family would never have been there,\" said Mrs Colvin. Bostock, who is still hoping to compete in Sunday's road race, told BBC Sport: \"There has to be something done because it's going down as a freak accident, but it has happened before. \"I don't know how many freak accidents become a normal accident. I dread to think if it had been worse. It should be a proactive decision to try and make it safer before it's a terrible accident.\" A Birmingham 2022 spokesperson said they had been in regular contact with the Colvin family and apologised for any upset the initial wording of their statement had caused. They said \"a full and detailed accident investigation is already under way and we will pass our findings on to the relevant parties\". Shaun Dawson, Chief Executive of Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, said the venue complies with international regulations and that an accident of this kind has never taken place there before. He added: \"We appreciate that this was a shocking experience for those involved and we offer our heartfelt best wishes to all those involved.\" British Cycling performance director Stephen Park said: \"After incidents of this nature it's appropriate to review matters relating to safety and we'll do everything we can to support conversations both nationally and internationally in this regard.\" Cycling's world governing body, the UCI, said that they are taking the incident \"very seriously\" and will \"continue to work with event organisers and other key parties to ensure that the strictest safety measures are in place.\"\n• None Gangster tells the story of one of Britain's wealthiest drug barons\n• None Why is it a struggle to get an ADHD diagnosis?: Kirsty Craib has spent eight years trying to get assessed without success", "Chrissy Teigen and husband John Legend have spoken publicly about their fertility issues\n\nChrissy Teigen has announced that she is expecting a child with her husband, John Legend, almost two years after losing a baby during pregnancy.\n\nThe US model, aged 36, shared an Instagram post showing herself visibly pregnant, saying she was feeling \"hopeful and amazing\".\n\n\"Joy has filled our home and hearts again,\" she added.\n\nIn September 2020, she lost a baby, whom the couple had named Jack, after suffering complications and bleeding.\n\nTeigen previously said that the loss was \"the greatest pain I could ever imagine\".\n\nAt the time, she wrote that she and her husband were \"shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we've never felt before\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by chrissyteigen This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again,\" Teigen wrote on Instagram in her latest post.\n\n\"1 billion shots later (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way. Every appointment I've said to myself, 'OK if it's healthy today I'll announce' but then I breathe a sigh of relief to hear a heartbeat and decide I'm just too nervous still.\n\n\"I don't think I'll ever walk out of an appointment with more excitement than nerves, but so far, everything is perfect and beautiful and I'm feeling hopeful and amazing,\" she added.\n\nThe couple are already parents to daughter Luna, aged six, and son Miles, aged four.\n\nIn December 2020, following the loss of the baby, Teigen said on Instagram that she was sad she would never be pregnant again - but did not clarify in her post why she believed that would be the case.\n\nIf you're affected by any of the issues in this article you can find information and support at BBC Action Line", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has testified that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was \"100% real\" and that it was wrong to call it a hoax.\n\nThe parents of a child killed in the shooting are seeking at least $150m (£123m) in a defamation trial brought against the prominent radio host.\n\nThey say they have endured harassment and emotional distress because of Mr Jones's comments about the attack.\n\nThe trial will determine how much money he owes for defaming the couple.\n\nMr Jones is the only person testifying in his defence during the proceedings in Texas. He has portrayed the case as an attack on his free speech rights under the First Amendment.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Infowars host said he now understood that it was irresponsible of him to claim the shooting was false and that no children were killed.\n\n\"Especially since I've met the parents. It's 100% real,\" he said. \"They [the media] won't let me take it back.\"\n\nIn a dramatic moment in court, it was also revealed that Mr Jones's text messages had been sent by mistake to a lawyer representing the parents.\n\nMark Bankston, a lawyer for Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose six-year-old son Jesse died in the shooting, revealed that he had been sent an \"entire digital copy\" of Mr Jones's cell phone spanning a period of two years.\n\nMr Bankston added that when he told the opposing legal team about the mishap, they \"did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way\".\n\nThe revelation emerged after Mr Bankston provided Mr Jones with a copy of texts from his device that referenced Sandy Hook. Mr Jones had previously said under oath that there were no such messages.\n\n\"You did get my text messages?\" Mr Jones asked. \"You said you didn't. Nice trick.\"\n\n\"You know what perjury is, right?\" Mr Bankston said.\"I just want to make sure before we go further.\"\n\nMr Jones then insisted he had not tried to hide any messages. \"If I was mistaken, I was mistaken,\" he said, adding that he was not a \"tech guy\".\n\nTwenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012.\n\nIn the years following the incident, Mr Jones repeatedly claimed that the shooting was a ploy to push gun control measures and claimed without evidence that it had been staged by actors and the media.\n\nIn his testimony, he also complained that he was being \"typecast\" as \"someone that runs around talking about Sandy Hook, makes money off Sandy Hook, is obsessed by Sandy Hook\".\n\nClosing arguments in the case are expected to begin later on Wednesday before jurors begin deliberating a verdict.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Athlete Eilish McColgan: \"It honestly feels surreal to have won so many years after my mum.\"\n\nWatching Eilish McColgan's 10,000m victory in the Commonwealth Games was \"100 times better\" than winning the event herself, her mum Liz has said.\n\nRoared on by a raucous Birmingham crowd, Eilish won gold following a stunning last lap on Wednesday night.\n\nThe win means she has emulated her mother's success in 1986 and 1990.\n\nThe pair have spoken of their elation after a night of historic success for Team Scotland.\n\nEilish clung on in the closing stages of the long-distance event only to blow away her Kenyan rival Irine Cheptai in the home straight.\n\nHer time of 30:48:60 beat the previous Commonwealth Games record of 31:27.83, set by Kenyan Salina Kosgei in 2002.\n\nEilish McColgan was cheered on by former Commonwealth champion Liz in Birmingham\n\nLiz – a two-time Commonwealth champion over 10,000m, as well as a world champion in 1991 and Olympic silver-medallist in 1988 – said watching the triumph track-side was \"amazing\".\n\nShe told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"As an athlete myself you have fond memories of having success and whatever but when it's your own children it's like 100 times better.\n\n\"It's just one of those really special moments and I was just thankful I was actually in the stadium and able to experience how the home support helped lift her to that gold medal.\n\n\"It was just one of those really, really special moments that probably will never come along again but it was just a great atmosphere and just really exciting and nerve-wracking to be part of it.\"\n\nLiz, who also coaches her daughter, added that without the backing of the Birmingham crowd \"the last 150m would never have happened\".\n\nMum Liz won gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh\n\nEilish told the BBC: \"The noise over that last 200m honestly just dragged me to that finishing line.\n\n\"It was just an incredible evening. And even more special to have my mum in the crowd, my dad, my partner Michael.\n\n\"It just feels surreal to have won that so many years after my mum. I can't put it into words.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old, who has overcome injury and setbacks at major events, said the victory was years in the making.\n\n\"I feel like at this stage in my career I'm getting stronger both physically and mentally and I believe that I can do it now,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just nice to know it's heading in the right direction even though I'm getting older I'm definitely still making progress every single year.\"\n\nHowever, the Scot hinted that we shouldn't expect to see her heroics on the track for much longer.\n\nEilish McColgan says she's nearing the end of her track career\n\nLooking ahead to the 2024 Olympics, she said: \"I'm just excited now to head into Paris. For me the next chapter will be on the roads and racing marathons.\n\n\"So this was a nice way to sort of end the track chapter and I'm just excited now for a new challenge and what lies ahead.\"\n\nThe Team Scotland star is scheduled to compete in the 5,000m on Sunday, though her mother said that would depend on \"how her hamstrings held up\".\n\nEilish added: \"Sadly there won't be any celebrating until the start of October when I finish my season. I also have the 5,000m here on Sunday as well so there' still a huge part of the season left.\n\n\"I'll get my chance to celebrate, but another couple of months from now.\"", "Energy giant Shell is to give its workers a one-off 8% bonus after the company reported record profits from high oil and gas prices.\n\nMost of the 82,000 staff it employs worldwide will get the pay boost but top executives will be excluded.\n\nShell said the award reflected its financial success and was \"not a response\" to the rising cost of living.\n\nEnergy firms' bumper profits have prompted calls for tougher taxes to help families with rising bills.\n\nIt's due to forecasters predicting typical household energy bills will hit more than £3,600 a year this winter. In October 2021, an average bill was £1,400 a year.\n\nShell reported second quarter profits of £9bn last week after reaping the benefits of higher gas and oil prices.\n\nIts rival BP has also reported its biggest quarterly profit for 14 years, with underlying profits of £6.9bn.\n\nThe firms' huge increase in profits has been fuelled by higher prices for oil and gas, which have risen sharply due to the war in Ukraine.\n\nIn recent months, Russia has reduced supplies to Europe following the invasion and fears are growing it may switch off the taps altogether.\n\nThe potential of gas supply problems has led to the wholesale price soaring, which has led to energy firms passing those costs onto customers - pushing up household energy bills by unprecedented amounts.\n\nThe high oil price has also led to the price of petrol and diesel reaching record highs at the pumps in recent months, with inflation - the rate at which prices rise - at a 40-year high.\n\nShell said in a statement its staff would get 8% of their salaries as a bonus \"in recognition of the contribution our people have made to Shell's strong operational performance against a recent challenging backdrop\".\n\n\"The award enables those employees to share in our current operational and financial success - it is not a response to inflation or cost-of-living challenges,\" the company added.\n\nAbout 5,000 of Shell's employees in Britain are in line to benefit from the bonus, however, 1,200 employees of Shell Energy Retail, its loss-making household supply business, will not receive the bonuses\n\nShell has also said it would return billions of dollars to its shareholders after posting its quarterly financial results last month.\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for oil and gas companies to face special taxes, saying it was \"immoral\" for firms to be profiting from the Ukraine war.\n\n\"This grotesque greed is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only common home,\" Mr Guterres said.\n\nThe UK government has introduced a package of measures to help people with energy bills, such as a £400 discount, and also announced in May that oil and gas firms would pay an extra 25% on profits.\n\nThe tax applies from 26 May to profit made in the UK, which for most oil and gas companies is a small part of their operations.\n\nAnd Shell and BP will not need to pay the levy on the majority of their recent profits made between April and June, due to when the legislation came into force.\n\nThe Treasury expects the windfall tax to raise about £5bn in its first year, but critics of such taxes argue they can hit pension funds invested in energy firms.", "US Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but controversial visit.\n\nMs Pelosi - the most senior US politician to visit in 25 years - departed on Wednesday after meeting leaders in the capital Taipei.\n\nBut her visit, as part of a wider Asian tour, sparked fury in Beijing after she ignored its warnings not to travel to the island.\n\nTaiwan is self-ruled - but China sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it.\n\nAccusing the US of \"violating China's sovereignty under the guise of so-called democracy\", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: \"Those who play with fire will not come to a good end and those who offend China will be punished.\"\n\nIn a statement following the visit, Ms Pelosi said China cannot \"prevent world leaders or anyone from traveling to Taiwan to pay respect to its flourishing democracy, to highlight its many successes and to reaffirm our commitment to continued collaboration\".\n\nThe senior US Democrat's visit was not approved by her party colleague, President Joe Biden, who had said the American military felt it was \"not a good idea right now\" amid heightened tensions between the two countries.\n\nThe US walks a diplomatic tightrope with its Taiwan policy. On the one hand, it abides by the \"One China\" policy, which recognises only one Chinese government, giving it formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan.\n\nOn the other, it maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nAs speaker of the US House of Representatives, Ms Pelosi is second in line to the US presidency, behind Vice-President Kamala Harris.\n\nIn response to the trip, China announced what it called \"necessary and just\" military drills in seas around 10 miles (16km) from Taiwan.\n\nThe exercises - which will begin on Thursday and last for five days - will take place in some of the world's busiest waterways and will include \"long-range live ammunition shooting\".\n\nChina's defence ministry has admitted that some exercises may breach Taiwan's territorial waters. In recent days, Chinese warplanes ventured as far as the median line, the unofficial divide separating China and Taiwan in the waters between them.\n\nTaiwan has asked ships to find alternative routes to avoid the drills and is negotiating with neighbouring Japan and the Philippines to find alternative aviation routes.\n\nPresident Tsai Ing-wen said the country was facing \"deliberately heightened military threats\".\n\nIn an effort to calm the situation, the foreign ministers from the G7 nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and US - released a joint statement saying China's escalation risked destabilising the region.\n\n\"There is no justification to use a visit as pretext for aggressive military activity in the Taiwan Strait. It is normal and routine for legislators from our countries to travel internationally,\" the statement said.\n\nThere is a full-on Pelosi lovefest happening in Taiwan's capital, Taipei.\n\nYou can see it in the excited way Nancy Pelosi's arrival here is being reported on Taiwan's many TV news channels.\n\nThey have been studying everything from the colour of her outfits to the height of her heels, (very high for an 82-year-old apparently) and the fact that she \"looked like Audrey Hepburn in that photo of her with President John F. Kennedy back in 1961\".\n\nCrowds gathered early outside Taiwan's parliament on Wednesday, hoping to get a glimpse of Ms Pelosi as she came out.\n\nAlmost everyone there brushed off worries that China might retaliate.\n\n\"China is bluffing,\" said a 70-year-old man. \"It may retaliate in the short term, but if Beijing over-reacts, it will be punished by the United States.\"\n\n\"China shouldn't bully Taiwan like this\" a 50-year-old house wife told us. \"This trip is normal... if China continues like this it will only alienate more countries.\"\n\nBut to China this trip is anything but normal. To Beijing it is an outrageous breach of diplomatic norms.\n\nDuring a meeting with Ms Tsai, Ms Pelosi praised Taiwan as \"inspiration to all freedom-loving people\" .\n\n\"Forty three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan... today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan,\" she said.\n\nWhile the top Democrat's visit has been welcomed in Taiwan, it has somewhat split opinion in the US.\n\nSome commentators speculated that the visit could even push China to supply arms to Russia for use in Ukraine - something it has so far refused to do.\n\nBut she has received support from some perhaps unexpected quarters, with 26 Republican senators writing a letter in support of the visit.\n\nThe letter, whose signatories included Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, said that \"for decades, members of the United States Congress, including previous Speakers of the House, have travelled to Taiwan\".\n\nThe trip, it added, was \"consistent with the United States' One China policy to which we are committed\".", "Ministers urgently need to provide more money for adult social care in England which has been \"ravaged\" by the Covid pandemic, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nThe government has increased National Insurance contributions to tackle NHS backlogs and fund social care.\n\nHowever, the committee highlighted concerns the cash for social care \"wouldn't touch the sides\".\n\nTory leadership candidate Liz Truss has made scrapping the National Insurance tax rise a key part of her campaign.\n\nThe foreign secretary has argued that there is already \"money available\" in the budget to cover extra funding.\n\nOn dealing with care backlogs, she has promised to appoint a \"strong\" health secretary to tackle the problems.\n\nHer rival, the former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, has defended his decision to introduce the £12bn a year tax increase.\n\nSince April, workers and employers have been paying an extra 1.25p in the pound for National Insurance.\n\nUnder current plans, National Insurance will return to its old rate from April 2023 at which point the extra money will be collected as a new Health and Social Care Levy.\n\nSpeaking in a TV debate last week, Mr Sunak said he had received \"flak\" for implementing the rise, but insisted it was \"right thing to do\" to protect public health.\n\nHowever, a new report from the House of Commons levelling up committee has warned that, even with the levy, there will still be a \"large funding gap in adult social care sector which needs filling\".\n\nThe cross-party group of MPs said the industry has been put under pressure, not only by coronavirus, but also rising demand, difficulties with staff recruitment, growing inflation and increases in the National Minimum Wage.\n\nRishi Sunak and Liz Truss are competing to be the next prime minister - whoever wins will face questions about funding social care\n\nIt also expressed concern that the majority of funding raised from the levy will go to the NHS and that the money earmarked for social care will be for introducing reforms rather than helping ease cost pressures.\n\nDuring its inquiry, the committee had been told the new money \"won't touch the sides\".\n\nCommittee chair Clive Betts told BBC News an extra £7bn a year was needed to address funding shortfalls.\n\n\"The issue is going to grow more profound and if we don't address it then the pressures on the NHS and the pressures on families who are trying to support their loved ones without the proper resources are just going to grow and grow,\" he said.\n\n\"As a civilised society we have to address it we have to make sure that finance is available.\"\n\nA government spokesman said ministers had taken \"decisive action\" investing an extra £5.4bn in adult social care over the next three years and giving local authorities an additional £3.7bn which could be spent on social care.\n\n\"We are also delivering on our ambitious 10-year vision for adult social care, which provides detail on the measures to implement over the next three years to reform the sector and deliver for people.\"", "A man cools down in front of a misting fan in Baghdad last month\n\nState employees in many parts of Iraq have been given a day off work as temperatures rise to above 50C (122F) in several areas, local media report.\n\nSeveral of the country's cities topped the list of the hottest places in the world on Thursday.\n\nAs a result of the scorching heat, at least 10 provinces suspended work for most state employees, Kurdistan24 said.\n\nA heatwave in the country has been ongoing since mid-July and is forecast to continue.\n\nBurning heat is not unusual in Iraq, as one of the hottest places on Earth. But residents say conditions are worsening.\n\nIn the southern port of Basra, where temperatures are particularly high, a four-day holiday for state employees has begun.\n\nThough offices are shut for many employees, many say they will continue to suffer as regular power cuts mean that air conditioning is often unavailable.\n\nThis year stifling dust storms have also increased, obstructing the sky and causing the suspension of services.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nIraq has been ranked as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the Middle East by the UN.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Red skies as Iraq hit by another sandstorm", "The number of people in Scotland whose death was caused by alcohol has risen again and remains at the highest level since 2008.\n\nThe latest figures from National Records of Scotland show that 1,245 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2021.\n\nThis was 55 more than the previous year.\n\nThe NRS report said two-thirds of those who died were male and the average age was 59.7 for men and 58.7 for women.\n\nThe rate of mortality from alcohol-specific causes was 22.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, which is higher than the previous year but below the peak rate of deaths from alcohol in 2006.\n\nJulie Ramsay, vital events statistician at NRS, said: \"Deaths attributed to alcohol were 5.6 times as likely in the most deprived areas of Scotland compared to the least deprived areas. This is more than the deprivation gap for all causes of death, which is 1.9.\"\n\nAt council area in the last five years, Inverclyde, Glasgow City, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, Dundee City, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire all had alcohol-specific death rates higher than the Scottish average\n\nAlison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said the high number of deaths from alcohol was \"devastating\" and each one left behind family and friends suffering their loss.\n\n\"These impacts are experienced unequally with many more people dying in our poorest communities,\" she said.\n\n\"We seem to almost accept this toll as inevitable, but we should not. Each death can be prevented.\"\n\nMs Douglas called for the minimum unit price of alcohol to be raised from 50p to 65p in an effort to change attitudes to drink.\n\nShe also called for an emergency response on the same scale as the efforts to tackle the drug deaths crisis.\n\nFigures out last week showed that 1,330 people died of drug overdoses in Scotland last year, a small decrease on the previous year.\n\nHowever, Scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate recorded by any country in Europe.\n\nAt UK level, Scotland and Northern Ireland have had the highest alcohol-specific death rates in both of the last two years for which comparable data exists (2019 and 2020).\n\nData for the rest of the UK is yet to be released for 2021.\n\nThe difference between Scotland and the other UK countries has generally narrowed over the past 20 years.\n\nTaking England as an example, in 2001 Scotland was 2.9 times as high but in 2020 it was 1.7 times as high.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said the \"sad and worsening\" figures proved it was the poorest who were most affected.\n\nHe said the Scottish government had wrongly relied on Minimum Unit Pricing, which he described as \"a blunt instrument to tackle a complex problem\".\n\nInstead, he urged ministers to back the Scottish Conservatives' Right to Recovery Bill, which would give everyone a legal right to receive treatment for their addiction.\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie called for an urgent response from the Scottish government.\n\n\"Once again we are seeing the shameful consequences of the SNP's cuts to drug and alcohol services,\" she said.\n\n\"They have treated Minimum Unit Pricing as a silver bullet while failing to take the action needed to tackle this issue and save lives.\"\n\nPublic Health Minister Maree Todd said: \"These figures show that Scotland continues to have a problematic relationship with alcohol, and we are determined to do all we can to address that.\"\n\nShe said that the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing had helped reduce alcohol sales to their lowest on record but more action was needed to tackle the scale of alcohol-specific deaths.\n\nMs Todd added: \"That is why we are working on initiatives that will support communities across Scotland to address harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have sought legal permission to move him from the Royal London Hospital to a hospice.\n\nThe High Court is now considering the application, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused a request to delay withdrawing treatment.\n\nArchie's mother said she wanted her son \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye\".\n\nDoctors have warned there is \"significant risk\" in moving him.\n\nLife-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, for Archie has been in place since April.\n\nLawyers for Archie's family took part in a legal hearing at the family division of the High Court on Thursday, with the court sitting late into the evening.\n\nIt is understood no changes will be made to his care while legal processes are ongoing and no ruling has been made public.\n\nCare was due to be withdrawn on Wednesday but this was delayed for the ECHR to consider his family's appeal.\n\nHowever, the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.\n\nHollie Dance says she will fight to ensure Archie has \"a dignified passing at a hospice\"\n\nAfterwards, Archie's mother, Hollie Dance, said the legal battle to postpone the withdrawal of her son's life support was at \"the end\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"I pray that the High Court will do the right thing.\n\n\"If they refuse permission for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will simply be inhumane and nothing about Archie's 'dignity'.\n\n\"We will fight to the end for Archie's right to live.\"\n\nMs Dance has said she wants her son \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos\".\n\nHollie Dance said the European Court of Human Rights' ruling was \"another heart-breaking development\"\n\nThe Christian Legal Centre, which supports the family, said the application, submitted on Thursday morning, asked for Archie to be moved to a hospice and for palliative oxygen to be given once his ventilator is removed.\n\nLawyers for Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said in a letter to the family's legal team that any application to transfer Archie to a hospice would \"be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis\".\n\n\"The trust continues to put Archie's welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care,\" the letter said.\n\n\"It believes that Archie's condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.\"\n\nArchie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance had turned to the ECHR after several hearings in UK courts\n\nIt added the trust considered that the family were now \"at the end of the procedural options open to them\" and that \"any further delay is not in Archie's best interests\".\n\nOn that basis, it intended to withdraw Archie's treatment at 11:00 BST on Thursday unless an application over the hospice move was submitted.\n\nA High Court order made in July requires that Archie remains at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn.\n\nArchie has been rigged up to numerous machines, drips and monitors to help keep him alive.\n\nHis doctors say his condition is so unstable that even turning him in his hospital bed as part of his care is risky.\n\nIn their opinion, attempting to transfer him to a hospice by ambulance would not be in his best interests.\n\nThere is a high risk that he would deteriorate, even with full intensive care equipment and staff on board for the journey.\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 7 April. His mother believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nDoctors had previously said it was \"highly likely\" he was brain-stem dead, with no chance of recovery, and it was in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nArchie's family including mum Hollie (left) and siblings Tom and Lauren Summers have been by his bedside since he was admitted to hospital in April\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For the first time Nicky Campbell discusses the abuse he received at school\n\nA former Edinburgh schoolteacher accused of sexual abuse by broadcaster Nicky Campbell and others is fighting extradition from South Africa.\n\nThe 83-year-old man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – is wanted by the authorities in the Scottish capital, where he taught in the 1970s.\n\nJudges originally approved the UK's request for his extradition in 2019.\n\nThe retired teacher lodged an appeal which is due to be heard in October.\n\nThe man taught at Fettes College and Edinburgh Academy, where Campbell says he witnessed the sexual abuse of a fellow pupil.\n\nThe broadcaster says he was sexually assaulted at the school by a second teacher, who is now dead, and physically assaulted by a third.\n\nSince he spoke out many more alleged victims of abuse in Scottish schools have contacted the BBC.\n\nThe former teacher is now living in a gated retirement community in Cape Town.\n\nHis appeal will be heard by three judges in the Western Cape High Court on 25 October.\n\nNicky Campbell has spoken about his experience of abuse at school in the 1970s\n\nCampbell told BBC Radio 5 Live last week that abuse had a \"profound effect on my life\" and had been \"obsessing me\".\n\nEdinburgh Academy has previously apologised to anyone who suffered abuse and insists it now has robust safeguarding measures in place.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Scotland's Eilish McColgan earned hugely popular Commonwealth Games titles on the loudest night yet at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium.\n\nJohnson-Thompson's heptathlon win marks her return to the top of an international podium after three years of injury and coaching changes.\n\nShe finished on 6,377 points, 144 clear of Northern Ireland's Kate O'Connor.\n\nMcColgan's 10,000m victory marks her first major title at the age of 31.\n\nHer triumph also follows in the footsteps of her mother Liz, who won the same title at Edinburgh 1986 and Auckland 1990.\n\nAs the volume rose and the laps counted down, McColgan found herself locked together with Kenya's Irine Cheptai.\n\nCheptai, who finished sixth ahead of McColgan at last year's Tokyo Olympics, opened up a metre's lead with 250m to go.\n\nBut McColgan reeled her in, surged on and, after checking over her shoulder for a response that never came, landed her biggest win yet.\n\n\"This is the most incredible moment of my career,\" McColgan said.\n\n\"I couldn't hear myself think or breathe, in that last 100m the crowd carried me.\n\n\"It's just been such an up and down year with Covid, another illness and a couple of other niggles. I knew the fitness was somewhere in me but I could not have asked for anything more tonight to have my family here.\"\n\nLiz McColgan embraced her daughter before paying tribute to her dedication and determination.\n\n\"As a mother to witness your daughter win is amazing,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"She just ran the race I always knew she was capable of running. It was amazing to watch and very nerve-wracking but it's been a long time coming and she put it together tonight.\"\n\nMcColgan ran faster than her mum did for either of her Commonwealth Games golds.\n\nHer time of 30 minutes 48.60 seconds is a Games record and adds gold to a season that has already been littered with new landmarks.\n\nMcColgan broke the European 10km, British half-marathon and Scottish 10,000m records this year, but an untimely hamstring niggle hindered her chances at last month's World Championships.\n\nFormer world champion Johnson-Thompson said she hoped this win could reinvigorate her career after a run of bad luck and behind-the-scenes disruption, after dedicating gold to her grandmother Mary who died last week.\n\n\"It has been tough couple of years so hopefully this can kickstart another part of my career,\" Johnson-Thompson said.\n\n\"It has been hard, I had moments where I didn't know if I wanted to carry on but to come out here and get the gold and prove to myself that pushing through was worth it.\"\n\nJohnson-Thompson came into the 800m finale with a healthy lead over second-placed O'Connor, but left nothing to chance as she chased hard to the line to finish more than half a second ahead of her 21-year-old rival.\n\nThe 800m may have been the coronation, but it was in the javelin that Johnson-Thompson saw off the young pretenders to her throne.\n\nThe throwing events are where the 29-year-old is most vulnerable. She had not been within three metres of her personal best of 43.93m since she threw it in 2019.\n\nIn Wednesday's penultimate event, O'Connor's opening-round 50.83m, in reply to Johnson-Thompson's initial 36.19m, heaped pressure on the defending champion.\n\nBut Johnson-Thompson mustered a final-round 44.33m before clasping her face in her hands in a mix of surprise and delight.\n\nFurther than she has ever thrown before, it was a performance few others had seen coming either after her spell of faltering form and fitness.\n\nElsewhere Wales' three-time Paralympic champion Aled Sion Davies claimed F42-44/61-64 discus gold, with team-mate Harrison Walsh taking bronze behind Sri Lanka's Palitha Halgahawela Gedara.\n\nDavies' best effort of 51.39m was short of the F42 discus world record of 56.21m he set in July, but was good enough to justify his decision to switch to the event after successive Paralympic shot put golds in 2016 and 2021.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has said the legal battle to postpone the withdrawal of her son's life support had come to an end.\n\nHis family want him to be taken to a hospice, but doctors have warned there is \"considerable risk\" in moving him.\n\nOn Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused an application from the boy's parents to delay any changes to his treatment.\n\nLife-sustaining treatment for Archie has been in place since April.\n\nIt had been due to be withdrawn on Wednesday but was delayed for the ECHR to consider his family's appeal.\n\nHowever, the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for treatment to be stopped.\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, said the court's decision to refuse their application was \"another heart-breaking development\".\n\nThe family have now said they want to file an application in the High Court to transfer Archie to a hospice.\n\nThey claim Barts Health NHS Trust has told them life support will be withdrawn at 11:00 BST on Thursday unless an application over the hospice move is submitted by 09:00.\n\n\"I would like him out of here as quick as possible really, and in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos,\" Ms Dance said.\n\nLawyers for Barts Health NHS Trust said in a letter that any application to move Archie to a hospice would \"be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis\".\n\n\"The trust continues to put Archie's welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care,\" the letter said.\n\n\"It believes that Archie's condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Archie's family said it was \"absolutely disgusting\" that the family were \"not even allowed to choose where Archie takes his last moments\".\n\nShe added that a hospice had said it would take him.\n\nA High Court order made in July requires that Archie remains at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn.\n\nHollie Dance says she will fight to ensure Archie has \"a dignified passing at a hospice\"\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal London Hospital, where Archie has been cared for since April, Ms Dance said it was now \"the end\".\n\n\"It was the last thing, wasn't it? And again our country has failed a 12-year-old child,\" she said.\n\nMs Dance said: \"We've now got a fight to see whether we can get him out of here to have a dignified passing at a hospice.\"\n\nShe added she \"won't allow\" anything to be done before Archie's father returned to his son's bedside at the hospital, which she said would be on Thursday morning.\n\nBarts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said changes to Archie's treatment would not be made until legal issues were resolved.\n\nThe trust said there was \"considerable risk\" in moving him from the hospital bed and any transfer from the hospital would \"hasten the premature deterioration\" of Archie.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Archie's family and we aim to provide the best possible support to everyone at this difficult time.\"\n\nArchie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance had turned to the ECHR after several hearings in UK courts\n\nThe 12-year-old was found unconscious at home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 7 April. His mother believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nDoctors had previously said it was \"highly likely\" he was brain-stem dead, with no chance of recovery and it was in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nA High Court judge said earlier that continuing treatment was \"futile\".\n\nOn Wednesday, in the latest in a series of court challenges Archie's parents had argued the plan to withdraw treatment and ignore the concerns of a UN committee would breach a range of human rights safeguards, including right to life and right to a fair trial or hearing.\n\nBut the ECHR said it \"considered the conditions of admissibility...were not fulfilled\".\n\nCourt of Appeal judges had previously ruled Archie's life-sustaining treatment should not continue beyond 12:00 on Tuesday, but this was also delayed for an appeal process which was ultimately unsuccessful.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard \"every bodily function [of Archie's] is now maintained by artificial means\", while another heard he had not \"regained awareness at any time\".\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More now from the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, who tells the BBC that the UK has been hit by a severe shock thanks to soaring energy prices - which he blames on Russia.\n\nHe says the increase in gas prices since May has had \"a very big impact.. that is passing through directly into inflation.\n\n\"It will have an effect on the economy, and, yes, we are forecasting a recession,\" he adds.\n\n\"The really blunt message I have to give, is if that does become more embedded and the problem gets worse, we will have high inflation for longer and the Bank of England will have to raise rates even higher,\" the governor concludes.", "Refuse workers in Glasgow took strike action in November 2021\n\nOnly a \"significantly improved\" pay offer will stop thousands of Scotland's council workers going on strike, a union has warned.\n\nStaff at schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres voted to strike after rejecting a 2% pay offer.\n\nThe Scottish government and local authority body Cosla met on Wednesday to discuss the dispute.\n\nBut GMB Scotland has warned workers expect a better pay deal or they will take action.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney later described the talks as \"constructive\" and said the Scottish government, despite having no formal role in pay negotiations, was working with Cosla to \"explore all options available\".\n\nHe added: \"Local government workers play a crucial role in our communities and are integral to our recovery from the pandemic.\n\n\"I would urge all parties to continue a dialogue and reach a resolution which avoids industrial action.\"\n\nCouncil leaders are set to discuss whether they can make an improved pay offer on Friday but, unless there is hope of a deal, unions are likely to announce strike dates in the next few days.\n\nPay settlements for council workers - apart from teachers - are the responsibility of Cosla and it is meeting with the Scottish government to discuss its demand for more money for the deal.\n\nThe Scottish government has urged all parties to find a resolution to avoid industrial action.\n\nKeir Greenaway, a senior organiser with the GMB Scotland, told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland: \"There is the possibility of a resolution if the Scottish government can find more money for Cosla.\n\n\"I wouldn't say we we're confident, we haven't had a meeting with Cosla around pay since March.\n\n\"Our members are incredibly angry, they are seeing double digit inflation and were supposed to see a pay rise in April.\n\n\"Our members need a significantly improved offered or they are are falling into working poverty.\"\n\nStrike action could result in rubbish piling up\n\nMr Greenaway claimed the 2% offer was the lowest across the whole of the UK public sector.\n\nThe strike ballot of about 25,000 council workers from the Unison, Unite and GMB unions was said to be the largest in more than a decade.\n\nUnions have said the strike action could happen after pupils return from the summer break in August, with hundreds of schools affected.\n\nIt is estimated that more than half of Scotland's 250,000 council workers earn less than £25,000 a year for a 37-hour week.\n\nCosla has said discussions with trade unions would continue in order to \"reach an agreement and avoid strike action.\"", "Four US police officers have been arrested and charged over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020 by plainclothes police who were executing a \"no-knock\" search warrant.\n\nThe hospital worker, 26, was shot as officers stormed the apartment just after midnight while she was with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.\n\nHer death sparked racial injustice protests around the country.\n\nFederal investigators say that three of the four officers conspired to falsify the arrest warrant that led to Ms Taylor's death.\n\nOnly one officer involved in the raid - former Louisville detective Brett Hankison - had been previously charged over the case. He was the only one of the four indicted on Thursday who was present at the scene of Ms Taylor's shooting.\n\nMr Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid, was acquitted by a jury earlier this year of endangering Ms Taylor's neighbours when some of the bullets he fired entered their home.\n\nThe other officers charged by the Department of Justice are Joshua Jaynes, also a fired officer, and serving officers Kelly Hanna Goodlett and Kyle Meany. Louisville police say they are trying to fire Mr Meany and Ms Goodlett.\n\nThe federal indictment announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland accuses the four of civil rights offences, unlawful conspiracy, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction.\n\nMr Meany and Mr Jaynes are alleged to have violated Ms Taylor's civil rights by preparing a false search warrant affidavit. Ms Goodlett allegedly conspired with Mr Jaynes to falsify the warrant.\n\nMr Hankison is accused of civil rights offences for firing his service weapon into Ms Taylor's apartment through a covered window and glass door.\n\n\"Breonna Taylor should be alive today,\" Mr Garland told reporters on Thursday.\n\nThe search warrant obtained by police included Ms Taylor's name and address. Authorities suspected her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug trafficker, had used her apartment to hide narcotics or money.\n\nNo drugs were found at the property, though Jefferson County Prosecutor Thomas Wine said the search had been cancelled after the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker describes the night she was killed by police\n\nThe warrant, which was signed by Mr Jaynes, said that police had confirmed packages for Glover were being sent to Ms Taylor. Investigators say they later discovered that police had never confirmed this with the postal inspector, as claimed on the warrant.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Jaynes and Ms Goodlett met in a parking garage days after the shooting to arrange a cover story to justify the falsified evidence that led to the warrant.\n\nIn 2020, the Taylor family sued Louisville police and reached a $12m (£9m) settlement.\n\nReacting to news of the charges on Thursday, the family's lawyers said: \"Today was a huge step toward justice.\"\n\n\"Today's overdue, but it still hurts,\" said her mother Tamika Palmer.\n\nKenneth Walker shot and wounded one of the police officers, Sgt John Mattingly, in the leg during the raid, taking him for an intruder. He was charged with attempted murder, but the case was dismissed.\n\nMr Walker said he had fired out of self-defence, and a judge permanently closed the case against him, meaning he can't ever be charged again over it.\n\nMs Taylor's death - along with that of two black men, George Floyd in Minnesota and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia - was invoked during anti-racism protests across the US in the summer of 2020.", "Marks & Spencer has stopped selling disposable barbecues in its stores across the UK.\n\nThe supermarket said it wanted \"to help protect open spaces and reduce the risk of fires\".\n\nLondon Fire Brigade, which has been calling for a ban on the sale of disposable barbecues, said the move was \"good news\".\n\nIt comes after the UK experienced its hottest day ever, with 40C exceeded for the first time.\n\nDozens of locations saw temperatures above the previous record of 38.7C, and 15 fire services declared major incidents because of a surge in blazes.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson told the BBC the move came into effect earlier this week.\n\nThe supermarket said: \"We'd already stopped selling disposable barbecues near national parks and in London but given the unusually hot and dry conditions, we've taken the precautionary step of removing them from sale across the UK.\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade had already warned people against using barbecues in open spaces, grassland or balconies, particularly after the recent heatwave.\n\nLast week, its commissioner Andy Roe called for disposable barbecues to be taken off the shelves across Britain.\n\nIt came after the London Fire Brigade experienced its busiest day since World War Two, dealing with multiple blazes in the record-breaking temperatures.\n\nWelcoming the decision by M&S, London Fire Brigade said: \"We want to work with retailers to stop the sale of disposable barbecues and reduce the risk of dangerous grass fires.\"\n\nRetail analyst Jonathan de Mello said he expected similar announcements to follow from other supermarkets.\n\n\"This move by M&S will put pressure on their retail peers to follow suit,\" he said.\n\n\"With multiple grass fires caused by these barbecues given the unprecedented hot weather we have seen in the past few weeks, M&S have rightly decided to put public safety first,\" he added.\n\n\"M&S are often seen as a bellwether for UK retailers, and hopefully other retailers will follow their lead.\"\n\nOther retailers have halted the sale of the items in selected stores, while not taking a nationwide approach.\n\nA Co-op spokesperson told the BBC that since June 2021 it had stopped selling disposable barbecues in shops located in or nearby national parks.\n\nA Sainsbury's spokesperson said: \"We offer customers choice and all our disposable BBQ packaging includes advice on safe use and disposal which customers are encouraged to follow.\"", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nScotland claimed an astonishing four gold medals - and six in total - during less than four hours of incredible Commonwealth Games drama in Birmingham on Wednesday.\n\nPara-bowlers Pauline Wilson and Rosemary Lenton started the rush, the latter becoming Scotland's oldest gold medallist at the age of 72.\n\nThen, Sarah Adlington retained her +78kg judo title and became Scotland's first ever double judo gold medallist, before swimmer Duncan Scott added his second gold with a Games record in the 200m individual medley.\n\nAnd Eilish McColgan produced the most remarkable result of all to rampage to victory in the 10,000m and match her mother Liz's success in 1986 and 1990. And just for good measure, she did it in a Games record with her maw watching trackside.\n• None Scott takes aim at shooter's target and does not miss\n• None 'It's staying tied to me' - Adlington clings to gold\n• None 'How has our wee nation developed athletics stars?'\n\nThose coruscating few hours were bookended by Adlington's team-mate Rachel Tytler taking bronze in the -78kg category, and Scott joining Craig McNally, Ross Murdoch - in the last races of their career - and Evan Jones to claim third in the 4 x 100m medley relay.\n\nIt added an enormous dollop of polish to Scotland's standing. Medals have been surprisingly bountiful, but golds vexingly rare. Not any more. The nine won in Goal Coast four years ago are now in significant danger of being surpassed.\n\nThe Birmingham tally now stands at 32, with seven gold, eight silver and 17 bronze after six of the 11 days. Just 12 more of any colour matches the amount of four years ago.\n\nBoxer Reese Lynch, Sam Hickey and Sean Lazzerini all won their quarter-finals earlier on Wednesday to secure at least another three bronzes, and will watch team-mates Lennon Mulligan, Matthew McHale and Tyler Jolly try to do the same on Thursday.\n\nThe triumph of Lenton and Wilson, with their combined age of 130, was a gently enjoyable start to an enthralling day.\n\nThe duo didn't just beat their Australian opponents, they overwhelmed them 17-5 in a dominant display, having seen off England in their semi-final. It matched the achievement of their male pairs counterparts.\n\n\"I'd never thought we'd be going home with a gold medal,\" Lenton told BBC Scotland. \"I hoped and prayed we would. When it really mattered - the semi-finals and finals - we really turned it on, both of us.\n\n\"In a couple of weeks' time, I will be 73, but records are there to be broken and somebody will break that.\"\n\nScott is your man for that kind of business. The swimmer has not only ransacked 78-year-old Alister Allan's record of 10 Commonwealth Games medals this week and pushed the mark out to 13, but he has also now stripped the shooter of the consolation that he had won more golds.\n\nThe Olympic medallist now taken gold in the 200m freestyle and medley, as well as bronze in the 400m medley, 100m free, 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relay, all in the past five days. And he took one of those off to rest.\n\n\"I'm absolutely exhausted,\" the 25-year-old told BBC Sport Scotland. \"I was really hurting and I'm really glad that I'm finished, to be honest.\n\n\"It's been a really long week and I just scraped the barrel there and the team helped me out. I'm just absolutely buzzing for the four of us, and the four that did the heat. It's been all of us coming together to get that bronze.\"\n\nGiven her recent difficulties with illness and injury - and the stacked nature of the 10,000m - it seemed a bronze might be the best McColgan could hope for. But the 31-year-old Dundonian is one of the most obdurate athletes on the circuit.\n\nShe led early and maintained her form throughout, before finding herself in a duel with Irine Cheptai with a lap to go.\n\nThe Kenyan surged ahead on the back straight but McColgan wasn't having any of her capers, digging in and rampaging past to record the biggest win of her career.\n\n\"I have never sprinted like that in my life and without the crowd I could never have done that,\" she told BBC Sport. \"It was vibrating through my body.\n\n\"I couldn't have asked for anything more to have my family here. Your family know the ups and downs and this is my fourth attempt over four events and I have come sixth every time. You could see I wanted gold. To win it tonight was so special.\"\n\nMother Liz, a redoubtably presence at the best of times, stood emotionally beside her as she spoke.\n\n\"To witness your daughter win in the same event is incredible,\" she added. \"She just ran the race I knew she was capable of running. I know how hard she works and it's fantastic it came together and she won.\"", "Armoured police cars were brought in to try to safeguard the blast site\n\nExplosions at an ammunition storage facility have caused a large wildfire in a forest in western Berlin.\n\nThe site in Grunewald forest is used by German police to store and detonate unexploded ordnance, often from World War Two, which continues to be dug up during construction.\n\nFirefighters' efforts have been hampered by sporadic explosions which could be seen and heard miles away.\n\nQuestions are being asked about why the facility is in a forest prone to fires.\n\nSome 140 firefighters are at the scene, and have set up a safety perimeter of 1,000m (3,280ft) because of the ongoing blasts.\n\n\"We had explosion-like combustions and detonations. Debris was flying through the air, leading to a high danger to the life of the first responders, so they had to withdraw,\" Berlin fire brigade spokesman Thomas Kirstein told reporters at the scene.\n\nWhile the situation was \"extremely extraordinary\", he added, there was \"no danger for Berliners\".\n\nAn army tank has been sent in to evacuate munitions at the storage facility, which is run by Berlin police's weapons disposal units.\n\nRemote-controlled de-mining robots and drones are also being used to help assess the situation, according to German media.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the blaze was still not under control and had burned 15,000 square metres of the forest, authorities said.\n\nMunitions of all sizes are stored at the blast site, including fireworks. Videos shared online show how large some of the blasts were, and fireworks exploding in colour over the treetops.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by rbb 88.8 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFirefighters are also battling a punishing heatwave, with Berlin forecast to hit 37C on Thursday. The forest is suffering from drought and is \"bone dry\", Jan Thomsen from the Department for Environment told Deutsche Welle radio station.\n\nNo firefighting helicopters were available to help, authorities said, because they were already busy in eastern Germany where there have been days of wildfires.\n\nWhat caused the pre-dawn explosion that sparked the Grunewald forest fire is under investigation.", "It is the most piercing of warning sirens set off by the Bank of England.\n\nIt announced the largest interest rate rise in a quarter of a century, in an attempt to temper a peak in inflation of 13%.\n\nBut it is its prediction of a recession as long as the great financial crisis and as deep as that seen in the early 1990s that is the big shock here.\n\nThe Bank thinks that energy bills hitting nearly £300 per month on average, treble their level of a year before, will plunge the economy in the final quarter of this year into a recession.\n\nIf global energy costs remain where they are, that recession will then last the whole of next year, with inflation barely below 10% even in a year's time.\n\nThis is a proper full fat recession now being predicted by the Bank, and at the same time a 42-year high in the rate of inflation.\n\nIt is a textbook example of the combination of stagnation of the economy and high inflation - stagflation.\n\nIt obviously will raise questions as to why rates are being hiked into a recession, at a time when consumers are already pulling back from spending.\n\nMortgage costs are now soaring. Markets expect further rises in the base rate - taking it up to 3% - even during this predicted recession.\n\nThat affects those on variable rates, and about half of those set to come off their fixed rate mortgages in the coming couple of years.\n\nThe Bank's answer will be that rates are still low by historic standards, and they just cannot provide further fuel for these extraordinary but hopefully temporary high inflation rates, to last for years.\n\nBut make no mistake, a forecast such as this, would mean a wrecking ball to the forecasts for government borrowing. Tax revenues would plummet, and spending would increase naturally.\n\nForget about the £30bn room for manoeuvre or \"fiscal headroom\" we heard so much about.\n\nBut with this level of energy shock, whoever is in power, would need to prepare further massive consumer support, and feasibly, rescue schemes for the energy sector too.\n\nI cannot recall the Bank of England predicting a recession of this length in advance of the event.\n\nAnd that certainly has not happened in the middle of the selection of a new prime minister. It is the sort of forecast that in other circumstances might have prompted an immediate emergency Budget.\n\nIt may just upend all the plans we have heard so much about.", "Most Taiwanese don't think US would come to their defence - poll\n\nOne poll suggests most Taiwanese are not confident that the US would help defend the island. Some 78.4% of those polled said they were not at all or not very confident that the US would provide assistance to defend Taiwan. While 19.2% of the 19,500 questioned - between Wednesday and Friday - said they were very or somewhat confident. The rest had no opinion. The share of Taiwanese people who believe that the US military would provide support against a Chinese invasion appears to have been dropping for some time. A poll in March, by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation (TPOF) think tank, found that 55.9% of more than a thousand respondents did not believe at all or did not fully believe that the US would defend Taiwan if China invaded. While 34.5% somewhat or fully believed it would. This was a sharp drop from just six months before - prior to the Ukraine war - when a similar survey by TPOF found that 65% believed the US would send troops to defend Taiwan and only 29% did not think it would.", "Daniel Morgan's family have been fighting for justice for more than three decades\n\nFormer Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick may have breached professional standards relating to the murder of a private detective, a review has found.\n\nDaniel Morgan was found in the car park of the Golden Lion pub, south London, with an axe in his head in 1987.\n\nThe police watchdog report comes after an independent panel last year found the Met was institutionally corrupt in its handling of parts of the case.\n\nDame Cressida said she disagreed with the report and she acted \"diligently\".\n\nDespite five police inquiries and an inquest spanning two decades and costing more than £40m, no-one has been convicted over the father-of-two's death, with the Metropolitan Police previously admitting corruption had hampered the original murder investigation and apologising to his family.\n\nHis family believes the police corruption, and reluctance to confront it, could explain the murder and the failed investigations.\n\nMr Morgan, from Llanfrechfa near Cwmbran in south Wales, died outside the pub in Sydenham on 10 March 1987.\n\nIn June 2021, an independent panel found the Met had been corrupt in the way it concealed its failings in the inquiry into the case.\n\nThe report said there were several theories as to why Mr Morgan was killed, among them:\n\nThe latest report by the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), said it had determined there was an \"indication\" Dame Cressida \"may\" have breached the standards of professional behaviour. The findings relate to a period between 2013-2015 when she was an Assistant Commissioner and the senior officer responsible for the inquiry.\n\nBut it concluded that no disciplinary action was necessary, saying there was \"no evidence to indicate Commissioner Dick intended to protect corrupt officers\".\n\nThe IOPC added Dame Cressida had appeared to have \"acted in the genuine belief she had a legitimate policing purpose\", due to concerns about protecting information but \"may have got it wrong\".\n\nThe IOPC said that, following its assessment of the independent panel's June 2021 report, \"there are no new avenues for investigation which could now result in either criminal or disciplinary proceedings\".\n\nFormer Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick resigned from the Met after a series of scandals\n\nMr Morgan's family said they were \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the IOPC's review.\n\n\"What we find here is a rather shabby exercise by the IOPC to avoid the implications of the police corruption and criminality which the panel's report compelled them to acknowledge,\" they said.\n\nThey said that the decision by the IOPC not to take any disciplinary action \"shows that it suffers the very sickness within its own ranks that it purports to diagnose within the Met.\"\n\nDame Cressida said she and her team had acted \"professionally, flexibly, expeditiously, diligently and with integrity in a challenging, unprecedented and complex task\".\n\nShe added she \"deeply\" regretted \"that no one has been brought to justice for Daniel's murder\", and \"everything the Met or any of its members have done which has added to the pain of Daniel's family of losing Daniel in such terrible circumstances\".\n\nAssistant Met Commissioner Amanda Pearson said the force had \"transformed how we investigate homicide, identify misconduct and drive out corruption\".\n\nShe added the Met was continuing to work on implementing the recommendations made in a recent Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) report, which set out multiple changes to be made to restore public trust in the force.\n\nSal Naseem, IOPC regional director for London, said what had happened must be a \"salient reminder\" to police \"of the importance of being constantly vigilant in challenging improper and corrupt behaviour swiftly, firmly and robustly\".\n\nDame Cressida stepped down from her role as commissioner in April, after a series of scandals exposing racist, misogynist and homophobic behaviour among some officers in the ranks of the Met Police.\n\nShe has been replaced by former counter-terrorism policing chief Sir Mark Rowley.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Care home resident Donald Burgess had dementia and used a wheelchair\n\nGross misconduct notices have been served on two police officers who used a baton, a Taser and incapacitant spray on a man in a wheelchair.\n\nDonald Burgess, who was also later handcuffed, died three weeks after the incident at a St Leonards care home.\n\nThe 93-year-old, who had dementia and one leg, was said to be threatening staff with a knife on 21 June.\n\nA police watchdog probe is under way and both officers face a criminal investigation for manslaughter.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said this did not necessarily mean disciplinary proceedings or criminal charges would follow.\n\nGraham Beesley, IOPC regional director, said investigators would look at whether force used against Mr Burgess was \"reasonable, necessary and proportionate in the circumstances\" and whether it was in line with policy.\n\nHe said: \"We have advised his next-of-kin of our independent investigation and explained the steps we will be taking.\"\n\nThe IOPC has not revealed which care home it was.\n\nBoth officers are being investigated by the police watchdog, and are facing a criminal investigation for manslaughter\n\nThe officers - both police constables - arrived to be shown by care home staff into a room where Mr Burgess was holding a knife, the IOPC said.\n\nOfficers briefly engaged with Mr Burgess before one used PAVA spray - which is like pepper spray - followed by a baton.\n\nThe second deployed a Taser before the knife was removed from Mr Burgess and he was handcuffed.\n\nMr Burgess was taken to hospital after the incident and stayed there until he died three weeks later on 13 July.\n\nThe incident was referred to the IOPC by Sussex Police amid allegations of excessive use of force.\n\nInvestigators have taken witness statements, reviewed body-worn video footage, and also attended the post-mortem.\n\nMr Beesley said the cause of death was not yet known and the watchdog was awaiting the findings of further cardio-pathology examinations.\n\nSussex Police said the incident took place in the room where Mr Burgess lived.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Tanya Jones said: \"We are providing every assistance to the IOPC to allow for a thorough investigation and for the family to receive the answers they need.\"\n\nShe said Sussex Police could not provide any further details as the investigation remained ongoing.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former midwife has recalled the moment she helped deliver a child of murderous Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, 50 years since thousands of people like her fled the country.\n\nYasmin Lalani was among 80,000 Ugandan Asians who were expelled by the despot in 1972.\n\nNow living in Lancashire, she described Amin as \"very cold\" and remembered his vacant, emotionless face.\n\nHis wife, however, was \"very nice\" and Ms Lalani said they \"had some laughs\".\n\nShe continued: \"Everyone was scared of his name, never mind him.\n\n\"He didn't have any feelings on his face, nothing at all. He was cold, very cold.\"\n\nBut Ms Lalani, who now lives in the village of Wilpshire, added: \"He was in a uniform but I was in my uniform, which I felt was greater than his at the time because I was in the process of saving lives.\"\n\nYasmin Lalani worked as a midwife in the Ugandan capital of Kampala\n\nMs Lalani was 21 when she helped care for Amin's fourth wife, who gave birth to a boy in a VIP hospital ward in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.\n\n\"She was very well-educated. She was what I would call a human so we had some laughs as well. She was very nice,\" she said.\n\nAmin rose to power in a bloody coup in 1971 and his eight-year rule went on to oversee the deaths of about 300,000 people.\n\nMore than 28,000 Ugandan Asians arrived in the UK after they were expelled in 1972\n\nMs Lalani said the order \"didn't bother us a lot at the time because we thought it would calm down\".\n\nBut fears soon grew, and she became one of the 28,000 Ugandan Asians who took refuge in the UK.\n\n\"Everybody was frightened. The problem was we did not know what would come out next,\" she said.\n\nShe described the dictator as being \"very controlling\".\n\n\"In the beginning, he first banned miniskirts and then he banned wigs and I asked his wife why was he doing that,\" she said.\n\n\"She said he had a dream that God had told him to do that so he was following God's commands.\"\n\nMs Lalani remembers the atmosphere on the streets as \"frightening\" as stories of brutality and murder began to spread.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Lancashire This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe recalled hearing about a six-year old Asian girl who was grabbed and killed while on a shopping trip with her family.\n\n\"If you saw a soldier or even an army van, you were petrified, you just ran for cover,\" she said.\n\nMs Lalani said one of her closest friends was raped and later took her own life.\n\n\"And that is only one. God knows how many others that happened to,\" she said.\n\n\"Fifty years on, I can still cry when I hear these things. They're still in front of me. The feeling is indescribable.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Two passengers were taken to hospital\n\nTwo people have been taken to hospital after a light aircraft overshot a runway and landed on a roadside ditch.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 10:30 BST at Cotswold Airport in Kemble, on the border of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.\n\nThe plane, which was carrying a pilot and two passengers, came down next to the A429, which has been closed.\n\nWiltshire Police said the road would be shut for the \"foreseeable future\" while fuel and debris was cleared away.\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch has been informed of the crash, it added.\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service said: \"We sent two double-crewed land ambulances, an operations officer, a rapid response vehicle, a critical care car and an air ambulance.\n\n\"We have conveyed one patient to Great Western Hospital and one patient to Gloucester Royal Hospital, both by land ambulance.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sajid Javid was thought to be close to Rishi Sunak, who succeeded him as chancellor in 2020\n\nFormer chancellor Sajid Javid has backed Liz Truss to become the next Conservative leader, calling for urgent tax cuts in an attack on her rival Rishi Sunak's economic plans.\n\nMr Javid, who withdrew his own bid to be leader last month before voting began, said Mr Sunak's plans could make the UK a \"middle-income economy\".\n\nHe said Ms Truss was best placed to rise to \"the challenges of our age\".\n\nHis backing came on the evening of the latest leadership hustings, in Cardiff.\n\nMr Sunak and Ms Truss are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and British prime minister.\n\nThe party's roughly 160,000 members started receiving ballots this week, with the result due on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.\n\nThe pair will go head-to-head again in a debate on Sky News this evening.\n\nWednesday's hustings event in Cardiff marked the first time either candidate had visited Wales since the leadership contest began.\n\nMr Sunak was introduced by Swansea-born former Conservative leader Michael Howard, while Ms Truss was welcomed to the stage by Clwyd West MP David Jones, a leading Brexiteer in the party.\n\nAt the hustings, Ms Truss said a plan she had this week floated and then quickly scrapped - to link public sector pay to local living costs - had been \"misrepresented\" by the media and was not part of her \"central costings\".\n\nMr Sunak said he was glad Ms Truss had abandoned the plan, telling a crowd of Conservative members: \"It would have meant, I think, potentially almost half a million workers in Wales getting a pay cut, which I don't think is the right policy to pursue.\"\n\nThen Mr Sunak appeared to U-turn himself on his own policy to scrap plans to relax the ban on onshore wind in England.\n\nAsked by a party member whether he would \"scrap the embargo on onshore wind\", Mr Sunak replied \"yes\", adding \"we've already said that we are open to do that where we can do it with local communities\".\n\nBut Mr Sunak's campaign later clarified he had \"misspoke\" and would not relax the ban.\n\nIn other key moments during the hustings, Ms Truss:\n\nRecent polling of Conservative members suggests Ms Truss has a significant lead over Mr Sunak as voting began this week.\n\nMr Javid's endorsement gives her campaign another boost and means she now has the backing of five of the other candidates who were originally nominated for the leadership.\n\nThe endorsement is bruising for Mr Sunak, who worked with Mr Javid in the Treasury and succeeded him as chancellor in 2020.\n\nThe pair - who both had careers in finance - had previously appeared friendly, with Mr Sunak tweeting about a Star Wars cinema outing with Mr Javid in 2019.\n\nThe two men resigned from the cabinet within minutes of each other last month triggering a ministerial mutiny that forced Mr Johnson to quit as Tory leader.\n\nMr Javid launched a leadership bid but, struggling to win enough support, dropped out of the race early before candidates were nominated by Conservative MPs.\n\nThe former health secretary has now thrown his weight behind Ms Truss and her policy of introducing tax cuts immediately.\n\nWriting in the Times newspaper on Wednesday evening, Mr Javid argued that tax cuts are \"a prerequisite for growth\" and warned that the UK risked \"sleepwalking into a big-state, high-tax, low-growth, social democratic model which risks us becoming a middle-income economy by the 2030s\".\n\nHowever, Mel Stride - Conservative chair of the Treasury Committee and Sunak ally - argued that making \"tens of billions of pounds worth of unfunded tax cuts\" would make the problem of inflation \"even worse\".\n\n\"I think that would be really quite dangerous,\" he told the BBC.", "The impact of the Covid pandemic has resulted in \"unprecedented\" numbers of children chronically absent from school, the Department of Education (DE) has said.\n\nIt said the rate of absences was evident from figures it collected during the 2021-22 school year.\n\nChronic absence is classed as missing more than 10% of the year.\n\nThe children's commissioner in England is concerned some pupils never fully returned to school after lockdowns.\n\nAn investigation by Dame Rachel de Souza suggested persistent absence from school was at a rate in England almost twice as high as before the pandemic.\n\nPrevious reports from the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) also said that the pandemic and restrictions had \"a severe impact\" on children and young people.\n\nMost pupils in Northern Ireland were taught remotely out of school for months in 2020 and in early 2021.\n\nThe Department of Education is carrying out an equality screening on a new way for schools to record the attendance of pupils ahead of the 2022-23 school year.\n\nThe new method is voluntary for schools, but it introduces tiers for rates of pupil absences.\n\nThe Department of Education is hoping to reinforce the importance of regular attendance at school\n\n\"Chronic\" absence is defined as a pupil missing between 10% and 20% of school days.\n\n\"Severe chronic\" absence is if a pupil misses over 20% of school.\n\n\"The impact of the pandemic is such that schools and Education Welfare Service (EWS) are seeing unprecedented numbers of children falling into chronic and severe chronic attendance categories,\" the DE equality screening said.\n\n\"The application of absence tiers by schools will help to reinforce the importance of regular attendance at school.\n\n\"It will provide a more detailed analysis of the number and percentage of pupils falling into each tier and what strategies are needed to support those pupils.\n\n\"The guidance reflects that there is a range of pupils/groups of pupils who may have specific issues in attending school, and details the range of support mechanisms available.\n\n\"Ultimately, if we see improvements in the proportion of pupils defined as having chronic or severe chronic absence, that will be a success.\"\n\nThere is normally follow-up action for pupils whose attendance falls below 85% in NI\n\nIn England, parents can face a £60 fixed penalty fine if their children are persistently absent from school.\n\nThat is not the case in Northern Ireland but parents can ultimately be taken to court if their child has a high level of absence from school.\n\nNormally in Northern Ireland if a pupil's attendance at school drops below 85% of days over a period of time, this triggers follow-up action.\n\nInitially this can involve a parental visit from an education welfare officer, and there is usually a long process before parents are prosecuted.", "A 62-year-old French man survived for 16 hours at sea by using an air bubble inside his boat after it capsized.\n\nThe 12-metre vessel, which had set sail from Portugal's capital Lisbon, sent out a distress signal late on Monday evening from the Atlantic Ocean.\n\nSpanish coastguards found the upturned boat, but the sea was too rough to rescue him - so the sailor had to wait until morning.\n\nThe man's survival was \"verging on the impossible\", said coastguard divers.\n\nHis boat sent a distress signal at 20:23 local time on Monday, 14 nautical miles (26 nautical kilometres) from the Sisargas Islands, near Spain's north-west Galicia region.\n\nA rescue ship carrying five divers as well as three helicopters set off to find and rescue the man, who has not yet been named.\n\nA diver was winched onto the ship's hull to seek signs of life and the man responded by banging from inside.\n\nThe sea was rough and the sun had gone down, so the rescue team attached buoyancy balloons to the boat to stop it from sinking and waited until morning.\n\nThe man was airlifted to hospital after being rescued\n\nThe next day, two divers swam under the boat to help the sailor out, who they found wearing a neoprene survival suit and submerged in water up to his knees.\n\nThe man then jumped into the freezing water and swam under the boat towards the sea's surface.\n\nIn a tweet, Spain's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society said: \"Each life saved is our biggest reward.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVicente Cobelo, a member of the coastguard's special operations team, said the sailor got into the water \"of his own initiative\" .\n\nBut, Mr Cobelo added that divers helped pull the sailor out, as it was difficult for him to get out of his suit.\n\nHe was airlifted by the rescue team and briefly taken to hospital for checks.", "Claire York launched an online appeal to help replace her parents' melted chocolate\n\nA community has come together to help the owners of a corner shop whose entire stock of chocolate melted.\n\nEllis Stores in Scunthorpe lost about £1,000 worth of goods after its air conditioning failed to cope during the recent heatwave.\n\nAn online appeal by Claire York, the daughter of the shop's owners Stephen and Linda Ellis, has raised more than £450 to replace the lost sweets.\n\nMs York said her parents were \"so, so grateful\" for the donations.\n\n\"My mum has just cried,\" she said.\n\n\"For the whole week she just cried every time anybody's given any money, anybody's done anything.\"\n\nThe shop lost about £1,000 worth of chocolate during the heatwave\n\nThe couple have run the independent shop on Cottage Beck Road for more than 24 years.\n\nMs York said that due to excesses and the rise in insurance premiums it was not worth making a claim.\n\n\"My mum was literally ready to pack in, shut the door and just leave it all, bless her,\" she said.\n\n\"They've had a really tough couple of years with price rises and everything else, so this was like the tip of the iceberg really.\"\n\nOne regular customer said the couple \"do a great job with the community and the shop\".\n\n\"Everybody knows them,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it's great that they've put some money forward to help them when they lost the chocolate.\"\n\nChocolate expert Jenny Culver, course manager at Bettys cookery school in Harrogate, said: \"Chocolate is very sensitive to temperature variations.\n\n\"From a scientific point of view, the crystals which make it perform as it does get confused about what state they are in and it becomes unstable.\"\n\nMs Culver said premium chocolate was more stable than our supermarket favourites due to its higher cocoa butter content.\n\nHowever, she said all chocolate needed to be stored at room temperature, away from direct heat sources and sunlight.\n\nNot doing so risked reducing its shelf life, she added.\n\nSo, can you reset or freeze a melted chocolate bar?\n\n\"It just wouldn't be the same\", Ms Culver said.\n\n\"Much of the aroma and taste would be lost. In a really bad state it can be crumbly,\" she added.\n\nWhat can you do with your chocolate in an emergency situation?\n\n\"Sit in the corner and suck it out of the packet, or if it happens in the hot weather, add cream to make a lovely chocolate sauce to go over ice cream, or a thicker version to dunk biscuits in,\" Ms Culver said.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The gala performance of Macro is sold out\n\nThousands of performers from across the world are in Edinburgh for the start of the world's biggest arts festival.\n\nThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see more than 3,000 shows from 58 countries mark its 75th anniversary.\n\nIts line-up will include comedians Frankie Boyle, Stewart Lee and Al Murray.\n\nThe Edinburgh Military Tattoo returns, while the Edinburgh International Festival will see live audiences return to indoor venues.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge, the Fleabag star who is president of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said its new vision would make the whole event more inclusive and accessible.\n\nThe Edinburgh International Festival opens later with a free gala event, Macro, by physical theatre firm Gravity & Other Myths at Murrayfield Stadium.\n\nIn Macro, a 30-strong troupe team up with the National Youth Choir of Scotland. There will be music, projections, drums, a huge light display as well as acrobatics and dance.\n\nA free finale gala by the Philadelphia Orchestra on the final weekend at the Playhouse will close the international festival.\n\nMacro - by circus and physical theatre company Gravity & Other Myths\n\nThe finale gala will also be beamed live into the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nDreamachine, part of Unboxed: Creativity in the UK, is another free immersive event during the festival using light and sound to explore the potential of the human mind.\n\nIt has been created by Collective Act, presented by Edinburgh Science, and brings together Turner Prize-winning artists Assemble, Grammy and Mercury nominated musician and composer Jon Hopkins, and a team of leading technologists, scientists and philosophers.\n\nThe Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will also perform a free concert at the Usher Hall on Saturday.\n\nLed by Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, the special concert is extending its invitation to the Ukrainian community in Scotland.\n\nPeople can watch performers in Edinburgh's High Street during the event\n\nThe streets are packed, traffic is at a standstill and the cobbled streets are full of discarded flyers.The sun is shining - for the moment - but everyone is grumbling about the prospect of rain, their anxiety about Covid and the difficulties of affording anything in Edinburgh in August.\n\nIt's official. The Edinburgh Festivals are back.\n\nBoth festivals mark their 75th anniversary this summer and the resilience which has allowed them to deal with post war uncertainty and rationing seems to have prepared them well. Last year's festival was a scaled back event, staged outdoors in plush marquees (the international festival) or concrete car parks (the fringe).\n\nSocially distanced and heavily subsidised, it was a place holder. Some established names - like Jason Byrne and Alan Cumming - took part because they felt they owed it to the festival where their careers began. Others worried that the festivals might not survive the pandemic, so there's a certain amount of relief this August.\n\nThere's also a better understanding of the dynamic of this festival city, where programmes overlap and cross promote. The Edinburgh International Film Festival is back in the mix, along with book and art festivals. The tattoo's nightly fireworks will have to satisfy tourists and locals alike - there'll be no closing concert this year. Orchestras are staying for residencies, rather than single concerts. Artists appearing at one festival, are encouraged to take part in others. Audiences happily move between the festivals, and I suspect will do so this year more than ever.\n\nMeanwhile the Fringe holds its first full programme of events since 2019.\n\nAs well as Scottish favourite Frankie Boyle, its line-up will feature fellow comics Josie Long, Phil Wang, Reginald D Hunter and Nish Kumar.\n\nOther big names include Sir Ian McKellen, who is starring in a new production of Hamlet, Drag Race starts Bianca Del Rio and Jinkx Monsoon, and quizzer and comedian Paul Sinha.\n\nThis year's Fringe Street Events will be extended to new locations in St Andrew Square and St James Quarter.\n\nOrganisers said issues tackled this year will include refugees, race, women's safety, disability, mental health and climate change.\n\nSir Ian McKellen is starring in a new production of Hamlet in Edinburgh\n\nShona McCarthy, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said: \"After the challenges of the last two years, it feels more important than ever to celebrate the diverse selection of work on display at the Fringe, spanning the genres of theatre, dance, circus, physical theatre, comedy, music, musicals, opera, cabaret, variety, children's shows, spoken word, exhibitions and events.\n\n\"Venues, producers and artists have created an amazing array of performances and events which dig into some of the most topical themes being discussed in the world today.\n\n\"This is an opportunity for us all to laugh, cry, celebrate and be entertained together, living in this one incredible moment and looking ahead to the future of the Fringe and the many momentous moments yet to come.\"\n\nCammy Day, City of Edinburgh Council leader, said: \"This is a very special year for the Fringe, not only does it see the return of a jam-packed programme of artists and performers from across the globe, it is also marks 75 years of this remarkable festival.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicky Desmond was \"always happy, always bubbly\" his friend Sacha said\n\nA British man has died in a suspected drowning in the Canary Islands.\n\nNicky Desmond, from Cardiff, went swimming in the sea off Callao Salvaje, Tenerife, within hours of arriving on 29 July, the eve of his 30th birthday.\n\nFamily friend Sacha Pugsley, 29, said Mr Desmond was \"very bubbly, very outgoing\" and \"always had a helping hand for everybody\".\n\nHis friends and family are hoping to raise £10,000 to cover the cost of repatriating his body.\n\nMr Desmond was on his first day of his holiday in south-west Tenerife to celebrate his birthday.\n\nEmergency services rushed to the scene before taking him to hospital in Adeje.\n\n\"He would literally walk the world for me if he could. He was always happy, always bubbly. I don't think I'd ever seen a time where he was upset,\" added Ms Pugsley.\n\n\"He'd never bring anybody down.\"\n\nThe online fundraising page said of Mr Desmond: \"He was such a beautiful soul, a brother, a son loved by all that met him, has left us too soon. Our beloved friends & The Gabalfa community have suffered a significant loss with the recent passing of their precious friend Nicky.\n\nNicky Desmond went swimming off the coast in Callao Salvaje, Tenerife on the first day of his holiday\n\n\"While we cannot take away their pain, we can help this loving family with the many financial burdens they now face. Please consider donating as they lay their son to rest and take the time away to grieve.\"\n\nA balloon release was held in Mr Desmond's memory on the day of his 30th birthday.\n\nAn inquest into his death is expected to be opened in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, once the coroner receives a report from the Spanish authorities.", "Sunak and Truss spoke at the All Nations Centre in Cardiff\n\nRishi Sunak and Liz Truss have attacked Mark Drakeford and his Welsh Labour government at a Tory leadership hustings.\n\nFrontrunner Ms Truss accused the first minister of being a \"low energy version\" of Jeremy Corbyn who was \"ashamed of our history\".\n\nMeanwhile Mr Sunak said he would be an \"activist prime minister\" who would call out \"failures of devolution\".\n\nThe pair answered questions from party members in Cardiff on Wednesday night.\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Wales that he did not have time to watch the event and had \"only seen reports of it\".\n\nBut, interviewed by Newyddion S4C, he said: \"Of course, the two contestants were welcome to make one of their rare visits to Wales and there's nothing that I could say about either of them that they haven't already said about each other.\"\n\nIn his opening speech, the former chancellor attacked plans for more Senedd members in Cardiff Bay, saying money should be spent on cost of living issues instead.\n\nHe said a Welsh government freeze on road building projects, which ministers say is necessary to reduce carbon emissions, would cause \"enormous economic self harm\".\n\nRishi Sunak said he would be an \"activist\" prime minister\n\nMr Sunak attacked Welsh Labour's record, saying that \"in spite of receiving 20% more funding, here in Wales waiting lists are the worse in the United Kingdom\".\n\nHe indicated he was opposed to more devolution for the Senedd and said he would be an \"activist prime minister when it comes to Wales\".\n\nHe said: \"We need to be more prepared to call out the failures of the devolved government here, because this path of onward devolution has not worked in actually delivering better health care and education\".\n\nMr Sunak added: \"If the UK government is sending billions of pounds over to Wales, and it's being squandered, it's not being spent properly, and children are not being taught properly in schools and people are waiting unacceptably long for health care treatment, we need to call that out and we need to make sure we improve it.\"\n\nLiz Truss said Mark Drakeford was \"ashamed of our history\"\n\nIn her speech, Ms Truss said: \"The fact is that there are too many people in this country who are ashamed of our history, who talk our country down, who say the best days are behind us. They are completely wrong.\n\n\"I'm afraid one of them is Mark Drakeford.\"\n\n\"Whether it's stopping the M4 relief road, whether it's whacking a tax on our tourist industry, I will crack down on his negativity about Wales, and about the United Kingdom.\"\n\nMs Truss promised to change the Treasury's funding formula to get investment \"into places that have been left behind\".\n\n\"We need to help level up our country,\" she said, \"and you know that there are parts of Wales where it's very difficult to get a mobile phone signal, it's very difficult to get broadband.\n\n\"It's difficult to get on a train that goes anywhere very fast - and in particular, north Wales has been left behind.\"\n\nShe said she would build the M4 Relief Road. The project was ditched by the Welsh government, which has responsibility for motorways in Wales, in 2019.\n\nA small group of climate change protesters greeted arriving Conservatives at the All Nations Centre ahead of the event.\n\nIf your question was whether Rishi Sunak will devolve more powers to the Welsh Parliament as prime minister, it seems clear he will not.\n\nHe told Tory members - often assumed to be more devo-sceptic than some of their elected members in Cardiff Bay - that the answer to problems in Wales was \"not more devolution\", and intimated that he would get more involved in Welsh affairs.\n\nWould he intervene in health and education? There was nothing concrete - but he said he would be an \"activist\" prime minister - the suggestion was there.\n\nSunak walked into the All Nations Centre with what sounded like a plan to win over sceptical Welsh Tory voters. But there was no arms race on the subject with front runner Liz Truss.\n\nShe had little to say when it came to the constitution of Wales - the nearest she got to the subject was where she said it was right that the Welsh government run the NHS - which it has since 1999 and is only interesting because of the comments of her rival.", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "A Chinese military helicopter by Pingtan island across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan on Thursday\n\nChina is kicking off its biggest-ever military exercises in the seas around Taiwan following US politician Nancy Pelosi's visit.\n\nThe live fire drills began at 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT) and in several areas were due to take place within 12 miles of the island.\n\nTaiwan said China was trying to change the status quo in the region.\n\nMs Pelosi made a brief but controversial visit to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province.\n\nThe drills are Beijing's main response, although it has also blocked some trade with the island.\n\nThe exercises are due to take place in busy waterways and will include long-range live ammunition shooting, Beijing says.\n\nTaiwan says it amounts to a sea and air blockade while the US said the drills were irresponsible and could spiral out of control.\n\nAnalyst Bonnie Lin told the BBC that the Taiwanese military would react cautiously but there was still a risk of confrontation.\n\n\"For example, if China decides to fly planes over Taiwan's airspace, there is a chance that Taiwan might try to intercept them. And we could see a mid air collision, we could see a lot of different scenarios playing out,\" she said.\n\nTaiwan said it scrambled jets to warn off Chinese warplanes on Wednesday and its military fired flares to drive away unidentified aircraft over the Kinmen islands, located close to the mainland.\n\nSeveral ministries have suffered cyber-attacks in recent days, the Taiwanese government said.\n\nTaiwan has also asked ships to take different routes and is negotiating with Japan and the Philippines to find alternative aviation routes.\n\nJapan has also expressed concern to China over the areas covered by the military drills, which it says overlaps with its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).\n\nIn response, Chinese government spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Beijing did not accept the \"so-called\" Japan EEZ.\n\nOn Wednesday, China detained a suspected Taiwanese separatist in the coastal Zhejiang province on suspicion of endangering national security, according to local media reports.\n\nMeanwhile China's Ambassador to France Lu Shaye told French TV that after \"reunification\" with Taiwan, Beijing would focus on \"re-education\".\n\nChina has previously used the term \"re-education\" to refer to its detention of mostly-Muslim minorities in its north-western Xinjiang region, where human rights groups say more than a million people have been incarcerated.\n\nIn the Taiwanese capital the situation remains calm but Taiwan is being forced to reroute a huge amount of air and sea traffic around the exclusion zones declared by Beijing.\n\nMeanwhile a US aircraft that can track ballistic missiles in flight has taken off from Japan and is heading towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say one scenario is that China is preparing to fire ballistic missiles - to splash down in the exclusion zones, very close to Taiwan's coast. That is what China did back in 1996, the last time tensions between Beijing and Taipei got this bad. But this time the exclusion zones are much closer to Taiwan.\n\nThere is also concern that one of the exclusion zones is to the east of Taiwan in the Pacific ocean. Analysts say it is possible China is preparing to fly a missile over the top of Taiwan - to splash down in that zone. That would be considered a major violation of Taiwan's airspace.\n\nMrs Pelosi, the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years, made the trip as part of a wider Asian tour.\n\nChina had warned her not to travel to the island.\n\nAccusing the US of \"violating China's sovereignty under the guise of so-called democracy\", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said: \"Those who play with fire will not come to a good end and those who offend China will be punished.\"\n\nIn a statement after the visit, Ms Pelosi said China cannot \"prevent world leaders or anyone from travelling to Taiwan to pay respect to its flourishing democracy, to highlight its many successes and to reaffirm our commitment to continued collaboration\".\n\nAfter leaving Taiwan, Ms Pelosi travelled to South Korea, where she met her counterpart Kim Jin-pyo. She is due to visit the Joint Security Area near the border between the two Koreas, patrolled by the US-led UN command and North Korea.\n\nThe US walks a diplomatic tightrope with its Taiwan policy. On the one hand, it abides by the \"One China\" policy, which recognises only one Chinese government, giving it formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan.\n\nOn the other, it maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.\n\nThe parents of a victim have sought at least $150m in the Texas defamation trial against the Infowars founder.\n\nThey said they endured harassment and emotional distress because of the right-wing host's misinformation.\n\nTwenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.\n\nThe jury in the city of Austin decided compensatory damages on Thursday, and must still determine any punitive damages.\n\nJones - who was not in court when the outcome was announced - has repeatedly argued that the shooting was a hoax organised by the government in order to strip Americans of gun ownership rights, and that the parents of the dead children were \"crisis actors\".\n\nHe has already lost a series of defamation cases brought by parents of the victims by default after failing to produce documents and testimony.\n\nBut this is the first in which financial damages were agreed by a jury.\n\nThe case was brought by Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the separated parents of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the school shooting.\n\nAhead of Thursday's decision, a lawyer for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones' lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from his client's phone.\n\nThe attorney said a congressional panel investigating last year's US Capitol riot had already requested access to the messages. The committee has said Jones helped organise a rally that took place just before the riot.\n\nDespite retracting his claims about Sandy Hook, Jones has continued to use his platform to attack jurors and the judge in this case.\n\nJesse Lewis, six, was killed at Sandy Hook\n\nHe also claimed he was bankrupt despite evidence that his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.\n\nDuring the emotionally charged two-week trial, Jones portrayed the case as an attack on his free speech rights under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.\n\n\"Speech is free, but lies you have to pay for,\" lawyers for the families countered in their opening arguments.\n\nTestifying on Wednesday, Jones acknowledged the Sandy Hook attack was \"100% real\" and apologised for having \"hurt these people's feelings\".\n\nBut in her testimony, Mrs Lewis addressed Jones in court, saying: \"Jesse was real… I'm a real mom.\"\n\nShe went on to say it is \"incredible to me that we have to do this\".\n\n\"That we have to implore you - not just implore you, punish you - to get you to stop lying,\" she continued, adding: \"It is surreal what is going on in here.\"\n\nMr Heslin said that Jones' lies \"tarnished the honour and legacy\" of his son, adding that he had gone through nearly 10 years of \"hell\" since the attack.\n\nAccording to lawyers for the parents, they were forced to hire private security for the trial out of concern that followers of Jones could seek to harm them.\n\nThe parents said Jones had made their lives \"hell\"\n\nOne forensic psychiatrist testified that the parents were suffering from \"complex post-traumatic stress disorder\" similar to what battlefield soldiers or victims of child abuse endure.\n\nLawyers for the parents accused Jones of trying to hide evidence, and argued that he had committed perjury when he denied sending messages related to the Sandy Hook attack.\n\nJones' Infowars parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, declared bankruptcy last week. The outlet has been banned by YouTube, Spotify and Twitter for hate speech, but continues to operate.\n\nOther wild conspiracies pushed by Jones include that the US government is creating floods and tornados as \"weather weapons\" and that chemicals in drinking water are making frogs homosexual.\n\nLawyer Mark Banston, who represented the parents in the case, told reporters outside court on Thursday that his clients were not disappointed with the sum awarded by the jury.\n\n\"We aren't done folks,\" the attorney was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.\n\n\"We knew coming into this case it was necessary to shoot for the moon to get the jury to understand we were serious and passionate. After tomorrow, he's going to owe a lot more.\"", "Cases of the virus have topped 6,600 in the US, according to health officials\n\nThe US government has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency following a spike in cases.\n\nThe decision will speed up the distribution of vaccines, treatments and federal resources to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nIt comes less than a fortnight after the World Health Organization (WHO) issued its highest emergency alert following a worldwide surge in cases.\n\nCases have topped 6,600 in the US, according to health officials.\n\nA quarter of these cases have appeared in the state of New York, which declared its own state of emergency over the disease last week.\n\nThe two states with the next highest caseloads - California and Illinois - declared states of emergency earlier this week.\n\nMore than 26,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide this year, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows.\n\nSome public health experts have expressed concern the emergency declaration could further stigmatise the disease. Although anyone can catch monkeypox, the outbreak has been largely concentrated among men who have sex with men.\n\nBut it is not purely a sexually transmitted infection (STI), and can also be passed on by close contact with an infected person.\n\nThe virus typically causes pimple-like rashes, which can be extremely itchy and painful, to develop and spread across the body, as well as other complications.\n\nInfections are usually mild and clear up on their own in adult patients without treatment or hospitalisation - but the WHO has warned that young children have died at higher rates from the disease.\n\nOfficials in the US and elsewhere have recommended that people at the highest risk of exposure - including some gay and bisexual men, as well as some healthcare workers - should get the jab on a priority basis.\n\nPressure had been building on President Joe Biden to do more to stop the spread of monkeypox.\n\nPublic health officials say the disease is particularly prevalent amongst men who have sex with men.\n\nIn cities like here in San Francisco, with a large LGBT presence, politicians have claimed not enough is being done to protect the community.\n\nUnlike when Covid-19 surfaced, there are pre-existing vaccines for monkeypox. But many who have tried to get the jab have reported waiting in long lines, only to be told there aren't enough to go round.\n\nSome have questioned whether Mr Biden should have called this nationwide state of emergency earlier - and whether this will be enough to prevent further spread.\n\nSan Francisco introduced a public health state of emergency on Monday. In doing so, the mayor invoked memories of the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s - when she says the city was ignored.\n\n\"We are in a very scary place\", she said.\n\nThe declaration on Thursday comes amid reports that vaccines and treatments for monkeypox are in short supply across the country.\n\nThe Department of Health and Human Services said last week that it has ordered more than five million more doses, to be delivered until next May.\n\nEarlier this week, the White House also announced the appointment of a team to co-ordinate and oversee the national monkeypox response.\n\nIt includes Dr Demetre Daskalakis, a New York physician who has led successful initiatives to curb the spread of HIV in the US.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Africa's Jameisha Prescod breaks down what we know about this rare disease", "Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nPolice probing the deaths of a father and son in Bangladesh believe they may have been poisoned by carbon monoxide.\n\nCardiff taxi driver Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital on 26 July after being found unconscious in a flat in Osmaninagar, near the city of Sylhet.\n\nBeside them were Rafiqul's wife Husnara Begum and their other children Samira, 20, and Sadiqul, 24.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul were released from hospital on Wednesday.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said Samira remained in an \"alarming\" condition in intensive care.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul had told them there was a faulty electricity generator in the property they were staying at, to be used in emergencies.\n\nThey told officers it was used the night of the tragedy due to a power cut.\n\nSupt Uddin said police visited the property with Husnara and Sadiqul, adding that when the generator was running it pumped out smoke that could have been behind the suffocation and samples had been sent to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nRafiqul Islam's son, Sadiqul, said he woke in hospital unaware of what had happened\n\nSupt Uddin said: \"We collected a smoke sample from the generator and we sent it to fire service to see if chemicals were also found in the bodies of the deceased and of the survivors.\n\n\"We have to wait for some days to get the chemical analysis report.\"\n\nSadiqul said he did not know what happened and woke up in hospital after going to bed at about 23:00 local time.\n\nA relative previously said when there was no answer at the flat on July 26, they peered through a window and saw the family sprawled on two beds.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said there was a faulty generator in the property the family were staying at\n\nRafiqul lived in Riverside, Cardiff, and played badminton and football. Fitzalan High School pupil Mahiqul has been described as \"sweet and friendly\".\n\nOn Tuesday, a doctor said there was no concrete evidence Rafiqul Islam, who was 51, and Mahiqul had been poisoned.", "Sunak defends honesty despite wanting to take ex-PM's role\n\nAlexander asks Rishi Sunak what does honesty mean to him in politics and leadership? \"Honesty in a sense means telling you the truth, even when that's not easy. I think you can see in this leadership election that's why I'm doing - I'm saying some things are not the easiest thing in the world to hear. \"I'm not standing here promising you tens and tens of billions of pounds of goodies straight away because it's not right for our economy. \"My life would be far easier if I wasn't saying that but I want to be honest with you and straight about the challenges we face and what going to be required to fix them.\" Audience member Steve responds by pointing out that Sunak worked with Boris Johnson but now wants to take over his role. Sunak says that while he is proud of the work they did together, \"it got to a point where it was too difficult for me to stay. \"It came to a point where the government was on the wrong side of an ethical dilemma that I could not defend,\" Sunak says.", "Brittney Griner (right) pleaded guilty to drug charges - but denied deliberately breaking the law\n\nA Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges.\n\nAs Griner, 31, was being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, she was heard saying: \"I love my family.\"\n\nThe double Olympic winner has admitted possessing cannabis oil, but told the court she had made an \"honest mistake\".\n\nThe court near Moscow convicted her of smuggling and possessing narcotics. The prosecution had sought a nine-and-a-half year jail term.\n\nReading the verdict on Thursday, the presiding judge said she had taken into account the fact that the American had already spent a considerable time in detention.\n\nGriner's defence lawyer Maria Blagovolina said her client was \"very upset, very stressed\".\n\n\"She can hardly talk. It's a difficult time for her. When we saw Brittney on Tuesday, we told her, 'See you on Thursday'. She said, 'See you on doomsday'. So it looks like she was right.\"\n\nThe defence team said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nGriner, who is considered one of the best players in the world, was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.\n\nShe had come to Russia to play club basketball during the US off-season.\n\nSoon after, Russia invaded Ukraine and her case has become subject to high-profile diplomacy between the US and Russia.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: \"Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone travelling, working, and living abroad.\"\n\nIt is unclear how long she will actually spend behind bars, as the US and Russia have been discussing a potential prisoner swap that could involve the basketball player.\n\nReports in US media suggest imprisoned Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout - known as the Merchant of Death - could be transferred by Washington to the Russian authorities as part of the deal.\n\nSpeaking after her sentencing, White House national security spokesman John Kirby urged Russia to accept the \"serious proposal\" offered by the US for Griner and fellow detained US citizen Paul Whelan.\n\n\"It's a serious proposal. We urge them to accept it. They should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it,\" Mr Kirby said.\n\nAfter the court heard closing arguments, Griner said: \"I made an honest mistake, and I hope in your ruling it does not end my life.\"\n\n\"I did not conspire or plan to commit this crime,\" she added.\n\nGriner also said she had received neither an explanation of her rights nor access to a lawyer in the initial hours of her detention, and that she had to use a translation app on her phone to communicate.", "A section of a path leading up to the famous Edinburgh skyline walk will be fenced to protect walkers from a bull\n\nFencing is to be installed on a path in the Pentland Hills after safety fears were raised over the presence of a bull in a field where walkers have previously been attacked by cows.\n\nThe path on Turnhouse Hill is a right of way which leads to the popular Edinburgh skyline walk.\n\nThe land's owner, Scotland's Rural College, said it had already removed the herd of cows from the lower slopes.\n\nNow it plans to fence off a corridor of the field containing the bull.\n\nIt has been living in the field for more than a month, with a warning sign on the path gate.\n\nJames Gentles is an experienced walker who has climbed all 282 Munros\n\nSome walkers have risked walking through the field, which does not have an alternative route around it, while others have turned back.\n\nWhen BBC Scotland raised the concerns with the college, it said it would build a fence before the end of the summer.\n\nJames Gentles, from Edinburgh, said he was shocked and upset a bull had replaced the herd which had attacked him in October 2020.\n\nThe 61-year-old needed stitches after being charged by a cow on the same route.\n\nHe said it was the \"premier path\" in the regional park, and was very popular with walkers.\n\n\"Cows and bulls can't read signs, so it's not going to stop walkers being attacked,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not the cows' fault or the walkers' fault.\n\n\"I am therefore relieved they are now going to fence that section of the path from the bull.\"\n\nThere are also bulls in other nearby fields in the regional park\n\nMark Hartree was also crushed by a cow at the same spot in September 2020.\n\nA spokesperson for Scotland's Rural College said it took safety at its farm operations very seriously.\n\nIt said it had taken steps in 2020 to keep cattle \"entirely separate\" from the area's main right of way to safeguard public access.\n\nSince then, signs had been installed at \"appropriate times\" to notify walkers about the potential presence of bulls among livestock in fields.\n\n\"However, these arrangements remain under continuous review. We want walkers to continue to feel welcome and understand the signage we use,\" it said.\n\n\"We are therefore carrying out further works this summer to ensure that any small remaining potential for direct contact between people and cattle is removed through the construction of a short, fenced corridor. This will secure easy access to the rights of way all year round.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said that if there was a bull in a field, the public was expected to go into a neighbouring field or on to adjacent land.\n\n\"Land managers are urged to keep animals known to be dangerous away from fields crossed by a core path or other well-used route,\" he added.\n\n\"If this is not possible, land managers should inform the public and signpost a reasonable alternative route.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This image of a Russian serviceman guarding the plant was taken in May\n\nA huge nuclear power plant occupied by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine is \"completely out of control\", the head of the UN's nuclear agency says.\n\nRafael Grossi was quoted by the Associated Press news agency as saying the Zaporizhzhia plant needed an inspection and repairs.\n\n\"You have a catalogue of things that should never be happening in any nuclear facility,\" he said.\n\nEurope's biggest nuclear plant is dangerously close to the fighting.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused Russia earlier this week of using the plant, which it overran in March, as a military base to launch attacks on Ukrainian forces.\n\nUkrainian officials have said Russians station troops and store military hardware on the grounds of the power station on the Dnipro river in the south of Ukraine.\n\nBut a Russian-installed official in the region told Reuters news agency that Ukrainian forces were using Western-supplied weapons to attack the plant.\n\nYevgeny Balitsky said officials were ready to show Mr Grossi's agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), how Russians were guarding the nuclear facility while Ukrainians were allegedly attacking it.\n\nWhen Russia seized the plant, its shelling of buildings there caused an international outcry.\n\nThe plant is still operating, with Ukrainian staff under Russian control.\n\nAt a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Mr Grossi said: \"The situation is very fragile. Every principle of nuclear safety has been violated one way or the other and we cannot allow that to continue.\"\n\nThe IAEA's director-general said he was trying to put together a mission as soon as possible to visit the plant but this required the approval of both the Ukrainian and Russian sides, as well as UN authorisation, given the risks involved in visiting the war zone.\n\nIn June, Ukraine's state nuclear company said Ukraine had not invited the IAEA - and any visit would legitimise Russia's presence there.\n\nThis week, Mr Grossi said he and his team needed protection to reach Zaporizhzhia - which meant the co-operation of both Russia and Ukraine. \"I'm pleading to both sides to let this mission proceed,\" he said.\n\nIAEA contacts with staff at the plant had been \"patchy\" and the supply chain of equipment and spares had been disrupted, Mr Grossi explained to AP. There was also a lot of nuclear material which needed to be inspected, he added.\n\n\"While this war rages on, inaction is unconscionable,\" he said. \"If an accident occurs at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, we will not have a natural disaster to blame - we will have only ourselves to answer to. We need everyone's support.\"\n\nAccusing the Russians of using the plant as a \"nuclear shield\", Mr Blinken said: \"Of course the Ukrainians cannot fire back lest there be a terrible accident involving the nuclear plant.\"\n\nIn 1986, northern Ukraine was the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded.\n\nRussian forces also seized Chernobyl soon after the invasion on 24 February this year but withdrew after five weeks. Computers at the site were looted or damaged but actual nuclear equipment at the decommissioned plant was not affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Assembly members are meeting following a recall petition, spearheaded by the SDLP\n\nA third attempt to elect a new Speaker at Stormont and allow the Northern Ireland Assembly to function fully again has failed.\n\nAssembly members met following a recall petition, spearheaded by the SDLP, which wanted a debate on the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe DUP refuses to nominate a Speaker over issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe DUP leader said recalling the assembly would not solve the problem.\n\nBut the SDLP said \"basic governance\" must return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill says the DUP is \"punishing the public\" by its \"refusal to govern\"\n\nThe Protocol keeps Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods, preventing a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBut it means checks on some items which come into Northern Ireland from other parts of the UK, creating a trade border in the Irish Sea.\n\nUnionist parties are opposed to it, saying it undermines Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nControversial UK government legislation aimed at giving the government powers to override parts of the Protocol is making its way through Westminster.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie nominated party colleague Mike Nesbitt and the SDLP's Matthew O'Toole nominated his colleague Patsy McGlone as Speaker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The DUP's Brian Kingston says the recall of the Stormont assembly \"was stunt politics\"\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Shailesh Vara said he was disappointed that the assembly had failed to elect a speaker.\n\nHe tweeted: \"People expect and deserve the Executive to be formed as soon as possible to address issues affecting everyone in Northern Ireland, including the rising cost of living.\"\n\nEarlier, Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said the DUP's \"continued boycott of these institutions and their failure to accept the democratic outcome of the election\" were denying people \"the representation which they are entitled to and which they deserve\".\n\n\"It's totally unacceptable, it is untenable and it cannot continue,\" she added.\n\nMost politicians elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly want the protocol to remain\n\nShe said the DUP were the \"only party that are blocking and preventing the executive being formed, preventing the executive meeting that would allow us to distribute money to help workers and families\".\n\n\"So let me say to you, even at this late hour today, workers need help, families need help, businesses need help and you're continuing to punish the public that we're elected to serve by your continued refusal to govern with the rest of us.\"\n\n\"These proceedings are not a genuine attempt by the parties opposite to restore the political institutions, rather they demonstrate a wilful disregard for the views of unionists and the principle of power sharing itself in Northern Ireland,\" he said.\n\nMr Kingston said the Northern Ireland Protocol had caused a \"deep fracture in our politics\".\n\nHe said the party would be \"condition-led and not calendar-led\".\n\nAt the same time, he made it clear that when its conditions were met, the DUP would be prepared to nominate a deputy first minister.\n\nThe Stormont institutions have been in flux since February when the DUP withdrew from the first minister role in protest over the part of the 2019 Brexit deal known as the protocol.\n\nAmid all of the words spoken during the 90-minute debate, one adjective stood out: \"undiminished\".\n\nThe DUP's Brian Kingston said that if his party was to return to the power-sharing executive at Stormont, the Westminster bill to override the Protocol must emerge from Parliament \"undiminished\", in other words, without any amendments.\n\nIt is clearly a DUP pre-condition.\n\nThe other appears to be a commitment from the next prime minister that once he or she gets the power to override the Protocol, it will be used immediately.\n\nThat is certainly the current state of the assembly, as all eyes now focus on Westminster and Downing Street.\n\nSince then, there has been an assembly election and two recall petitions.\n\nSinn Féin became the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time following May's election, with 27 seats, pushing the DUP into second place.\n\nThe election cemented a majority for assembly members who accept the Protocol, including Sinn Féin.\n\nHowever, overall unionists still hold the most seats in the assembly.\n\nDuring Wednesday's debate, the SDLP's Matthew O'Toole pointed to the cost of living.\n\n\"How long do they [people] have to wait, struggling to put food on the table, struggling to afford the cost of school uniforms and apprehensive about this winter?\n\n\"They said the Protocol Bill's passage would lead to a graduated response, it's passed the Commons, what now?\"\n\nUnionist parties in Northern Ireland are all opposed to the Northern Ireland Protocol\n\nAlliance assembly member Patrick Brown called for reform to \"put an end to ransom politics\".\n\nHe said it was no longer tenable for one party to be able to block the formation of an assembly and executive.\n\n\"Until this place can operate in a mature and democratic fashion, our ability to deal with situations like the cost-of-living crisis will continue to be curtailed,\" he said.\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister said many assembly members did not want to face \"reality\" that the Protocol was incompatible with Northern Ireland's constitutional position as an \"integral part of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"The very same people who yesterday and in recent days were effusive in respect of Lord David Trimble, consciously and deliberately ignore the very telling of Lord Trimble about the Protocol when he said that the Protocol has ripped the heart out of the Belfast Agreement,\" he said.\n\nStormont uses a system of government known as power sharing\n\nPeople Before Profit's Gerry Carroll said the DUP had shown themselves to be \"completely and utterly self-serving in their approach to politics\".\n\n\"They are wilfully ignoring the plight of the vast majority of people here who are struggling to keep their heads above water due to spiralling costs and political inaction,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he could not provide a timetable on when the Stormont Executive would be restored.\n\n\"The sooner we can get to a solution on the Protocol, the sooner we will see the cross-community consensus restored that is necessary to operate the political institutions in Northern Ireland,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\nSir Jeffrey said he recognised getting a \"fully-functioning executive and assembly was important for everyone in Northern Ireland\" but he wanted to ensure the foundations for that were \"sound\".\n\nThe comments come as the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the Northern Ireland Protocol had given the region's economy a temporary boost.\n\nAn assembly Speaker can only be elected with support from a majority of unionist and nationalist members.\n\nWithout a Speaker in place, there can be no nomination of first and deputy first ministers, meaning the assembly cannot function.\n\nThe DUP has previously said it wants to see \"clear progress\" on the government's controversial protocol bill in Parliament first, before it would consider supporting the election of a Speaker.\n\nThe bill passed the House of Commons in July but now must be debated in the House of Lords.", "Workers left the depot in Tilbury, Essex, on Wednesday and Thursday as they sought a rise of £2 an hour\n\nStaff at an Amazon warehouse have staged a walkout over a 35p an hour pay increase offer.\n\nWorkers left the depot in Tilbury, Essex, on Wednesday and Thursday as they sought a rise of £2 an hour.\n\nThe GMB union said the rise asked for would better match the demands of the role and help meet the cost of living crisis.\n\nAmazon said its pay was \"competitive\" and staff were also offered a benefits package worth thousands annually.\n\nSteve Garelick, GMB regional organiser, said: \"Amazon is one of the most profitable companies on the planet.\n\n\"With household costs spiralling, the least they can do is offer decent pay.\n\n\"Amazon continues to reject working with trade unions to deliver better working conditions and fair pay.\n\n\"Their repeated use of short-term contracts is designed to undermine worker's rights.\n\n\"The image the company likes to project, and the reality for their workers could not be more different.\n\n\"They need to drastically improve pay and working conditions.\"\n\nMarius Brezeanu said he estimated 1,000 staff had gone on strike\n\nMarius Brezeanu, 24, of Reading, took part in a sit-in protest at the warehouse, where he is a packer.\n\n\"I've got to work six days in order to pay my rent, bills and live a normal life; I don't think this should be normal,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"For a couple of months, I have been eating just one meal a day [to save money].\n\n\"I think there were around 1,000 people on the day and night shifts striking yesterday and overnight.\n\n\"We will continue [to protest], everyone is still motivated to do it.\"\n\nAmazon said starting pay was increasing to a minimum of between £10.50 and £11.45 an hour, depending on location.\n\n\"This is for all full-time, part-time, seasonal, and temporary roles in the UK,\" it added.\n\n\"In addition to this competitive pay, employees are offered a comprehensive benefits package that includes private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, subsidised meals and an employee discount among others, which combined are worth thousands annually, as well as a company pension plan.\"\n\nThe National Living Wage, for those aged 23 and over, is £9.50.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Lady Gaga is often accompanied by her dogs at award shows and film premieres\n\nThe alleged gunman in the violent theft of Lady Gaga's bulldogs has been arrested after his mistaken release from custody earlier this year.\n\nIn February 2021, attackers shot dog walker Ryan Fischer in the chest and took Gaga's dogs, Koji and Gustav.\n\nJames Howard Jackson, 19, was accidentally released in what the US Marshals Service described as a \"clerical error\".\n\nFive months on, police say he has now been arrested.\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had offered a reward of up to $5,000 (£4,105) for information leading to his arrest, saying that he should be considered \"armed and dangerous.\"\n\nOne of the other men involved, Jaylin Keyshawn White, was on Wednesday sentenced to four years in prison at a Los Angeles court where he had pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery.\n\nThe 20-year-old had been charged alongside Jackson, and Lafayette Shon Whaley, now 28.\n\nSurveillance footage from the scene of the attack shows a car stopping near Ryan Fischer and two people jumping out.\n\nOne demanded that the dog walker \"give it up\" before a struggle in which a gunshot could be heard, and the dog walker seen falling to the ground screaming.\n\nThe attackers grabbed one dog each and left Fischer shouting for help, with the third dog, Asia, running back to the dog walker after the robbers drove away.\n\nRyan Fischer later described Asia as his \"guardian angel\" who gave him the determination to survive.\n\nLady Gaga offered a $500,000 (£359,000) reward for the return of the animals, whose theft highlighted a growing trend targeting the valuable breed.\n\nThe woman who handed the dogs in was charged with receiving stolen goods and being an accessory after the fact.\n\nRyan Fischer sustained chest injuries in the attack, and said on Instagram a month later he had suffered a collapsed lung, and had to have part of his lung removed.\n\nLos Angeles police said at the time they did not believe the dogs had been targeted because of their owner, but because of the value of the breed on the black market.\n\nWith stars such as Lady Gaga, Reese Witherspoon, Chrissy Teigen and Leonardo DiCaprio having the breed, authorities say that they can change hands for thousands of dollars.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jack Woodley's family said they were devastated by his death\n\nNine of the 10 teenagers found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man are appealing against their convictions.\n\nJack Woodley was fatally stabbed while being punched, kicked and stamped upon in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, on 16 October.\n\nAt the start of their trial all except one of the gang denied murder and manslaughter charges. A 15-year-old admitted manslaughter.\n\nThe youths, aged 14 to 18, are due to be sentenced on Friday.\n\nNone of them can be identified for legal reasons.\n\nJack Woodley was repeatedly punched, kicked and stamped upon before being stabbed\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard that Mr Woodley had been \"surrounded and isolated\" by the group as he walked home from a funfair.\n\nProsecutors said the youths had been intent on attacking someone at the Houghton Feast and he came to their attention for a \"trivial reason\".\n\nThe trial heard a 16-year-old boy ran up from behind and punched him in the head and others joined in the assault.\n\nA 15-year-old boy then pulled a \"Rambo-style\" knife from his trousers and stabbed Mr Woodley in the back.\n\nJack Woodley died in hospital a day after being attacked near the Britannia Inn in Houghton-le-Spring\n\nThe boy with the knife fled but the rest continued to hit Mr Woodley and pursued him down an alley where the attack resumed.\n\nJurors heard that the group \"prevented him from escaping and other people from helping him\".\n\nWitnesses described the scene as like animals attacking a piece of meat, with one telling the jury it appeared to be a deliberate attempt to kill.\n\nOne of the 10 defendants admitted stabbing Jack Woodley with a 9in (25cm) knife\n\nSpeaking after the verdicts, Mr Woodley's mother, Zoey McGill, said: \"The devastation of losing Jack is immense and far-reaching.\"\n\nHis father, John Woodley, added: \"Jack had his whole life ahead of him. Those who attacked our Jack get to see their families and have a future, Jack does not.\"\n\nThe youths were remanded into custody ahead of sentencing.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liz Truss's team insists she had no part in organising the event at a London club last year\n\nTory leadership hopeful Liz Truss should be investigated over allegations she did not declare thousands of pounds spent on wooing MPs at a dinner event, Labour has said.\n\nLabour says a so-called \"Fizz with Liz\" event at a London club last year may have breached spending rules for MPs.\n\nThe Independent said £3,000 was spent and paid by club owner Robin Birley.\n\nMPs must declare hospitality worth over £300, but Ms Truss's team says she did not organise the event.\n\nA spokesperson for Ms Truss said: \"A declaration would only need to made if there was a benefit to Liz, or it was above the threshold for individual declarations for MPs register of interests.\"\n\nA source added the foreign secretary was one of a number of MPs in attendance at the event, which was hosted at the 5 Hertford Street club in Mayfair, London.\n\nThe event was first reported by the Independent newspaper, which said about a dozen Tory MPs attended the \"champagne dinner\" at the private members' club.\n\nMs Truss's campaign told the paper the event was \"put on\" by the club's owner Mr Birley, who has previously donated to the Conservative Party.\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Birley to request his comment on the event.\n\nA copy of an invitation to \"a dinner at 5 Hereford Street on Tuesday 26 October\", which came from Ms Truss's office and was apparently printed on parliamentary paper, has been shared with the BBC.\n\nParliament's code of conduct says MPs must register \"any gifts, benefits or hospitality with a value of over £300 which they receive from a UK source\".\n\nThis includes \"benefits which relate in any way to their membership of the House or political activities, if provided by a UK source either free or at concessionary rates\".\n\nAn ally of Ms Truss's Tory leadership rival, Rishi Sunak, said there were questions to be answered \"about who organised the event, who paid for it and why nothing was declared\".\n\nIn a letter, Labour said Ms Truss had \"serious questions\" to answer about spending on the event and asked the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case to investigate the matter.\n\nThe letter - written by Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow Commons leader Thangam Debbonaire - said the £3,000 reportedly spent on the event had \"not been declared either on the foreign secretary's ministerial gifts declaration, October to December 2021, or in her Register of Members' Financial Interests, as at 1 November 2021\".\n\nThe letter says there are \"questions about whether the foreign secretary was acting in her ministerial capacity, or her capacity as a member of Parliament\" at the event.\n\n\"The public has a right to know why such a significant donation for hospitality was not properly declared by the foreign secretary,\" the letter says.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called on Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone to open an investigation into the matter.\n\nLocated on the corner of Shepherd Market in Mayfair, 5 Hertford Street is reported to be one of London's most exclusive clubs.\n\nThe club made headlines earlier this year when the Sunday Times reported Ms Truss had used the venue to host receptions with Tory MPs in preparation for a possible leadership bid.", "Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei on Wednesday, in front of a framed picture of Sun Yat-sen\n\nFor Taiwan this trip by Nancy Pelosi is about support, but also legitimacy.\n\nTaiwan needs America's support, military and otherwise. But it craves legitimacy. It craves recognition that this is not some \"renegade province\" as Beijing calls it, but a proud country, with its own democratic government and a determination to keep it that way.\n\nThat is why a visit by the speaker of the US House of Representatives means so much. America is what Taiwan looks up to, not China.\n\nYou can see it in the excited way Ms Pelosi's arrival here is being reported on Taiwan's many TV news channels.\n\nThey have been studying everything from the colour of her outfits to the height of her heels - very high for an 82-year-old apparently - and the fact that she \"looked like Audrey Hepburn in that photo of her with President John F. Kennedy back in 1961\".\n\nThere is a full-on Pelosi lovefest happening in Taipei, the island's capital.\n\nCrowds gathered early outside Taiwan's parliament on Wednesday, hoping to get a glimpse of Ms Pelosi as she came out. Almost everyone there brushed off worries that China might retaliate.\n\n\"We are used to the threats from China,\" a female banker told us. \"In the long run this trip will be good for the development of US-Taiwan relations.\"\n\n\"China is bluffing,\" said a 70-year-old man. \"It may retaliate in the short term, but if Beijing over-reacts, it will be punished by the United States.\"\n\n\"China shouldn't bully Taiwan like this,\" a 50-year-old house wife told us. \"This trip is normal... if China continues like this it will only alienate more countries.\"\n\nBut to China this trip is anything but normal. To Beijing it is an outrageous breach of diplomatic norms.\n\nWhen President Jimmy Carter recognised the People's Republic of China in 1979, Washington agreed it would drop recognition of the \"other\" Chinese government in Taipei.\n\nFor Beijing, that should have been the end of the story. But America never completely gave up Taiwan. And as this island has transformed from a military dictatorship to a flourishing democracy, the sense that the US should protect this \"plucky little democracy\" in the face of China's threats has only grown.\n\nIt is now increasingly clear that Beijing is not going to be satisfied by venting its anger at Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan with mere words.\n\nThe announcement of six large exclusion zones around the island starting on Thursday, and lasting for four days, is ominous. Beijing did the same thing back in 1996, the last time there was a so called \"Taiwan Straits Crisis\". But then the exclusion zones were all well outside Taiwan's territorial waters.\n\nThis time three of the six zones intrude into Taiwan's 12-mile limit. That is unprecedented. Taiwan's defence ministry has already called the move a breach of UN conventions, and said it amounts to an air and sea blockade against the island.\n\nIf China were to move ships or aircraft into those areas, it would amount to an invasion of Taiwan territory. This makes the stakes much higher as Taiwan may feel compelled to defend its own waters.\n\nThe US Navy is watching all this very closely, and already has the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group sailing nearby in the Philippine Sea.\n\nMs Pelosi is now on her way to South Korea, but the fallout from this trip to Taiwan looks set to rumble on for a while longer - and could even grow in to a major US-China crisis.", "Sanctioned Russian oligarchs from Vladimir Putin's inner circle exploited a UK secrecy loophole left open by the government.\n\nArkady and Boris Rotenberg - judo partners of the Russian president - used a type of company that was not required to identify its real owners.\n\nMinisters have acknowledged concerns that these companies, known as English Limited Partnerships (ELPs), have also been abused by criminals.\n\nA joint investigation by the BBC and Finance Uncovered has discovered evidence linking a number of ELPs to fraud, terrorism and money laundering.\n\nIn 2016 and 2017, the government introduced measures that forced almost all UK companies to identify their real owners. ELPs were not covered by these new transparency laws.\n\nSince then, more than 4,500 of them have been set up.\n\nThe BBC has worked with Finance Uncovered to analyse leaked documents and thousands of company records that show how ELPs have become a route to dodge anti-money laundering laws requiring the real owners, or persons of significant control, of UK companies to be disclosed.\n\nELPs are legitimately used in real estate, investment and pension funds - they have tax advantages, for example, and the amount investors risk is limited.\n\nUnlike most companies, ELPs do not have a separate legal identity. The government says that means they cannot own assets, do not have a beneficial owner, and cannot legally open bank accounts in their own right.\n\nBut our investigation has found documents identifying beneficial owners of ELPs, and evidence of their use to open bank accounts and to facilitate financial crime. According to Graham Barrow, an expert in financial crime, they are also \"vulnerable to misuse\" because of how little information about their activity they are required to make public.\n\nOur data shows the number of new ELPs being set up has gone up by 53% since 2017.\n\n\"I wish I could be shocked about the scale of this, but I'm absolutely not. I'm just depressed and frustrated,\" says Helena Wood, head of the UK Economic Crime Programme at the Royal United Services Institute.\n\nMore than 4,500 ELPs have been created in the five years since the new transparency laws came into effect. In the five years to 2017, 2,950 were set up.\n\nWe have established that among those to take advantage of the secrecy of ELPs are members of President Putin's inner circle.\n\nThese are brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg who were the subject of an investigation by a US Senate committee in 2020. It said they had exploited a global web of shell companies to evade US sanctions imposed following the annexation of Crimea in 2014. These companies were used to buy millions of dollars worth of art.\n\nOne of these companies was an ELP. Sinara Company LP was set up in January 2017 and listed its principal place of business at an address a stone's throw from London's Oxford Circus.\n\nIt claimed to be involved in \"tourism and ticketing services\".\n\nBetween July 2017 and June 2018, it sent \"14 wire transfers in $9,500 increments totalling $133,000\" (£109,000) to an art adviser who the Senate report said \"facilitated purchases for the Rotenbergs\".\n\nUnder UK law, there is no requirement to disclose who was behind Sinara, which was dissolved in 2019.\n\n\"It's a scandal that people like the Rotenbergs who have been sanctioned in America for years have still been able to use British corporate structures to bring their money out of Russia through these structures and then spend it at will,\" says Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who chairs a parliamentary group on tax and corruption.\n\nThe BBC tried to contact the Rotenbergs, but have not received a response.\n\nMost limited partnerships are set up by so-called company formation agents - or presenters - who provide a registered address and administrative support.\n\nThe BBC and Finance Uncovered found that of the 4,500 ELPs formed since 2017, one in four were created by just five UK-based agencies.\n\nThese agencies have track records in creating anonymous UK companies for clients in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Some of those companies they incorporated have also been linked to financial crimes including money laundering.\n\nCorporate records show the most prolific of these agencies is LAS, run by Elena Dovzhik, an Anglo-Russian accountant, and her Latvian business partner Ineta Utināne. The UK-based businesswomen have made millions from LAS, the activities of which include forming and administering hundreds of anonymous British companies for clients based across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.\n\nA number of companies associated with LAS have subsequently been involved in crime. One, Always Efficient LLP, a firm registered to a London address provided by LAS, was found to be behind BTC-e, the largest Russian-language bitcoin exchange. The exchange was shut down in 2017 by the US Justice Department in relation to allegations of money laundering.\n\nAnd last year the fazze.com website, which used a LAS contact address, was alleged to have run a Russian-coordinated vaccine disinformation campaign, spreading claims that the AstraZeneca vaccine would turn recipients into chimpanzees.\n\nLAS told the BBC that they \"terminated\" their services to Always Efficient LLP \"in 2017 due to their breach of our Terms & Conditions\".\n\nIn relation to fazze.com, LAS say: \"This could be an illegal and unauthorised use of our address services as we do not hold exact or similar details in our historic database.\"\n\nLAS was also responsible for setting up huge numbers of another type of UK company called Scottish Limited Partnerships (SLPs). A 2017 investigation by Bellingcat, found that LAS was the \"single most prolific presenter of SLPs between 2015 and 2017\".\n\nSLPs at the time did not have to disclose their real owners. But after they were repeatedly linked to major international money laundering scandals, the UK government changed the law so they had to provide information about those who ultimately owned or controlled them. Almost immediately the number of registrations fell by almost half.\n\nAfter this change in the law around SLPs, leaked documents seen by the BBC show LAS switched its attention to ELPs.\n\nIn an emailed update to clients dated 18 May 2017, under the heading \"Alternative Solutions\", LAS proposed ELPs as, \"a way out and as a substitute for Scottish Partnerships\".\n\nThe document, discovered in the Pandora Papers, a data leak obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), continued: \"For the time being, the privileges of this type of partnership are that they are not and will not be subject to the laws of the disclosure of information about the controlling persons.\"\n\nNow our investigation has discovered the involvement of a number of ELPs associated with LAS in alleged criminal activity.\n\nThey include companies, owned by ELP Donnea Business LP, which have been accused of evading tax in Ukraine and another ELP called Cosalima Trade LP controlled by a Russian businessman wanted by the authorities in Russia in relation to a £5m fraud.\n\nLAS boss Elena Dovzhik said: \"We are aware that many years ago we filed registration documents for some companies that eventually were accused in unlawful activities, but such information was not available to us prior (to) registration.\"\n\n\"We (have) never been involved in any business activities of our former clients and only assisted our corporate clients with their company's formation process, mail-forwarding services, (and) statutory filings.\n\n\"We never supported any kind of fraud or illegal activities.\"\n\nShe explained that her firm had \"enhanced due diligence for all international clients\" and \"if any of our clients was ever reported to us as being under suspicion of being involved in unlawful activities… services were terminated with immediate effect\".\n\nBoth Donnea Business LP and Cosalima Trade LP were registered to addresses provided by LAS in London.\n\nCosalima Trade LP was registered at the second floor of 6 Market Place, in premises above an unrelated burrito bar in Fitzrovia, central London.\n\nThis address is home to around 800 active companies. It's one of the most frequently used addresses for ELPs in the country. Over the past five years, more than 240 ELPs have been registered here.\n\nA scrap of paper inserted into a button on the intercom lists just one company at the address - 1000 Apostilles Ltd, which is owned by LAS's Ineta Utināne.\n\nLAS says its \"lease for 6 Market Place expired during this year\".\n\nAnother popular address for ELPs is not in London but in Bristol.\n\n1 Straits Parade in the Fishponds area of the city is now a Turkish barber shop.\n\nIt has also been an address used by Arran, another formation agent, to set up UK companies including 197 ELPs.\n\nCompanies registered at the address have been linked to bribery, fraud and other financial crimes.\n\nOur investigation has discovered that Rivelham LP, an ELP that was registered there in 2013, was also flagged during the FBI inquiry into the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in the US.\n\nRivelham LP was identified in suspicious activity reports produced by Deutsche Bank and handed to federal agents as part of the investigation into financial transactions associated with those responsible for the bombing.\n\nThe reports, from a leak of suspicious activity reports filed with the US Treasury known as the FinCEN Files, do not identify who owned the ELP, but they record its involvement in 116 suspicious transactions totalling over $7.3m (£6m) in just one month between December 2012 and January 2013.\n\nThe BBC tried to contact the owners of Arran but received no response.\n\nWhile addresses like 1 Straits Parade and 6 Market Place may indicate which formation agency has been involved with an ELP, they give little clue as to who is really behind them.\n\nWhile names of the partners of the ELP can be found on paperwork submitted to Companies House, more often than not, the names will be of anonymous companies incorporated in countries including Belize and the Seychelles.\n\nAnd even the real people signing paperwork for those companies are unlikely to be the true owners.\n\nTypically they are nominee, or proxy signatories, paid to sign documents and they usually know nothing about what the company is doing.\n\nOne prolific proxy signatory is Ruth Neidhart, a 71-year-old from Switzerland who lives in Cyprus. She also works as a ceramic artist making porcelain dolls and jewellery, sometimes arranging pottery painting sessions for children's birthday parties.\n\nOur analysis of Company House filings has found since 2016, she has signed paperwork for more than 160 ELPs set up by the company formation agency she has worked for, IOS.\n\nMrs Neidhart did not respond to the BBC's invitation to comment.\n\nThe investigation has also found one of the LAS's most prolific nominees is Alexandru Terna, a Romanian national in his early 30s who lives in London. Mr Terna has signed Companies House paperwork for at least 306 ELPs created by LAS for clients.\n\nResponding to written questions from the BBC, Mr Terna says his involvement was \"arranged through LAS International\" or a related company, \"for and on behalf of owners of all individual companies, with whom we had trustee/nominee service agreements\".\n\nHe adds: \"We have never been involved in the control or management of any company, mentioned in your letters.\"\n\nCampaigners say the BBC's revelations about ELPs show that reform of the UK's legal structures is long overdue.\n\n\"We've been warning the government about these problems with these opaque legal structures for years,\" says Helena Wood of the Royal United Services Institute think tank.\n\n\"Transparency is the best disinfectant they say, and we need a bucket load of it with these English Limited Partnerships.\"\n\nThe failure of successive British governments to shut down major loopholes in anti-money laundering laws stands in contrast to promises made by senior politicians.\n\nAs long ago as 2014 the government considered acting on ELPs but failed to do so. The following year the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, declared he was determined the UK would not become \"a safe haven for corrupt money around the world\".\n\nThe government acknowledged in 2018 that there were risks posed by limited partnerships and \"concerns that they are being abused by criminals following large-scale money laundering scandals\".\n\nAfter the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson said he wanted to \"open up the Matryoshka doll of Russian-owned companies\" to reveal their true owners.\n\nThe government says it does not have any evidence of significant misuse of ELPs. A government spokesperson said: \"The UK already has some of the strongest controls in the world to combat money laundering, and it's vital that we continue to upgrade our governance to crack down on criminals abusing UK corporate entities.\n\n\"That's why we are modernising the law governing UK Limited Partnerships through our forthcoming Economic Crime Bill which will tighten registration requirements and improve transparency - ensuring that only those acting within the law can remain on the UK register.\"\n\nBut those proposals do not appear to include closing the ELP loophole requiring the disclosure of the real owners, or persons of significant control behind the companies.", "Russian prosecutors have asked a court to sentence the US basketball star Brittney Griner to almost 10 years in prison on drugs charges.\n\nThe Olympic gold medallist was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when cannabis oil vape cartridges were found in her luggage.\n\nCannabis is illegal in Russia for both medicinal and recreational use.\n\nMs Griner, 31, pleaded guilty to drug charges but has denied deliberately breaking the law.\n\nA verdict is expected later on Thursday.\n\n\"I made an honest mistake, and I hope in your ruling it does not end my life,\" Ms Griner told the court shortly after both sides presented closing arguments.\n\n\"I did not conspire or plan to commit this crime,\" she added.\n\nThe trial has reached the top levels of US-Russia diplomacy, with reports suggesting a conviction in the case could pave the way for a dramatic prisoner swap involving the Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout.\n\nRussian courts rarely acquit defendants, and analysts say a conviction is highly likely. The length of sentence is thought to be less certain.\n\n\"I ask the court to find Griner guilty and sentence her to nine years and six months in prison,\" prosecutor Nikolay Vlasenko said.\n\nHe also requested that the basketball star, who had played in Russia, be fined one million roubles (£13,700; $16,500), according to the AFP news agency.\n\nIn their closing argument, Ms Griner's lawyers called for a more lenient punishment and referenced her high profile in the sporting world.\n\n\"In sprinting there is Usain Bolt, in Formula 1 - Michael Schumacher, and in women's basketball there is Brittney Griner,\" her lawyer Maria Blagovolina, said.\n\nMs Blagovolina also argued that Ms Griner packed the cartridges by mistake and only used cannabis for medical purposes while in the US state of Arizona.\n\nAt an earlier court hearing, Ms Griner said officials had made her sign documents but \"no-one explained any of it to me\".\n\nShe also said she had received neither an explanation of her rights nor access to a lawyer in the initial hours of her detention, and that she had to use a translation app on her phone to communicate.\n\n\"I still don't understand to this day how [the vape cartridges] ended up in my bags,\" Ms Griner said.\n\n\"With them being accidentally in my bags, I take responsibility, but I did not intend to smuggle or plan to smuggle anything into Russia.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLinda McDonald will never forget what went through her mind as she lay stunned and bleeding from Robbie McIntosh's vicious attack.\n\nShe thought to herself: \"Linda, this is the day you die and this is the way you die.\"\n\nLinda was battered with a dumb-bell by the convicted murderer, who was on home leave from prison.\n\nAt the time of the attack, five years ago this weekend, he was serving life for stabbing another woman to death in Dundee when he was just 15 years old.\n\nLinda says her anger is directed not at her attacker but at the checks she believes failed to keep her safe from him.\n\nMcIntosh, now 36, was sentenced to a minimum of five years for the attack but he was also given an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) which means he may never be released from prison.\n\nHowever, on Monday, he will face an automatic parole hearing.\n\nRobbie McIntosh was jailed in 2018 for the attempted murder of Linda McDonald\n\nLinda, who is now 57, was targeted by McIntosh as she walked her dog in woods near her home in Dundee.\n\n\"As I turned around, he was running right towards me, but I never had a chance to do anything but to put my hand up,\" she says.\n\n\"I knew as soon as he hit me it was serious because the smell of the blood, it's like pennies and warm. I was just stunned.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack in August 2017, McIntosh was serving a life sentence for murdering Anne Nicoll on Dundee Law 16 years earlier.\n\nHe was being considered for parole and had been allowed home leave in preparation.\n\nA court would later hear that throughout the brutal attack in Templeton Woods, McIntosh \"remained impervious\" to Linda's pleas for mercy.\n\nShe says: \"I just started screaming 'help' as loud as I could. When he hit me the second time, I just knew I blacked out.\"\n\nMcIntosh only stopped bludgeoning Linda when two passers-by came to her aid.\n\nShe says: \"I forgive him, I don't even feel angry at him. I know some of my family and friends feel different.\n\n\"I feel angry at the systems that fail to keep the public safe.\"\n\nShe says the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has reneged on promises made on three occasions to let her see a report on her attack.\n\nLinda says the eventual reason for this was data protection concerns.\n\nShe says: \"What's the point of having this Freedom of Information Act if you can't even get information on yourself about such a horrific thing happening to me?\n\n\"Part of me getting better and surviving this, mentally, emotionally, in every way, is having the information.\n\n\"If you're denied information then obviously you're going to be suspicious they're hiding something.\"\n\nRobbie McIntosh, pictured in 2002, was on home leave at the time of the attack in Templeton Woods\n\nLinda is currently campaigning for more stringent checks on violent offenders before they are considered for release.\n\nLinda says: \"If you're really wanting Scotland safe and you're wanting your policies and your systems to work, listen to the people who've survived when they don't work.\"\n\nA Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: \"As we have previously made clear, we are profoundly sorry for what happened to Mrs McDonald.\n\n\"We are fully aware of the life-changing consequences, for her and her family, as a result of this dreadful act.\n\n\"We have engaged with Mrs McDonald and will continue to do so.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"New legislation which proposes changes to the way imprisonment is used in Scotland, while placing victims at its heart, has been published.\n\n\"The independent Parole Board also rightly considers each case on its own merit, with public safety being at the forefront of any decision.\n\n\"We have recently amended the rules to allow the Parole Board to take account of the safety and security of victims and their families when considering release.\n\n\"Conditions can also be set by the Board to include exclusion zones and prevent an individual on licence from approaching certain people.\"", "Gannets in Norway nesting in plastic ropes and fishing gear\n\nBirds from every continent except Antarctica have been photographed nesting or tangled in our rubbish.\n\nPhotos were submitted by people from all over the world to an online project called Birds and Debris.\n\nThe scientists running the project say they see birds ensnared - or nesting - in everything from rope and fishing line to balloon ribbon and a flip-flop.\n\nNearly a quarter of the photographs show birds nesting or entangled in disposable face masks.\n\nThe focus of the project is on capturing the impact of waste - particularly plastic pollution - on the avian world.\n\nMary Caporal Prior in the US captured this image of a mallard with a mask around its neck\n\n\"Basically, if a bird builds a nest using long fibrous materials - like seaweed, branches or reeds - the chances are it will have human debris in its nest somewhere,\" said Dr Alex Bond from the Natural History Museum in London, and one of the researchers involved.\n\nThe project, which he and his colleagues have been running for four years, aims to draw attention to the widespread problem of plastic waste in the environment.\n\nPigeons nesting on a building site in Sussex make use of discarded cable ties\n\n\"When you start looking for this stuff, you'll see it everywhere,\" he said. \"And this has really illustrated the huge geographic scope - we had reports from Japan , Australia, Sri Lanka, the UK, North America - it's truly a global issue.\"\n\nIn a recent study, the team looked into how many of the photos being submitted feature pandemic-related personal protective equipment (PPE). They found that it featured in almost a quarter of the photographs submitted.\n\nMasks, like this one on a black bittern in Singapore, are the most common pandemic-related items in the photographs\n\n\"It's almost all masks,\" said Dr Bond. \"And if you think of the different materials a surgical mask is made from - there's the elastic that we see tangled around birds' legs or we might see birds injured by trying to ingest the fabric or the hard piece of plastic that secures it over your nose.\n\n\"So we use this catch-all term of 'plastic' but it's a whole range of different polymers, and masks are a good example of that.\"\n\nMany birds, like this American robin found in April 2020, are seen tangled in the elastic straps of masks\n\nThe researchers say they want to highlight the \"systemic problem\" that leads to so much debris ending up in the environment.\n\nLead researcher Justine Ammendolia from Dalhousie University in Canada told BBC News that seeing the breadth of the impact on species globally was \"devastating\".\n\n\"In April of 2020, the first sighting of a bird hanging from a facemask in a tree was recorded from Canada and the sightings just internationally cascaded afterwards, \" she said. \"It really just demonstrates the harm that humans are capable of imposing on the environment in a very short window of time across the world.\"\n\nThis coot in the Netherlands is difficult to spot amid all the rubbish in its nest\n\n\"Changing to a bamboo toothbrush or a canvas shopping bag is not going to save the world, [because] most large-scale plastic production today is commercial and industrial,\" said Dr Bond.\n\n\"So it's a combination of top-down policies and bottom-up pressure for us to say 'enough is enough'.\"\n\nPhD researcher Justine Ammendolia added: \"For people seeing these images for the first time, it's alright to feel sad. But we need to learn from the unnecessary and often invisible suffering that some wildlife experienced during the pandemic.\n\n\"I hope people use their sadness to fuel their demand for action.\"\n\nThe researchers say we need to learn from the often invisible suffering of wildlife\n\nDr Bond likened the global action required to address plastic pollution to the Montreal Protocol that banned ozone-depleting chemicals - a treaty widely considered to be one of the most successful global agreements ever signed.\n\n\"We need the same thing with plastic pollution, and we're moving in that direction, but just very, very slowly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hosepipe ban: 'How will I water my tomatoes?'\n\nA hosepipe ban, expected to last weeks, will be introduced in parts of Wales amid the driest year since 1976.\n\nThe ban, covering Pembrokeshire and a small part of Carmarthenshire, starts on 19 August as Welsh Water is under pressure to maintain supplies after low rainfall.\n\nIt means people will not be allowed to water their plants, wash their cars or clean windows using a hose.\n\nThe water company said the planned ban would be its first since 1989.\n\nIt follows similar bans announced for parts of southern England.\n\nAnyone who would like to apply for an exemption to the ban should apply to Welsh Water during the consultation period between 10 and 17 August.\n\nWelsh Water boss Peter Perry told BBC Radio Wales Drive he was \"not pleased\" to have to implement the ban.\n\n\"We're doing our bit. We've got 600 people finding and fixing leaks at the moment,\" he said.\n\nHe said the hosepipe ban was likely to be in place \"for weeks\", adding that the organisation had the power to levy financial penalties on people who persistently flout the rules.\n\nThe ban covers much of Pembrokeshire and a small part of Carmarthenshire\n\nOne man told the BBC he was \"horrified\" at the thought that he might not be able to water his tomatoes.\n\n\"I'm not on a meter. I know it's a bit selfish but I pay £800 for water and there's only two of us in the house,\" said Jonathan Frost, from Cardiff.\n\n\"I'm pretty horrified because how am I going to water my tomatoes?\"\n\nEllie Gent said she believes a hosepipe ban is reasonable given the circumstance\n\n\"If we need drinking water we have to accept a hosepipe ban is a necessity giving what is happening with climate change and we've had no rain,\" said Ellie Gent.\n\nRita Evans, from Narberth, Pembrokeshire, said she had a water butt and believed it was important to conserve as much water as possible.\n\n\"We have a lot of visitors here in Pembrokeshire at the moment and we've not had enough rain so I do understand why.\"\n\nRita Evans said she could understand why the ban was in place\n\nWelsh Water's managing director of water services, Ian Christie, said: \"We have not seen such prolonged dry conditions in Pembrokeshire since 1976.\n\n\"Introducing the hosepipe ban is not a decision we have taken lightly, however if we are to make sure there is enough water to see us through the rest of the summer and into the autumn then we need to act now to try and prevent any further restrictions later on.\"\n\nReservoirs in Pembrokeshire, such as Llys Y Fran, are close to drought levels\n\n\"The ban will apply to just over 2% of the three million population we serve in Wales. More broadly we do not intend to introduce restrictions more widely across our operating area.\"\n\nThe company said it was taking the measures as there was an increased demand for water and its reservoirs in Pembrokeshire were approaching drought levels.\n\nIt added that this will not risk immediate supplies but it was bringing in the restrictions to ensure there would be enough supplies for customers and wildlife over the coming months.\n\nRocks are not usually so visible on the River Usk at Llangynidr this time of year\n\nRestrictions during hosepipe bans can vary between water providers but generally people are not allowed to use hosepipes or anything that connects to a hosepipe or outside tap.\n\nDuring a ban, people cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nWelsh Water will hold a consultation over the planned hosepipe ban\n\nHowever, there are some exceptions when a hosepipe can be used:\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nWelsh Water added that Pembrokeshire has only seen just over 60% of the expected rainfall between March and July.\n\nData from the Met Office shows Wales experienced its lowest July rainfall since 2006.\n\nBBC weather presenter Sue Charles said there was no significant rain in the forecast.\n\n\"In some parts of Wales - especially further east in places such as Cardiff and Wrexham - temperatures could reach the mid to high 20s,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Water had earlier warned that people in some areas of Wales could face a hosepipe ban this summer.\n\n\"There is a slight concern about the situation in Pembrokeshire,\" it said.\n\n\"Between March and April, rainfall across Wales was only 50% of the long term average while between March and May it was just 60%.\"\n\nPressure group Welsh Rivers Union has been calling for an immediate hosepipe ban in parts of Wales following a period of hot weather with little rainfall.\n\nArid conditions in Pembrokeshire caused a grass fire above Newgale, in very hot conditions during the heatwave last month\n\n\"We don't want to get to crisis point before we act,\" Kim Waters, co-founder of the Welsh Rivers Union, told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"We have to be sensible as a society now. Water in Wales is just not a throwaway resource and we just need to manage it in a better way.\"\n\nHe said the group wanted Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Water to be open with the data they have.\n\n\"I just want them to be open, honest, tell us what the state is and act accordingly,\" he added.\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The current prolonged dry weather period reflects the challenges we all face in tackling climate change.\n\n\"We continue to encourage everyone to be considerate in their water usage to maintain water flow over the coming months.\"", "An independent inquiry led by a barrister is to be launched by the BBC into what it knew about the conduct of former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood.\n\nThe corporation previously acknowledged six complaints about bullying and sexual misconduct, which the DJ denies.\n\nIndependent director Sir Nicholas Serota said new allegations continue to emerge.\n\nHe said there may have been times when the corporation should have done more to investigate the complaints.\n\nThe independent inquiry is expected to last six months and the BBC wants to include Westwood's other employers, MTV and Global - owner of Capital Xtra, which the DJ joined after leaving the BBC.\n\nLed by Gemma White QC, who previously investigated bullying in the House of Commons, it will also examine whether concerns about Westwood's behaviour were a factor in his departure from the BBC in 2013.\n\nThe BBC said it would pass any relevant information to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nOn Thursday, the Met said it was investigating a man over four alleged sexual offences in 1982, 1985, 2010 and 2016.\n\nAfter receiving the results of an internal review, Sir Nicholas said: \"New allegations and issues are emerging as time passes and more people are prepared to come forward. For this reason the work must continue.\"\n\nHe added: \"In light of the BBC's internal review, I believe that there may have been occasions in the past when the BBC should have further explored issues that were being raised.\"\n\nDirector general Tim Davie initially said in April the BBC had \"no evidence of complaints\" about Westwood - a presenter for 19 years on Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra - after BBC News and the Guardian revealed allegations of predatory sexual behaviour.\n\nBut after BBC News challenged the corporation's response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made in November 2021, it later acknowledged the six complaints - one of which was serious enough to have been referred to the police.\n\nThe BBC said the director general's initial response had set out the position as he understood it at the time, and ahead of the internal report Mr Davie said he wanted to \"ensure everything is flushed out\" and \"any cases are looked at\".\n\n\"Limitations within current BBC systems\" which did not cover all archived information meant the allegations were not revealed at first, the internal review found.\n\nThe review examined allegations reported after 2012, in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, and found two claims of sexual misconduct and two complaints about Westwood's behaviour in the workplace.\n\nAmong these was an allegation that in 2007 Westwood made sexual remarks to a 15-year-old girl at a non-BBC event. The incident was referred to police, but in 2013 they said they would take no further action.\n\nAfter BBC News and the Guardian published allegations by seven women in April, the BBC said it received further allegations, including a claim of sexual assault at a BBC event in the mid-2000s and two allegations of sexual assault from the mid-1980s before Westwood's time at the broadcaster.\n\nAnother woman described \"a consensual sexual encounter\" with Westwood in the mid-2000s which \"she now considers to have been inappropriate\".\n\nThe new independent inquiry would be the first the BBC has launched since 2021's investigation by Lord Dyson into the way Martin Bashir obtained his interview with Princess Diana in 1995.\n\nWestwood, who hosted the UK's first nationally broadcast hip-hop show from 1994 until leaving the BBC in 2013, was accused by seven women of abusing his position in the music industry to exploit them in the April investigation by BBC News and the Guardian.\n\nSome of the women worked in the industry and feared repercussions from challenging such a prominent figure over the incidents, which they said took place between 1992 and 2017.\n\nNow 64, the DJ has strongly denied the allegations. In a statement in April, Westwood's spokesperson said there had never been any complaints against him of inappropriate behaviour as described in the women's claims, and no investigation by the police, his employer or \"any other authority\".\n\nFollowing the initial revelations, a further 10 women came forward to BBC News and the Guardian with allegations of unexpected and unwanted sexual touching, sexual misconduct and - in one case - sex with a 14-year-old.\n\nAn 18th woman has also spoken to BBC News, alleging unexpected and unwanted sexual touching and sexual misconduct by Westwood when she believed she was meeting him to discuss work experience at Radio 1Xtra.\n\nShe alleges that Westwood instead drove her to a flat in west London, where he had sex with her. The DJ, who also presented the MTV show Pimp My Ride UK from 2005 to 2007, told her that the property was where he filmed for the show.\n\nA spokesperson for MTV said the channel was not aware of any complaints having been made at the time of the show or since, but it was conducting an internal review for \"further reassurance\". \"We take this very seriously,\" MTV said in a statement.\n\nWestwood has been approached for comment.\n\nThe DJ joined Capital Xtra in 2013 after leaving the BBC, but stepped down from the show \"until further notice\" in April when the allegations against him were published.\n\nThe Guardian also reported that a former BBC employee had raised concerns about \"bullying\" by Tim Westwood in the early 2010s.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Charmaine O'Donnell suffered neck injuries and drowned after she was pushed into the water\n\nA 29-year-old man has been found guilty of killing a stranger by picking her up and then pushing her off a pier.\n\nJacob Foster attacked Charmaine O'Donnell at Helensburgh Pier, in Argyll and Bute, in April 2021.\n\nJurors at the High Court in Glasgow heard Ms O'Donnell, 25, suffered severe neck injuries and drowned after she was pushed into the water.\n\nHer family said her death had \"changed our lives forever\", but that justice had now been served.\n\nFoster, who had denied murder, was convicted of culpable homicide after a trial.\n\nHis lawyers had lodged a special defence of diminished responsibility, saying he had an \"abnormality of mind\" at the time. Foster, from Helensburgh, suffers from a learning disability.\n\nJacob Foster told a police officer at the scene that it was \"just a bit of fun\"\n\nThe trial heard that Ms O'Donnell had gone to Helensburgh with a friend, Caitlin McTaggart, on 23 April last year to enjoy the good weather.\n\nThe pair began chatting to three men fishing and Ms McTaggart, 25, said it appeared Foster was trying to get involved in the conversation.\n\nShe told the court that neither she nor Ms O'Donnell knew him.\n\nThe jurors heard there had then been a \"commotion\" when Ms O'Donnell was pushed over the railings at the pier and someone shouted to Ms McTaggart: \"That's your pal.\"\n\nProsecutor Alex Prentice QC asked Ms McTaggart: \"Did you say anything to Jacob?\"\n\nShe replied: \"I was screaming at him to help her. He just kept saying: 'What have I done? I have taken it too far this time. I am going away for a long time'.\"\n\nCulpable homicide is the term used in Scots law for an offence where someone caused the death of another person by acting unlawfully but with no intention to kill.\n\nIt is different to murder where there is criminal intention, and from causing death by an accident where no-one can be blamed.\n\nThey could, for example, have assaulted someone in an attempt to injure them, but not to kill them.\n\nThere must also not have been \"wicked recklessness\" - which is usually based on the actions of the accused and the severity of the injuries suffered by the victim.\n\nDeaths can also be treated as culpable homicide rather than murder if the accused was found to be of \"diminished responsibility\" because of some mental illness, or where there was provocation.\n\nAnyone convicted of murder in Scotland automatically faces a life sentence, but there is no such rule for culpable homicide and people convicted of it are not always jailed.\n\nThe equivalent offence in England and Wales is manslaughter.\n\nStephen Cairns, who was one of the men fishing that day, told the court he remembered speaking to the women and Foster also being there.\n\nThe 42-year-old told jurors Ms O'Donnell had been standing at the railings on the edge of the pier at one stage.\n\nHe added: \"I turned around and saw the accused pushing the girl over the railing.\n\n\"He pushed her with both hands.\"\n\nMs McTaggart called 999 to get help and emergency services were sent to the scene.\n\nPC Gary Davidson told the court that Foster had been \"quite agitated and talking a lot\" when he arrived at the pier.\n\nThe officer said Foster had told him: \"I just pushed her, it was just a bit of fun.\"\n\nPolice and paramedics were sent to the scene but were unable to save Ms O'Donnell\n\nThe trial also heard from several teenagers who tried to help Ms O'Donnell after she was pushed into the water.\n\nOne of them said he had noticed the woman's shoe floating in the water and \"a bit of blood\".\n\nFoster's lawyers had claimed that because of his mental health issues he had misunderstood an alleged remark Ms O'Donnell made about going into the water.\n\nSean Templeton, defending, had asked for Foster to be completely acquitted, saying: \"It was a young man with learning difficulties who got it wrong.\"\n\nAfter the verdict, it emerged Foster had a number of previous convictions, including assaulting a staff member at a Costa coffee shop in Helensburgh in 2018.\n\nMr Prentice told the court Ms O'Donnell had been on furlough from her job as an assistant manager at a British Heart Foundation shop. She was due to return a week after she died.\n\nLord Fairley said in the \"very unusual circumstances\" of the case he would continue bail and adjourned for reports.\n\nMs O'Donnell was pushed over the railings on the pier\n\nThe advocate depute said: \"It is clear she was much loved and her death has brought untold and continuing grief.\n\n\"She was described as a loving and selfless person.\"\n\nMs O'Donnell's mother, Jacqueline Gallacher, 50, and stepfather William King, 54, said they believed the jury had reached the right verdict.\n\n\"The past 15 months have been the most difficult time we have ever had to face,\" they said.\n\n\"Losing Charmaine has changed our lives forever. We will never be the same again. Our hearts have been broken.\n\n\"She had her whole life ahead of her. She had a great personality and sense of humour, warming the hearts of all who met her.\"\n\nMike Taylor, commercial director at the British Heart Foundation, said fellow workers at the charity were \"devastated about the tragic death of our treasured colleague Charmaine O'Donnell\".\n\nHe added: \"Charmaine made an incredible contribution to the BHF over many years, rising from apprentice to assistant manager of our Glasgow Union Street shop, and was an integral member of our team.\n\n\"We're continuing to support all our colleagues and volunteers through this extremely difficult time, and our thoughts are with Charmaine's friends and family.\"", "Antonio Guterres says governments should embrace a special tax on energy company profits\n\nUN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for oil and gas companies to face special taxes.\n\nHis comments come as surging energy prices sparked by the war in Ukraine push industry profits to new highs.\n\nMr Guterres said it was \"immoral\" for firms to be profiting from the crisis.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine in February has worsened a global shortage of oil and gas, disrupting access to oil and gas from Russia - a major supplier - and driving prices higher.\n\nWhile households are grappling with higher energy bills, companies are reaping the benefits.\n\nTogether, four of the biggest energy firms - Exxon, Chevron, Shell and TotalEnergies - earned nearly $51bn in the most recent quarter - almost double what they made in the same period last year.\n\n\"This grotesque greed is punishing the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only common home,\" Mr Guterres said.\n\n\"I urge all governments to tax these excessive profits, and use the funds to support the most vulnerable people through these difficult times.\"\n\nLast month, the UK approved a 25% 'windfall tax' on energy firms, a one-off levy the government says will raise some £25bn to help offset household energy bills, which have spiked.\n\nSome other countries, such as Italy, have imposed similar measures.\n\nBut French lawmakers recently rejected such a move, and there is little political momentum in the US, despite a windfall tax proposal from some members of Congress.\n\nFrank Macchiarola, a senior vice president for oil and gas lobby group the American Petroleum Institute, said calls for a windfall tax were misguided.\n\n\"Policymakers should be focused on increasing energy supply and reducing costs for Americans. Imposing new taxes on our industry will do the exact opposite and only discourage investment at a time when it's needed most,\" he said.\n\nMr Guterres warned that high energy prices would have wide ranging consequences, as households and governments around the world buckle under the pressure.\n\n\"Many developing countries - drowning in debt, without access to finance, and struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic - could go over the brink,\" he said. \"We are already seeing the warning signs of a wave of economic, social and political upheaval that would leave no country untouched.\"", "The name of the dating app has not been made public by the police\n\nPolice in Nigeria have urged victims of a same-sex dating app scam to come forward to give evidence.\n\nBut they have refused to offer them the assurance of an amnesty in a country that criminalises gay relationships.\n\nPeople can face up to 10 years in jail for being part of anything considered a gay social club or group - and up to 14 years if in a same-sex relationship.\n\nOn Sunday, six people were arrested for allegedly blackmailing those who signed up to the gay dating app.\n\nIts name has not been made public by the police in the central state of Nasarawa, which is investigating the case.\n\nThe arrests were made after someone complained that he had been blackmailed - police say the fraudsters threatened to publish nude photos of him on social media unless he paid them some money.\n\nThe suspects detained in a sting operation on Sunday have since confessed to luring at least eight people from around the country on a date and then taking them hostage, the police say.\n\nTheir modus operandi has been to beat up their victims until they give their pin numbers.\n\n\"Their bank account is then wiped out before they are let go,\" police spokesperson Ramhan Nansel said.\n\nInitial investigations have confirmed that up to $3,260 (£2,700) has been extorted from eight people - but the police suspect more may have fallen victim to the scam.\n\nMr Nansel told the BBC he understood that people might fear they could get into trouble if they came forward to the police, but it was not up to him to offer an amnesty.\n\nIt is not clear if the first complainant will face prosecution - this was something the police commissioner would have to decide, the police spokesperson said.\n\nBut the police did intend to pursue a case against those behind the fake match-making app, he said.\n\nThe LGBTQ+ community in Nigeria faces a huge amount of discrimination - and often face threats and blackmail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gay in Nigeria: 'Everybody sees me as an abomination'", "China's foreign minister has called US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan \"manic, irresponsible and irrational\".\n\nAt a meeting of Southeast Asian countries, Wang Yi defended China's military drills in the seas around Taiwan, held in response to the visit.\n\nMs Pelosi made a brief but controversial stop on the island on Wednesday, during a tour of the region.\n\nChina reacted by launching its biggest ever military exercises in the region.\n\nMs Pelosi is the most senior US politician to visit the island in 25 years.\n\nHer decision to stop at the island has enraged Beijing, which considers Taiwan to be a breakaway province of China.\n\nThe US does not officially recognise Taiwan, but it does maintain a strong relationship with the island, which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nSpeaking during a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, Mr Wang said his country had done all it could to avoid a crisis but that it could \"not allow its core interests to be hurt\".\n\nHis comments came after Southeast Asian foreign ministers had earlier warned that growing tensions over Taiwan could spark open conflict in the region.\n\nA statement from the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) called for maximum restraint and urged against any provocative action.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Loud bangs heard and helicopters seen from Pingtan Island\n\nIt said that recent developments could lead to \"miscalculation, serious confrontation, open conflicts and unpredictable consequences among major powers\".\n\nMr Wang said Taiwan would \"eventually return to the embrace of the motherland\".\n\nThe Chinese government has threatened to eventually seize the island by force if other attempts at unification are unsuccessful.\n\nRussia - which maintains good relations with Beijing - said China had the \"sovereign right\" to hold the drills.\n\n\"The tension in the region and around Taiwan was provoked...by the visit of Nancy Pelosi,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.\n\nFollowing her visit to Taiwan, Ms Pelosi has been to South Korea and has now landed in Japan as part of an official four-country tour which also includes Singapore and Malaysia.\n\nIn Seoul she met National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo. Concerns over North Korea's nuclear and missile threats were discussed.\n\nHowever, she did not meet in person South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who was said to be on holiday - although still in Seoul - during Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nInstead they spoke only by phone, a move which has been criticised by some opposition politicians and interpreted by analysts as an attempt not to antagonise China.\n\nMs Pelosi was expected to visit the heavily fortified border with North Korea - known as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) - according to reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 'blunt message\" the Bank of England governor warns interest rates may have to rise even higher\n\nThe Bank of England has warned the UK will fall into recession as it raised interest rates by the most in 27 years.\n\nThe economy is forecast to shrink in the last three months of this year and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nInterest rates rose to 1.75% as the Bank battles to stem soaring prices, with inflation now set to hit over 13%.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said he knew the cost of living squeeze was difficult but if it didn't raise interest rates it would get \"even worse\".\n\nThe main reason for high inflation and low growth is soaring energy bills, driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nA typical household will be paying almost £300 a month for their energy by October, the Bank warned.\n\nThe expected recession would be the longest downturn since 2008, when the UK banking system faced collapse, bringing lending to a halt.\n\nThe slump is not set to be as deep as 14 years ago but may last just as long.\n\nThe Bank's governor Andrew Bailey said he had \"huge sympathy and huge understanding for those who are struggling most\" with the cost of living.\n\n\"I know that they will feel, 'Well, why have you raised interest rates today, doesn't that make it worse from that perspective in terms of consumption?', I'm afraid my answer to that is, it doesn't because I'm afraid the alternative is even worse in terms of persistent inflation.\"\n\nIncreasing interest rates is one way to try and control inflation as it raises borrowing costs and should encourage people to borrow and spend less. It can also encourage people to save more.\n\nHowever, many households will be squeezed further following the interest rate rise including some mortgage-holders.\n\nNow rates have gone up to 1.75%, homeowners on a typical tracker mortgage will have to pay about £52 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages will see a £59 increase.\n\nIt means tracker mortgage holders could be paying about £167 more a month compared to pre-December 2021, with variable mortgage holders paying up to £132 more. Interest rates have risen six times in a row since the end of last year.\n\nHigher interest rates also mean higher charges on things like credit cards, bank loans and car loans.\n\nPatrick Reid, a business owner in London, owes £25,000 on credit cards and loans and fears an interest rate rise will cost him.\n\n\"At present I repay around £1,800 a month but I have worked out that I will conservatively need to pay another £250 a month to keep up with the debts,\" he said.\n\n\"I will simply have to tighten my belt and be extra cautious in my spending, which means all of those non-essential items will be cut from my budget.\"\n\nRebecca McDonald, chief economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said \"staggeringly\" high inflation was \"going to hit low income families hard\".\n\n\"Many took on credit to pay their bills and are falling behind on their payments. This will be much harder to pay off with higher interest rates putting more families in financial peril.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the cost of living support announced so far was \"clearly not enough\".\n\n\"There will be families and pensioners across the country waking up this morning, reading the news, who are absolutely terrified because a juggernaut is heading [their] way which will smash through family finances,\" he said.\n\nHe said a Labour government would reduce VAT on energy bills, abolish the tax relief currently offered to oil and gas companies who invest, and provide support to help people retrofit their homes to make them more energy efficient.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi said he was confident the action the government was taking meant it could overcome the economic challenges.\n\nBoth Mr Zahawi and Boris Johnson have also been criticised by Labour for being on holiday when the Bank detailed its gloomy outlook.\n\nMr Zahawi insisted he was still working and had a call with Governor Andrew Bailey after the interest rate announcement.\n\n\"For me, like I'm sure lots of others, there is no such thing as a holiday and not working. I never had that in the private sector, not in government,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The privilege and responsibility of public service means that you never get to switch off, that's why I have had calls and briefings every day and continue to do so.\"\n\nIt is the most piercing of warning sirens set off by the Bank of England.\n\nAnnouncing the largest rate rise in more than a quarter of a century in an attempt to temper even higher peaks in inflation of an incredible 13% is what the Bank of England actually did. But it is its prediction of a recession as long as the great financial crisis and as deep as that seen in the early 1990s that is the big shock here.\n\nThis is a proper full fat recession at the same time as the inflation rate is forecast to hit a 42-year high. It is a textbook example of the combination of a stagnating economy and high inflation - stagflation.\n\nIt obviously will raise questions as to why rates are being hiked into a recession at a time when consumers are already pulling back from spending.\n\nEnergy bills have already risen sharply this year, squeezing household incomes and leading to slower growth for the UK economy.\n\nRussia has reduced supplies to Europe as it wages war in Ukraine and fears are growing it may switch off the taps altogether.\n\nThe potential of gas supply problems has led to the wholesale price soaring, which has led to energy firms passing those costs onto customers - pushing up household energy bills by unprecedented amounts.\n\nAs well as energy, households have been hit by higher petrol and diesel costs and food prices.\n\nThe Bank warned UK economic growth was already slowing, adding: \"The latest rise in gas prices has led to another significant deterioration in the outlook for the UK and the rest of Europe\".\n\nThe rate of inflation is expected to stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, the Bank said. It will eventually return to the Bank's 2% target the following year.\n\nHow will the rise in interest rates affect you? Do you have any questions you'd like answered? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah pictured on the film's set in January\n\nThe directors of Batgirl have said they are upset their film was axed months before its planned release, by Warner Bros Discovery.\n\n\"We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can't believe it,\" directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah wrote on Instagram.\n\nThey said it had been a dream to work with stars including Michael Keaton.\n\nBoth had been in Morocco for El Arbi's wedding, which had been attended by Will Smith as guest of honour.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by fallahbilall This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe film, which featured Keaton as Batman, was also due to star Leslie Grace as Batgirl, Brendan Fraser as villain Firefly and JK Simmons as Commissioner James Gordon.\n\n\"As directors, it is critical that our work be shown to audiences, and while the film was far from finished, we wish that fans all over the world would have had the opportunity to see and embrace the final film themselves,\" Fallah and El Arbi said in their statement.\n\n\"Our amazing cast and crew did a tremendous job and worked so hard to bring Batgirl to life. We are forever grateful to have been part of that team,\" they added.\n\n\"In any case, as huge fans of Batman since we were little kids, it was a privilege and an honour to have been part of the DCEU [DC Extended Universe], even if it was for a brief moment. Batgirl for life.\"\n\nIn The Heights star Grace tweeted that she was \"proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over seven months\", adding she felt \"blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process\".\n\nShe thanked fans for believing in her to become \"my own damn hero!\".\n\nThe movie, shot entirely in Glasgow and reportedly budgeted at more than $70m (£58m), was due to be shown in cinemas and on the streaming service HBO Max later this year.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by adilelarbi This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe film had completed its principal photography and much of its post-production work and was in test screenings - Variety reported that news of its demise \"sent immediate shockwaves through Hollywood\".\n\nThe New York Post reported that the decision had followed a poor reaction to test screenings, but Variety suggested that the cost of putting the film into cinemas and marketing it may have contributed to the decision.\n\nAs the film was unfinished, Warner Media would have had to spend more money completing, releasing and advertising it. Halting the process now means it can cut its existing losses without creating more.\n\nAccording to US trade publications, the company may also be able to recoup some of the money it had already spent by using what's called a tax write-down, which would save money by reducing the company's tax liability as a result of not releasing the film and recording it as a straight loss.\n\n\"When Warner Bros files its taxes this year, the company will combine the income from its profitable movies with its losses to determine its taxable income. The loss from Batgirl would lower that taxable income significantly,\" David Blum, deputy chair of the tax practice group at law firm Akerman LLP, explained to Fortune.\n\nThe film was based on the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon - or Batgirl - played by Leslie Grace\n\nThe film's cancellation follows a merger between Warner Bros and Discovery last May. Warner Bros had also confirmed that Scoob! Holiday Haunt would be scrapped.\n\nA spokesperson for the firm told the BBC: \"The decision to not release Batgirl reflects our leadership's strategic shift as it relates to the DC universe and HBO Max.\n\n\"Leslie Grace is an incredibly talented actor and this decision is not a reflection of her performance.\n\n\"We are incredibly grateful to the filmmakers of Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt and their respective casts, and we hope to collaborate with everyone again in the near future.\"", "People queued up to receive monkeypox vaccinations at a pop-up clinic at Guy's Hospital last month\n\nSexual health charities and LGBT groups are calling for the government to step up efforts to control the monkeypox outbreak in the UK.\n\nIn an open letter to Health Secretary Steven Barclay, they say that without a quicker and wider vaccine rollout, the virus could become \"endemic\".\n\nThere have been more than 2,600 cases of monkeypox in the UK so far, mostly among men who have sex with men.\n\nThe Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) says it is working \"rapidly\" to vaccinate those at risk.\n\nWith two of the UK's most popular Pride events, in Brighton this weekend, and Manchester later in August, many people are trying to get vaccinated in order to feel safer.\n\nBBC News has spoken to gay and bisexual men who say they have struggled to get the jab at their local clinics, and have had to travel to London or other large cities.\n\nA spokesperson for the DHSC said it had already administered thousands of vaccines and that it is \"working rapidly\" to offer more appointments.\n\nThey said: \"We have procured over 150,000 vaccines, and we're working with partners - including the NHS and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) - to share targeted, non-stigmatising communications with the LGBTQ+ community.\"\n\nCurrently about 75% of monkeypox cases are in London, which is where the majority of vaccines have been targeted, but numbers outside the city are also increasing.\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust, which co-wrote the letter, says the rollout needs to be speeded up across the UK to help combat \"fear and anxiety\" within the LGBT community.\n\nIts head of policy Ceri Smith told BBC News: \"We need to see far better co-ordination, increased vaccine procurement, improved delivery and a cash injection to sexual health services to treat monkeypox.\"\n\nThe letter was also signed by representatives from LGBT groups for the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Green Party.\n\nIt reads: \"Without urgent action, we risk monkeypox becoming endemic in the UK. This poses a serious risk to health and will exacerbate the health inequalities already experienced by gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men.\n\n\"Vaccinating those most at risk of monkeypox must be a priority if we are to stand a chance of preventing the virus from becoming endemic in the UK.\"\n\nThe letter also asks the government to deliver clearer messaging aimed at men who have sex with men about the symptoms of the virus, and what steps people should take if they believe they have become infected.\n\nAs of 1 August, NHS England stated that more than 14,000 people had received Imvanex, a vaccine designed to protect against smallpox, which the UKHSA says helps protect people who could be exposed to monkeypox.\n\nThe UK is expecting to receive 100,000 more vaccines in September\n\nThe UKHSA says an extra 100,000 vaccines will arrive in the UK in September, with the aim of delivering the first 20,000 for use by the NHS this month. Current guidance is to give most people a single dose.\n\nBut some sexual health experts estimate around 250,000 vaccines are needed, and have recommended that people should be given two doses for maximum protection.\n\nThe monkeypox vaccine rollout is being co-ordinated locally by sexual health clinics across the UK, with each clinic taking an individual approach based on urgency and need.\n\nThis means there are different approaches to inviting people to appointments, and differences in who is considered high risk across the country.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, director of clinical programmes at UKHSA, told the BBC that the vaccine is \"being offered to individuals at higher risk of coming into contact with monkeypox, in order to offer them protection and contain the current outbreak.\"\n\nShe added: \"We continue to monitor supply and remain in discussion with the manufacturer.\"\n\nAlex Bradbrook, a civil servant from Manchester, considers himself to be in a high-risk category for acquiring monkeypox. He was vaccinated at a clinic in London while visiting for the weekend, after struggling to get one closer to home for several weeks.\n\nAlex received a jab in London, where he was visiting to attend a Lady Gaga concert\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I was in London for the weekend and found out via Twitter that a clinic in Hammersmith was offering the vaccine, so I called about 20 times and finally got through to someone and got an appointment.\"\n\nWhile he's aware the vaccine isn't 100% effective in preventing monkeypox, Alex says it's a relief when heading to Pride events that he has some protection.\n\nHe added: \"Now that I've got my jab I feel much more reassured. The minute that needle went in, it was like a huge weight being lifted off my mind.\n\n\"I'm really fortunate that I was already in London and able to get one. There are lots of people who just aren't in my position - people who either can't afford a train or can't get down there for whatever reason. It makes me quite angry that some people don't seem to be getting an adequate service who might be at high risk.\"", "Adam Kay, right, used to work at Ealing Hospital\n\nSuicides among NHS staff are being \"brushed under the carpet\", the creator of This Is Going To Hurt has warned.\n\nFormer junior doctor Adam Kay, who based the hit BBC show on his memoir of the same name, planted a long-awaited tribute tree at Ealing Hospital, on Thursday.\n\nThe Shruti tree is the first national memorial to health workers.\n\nA plaque at the west London site says: \"In memory of healthcare professionals who have died by suicide.\"\n\nIt adds: \"Take care of those who take care of others.\"\n\nThe tree is named after the character Shruti Acharya, a junior doctor who took her life in the series, which drew millions of viewers on BBC One in February.\n\nMr Kay joined NHS leaders, charities and bereaved families to plant the first official memorial, after an estimated 300 nurses died by suicide in the seven years to 2017.\n\nThe show portrays hospital life and the impact it has on staff\n\nMore than 220 nurses attempted to end their lives during the first year of Covid in 2020, according to the Laura Hyde Foundation, which saw a 550% rise in demand for clinical mental health support from medical staff in 2020.\n\nThe charity, set up in memory of Royal Navy nurse Laura Hyde, said that two healthcare workers die by suicide every week on average, while a doctor takes their own life once every three weeks.\n\nMr Kay said: \"Suicide simply is not spoken about and in my experience, sadly, sometimes even the staff don't know, it's simply brushed under the carpet.\n\n\"We need to talk about this openly and honestly.\"\n\nBen Whishaw plays the lead role in This Is Going To Hurt\n\nIn a speech to a crowd gathered in front of the sapling, the comedy writer added: \"I'm sad to say we've failed a lot of these medical professionals and I hope this is a turning point.\"\n\nExterior shots for This Is Going To Hurt were filmed at Ealing Hospital, where Mr Kay previously worked until he wrote his diaries, and many fans have visited the site hoping to find a memorial tree, which was planted for Shruti in the show.\n\nActress Ambika Mod, who starred as Shruti in the TV series, said it was \"incredibly heart-warming and special\" and the series had \"blown all expectations out of the water\".\n\n\"I was so surprised to hear that people had been looking for the tree that was planted in the show, and I'm really glad there is now a place where they can come to pay their respects.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Ben Whishaw on a best seller, Bond and a Bear", "The danger with escalation is that it is hard to pull back.\n\nNow that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to visit Taiwan - the highest-ranking American official to do so in 25 years - won't others want to do the same in the future?\n\nNow that China has held major live fire exercises of such a scale, so close to Taiwan, why not do that again? Each time Chinese fighter jets fly nearer to the island or in greater numbers, a new standard of \"normality\" is established. So, if the People's Liberation Army (PLA) doesn't fly as close next time, what message is it sending?\n\nNot so long ago, Beijing's plan with Taiwan involved engagement. Young people from the mainland were backpacking around the breakaway province claimed by China, and businesses from Taiwan were popping up all over China.\n\nHowever, the approach under Chinese President Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent, with ever more pressure being applied on Taipei.\n\nThose with more militaristic tendencies in the upper echelons of power here must have secretly welcomed the visit by Ms Pelosi. It has provided an ideal excuse to ramp up the war games around Taiwan in preparation for what they see as the inevitable day when it will be seized by force.\n\nThe biggest challenge perhaps for regional stability is that everyone's public position on Taiwan is ridiculous. It's like a giant game of pretend which is becoming harder to maintain.\n\nChina pretends that Taiwan is currently part of its territory, even though the island collects its own taxes, votes in its own government, issues its own passports and has its own military.\n\nThe US pretends it is not treating Taiwan as an independent country, even though it sells it high-tech weapons and, occasionally, a high-ranking politician visits on what looks very much like an official trip.\n\nIt's apparent that it would take nothing for this flimsy show, designed to guarantee the status quo, to fall apart.\n\nThe danger for the world is that there are those in Beijing who would like to see it fall apart.\n\nThe approach under Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent\n\nFor decades, China's Communist Party-controlled media has been churning out similar rhetoric on Taiwan, but the idea of a war to reclaim it never felt any closer.\n\nThere is a belief among most people you talk to that President Xi wants to take Taiwan during his time in office, thus catapulting himself into an immortal status - as the leader who unified the motherland.\n\nHe has already effectively reined in Hong Kong, a city which had become increasingly troublesome for China, well ahead of schedule.\n\nThat President Xi will move into a historic third term in office in a few months actually eases the pressure a little.\n\nNow that he can remain in charge for as long as he likes - unlike previous leaders since Mao Zedong who were limited to two terms - he doesn't have to be in a rush to attack the island.\n\nBut every day we move a step closer to that and a step further away from peace.\n\nSome of China's propaganda, designed to rev-up popular support for a military solution, displays pre-World War One levels of naivety about what such a war would really entail.\n\nEven with the heavily censored coverage of the Ukraine conflict, seeing that invasion play out would surely have given Chinese people pause when considering involving their own country in bloody conflict.\n\nBut nationalism is a powerful tool and delusion can easily take hold.\n\nIf Beijing did attack Taiwan, even with the might of the PLA, it would have to mount a large-scale landing across a treacherous strait - and then face a dug-in, committed enemy fighting for a free way of life, seen as much more important than the patriotic justification to attack which has been drummed into the invading army.\n\nSuch a war could be long, turn China into a pariah for an extended period of time and kill the Chinese economy. Even if the PLA won, it would lead to the occupation of a huge island populated by millions of people who would likely resent Beijing's authority.\n\nThat would be disastrous and smart minds in the Chinese capital know it.", "Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine's power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said.\n\nIt was only due to back-up electricity kicking in that the Zaporizhzhia plant was able to operate safely, he added.\n\nFires had earlier damaged overhead power lines, cutting the plant off.\n\nThere is growing concern over fighting near the complex, which is the largest nuclear plant in Europe.\n\n\"If the diesel generators hadn't turned on, if the automation and our staff of the plant had not reacted after the blackout, then we would already be forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident,\" President Zelensky warned on Thursday night.\n\nThe damage was caused by fires which Ukraine's state nuclear agency said had interfered with power lines connecting the plant on Thursday, temporarily cutting Zaporizhzhia off from the national grid for the first time in its history.\n\n\"As a result, the station's two working power units were disconnected from the network,\" Kyiv officials said.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the state nuclear company said the plant had been reconnected to the electricity grid, with one of its six reactors providing power.\n\nSatellite images taken on Wednesday showed an extensive fire burning in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear complex.\n\nPresident Zelensky blamed the damage on Russian shelling, and in his nightly address accused Moscow of putting Ukraine and Europe \"one step away\" from disaster.\n\nBut local Russian-appointed governor Yevgeny Balitsky blamed the Ukrainian military for the strikes, accusing them of causing power outages to the region as a result.\n\nThe BBC was not able to independently verify which side was responsible. Russia's military took over the plant in early March, but it is still being operated by Ukrainian staff under difficult conditions.\n\nRadiation levels nearby remained normal despite the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex losing its main power supply on Thursday, local officials reported.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said the plant \"remained connected to a 330kV line from the nearby thermal power facility that can provide back-up electricity if needed\", citing Ukraine's state nuclear agency.\n\nNormally the nuclear plant supplies one-fifth of Ukraine's total electricity - so its continued disconnection from the national grid would have posed serious challenges for Ukraine.\n\nThe Kremlin has signalled it will allow international inspectors to visit the complex - but until that happens it is difficult to verify what is happening on the ground.\n\n\"Almost every day there is a new incident at or near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. We can't afford to lose any more time,\" IAEA director general Rafael Grossi said in a statement, repeating his call to lead an international mission to the plant in the next few days.\n\nIt comes amid claims from Kyiv that Moscow could be trying to intentionally divert power from the occupied nuclear plant to reconnect it to Russia's own power grid.\n\nThere were reports on Thursday of power outages across towns and villages in neighbouring parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.\n\nThe mayor of Enerhodar, which is located next to the nuclear plant, claimed on Thursday that the city had no power or water at all and there were also reports of power cuts in the Russian-occupied cities of Melitopol and Kherson.\n\nWashington officials condemned any bid by Moscow to redirect the power generated by the Zaporizhzhia plant away from Kyiv's national grid.\n\n\"The electricity that it produces rightly belongs to Ukraine,\" US state department spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Thursday evening, adding that \"no country should turn a nuclear power plant into an active war zone.\"", "Alexander Thomson knocked one woman's teeth out and made her swallow them\n\nA serial sex attacker who raped and abused four women faces the prospect of life behind bars.\n\nAlexander Thomson, 42, has been convicted of 17 charges of rape and physical attacks between 2013 and 2019 across West Lothian.\n\nThey included knocking one victim's teeth out and making her swallow them.\n\nThomson was given an Order for Lifelong Restriction at a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.\n\nHe must serve a minimum of four years in prison but has effectively been told that he may never be released.\n\nJudge Tom Hughes paid tribute to the victims whose testimony finally brought Thomson to justice.\n\nHe told Thomson: \"The only consolation they can take from these dreadful proceedings was that they were able to come to court, give evidence, which the jury believed.\n\n\"They were completely vindicated...they can take comfort from that.\n\n\"You have a dreadful record of convictions. A [pre-sentencing] social work report confirms the danger you pose to society and female partners.\"\n\nThe court had heard how the attacks took place in Livingston, Bathgate and Broxburn.\n\nOne one occasion, Thomson put a plastic bag over a woman's head as she slept and tried to choke her.\n\nAfter one rape, Thomson casually walked away from his victim and asked if she wanted a coffee.\n\nTwo of the women, aged 30 and 36, have since died but their police statements helped secure their attacker's conviction.\n\nThomson will be on the sex offenders list for an indefinite period and has been issued with non-harassment orders banning him from contacting the surviving victims.\n\nFollowing sentencing, Det Chief Insp Steven McMillan said: \"Thomson is a dangerous, serial abuser who presents a threat to women.\n\n\"Today's sentencing will hopefully ensure that others are kept safe from him.\n\n\"He inflicted some of the most horrendous and shocking abuse I've ever come across.\n\n\"Without the bravery, courage and dignity of the women who came forward to report what had happened to them, Thomson wouldn't have been held accountable for his actions, so I'd like to thank them.\"", "The unsealed affidavit includes an attached note from Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, dated 25 May.\n\nCorcoran argued that as president, Trump had “absolute authority” to declassify documents – but does not say he actually did so in this case. Trump’s lawyer also wrote that the criminal statute governing mishandling of classified documents doesn’t apply to the president.\n\nThe letter echoes Trump’s own defence of his possession of the classified materials.\n\nAfter the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in search of documents, Trump insisted that “it was all declassified”.\n\nBut the reality is more complex.\n\nAs the BBC's US partner CBS reports, the president cannot declassify documents by simply saying so. A written memo would usually be drafted and signed by the president, before a consultation process takes place with the relevant agencies.\n\nOnce a final decision is made, the old classification level would be crossed out and the document marked as \"declassified on x date\".\n\nIt is unclear whether Mr Trump followed the typical process with the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago.\n\nWhen materials are classified, they are marked as such and only certain people - those who have passed the relevant level of security vetting - should be able to view them. There are also rules dictating how classified information is transported and stored.\n\nSome senior officials do have the power to declassify documents. The president, too, has the authority to do this, but would usually delegate the task to those who have direct responsibility for the material.\n\nIt's worth noting that documents related to nuclear weapons cannot be declassified by the president, as they fall under a different law, according to a security specialist who spoke to the Washington Post.", "Eddie Izzard confirmed her hopes to become the Sheffield Central MP while on a visit to the city\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard says she hopes to stand as a Labour candidate in Sheffield at the next general election.\n\nNo selection process has yet formally started, but the star told the BBC she hopes to contest the Sheffield Central seat.\n\nLabour MP Paul Blomfield, who has represented the seat since 2010, announced in February he would stand down at the next election.\n\nIzzard said she \"wished to throw my hat in the ring\".\n\n\"It's an amazing seat to be able to stand for, if the people of Sheffield Central wish to have me there I will be there,\" she told BBC Radio Sheffield.\n\n\"I would love to be here as my whole creative career started from here, all the way to Hollywood Bowl, Madison Square Garden and around 45 countries in the world.\"\n\nThe stand-up, writer and actor studied accountancy and financial management with mathematics at the University of Sheffield in the 1980s.\n\nIzzard later dropped out of the course to pursue her interests in comedy and was given an honorary doctorate by the university in 2006.\n\nLabour's Paul Blomfield has represented the Sheffield Central seat for the last 12 years\n\nThe 60-year-old is backing Sheffield's bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 and attended a protest about cuts to bus services during a visit to the city on Thursday.\n\nShe added: \"It's going to be a big competition to get the Sheffield Central seat.\n\n\"Paul has done sterling work, you hear on the doorstep how much he is admired for the hard work he has done.\"\n\nPaul Blomfield is leaving a strong majority of over 27,000 in Sheffield Central, but it's a difficult seat to manage.\n\nIt has a transient student population and some of the most deprived wards, along with some of the most prosperous.\n\nThe Greens have a good foothold, holding several council wards, and there's a boundary review which could see the Labour wards bumped into a neighbouring constituency.\n\nThere's no doubt celebrities attract attention and are vote winners - as Eddie Izzard discovered when a police van pulled over so officers could take a selfie with her.\n\nBut with widespread industrial action, the Ukraine war, a cost of living and energy crisis, any candidate will need political strategy as well as stardust.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Labour MP to stand down at general election", "Whoever becomes prime minister will be faced with difficult decisions from day one\n\nA sense of scale is important when considering the size of the energy crisis now facing every household in the country - and what the government will have to do about it.\n\nAverage energy bills of nearly £300 per month are unthinkable and unmanageable for several million households.\n\nFriday's energy price cap announcement from Ofgem puts them at this level from October onwards.\n\nBut some predictions have that number at £550 per month by April - closer to the average cost of a mortgage - as wholesale gas prices have surged yet higher in recent days.\n\nFor an average household on £31,000 income per year, energy costs are set to exceed income tax bills. Or alternatively, the energy rise we will have seen since last year, is the equivalent of adding 15p to 20p to the basic rate of tax.\n\nIt will drain the disposable income of several million households.\n\nAnd it is not just an issue which will transform the path of the economy. These rises are so large and so widespread that they could test the nation's social resilience too.\n\nEven the energy industry itself doesn't think these rises are possible.\n\nAt a recent meeting with the government to discuss the Energy Tariff Deficit Fund, a key takeaway was that not one energy firm believed that it is feasible to charge the nation what the companies themselves are having to pay to purchase gas.\n\nThat is an amazing and remarkable situation.\n\nSo that gaping hole, that is getting larger every day, week and month is now in the hands of the government.\n\nUltimately, the government must choose who needs help. It will be over half of households at least.\n\nExtending it to everyone will cost much more, but will also rein in the overall inflation rate, and be far simpler. There is a vein of thinking that wealthier households that accumulated savings during the pandemic should pay their own way.\n\nIt comes down to a choice between tens of billions of pounds and several tens of billions.\n\nAnd so far, we are getting very little of the relevant detail from the Conservative leadership, and future Prime Minister, candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.\n\nThen there is also the question of who should pay eventually. Government borrowing will go up at first. But the energy industry has suggested that customers essentially repay this back with higher bills for the next decade through the Energy Tariff Deficit Fund.\n\nThe net result would be to keep bills from rising much above £2,000 on average, but there would have to be acceptance that they would come down only very slowly into the 2030s, even if the war in Ukraine is over.\n\nThis may not work. So those parts of the energy industry making even greater profits from exactly the same gas extraction might face a further tax grab. Or general taxes might have to increase. This would require a breaking of some of the promises in the Conservative leadership campaign even before it is over.\n\nExtra borrowing could take the strain.\n\nBut market interest rates are already surging and high inflation is also fast increasing the price of government borrowing. The Bank of England also faces even higher inflation and even higher government borrowing.\n\nIt is a potent mix: inflation, recession, high debts, and the core reason for it all, a wartime energy shock\n\nAnd perhaps that is the point. It is not the market driving this. It is geopolitics, diplomacy and conflict.\n\nMargaret Thatcher's former energy secretary Lord David Howell, told the BBC this week the country needed to be on \"a war-footing\" as regards energy and that these bills were simply \"impossible\".\n\nAt the very moment that most households come to see that the \"energy price cap\" is not really a cap on the price they pay for energy, it seems likely that the government may have to encourage immediate measures to save energy.\n\nThe new Prime Minister will have to make an ominous judgement even before they get the keys to Downing Street.", "The US pop singer was recently freed from a conservatorship\n\nBritney Spears has released her first new music since being released from a conservatorship that controlled almost every aspect of her life.\n\nHold Me Closer - a duet with Sir Elton John - hit streaming sites on Friday, marking Spears' return to music after a six-year hiatus.\n\n\"It's pretty damn cool that I'm singing with one of the most classic men of our time,\" she said ahead of the release.\n\n\"I'm kinda overwhelmed... it's a big deal to me!\"\n\nThe song incorporates three of Sir Elton's classic hits - Tiny Dancer, The One and Don't Go Breaking My Heart - over a summer-fresh club beat.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Elton John This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSpears and Sir Elton sing in unison throughout the track with their voices drenched in echo, making it hard to assess how Spears' voice has changed since we last heard from her.\n\nHowever, she lets loose with a few ad libs - including a trademark \"baby\" halfway through the track - that suggests her vocals have matured and deepened over the last six years. (An unsubstantiated fan theory contends this is Britney's natural register, and that she was forced to sing in a \"fake baby voice\" by her former managers).\n\nSonically, Hold Me Closer is cut from the same cloth as Cold Heart, the Dua Lipa duet that gave Sir Elton John a global number one hit last year.\n\nThat formula proved irresistible to multiple radio formats and streaming playlists, and helped introduce Sir Elton's hits to a younger generation.\n\nIt's no surprise that he's trying to recreate the magic on this follow-up, which also melds two eras of pop, with the two stars singing nostalgic melodies over an airbrushed disco groove.\n\nFans welcomed the release of Hold Me Closer, but the song has not gone down well so far with critics\n\nIn an interview with The Guardian, Sir Elton said it had been his husband, David Furnish, who suggested putting Spears on the track.\n\n\"She sang fantastically,\" said the star. \"Everyone was saying they don't think she can sing any more. But I said, she was brilliant when she started so I think she can. And she did it, and I was so thrilled with what she did.\"\n\nSir Elton previewed the song to diners at a French beach restaurant earlier this week, singing along as a DJ played the track.\n\n\"I am absolutely thrilled to have had the chance to work with Britney Spears,\" the star said.\n\n\"She truly is an icon, one of the all-time great pop stars and she sounds amazing on this record. I love her dearly and am delighted with what we've created together.\"\n\nLast November, Spears was freed from the controversial conservatorship that controlled almost every aspect of her life for 13 years.\n\nIt meant the star could once again take control of her finances, career and personal life, and would no longer have to pay a team of professionals and lawyers to oversee her affairs.\n\nAlthough fans have been clamouring for her to return to music, the star has been reluctant to take that step.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by eltonjohn This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a series of Instagram posts last year, she said she was \"staying clear\" of the music industry.\n\n\"People have no idea the awful things that were done to me personally,\" she wrote. \"And after what I've been through, I'm scared of people and the business!\"\n\nSir Elton has often supported musicians who are struggling in their personal and professional lives, from Robbie Williams to Eminem, and he says his approach to Spears was motivated by the same instincts.\n\n\"It's hard when you're young. Britney was broken. I was broken when I got sober. I was in a terrible place. I've been through that broken feeling and it's horrible,\" he told The Guardian.\n\n\"And luckily enough, I've been sober for 32 years and it's the happiest I've ever been. Now I've got the experience to be able to advise people and help them because I don't want to see any artists in a dark place.\"\n\nAfter Tiny Dancer was released, fans promised to buy and stream the song to show Spears they still loved her.\n\n\"I hope she gets all the support in the world after the hell she's been in for 15 years,\" wrote one fan on Reddit.\n\n\"Britney sounds amazing!\" said another on YouTube. \"Love the song, the melody, everything! A mega hit is born!\"\n\n\"\"We are coming for #1 all over the world, Britney & Elton deserve it,\" added a third.\n\nBut critics were not as enthusiastic. \"Oops, we did it again and ruined song,\" read a headline in the Times on Friday, with its writer Will Hodgkinson describing the song as a \"bloodless remix\" which \"kills the magic of the original\".\n\n\"Right from the overproduced opening bars, the hotel foyer-friendly funky bass and the sickly smooth guitar lick, from the way John and Spears's voices have been treated in a way that makes them sound like they might dissolve into the background entirely, this is a massive opportunity wasted.\"\n\nThe Telegraph's Neil McCormick was also unimpressed, writing: \"Elton John and Britney Spears have just made one of the most pointless records in pop history.\"\n\n\"Hold Me Closer is an ephemeral trifle that is very much less than the sum of its parts. Cobbled together from two far better songs, it's a dreamy little wisp of a thing that plays to neither of their strengths and coasts along on novelty value alone.\"\n\nOn the contrary, said The Guardian's Michael Cragg, the song is \"filled with a power and poignancy of its own\".\n\n\"Spears seems to hint at finding that for herself again in music,\" he added. \"Even if this is a one-off - and who can blame her if she doesn't want to return to pop full-time - that feels like enough.\"", "Emergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to St Anne's Road in Harrow at about 18:10 BST\n\nFive people have been injured after a car mounted a pavement on a north west London street.\n\nEmergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to St Anne's Road in Harrow at about 18:10 BST.\n\nMedics said they did not believe the injuries were life-threatening or life-changing.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said a man in his 60s had been detained. It added the incident was not being treated as terror-related.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The female fans were seated in a women only section of the ground\n\nWomen have officially attended a domestic league football match in Iran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, state media say.\n\nAbout 500 are thought to have been at the game at Azadi Stadium in Tehran on Thursday night.\n\nWomen have effectively been barred from domestic matches where men are playing due to clerical disapproval under the Shia Muslim regime.\n\nThe last men's match they watched was a World Cup qualifier three years ago.\n\nAt the time, authorities relented following an outcry after the death of 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari, who set herself on fire while awaiting trial for trying to attend a game disguised as a man.\n\nKhodayari became known as \"Blue Girl\" because of the team she supported and a symbol of the struggle for women's rights in Iran.\n\nSeveral Iranian websites said the decision to allow women into the game on Thursday came after football's world governing body Fifa sent a letter to Iranian authorities calling on them to permit more women into stadiums. Prohibiting women from games goes against international football statutes.\n\nThose who attended the game between home side Estaqlal and rivals Mes-e Kerman were seated separately to men. Many waved flags, wore their team's colours and chanted \"Blue Girl\" in acknowledgment to Khodayari.\n\nSocial media users also celebrated the memory of Khodayari, tweeting under the Persian hashtag #Blue_Girl.\n\nOne shared a picture of Esteqlal fans and wrote that \"Blue Girl\" died so that \"many blue girls can enter the stadium\".\n\nAlthough there is no official ban on women going to sporting events in Iran, it is rare for them to attend as they are often refused entry.\n\nDozens were detained after trying to get into a football match in 2018 while others have managed to attend games by donning fake beards and wigs.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot as her mother struggled with two men at their home in Liverpool on Monday night\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was a \"unique, chatty, nosey little girl who broke the mould when she was born\", her family has said.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot as her mother struggled with two men at their home in Liverpool on Monday night.\n\nPaying tribute her family said: \"Although her life was short, her personality certainly wasn't.\n\n\"She lived it to the most she could, and would blow people away with her wit and kindness.\n\n\"We as a family are heartbroken and have lost a huge part of our life,\" the statement added.\n\nUrging people to come forward with information the family said \"now is the time to speak up\".\n\n\"It is not about being a 'snitch' or a 'grass' it is about finding out who took our baby away from us,\" they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: 'We will find you' - detective tells Olivia's killer\n\nMerseyside Police has said the gunman was still at large and it was unclear if he had fled overseas.\n\nBut Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen said there were a \"number of very positive lines of inquiry\".\n\n\"We will find him wherever he goes,\" he added.\n\nConvicted burglar Joseph Nee, 35, from the Dovecot area of Liverpool in which the shooting took place, has been named as the intended target of the shooting that also left Olivia's 46-year-old mother wounded.\n\nDet Ch Supt Kameen said detectives were also speaking to a man who was with Nee at the time of the shooting.\n\nHe said his message to the killer \"remains the same - we will not rest until we find you - and we will find you\".\n\nFloral and written tributes have been left in memory of Olivia near where the shooting happened\n\nThe detective said there was a sense of \"disgust\" in the city about recent shootings including that of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Swan and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Dingle.\n\nHe called on members of the public to disclose any information about those responsible, and appealed to those who \"operate in the criminal fraternity\" to \"search their conscience\".\n\n\"I am incredibly grateful for the sheer levels and volume of information that we have received so far,\" he said.\n\n\"This level of engagement, this level of co-operation, and this level of working together simply must continue.\"\n\nOlivia's mother Cheryl Korbel had opened her front door on Kingsheath Avenue at 22:00 BST in response to a commotion outside, which was Nee being chased by the gunman.\n\nThe men - complete strangers to the family - burst in and Olivia was fatally shot, while Ms Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door.\n\nIn the statement released by Merseyside Police, Olivia's family continued: \"Liv was adored by everyone who knew her and would instantly make friends with anyone and everyone.\n\n\"She was often seen going up and down the street on her new bike she had just got for her birthday.\"\n\nOlivia loved dressing up, doing her make-up and nails and was \"nine going on 19\", they added.\n\nThe family said they were \"eternally grateful\" for the help and support received from people across the world and thanked police and hospital staff.\n\nJoseph Nee has been named as the intended target of the shooting that killed Olivia\n\nOn Twitter, Everton manager Frank Lampard appealed for anyone with any information to come forward.\n\nHe said: \"Our entire community needs to come together.\n\n\"Keeping quiet is not an option. Enough is enough. Whose side are you on?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Everton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiverpool Town Hall fell silent earlier in memory of victims of violent crime including Olivia.\n\nPrior to the start of the Liverpool Council culture and visitor select economy, a minute's silence was held to remember the Dovecot schoolgirl, Ms Dale, Karen Dempsey and Mr Rimmer who have lost their lives in the last few weeks.\n\nCommittee chair Councillor Liz Parsons said: \"It's been a particularly difficult week with a number of tragic incidents.... people are rightly shocked and saddened at what's happened across the city.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pearson, the exam board in charge of BTecs, knew from July that results could be delayed, the chairman of the education select committee has said.\n\nPearson and others will be quizzed by MPs about why many students are still missing grades, Robert Halfon said.\n\nHe suggested exam boards should refund schools, which pay for students to enter exams, if issues are not solved.\n\nLevel 2 and 3 BTec results will be included in a review into the delays by Ofqual, England's exams regulator.\n\nThe Level 2 results - for about 235,000 BTec Firsts, Technicals and Tech Awards - were meant to come out on Thursday alongside GCSEs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut on Thursday, Pearson warned that 5,700 students would not be receiving theirs.\n\nThis may be because of processing issues, the BBC understands. In other instances, it may be because the pupil has dropped out before the end of their course.\n\nLast week, Pearson also apologised to students taking Level 3 BTecs - a similar standard to A-levels - after some faced delays in getting their results, throwing their university places into doubt.\n\nOther students are waiting on results for Cambridge Nationals, issued by the OCR exam board.\n\nEmma Harrison, who is 18 and from Stratford-upon-Avon, was supposed to receive results for her Level 3 BTec in health and social care last Thursday.\n\nBut her results were delayed - meaning she did not know if she would be able to take up her place on a mental health nursing course at the University of Worcester.\n\n\"I was seeing loads of my friends receiving their results,\" she says.\n\n\"It just felt that yet again, BTec was second place to A-Levels.\"\n\nShe said she called Pearson \"numerous times\", but it was only after her dad called later than she was sent her grades.\n\n\"It was extremely frustrating, it just felt like they didn't care,\" she says.\n\nHer university place was confirmed a week later, but she says the celebrations \"have been ruined\".\n\n\"It feels like everyone's passed it now that I have my results,\" she says.\n\n\"But it is a relief. It feels like the hard work I put in has paid off.\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Halfon said he had met with Pearson and told them the delays were \"unacceptable\".\n\n\"They knew this problem from early July, because there were delays from some school results,\" he said, adding that \"there should be no reason for this delay\".\n\nSchools and colleges pay exam boards when they enter students into qualifications.\n\nMr Halfon said delays to BTec results had \"happened before\", and that if exam boards \"don't get their act together, they should look at their funding being refunded\".\n\n\"We're going to call Ofqual and these organisations - Pearson and others - to our education select committee and ask questions to make sure we don't just have this again next year,\" he said.\n\nHe added that politicians would be \"up in arms\" if delays were with A-levels or GCSE results.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said: \"We will examine all relevant information to better understand what has happened and what needs to change to ensure that students are protected.\n\n\"Should we find the awarding organisations have been at fault, we will consider what action, including possible regulatory action, is appropriate.\"\n\nPearson said on Thursday that about 790 students had still not received results for their Level 3 BTecs, and 5,700 had not received their results for BTEC Firsts, Technicals and Tech Award qualifications.\n\nOn Friday, a spokesperson said Pearson was continuing to work with \"a handful of schools and colleges\" to review whether students currently marked as being \"ineligible\" for a result are in fact eligible.\n\nThey added the situation \"has been very difficult for students and their families\" and that the exam board would conduct its own review - in addition to Ofqual's - to work out how to improve the system in future.\n\nOCR said on Wednesday it was \"well on the way to issuing the remainder\" of missing Level 1 and 2 Cambridge National results.\n\nTom Middlehurst, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the union had not heard of students being unable to move on to post-16 courses, because many Level 2 BTec students also study other qualifications, which they will have received on Thursday.\n\n\"Nevertheless, it is a deeply frustrating situation for these young people, and we need to ensure that lessons are learned so that this does not happen again in the future,\" he said.", "A colourised version of this satellite image captures infrared radiation from the burning of gas at the Portovaya plant\n\nAs Europe's energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News.\n\nThey say the plant, near the border with Finland, is burning an estimated $10m (£8.4m) worth of gas every day.\n\nExperts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany.\n\nGermany's ambassador to the UK told BBC News that Russia was burning the gas because \"they couldn't sell it elsewhere\".\n\nScientists are concerned about the large volumes of carbon dioxide and soot it is creating, which could exacerbate the melting of Arctic ice.\n\nThe analysis by Rystad Energy indicates that around 4.34 million cubic metres of gas are being burned by the flare every day.\n\nIt is coming from a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Portovaya, north-west of St Petersburg.\n\nThe first signs that something was awry came from Finnish citizens over the nearby border who spotted a large flame on the horizon earlier this summer.\n\nPortovaya is located close to a compressor station at the start of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which carries gas under the sea to Germany.\n\nSupplies through the pipeline have been curtailed since mid-July, with the Russians blaming technical issues for the restriction. Germany says it was purely a political move following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut since June, researchers have noted a significant increase in heat emanating from the facility - thought to be from gas flaring, the burning of natural gas.\n\nWhile burning off gas is common at processing plants - normally done for technical or safety reasons - the scale of this burn has confounded experts.\n\n\"I've never seen an LNG plant flare so much,\" said Dr Jessica McCarty, an expert on satellite data from Miami University in Ohio.\n\n\"Starting around June, we saw this huge peak, and it just didn't go away. It's stayed very anomalously high.\"\n\nMiguel Berger, the German ambassador to the UK, told BBC News that European efforts to reduce reliance on Russian gas were \"having a strong effect on the Russian economy\".\n\n\"They don't have other places where they can sell their gas, so they have to burn it,\" he suggested.\n\nThis photo was taken by Finnish citizen Ari Laine on 24 July at a distance of around 23 miles (38km) from the Portovaya facility\n\nMark Davis is the CEO of Capterio, a company that is involved in finding solutions to gas flaring.\n\nHe says the flaring is not accidental and is more likely a deliberate decision made for operational reasons.\n\n\"Operators often are very hesitant to actually shut down facilities for fear that they may be technically difficult or costly to start up again, and it's probably the case here,\" he told BBC News.\n\nOthers believe that there could be technical challenges in dealing with the large volumes of gas that were being supplied to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.\n\nRussian energy company Gazprom may have intended to use that gas to make LNG at the new plant, but may have had problems handling it and the safest option is to flare it off.\n\nIt could also be the result of Europe's trade embargo with Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"This kind of long-term flaring may mean that they are missing some equipment,\" said Esa Vakkilainen, an energy engineering professor from Finland's LUT University.\n\n\"So, because of the trade embargo with Russia, they are not able to make the high-quality valves needed in oil and gas processing. So maybe there are some valves broken and they can't get them replaced.\"\n\nGazprom - Russia's state-controlled energy giant which owns the plant - has not responded to requests for comment on the flaring.\n\nThe financial and environmental costs mount each day the flare continues to burn, say scientists.\n\n\"While the exact reasons for the flaring are unknown, the volumes, emissions and location of the flare are a visible reminder of Russia's dominance in Europe's energy markets,\" said Sindre Knutsson from Rystad Energy.\n\n\"There could not be a clearer signal - Russia can bring energy prices down tomorrow. This is gas that would otherwise have been exported via Nord Stream 1 or alternatives.\"\n\nEnergy prices around the world rose sharply as Covid lockdowns were lifted and economies returned to normal. Many places of work, industry and leisure were all suddenly in need of more energy at the same time, putting unprecedented pressures on suppliers.\n\nPrices increased again in February this year, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. European governments looked for ways to import less energy from Russia, which had previously supplied 40% of the gas used in the EU.\n\nPrices for alternative sources of gas went up as a result, and some EU nations - like Germany and Spain - are now bringing in energy-saving measures.\n\nThe smoke and orange light from the gas flare at Portovaya is seen on the left of this image captured by holidaymaker Elmeri Rasi\n\nThe environmental impacts of the burning are worrying scientists.\n\nAccording to researchers, flaring is far better than simply venting the methane which is the key ingredient in the gas, and is a very powerful climate warming agent.\n\nRussia has a track record of burning off gas - according to the World Bank, it is the number one country when it comes to the volume of flaring.\n\nBut as well as releasing about 9,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every day from this flare, the burning causes other significant issues.\n\nBlack carbon is the name given to the sooty particles that are produced through the incomplete burning of fuels like natural gas.\n\n\"Of particular concern with flaring at Arctic latitudes is the transport of emitted black carbon northward where it deposits on snow and ice and significantly accelerates melting,\" said Prof Matthew Johnson, from Carleton University in Canada.\n\n\"Some highly cited estimates already put flaring as the dominant source of black carbon deposition in the Arctic and any increases in flaring in this region are especially unwelcome.\"", "Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Palaeontologists were shocked to find the skeleton largely intact.\n\nThe remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe are being excavated in a Portuguese back garden.\n\nThe fossilised skeleton of a sauropod was discovered in the central city of Pombal in 2017, when a man began building work on his house.\n\nSauropods were the biggest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals to have ever lived.\n\nThey had long necks and tails, ate plants and walked on four legs.\n\nFaculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Work is under way to uncover more of the dinosaur.\n\nEarlier this month, palaeontologists from Portugal and Spain unearthed parts of the spine and ribs of a possible brachiosaurid sauropod which suggest the huge reptile was about 12m (39ft) tall and 25m (82ft) long.\n\nThe skeleton has been found in Upper Jurassic sedimentary rocks, suggesting it is about 150 million years old.\n\nThe skeleton - found in the position that the dinosaur probably died in - is now being studied by an international research team.\n\nBecause of the relatively intact positioning of the skeleton, palaeontologists working on the dig are hopeful that there is more of it they are yet to unearth.\n\n\"It is not usual to find all the ribs of an animal like this, let alone in this position, maintaining their original anatomical position,\" Elisabete Malafaia, post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, told the Phys.org website.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond LV= Insurance Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day two of five)\n\nSublime centuries from Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes gave England complete control of the second Test against South Africa after two days at Old Trafford.\n\nStokes' first hundred as captain and wicketkeeper Foakes' first at home took England to 415-9 declared, a first-innings lead of 264.\n\nSouth Africa battled to 23-0 by the close, 241 behind.\n\nStokes and Foakes came together at 147-5 with England four runs adrift after Anrich Nortje removed Jonny Bairstow and Zak Crawley.\n\nTheir sixth-wicket stand of 173 has left England primed to level the series at 1-1 with one match to play.\n\nBoth men overturned lbw decisions, while Stokes was dropped on 92 before falling for 103.\n\nFoakes was not out on 113 when England's declaration gave South Africa nine overs to survive in the evening sunshine.\n\nAlthough openers Dean Elgar and Sarel Erwee came through, the Proteas face a huge task to even drag this contest into a fourth day.\n• None 'This was the Ben Stokes Show - in more ways than one'\n\nEngland's dominant position is in stark contrast to a gripping morning session when the game hung in the balance as the terrifying Nortje threatened to undo the hosts' good work from day one.\n\nAfter England resumed on 111-3, Nortje found reverse swing at high pace to have the poking Bairstow held at first slip for 49 then ended Crawley's resistance on 38 with a wonderful delivery that was edged behind.\n\nThe Stokes-Foakes rebuild was not based on the swashbuckling style favoured by England so far this summer, but through careful, correct and classical Test batting.\n\nThe gradual grinding down of the South Africa attack came on a pitch that is wearing quickly and delighted a boisterous crowd.\n\nThe name of James Anderson was sung as the local hero emerged to loosen up between innings and Anderson thought he had snared Erwee lbw, only for the left-hander to survive England's review.\n\nAll is not lost for South Africa. If they can in any way match England's effort with the bat, a fourth-innings target of 150 could prove tricky given the state of the pitch and quality of the touring attack.\n\nBut England are massive favourites for victory, possibly by an innings before Saturday is out.\n\nStokes brings drama in more ways than one\n\nStokes' century came on the day his documentary Phoenix from the Ashes was released.\n\nIt was an innings that had its own share of theatre. His troublesome left knee needed treatment when he had only 16, he successfully reviewed being given leg before to Lungi Ngidi on 72, and Aiden Markram failed to hold what would have been a stunning catch at cover as Stokes attacked the second new ball.\n\nThe captain signalled his intent by sweeping the first ball he faced from dangerous off-spinner Simon Harmer for six, but this was not the slogging Stokes that has been on display for much of the summer.\n\nRealising the game situation, Stokes batted with control in taking 98 balls for his first 41 runs. Thereafter he scored at almost a run a ball, including two more sixes lofted down the ground.\n\nHe took tea on 98 not out then celebrated his 12th century with the familiar bent finger tribute to his late father Ged, made all the more poignant given the personal struggles Stokes detailed in the run-up to this match.\n\nA swipe at Kagiso Rabada resulted in a skied catch to mid-off, ending another magnificent display by England's talismanic all-rounder.\n\nFoakes is quietly establishing himself under the leadership of Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum. Already among the leading glovemen in the game, he is averaging 45 with the bat for England this summer.\n\nThis was an unflappable century, only the second by an England wicketkeeper in a home Test since 2016 and Foakes' first since a ton on debut in Sri Lanka nearly four years ago.\n\nMatching Stokes' patience, Foakes scored with wristy whips through mid-wicket and was happy to hook when South Africa tested him with bouncers.\n\nHe had 28 when he overturned being given out lbw to left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, the closest he came to giving a chance.\n\nFoakes' hundred came with a cut for four off Nortje and he had the pleasure of remaining unbeaten when the dismissal of number 10 Jack Leach signalled England's declaration.\n\n'South Africa need a mammoth total' - what they said\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Ben Foakes on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was amazing. It's been an interesting journey since my debut, being out the side and get the odd chance. To get a hundred now, I appreciate it more than my debut one.\n\n\"We're in a fantastic position and hopefully the wicket deteriorates plays into our hands. There are a few cracks and if they open up it wouldn't be the worse thing for us.\"\n\nFormer South Africa bowler Vernon Philander: \"The partnership between Foakes and Stokes really illustrated that if you get in on this surface, it's hard to get out. South Africa now need to post a mammoth total to get themselves back into this contest.\"\n\nEx-England bowler Steven Finn: \"England wanted to buck the trend with the way the team were playing in the last 18 months. They have done that and now they have to find an equilibrium. They are starting to do that and learn when to soak up pressure against high-quality bowling.\"\n• None How to use deception in sport effectively: Sideways puts some prevalent tactics to the test\n• None Is exercise a matter of mind over muscle?: The Expectation Effect explores the importance of mindset", "Aerial photographs show the extent of the damage to Cameron House\n\nManagement at Cameron House did not hold fire drills at night prior to a fatal blaze, an inquiry has heard.\n\nAndy Roger, 43, was resort director at the luxury Loch Lomond hotel at the time of the fire on 18 December 2017.\n\nIt claimed the lives of Simon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38 - a couple from London who were on holiday.\n\nA Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) is being held at Paisley Sheriff Court to determine if lessons can be learned to minimise the risk of future deaths.\n\nThe fire began after night porter Christopher O'Malley left a plastic bag of ash in a concierge's cupboard containing newspapers and kindling.\n\nWhen asked by Sheriff Thomas McCartney what time fire drills were held, Mr Roger said: \"We generally took them around 10:30 to 11:00 in the morning or 15:00 or 16:00 in the afternoon.\n\n\"Between 10:00 and 16:00, generally, the hours of the drills.\"\n\nQuestioned by Crown counsel Graeme Jessop about role play drills after hours, Mr Roger said: \"That was not something we did.\n\n\"In hindsight that's something we have done differently, we have done silent drills since we re-opened to capture that.\"\n\nAndy Roger was the resort director at Cameron House in December 2017\n\nAs part of the evacuation plan, workers were instructed to pick up a bag which included equipment to help with the roll call of guests.\n\nHowever, as the intensity of the fire in reception grew on the night of the fire, the bag was left behind.\n\nMr Roger was asked if there was any back-up.\n\n\"A duplicate of equipment? Not that I can recall,\" he told the court, adding many of the hotel's systems were cloud-based and could be accessed from a laptop.\n\nThe inquiry was told about the hotel's fire plan which, under its general section, stated: \"Combustible material of any kind must not be stored in general electrical or boiler rooms.\"\n\nThe fire tore through Cameron House Hotel on 18 December 2017\n\nCameron House was ordered to pay £500,000 after admitting to breaches of fire safety rules.\n\nO'Malley admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act and was given a community payback order.\n\nThe Crown Office initially said an FAI was not needed because the circumstances of the fatalities had been established - but a review overturned the decision after Mrs Midgley called for wider lessons to be learned.\n\nA coroner in England ruled that the couple were unlawfully killed and raised concerns he had not been allowed access to documents and CCTV footage by Scottish authorities.", "Only 21 foreign nationals have been removed from the UK under post-Brexit \"inadmissibility\" rules on asylum, Home Office figures show.\n\nSince the UK formally left the EU last year, asylum seekers who arrive from a \"safe third country\" can be returned.\n\nOverall, there were 63,089 asylum applications in the 12 months to June, the highest in 19 years.\n\nThe figures coincide with a proposal to fast-track removals of Albanians who cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nAn agreement with the Albanian government is expected next week to allow its police to be stationed at ports in Kent.\n\nThe officers will not be armed, as is usual in their home country.\n\nSince 1 January 2021, asylum seekers whose claims are deemed inadmissible can be removed under new tougher rules.\n\nDuring that period, more than 17,000 asylum claimants were identified for consideration.\n\nOf those, almost 16,000 were served with \"notices of intent\", warning of possible removal.\n\nHowever, Home Office figures published on Thursday show only 83 individuals were subsequently ruled as inadmissible for asylum.\n\nOf those, 21 people have so far been returned to Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, but none to France.\n\nThe Home Office does also forcibly return foreign criminals and others in breach of their immigration status. In the year ending March 2022, there were 3,231 enforced returns - 55% fewer than in 2019 pre-pandemic and a far lower number than the 15,000 seen back in 2013.\n\nThe 2022 figure of 63,089 asylum applications is 77% more than in 2019, before the start of the pandemic, and also higher than during the 2016 European migration crisis, which saw 36,564 applications.\n\nHowever, it is not as high as the 2002 peak of 84,132 applications.\n\nUK officials believe Albanians could make up 50-60% of small boat arrivals.\n\nThursday's figures show 1,727 Albanian arrivals in May and June, with estimates of about 5,000 altogether this year.\n\nThis is a sharp rise on the 898 Albanians who crossed the Channel between 2018 and 2021.\n\nThe proportion of Albanians granted refugee status stands at 53%, Thursday's figures suggest.\n\nThe BBC understands that while it is possible to prioritise the asylum claims of Albanians so they can be removed if they are not deemed to be entitled to asylum, no decision has been taken to do so.\n\nThe Home Office said Albania is a \"safe and prosperous country\" and some nationals \"are travelling through multiple countries to make the journey to the UK\" before making \"spurious asylum claims\".\n\nOverall, the figures show 2,066 small boat arrivals between January and June, including increasing numbers of Afghans who could be selected for removal to Rwanda.\n\nThe Home Office is already dealing with a record asylum backlog, the figures show, with:\n\nOfficials say smuggling gangs have increased the price of crossings and are enticing children and disabled people into increasingly overcrowded boats. On average there are 44 people on-board, up from 28 last year.\n\nChildren were among those who crossed the English Channel in small boats on Monday\n\nA Home Office source said it was \"remarkable\" there had not been any \"horrendous incidents\" in the Channel over the summer.\n\nMinisters turned down a BBC interview request but, in a statement, Minister for Illegal Migration Simon Baynes said the significant increase in small boat crossings \"continues to pressurise the UK's asylum system and our ability to make timely casework decisions\".\n\n\"Anyone who is travelling through safe countries to reach the UK should claim asylum there instead of giving money to evil criminal gangs.\"\n\nMr Baynes said government plans, including the Rwanda partnership, would \"fix the broken system, crack down on those who enter illegally and allow us to support those in genuine need\".", "Police have appealed to anyone who saw the black Audi Q3 in the days leading up to the shooting to get in touch\n\nPolice investigating the fatal shooting of Olivia Pratt-Korbel have released an image of the car believed to have taken the intended target to hospital.\n\nThe nine-year-old was killed as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of their Liverpool home on Monday.\n\nMerseyside Police also released aerial footage of the arrest of a 36-year-old man on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe man, from Huyton, was detained during an operation involving armed officers on Thursday night.\n\nHe was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe vehicle has been seized and is in the process of being forensically examined, officers said, as they appealed to anyone who saw the black Audi Q3 in the days leading up to the shooting to get in touch.\n\nDet Supt Mark Baker said: \"Although we have made an arrest in connection with the horrific murder of Olivia, I want to make it completely clear that we need any information about this vehicle or the wider investigation as much as ever.\n\n\"Whatever information you have, and whether you are sure that it is the same vehicle or not, pass it on and we will assess its importance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the arrest of a man on suspicion of murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel is released\n\nOlivia was killed after Cheryl Korbel, 46, opened her front door on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at 22:00 BST in response to a commotion outside.\n\nThe intended target of the attack, 35-year-old Joseph Nee, was being chased by a gunman.\n\nThe men - complete strangers to the family - burst in and Olivia was fatally shot.\n\nMs Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door and has now been released from hospital.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door\n\nOlivia was described by her family as a \"unique, chatty, nosey little girl who broke the mould when she was born\".\n\nNee, from Dovecot, was shot in the upper body and taken to hospital in a black Audi by a third man.\n\nOnce his treatment is completed, Nee will be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions.\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen, of Merseyside Police, previously said there was a sense of \"disgust\" in the city about recent shootings including 28-year-old Ashley Dale who was killed in the Old Swan area and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer who died in Dingle.\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, was also found stabbed in a pub car park near Kirkby on Monday. Her son has been charged with her murder.\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed on Merseyside in August\n\nThe government earlier announced it would allocate £500,000 for Merseyside to counter crime and provide mental health support following the killings.\n\nDuring a visit to Liverpool, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the whole country had been \"appalled at the spate of violence\".\n\nHowever Labour metro mayor Steve Rotheram said the cash pledged to get weapons off the streets and provide care to residents in the wake of the Liverpool shootings needs to be a \"down payment\".\n\nMr Rotheram told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"I told her that that needs to be a down payment, as we look to what interventions are actually necessary to educate people at an earlier age, to ensure that there are interventions, that there are diversionary activities for people, that the society can reknit and grow together.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the family' - Klopp and Gerrard on Olivia Pratt-Korbel's death\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told a press conference on Friday the club's \"thoughts and prayers are with the [Olivia's] family\".\n\n\"I cannot even imagine how it must feel - it's absolutely horrible.\"\n\nSpeaking after Everton boss Frank Lampard and his players issued an appeal against gun and knife crime, Klopp said: \"We have to realise it is our city so whatever we can do together, we have to do.\n\n\"I don't like the moments when [crime] happens, but I like the fact that we are then united and do really support with all we have.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anoosheh Ashoori flew back to the UK alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in March\n\nA man held in Iran for nearly five years on spying charges, before being released alongside Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, is set to run the London Marathon.\n\nAnoosheh Ashoori had always hoped to run the marathon whilst serving a jail sentence on charges he denied.\n\nThe 68-year-old from Lewisham, south-east London, was released in March.\n\nHe said he will run for Amnesty International and Hostage International.\n\nThe British-Iranian dual national was arrested in August 2017 while visiting his elderly mother in Tehran and was later convicted of allegedly spying for Israel's intelligence service Mossad, despite having lived in the UK for 20 years.\n\nMr Ashoori said while being held in Evin prison he started running in circles in a small prison yard, and gradually built up his stamina so he was able to run up to two hours.\n\nHe also read a book on running.\n\nHe said: \"When I read that, I decided it was so inspiring anytime I was released I promised myself, whatever age I am, I am going to participate in the London Marathon.\n\n\"By running you can fight going insane, it is magic.\"\n\nMr Ashoori, who will be running with his son Aryan, also urged the British Government to do more to help negotiate the release of other detainees held in Iran, like Morad Tahbaz.\n\nHe added he was running to \"let all the ones who are left behind know they are not forgotten\".\n\nHis and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release came after the UK agreed to pay back a £400m debt to Iran dating back to the 1970s.\n\nAmnesty International UK, described Mr Ashoori's marathon bid as an \"amazing turnaround\" from his time in Iran.\n\nMr Ashoori said he will be running the marathon to raise awareness about other detainees\n\nJo Atkins-Pott, Amnesty International UK's campaigner, said: \"Since his release in March, Anoosheh's always been clear that he wouldn't rest until Morad Tahbaz, Mehran Raoof and others unjustly detained in Iran were released.\n\n\"He's an inspiration and we're delighted and honoured to be campaigning with him.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have appeared in court on terrorism charges linked to a major investigation into the New IRA.\n\nJoseph Donnelly, 51, from Westrock Drive, Belfast, and Gary Gerard MacNally, 62, from Barnfield Grange, Lisburn, were arrested in west Belfast on Wednesday.\n\nBoth are accused of three offences, including directing terrorism.\n\nThey were detained as part of an ongoing operation against the New IRA involving MI5.\n\nAs well as directing terrorism, they are accused of membership of a proscribed group and preparing acts of terrorism, which allegedly involved meetings \"in the vicinity of\" Whiterock Leisure Centre in Belfast.\n\nAll the offences are alleged to have occurred between December 2019 and August 2022.\n\nThe two men appeared briefly at Belfast Magistrates Court via video-link.\n\nThey spoke only to confirm that they understood the charges against them.\n\nA police officer told the court that part of the evidence in the case involves audio material dating from August 2020.\n\nNo application was made for bail and the pair were remanded in custody.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries across BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu played down an uncomfortable practice session in New York, saying she just had \"one of those weird days\" before she begins her US Open title defence.\n\nRaducanu, 19, seemed to be struggling with a wrist injury and appeared to be upset at one point in Friday's session.\n\nBut the British number one said there was nothing seriously wrong before her opening match against Alize Cornet.\n\n\"It was one of those blips where you don't know what is going on,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't really explain it, just one of those days when you have certain small things that are niggling away.\"\n\nRaducanu, who is seeded 11th, plays France's world number 37 Cornet in Tuesday's night session on Louis Armstrong Stadium (00:00 BST, Wednesday).\n\nPractising in hot conditions on Friday lunchtime at Flushing Meadows, Raducanu twice had to stop and headed off court with physio Will Herbert for about 15 minutes after the second time.\n\nBut Raducanu returned to court and, although she looked in discomfort at times, continued to practise for the rest of the scheduled two-hour session against Russian player Ekaterina Alexandrova.\n\n\"Everyone has those days and for me to have those days, and for people to write about it, shows the public it is normal to have a day like that and that nothing matters,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"It's just one of those weird days where you feel a bit like nothing... I don't know. You just feel a bit out of it.\n\n\"You just go back, go again tomorrow and a lot of the time everything is OK and everyone forgets about it.\"\n\nOn seemingly having issues with a strapped right wrist, she added: \"Every tennis player has strapping everywhere so there is nothing major, just temporary stuff like I'd tape a blister.\"\n\nRaducanu's first full season on tour has been plagued by a series of niggles that have stalled her progress.\n\nThe teenager knew she would have to build up her physicality going into the year but her pre-season fitness work was hampered by contracting coronavirus.\n\nIn January, she also struggled with a blister on her racquet hand in a Australian Open second-round defeat, retired from a match at Guadalajara in February with a hip injury and had to bathe her blistered feet in surgical spirit during Britain's Billie Jean King Cup defeat against the Czech Republic in April.\n\nIn May, she was forced to retire from an Italian Open first-round match against Canada's Bianca Andreescu with a back injury and the issue hampered her preparations for the French Open.\n\nAfter losing in the Roland Garros second round, Raducanu said staying injury free during the tournament had been her \"biggest win\" in Paris.\n\nBut just days later she retired from her Nottingham Open match against Viktorija Golubic with a side injury and that meant she trained little before losing in the second round at Wimbledon.\n\nWatching her practice session at the US Open felt like Raducanu is facing more bad luck going into a major, but afterwards during her media interviews she said she had \"no concerns of an issue\".\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How to use deception in sport effectively: Sideways puts some prevalent tactics to the test\n• None Is exercise a matter of mind over muscle?: The Expectation Effect explores the importance of mindset", "The disability charity Sense will give 1,000 families cash handouts to help them weather the cost of living crisis and says other charities should follow suit.\n\nGrants of £500 will be given to families who live with someone with complex needs.\n\nCEO Richard Kramer, told the Access All podcast: \"What people want now is money in their hands to pay their bills.\"\n\nThe government said it had \"a strong financial support system in place\".\n\nMr Kramer said Sense took the unusual step because \"families were telling us they couldn't pay their energy bills, they were cutting down on essentials and they were getting into debt.\"\n\nHe said: \"We needed to do something positive and practical to put more resources into the hands of disabled people.\"\n\nThe charity supports those who are deafblind or have complex impairments and traditionally provided community outreach projects, virtual support and campaigning.\n\nIt is the first time in its 60-year history that it has given money directly to families.\n\nThe grants will be available to families in England, Wales and Northern Ireland with families put forward by professionals working with them.\n\nMr Kramer said disabled households often had a greater need for energy from charging electric wheelchairs to using more heating and water for clothes washing.\n\n\"Families are now saying 'we're going to have to leave clothes soiled because we need to save on energy',\" he said.\n\nOther families had told him they had to keep their son or daughter in one room because they could no longer afford to heat the whole house.\n\nPensioner Keith Butler and his partner Helen, from Worcestershire, are full-time carers for their 21-year-old son Geordie and received the grant. Geordie is deafblind and autistic.\n\n\"One of our biggest expenses is electricity,\" Mr Butler says. \"Geordie is fed through an electric pump, which has to be on charge from lunch through to the evening, every single day. You can't miss a day, otherwise he can't eat.\"\n\nMr Kramer said he hopes other charities would follow Sense's lead.\n\n\"There is a responsibility for all charities to do more and fill that gap. That's not saying 'government you're off the hook', but actually we all need to come together to help the people we all support.\n\n\"It's for the government to provide that long-term support.\"\n\nEarlier this week it was confirmed that about six million disabled people will get a one-off payment of £150 in September to help with any additional costs they face such as increased transport costs.\n\nA spokesperson from the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"Eight million low-income households will also be receiving at least £1,200 of direct payments this year.\n\n\"We urge people to check they are getting all the help to which they are entitled.\"\n\nYou can listen to the podcast and find information and support on the Access All page.\n• None Disabled people need more help, charities tell Tory rivals\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zuckerberg appeared on the hugely popular Joe Rogan podcast in a rare unscripted media appearance\n\nMark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden's son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.\n\nThe New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine.\n\nFacebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.\n\nZuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong \"sucks\".\n\n\"When we take down something that we're not supposed to, that's the worst,\" Zuckerberg said in a rare extended media interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.\n\nThe New York Post story was released just weeks before the presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, which Mr Biden won.\n\nIt claimed that a laptop, abandoned in a repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained emails which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting. There is no record on Mr Biden's schedule that such a meeting ever took place.\n\nCritically, it fed into long-running unproven allegations about corruption on Joe Biden's part to ensure his son's business success in Ukraine.\n\nIn that context, the New York Post story, based on exclusive data no other news agency had access to, was met with scepticism - and censored by social media outlets.\n\nZuckerberg told Rogan: \"The background here is that the FBI came to us - some folks on our team - and was like 'hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump that's similar to that'.\"\n\nHe said the FBI did not warn Facebook about the Biden story in particular - only that Facebook thought it \"fit that pattern\".\n\nThe article remains controversial. The hard drive at its centre was provided to the Post by Donald Trump's own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.\n\nMore than a year after the story appeared, the Washington Post conducted its own analysis and concluded the laptop and some emails were likely to be authentic - but the majority of data could not be verified due to \"sloppy handling of the data\".\n\nOther once-sceptical news organisations such as the New York Times have agreed at least some of the emails are genuine.\n\nAsking Zuckerberg if he regretted suppressing the factual story, the Facebook founder replied: \"It sucks... I think in the same way that having to go though a criminal trial but being proven innocent in the end sucks... in the end you're free.\"\n\nBut Zuckerberg acknowledged that there remained disagreement about the story, which he said was a \"hyper-political issue\".\n\n\"Depending on what side of the political spectrum [you're on], you either think we didn't censor it enough or we censored it way too much.\"\n\nFacebook did not completely ban sharing of the article, but instead limited how much its algorithm automatically shared it to other people for a week, while third-party fact-checkers tried to verify the reporting.\n\nSo while people could post the article and discuss it, it was less likely to spread organically to new users.\n\nBy contrast, Twitter banned sharing of the article at all. Both social media companies found themselves blasted by US Republicans and Donald Trump supporters, and had to explain their actions before a US Senate hearing in the following days.\n\nMeta, Facebook's parent company, highlighted that Zuckerberg had addressed the FBI warnings at that 2020 hearing, saying of the Joe Rogan interview that \"none of this is new\".\n\nBut in a wide-ranging interview that covered Meta's virtual reality ambitions and Zuckerberg's personal life, the creator of Facebook also talked about his dislike for dealing with such thorny issues.\n\n\"I didn't get into this to basically judge these things. I got into this to design technology that helps people connect,\" he told Rogan.\n\n\"This whole thing that is arbitrating what is OK and what is not - I obviously have to be involved in that because, at some level, I run the company and I can't just abdicate that.\n\n\"But I also don't think that as a matter of governance you want all of that decision making vested in one individual.\"", "Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been criticised after she said the \"jury was still out\" on French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nHer remark came as she was asked if Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\" of the UK at a Tory leadership hustings.\n\nShe added that if elected PM she would judge him on \"deeds not words\".\n\nBut Labour's David Lammy accused Ms Truss of \"a woeful lack of judgement\", saying she had insulted one of \"Britain's closest allies\".\n\nMs Truss, widely seen as the clear front-runner to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, made the remark at the penultimate leadership hustings in Norwich, to loud applause.\n\nHer comment came at the end of the hustings during a series of \"quickfire questions\" posed by the host, TalkTV's Julia Hartley-Brewer.\n\nWhen asked the same question Mr Sunak said Mr Macron was a \"friend\".\n\nOne Conservative minister said Ms Truss's comments had \"completely undermined our relationship with France\", calling her a \"faux Thatcher\", a reference to the Eurosceptic former Tory prime minister.\n\nIn a tweet, former foreign minister Alistair Burt said Ms Truss has made a \"serious error\" and should have struck a more diplomatic tone.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Gavin Barwell also questioned Ms Truss's comment saying: \"You would have thought the foreign secretary was aware we are in a military alliance with France.\"\n\nAnother ex-Tory minister, David Gauke, said: \"There's playing to the gallery and then there's letting the prejudices of the gallery go to your head, especially when now is one of the worst times to try to fragment the West.\"\n\nMs Truss's comments have been picked up by French media, who have highlighted recent tensions between Paris and London.\n\nThe UK and France have clashed over several issues in recent years, including migrant boat crossings in the Channel, a military pact between Britain, the US and Australia, and Brexit measures involving Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Macron has sometimes publicly criticised the Conservative government's approach.\n\nLast year Mr Macron reacted angrily to British Prime Minister Johnson's public call for France to take back migrants who reach the UK.\n\nThe French president accused the UK prime minister of not being \"serious\" by making the call on Twitter, though they had since been pictured arm-in-arm at a G7 summit in Germany this year.\n\nThere's no denying the UK can have a complex relationship with France. From boat crossings in the Channel to ferry passport checks, there's been tension recently.\n\nBut as a close neighbour and a fellow NATO member, there are few in mainstream politics who would consider France anything but a strong ally. Especially at a time when western unity over the war in Ukraine is so important, and any division could be exploited by the likes of Vladimir Putin.\n\nWhile Ms Truss's comments did appear to go down well with the audience of Conservative members, she's still the foreign secretary - the UK's chief diplomat. And therefore what she says on international affairs really matters.\n\nThis won't be the end of the matter. Ms Truss will be asked about these comments again over the coming days.\n\nWhat happens next will be watched carefully, on both sides of the Channel.\n\nAt the Tory leadership event in Norwich, Ms Truss and her rival Rishi Sunak were also asked who would make a better prime minister - Boris Johnson or their leadership rival.\n\nMr Sunak chose Ms Truss, arguing it was important for the country to move forward. But Ms Truss picked Mr Johnson - a decision that earned her applause from the crowd of Conservative Party members.\n\nThe pair were also asked about the recent shooting of nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool and how they would tackle crime.\n\nMr Sunak said the shooting was appalling and pledged to make sure there were more police officers on the street and that they \"have tools they need to keep us safe\".\n\nHe expressed concern that \"wokeish ideology\" was holding back police from using stop-and-search powers.\n\nMs Truss agreed on the need for more police and said at the moment forces were spending too much time \"policing Twitter\" instead of \"crimes that people care about\".\n\nBoth reiterated their previously-stated concerns about the level of restrictions during the Covid pandemic, with Ms Truss arguing it had been wrong to close schools.\n\n\"We were too draconian,\" she added.\n\nMore light-heartedly, the pair were also asked who they would rather be stuck in a lift with - Labour leader Keir Starmer or Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nMs Truss opted for Scotland's first minister with the hope she could persuade Ms Sturgeon \"to stop being a separatist by the time we got to the ground floor\".\n\nShe added that the idea of being stuck in a lift with Labour leader Sir Keir was \"extremely boring\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would take the stairs.", "Household energy bills have increased substantially over the past year and further rises are predicted\n\nThe UK government has confirmed it will deliver £400 energy bill discounts in Northern Ireland, Finance Minister Conor Murphy has said.\n\nHe was speaking after a meeting of a taskforce set up by the Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to look at how to issue the discounts in Northern Ireland.\n\nHouseholds in Great Britain will start receiving the discount from October.\n\nMr Murphy said confirmation that it would apply in Northern Ireland was \"long overdue\".\n\nHowever, he added there was no guarantee that Northern Ireland households would receive it at the same time as those in the rest of the UK.\n\n\"The idea that we have a date in November was not mentioned in the meeting,\" he said.\n\n\"The only timeframe that was suggested in the meeting was possibly early in the new year with a sincere hope to do this more quickly.\n\nConor Murphy says there are no guarantees as to when the scheme will take effect in Northern Ireland\n\n\"We will work with the Department of the Economy, we will work with the Treasury and the business department in Britain to try and deliver this as quickly as we possibly can.\n\n\"Our objective is to try and get support delivered as quickly as we can to people.\n\n\"But from my perspective in the meeting there are absolutely no guarantees that this will be delivered this side of Christmas.\"\n\nHowever, Economy Minister Gordon Lyons told BBC News NI: \"During the meeting it was said that if all normal processes were to be followed it was likely that these payments would not take place until February 2023.\n\n\"However, as ministers we were asked if we were content for the chancellor and business secretary to essentially do away with the 90-day consultation period that it would take.\n\n\"We both gave consent to that so if you take 90 days away from February I think that's where we're going to end up - in and around November.\"\n\nThe taskforce, made up of UK government and Stormont ministers, has committed to meeting regularly until the issue is resolved.\n\nNadhim Zahawi set up a taskforce to look at how to issue energy bill discounts in Northern Ireland\n\nEnergy bills are set to rise sharply, prompting calls for the government to offer more help.\n\nThe latest increase was announced on Friday by SSE Airtricity, which is putting up gas and electricity prices on 1 October.\n\nThe chancellor said \"energy prices are rising fast and I know that this is causing great concern\".\n\n\"That is why I brought together Northern Ireland ministers and the business and energy secretary this morning, and we reached agreement to support the UK government delivering £400 off energy bills this winter,\" he added.\n\n\"This is a vital part of our £37bn support package and we will continue to work together to ensure that the people of Northern Ireland get the support they need as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Barnett formula is used to calculate additional funding when there are changes to UK government spending that affects devolved services.\n\nBut without a functioning executive at Stormont, money allocated from Westminster that way cannot be spent.\n\nStormont has been without a power-sharing executive since February, due to the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) ongoing protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nThe party is refusing to nominate a deputy first minister until the post-Brexit trading arrangements are changed, meaning a decision-making executive cannot be formed and the legislative assembly cannot operate.\n\nOther ministers can remain in post, but they are unable to take major policy decisions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He looked me straight in the eye, knowing what he’d done\"\n\nA man who murdered a teenager after she refused to have sex with him has been jailed for life, and will serve a minimum of 23 years and four months.\n\nLewis Haines, 31, of Flemish Court, Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, had admitted murdering Lily Sullivan, 18, but claimed it was not sexually motivated.\n\nLily's body was found in Mill Pond, Pembroke, in the early hours of Friday, 17 December, 2021.\n\nHer mother Anna said: \"I miss her so much. I will never have peace\".\n\nJudge Paul Thomas QC told Swansea Crown Court that Haines strangled Lily in frustration that she did not want to have sex with him.\n\nHe rejected Haines' claim that he went into the water to save her.\n\nThere was no forensic evidence of sexual assault.\n\nIn his sentencing remarks he said Lily was \"brutally murdered\" by Haines. \"You strangled her face to face. She was completely at your mercy.\"\n\nLily Sullivan's body was found near Mill Pond, in Pembroke, in December\n\nJudge Thomas said the two had met in the Out nightclub in Pembroke, and kissed in an alley after leaving the club.\n\nThey left the club separately, a few minutes apart, but started talking outside before walking to an alleyway near Mill Pond.\n\n\"Whatever happened in that lane we will never know because you've chosen not to tell anyone,\" said the judge.\n\n\"She then told you she would complain about what you had done, and in order to stop her doing so you strangled her,\" he added.\n\n\"She must have been terrified. You were only concerned with your own self preservation. Her death has caused so much distress to many.\"\n\nWithin hours, Haines arrived home and told his partner: \"I've strangled somebody.\"\n\nLily had injuries to her face, neck and body.\n\nLewis Haines will serve a minimum of 23 years and four months for the murder\n\nIn a statement read to the court Lily's mother Anna described their relationship as \"sisterly\" and a \"very special bond.\"\n\nShe described Lily as a \"bright and talented artist\" and a \"typical teenage girl\" who had just started going out.\n\nFlowers left near scene where Lily's body was found in Pembroke\n\n\"My pain is unbearable and I suffer many physical symptoms. I suffer panic attacks and I can't speak or function,\" she added.\n\n\"I am filled with terror and dread. I exist only to see her again. My life as it is is on pause.\n\n\"I have an overwhelming sense of pain.\"\n\nMichael Cray of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Haines committed a dreadful, callous offence, murdering a young woman who had her whole adult life in front of her.\n\n\"The shock of this tragedy will be felt in the community for some time.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Lily's family and friends as they deal with the tremendous loss they undoubtedly feel.\"", "What happens to those of us on a fixed price tariff?\n\nJudy Power, from Staffordshire, wants to know if customers who've signed up to a two-year fixed price tariff with their energy supplier will see their bills increase after Ofgem's announcement today. Anyone on an existing fixed rate tariff will not see their bills rise until that deal ends. But as soon as it does, expect to be shifted onto a variable rate tariff, which is pegged to the price cap. In other words, if you’re not paying higher energy bills now, soon enough you will be. Once your deal ends, you only have two options, and neither of them are great. You can either stick to the price cap and hope that it falls sooner rather than later or pay a massive premium for a new fixed rate tariff from your existing supplier. The one advantage of the second option is that you would have certainty about how much your bills would cost. But even if you can afford the enormous mark up, you would be gambling on the possibility that energy prices won’t come down over the term of that tariff. The best thing to do is to keep an eye on energy price cap predictions and whether they lead to more reasonable fixed tariffs coming through. If so, you may have to snap them up quick.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The home secretary says Merseyside Police is getting \"a lot of national support\"\n\nThe government has said it will allocate £500,000 for Merseyside to counter crime and provide mental health support after four killings in a week.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said \"the whole country has been appalled at the spate of violence\", which included the shooting of a nine-year-old girl.\n\nShe said the funds would \"disrupt\" organised crime in the region.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in her home.\n\nShe died a day after council worker Ashley Dale was fatally shot in her back garden in Liverpool on Sunday.\n\nThe 28-year-old is not believed to have been the intended target of the attack, police said. Two arrests have been made.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was hit in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman\n\nDetectives have also been asking the public help identify four suspects following the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Liverpool on 16 August.\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, was also found stabbed in a pub car park near Kirkby on Monday. Her son has been charged with her murder.\n\nMs Patel said: \"We will stop at nothing to drive down serious violence and ensure that fewer families have to endure the pain of losing a loved one in this way.\"\n\nA Birkenhead pilot to cut gun and knife crime - known as Clear, Hold, Build - will be rolled out across Merseyside following £350,000 of government funding.\n\nThe scheme, which started in January, has also been running in eight locations across England and Wales.\n\nThe Home Office has allocated the remaining £150,000 to fund trauma and mental health support for those closely affected by the recent attacks and for nearby schools.\n\nMs Patel said: \"The impact on the wider community is immense, which is why we are providing funding for specialist trauma and mental health support for those who need it, as well as expanding the 'Clear, Hold, Build' pilot to disrupt Merseyside's corrosive and deadly Organised Crime Groups.\"\n\nHowever Labour metro mayor Steve Rotheram said the cash pledged to get weapons off the streets and provide care to residents in the wake of the Liverpool shootings needs to be a \"down payment\".\n\nMr Rotheram told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"I told her that that needs to be a down payment, as we look to what interventions are actually necessary to educate people at an earlier age, to ensure that there are interventions, that there are diversionary activities for people, that the society can reknit and grow together.\"\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed on Merseyside in August\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said there were early signs of a rise in gun crimes after a recent reduction since the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOn Merseyside, there have been nine shooting incidents since April involving someone getting injured.\n\nSixteen guns have been seized in the region by police this year, with many more handed in as part of a firearms surrender programme held every two years.\n\nIn 2021-22, Merseyside Police recorded 211 firearm offences, placing it in the 10 worst affected areas in England and Wales.\n\nPolice recorded 5,752 firearm offences across England and Wales during the year to March 2022, just below the 6,618 offences recorded pre-pandemic.\n\nLondon (1,066 offences) and the West Midlands (585) recorded the highest number of firearm offences in the past year.\n\nAcross England and Wales, a total of 35 deaths were reported involving a firearm in the year ending March 2021, with 27 being reported in the year before.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MBDA Missile Systems is one of the largest weapons makers in the world\n\nNato is assessing the impact of a data breach of classified military documents being sold by a hacker group online.\n\nThe data includes blueprints of weapons being used by Nato allies in the Ukraine war.\n\nCriminal hackers are selling the dossiers after stealing data linked to a major European weapons maker.\n\nMBDA Missile Systems admitted its data was among the stash but claimed none of the classified files belong to the firm.\n\nThe pan-European company, which is headquartered in France, said its information was hacked from a compromised external hard drive, adding that it was cooperating with authorities in Italy, where the data breach took place.\n\nIt is understood investigations are centred around one of MBDA's suppliers.\n\nIn a statement, a Nato spokesperson said: \"We are assessing claims relating to data allegedly stolen from MBDA. We have no indication that any Nato network has been compromised.\"\n\nCyber criminals, operating on Russian and English forums, are selling 80GB of the stolen data for 15 Bitcoins (approximately £273,000) and claimed to have sold the stash to at least one unknown buyer so far.\n\nOne stolen folder contains detailed drawings of MBDA equipment but the company said the material is not sensitive\n\nIn their advert for the stolen data, the hackers claimed to have \"classified information about employees of companies that took part in the development of closed military projects\" as well as \"design documentation, drawings, presentations, video and photo materials, contract agreements and correspondence with other companies\".\n\nA free 50MB sample of the data, seen by the BBC, includes documents labelled \"NATO CONFIDENTIAL\", \"NATO RESTRICTED\" and \"Unclassified Controlled Information\".\n\nIn addition to the sample, the criminals supplied additional documents by email, including two marked \"NATO SECRET\".\n\nThe hackers would not confirm whether or not the material had come from more than one hacked source.\n\nThe files, which the BBC has not been been able to independently verify, detail a \"communications intelligence\" mission by a US air squadron carried out at the end of 2020 in Estonia over the Baltics.\n\nIt includes the call logs, full name, phone number and GPS coordinates of a person allegedly at the centre of the operation.\n\nA former Nato official said: \"There's a lot of over-classification in Nato but these labels matter. They are applied by the originator of the information and NATO SECRET is not applied lightly.\n\n\"This really is the kind of information Nato doesn't want out there in the public.\"\n\nHe added that the chances of the documents having been declassified were slim bearing in mind most of the files appeared to have been created between 2017 and 2020.\n\nThe sample files also included a presentation that appeared to detail the inner workings of the Land Ceptor CAMM (Common Anti-Air Modular Missile), including the precise location of the electronic storage unit within it.\n\nOne of these was recently sent to Poland for use in the Ukraine conflict as part of the Sky Sabre system and is operational.\n\nMBDA Missile Systems has not disputed that its information had been breached but said: \"The company's internal verification processes indicate that the data made available online are neither classified data nor sensitive.\"\n\nHowever, some of the documents known to have been stolen from MBDA are labelled as \"proprietary information not to be disclosed or reproduced\".\n\nMBDA Missile Systems was created in December 2001 after the merger of missile systems companies in France, Italy and the UK.\n\nIt has has 13,000 employees and is a joint venture of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.\n\nLast year it posted revenue of £3.5bn and counts the UK Ministry of Defence, US military, the European Union and Nato as customers of its weapons systems.", "Shopkeeper Abdul Haq has seen the road change over the years\n\nA Glasgow street has been ranked the third coolest in the world, according to Time Out magazine.\n\nThe stretch of Great Western Road between St George's Cross and the Botanic Gardens came third in a 33-strong list in the travel and entertainment publication.\n\nMontreal's Rue Wellington claimed the top spot, with Gertrude Street in Melbourne in second place.\n\nBut Glasgow defeated the offerings from London, Barcelona and New York.\n\nThe magazine quizzed 20,000 people and local experts for its list. But do the people of Great Western Road really think it is the third coolest in the world?\n\nGreat Western Road was ranked above London, Barcelona and New York\n\nMany business owners guessed a cooler road might exist in Tokyo or Los Angeles - but these streets didn't even crack the top 10.\n\nSoni Ferguson, who has owned the Great Western Cafe for nearly 12 years, has watched the area develop.\n\nShe said: \"There's lots of students, as well as a lot of professionals who have chosen to stay.\n\n\"I've watched customers go from first year to their graduate job.\n\n\"It's a really good area, transport links are great, it's a wee bit quieter and it's a wee bit cheaper than completely diving into the west end.\n\n\"You've got a massive age range as well, with different cultures and backgrounds.\"\n\nTime Out praised Great Western Road's wealth of shops and hospitality.\n\nHe said: \"There's our small natural wine bar, a Michelin Star restaurant, cosy pubs, wine shops, continental grocery stores and cafes.\n\n\"There's something for everything and people here don't seem to take themselves too seriously.\n\n\"On a nice sunny day - when it happens - more big outdoor areas could make it a lot better, as well as improving the general cleanliness of the street.\"\n\nBut Thomas Wood - of beer, wine and spirit shop Valhalla's Goat - thought Glasgow had more to offer.\n\nHe said: \"I wouldn't say it's the coolest part of Glasgow. Shawlands is cooler than Great Western Road.\n\n\"But you do get a lot of interesting people who have stayed here for 30 or 40 years, and the pubs are good.\"\n\nFellow wine merchant Matt Robin added: \"Most of the shops are independent and a bit different.\n\n\"There aren't a lot of the usual big brand names.\"\n\nTime Out credited the \"inexpensive Neapolitan pizzas and beer schooners\" at Paesano as one of the highlights on the road.\n\nAssistant manager Fiona Ballantine said: \"I haven't been to that many places in the world, but I would say it's up there in Scotland.\n\n\"It's got a lot of character and it's quite aesthetic with the churches and fancy bars.\n\n\"Traffic and parking is a negative though.\"\n\nShe said: \"It's all changed. This part of Glasgow used to be a lot busier but it's gone downhill.\n\n\"I think they've taken everything away from this end and taken it down to Finnieston.\"\n\nThe inexpensive takeaway neighbours Michelin Star restaurant Cail Bruich, where the chef's tasting menu could set customers back £125.\n\n727 Fast Foods is a local favourite after a night out\n\nConvenience store Disqu Blu has served locals in the heart of Great Western Road for decades.\n\nAbdul Haq, 75, has owned the convenience shop for 42 years.\n\nHe said: \"It used to be very cool, but it's changed now. It makes me sad to see how it's changed.\n\n\"There used to be lots of different shops and lots of students would come in for stationery.\n\n\"Now people just want to go for a coffee down the street and then leave. But I do like the area, it's a good place to work.\"\n\nUnderground pub Inn Deep has outdoor seating along the River Kelvin\n\nSandy MacMillan, co-owner of craft beer pub Inn Deep, said the road has \"retained a quirkiness\" that other streets might not have.\n\nThe underground pub has outdoor seating dotted alongside the River Kelvin.\n\nHe added: \"I lived on Byres Road, which was very much just the same shops and more hipster-y.\n\n\"But Great Western Road is a wee bit different and alternative.\n\n\"You walk down it and you see something different everyday.\"\n\nWhen asked if Great Western Road is really the third coolest street globally, Usave owner Aurangzeb Khaliq said: \"It's not any more.\n\n\"Before, maybe 10 years ago, it was busy. But passing trade, no, it's very hard.\n\n\"Parking is a problem. At the busy times, you can't park. By 9:30am, it's full.\"\n\nAmelia Sulhunt and Barry Nicholson have owned vegan cafe Serenity Now on Great Western Road for five years.\n\nMr Nicholson said: \"It's between the west end and the city centre, but it doesn't have the bad aspects of either of them.\n\n\"The city centre now has become a bit run down and the west end is getting more and more expensive.\n\n\"There's a nice community around here and Woodlands in general.\n\n\"I don't know if I would say it's the coolest street ever though.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will be in the FBI's Trump search affidavit?\n\nA US judge has ordered investigators to release a redacted version of court papers that convinced him to authorise a search of Donald Trump's estate.\n\nThe public version of the affidavit, a document that includes the evidence gathered by prosecutors, could reveal new details about the inquiry.\n\nThe Department of Justice had opposed releasing an uncensored version amid its ongoing investigation.\n\nThe FBI search was part of a probe into the potential mishandling of documents.\n\nAccording to the search warrant, the FBI wanted to see if Mr Trump committed a crime by improperly handling government records when he took them from the White House to Mar-a-Lago as his administration ended.\n\nUS presidents are required to transfer documents and emails to the National Archives when they leave office.\n\nThe former US president has denied wrongdoing and insists the classified files that investigators say were found in Florida had already been declassified by himself.\n\nOn Thursday, US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the affidavit to be released with redactions by noon (17:00 BST) on Friday.\n\nHe said prosecutors had demonstrated a \"compelling reason\" to black out parts of the document, which would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties, as well as \"the investigation's strategy, direction, scope, sources and methods\".\n\nHis ruling came shortly after the justice department confirmed that it had submitted to the judge a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions.\n\nEven in redacted form, the affidavit could provide clues as to why Mr Trump allegedly took classified documents with him in the chaotic final days of his presidency and what he did with them while they were stored in Palm Beach.\n\nThe rest may have to wait for when - or if - any criminal charges are filed.\n\nThe warrant itself was released on 12 August alongside an inventory of recovered items that showed 11 sets of classified files were removed from the estate.\n\nSeveral news organisations have applied for the affidavit to be unsealed, citing public interest given the historic nature of the search of a former president's home.\n\nThe Department of Justice, however, had resisted the move, arguing that its release could cause \"irreparable damage\" to its continuing investigation. It also said the necessary redactions would render the document \"meaningless\".\n\nMr Trump and his lawyers - who have characterised the Mar-a-Lago search as politically motivated and unlawful - have called for the unredacted affidavit to be released.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Trump, Taylor Budowich, said that efforts to \"hide\" its contents were \"cynical\" and could be used to \"hide government corruption\".\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump's legal team asked that the investigation be frozen and that an independent third-party attorney, known as a special master, be brought in to oversee the documents that the FBI took during the search.", "The Chinese team wore masks during the first set of an Asian Cup match\n\nA volleyball match which saw China's national women's team compete while wearing N95 masks has caused a stir on Chinese social media.\n\nMany netizens expressed their anger, suggesting that the health of players was being sacrificed for the sake of the country's zero-Covid strategy.\n\nThe players later took their masks off for the second set and went on to win.\n\nChina's Volleyball Association later apologised, saying the decision was made was due to a \"lack of experience\".\n\nBut many remained critical, with one saying it was an example of officials taking China's mask mandate \"too far\".\n\n\"Our leaders are... taking things too far - it's as simple as that,\" one user wrote.\n\nThe event took place on Thursday at the Asian Cup in the Philippines and saw the Chinese team go up against Iran.\n\nPhotos from the match, showing the athletes with their masks on, quickly circulated on social media - triggering an uncommon outpouring of criticism online, with more than 16 million views on the topic on Weibo, China's largest social media platform.\n\nOne Weibo comment wrote: \"Is health or performance more important? We need to take some responsibility towards our athletes.\"\n\nAnother said: \"How long will this so-called epidemic prevention farce continue? Do we want to become the butt of all other countries' jokes?\"\n\nThe fury online prompted the Chinese Volleyball Association to respond on Thursday with a public apology.\n\nIn a statement on Weibo, it explained that team organisers prior to the game had learnt of Covid- infected players in other teams and said some symptoms had been reported among Chinese team members.\n\nTo prevent the spread, they required their players wear masks upon entering the venue. But because they were unclear on whether players had to wear masks on court, the team kept them on during the first half, they said.\n\nAfter losing the first set, most players later took their masks off during half-time - and later won 3-1 against Iran.\n\n\"After realising that playing with a mask is not good for the health of the players, the team reminded us in time [so] that our players took off the masks and finished the next game,\" the organisers said.\n\nThe statement also made reference to the new \"difficulties\" faced by Chinese teams competing abroad - whose members largely have not previously been exposed to Covid.\n\nChina continues to employ some of the strictest Covid restrictions in the world including an indoor and outdoor mask mandate, severe, sudden lockdowns and closed borders.\n\nHowever, this is not the first time athletes have worn masks during sports matches.\n\nEarlier this year, an ice hockey match between Canada and the Russian Olympic Committee saw both sides wear masks, due to \"safety and security concerns\" over pending test results.\n\nThey later removed their masks after it was reported that their tests had come back negative.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Drew has started cooking all her meals in the microwave to save on energy costs\n\n\"Urgent\" energy efficiency upgrades are needed to homes as people are forced to make devastating choices amid soaring bills, a charity has said.\n\nWales has among the least energy-efficient housing in western Europe, making them more expensive to heat.\n\nNational Energy Action Cymru (NEAC) said some people were already turning off their gas and electricity.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem has announced the price cap for an average household will rise to £3,549 a year in October.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was looking at several measures to increase the energy efficiency of homes.\n\nBen Saltmarsh of NEAC said: \"This is very very serious, if not devastating.\"\n\nHe warned some were already \"going without supply entirely, turning things off, living in cold, damp houses, putting children to sleep against walls covered in black mould\".\n\nThe cost of using energy has been rising at levels not seen before. In October 2021 the Ofgem-set price cap for domestic bills was £1,277 a year - one year on this has almost tripled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"At my age I should be enjoying my life, the years I've got left, but I'm not, it's a struggle\"\n\nSarah Drew, from Morriston, Swansea, is dependent on her state pension and has stopped using her oven and stove to try to cut costs.\n\nMs Drew now only cooks in her microwave and air fryer, cooking the ingredients separately before combining them into a meal - using a fraction of energy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter the last increase in energy prices Ms Drew said she \"had a fit, I couldn't believe it\" and took out a loan to pay for solar panels on the roof of her terraced home.\n\nShe said the payments on the loan were cheaper than her energy bills, even before October's rise.\n\n\"I would have sunk without trace, I'm glad I've done it,\" she said.\n\n\"With the solar panels I have, I can use my free power.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dom and Charlene Lijertwood have a smart meter under the TV to show them how much electricity they use\n\nDom and Charlene Lijertwood live in Marshfield, near Newport, and have resorted to setting their two young children's nightlights on timers to save on energy costs.\n\nThey have also turned down the temperature of water in their boiler, only wash clothes at 30C and have their smart meter positioned under the TV to remind them how much electricity they are using.\n\nMs Lijertwood, a full-time school receptionist, now has a second job in a pub and Mr Lijertwood, a firefighter, has taken extra shifts to make more money.\n\nThe Lijertwoods have placed their smart meter below their TV\n\n\"We are not a family that is struggling at the moment but we are concerned and worried about what is for the future,\" said Ms Lijertwood.\n\n\"By taking on extra work we are actually managing but we are not able to save or do anything more, just managing, and that's all we can do at the moment.\"\n\nMisty Ardouin, who runs Nestlings' Nursery in Cardiff, said she's seeing parents use less childcare due to rising costs.\n\n\"It's terrifying not knowing where it's going. There's a knock-on effect for everything, we have to put our prices up but we don't want to charge parents more because these prices going up in all areas of their lives,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a vicious circle because they need to work, so they need childcare.\"\n\nMs Ardouin said the nursery has already had to rise their prices twice this year to keep up with rising costs, something they would \"never usually do\".\n\n\"We'll have to reassess it in January, and it might go up again,\" she added.\n\nWhile the price of energy has rocketed, the cost of installing solar panels on homes has fallen by 60% in the past 10 years.\n\nThe industry body representing the sector said the amount of solar for a small to medium house, up to nine panels, from an accredited installer costs about £4,400.\n\nWelsh government figures suggest about 45% of households are already in fuel poverty, with researchers from the University of York forecasting that will rise to 68.7% when January's price cap rise comes into force.\n\nMinister for social justice Jane Hutt said: \"It's terrifying what is happening now and the lack of action by the UK government.\"\n\nShe said minister in Westminster should bring back a £20 a week top up for families on universal credit, as happened during the pandemic and back Labour leader Kier Starmer's call for a freeze of oil and gas prices.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We are giving a £400 discount on energy bills this winter and eight million of the most vulnerable households will see £1,200 extra support.\"\n\nMr Saltmarsh said the Welsh government needed to do more to help insulate homes so people do not need to use as much expensive energy to keep warm.\n\nThe Welsh government said there were several initiatives to boost the energy efficiency of homes.\n\nA spokesman said this included the \"flagship Optimised Retrofit Programme\" for social housing, which allowed people to find out how to lower their carbon footprint.\n\nHe added: \"The Welsh Quality Housing Standard, which was introduced in 2002, has required landlords to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and 99% of the social housing stock has achieved the standard.\"", "Of the 38 pages in the unsealed affidavit, 21 are blacked out\n\nThe FBI told a judge they expected to find \"evidence of obstruction\" of justice in a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, according to newly released court papers.\n\nInvestigators said top secret files had been stored at Mar-a-Lago along with assorted newspapers and magazines.\n\nThe justice department said it censored the affidavit to protect \"a significant number of civilian witnesses\".\n\nMr Trump said the inquiry was being led by \"political Hacks and Thugs\".\n\nOn Friday, the US Department of Justice released a version of the affidavit used to justify the FBI's incursion into Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on 8 August, but it has been heavily redacted.\n\nGiven that the court papers were filed before the search of the Palm Beach estate, they contain no new details on the 11 sets of classified documents that the justice department has said were recovered from the exclusive golf club.\n\nThe FBI agent who drafted the affidavit wrote they had \"probable cause\" to believe that \"evidence, contraband, fruits of crimes or other items illegally possessed\" would be discovered.\n\n\"There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises,\" the agent added.\n\nThe document shows that the unprecedented criminal investigation into a former president began after the National Archives, which maintains historic White House records, identified \"a lot\" of classified files among 15 boxes that it had recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January this year.\n\nAn FBI review of those materials uncovered 184 classified documents, including 25 marked as \"Top Secret\".\n\nThe curtain of secrecy has been pulled back ever so slightly on the justice department's inquiry into the alleged handling of classified documents and presidential records at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nEven with all the redactions, the picture revealed should be concerning to Donald Trump and his associates.\n\nThis is a serious criminal investigation.\n\nIt's not just about who gets to keep some presidential mementoes and souvenirs - it concerns the security of closely guarded US government secrets - ones involving human intelligence gathering, foreign surveillance and perhaps even court-authorised surveillance of US citizens.\n\nMr Trump has had an assortment of legal headaches since his chaotic departure from the White House in January 2021.\n\nAfter the Mar-a-Lago search, and these subsequent revelations, this investigation may have moved up to the top of the list.\n\nThe cache included information from highly sensitive US intelligence human sources. Some items were also marked \"Noforn\" - meaning they must not be released to foreign nationals.\n\nThe files - some of which appeared to show Mr Trump's handwritten notes - were interspersed with newspapers, magazines and other documents, according to the affidavit.\n\n\"Of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise unproperly identified,\" the document said.\n\nThe discovery led investigators to believe that Mr Trump may have been in violation of three separate federal laws, including the Espionage Act that governs classified information.\n\nOf the 38 pages in the unsealed affidavit, 21 are mostly or entirely blacked out. There are several pages in which not a single word is visible.\n\nA separate document explaining the proposed redactions noted that some parts of the affidavit must remain under seal to \"protect the safety and privacy of civilian witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel, as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation\".\n\nRevealing the identities of witnesses, the document added, could potentially lead to them being subjected to harms including \"retaliation, intimidation, or harassment and even threats to their physical safety\".\n\nMr Trump - who may launch another White House campaign for 2024 - reacted angrily on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\nHe said that Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the search, should never have allowed the \"break-in of my home\". Mr Trump also accused the judge of \"animosity\" towards him.\n\nHe has maintained that he had already ordered all the documents to be declassified.\n\nThe justice department's investigation is now expected to continue behind closed doors as it continues to review the documents and - potentially - call in more witnesses.\n\nThe public may not hear from prosecutors about the investigation until a decision has been made on whether it will result in any criminal charges.", "Russia has been trying to modernise its army in recent years, including by increasing numbers of contract soldiers\n\nRussia's president has signed a decree which could see 137,000 service personnel added to the country's armed forces in the coming months.\n\nCurrently Russia has a limit of just over a million military personnel and almost 900,000 civilian staff.\n\nVladimir Putin's decree comes amid a recruitment drive around the country, with large cash incentives on offer.\n\nWestern officials say 70-80,000 troops have been killed or wounded since Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago.\n\nThere have been reports that recruiters have even been visiting prisons, promising inmates freedom and money.\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence said in a statement two weeks ago that volunteer battalions being set up in several Russian regions were likely to form part of a new army corps.\n\nBut it said \"very limited levels of popular enthusiasm for volunteering for combat in Ukraine\" meant it would be difficult to find the required number of troops.\n\nRussia had initially promised a short, decisive campaign when it invaded Ukraine in February, but fierce Ukrainian resistance has stalled its progress and in recent weeks front lines have hardly moved.\n\nThe decree, published by the Russian president's office (in Russian), stipulates that \"the numerical size of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should be set at 2,039,758, including 1,150,628 military personnel\".\n\nCurrently the limit is set at 1,013,628 military personnel, though the actual number before the start of the invasion was thought to be closer to 900,000.\n\nThe decree asks the government to provide funds from the federal budget for this purpose. It will come into force on 1 January 2023.\n\nHowever, it is not clear whether numbers will be increased by recruiting more volunteers or broadening conscription.\n\nCurrently Russian men aged 18 to 27 are subject to the call-up, although many are able to avoid or reduce the term of their service - usually one year - through medical exemptions or by enrolling for higher education.\n\nRussia initially denied sending conscript soldiers to Ukraine, but several officers were disciplined after cases came to light of conscripts being forced to sign contracts and in some instances being taken prisoner.\n\nUnder Russian law, conscripts are required to undergo four months' training before being sent to the war.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door\n\nA second man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nThe 33-year-old, from Dovecot, Liverpool, was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nHe was arrested by armed officers on Lunsford Road, Dovecot, and is being questioned by detectives.\n\nNine-year-old Olivia was killed as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of their Liverpool home on Monday.\n\nA spokesman for Merseyside Police said: \"The investigation into Olivia's tragic murder is ongoing and we still need to build up a strong evidential picture so that we can bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nThe force earlier released aerial footage of the arrest of a 36-year-old man on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe man, from Huyton, was detained during an operation involving armed officers on Thursday night.\n\nFloral and written tributes have been left in memory of Olivia near where the shooting happened\n\nHe was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nOlivia was killed after Cheryl Korbel, 46, opened her front door on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at 22:00 BST in response to a commotion outside.\n\nThe intended target of the attack, 35-year-old Joseph Nee, was being chased by a gunman.\n\nThe men - complete strangers to the family - burst in and Olivia was fatally shot.\n\nMs Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door and has now been released from hospital.\n\nOlivia was described by her family as a \"unique, chatty, nosey little girl who broke the mould when she was born\".\n\nNee, from Dovecot, was shot in the upper body and taken to hospital in a black Audi by a third man.\n\nOnce his treatment is completed, Nee will be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions.\n\nEarlier police released an image of the car believed to have taken the intended target to hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the arrest of a man on suspicion of murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel is released\n\nThe vehicle has been seized and is in the process of being forensically examined, officers said, as they appealed to anyone who saw the black Audi Q3 in the days leading up to the shooting to get in touch.\n\nDet Supt Mark Baker said: \"Although we have made an arrest in connection with the horrific murder of Olivia, I want to make it completely clear that we need any information about this vehicle or the wider investigation as much as ever.\n\n\"Whatever information you have, and whether you are sure that it is the same vehicle or not, pass it on and we will assess its importance.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional differences in the proportion of top GCSE grades have become more prominent in England since Covid.\n\nJust under a third of GCSE grades were 7/A and above in London, compared to just over a fifth in the North East and in Yorkshire and the Humber.\n\nThe gap between the regions with the highest and lowest proportions of top grades is 0.9 percentage points wider than it was in 2019.\n\nSome Level 2 BTec pupils who were due to get results are facing delays.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Northern Ireland, students have been receiving results for GCSE, BTec and other vocational and technical awards.\n\nOverall, 73.2% of GCSEs were marked at grades 4/C and above this year, down from 77.1% in 2021, when grades were based on teachers' assessments.\n\nIt is still substantially higher than in 2019, the last year exams were sat before Covid, when it was 67.3%\n\nThe proportion of top grades - 7/A and above - is 26.3%. Again, that is higher than 2019 (20.8%) and lower than 2021 (28.9%).\n\nOfqual, England's exam watchdog, took the decision to reach this \"midway point\" in the \"interests of fairness\" to students whose education was disrupted.\n\nSimilar plans were put in place for Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nIn Scotland, where pupils received their exam results on 9 August, the pass rate at National 5 level fell to 80.8% - down from 85.8% in 2021.\n\nIbrahim, who is 16 and studied at The Deanery Church of England High School in Wigan, is heading off on holiday after receiving top grades on Thursday.\n\nThe hard-working student is already thinking about his A-levels, but his mum, Howayda, plans to make sure he enjoys a well-deserved break before he starts studying again.\n\n\"He will spend all day today [Thursday] with friends, and then tomorrow we will go to Dublin to give him a nice holiday so he can start the next year motivated,\" she says.\n\nHowayda is also looking forward to relaxing on holiday now the worry of expecting exam results is finally over.\n\n\"I am so happy today, but yesterday I did not sleep the whole night,\" she says.\n\n\"Home schooling was a bad time for all of us. Studying online is not like going to school. It was a horrible time for us all but today I am so happy and so proud.\"\n\nStudents in Northern Ireland achieved the highest proportion of top grades, with 37% of entries given an A or A*. The comparable figure was 26% in England and 25.1% in Wales.\n\nFiona Spellman, chief executive of education charity Shine, which supports disadvantaged children in northern England, co-wrote an open letter warning about \"disproportionate learning loss\" suffered by students during Covid.\n\nShe told the BBC that regional inequalities already existed but were reaching an \"untenable situation\" that would affect younger year groups, too - and that teachers needed more resources.\n\nLabour said the Conservative government had \"failed\" children, while the Liberal Democrats claimed it \"deserved an 'F' for letting down these pupils\".\n\nWill Quince, schools minister in England, told the BBC: \"Every year up until the pandemic, we did see the attainment gap reduce, but the pandemic has had an impact, we know it has.\"\n\nIt was up to the government and schools to address these inequalities, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, exam board Pearson said on Thursday that 5,700 students taking BTec Level 2 - a similar standard to GCSEs - were \"ineligible\" to get their results, down from 7,000 on Wednesday.\n\nLast week, Pearson apologised to students taking BTec Level 3s - a similar standard to A-levels - after some faced delays in getting their results.\n\nSpecial measures were introduced for this year's GCSEs to counteract the disruption to learning that pupils experienced.\n\nThe grade boundaries - the number of marks needed for each grade - are more lenient this year than before the start of the pandemic.\n\nPupils also had advance information about exam content, a choice of topics in some subjects, and additional resources in certain exams.\n\nHowever, it was not a smooth process for everybody, and Ofqual criticised exam boards after pupils were tested on topics they were told would not come up, and sat papers containing mistakes.\n\nThe Association of School and College Leaders said the fall in grades this year was \"no reflection on the performance of pupils\".\n\nGeoff Barton, its general secretary, said \"the vast majority of pupils will be able to take their next step as planned\" into further education or training, and advised anyone who was disappointed to speak to their teachers.\n\nAs is the case every year, girls outperformed boys across all subjects.\n\nIn England, where the GCSE grading system changed from letters to numbers in 2018, students need to pass GCSE maths and English with grade 4 or above to qualify for further study.\n\nThe fall in the pass rate will lead to more compulsory resits of these subjects - which can be carried out alongside those further studies - compared with the last two years.\n\nThe same \"midway point\" marking approach applied to this year's A-levels - where the proportion of top grades was down from last year but higher than 2019.\n\nAre you having to rethink your plans after getting your results? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The snake was spotted trying to get into the upstairs window of a house\n\nResidents have described their shock after an 18ft (5.5m) python was spotted trying to get into a house.\n\nThe Burmese python, which had escaped from a nearby property, was seen trying to get through an upstairs window from the roof of a house in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire.\n\nThe reptile caused panic when it appeared early on Tuesday.\n\nIt was eventually picked up by a neighbour who recognised it and returned it to its owner.\n\nThe snake was eventually retrieved and returned to its owner\n\nJenny Warwick said she looked out of the window at 05:15 BST and spotted the huge yellow snake on her neighbour's roof but did not realise what it was until she saw it trying to get in the upstairs window.\n\nShe said: \"I saw them trying to poke it out and it fell on their car. It was massive.\n\n\"People passing by were staring and couldn't believe their eyes.\"\n\nNeighbour Linda Elmer, also a snake enthusiast, had already met the python, pictured here, and said it was a very docile pet\n\nLinda Elmer, who recognised the snake, said she was woken at 07:00 by worried neighbours banging on her door, trying to find the owner.\n\nShe said: \"Everyone was panicking.\n\n\"I picked him up - no one wanted to help. It was very difficult because he's a big snake and I managed to hobble down the road with this 18ft python wrapped round me and knocked on the owner's door.\n\n\"I think it was a shock for all of us.\n\n\"He's beautiful and Burmese are very docile. They're not aggressive snakes anyway and I had one myself so I was comfortable picking him up.\"\n\nThe RSPCA previously urged owners to keep snakes securely contained during hot weather as the warmer temperatures make them very active and more likely to escape.\n\nThe snake was seen slithering along the roof\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "More confirmed cases have been identified in an E. coli outbreak in East Lothian.\n\nThe bacterial infection has been identified in three nurseries, while two more are closed as a precaution to allow further testing.\n\nA total of 47 cases of E. coli have now been confirmed - up from the 30 cases previously reported.\n\nNHS Lothian has urged families to follow safety precautions to help stop the rise in cases.\n\nInvestigations have not yet revealed a specific source for the outbreak which was first identified at the beginning of August.\n\nThe infection has been identified in cases linked to the Church Street Pear Tree Nursery and Meadowpark Pear Tree Nursery in Haddington, as well as the Musselburgh Private Nursery in the town's Bridge Street.\n\nNHS Lothian said no one affected by the E. coli outbreak was currently in hospital as a result of the infection.\n\nDr Graham Mackenzie, NHS Lothian consultant in public health medicine and chairman of the incident management team, said it was \"crucially important that families understand that this is a rapidly evolving situation and is affecting the lives of hundreds of people\".\n\nHe added: \"We need everyone to work with us to bring an end to this outbreak as swiftly as possible.\n\n\"If you have been given an exclusion order, it means that you must self-isolate at home, just as we have all done with Covid-19. You must not go to work or school, the shops, the playpark or to parties and sleepovers.\"\n\n\"If families choose to mix with others when they have been instructed to self-isolate, they are putting themselves and others at risk.\"\n\nChurch Street Pear Tree Nursery in Haddington was the first to close after 28 cases were found.\n\nPlans to re-open this nursery are under way after many of the exclusion orders for staff and pupils were lifted by health officials.\n\nElsewhere, Musselburgh Private Nursery at Stoneybank has been closed as a precaution after reports of sickness symptoms and a connection with its sister nursery in Bridge Street was identified.\n\nWest Road Pear Tree Nursery in Haddington is also closed for further investigation but to date no cases of E. coli have been confirmed.\n\nNHS Lothian said families at this nursery have been informed and asked to provide samples if their child has had any symptoms to rule out the presence of E. coli.\n\nAnyone who attends or works at the school has been asked to stay at home and get tested\n\nEscherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria are found in the intestines of humans and animals. There are many different types, some are harmless and others can cause a variety of diseases.\n\nThe bacterium is found in faeces and can survive in the environment.\n\nE. coli bacteria can cause a range of infections including urinary tract infection, cystitis (infection of the bladder), and intestinal infection.\n\nE. coli infections can be serious and often cause severe diarrhoea, sometimes with blood in it, abdominal cramps and fever.", "Bogdana Karlova found work at a tartan company after arriving in Scotland with her sister-in-law in March\n\nAbout four in 10 Ukrainian refugees in the UK are now working, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.\n\nThe proportion of Ukrainian nationals employed in the UK has risen from 9% in April to 42% at the start of August.\n\nThe findings come from a follow-up survey by the ONS of 1,132 Ukrainians, conducted between 20 July and 4 August.\n\nMore than 100,000 people from Ukraine have arrived in the UK under two visa schemes launched following Russia's invasion.\n\nThe newly-published UK Humanitarian Response Insight Follow-up Survey (UKHRIS), was commissioned to \"understand the opinions and experiences\" of people arriving in the UK under both the Ukraine Family and Ukraine Sponsorship schemes.\n\nVeronika Keeva, 31, moved to the UK in May with her four-year-old daughter, and quickly found a job as a project coordinator in Swindon.\n\nShe tells BBC News her experience of finding work has been \"really great\" thanks to help from the local council, and advice from her sponsors and the Jobcentre on creating a British CV.\n\nMs Keeva says her colleagues have been \"really supportive\" and helpful, answering her questions and fitting her work schedule around her daughter.\n\nShe still often thinks about her father, who has stayed in Ukraine to fight in the army, as he previously spent a number of years living the UK.\n\nHowever, she says she feels honoured to follow in his footsteps and go to places in England that he previously visited.\n\nIvanna Vorontsova now lives with her aunt and uncle in Woking after fleeing the war, but says she worries about her parents, who still live in Ukraine, five hours from the Polish border.\n\nMs Vorontsova starts each day by contacting the family members who stayed behind. Even though they are in a remote town, she says they still hear air-strike warning sirens and don't know what to expect every day.\n\nShe tells BBC News she got a job as a student support officer in Woking and that it has been easy to adapt to life in the UK.\n\nShe says: \"All the people I have met here have been nice and given me words of support. I love this country.\"\n\nOlya Bielohlazova, 39, left Kakhovka, in southern Ukraine, in March with her husband and three children. The family initially stayed in Latvia for two months.\n\nThey posted on Facebook that they needed somewhere to stay in the UK and found a sponsor straightaway offering them a home in Sutton Bunnington, Nottinghamshire.\n\nWhen they arrived, they were touched to find their hosts had decorated their street with Ukrainian flags, and Ms Bielohlazova says they were made to feel \"so welcome\".\n\nMs Bielohlazova worked for a digital advertising agency in Ukraine, but is now hoping for a career change, aiming to become a carer. \"I really want to do it,\" she says.\n\nThe family scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their relatives to join other family members already living in the UK, while the sponsorship scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their relatives to come to the UK if they have a sponsor who can provide accommodation.\n\nTwo MPs, Victoria Prentis and Duncan Baker, have said they will continue hosting Ukrainian families in their own homes beyond the minimum six-month period expected under the Ukraine Sponsorship scheme.\n\nRefugees who secure visas are allowed to stay in the UK for up to three years, and once in the UK, Ukrainians have the right to work, to access benefits, education and healthcare.\n\nBut while many have been successful in finding jobs, almost half of the people taking part in the survey said they faced barriers to their ability to take up work, including their English language skills.\n\nStories of people struggling to obtain safeguarding checks for certain jobs have also arisen.\n\nFormer MP Edwina Currie previously told the BBC a Ukrainian woman she was hosting in her home could not be considered for a job at her children's school as employers could not check her Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) status.\n\nThe first UKHRIS in April sampled 3,412 individuals, with the majority entering the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme.\n\nThe recent survey followed up on 1,132 individuals and found the proportion of Ukrainian nationals with bank accounts was up from 43% in April to 93% in August.\n\nThe survey also found 93% of Ukrainian nationals who had completed the first survey had remained in the country, though most respondents said they did not understand how to apply to extend or change their visa, or what state benefits they may be eligible for.\n\nSome 37% of respondents said they had enough money to support themselves for the next three months, up from 26% in April.\n\nThe findings of the latest survey come six months after Russia's invasion began and in the same week outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv to mark Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union 31 years ago.", "The latest increase will affect 188,000 homes in Northern Ireland\n\nThe energy company SSE Airtricity is putting up its gas and electricity prices in Northern Ireland again.\n\nGas prices will rise by 28.3% from 1 October and electricity prices will go up by 35.4% from the same date.\n\nIt comes after Ofgem announced the energy price cap in Great Britain will rise to £3,549 a year from October.\n\nHowever, some consumers in NI will be the equivalent of £1,000 a year better off than customers in the rest of UK, the region's energy regulator has said.\n\nThe chief executive of the Utility Regulator, John French, has calculated that the equivalent combined gas and electricity customers in Northern Ireland will pay £2,393 a year from October.\n\n\"I fully recognise that this differential between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is cold-comfort to those who are struggling here,\" he added.\n\nPeter McClenaghan, from the Consumer Council, said Northern Ireland was \"facing into a very serious crisis this winter\" and he is angry and fearful on behalf of consumers.\n\nThe Consumer Council provides advice to consumers and Mr McClenaghan said that \"already many of our households are at the brink\".\n\n\"This announcement means consumers in Belfast face combined annual gas and electricity bills in excess of £2,500 a year, with further price increases to come,\" he said.\n\nOther companies will also be putting up their prices as they are buying energy in the same wholesale markets as SSE Airtricity.\n\nThose wholesale markets are currently a horror show, suggesting that energy prices will continue rising steeply into the early months of next year.\n\nSSE Airtricity is Northern Ireland's largest household gas supplier with about 188,000 customers.\n\nThose customers have already seen the price they pay more than double since the spring of last year.\n\nThe Utility Regulator says the latest increase in the price of gas - the fifth since April 2021 - will be equivalent to another £351 a year.\n\nMr French said the wholesale gas market was \"[continuing] to surge\".\n\n\"[It] is producing prices 16 times higher than normal historic rates,\" he said.\n\n\"We will continue to do everything in our control to support consumers at this very difficult time.\"\n\nThe announcement by SSE Airtricity comes on the day Stormont Finance Minister Conor Murphy confirmed that the UK government would deliver an energy bill discount of £400 to help households in Northern Ireland that are struggling with the increasing cost of living.\n\nBut he said there was no guarantee that Northern Ireland households would receive the discount in October, when those in the rest of the UK are due to get it.\n\nDonna Dugan, from Carrowdore, County Down, works full-time and cares for her mother Anne, 86, who has vascular dementia and Alzheimer's.\n\nShe says the price of home heating oil has \"gone up a lot\".\n\n\"We got an oil fill up just before the summer period - we normally pay a certain amount every month - and unfortunately this time we were £400 short, which is quite extraordinary for us.\n\n\"Over the summer, we have had the heating off completely and we've never had to do that before.\"\n\nThey have also reduced the number of baths Anne has to reduce costs, and she takes more showers instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonna says the £400 energy bill discount would make a \"huge difference\".\n\nShe says it is imperative that \"something is done really urgently\" to tackle the issue.\n\n\"I worry that if mummy's situation deteriorates, the impact that will have on my ability to work.\n\n\"I need to work, it's not a choice for me to have reduced hours because we couldn't financially manage. I need to work full-time.\"\n\nCraig Harrison, of Carers NI, said \"carers are on their knees, financially\".\n\n\"We had the worst rate of carer poverty of anywhere in the UK even before the cost of living crisis began to bite,\" he added.\n\n\"Carers' financial situation on all fronts has just deteriorated more and more since then.\"\n\nHe said day-to-day, carers are going hungry, because they cannot afford to buy food.\n\nMr Harrison said they were missing mortgage payments, and borrowing money from friends and family to get by.\n\n\"I'm even aware of female carers having to make their own sanitary products.\"\n\nSSE Airtricity is also the second largest supplier of household electricity, with about 168,000 customers.\n\nThey will see their bills rise by the equivalent of another £330 a year.\n\nSSE Airtricity managing director Klair Neenan said: \"It was hoped market volatility would ease but the global energy crisis continues to impact gas and electricity costs for all energy suppliers.\n\n\"We are acutely aware of the impact this has for households and are working hard to help where we can.\"\n\nThe company said any customer who was concerned or having difficulty with their energy costs should \"please contact us and we will work with you to find a solution together\".\n\nThe Consumer Council says many households face spending more than £2,500 a year on energy\n\nTwo-thirds of homes in Northern Ireland use oil for their heating.\n\nThe Consumer Council tracks the price of home-heating oil and its data suggests that prices fell during July, roughly in line with the price of Brent crude oil.\n\nBut prices have started to increase again in the past two weeks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland energy market is very different from the rest of the UK for a variety of historical reasons.\n\nThe electricity market was liberalised much later than the rest of the UK; the former state-owned incumbent still has half the domestic market and there are only a handful of suppliers.\n\nThe gas network is a relatively recent development and there are still regulated monopoly suppliers in some areas.\n\nThat means the market is regulated differently from the rest of the UK, for example without the price cap mechanism.\n\nMr French believes that Northern Ireland's simpler market is part of the reason for the lower prices in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe told BBC News NI: \"We price regulate one company at a time, so we are regulating SEE Airtricity at the moment, that was the announcement today.\n\n\"What they are doing in GB in terms of the price cap is looking at the 70 odd companies and try to give an announcement that covers the needs of those 70 companies.\"\n\nHe said that while the GB price cap is forecast to go towards £5,000 in January at the moment he does not see that in the current market for Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is difficult to give an overall energy cost comparison between Northern Ireland and GB because Northern Ireland is still heavily reliant on heating oil for home heating.", "Households in the UK are preparing for average energy bills to rise again to even higher than previously predicted.\n\nAs part of its Counting the Cost of Living series, BBC News will be asking people how they are coping - and revisiting them over the coming months.\n\nMarina Keohane, from Gainsborough in Ipswich, is struggling with her finances and says the thought of higher fuel bills this winter brings tears to her eyes.\n\nHere, the 53-year-old tells BBC News what her life is like as she tries to cover the costs.\n\nTo actually fear every day how you're meant to live, that's just something else. I didn't think I'd get to this age and be worried about things like this. I'm living on nothing.\n\nYou're scared about everything you do, everything you spend. I've never been rich but now there's more money going out than I've got coming in.\n\nI don't use anything, the only thing that's on all the time is the fridge freezer. I have a TV on, I don't have the light on - I sit in darkness.\n\nEating wise, I'm scared to use my cooker. It's electric and obviously if you put something in the oven it uses more [energy] so I try to stick to ready meals in the microwave or do salads.\n\nI can't do the basics like getting your hair done or things to make you feel better. I can't afford to buy make-up, everything I've got now has got to last.\n\nFind out why food prices are also on the rise.\n\nWatch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only).\n\nShe has sought advice about her finances from the Citizens Advice Bureau\n\nI used to work as a care worker doing domiciliary care, going from house to house. It started to impact on my money - the petrol, that was another big issue because basically I was putting anything between £200-£240 a month into my tank. We got a little bit back but not enough.\n\nThen my Dad died in November last year and I caught Covid, I was diagnosed with long Covid and I kept trying to work but I'd work for a week or two and then would be too ill. My depression and anxiety got worse. I went five weeks without leaving my house once. I couldn't keep up with the job, I had to quit. I was letting too many people down.\n\nBy the time I came out of work in June, I didn't have the money to pay the rent. I got a letter last week from the council saying I was £875 in debt and that's without the council tax, I haven't had that through yet.\n\nThe only thing I get at the moment is my PIP (Personal Independence Payments), that's it. I've applied for Universal Credit. I got my last wages on 28 June which was £400 and I've had a little bit of money my dad left me. It was meant to go on decorating my house. He said I'd looked after him all these years, he wanted me to have somewhere to call home but I've been using that for everyday stuff, shopping and bills.\n\nI can't walk far because of asthma and my arthritis. But I can't afford to keep my car, paying the tax and insurance - insurance is £50 a month. When I was working I needed it but I've got no plausible reason to keep it now apart from my sanity, that's the only way I can get out my house.\n\nIf I had my way, I'd be working. I'm just not able to at the moment. I'm not saying it's going to be long-term, I'm hoping to go back as soon as I can.\n\nThe government's got to see, we are struggling. How long can this go on before something really serious starts happening? They say the NHS is struggling, how many of us are going to end up in hospital with chest infections and things like that because we can't afford the basic necessities of eating properly or having proper heating?\n\nSince the beginning of the year, Citizens Advice Ipswich has seen an 89% increase in people coming to them with concerns over fuel bills\n\nI must admit when they said about what's going to happen and with everyone worrying about their power and fuel bills I thought 'it's not going to be that bad, surely it can't be that bad?' But boy was I wrong.\n\nNobody should be living like this in this day and age.\n\nAs told to Jo Black and Annie Delaney", "The boys were visiting the Eiserbachsee, a lake in Germany\n\nTwo British children have died after being pulled from a lake during a holiday in Germany.\n\nThe brothers, aged seven and nine, were visiting the Eiserbachsee, near Aachen, when their parents reported them missing on Thursday afternoon.\n\nRescue workers found the boys in the lake, which is close to the border with Belgium, and they were taken to hospital but did not survive.\n\nUnconfirmed reports say they were unable to swim.\n\nThe public prosecutor's office in Aachen said it was trying to work out whether there was any suspicion of a criminal offence, including negligence.\n\nBut a spokeswoman said: \"We don't have a specific focus, we're just doing our job.\"\n\nThe lake is supervised by volunteer lifeguards but only during weekends.", "Covid infection levels have continued to fall across the UK in mid-August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nOne in 45 people tested positive, with Covid rates lowest in school-age children.\n\nThe ONS says it will \"closely monitor\" the numbers as children return to the classroom.\n\nBooster jabs are being offered to the most vulnerable from early September, to help protection during winter.\n\nThe ONS estimates, for the week ending 16 August, are based on random tests on people in households across the UK whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom these tests, it says 1.4 million people would have tested positive for Covid that week - 2.2% of the population - a drop from 1.7 million the previous week.\n\nThere were falls in Covid infections in all UK nations, all English regions and all age groups.\n\nOnly among 25-34 year olds was there uncertainty whether Covid was rising or falling.\n\nIt follows a rise in infections, caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants of coronavirus, in early July.\n\nThe number of people dying with Covid or being admitted to hospital with the virus is also falling.\n\nThat has prompted changes to testing rules in England. From the end of August, most hospital patients and care home residents will only be offered tests if they have symptoms.\n\nNHS and social care staff in England will also not be offered lateral flow tests unless they fall sick.\n\nThe government said this reflected the fact that cases had fallen and the spread of the virus had reduced.\n\nThe advice in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland differs - it is currently recommended that NHS staff take regular lateral flow tests even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nA programme to offer Covid booster jabs, along with antiviral treatments, to millions of the most vulnerable from September is expected to help protect those at greatest risk.\n\nThe UK has recently approved a dual-strain Covid vaccine which will be part of that programme.\n\nAcross the UK, the ONS estimates Covid rates were:\n\nSarah Crofts, head of analytical outputs for the ONS's Covid-19 infection survey, said: \"Infections continue to head in the right direction across all of the UK and are now at levels similar to those last seen in mid-June.\n\n\"Rates remain lowest in school-aged children and we will closely monitor the data to see how the return of schools in September may affect this.\"", "Some 115,000 Royal Mail postal workers have walked out on strike in a dispute over pay.\n\nIt is the first of four days of industrial action, with walk-outs also taking place on 31 August as well as 8 and 9 September.\n\nLetters will not be delivered on strike days and some parcels will be delayed, Royal Mail warned.\n\nThe union representing the workers is demanding a pay rise that more closely reflects the current rate of inflation.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised to customers and said it had contingency plans to minimise the disruption.\n\nOn strike days it will deliver as many Special Delivery and Tracked 24 parcels as possible, it said. It will also prioritise the delivery of medical prescriptions where possible.\n\nHowever, it said items posted the day before a strike, during the strike or on the days after may be delayed.\n\nThe company is encouraging people to post items as early as possible to avoid disruption.\n\nIt comes as Royal Mail said the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents the strikers, had rejected a pay rise offer \"worth up to 5.5%\" after three months of talks.\n\nThe union has called for Royal Mail to increase wages to an amount that \"covers the current cost of living\".\n\nInflation, the rate at which prices rise, is at a 40-year high of 10.1% and expected to surpass 13% later this year.\n\nPostal worker Hannah Carrol, who is part a strike at Whitechapel in East London, said she wanted to see wages rise in line with the growing cost of living.\n\nPostal worker Hannah Carrol wants wages to rise to keep pace with the cost of living\n\n\"The price of everything's going up, people are having to do more and more overtime,\" she said.\n\nMs Carrol said she \"couldn't believe\" how much the cost of necessities such as butter was increasing and said this justified the need for higher wages.\n\n\"People are running themselves into the ground in order to feed their families and working seventy hour weeks just to make ends meet - it's ridiculous\".\n\nBusinesses which use Royal Mail have also issued warnings to customers.\n\nThe card company Moonpig has advised customers to order early where possible but said its gifts and flowers use different delivery services so would be unaffected by the strikes.\n\nThe flower firm Bunches said it would send goods using DPD's next day courier service for a reduced price on strike dates.\n\nCWU general secretary Dave Ward said: \"Our resolve won't be broken here,\" in a speech to Royal Mail staff in Whitechapel. \"We will fight to the bitter end if necessary\".\n\n\"Let's be totally clear the company posted record profits back in April\".\n\nHe said: \"There can be no doubt that postal workers are completely united in their determination to secure the dignified, proper pay rise they deserve.\"\n\nHe added: \"We can't keep on living in a country where bosses rake in billions in profit while their employees are forced to use food banks.\n\nRoyal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m previously.\n\nChairman Keith Williams has said that the firm is losing £1m a day as parcel volumes fall and efforts to modernise the business stall.\n\nRoyal Mail's chief executive Simon Thompson told the BBC that the change needed was to pivot the business from one that was built for letters to one that focused on parcel deliveries which now represented £6 for every £10 the firm makes.\n\n\"In the last three years, we've spent £900m on our teams future by building infrastructure for parcels,\" he said.\n\n\"Our reality is that the Covid bubble has burst - we can see the economic situation\".", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door\n\nA man who was targeted by a gunman in a shooting that left Olivia Pratt-Korbel dead has been arrested and will be questioned about her murder.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot as her mother struggled with two men, one armed with a gun, at the door of her Liverpool home on Monday night.\n\nThe intended victim of the shooting has been named as 35-year-old Joseph Nee.\n\nNee, who was also shot, was a convicted drug dealer and jailed for three years and nine months in 2018 for burglary.\n\nMerseyside Police has not publicly identified Nee, who was previously convicted of two counts of theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified.\n\nJoseph Nee has been named as the intended target of the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia\n\nBut earlier the force said a 35-year-old man injured in the shooting would be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions with \"poor behaviour\".\n\nPolice said the man, who was in a stable condition, had been detained in hospital and would be \"further questioned\" in connection with Olivia's death.\n\nThe force also said officers had been given the same name by two different sources in the hunt for the gunman.\n\nBoth men have no links to Olivia's family, police have said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said the force was \"absolutely dedicated\" to ensuring there were sufficient resources to investigate Olivia's death, as well as the recent shootings of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Swan and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Dingle.\n\nHe said each case was \"receiving first-class treatment and will continue to do so\" and that police raids carried out across Liverpool earlier were in response to the deaths and organised crime.\n\n\"In effect, Merseyside Police [is] baring its teeth,\" he said.\n\n\"We're proactive, we're hard-edged and we'll take the fight to the criminal,\" he added.\n\nReferencing Merseyside Police's recent watchdog grading of outstanding for its efforts in tackling organised crime, he said the force was \"not asleep here in any way\".\n\n\"This hasn't suddenly jerked us into some sort of activity,\" he said.\n\n\"This is daily business for Merseyside Police but now we're just ramping it up even further.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left for Olivia near the site of the shooting\n\nThe force has previously said:\n\nIn a tweet, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the shooting was \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and that his thoughts were with Olivia's family and \"the people of Liverpool\".\n\nHe added that Merseyside Police would get \"whatever they need to catch those responsible and secure justice for Olivia\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson tweeted that \"someone out there knows who did this\", adding: \"For Olivia, and for the safety of our city's communities, you must come forward.\"\n\nOlivia's death is the third fatal shooting in Liverpool in recent weeks\n\nMr Kameen said inquiries were continuing \"into the shocking murder of Olivia\" and the force was \"supporting her family as they try to come to terms with this tragedy\".\n\n\"I would like to echo the words of our chief constable yesterday [and] appeal to the community to keep helping this family in every way possible,\" he said.\n\nHe added that this was \"not the time for anyone who knows who was responsible to stay silent\".\n\n\"It is a time for us all to make Merseyside a place where the use of guns on our streets is totally unacceptable and those who use them are held to account.\n\n\"If you saw, heard, captured or know anything, tell us directly or anonymously and we will continue to act.\"\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell (centre) said she was \"really pleased\" people had shared information\n\nSpeaking while on a walk around the area with Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said people were \"angry this is happening in their communities, where some have lived for many years\".\n\n\"They feel frightened about what's happening, but the feedback I have received is that they feel grateful for the additional support and resources we are providing, including a high visibility police presence,\" she said.\n\nMs Spurrell said she was \"really pleased\" to hear information about who was responsible for Olivia's murder had been shared with police.\n\nEncouraging others to get in touch with any information they may have, she said \"we know somebody out there will know what happened and who is involved\".\n\nPaying tribute on Monday, Olivia's head teacher Rebecca Wilkinson said St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School in Huyton was in \"shock and disbelief\".\n\nShe said Olivia was \"a little ray of sunshine\" and was a \"lively little soul [who was] very, very popular with all her peers\".\n\nTributes to Olivia have been left by friends and neighbours of her family\n\nJean Martindale, whose grandson was in the same class as Olivia, said he had \"taken it really badly\".\n\n\"Yesterday was terrible for all the children, but he was close to Olivia... and he was very, very sad,\" she said.\n\nMs Martindale, who has lived in the area for 52 years, said Olivia's death had been \"absolutely devastating\" for their close-knit community.\n\n\"You can feel it, the atmosphere in the air, it's horrible,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she was confident the man responsible would be caught, as she believed \"whoever does know anything will give names in\", adding: \"I'm sure of that.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Relatives have expressed frustration and anger at the slow pace of the rescue effort\n\nThe search for 10 Mexican miners trapped in a flooded colliery could take between six and 11 months, relatives say they have been told.\n\n\"We can't accept this,\" Juani Cabriales, the sister of one of the workers, told AFP after being briefed by the government on its latest plan.\n\nOn 3 August, a tunnel wall collapsed at the Pinabete mine, northern Coahuila state, triggering flooding.\n\nHigh water levels in shafts 60m (200ft) deep are delaying the rescue operation.\n\nFive miners have managed to escape following the incident, but there has been no contact with their 10 trapped colleagues.\n\n\"They [the government] tell us that it would take between six and 11 months to get them out,\" Ms Cabriales told the AFP news agency.\n\nErika Escobedo, the wife of one of the trapped miners, gave the same details, saying that the relatives had rejected the government's rescue plan to find the miners.\n\n\"We are very sad... I'm thinking about how to break the news to my children,\" she told Reuters.\n\nThe government has not publicly revealed any details of its proposed plan.\n\nThe rescue operation has already been hampered by a number of setbacks.\n\nAbout two weeks ago, a special underwater drone carrying a camera was lowered into one of the shafts.\n\nThe miners' relatives had hoped the drone would provide them with long-awaited news on their loved ones - but the drone failed to reach the depth at which the miners are believed to have become trapped.\n\nThe relatives have also expressed frustration and anger at the slow pace of the rescue effort and at what they said was a lack of communication.\n\nPriests in the area have been saying prayers for the miners' rescue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The head of the RAF said staff were asking legitimate questions\n\nThe head of the Royal Air Force has written to all his personnel promising to address as a \"priority\" concerns around recruitment policies and staff conduct from within the service.\n\nMedia reports have highlighted rows over diversity targets, and allegations of bullying, drinking and sexual harassment in the Red Arrows.\n\nChief of the Air Staff Sir Mike Wigston said there are \"legitimate questions\".\n\nHe said the issues would be the focus of an RAF board meeting on 7 September.\n\nThe Royal Air Force has faced a summer of bad headlines - highlighting its continuing struggles to train pilots, the concerns over diversity targets and the claims concerning the Red Arrows aerobatic team.\n\nThe Sun reported last week that one of the team's elite pilots had been suspended, while another had resigned in protest at a \"toxic culture\", and one had moved on for unexplained reasons.\n\nThe Chief of the Air Staff had already ordered an inquiry into the Red Arrows, which started last December and has still to be finished. The Times reported that it has also concerned allegations of misogyny and included complaints from young female recruits.\n\nHis letter has now raised questions about leadership, with it appearing to be a sign that the criticism, and potential reputational damage, is being felt right at the top.\n\nHe told RAF personnel: \"You will be well aware of the ongoing focus on the Royal Air Force in the media and on social media, on a number of topics, over the past weeks.\n\n\"I am acutely conscious that the coverage affects us all - whether regular, reserve, civil servant, or contractor - as well as our families and loved ones; and there are legitimate questions being asked which I am determined we will address as a priority.\"\n\nSir Mike said it was right for the RAF to take \"swift action\" to address concerns but asked staff to raise future issues with their chain of command rather than through the media.\n\nHe said \"unacceptable behaviours have no place in our service\".\n\nBut he defended his targets to increase the proportion of women and black and Asian recruits joining despite the recent resignation of a senior female recruiting officer.\n\nIn his letter, he insisted the goal of having 40% women recruits and 20% from the ethnic minorities will strengthen the service and will have no impact on standards or operations.", "French President Emmanuel Macron said the UK was a close ally despite what its leaders say\n\nEmmanuel Macron has warned of \"serious problems\" for France-UK relations after the favourite to be the next British prime minister refused to say if the French president was \"friend or foe\".\n\nMr Macron reacted to remarks made by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who said the jury was out on the French leader.\n\nMr Macron insisted the UK remained an ally, despite the occasional error made by its leaders.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Mr Macron was a \"good buddy\" of the UK.\n\nSenior politicians have accused Ms Truss, who is the frontrunner in the contest to succeed Mr Johnson as prime minister next month, of damaging the UK's relationship with France, a close ally.\n\nRelations between France and the UK - both key members of the Nato military alliance - have been rocky in recent years, particularly after the latter's departure from the European Union.\n\nMs Truss - the UK's top diplomat - was asked about French relations during a Conservative Party event, where she and her leadership rival, Rishi Sunak, took questions from party members.\n\nShe said \"the jury was out\" on whether Mr Macron was a friend or foe, and she would judge him on \"deeds not words\", prompting cheers and applause from the audience.\n\nHer comments came at the end of the leadership event - known as a hustings - during a series of quickfire questions posed by the host.\n\nWhen asked the same question, Mr Sunak said Mr Macron was a \"friend\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters during a visit to Algeria on Friday, Mr Macron was asked his views on Ms Truss's comments about him.\n\nAfter a long pause, he said \"it's never good to lose your bearings too much in life\".\n\nHe said he would have given a similar response to Mr Sunak's, had he been asked the same question about the next leader of the UK.\n\n\"If, between us as French and British people, we aren't able to say if we're friends or foes - the term isn't neutral - we're heading towards serious problems,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe said the UK was \"a friendly, strong, ally nation, regardless of its leaders, and sometimes in spite of and beyond its leaders, or any potential slip-ups they make when playing to the gallery.\"\n\nMs Truss is the favourite to succeed Mr Johnson as prime minister\n\nWhile he stressed the importance of the UK's close relationship with France, he suggested Ms Truss had made the comments with \"a touch of humour\".\n\nBut Nathalie Loiseau, a former French minister for European affairs and chairwoman of the European Parliament's EU-UK partnership assembly, did not appear to be amused.\n\nMs Loiseau tweeted to say Russian President Vladimir Putin was \"the only one who can enjoy hearing this sort of comment\".\n\nMeanwhile Labour's David Lammy accused Ms Truss of \"a woeful lack of judgement\", saying she had insulted one of \"Britain's closest allies\".\n\nOne Conservative minister said Ms Truss's comments had \"completely undermined our relationship with France\", calling her a \"faux Thatcher\", a reference to the Eurosceptic former Tory prime minister.\n\nIn a tweet, former foreign minister Alistair Burt said Ms Truss had made a \"serious error\" and should have struck a more diplomatic tone.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Gavin Barwell also questioned Ms Truss's comment, saying: \"You would have thought the foreign secretary was aware we are in a military alliance with France.\"\n\nMs Truss's comments have been picked up by French media, who have highlighted recent tensions between Paris and London.\n\nThe UK and France have clashed over several issues in recent years, including migrant boat crossings in the Channel, a military pact between Britain, the US and Australia, and Brexit measures involving Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Macron, who was re-elected for a second term earlier this year, has sometimes publicly criticised the Conservative government's approach.\n\nLast year Mr Macron reacted angrily to Mr Johnson's public call for France to take back migrants who reached the UK.\n\nThe French president accused the prime minister of not being \"serious\" by making the call on Twitter, though they have since been pictured arm-in-arm at a G7 summit in Germany earlier this year.\n\nWhen asked about Ms Truss's comments, Mr Johnson said he \"had very good relations with Emmanuel Macron, saying the French president \"est un tres bon buddy de notre pays (is a very good buddy of our country)\".\n\nThere's no denying the UK can have a complex relationship with France. From boat crossings in the Channel to ferry passport checks, there's been tension recently.\n\nBut as a close neighbour and a fellow Nato member, there are few in mainstream politics who would consider France anything but a strong ally. Especially at a time when western unity over the war in Ukraine is so important, and any division could be exploited by the likes of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nWhile Ms Truss's comments did appear to go down well with the audience of Conservative members, she's still the foreign secretary - the UK's chief diplomat. And therefore what she says on international affairs really matters.\n\nThis won't be the end of the matter. Ms Truss will be asked about these comments again over the coming days.\n\nWhat happens next will be watched carefully, on both sides of the Channel.", "Chloe McBratney said her labrador guide dog Emily was \"squashed\" in a footwell\n\nA blind woman has criticised an airline after her dog was left \"squashed\" in a cramped space for two transatlantic flights.\n\nChloe McBratney's labrador Emily was confined to a footwell on her flight from London to Canada and back.\n\nWestJet apologised, but said special arrangements were not made with the required notice of 48 hours in advance.\n\nThe airline said the third party the flight was booked through had not contacted it to make the arrangements.\n\nMs McBratney, a goalkeeping coach at Barry Town United's pan-disability team in south Wales in the UK, said she was \"incredibly worried\" for Emily's welfare.\n\n\"Emily was at my feet the entire time, however for anyone travelling on a plane it's not enough space anyway and then put a dog at your feet it's even less space,\" she said.\n\nShe said that when she sat Emily down on the outbound flight she \"couldn't turn around properly, when I took her harness off I could tell by her demeanour that she just wasn't comfortable at all\".\n\nThe pair were then placed in a similar seat on the way home on Wednesday.\n\nChloe McBratney and Emily flew from the UK to Canada and back\n\nMs McBratney said she was told the airline could only help if she cancelled her booking with a third party and rebooked a full-price ticket.\n\n\"I booked my ticket five months ago and then rang the airline... I requested there and then for extra leg room,\" she said.\n\nMs McBratney said the airline told her they could not provide this at the time and was told closer to the time there was nothing it could do because she booked through a third party.\n\n\"It was an eight-hour flight, which for anybody is a really long time. It made it incredibly hard for both her and me as well.\"\n\nThere is no obligation to provide spacious seats for passengers with guide dogs, but the Civil Aviation Authority says many airlines do\n\nJohn Welsman from Guide Dogs UK said it was a \"very complex\" situation, as there were various regulations airlines have to comply with.\n\nHowever, he added, it was \"at the airline's discretion\" if they provide additional floor space for guide dogs.\n\n\"But they do need to demonstrate that they have done due diligence in the booking process to show that they've gone through all the things they need to.\"\n\n\"It's down to the airline what they think is adequate space for the dog when they are booking me on to the flight.\"\n\nWhile there is no obligation for airlines, the Civil Aviation Authority said \"many airlines\" would seat passengers with guide dogs in the front row, when possible.\n\nWestjet said \"all guests travelling with service dogs provide us with at least 48 hours advance notice before their flight departs\".\n\nIt said the third party the flight was booked through did not contact it to make special arrangements, meaning Ms McBratney's options were limited to \"purchasing an additional seat or upgrading to a seat with additional leg room\".\n\nThe company apologised \"for any confusion or inconvenience this guest experienced during their travel\".", "The government has published a plan to reduce sewage discharges into England's rivers and the sea, promising the \"strictest targets ever\".\n\nWater firms will have to deliver the \"largest infrastructure programme in water company history\", it says.\n\nLast week pollution warnings were in place on nearly 50 beaches after heavy rainfall led to water companies discharging untreated sewage.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats branded the new plan a \"cruel joke\".\n\nThey said consumers would pay for \"the mess made by water companies\".\n\nWater companies discharged untreated sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, according to official figures.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats called the government's targets \"flimsy\", predicting they would still allow 325,000 sewage dumps a year in 2030.\n\nThe plan will require water firms to invest £56bn over 25 years on improving infrastructure.\n\nIt also states that by 2035 water companies will have to \"improve all storm overflows discharging into or near every designated bathing water, and improve 75% of overflows discharging to high-priority nature sites\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: \"Between now and 2025, water companies will be investing £3bn in order to reduce the use of storm overflows by 25%.\n\n\"There are 15,000 storm overflows. We have had them since the Victorian era - they've always been there as an emergency release valve when you get extreme rainfall events, but they are starting in some cases to be used far too often.\"\n\nMr Eustice said it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been addressed over the past 40 or 50 years.\n\nHe said there would be a \"modest increase in water bills over time\" as a result of the action announced, but it would be a \"price people would be willing to pay\".\n\n\"There will be no change to water bills until at least 2025, and between then and 2030, the average annual rise in water bills will be about £12.\"\n\nThere is a major continuing investigation by the Environment Agency and industry regulator Ofwat into how all wastewater companies manage their treatment works.\n\nEnforcement cases are being pursued against South West Water, Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Thames Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water.\n\nPublic anger over the continuing discharges has been building over recent weeks as reports of sewage pollution have become more frequent.\n\nLiberal Democrat environment spokesperson Tim Farron criticised the plans, saying \"by 2030 there will still be 325,000 sewage dumps a year in our waterways\".\n\n\"By the time these flimsy targets come into effect, our beaches would have been pumped full of disgusting sewage.\"\n\nThe legal obligation on water companies set by a 2012 European Court of Justice Ruling was for discharges to only occur in very rare \"exceptional circumstances.\"\n\nWater-quality campaigner Feargal Sharkey believes that the legal duty on water companies has now been relaxed.\n\nUnder the new plan, they will be allowed to discharge from a storm overflow, \"where they can demonstrate that there is no local adverse ecological impact.\"\n\nMr Sharkey said: \"We've gone from a position where it should in 99.9% of cases be illegal … the law was quite clear. We've now gone to a position to where it's about reduction in adverse impact - what does that even mean?\"\n\nTo help protect human health, the plan instructs water companies to apply \"disinfection\" or reduce the \"frequency of discharges\".\n\nJim McMahon, Labour's environment, food and rural affairs spokesman, said: \"This document is neither a plan, nor does it eliminate sewage dumping into our natural environment. Under the government's weak improvement 'target', based on last year's data, we'd face another 4.8 million sewage spill events in our country between now and 2035.\n\n\"Last year Tory MPs had the opportunity to vote meaningful action into law, but blocked measures that would have progressively eliminated the discharge of raw sewage in our natural environment.\"\n\nA spokesperson for South West Water said: \"We welcome the government's storm overflows discharge reduction plan to improve the water industry's infrastructure network and improve the health of our rivers and seas.\n\n\"We're investing £2bn between 2020 and 2025, with most investment going to improving our wastewater assets and environmental performance.\"", "Two men, aged 62 and 51, have been charged with a number of terrorism offences in connection with an investigation into the activities of the New IRA.\n\nThey were arrested in west Belfast on Wednesday as part of the PSNI and MI5's Operation Arbacia.\n\nIt aims to reduce the threat posed by violent dissident republicans.\n\nThe charges include directing a terrorist organisation and the preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nThey are due to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nTwo other men, aged 30 and 27, who were arrested as part of Operation Arbacia on Wednesday, have been released on report to the Public Prosecution Service.", "A senior female RAF recruitment officer has resigned amid claims of pressure to meet diversity targets.\n\nThe unnamed Group Captain is reported to have voiced frustration that white men were rejected in a bid to recruit more ethnic minorities and women.\n\nThe Royal Air Force aims to hit targets of 20% for minority ethnicity and 40% for women among new recruits by 2030.\n\nThe force insisted recruitment had not been paused and it was working to recruit more under-represented people.\n\nBritain's armed forces have made no secret they want to attract more women, black and Asian recruits.\n\nThe head of Britain's armed forces, Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, has described their under-representation as woeful.\n\nBut the RAF has gone the furthest, setting ambitious targets to more than double its recruitment of women to hit 40% by 2030, as well as to ensure ethnic minorities make up 20% of new recruits.\n\nFirst reported by Sky News, pressure to meet those targets was felt by a head of recruitment - who has now resigned and moved to another role.\n\nDefence sources suggested she was being leant on to turn away white male candidates.\n\nIn a statement, the RAF insisted recruitment had not been paused, but it said it was doing everything it could to increase recruitment of under-represented groups.\n\nA spokesperson said the force would not shy away from the challenges it faced to attract candidates from every part of the UK workforce.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said operational effectiveness was essential and insisted the RAF, like the rest of the armed forces, was determined to reflect the \"society it serves to protect\".\n\nEarlier this year a leaked internal email appealed for a pilot to attend the premier of the movie Top Gun: Maverick as the face of the RAF - it was looking for someone who was \"preferably not white and male\".\n\nThe reality is the vast majority are.", "Two years after having Covid-19, diagnoses of brain fog, dementia and epilepsy are more common than after other respiratory infections, a study by the University of Oxford suggests.\n\nBut anxiety and depression are no more likely in adults or children two years on, the research found.\n\nMore research is needed to understand how and why Covid could lead to other conditions.\n\nExperts say the virus disrupted daily life as well as making people ill.\n\nPrevious research has suggested that adults are at an increased risk of brain and mental health conditions in the six months after a Covid infection.\n\nThis study looked at the risks of 14 different disorders in 1.25 million patients two years on from Covid, mostly in the US. It then compared them with a closely-matched group of 1.25 million people who had a different respiratory infection.\n\nIn the group who had Covid, after two years, there were more new cases of:\n\nFor example, children's risk of developing epilepsy after Covid was 260 in 10,000, compared to 130 in 10,000 after another respiratory infection.\n\nTheir risk of developing a psychotic disorder also increased after Covid - to 18 in 10,000 - but it is still a rare condition.\n\nSome disorders became less common two years after Covid, including:\n\nThe increased risk of depression and anxiety in adults lasts less than two months before returning to normal levels, the research found.\n\nProf Paul Harrison, lead study author, from University of Oxford's psychiatry department, said it was \"worrying\" that some disorders, such as dementia and seizures, are more likely to be diagnosed after Covid-19, even two years later.\n\nBut he said it was \"good news\" that depression and anxiety cases after Covid were \"short-lived\", and not seen in children.\n\nThe researchers said the numbers affected were \"hard to ignore\" but were \"not a tsunami\", and some would be likely to need medical attention which could add to the pressure on health services.\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry, did not track individual people over two years - instead it analysed the number of people with a new diagnosis two years after their infection.\n\nIt also did not look at how severe each condition was after diagnosis or how long they lasted, and whether these are similar after Covid compared with other infections.\n\nThey stopped short of calling these conditions \"long Covid\", although brain fog - or problems with memory and concentration - is a typical symptom.\n\nLast winter's Omicron variant was less likely to cause long Covid symptoms than previous variants, recent research suggests.\n\nAlthough less severe than the Delta variant, Omicron appears to lead to similar risks of brain and mental health conditions, this study found.\n\nThe study has some limitations - it did not look at how Covid could cause brain and mental health disorders, although some experts say it could be explained by the development of micro-clots in the blood.\n\nDr Jonathan Rogers and Prof Glyn Lewis, from University College London, who were not involved in the research, said the study highlighted \"some clinical features that particularly merit further investigation\", but they added that more studies were needed to confirm the findings.\n\nProf David Menon, from the University of Cambridge, said the impact of being in hospital with Covid was \"equal to 20 years of ageing (between 50 and 70)\".\n\nPaul Garner, emeritus professor in evidence synthesis in global health at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said the Covid pandemic had changed people's lives in many different ways.\n\nHe said the small increases in dementia and psychosis were \"more likely to be related to the societal upheaval and dystopia we have been living through, rather than being a direct effect of the virus.\"", "Mr O'Halloran was a much-loved member of the community\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the stabbing of a grandfather on a mobility scooter in west London.\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died at the scene on Cayton Road, Greenford, after being attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nA 44-year-old man was arrested at an address in nearby Southall, police say.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Eastwood thanked the public \"for their overwhelming support following this horrific incident\".\n\nPolice arrested a man in the early hours of Thursday\n\nMr O'Halloran, who was originally from Ennistymon, Co Clare, in the west of Ireland, was attacked while on his way to busk, according to a friend.\n\nDetectives believe Mr O'Halloran was stabbed in Western Avenue before managing to travel about 75 yards on his mobility scooter to Runnymede Gardens, where he flagged down a member of the public for help.\n\nThe victim's family, including a sister, two brothers, nieces and nephews, is being supported by specially trained officers, the police said.\n\nA public meeting will be held on Thursday evening at Greenford Community Centre organised by Metropolitan Police and chaired by Ch Supt Sean Wilson.\n\nTuesday's death was the sixth murder investigation to be launched in London in four days and the 66th this year.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A post-mortem concluded Mati died of head injuries after falling from the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nA boy accidentally fell to his death from the White Cliffs of Dover on his 12th birthday, an inquest heard.\n\nMati Urb was visiting Kent with his parents and two siblings during the Easter school holidays.\n\nThe Estonian family, who moved to London in 2021, hired a campervan to holiday around the south coast of England.\n\nDuring a clifftop walk, Mati's parents lost sight of him and Coastguards later found his body at the cliff's base.\n\nA coastguard helicopter spotted a body at the bottom of the White Cliffs of Dover\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded Mati died of head injuries on 4 April following his fall in the East Langdon cliffs area of Dover.\n\nA police report said there had been no third party involvement, the inquest sitting in Maidstone heard on Wednesday.\n\nRecording a conclusion of accidental death, coroner Katrina Hepburn said: \"I don't know how Mati came to fall from the cliff - it was unwitnessed.\n\n\"Whether he tripped and fell, whether it was the wind, or whether he was looking too far over the edge, I simply don't know.\n\n\"I know that's of no comfort to the family to have this unexplained as to how Mati came to fall.\n\n\"These were tragic circumstances and the conclusion that I return is one of accident. I can see no evidence that he intended to go over the cliff.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The man is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured T-shirt, a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves\n\nDetectives investigating the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter have released images of a man seen running from the scene armed with a knife.\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died on Cayton Road, Greenford, west London, after being attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson said it was an act of \"unprovoked violence\".\n\nPolice now want to identify the man from CCTV as a matter of urgency.\n\nHe is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured T-shirt, a white baseball cap and white patterned builder style gloves.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Eastwood, who is leading the investigation, said: \"He is clearly a dangerous individual and people are advised not to approach him, but to call us immediately on 999 if they know him or have any information regarding his whereabouts.\"\n\nThe Met described the attack on Thomas O'Halloran in west London as an act of unprovoked violence\n\nSpeaking at the crime scene at midday Ch Supt Wilson said: \"We believe that Mr O'Halloran was stabbed on Western Avenue before managing to travel 75 yards or so on his mobility scooter to Runnymede Gardens where he flagged down a member of the public for help,\" he said.\n\n\"So, please. If you saw anything we do need to hear from you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Police chief appeals for public's help over killing of 87-year-old Thomas O'Halloran\n\nIt is the sixth murder investigation to be launched in London in the last four days.\n\nCh Supt Wilson said Mr O'Halloran was a \"much-loved\" member of the Greenford community and lived locally.\n\nExtra officers will be deployed to patrol the area in the coming days to provide reassurance.\n\nA public meeting will also be held on Thursday evening at Greenford Community Centre organised by Metropolitan Police and chaired by Ch Supt Wilson.\n\n\"They are there to protect you and to help you,\" Ch Supt Wilson added.\n\n\"If you have any concerns or information that you want to share please approach those officers. I realised that dreadful impact that incidents like this have on our communities.\n\n\"I would like to reassure you all that we are doing all we can to solve the horrendous crimes that we have seen across London over the last few days. I stress that London remains one of the safest cities in the world.\"\n\nPolice described the attack as an \"awful incident\"\n\nAccording to BBC analysis of police crime figures, 66 murder investigations have been launched this year in London by the Met Police, City of London Police and British Transport Police (BTP).\n\nThis is slightly lower compared with this time last year where police had launched 78 murder investigations in the capital.\n\nNearly two-thirds of London homicide victims in 2022 have been stabbed to death.\n\nFour people have been fatally shot - all within the last month.\n\nSixty-two cases have led to arrests, and 52 cases have seen someone charged with murder.\n\nAn army of TV crews, satellite trucks and journalists have set up camp in this ordinary residential road in Greenford.\n\nA forensics tent remains standing ominously within the large police cordon - marking the very spot Thomas O'Halloran died.\n\nTraffic on the eastbound A40, which is parallel to Runnymede Gardens, has been slowing down while drivers and passengers take in the crime scene.\n\nThis is a narrow road, meaning this happened in plain view immediately outside people's homes, as well as afternoon traffic.\n\nIt's difficult to understand how something like this could have happened in a spot so exposed. Neighbours say this is a quiet, uneventful area, with a large number of elderly residents.\n\nThey told me that they fear becoming victims of crime themselves.\n\nFrasley Coutinho, who lives opposite where Mr O'Halloran was stabbed, said he saw the pensioner being surrounded by a group of youths.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a couple of people gathering around him and then he drove past and stopped further up, and then there was a group of young boys around him.\"\n\nMr Coutinho said he caught some of the incident on a CCTV camera but it had been obscured by a plant.\n\nNick Lambie told BBC London the community is very worried by the fatal stabbing\n\nAnother resident Nick Lambie said Mr O'Halloran was known to collect for charity.\n\nHe added: \"When you hear something like that happening on your doorstep it is very disconcerting as it is a very quiet area.\n\n\"I understand he collected for charity and was quite often at the local Tesco. By the looks of it he was making his way from there.\n\n\"Someone in their 80s in a mobility scooter can't put up much of a fight.\"\n\nFootage shared with Sky News appears to show Mr O'Halloran smiling as he plays his accordion to raise money for Ukraine earlier this year.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The first flight due to take refugees from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled at the eleventh-hour in June\n\nMinisters have partially lost an attempt to keep secret a series of comments about Rwanda from an adviser.\n\nThe High Court said on Wednesday some of what the adviser had told ministers must be disclosed in a major court case over the Rwandan refugee policy.\n\nLawyers for the government had argued disclosing the comments would damage relations with the African country.\n\nThe adviser had warned ministers Rwanda's government tortured and killed political opponents, the court heard.\n\nWhile that warning of political violence was disclosed in court on Tuesday, further comments from the expert remain secret.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) adviser had looked at revisions to the government's own report into Rwanda's human rights record.\n\nThat document was being updated as ministers planned to send asylum seekers on a flight to Rwanda under the controversial relocation scheme announced in April.\n\nThe one-way plan, worth at least £120m to Rwanda, aims to discourage illegal crossings of the English Channel - but it is on ice until the High Court rules whether it is legal.\n\nIn court, the government said 10 further comments from the unnamed official should be kept confidential rather than be used as evidence in that forthcoming court case.\n\nThis meant they would not be disclosed to the group of migrants and charities who were challenging the flights policy.\n\nBut in his ruling Lord Justice Lewis said six of the official's comments, or parts of them, should feature in next month's legal battle.\n\nHe ruled four should remain entirely secret because of the damage they would do to international relations.\n\n\"I accept that disclosure of the 10 extracts would give rise to a real risk of causing serious harm to the United Kingdom's international relations, particularly with Rwanda,\" he said.\n\n\"I recognise that the government... regards a policy whereby those seeking asylum have their claims determined in Rwanda as a significant means of deterring people from seeking to cross the English Channel in boats or by other means.\n\n\"Disclosing the material in issue in this case would undermine the development and implementation of that policy.\"\n\nHowever the judge said given September's major legal action had to decide whether sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was lawful, the claimants and the court needed to consider as much evidence as possible.\n\nHe said some of the official's comments would have \"evidential significance\" - and the public interest in disclosing them outweighed the government's case for keeping them secret.\n\nLord Justice Lewis said: \"I recognise that there is a strong public interest in not undermining international relations with a friendly state. Nonetheless, that consideration is outweighed by the public interest in ensuring access to relevant information in this litigation and by the extent to which the information is already in the public domain.\"\n\nThe official's precise words are not yet in public. The government has been allowed time to consider an appeal. If the judgment stands, the comments are likely to emerge in public in September.\n\nMigrants identified for the first aborted flight, and three media organisations - BBC News, including BBC Two's Newsnight, the Times and the Guardian newspapers - sought the disclosure of the material.", "Salma al-Shehab was interviewed by Al Thaqafia TV at the 2014 Riyadh International Book Fair\n\nLeeds University has expressed deep concern for one of its PhD students who has been jailed for 34 years in Saudi Arabia over critical tweets.\n\nSalma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and mother of two, was arrested in 2021 while on holiday in the kingdom.\n\nBefore the trip she had called for reforms and the release of activists.\n\nHuman rights groups said the harsh sentence gave the lie to Saudi claims it was improving women's rights and showed the situation was getting worse.\n\nA terrorism tribunal convicted Shebab of aiding dissidents seeking to \"disrupt public order\" and publishing \"false rumours\", they said.\n\nThey warned that it was \"the longest prison sentence ever for a peaceful activist\" in the Gulf state, where Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen a crackdown on dissent for five years.\n\nShehab, a member of Sunni Muslim-ruled Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, describes herself on her Instagram account as a dental hygienist and medical educator. In addition to being in the final year of her PhD studies at Leeds University's School of Medicine, she says she is a lecturer at the Princess Nourah University in Riyadh.\n\nHer Twitter account, which has 2,700 followers, has not been updated since 12 January 2021, three days before she was reportedly detained in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAt the end of the previous month, she tweeted or retweeted several messages calling for reforms in Saudi Arabia and the release of prominent activists, clerics and other intellectuals.\n\nOne post praised as \"prisoners of conscience\" a group of leading women's rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, who were detained just before a ban on women driving was lifted in 2018 and were later convicted crimes against the state. Ms Hathloul was released on probation a month after Shehab's arrest but is subject to a travel ban and other restrictions.\n\nUS-based human rights group The Freedom House and UK-based group ALQST reported that Shehab was initially given a six-year prison sentence after being found guilty of violating the country's counter-terrorism and anti-cybercrime laws late last year.\n\nOn 9 August, an appeals court increased her term to 34 years and added a 34-year travel ban that would start following her release, they said, citing court documents.\n\nBethany Al-Haidari, the Saudi case manager at the Freedom Initiative, described the sentence as \"abhorrent\".\n\n\"Saudi Arabia is boasting to the world that they are improving women's rights and implementing legal reforms. But there is no question with this sentence that the situation is just getting worse,\" she told the BBC's Newshour programme on Saturday.\n\n\"We also have gotten reports that there are hundreds of young women who were detained around the same time as Salma was.\"\n\nALQST's head of communications Lina al-Hathloul, Loujain al-Hathloul's sister, said the sentence showed Saudi authorities remained \"hellbent on harshly punishing anyone who expresses their opinions freely\".\n\n\"The release of Loujain al-Hathloul and other women's rights activists came about in response to sustained international pressure. However, as the spotlight on Saudi Arabia has gradually faded, the authorities have reverted to their habitual pattern of repression,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe escalation was \"connected to the growing rehabilitation\" of Crown Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, she added.\n\nA month ago US President Joe Biden met the prince in Jeddah, despite having pledged to make Saudi Arabia a \"pariah\" over its human rights record.\n\nA Leeds University spokesperson said: \"We are deeply concerned to learn of this recent development in Salma's case and we are seeking advice on whether there is anything we can do to support her.\n\n\"Our thoughts remain with Salma, her family, and her friends among our close-knit community of postgraduate researchers.\"\n\nA US state department spokesman said it was studying Shehab's case and that \"exercising freedom of expression to advocate for the rights of women should not be criminalised\".\n\nThe Saudi government has so far not commented on the reports.", "Sir Salman Rushdie suffered a damaged liver as well as severed nerves in an arm and an eye\n\nThe man accused of stabbing Sir Salman Rushdie has reportedly said he has only read two pages of the author's controversial novel The Satanic Verses.\n\nHadi Matar, 24, has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the assault at an event in New York last week.\n\nIn an interview with the New York Post from jail, Mr Matar said Sir Salman was \"someone who attacked Islam\".\n\nBut he did not confirm that his alleged actions were driven by a fatwa issued by Iran in the 1980s.\n\nIn a court appearance on Thursday, a judge ordered Mr Matar be held without bail at Chautauqua County Jail, in New York state, after the accused entered a not guilty plea to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges.\n\nSir Salman published his famous and controversial novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, sparking outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous.\n\nThe book's release prompted the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa calling for the writer's death in 1989.\n\nMr Matar told the New York Post he had only read \"a couple of pages\" of the book and did not say whether the fatwa had inspired him.\n\n\"I respect the Ayatollah. I think he's a great person. That's as far as I will say about that,\" he said.\n\nMr Matar also told the newspaper he was \"surprised\" to hear that Sir Salman had survived the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Moderator onstage with Salman Rushdie speaks out after attack\n\n\"I don't like the person. I don't think he's a very good person. I don't like him very much,\" Mr Matar said, according to the paper. \"He's someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Matar's mother said she had disowned her son after his alleged behaviour. \"I'm done with him,\" Silvana Fardos said on Monday, adding: \"I have nothing to say to him.\"\n\nSir Salman suffered a damaged liver as well as severed nerves in an arm and eye injuries in the attack, but was taken off a ventilator on Saturday.\n\nDespite his \"life-changing\" injuries, the Booker Prize-winning author has retained his \"usual feisty and defiant sense of humour\", his family said earlier this week.\n\nOn Friday, a number of literary figures will read from his works on the steps on New York's public library to show solidarity with the novelist.\n\nTina Brown, Paul Auster, Kiran Desai, Andrea Elliott, Hari Kunzru and Gay Talese will be among those taking part in Stand With Salman: Defend the Freedom to Write.", "Rishi Sunak has insisted he still has a \"shot\" at Downing Street despite polls suggesting Liz Truss has a strong lead in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nHe told ITV's This Morning he \"definitely\" had a chance of victory, while warning his rival's tax-cutting plans risked fuelling inflation.\n\nThe former chancellor said his economic approach was \"honest\" and deliverable.\n\nThe latest poll of Tory members pointed to 66% backing Ms Truss and 34% supporting Mr Sunak.\n\nThe YouGov survey of 1,089 people for Sky News was conducted from 12-17 August. The percentages were calculated by excluding undecided members and non-voters.\n\nThe next UK prime minister will be announced on 5 September. The postal ballot closes on 2 September, but thousands of party members are thought to have already voted.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said: \"I'm really excited to keep going, I think my ideas are the right ones.\"\n\nAsked about Labour's proposal to freeze energy bills, partly by backdating the windfall tax on oil and gas companies' profits, he argued this would be a \"very blunt instrument\", providing \"a lot of support for people who don't need it\".\n\nIn an apparent attack on Ms Truss's campaign pledges, he warned that increasing borrowing during a time of high inflation would be \"really risky\".\n\n\"It's like putting fuel on the fire and that's the mistake we made in the 70s, I don't want to repeat that mistake,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, it emerged the inflation rate in July had soared to 10.1%, a 40-year high.\n\nMs Truss has argued that taxes are too high and risk \"choking off growth\". She says businesses are less likely to invest, and people are less likely to set up businesses or get jobs.\n\nReducing taxation, the foreign secretary has said, is the best way of staving off a recession.\n\nMr Sunak said restoring trust in government and politics was about \"under-promising and over-delivering\".\n\n\"That's why in this leadership race I've not been making lots of easy promises that I think are false, I'd rather lose than say things I don't think can be delivered, I'd rather be honest with people.\"\n\nElsewhere in his ITV interview, Mr Sunak described Boris Johnson's battle to cling to power in July as \"a bit odd\".\n\nHis own resignation as chancellor helped to prompt more than 50 other members of the government to follow suit.\n\nAsked if the prime minister still talks to him, Mr Sunak said: \"No, no. I've reached out to him but understandably he's not replied.\n\n\"That's fair but it wasn't just me, at the end of the day, 60 other members of the government all resigned as well.\"\n\nMs Truss has continued to praise Mr Johnson's record as prime minister.\n\nShe has now agreed to be interviewed by the BBC's Nick Robinson. The interview will be broadcast live on BBC1 on 30 August.\n\nMr Robinson questioned her rival earlier in the month.\n\nMr Sunak was quizzed about his fast food favourites\n\nIn his ITV interview, the former chancellor was also asked about a photograph he recently posted on Instagram of himself paying at a McDonald's self-service machine.\n\nAfter his spring statement in March, he was filmed struggling to use his bank card to buy petrol.\n\nPressed on what he ordered at McDonald's, Mr Sunak said he bought breakfast.\n\n\"I get bacon roll with ketchup and the pancakes.\n\n\"If I'm with my daughters then we get the wrap. My eldest daughter, we get the wraps.\n\n\"If I'm with her they're wrapped with a hash brown and everything in it.\"\n\nOn social media, some people have pointed out that the fast food chain has not served breakfast wraps since March 2020, when it reduced its menu in response to the Covid pandemic.\n\nA source on Mr Sunak's campaign later said: \"Rishi has barely seen his kids in the last two-and-a-half years since he became chancellor so there has been almost no opportunity to share a McDonald's with them.\n\n\"He's hoping they might consider bringing the breakfast wrap back on the menu.\"", "Margaret Ferrier campaigns with the then-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon ahead of the 2019 General Election\n\nA by-election has been triggered after MP Margaret Ferrier, who was suspended from the Commons for breaking Covid lockdown rules, lost her seat in a recall petition.\n\nShe had travelled to London while feeling ill in 2020 then got a train home after a positive Covid test.\n\nFerrier was elected as an SNP member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West in 2015 but was suspended from the party after the lockdown breach in 2020 and has since sat as an independent.\n\nShe had taken a Covid test on Saturday 26 September 2020 after noticing what she described as a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church, gave a reading to the congregation and spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, South Ayrshire.\n\nThe next day she travelled to London by train and spoke in the Commons before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nShe was arrested and charged with culpable and reckless conduct in January 2021 and pleaded guilty last August. A month later she was ordered to carry out 270 hours of community service.\n\nThe 62-year-old first became an MP in 2015 in the SNP landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.\n\nFerrier, who won Rutherglen and Hamilton West, pulled off one of the biggest shocks on a night full of surprises.\n\nHer victory overturned a Labour majority of 21,002 - one of the largest in the UK - and she ended up the winner by 9,975 votes.\n\nShe was 54 when she was chosen to be the SNP candidate and had only joined the party four years earlier.\n\nSoon after becoming an MP, she told the Rutherglen Reformer she could not remember a time when she did not support an independent Scotland.\n\nEven as a member of the Labour Party in her youth, she felt the country should go it alone, she said.\n\nBorn in the south of Glasgow, she lived for almost two years of her childhood in Spain.\n\nShe told the Reformer she had early memories of correcting people in Spain when they called her English.\n\n\"I wasn't English, I was Scottish, so I always had that Scottish identity, even from the age of 12,\" she said.\n\nFerrier returned to Scotland in 1972 and settled with her family in Rutherglen.\n\nMargaret Ferrier in the House of Commons during a debate on the coronavirus response\n\nShe is said to have had a keen interest in politics since her early-20s and was a member of Amnesty International.\n\nBefore becoming an MP, she had worked as a commercial sales manager for a manufacturing construction company in Motherwell.\n\nAlthough she said she voted for the SNP on a number of occasions, she did not join the Rutherglen branch of the party until 2011.\n\nShe quickly established herself in the local party and was a candidate for the council elections in 2013.\n\nShe said she was initially reluctant to contest the Westminster seat in 2015 and admitted at the time that some potential candidates may have been put off by the prospect of taking on a huge Labour majority.\n\nHer surprise win was followed by defeat in the snap election of 2017 when Ged Killen regained the seat for Labour with a slender majority of 265.\n\nThe then-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Rutherglen to offer her support for Margaret Ferrier as she campaigned successfully to win back the seat in the 2019 election.\n\nFerrier was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nIt subsequently emerged that Ferrier had travelled from Glasgow to London with Covid symptoms, and then returned home by train after testing positive.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was quick to condemn her actions as \"dangerous and indefensible\".\n\nThe former SNP leader later called \"with a heavy heart\" for Ferrier to resign as an MP.", "A non-executive director at energy regulator Ofgem has quit over changes to the way the energy price cap is set.\n\nChristine Farnish said she felt the regulator had not \"struck the right balance between the interests of consumers and interests of suppliers\".\n\nOfgem is in charge of setting the level at which domestic energy costs are capped every three months.\n\nThe watchdog thanked Ms Farnish \"for her many years of devoted service\".\n\nMs Farnish told The Times she disagreed with a decision to change the cap to enable suppliers to recoup certain wholesale costs sooner - a measure the regulator has said would prevent more suppliers going bust.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said: \"Due to this unprecedented energy crisis, Ofgem is having to make some incredibly difficult decisions where carefully balanced trade-offs are being weighed up all the time.\n\n\"But we always prioritise consumers' needs both in the immediate and long term.\"\n\nThe regulator has faced criticism for raising the energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge domestic customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - this October.\n\nThe cap is designed to protect consumers from short-term price changes and is adjusted by Ofgem every three months - based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nConsumer rights campaigner Martin Lewis has previously accused the regulator of \"selling consumers down the river\".\n\nOctober's price cap is due to be announced at the end of this month.\n\nEnergy industry analysts Cornwall Insight predict an average annual bill will reach £3,582 at this point - £200 higher than the previous estimate.\n\nIn January 2023, when the the cap is due to be changed again, Cornwall Insights expects the cap to go up to £4,266.\n\nThe higher estimate means the average household would be paying £355 a month, instead of £164 a month currently.\n\nEnergy prices have risen sharply because demand for gas increased when Covid restrictions eased, and because the invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nOfgem recently changed the rules so the cap can be revised every three months instead of every six, saying this would make it less likely that more energy suppliers would collapse, and allow consumers to feel the benefit of any future fall in prices more quickly.\n\nAround 30 suppliers have failed in the UK in the past year.\n\nResponding to Ms Farnish's resignation, an Ofgem spokesperson said that the rest of the board members had decided a shorter recovery period for energy costs was in \"the best interest\" of consumers in the \"long term\".\n\nThe spokesperson said the change reduced the \"very real risk of suppliers going bust, which would heap yet more costs onto bills and add unnecessary worry and concern at an already very difficult time\".\n\nA spokesperson from the government's business department said: \"We are aware of a resignation at the Board of Ofgem, which has been accepted.\"", "Ukrainian emergency rescuers attend an exercise in case of a possible nuclear incident at Zaporizhzhia's nuclear plant.\n\nIt is relatively unusual in Ukraine for a government official to invite you on a short-notice trip.\n\nIt turns out it is more common for that invitation to come with very little detail.\n\nThe main reason for that is security - it is not exactly wise to publicise when a minister is going to be somewhere, especially when you are being invaded by another country.\n\nWe decided to accept, and soon found ourselves at an airfield near Kyiv, where we and other journalists were led onto a helicopter.\n\nBy this point we knew our destination was the city of Zaporizhzhia, and the subject was the growing danger from the region's nuclear power plant further south.\n\nWithin 30 seconds of the journey starting, I realised why we were offered anti-nausea tablets before taking off.\n\nTo stay undetected, the pilot keeps the helicopter around 10 metres off the ground, occasionally hurdling over electric powerlines.\n\nThere are endless fields of sunflowers. Some are in full bloom, some are wilting, past their best. Regardless, the harvest is fast approaching.\n\nThen there is the dense woodland - thousands upon thousands of towering trees which come so close to touching the skids of the chopper.\n\nYou are left under no illusion of Ukraine's vast and rich landscape.\n\nAfter landing in Zaporizhzhia, you are struck by two things: the more industrial skyline in comparison to Kyiv, as well as the humidity.\n\nWe end up at a supermarket car park where emergency workers are dressed in yellow hazmat suits. They are practising cleaning drills in the event of a radioactive contamination.\n\nUkraine's last nuclear crisis was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear incident, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded.\n\nThey are watched by senior officials, who are keen to see how ready the region would be in the event of a worst-case scenario.\n\n\"Of course we are concerned,\" Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko tells me. \"The situation changed dramatically when the Russians started shelling the area on 5 August.\"\n\nUkraine says the situation at the plant is \"approaching critical\".\n\nRussian forces have occupied the site, Europe's biggest, since early March.\n\nThey have been urged to hand control back because of the dangers, and some staff there have told the BBC they're \"being kept at gunpoint\".\n\nFor the past two weeks there's been heavy shelling on and around the plant, with the sides blaming each other.\n\nNato is the latest international organisation to call for United Nations inspectors to be let into the Zaporizhzhia power plant, claiming its seizure posed a serious threat to Ukraine and neighbouring countries.\n\nOfficials say the plant could be cut off from power as Moscow tries to redirect electricity to Crimea, which it annexed eight years ago.\n\n\"It is impossible to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant while the Russian occupying forces are there,\" says Denys Monastyrskyy, Ukraine's interior minister.\n\n\"It is the key concern that we all should understand,\" he adds.\n\nUkraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy says the situation at the plant is “approaching critical”\n\nThe car park is also a place where Ukrainians who manage to make it out of Russian-occupied territories first arrive.\n\nThere are queues of cars with people and full suitcases.\n\nSitting in the shade we meet Olena, who has just made it out of the city of Enerhodar, where the nuclear plant is located.\n\n\"It's scary, very scary, there is shelling all the time,\" she says while bouncing her toddler on her knee.\n\n\"There have been many more explosions and it became too dangerous to stay there.\n\n\"I didn't want to leave home, but I had no choice.\"\n\nThis car park represents Ukraine controlling what it can.\n\nUnable to force the Russians from Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, the country is instead trying to prepare for the worst, if it happens.", "Mr Kaweesi jumped in to help when his son got into trouble in the River Nile\n\nA newly-wed father is missing in Uganda after trying to save his son who got into difficulty in the River Nile.\n\nRobert Kaweesi, 48, from Birmingham, was with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their four children and staying in a lodge on the banks of the river in Pakwach.\n\nHis 12-year-old son went swimming in the river but when he got into trouble, his father jumped in to help.\n\nThe boy was rescued by bystanders but Mr Kaweesi was missing, police said.\n\nMs Katantazi confirmed to the BBC her husband, a UK citizen of Ugandan origin who works as a refrigeration contractor, had been trying to save their son when he disappeared on Wednesday.\n\nShe also confirmed they had married in Uganda in early August.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it was supporting the family and was in contact with local authorities in Uganda.\n\nIt is understood tourist lodges normally advise visitors to be cautious about swimming in the river.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will go head to head at a hustings event in Belfast\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Conservative Party leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will go head-to-head in a hustings in Belfast.\n\nTory members in Northern Ireland will have a chance to hear from each candidate.\n\nBBC News NI political correspondent Gareth Gordon spoke to some members as they prepare to cast their votes.\n\nShane Quinn rarely has a chance to vote for the political party he is a member of - but this week he will get to vote for the next prime minister.\n\nShane is from Strabane, a town dominated by the politics of Irish nationalism.\n\nShane Quinn is from Strabane and says there is no party in Northern Ireland that owns his vote\n\nHe has also chosen to be a member of the Northern Ireland Conservatives, a party many there would regard as politically untouchable.\n\n\"I wouldn't say it's difficult,\" the barrister said.\n\n\"It's probably unusual in the sense that most people from my own particular background would tend to see themselves as nationalist.\n\n\"But the way I see it is that there's no party in Northern Ireland that owns my vote. I find my values better represented by the Northern Ireland Conservatives than any of their competitors.\"\n\nThere are believed to be about 600 Conservatives in Northern Ireland. Their votes are measured in the low hundreds, when they even manage to put forward candidates.\n\nBut in the election to decide the next Conservative leader, and therefore the next prime minister, the votes of people like Shane will count as much as the votes of conservatives elsewhere.\n\nSo, what attracted him to take the political road less travelled?\n\n\"I'm a member of the Conservative Party because it reflects the values that I have,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe in hard work, I believe in the importance of the family as a social institution.\n\n\"I believe in national institutions, historically that's been things like the rule of law, representative government, and in more modern times, it's things like the NHS and, dare I say it, the BBC.\n\n\"I reject any kind of attempt to pigeonhole people into particular political backgrounds because of the town they grew up and the family they have or the church they go to.\"\n\nRoger Lomas said he was disappointed with the Conservatives' confidence-and-supply arrangement with the DUP\n\nFor years the Northern Ireland Conservatives have been a political afterthought, ignored by the voters and - they believe - the party leadership in Westminster.\n\nA few months ago footage emerged of Boris Johnson being challenged on the lack of support at a reception on his last visit to Northern Ireland.\n\nSome feel the confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at Westminster damaged their attempts to win votes as a non-sectarian party.\n\nVeteran Tyrone conservative Roger Lomas said: \"What I think of that I don't think you'd be allowed to broadcast.\n\n\"It really, really cheesed a lot of us off. It was one of my worst times in the party to see the DUP being lauded at party conference like valued brethren.\"\n\nSheila Bodel said she wanted the party to work with Conservative candidates to get them elected\n\nAnother Northern Ireland Conservative, Sheila Bodel, said: \"I was disappointed there's no doubt.\n\n\"I know that we have to try to get as much done in government as possible. But I would like to see them work with Conservative candidates to get them elected rather than work with other political parties.\"\n\nIrwin Armstrong, a former chair of the Norther Ireland Conservatives, also opposes the policy.\n\nIrwin Armstrong says it is difficult to get a breakthrough in Northern Ireland unless you have a unique position\n\n\"It's very difficult in Northern Ireland to get that breakthrough unless you have got a unique position,\" he said.\n\n\"At the moment we don't have a unique position because the DUP, for example, who are not in Stormont at the moment, are using that leverage to work with the Conservative Party in London to get the Protocol Bill through and it makes life very difficult.\n\n\"For what we're about in Northern Ireland is complete non-sectarian politics.\"\n\nThe protocol is expected to feature heavily at the Northern Ireland hustings on Wednesday when the Tory leadership contenders will subject themselves to questions from members.\n\nForeign Secretary Liz Truss is the sponsor of the controversial Protocol Bill and Henry Hill, deputy editor of the website Conservative Home, believes that means former chancellor Rishi Sunak will face a harder time.\n\n\"He opposed the bill in Cabinet and now he's offering quite an insubstantial answer about what he intends to do, because all he's saying is we have a bill in Parliament that he supports now, but the bill is an enabling bill,\" he said.\n\n\"The bill doesn't actually solve the protocol. It gives the government the power to solve the protocol. And what's going to be interesting is seeing members in Northern Ireland press him on what he's going to do specifically with the new powers.\"\n\nOf the Northern Ireland conservatives the BBC spoke to Roger Lomas would have preferred Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch; Sheila Bodel and Shane Quinn are supporting Mr Sunak as is Shane Quinn and Irwin Armstrong would have preferred to stick with Boris Johnson.", "Peter Coshan was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August\n\nTwo men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a former Fettes College teacher.\n\nPaul Black, 63, and Paul McNaughton, 27, have also been charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice and theft.\n\nFormer biology teacher Dr Peter Coshan, 75, has been missing since he was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August.\n\nThe accused men made no plea when they appeared in private at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nBoth Mr Black and Mr McNaughton were remanded in custody and their next court appearance will be before Friday 26 August.\n\nDetectives confirmed on Wednesday they were treating Dr Coshan's disappearance as murder although no body has been found.\n\nColleagues have described the retired teacher as an inspiration who will be remembered fondly.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Edinburgh school - which counts ex-prime minister Tony Blair among its former pupils - said staff were \"shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the tragic developments\".\n\nShe added that thoughts were with his loved ones.\n\nFormer PM Tony Blair was a pupil at the prestigious private school in Edinburgh\n\nHelen Harrison, head of Fettes College, added: \"Peter was an inspirational biology teacher and he will be remembered fondly by many.\n\n\"Not least by those who were taught by him, tutored by him and introduced to the hills through his enthusiasm for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, which he ran for 33 years.\"\n\nDr Coshan taught at the prestigious private school from 1972 until his retirement in 2005.\n\nHe joined a year after former PM Tony Blair attended the school, from 1966 to 1971.\n\nThe former teacher was last seen in the Seafield Road area of Edinburgh on 11 August and was reported missing the next day.\n\nHis home in Stockbridge is four miles from where he was last seen.\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick said extensive inquiries were ongoing to trace Dr Coshan.\n\nHe added: \"I would encourage anyone with any information regarding Peter's disappearance to contact police as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"We have also set up a website that gives members of the public access to a form to send information directly to the Major Investigation Team.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rajan will remain as one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4's Today programme\n\nAmol Rajan will take over from Jeremy Paxman as the host of University Challenge, the BBC has announced.\n\nThe journalist and broadcaster, who is also one of the hosts of Radio 4's Today programme, will start presenting the BBC Two quiz show next autumn.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"Being asked to host my favourite TV programme is dream-come-true territory.\"\n\nRajan becomes only the third presenter in the show's 60-year history, following Paxman and Bamber Gascoigne.\n\nPaxman announced earlier this week he was stepping down after 28 years. The 72-year-old revealed last year that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\nRajan's new job means he will step down as the BBC's media editor in the coming months.\n\n\"I have watched University Challenge obsessively for years, addicted to its high standards, glorious title music and inspirational contestants,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the best possible antidote to cynicism about young people, allowing millions of us to test our wits against the best minds of a new generation, and annoy and impress our families by barking answers from the sofa.\"\n\nPaxman had fronted the student quiz show since it was revived by the BBC in 1994\n\nReferring to the long-running show's previous hosts, he added: \"I am very conscious that in the late, great Bamber, and that giant of British culture, Jeremy, I have vast shoes to fill.\n\n\"With his immense intellect, authority and respect from students and viewers alike, Jeremy hands over a format, and show, as strong as ever.\"\n\nGascoigne hosted University Challenge on ITV between 1962 and 1987, before the BBC revived it with Paxman in the hot seat in 1994.\n\nRajan will remain a co-host of the Today programme as well as continuing Amol Rajan Interviews.\n\nIn a further statement on Instagram, he wrote: \"I can honestly say University Challenge is my favourite show. I love it. The music, the students, the format, the history, the shameless intellectual ambition. And I love being a quizmaster, as my mates can attest. So this feels massively humbling.\"\n\nPaxman will film his final episodes this autumn, and they will be broadcast next summer.\n\n\"I've had a blast hosting this wonderful series for nearly 29 years,\" the former Newsnight presenter said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"I've been lucky enough to work with an amazing team and to meet some of the swottier brains in the country. It gives me hope for the future.\"\n\nRajan appeared on the show as a contestant in a celebrity Christmas special in 2020. But his team from Downing College, part of Cambridge University, failed to make it through the first round, losing to Durham University by 90 points to 65.\n\nBobby Seagull, one of the show's most famous former contestants, was among those wishing Rajan well on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Coshan was last seen in Edinburgh on 11 August\n\nDetectives are treating the disappearance of a former teacher at Edinburgh's Fettes College as murder.\n\nDr Peter Coshan, 75, was last seen in the Seafield Road area of Edinburgh at about 23:50 on 11 August and was reported missing the next day.\n\nTwo men, aged 27 and 63, have been arrested and charged.\n\nMr Coshan, who taught biology at former prime minister Tony Blair's old school, is presumed dead but his body has not been found.\n\nThe arrested men are due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Thursday.\n\nFettes College said it was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" to hear of the disappearance.\n\nMr Coshan was a member of the teaching staff from 1972 until his retirement in 2005. He joined a year after Tony Blair attended the school, from 1966 to 1971.\n\nHelen Harrison, head of Fettes College, said: \"Peter was an inspirational biology teacher and he will be remembered fondly by many.\n\n\"Not least by those who were taught by him, tutored by him and introduced to the hills through his enthusiasm for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, which he ran for 33 years.\"\n\nDetectives are appealing to the public for information.\n\nDet Supt Andrew Patrick said extensive inquiries were ongoing to trace Mr Coshan, whose home in Stockbridge is four miles from where he was last seen.\n\nHe added: \"I would encourage anyone with any information regarding Peter's disappearance to contact police as a matter of urgency.\n\n\"We have also set up a website that gives members of the public access to a form to send information directly to the Major Investigation Team.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Davies had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nA nurse who vanished in south London six weeks ago could be travelling regularly by train, appearing dazed or confused, police have said.\n\nThe last confirmed sighting of Owami Davies, 24, was in West Croydon on 7 July, three days after she left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.\n\nPolice have trawled through 50,000 hours of CCTV in order to find her.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said the case remains a missing persons investigation.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Owami has been depressed and in the absence of her medication may use alcohol to relieve her depression.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) has also issued its own appeal on Twitter saying Ms Davies may be taking trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt tweeted: \"We know Owami Davies, 24, regularly uses the rail and Tube network to travel from Grays, Essex to the Croydon area.\n\n\"Often via West Ham and West Croydon stations.\n\n\"Owami may still be regularly travelling by rail in a vulnerable state, appearing dazed or confused and possibly seeking to engage with other lone female travellers.\n\n\"If you know where Owami is, ring the police.\"\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nAfter numerous police appeals, members of the public have reported a number of potential sightings of Ms Davies in the Croydon area.\n\nThe Met's Det Ch Insp Nigel Penney said on Tuesday: \"The search to find Owami Davies continues and we are conducting searches, appeals and extensive CCTV inquiries in order to trace and find her.\n\n\"I would remind people that even though detectives from specialist crime are investigating, this remains a missing person inquiry.\"\n\nHe stressed Ms Davies or anyone who may be helping her is not in trouble.\n\nThe Met's Specialist Crime Command is leading the investigation into her disappearance, and has brought in support from the National Crime Agency.\n\nFive people arrested so far in relation to the inquiry have been released on bail.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said the girl was believed to have been taken by a man on Warne Avenue and into a wooded area\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of abducting and sexually assaulting a seven-year-old girl, police have said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the girl was thought to have been taken into woods in Droylsden at about 16:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nShe was safely reunited with her family shortly after.\n\nThe force has released CCTV images of a second man they want to speak to who was acting suspiciously in the area at the time.\n\nOfficers have released CCTV images of another man they are searching for\n\nA spokesman said the girl was believed to have been taken by a man on Warne Avenue and into a wooded area near to a disused railway track towards Manchester Road.\n\nHe said she was sexually assaulted before being taken back to the woods and she then found her own way to a nearby park.\n\nHe said a 35-year-old man had been taken into custody for questioning.\n\nHe added that a search was continuing regarding the second man and anyone with information about him should contact police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC joins drone pilots under fire as they locate Russian targets\n\nFor weeks Ukraine's armed forces have been talking of launching a counter-offensive in the south, and now a senior military officer has told the BBC they aim to recapture the city of Kherson within weeks. Instead of a major full-scale attack, they are expected to adopt a different strategy, with a role for small drone units.\n\nHis eyes glued to a monitor, a member of Ukraine's special operation forces is operating a drone flying over Russian positions when he spots an armoured vehicle hidden in trenches: \"Fire when you're ready,\" he says in a voice message to an artillery unit.\n\nRussian lines are just 3km (1.9 miles) away and this soldier has to hide his identity: his call-sign is Maverick, from the movie Top Gun.\n\nThe task for Maverick and his team is to identify potential targets and pass on their coordinates. Then they watch and direct fire.\n\n\"This is a war of artillery, high-tech weapons and minds. The soldier still plays an important role but success is mostly dependent on rockets, artillery and air strikes,\" says Maj Gen Dmytro Marchenko, who successfully organised the defence of the southern city of Mykolaiv from Russian attack last spring. It is not like World War Two, when one big army attacked another, he argues.\n\nSome artillery units on the front line are relying on drones to help pinpoint their targets\n\nAnd that is what Russia's offensive has relied on in Ukraine's eastern and southern territories. Relentless barrages of Russian artillery pummel everything in their way, destroying military positions and residential areas too.\n\nAccording to Ukrainian authorities, the Russians are sending an extra 30 battalion tactical groups - some 22,000 troops - to the south to respond to Kyiv's much-vaunted counter-offensive.\n\nThe arrival of American Himars and M270 multiple rocket launchers has given the Ukrainians the ability to destroy targets they couldn't reach before.\n\nBut they say more are needed to counter Russian fire and to hit priority targets such as air defence, ammunition depots and supply routes.\n\nMaj Gen Marchenko believes they will take Kherson back \"in the near future\" - and in a matter of weeks.\n\nBut in order to succeed they need to breach what he calls Russia's static defence strategy: \"We have to have three times more power, quantity of weapons and artillery. Unfortunately, we don't have such an advantage. Therefore, we have to act in a non-standard way, drawing them out of their positions to equalise our power and resources.\"\n\nThe drone pilots locate a Russian target and send its co-ordinates to the artillery unit\n\nOne of their non-standard tactics clearly involves artillery working in tandem with aerial reconnaissance groups. That could help to split Russian forces into smaller groups and encircle them without taking heavy losses, which would be unavoidable in an open confrontation.\n\n\"We have crossed the River Inhulets,\" explains Maverick, \"and now we're trying to expand that ground, bring more equipment and cut off the Russian forces here into two groups - Kakhovka and Kherson.\"\n\nA key part of their strategy is to sever Russian supply routes in the south.\n\nMaj Gen Marchenko says that in just two weeks Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed \"more than 20 ammunition depots [in Kherson region], lots of command and control centres and other targets, including strategically important bridges\".\n\nBridges over the River Dnieper have been hit repeatedly at Kherson and Nova Kakhovka, and recent explosions at an airbase and ammunition depot in Crimea appear to be part of the same plan, even if Ukraine has not officially acknowledged its hand in those attacks.\n\nBut identifying such targets and guiding artillery strikes is a dangerous job. Maverick and his colleagues are closely monitoring an attack on a Russian vehicle that they believe can jam Ukrainian communication signals.\n\nA key part of Ukraine's strategy is to sever Russian supply lines\n\nAfter a dozen rounds, the closest they can get to the target is 15m (50ft) before Russian forces respond. The terrifying whistle of a Russian shell sends everyone rushing inside a hangar to take cover. Missiles rain down around us. Mounds of earth rise like a fountain as shells hit the ground.\n\nBy now the Russians will know a drone team is directing artillery fire and they have started bombarding the area at random.\n\nThe drones are still out there and Maverick and his teammate are desperately trying to get them back.\n\n\"They've turned REB on!\" shouts Maverick, warning of an immediate threat from Russia's electronic signal-jamming warfare system.\n\nWith satellite navigation down and the remote control signal lost, drones become uncontrollable.\n\nThe soldiers survive the onslaught unscathed, but they have lost one of their drones.", "The first case of human to dog transmission of monkeypox was reported in The Lancet\n\nA dog has been infected with monkeypox after catching the virus from its owner, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.\n\nIt's the first case of its kind, and health leaders say isolating from pets when infected is important.\n\nThe WHO also warned of the need to get rid of rubbish carefully to reduce the risk of infecting other animals.\n\nThere is no evidence that dogs can transmit the disease to other dogs or humans, an expert said.\n\nMonkeypox spreads through close skin-to-skin contact and also when someone touches fabrics - such as clothing, bedding, or towels - which have been used by someone with the virus.\n\nAround 35,000 cases have now been confirmed around the world, with most in Europe and north and south America. There have been 12 deaths linked to the outbreak.\n\nMonkeypox was declared a global public health emergency by the WHO in July.\n\nAfter a steep rise in cases of monkeypox in the UK since May, cases have started levelling off, according to the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nIt comes as UK supplies of the vaccine are set to run out until a new delivery of 100,000 jabs arrives sometime in September.\n\nThe first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox occurred in Paris and was reported in The Lancet.\n\nTwo men - living in the same house - who have sex with men noticed lesions on their greyhound dog 12 days after they started getting symptoms.\n\nGenetic analysis showed that the virus which infected the dog was exactly the same as the virus infecting the men, the report said.\n\nThey said they had been co-sleeping with their dog.\n\n\"This has not been reported before, and we believe it is the first instance of a canine being infected,\" said Dr Rosamund Lewis, technical lead on the monkeypox response at the WHO.\n\nDr Mike Ryan, director of the health emergencies programme, said it was \"not unexpected\".\n\n\"But what we don't want to see happen is disease moving from one species to the next, and then remaining in that species (and) moving around within a new species because that's when the virus can adapt, and then adapting to that new species (the virus) is incentivised to evolve as such.\"\n\nDr Sylvie Briand, director of global infectious hazard preparedness at the WHO, added: \"It's the first time, so it means that dogs can be infected, but it doesn't mean that the dog can transmit the disease and infect other dogs, nor does it mean that the dog can re-infect human if it is infected.\"\n\nVaccine supplies to protect against monkeypox are currently limited worldwide.\n\nThere has been a 20% increase in cases reported over the past week, which was also 20% more than the week before.\n\nMost cases are in men who have sex with men and global health leaders stress the importance for all countries to give information to these communities to help protect their health.\n\nThis is undoubtedly attention-grabbing, but how much of a risk does it pose?\n\nIn large outbreaks - and more than 35,000 people have been infected - rare events can occur that eventually prove inconsequential.\n\nHowever, the issue of animals catching the virus will have to be monitored closely as this virus has form.\n\nMonkeypox has shown a knack for infecting a wide range of mammals including squirrels, rats, dormice, monkeys and, of course, us.\n\nAnd people do catch the virus from animals.\n\nOutbreaks in West and Central Africa were all started by an infected animal and the 2003 monkeypox outbreak in the US was driven by pet prairie dogs (a type of squirrel).\n\nThe big concern is if the virus gets into animals in countries that don't normally have monkeypox - then those creatures could become a long-term source of infection.", "Joe says the expected lower grades for this year's A-level students feels \"a little bit harsh\"\n\nTeenagers applying to go to university are being reassured that most of them will get their first choice place.\n\nEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland A-level grades are expected to fall when results are announced on Thursday.\n\nBut the BBC has seen a letter being sent to students from exams regulator Ofqual and university admissions service UCAS saying the marks should not be compared with those from 2021.\n\nAnd Ofqual says universities are fully aware of how grades were awarded.\n\nCompetition for some courses and universities has been expected to be tougher, but the letter says students will have lots of options for further study.\n\nOverall grades for A-levels are expected to be lower than 2020 and 2021, when exams were cancelled and teacher assessment led to a boom in top grades.\n\nThis year, grades will be roughly halfway between those of 2021 and 2019.\n\nDr Jo Saxton, whose job at Ofqual is to ensure exam results overall are fair and consistent in England, said she had met universities in recent days to make sure they understood how students' grades were being awarded this year.\n\n\"Tempting as it is to compare grades with 2021, the meaningful [comparison year] is 2019 when exams were last sat,\" she said.\n\nJoe, 18, from Manchester, is among those waiting for A-level results this year, the first major public exams most students have taken because all GCSE exams were cancelled in 2020.\n\nHe hopes to study English Literature at the University of Liverpool and said he understands the plan to get grades halfway back to 2019 levels.\n\nEven so he said it feels \"a little bit harsh\" for a year group that has been through so much, but \"everyone is in the same boat so you can't complain too much about how it has been handled\".\n\nThe joint letter to students from Dr Saxton and the chief executive of Ucas, Clare Marchant, tells students not to worry that lower grades this year will put them at a disadvantage.\n\n\"In 2019, when exams last went ahead, around three-quarters of UK 18-year-old applicants were placed at their first choice. Come results day this year, Ucas again expects most students will secure their place at their first choice,\" they wrote.\n\nIn 2019, only 21% got the grades predicted by their teachers, but 86% ended up with a university place through Ucas.\n\nBut for some students, the competition will be tougher than ever before.\n\nMedicine is one of a handful of courses in England where numbers are limited by the government, because the cost is heavily subsidised.\n\nIn 2020 and 2021 the government lifted the cap on numbers, which led last year to 10,460 medical school places being accepted across the UK.\n\nBut this year the cap is returning in England, which means about 7,500 places will be available.\n\nTia, 18, from Leicester, wants to study medicine at University College London and is \"incredibly nervous\" about her results.\n\n\"As soon as August hit, I started panicking a bit more,\" she said.\n\nTia wants to study medicine - one of several courses where a cap on numbers is returning this year\n\nTo apply for medical school there is a separate test called the University Clinical Aptitude Test (Ucat), which Tia sat in addition to her A-level exams.\n\nIn 2019, 29,446 students across the UK took the test, but by 2021 when students were applying it was 37,397 because the pandemic had led to an increased interest in training as a doctor.\n\nThe Medical Schools Council is calling for a long-term increase in the number of medical school places to meet the demand in the NHS.\n\nCompetition for places at the most academically selective universities could also feel greater this year, although most of the Russell Group universities contacted by the BBC said they would only know how many places they are putting into clearing on results day.\n\nUcas said there are about 30,000 courses overall in clearing, and students could put themselves in the \"strongest possible position\" by thinking ahead and having a plan B.", "The French government has promised that every police station will step up its patrols to curb street stunts\n\nIt is a summer scourge in France's suburbs that has left young people dead and injured amid complaints that the government is failing to act.\n\nYouths on motorbikes, scooters and other vehicles have taken over streets, carrying out high-speed stunts in what have become known as urban rodeos.\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin says 2,200 arrests have been made this year.\n\nAnd he has promised that every police station will carry out at least three \"anti-rodeo\" operations every day.\n\nOnly this week a 19-year-old man was killed when he lost control of the motorbike he was riding in Marseille.\n\nLocal reports say he was doing a wheelie on his powerful new 650cc bike in front of a friend when he lost his balance, hit the pavement and crashed into a pole. He had no licence and no insurance.\n\n\"We know from witnesses who were there that this young man was evidently doing urban rodeo with a high-powered motorbike and lost control,\" said local police prefect Frédérique Camilleri. \"It's truly tragic and my thoughts go out to his family and friends because it's traumatic for everybody.\"\n\nBut it is not just the bikers getting caught up in the deadly races.\n\nIn June, a young man was killed when he was hit by a biker in Rennes. Then, earlier this month, a seven-year-old girl called Kenya was playing with a friend on a basketball court in Pontoise, northwest of Paris, when they were knocked down by an 18-year-old biker. The girl was in a coma for days with a severe head injury.\n\nLast weekend a 27-year-old Afghan man was fatally shot after challenging a group of young bikers doing stunts on the streets of Colmar in the north-east. He had been having a barbecue with friends when the row began.\n\nThe latest casualties of the urban rodeo bikers have prompted an outcry. After the two children were run over while playing tag late in the evening in Pontoise, the girl's mother accused the government of failing to act: \"They were in an area reserved for children, not motorbikes.\"\n\nThe interior minister then labelled the rodeos as criminal acts and announced more frequent patrols.\n\nThe fatal shooting in Colmar prompted a group of demonstrators to march to the local police station carrying pictures of the dead victim. Quayyem Abdul Ahmadzai was a refugee whose wife and children were reportedly still in Afghanistan.\n\nFor residents in Pontoise the rodeos are nothing new: \"That's why I rarely ever go for a walk with my little one, especially in the spring or winter - I was worried this would happen,\" one father told Le Parisien.\n\nOne biker in the northern suburbs of Paris said in his part of the world there was nothing else to do. \"It's either that or selling drugs and we preferred biking better,\" Karim told RTL radio. \"We saw the older guys, tried it out and we're now doing it too.\"\n\nA 2018 law criminalised urban rodeos with a possible jail term of one to five years, but Pontoise Mayor Stéphanie Von Euw told French media they were powerless to stop the bikers as the law was not strong enough: \"The offenders have to be caught red-handed.\"", "Three things to do if your grades aren't what you wanted\n\nYou've opened the envelope or email containing your A-level, BTec or T-level results and they're not what you expected. Don't panic - there are things you can do next. It's always worth double checking with your university if you can still attend, despite not getting the grades you needed. If you applied for university but just missed the mark, some universities may still have a place for you thanks to clearing. So, if you still want to go to university, visit the Ucas website to see the universities that have available places. Find a university you like? As soon as you can, phone the admissions contact number for the university which you applied for. Tell them the grades you got and see if they will allow you to enrol as a student. If clearing doesn't work out and you think your grades are incorrect, you could potentially appeal your exam results and pay to have your papers remarked. This needs to be done as soon as possible so don't wait around!", "The rapid decline in the use of cash during the pandemic has eased as consumers return to their preferred method of paying for things, a report suggests.\n\nMany people were forced into trying alternative ways of spending owing to Covid restrictions, banking trade body UK Finance said.\n\nBut it added that their preferred method had not changed radically.\n\nCash use is still forecast to drop, accounting for 6% of payments by 2031.\n\n\"Rather than the UK becoming a cash-free society over the next decade, the UK will transition to an economy where cash is less important than it once was but remains valued and preferred by many,\" the report said.\n\nThe trend of the last decade has been the significant rise in the prevalence of card - and particularly contactless - payments. Debit or credit cards were used in 57% of all payments in the UK last year.\n\nIn comparison, the use of notes and coins has dropped from 55% of payments in 2011 to 15% last year.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the number of payments made in total fell. In particular, cash use slumped during lockdowns and as retailers encouraged friction-free payments.\n\nNow, the UK Finance report suggests that long-term trends will continue as if there has been no pandemic impact.\n\nWhile 42% of consumers only made one transaction or fewer in cash each month, Adrian Buckle, head of research at UK Finance, said that many people were returning to their first preference when paying.\n\n\"Payment trends generally tend to change slowly, as we all form habits about the way we pay for things and these don't change easily,\" he said.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who leads work into access to cash, said: \"It's now widely recognised that those who rely on cash tend to be older, poorer or more vulnerable, many of whom simply can't 'go digital'.\n\n\"I'm really pleased that, after many years of campaigning on the issue, the industry is working hard to put in solutions and we should finally have legislation to protect access to cash in the next few months.\"\n\nAnother factor in the use of cash is the rising cost of living.\n\nMr Buckle said cash became slightly more popular during the financial crisis at the start of the last decade but, like then, it had relatively little impact on the longer term decline.\n\nThe Post Office recently reported that its counters handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, the most since records began five years ago.\n\nIt said customers' use of cash to budget and the popularity of staycations were behind the increase.\n\nIn May, Salford University student Kira Hayward told the BBC that she turned to social media for inspiration to help her cope with rising costs by taking cash out of her bank account.\n\nStudent Kira Hayward limits her spending by using \"budget binders\" for cash\n\nShe puts it in different labelled envelopes to ensure she has money for food and bills.\n\n\"I went on Instagram and YouTube and I saw these physical budget binders,\" she said. \"I take the money out of the bank and I budget for things like my shopping. If I know I have £80 in my personal shopping for the month I know I can't go over that.\"\n\nHowever, the UK Finance report suggested that young people were becoming adept at budgeting using smartphone apps and were keeping a keen eye on their bank balance digitally.\n\nMr Buckle said they would log into accounts several times a day. Instead of using cash to budget, many would consider any cash withdrawals as money already \"spent\" as it had already reduced the bank balance they saw on the screen.\n\nThe report also questioned the assumption that younger people were more reliant than others on Buy Now, Pay Later products. The trade body's limited research suggested about one in eight people had used these services, but they were most likely to be aged between 35 and 44.", "Scientists say they have solved an evolutionary mystery involving a 500 million-year-old microscopic, spiny creature with a mouth but no anus.\n\nWhen it was discovered in 2017, it was reported that the tiny fossil of this sack-like marine beast could be humans' earliest-known ancestor.\n\nThe ancient animal, Saccorhytus coronarius, was tentatively placed into a group called the deuterostomes.\n\nThis is the group of animals that includes vertebrates.\n\nA new study now suggests Saccorhytus should be put into an entirely different group of animals.\n\nA team of researchers in China and the UK carried out a very detailed X-ray analysis of the creature, and concluded that it belongs to a group called the ecdysozoans - ancestors of spiders and insects.\n\nOne source of this evolutionary confusion was the animal's lack of an anus.\n\nEmily Carlisle, a researcher who studied Saccorhytus in detail, explained to BBC Radio 4's Inside Science: \"It's a bit confusing - [most] ecdysozoans have an anus, so why didn't this one?\"\n\nOne \"intriguing option\", she said, is that an even earlier ancestor of this whole group did not have an anus, and that Saccorhytus evolved after that.\n\n\"It could be that it lost it during its own evolution - perhaps it didn't need one because it could just sit in one spot with one opening for everything.\"\n\nThe main reason though, for the \"repositioning\" of Saccorhytus on the Cambrian tree of life is that, on the initial examination, holes that surrounded its mouth were interpreted as pores for gills - a primitive feature of deuterostomes.\n\nWhen scientists looked in more detail - using powerful X-rays to examine the 1mm creature closely - they realised that these were actually the base of spines that had snapped off.\n\nScientists studying these fossils try to place each animals on an evolutionary tree, enabling them to build a picture to understand where they came from and how they evolved.\n\n\"Saccorhytus would have lived in the oceans - in the sediment with its spines holding it in place,\" explained Ms Carlisle, who is based at the University of Bristol.\n\n\"It would, we think, have just sat there - in a very strange environment with lots of animals that would have looked like some creatures alive today, but a lot that looked completely alien.\"\n\nArtist’s reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimetre in size\n\nThe rocks containing these Cambrian fossils are still being studied.\n\n\"There's so much we can still learn about its environment,\" Ms Carlisle added.\n\n\"The more I study palaeontology, the more I realise how much is missing. In terms of this creature and the world it lived in, we're really just scratching the surface.\"\n\nSaccorhytus was a spiky sack-like creature with a mouth, but no anus\n\nListen to more stories from Inside Science on BBC Sounds", "\"You don't expect your trauma to only really begin once you're in the care system,\" says Michela\n\nThree children's homes have closed and two more rated \"inadequate\" following a BBC investigation into a firm making huge profits.\n\nThe homes, previously rated as good or outstanding, were re-inspected after the BBC found children had reported being groomed and assaulted.\n\nWe can also reveal the company failed to fully report some serious incidents.\n\nCalcot Services for Children does not accept the BBC's allegations and says profits were not excessive.\n\nFollowing the BBC's investigation in June, Ofsted re-inspected seven of the company's homes in southern England. We have now learned the regulator for England has rated five homes \"inadequate\" - and three of those have now closed. At one, \"serious and widespread failures\" were found with staff not providing some one-to-one care which local councils had paid for, echoing our previous findings.\n\nOur continuing investigation has spoken to more than 20 current and former Calcot employees - and has seen new leaked documents and emails. The BBC can now reveal:\n\nCalcot does not accept the BBC's allegations but says an independent review will address issues raised by our investigation and Ofsted. It says it disputes the BBC's characterisation of its profits and says they could not be compared with other companies which are structured differently.\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities of former residents and staff.\n\nMichela was groomed aged 17 by a man originally employed as the company's marketing manager but then redeployed to a home where older teenagers are given more independence - known as supported living.\n\nSpeaking out for the first time, she says she wasn't moved from the residence for months after reporting the abuse - and stopped washing and eating because she didn't want to leave her room.\n\n\"The only safe place I had in that building was the bedroom, as it was the one place nothing had happened in,\" she says, now aged 19 and waiving her right to absolute anonymity.\n\n\"I've never had a man that's shown so much interest in me,\" says Michela\n\nMichela's grooming began when Tatenda Shoniwa started following her on social media and messaging her about her life - sometimes until the early hours of the morning.\n\n\"I wasn't used to that. I've never had a man that's shown so much interest in me, never had a parent figure,\" she says.\n\nShoniwa is now in prison for abusing his position and sexual activity with a child. Michela says she feels \"completely betrayed\" by some of the other Calcot staff members, who she believes were aware of what he was doing but did not report anything.\n\n\"Coming into care you're coming away from trauma\", she says. \"You don't expect for your trauma to only really begin once you're in the system.\"\n\nThe BBC has also now learned that Ofsted discovered that staff at multiple homes did not have adequate training.\n\nAt one, now closed, inspectors said almost no-one had been trained to handle ligatures or cases of child sexual exploitation - despite it housing children with documented risks of both.\n\nIn addition, we now know that five managers have left Calcot in the past 18 months after developing concerns about how the company was being run. We had already heard from whistleblowers who told us they believed the company was putting profit before childcare - and inadequately staffing some homes.\n\nAnother teenager, Tara - who has learning difficulties and is autistic - was supposed to have two support staff to help, but she says she was often left alone. She frequently asked her local authority social workers if she could move elsewhere, she says.\n\nTara says she was often left unsupervised\n\nCalcot then decided to move her, despite staff concerns, into one of its supported living placements where she would have more independence rather than full-time care. The 17-year-old, who lived there with an adult in their early twenties, says she was able to regularly go missing without staff noticing.\n\n\"The staff didn't really do anything because it's an adult placement. They do their own thing - on their phones 24/7,\" she says. \"I felt like they weren't looking after me.\"\n\nCalcot says it follows appropriate referral processes so children are not placed in unsuitable homes.\n\nManagement also failed to correctly report allegations of child-on-child sexual abuse, the BBC can reveal.\n\nWe previously reported that two children had been found in May 2021 undressed and without supervision. They both later alleged they had been sexually assaulted.\n\nA former support worker, Mia, told us management assured her the incident had been reported to authorities - but Ofsted told the BBC it hadn't.\n\nNow, another ex-staff member says she and a manager discussed the children's allegations, but in a later email, seen by the BBC, the manager provided draft wording for a report to social workers which only said that they had been \"found together in each other's rooms\" - with no reference to the sexual assault allegations.\n\nDo you have more information about this story?\n\nYou can reach Noel directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +44 7809 334720 or by email at noel.titheradge@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe former employee says she knew it was wrong to exclude the allegations from her report and believed she had been left \"powerless\" when asked to do so.\n\nShe says it was \"completely immoral\" not to fully report the children's claims.\n\nFormer support worker Mia describes what happened as a \"cover-up\". \"[The manager] didn't have the welfare of the children as a priority,\" she says.\n\nCalcot says it did report the incident to Ofsted and the relevant local authority designated officer - known as a \"LADO\" - who is responsible for safeguarding. But we know this only happened after our initial investigation - more than a year after the incident.\n\nTwo other incidents in Calcot homes in the past year also weren't immediately reported to a local authority designated officer - even though they are expected to do so.\n\nOne involved a boy who alleged he had been punched by a male member of staff while being restrained. It is understood the child later denied the assault took place - but nevertheless a LADO should have been told. Calcot says this decision not to report the alleged assault was taken by the home manager, not a senior manager.\n\nThe other incident involved another boy who said their arm had been trapped in a car window by a staff member. While not reported to a local authority designated officer, Calcot says it was reported to Ofsted and the boy's social worker - and that the company always makes the relevant reports as required.\n\nIf you have been affected by any of these issues in this story you can visit BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC has now learned that five Calcot whistleblowers contacted Ofsted about their concerns before we began our investigation. When we published our initial findings in June, all the homes were rated good or outstanding.\n\nOfsted says it does not investigate whistleblowing complaints specifically but says action against Calcot was already under way when the BBC report was released.\n\nLast week, Ofsted's chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, said the law needed to change to give more powers to inspect providers of children's homes - which, she said, were inferior to those for adult care homes.\n\nAlready, in light of the BBC's June report, the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has called for \"radical reform\".\n\nCalcot's profit margin in 2021 was 36% - more than twice the level termed excessive by a government watchdog\n\nCalcot has used a business structure called a partnership, the BBC has found, where accounts are subject to less stringent reporting obligations than a limited company.\n\nOfsted says while it is aware of providers across England operating as partnerships, it does not know the total number.\n\nThree local authorities have told us they were asked by Calcot to direct payments into a bank account which is used for its partnership.\n\nThe BBC understands that money was paid back into the firm's limited company account - which recorded huge profits last year. Calcot's profit margin in 2021 was 36% - more than twice the level termed excessive by a government watchdog.\n\nCalcot told us the use of the partnership accounts was an \"administrative error on the part of the local authorities\". It added that a number of factors, including built-up investment, made its profits across homes and schools appear bigger than they really were.\n\nThe owners of Calcot, Sukhbir and Harvinder Singh, declined to be interviewed. In June, the company said it prioritised safeguarding all children in its care and its homes were all staffed correctly.\n\nIts lawyers say the BBC has a distorted view of the company and its sources have an axe to grind. They add that Calcot's whistleblowing policy allows concerns to be raised anonymously, so they can be quickly addressed.\n\nThe Department for Education declined to be interviewed. It said it was investing in raising standards and increasing the number of children's home placements.", "Police in Auckland said they were working with Interpol - but believed relatives of the dead children would probably be in New Zealand\n\nHuman remains found in two suitcases bought at auction in New Zealand contained the bodies of two young children, detectives have said.\n\nThe bodies had probably been in storage for several years and the victims were thought to have been aged between five and 10 when they died, they said.\n\nItems found with the cases are being studied in an attempt to identify them.\n\nThe remains were found when a family in South Auckland opened the suitcases at home after buying them last week.\n\nThe children were concealed in two suitcases of similar size, Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua said.\n\n\"The nature of this discovery provides some complexities to the investigation especially given the time lapsed between the time of death and the time of discovery,\" he added.\n\nAs well as using personal and household items found alongside the cases in a bid to identify the dead children, police are checking hours of CCTV footage. But they fear key moments may have been erased because of the length of time that has elapsed.\n\nDet Insp Vaaleua said police in New Zealand were working with international criminal police agency Interpol, though relatives of the victims are thought to be in the country.\n\n\"This is no easy investigation,\" Det Insp Vaaelua said.\n\n\"What I can say is we are making very good progress with DNA inquiries.\n\nIt is understood the family who found the bodies had gone to the storage unit and purchased a trailer-load of goods, including the suitcases, from a local storage company last Thursday.\n\nDet Insp Vaaelua reiterated they had no connection to the deaths, were distressed and were being offered support.\n\nBoth the storage unit and property where the suitcases were taken to have been thoroughly examined by forensic experts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reserve exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial paper due to illness or self-isolation\n\nMore than 200 students sat the first reserve series of summer A-level and GCSE exams held in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat is according to figures provided to BBC News NI by the Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).\n\nThe reserve exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial exam paper due to illness or self-isolation.\n\nThey took place from Monday 20 June until Tuesday 5 July, after the end of the normal series of exams.\n\nThe bulk of the reserve exams were held in A-level subjects, to enable students sitting them to get their qualification this year.\n\nIn the years before the pandemic, students who missed exams may have had to wait until the following school year before resitting.\n\nBut the figures released by CCEA showed that relatively few students opted to sit the reserve exams in 2022.\n\nNo students sat almost a third of the scheduled reserve A-level exams, as 15 out of the 48 held had no entries.\n\nThere were also 15 reserve GCSE exams scheduled in 5 subjects - history, religious studies, government and politics, economics, and statistics.\n\nThat was because pupils taking those subjects were likely to sit only one exam so if they missed it they might not get a grade.\n\nHowever, no students were entered for seven of the 15 reserve GCSE exams.\n\nRelatively few students opted to sit the reserve exams in 2022, figures released by CCEA show\n\nIn all, 217 pupils sat reserve exams in either GCSEs or A-levels, according to CCEA.\n\nHowever pupils who missed an exam paper also had the option of having their overall mark decided based on the papers they were able to sit.\n\nCCEA previously said that pupils who sat reserve exams may face a slight delay in getting their results but they would receive them as close as possible to the scheduled results days.\n\nThose are 18 August for AS and A-levels and 25 August for GCSEs.\n\nAccording to separate statistics from the Department of Education, there were about 29,400 pupils in sixth forms in schools in Northern Ireland in 2021-22.\n\nHowever, although some pupils take an A-level in year 13, the vast majority of pupils who sit A-level exams are in year 14.\n\nFormal GCSE, AS and A-level summer exams were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic and pupils were given grades calculated by their schools instead.\n\nSummer exams resumed in 2022, but the reserve series was among a raft of changes introduced to take account of disruption to education caused by the pandemic and restrictions.\n\nEducation Minister Michelle McIlveen has already said that pupils taking GCSE, AS and A-Level exams in 2023 will know in advance the topics on which they will be questioned.", "Scientists have made a breakthrough in a genetic approach that improves food crops' ability to harness the Sun.\n\nResearchers developed a way to make photosynthesis - the natural process that all plants use to convert sunlight energy into food - more efficient.\n\nThe research team, which is spread across UK and US, genetically altered soybean plants, and achieved a 20% greater crop yield.\n\nThey hope this breakthrough will help alleviate food scarcity.\n\nLead researcher Prof Stephen Long, an agricultural scientist based at both the University of Illinois and the University of Lancaster, said that this was \"the most important breakthrough\" he had been involved in during his long career.\n\n\"We've been looking at photosynthesis and why it might be inefficient for 30 years,\" he told BBC News. \"There was huge scepticism that we could improve it, so showing that we can do this completely changes the ground and contributes hugely to our ability to increase global food supply.\"\n\nDirectly or indirectly, all of our food comes from photosynthesis. It is a multistage chemical process, which uses energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel a plant's growth.\n\nThese scientists tackled one small but critical part of that process: In very bright sunlight, plants switch into a protective mode and release excess energy as heat, to avoid damage to their cells. But it takes several minutes for a plant to switch out of \"protective mode\" and back into \"fully productive growth mode\".\n\nIn their genetic approach, these Illinois and Lancaster University scientists tweaked the genes responsible for this protective function and made their experimental soy plants \"switch back\" more swiftly. The leaves of these genetically modified plants gained more photosynthesis time, which increased the total crop yield by 20%.\n\nPrevious studies, involving tobacco plants, were carried out in lab conditions. This is the first to be successfully replicated in the field.\n\n\"It's so important, with any new technology, that you trial it in a real agricultural situation to see if there is good chance that this will work for farmers,\" said Prof Long.\n\n\"This jump in the yield is huge by comparison to the improvements we get through plant breeding,\" he added. \"And the process we've tackled is universal, so the fact we have it working in a food crop gives us a lot of confidence that this should work in wheat, maize and rice.\"\n\nProf Long said that those crops could be growing in the field within 10 years.\n\nThe rules on growing genetically modified crops vary from country to country. The UK government announced last year that it would relax the regulation of \"gene-edited\" crops - to enable them to be grown commercially in England.\n\nBut these scientists hope their breakthrough will help some of the world's the poorest farmers. Dr Amanda De Souza, also at the University of Illinois and lead author on the study, said: \"The number of people affected by food insufficiency continues to grow, and projections clearly show that there needs to be a change at the food supply level to change the trajectory.\"\n\nAccording to UNICEF, by 2030, more than 660 million people are expected to face food scarcity and malnutrition. The main causes of this are harsher growing conditions caused by climate change and inefficiency in food supply chains.\n\nDr De Souza said: \"Improving photosynthesis is a major opportunity to gain the needed jump in yields.\"\n• None Brexit paves the way for gene-edited crops", "Rose Ayling-Ellis has played Frankie Lewis in the soap since 2020\n\nActress Rose Ayling-Ellis is leaving EastEnders after two years, the BBC has announced.\n\nAyling-Ellis has played Frankie Lewis in the BBC One soap since 2020, and was the first deaf actor to play a regular character.\n\nLast year, she became the first ever deaf contestant of Strictly Come Dancing, ultimately winning the series.\n\nAyling Ellis said she would \"treasure her time\" on EastEnders but added: \"Now feels like the right time to move on.\"\n\nShe will be seen exiting Albert Square this autumn and has already filmed her final scenes, the BBC said.\n\nAyling-Ellis and her pro partner Giovanni Pernice won Strictly Come Dancing last year\n\nAyling-Ellis has been part of a number of big storylines including the discovery that she is the biological daughter of Mick (Danny Dyer) after he was abused as a child.\n\nIn a statement, Ayling-Ellis said: \"It's been incredibly special to be EastEnders' first regular deaf actor.\n\n\"I have loved my time on the show and Frankie has been such an awesome character to play, however now feels like the right time for me to move on and I am excited and ready for new challenges.\"\n\nShe added: \"I will always treasure my time on the show and all the incredible people I have worked with, who have supported my growth as an actor these last two years and given me so many amazing memories.\n\n\"I am excited for viewers to see Frankie's exit storyline; I think it's a really important one that will hit home for lots of people.\"\n\nFrankie Lewis is the biological daughter of Mick Carter (Danny Dyer)\n\nThe soap's executive producer, Chris Clenshaw, said: \"I have only had the pleasure to work with Rose for a short time but she has always been an incredible asset to EastEnders; not just as a phenomenal actor, but as an amazing company member too.\"\n\nAyling-Ellis, who was born deaf, has enjoyed a significant boost in profile since taking part in Strictly.\n\nShe has been at the forefront of a campaign to make British Sign Language a legally recognised language, and worked with Barbie on its first doll with behind-the-ear hearing aids, which was unveiled earlier this week.\n\nShe also recently signed a bedtime story for CBeebies. Ayling-Ellis and her professional Strictly partner Giovanni Pernice won a Bafta for the must-see television moment of the year.\n\nHer involvement in Strictly reportedly led to an increase in the number of people in the UK learning sign language.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by rose.a.e This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Explosions hit an area near a Russian military airport in the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Thursday, according to Reuters.\n\nAt least four explosions struck the airport of Belbek, north of Sevastopol, the news agency reported, citing three local sources.\n\nUkraine has not confirmed it was behind the attack and the BBC cannot independently verify the claim.\n\nThe explosions follow a string of attacks against Russian military sites and equipment in Crimea over the last week, which Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for.\n\nAfter one such attack, Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, suggested careless Russian soldiers could be to blame, warning the country's troops to not “smoke in dangerous places”.\n\nAround the time Thursday's attack was reported, Ukraine's defence ministry tweeted \"smoking kills\" - an apparent reference to Reznikov's apparently tongue-in-cheek remarks.\n\nRussia has also not confirmed Thursday's attack.\n\nThe governor of Sevastopol said Russian anti-aircraft forces downed a Ukrainian drone but said no damage had been done.", "The jury was told the woman repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with Mr Mendy\n\nA woman who said she was raped by footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a court he boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women after attacking her.\n\nMr Mendy, 28, has denied eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.\n\nThe woman told Chester Crown Court the attack, which jurors heard had left her bleeding, lasted about 15 minutes but \"felt like the longest day of my life\".\n\nShe added the \"hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no\".\n\nThe jury was told the woman was invited back to the Manchester City player's home for a party with her three friends in October 2020, after they met at a bar in Alderley Edge.\n\nShe said the French international, of Prestbury, Cheshire, took her phone and found private messages on her Snapchat account, before going upstairs.\n\nThe 20-year-old woman told the court she had followed him, asking for her phone back, but he went through a double door, which she said had a secure lock like a hotel bedroom.\n\nMr Mendy's co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie has denied eight counts of rape and four of sexual assault\n\nThe woman told the court that she said to the footballer: \"Listen, I want my phone, I don't know what you think is going on. I don't want sex with you.\"\n\nTo which she said he replied: \"The door is locked anyway.\"\n\nThe jury was told the footballer asked her to undress, stating that he just wanted to see her body.\n\nShe said she had felt that was \"the lesser of two evils\" and that she had been scared because she did not know what he could do.\n\nShe said he threw her phone on the bed and when she reached for it, he began forcing himself on her.\n\nThe jury was told she repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with him.\n\nShe said he raped her three times, which lasted about 15 minutes, but \"felt like the longest day of my life\", adding that the \"hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no\".\n\nShe told the court: \"My body was so tense. It was just this pain.\"\n\nBoth Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie deny all the charges against them\n\nShe said after being attacked, Mr Mendy boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women and told her not to tell anyone about what had happened.\n\nThe court was told Mr Mendy left the woman bleeding, then said to her: \"Don't tell anyone and you can come over here every night,\" like it was a \"privilege\" to have sex with him.\n\nMr Mendy, who denies all of the charges against him, is on trial alongside co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 41.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, has denied eight counts of rape and four of sexual assault.\n\nThe day after the alleged incident, the woman said she got a Snapchat message from Mr Mendy with lots of question marks, and one from Mr Matturie saying: \"Are you OK? Please can you call me so we can discuss?\"\n\nShe took screenshots and blocked both their numbers.\n\nBoth men said if any sex had taken place with women or girls it was consensual.\n\nThe French international was suspended by Manchester City after the allegations emerged\n\nIn cross-examination, Eleanor Laws QC, defending Mr Mendy, put it to the woman that her phone contained \"very explicit\" photos that she was \"happy\" for him to look at before she gave him oral sex.\n\nThe woman said: \"No, absolutely not.\"\n\nMs Laws suggested the footballer had not talked about having sex with 10,000 women, or that it was a \"privilege\" to have sex with him.\n\nThe woman replied: \"I'm absolutely certain, in high definition in my mind, it's the most traumatising thing that has ever happened to me.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier denies wilfully exposing people to the risk of illness and death\n\nA Glasgow MP who allegedly travelled to London with Covid symptoms has been accused of failing to inform Test and Protect that she attended parliament.\n\nMargaret Ferrier is accused of making several journeys after being told to self-isolate in September 2020.\n\nMs Ferrier, who denies a single charge, is due to go on trial next month.\n\nAt a pre-trial hearing at Glasgow Sheriff Court, this charge was amended by prosecutors to include the Test and Protect accusation.\n\nProsecutor Mark Allan told the court that Ms Ferrier, who represents Rutherglen and Hamilton West, failed to inform NHS Scotland contact tracing officials that she attended the Houses of Parliament on 28 September 2020.\n\nMs Ferrier, whose attendance was excused, continued to plead not guilty through her lawyer Neal McShane.\n\nLast month the court heard Ms Ferrier's defence team had failed to obtain a report from a virologist due to the monkeypox outbreak.\n\nMr McShane confirmed this had now been received.\n\nMs Ferrier is alleged to have visited Lifestyles Leisure in Rutherglen\n\nProsecutors state the suspended SNP politician culpably and recklessly booked a test for Covid-19, stating in the booking application that she had symptoms of the disease.\n\nThe charge claims she was told to self-isolate and wilfully exposed people to the risk of infection, illness and death.\n\nIt is alleged that this was done by travelling throughout Glasgow and the surrounding areas as well as journeys to and from London.\n\nThe charge states that Ms Ferrier was at a variety of locations over the three days. These include Lifestyle Leisure centre, Sweet P Boutique and Vanilla Salon in Rutherglen\n\nMs Ferrier also allegedly visited Grace and Flavour, Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire, as well as St Mungo's Church, Glasgow and Vic's Bar in Prestwick, Ayrshire.\n\nThe charge states Ms Ferrier made a taxi journey from her home in Glasgow's Cambuslang to the city's Central train station.\n\nIt is claimed she travelled to London Euston station and elsewhere in the English capital including the Houses of Parliament.\n\nMs Ferrier is then said to have made the return journey to Glasgow from London by train.\n\nSheriff Andrew Cubie continued the case until the trial, which is due to start on 15 August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missed your grades? The BBC's Hazel Shearing explains - in a minute - what you can do\n\nThe proportion of top A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen since 2021, but remains higher than in 2019.\n\nAbout 36.4% of A-levels were marked at A* and A this year, while last year, 44.8% of exams were graded A or above.\n\nIt is the first time since 2019 that A-level grades have been based on public exams, after two years of cancellations because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nStudents also received T-level, BTec and other results on Thursday.\n\nThe university admissions service, Ucas, said 65.3% of students in the UK who applied to university were offered their first choice.\n\nThis year's A-level marking system has been adjusted, so that grades reflect \"a midway point\" between 2019 - when 25.4% were A* and A grades - and 2021, when teacher-assessed grades led to a boom in top marks.\n\nEngland's exam watchdog Ofqual has said the approach was intended to bring grades closer to pre-pandemic levels, while reflecting \"that we are in a pandemic recovery period and students' education has been disrupted\".\n\nSimilar plans were put in place for Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nIn Scotland, where pupils received their exam results on 9 August, the pass rate at Higher level fell to 78.9% - down from 87.3% in 2021.\n\nUcas said on Thursday morning that 425,830 students had been accepted into university or college - the second highest number on record - but 20,360 students had not.\n\nThey are being advised to search for vacancies through clearing, which is where Ucas highlights courses with available spaces.\n\nUcas also said more students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds were awarded a place at university than in 2019, and that 71% of university applicants who took T-levels were accepted.\n\nThe A-level results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland also show:\n\nThere were regional disparities in England, according to Ofqual. In London, 39% of A-level grades were A* and A, compared with 30.8% of grades in the north-east of England.\n\nResults for AS-levels also came out on Thursday. In Wales and Northern Ireland, these will count towards a student's final A-level result next summer.\n\nAnd it is the first year of results for new vocational T-level qualifications in England, this year taken by a cohort of 1,029 students.\n\nThe pass rate for T-levels, designed to be equivalent to three A-levels, was 92.2%\n\nTo achieve the technical qualification, time is split between classroom learning and industry placements - with students awarded a pass, merit, distinction or distinction* after two years of work and study.\n\nPraise, who is 18 and studied at Central Saint Michael's Sixth Form in West Bromwich, felt relieved after getting her results.\n\nShe achieved B grades in her A-levels in history and English literature, and a D* in her Level 3 BTec in health and social care.\n\nShe is among about 200,000 students who received Level 3 BTec results on Thursday.\n\n\"It was emotional. I had a cry,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPraise is preparing for an interview at Birmingham City University, where she hopes to start training as an RAF student nurse in February.\n\nReceiving her results has made it all sink in that Praise will be leaving home.\n\n\"After I've done three years of uni, I'll spend a minimum of 12 years with the RAF,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't spent much time away from home, so it's a bit scary. But it'll be something entirely different - I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nAfter missing out on GCSE exams because of Covid, Praise was glad there was a return to exams this year.\n\n\"I wanted to write my own exams, get my own grades and see that it was my hard work that got me to that moment,\" she said.\n\n\"These students have experienced unprecedented disruption over the last couple of years, and such excellent results are a testament to their resilience and hard work,\" he said.\n\nSpecial measures were introduced for this year's A-levels to counteract the disruption to education caused by Covid, such as advanced information about topics.\n\nAnd the grade boundaries - the number of marks needed for each grade - were more lenient this year than they were before the start of the pandemic.\n\nA-level grades are lower than last year because of the system being adjusted to counteract the sharp rise in top grades over the past two years, rather than being purely a reflection of individual student work. But grades are still higher than in 2019.\n\nIt is likely to be a competitive year for some students looking to start university. There are more 18-year-olds in the population this year and a slightly higher percentage of them are applying for places, according to Ucas.\n\nThe toughest competition is for places at the most academically selective universities. This year, those institutions have been more cautious with the number of offers they have made, after a couple of bulge years - when top grades proliferated - in 2020 and 2021.\n\nCompetition for places is also high for certain courses - including some heavily subsidised degrees, such as medicine, which are reintroducing caps on student numbers this year.\n\nAre you having to rethink your plans after getting your results? Do you have questions you'd like answered? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Japan's young adults are a sober bunch - something authorities are hoping to change with a new campaign.\n\nThe younger generation drinks less alcohol than their parents - a move that has hit taxes from beverages like sake (rice wine).\n\nSo the national tax agency has stepped in with a national competition to come up with ideas to reverse the trend.\n\nThe \"Sake Viva!\" campaign hopes to come up with a plan to make drinking more attractive - and boost the industry.\n\nThe contest asks 20 to 39-year-olds to share their business ideas to kick-start demand among their peers - whether it's for Japanese sake, shochu, whisky, beer or wine.\n\nThe group running the competition for the tax authority says new habits - partly formed during the Covid pandemic - and an ageing population have led to a decline in alcohol sales.\n\nIt wants contestants to come up with promotions, branding, and even cutting-edge plans involving artificial intelligence.\n\nJapanese media say the reaction has been mixed, with some criticism about the bid to promote an unhealthy habit. But others have posted quirky ideas online - such as famous actresses \"performing\" as virtual-reality hostesses in digital clubs.\n\nContestants have until the end of September to put forward their ideas. The best plans will then be developed with help from experts before the final proposals are presented in November.\n\nThe campaign's website says Japan's alcohol market is shrinking and the country's older demographic - alongside declining birth rates - is a significant factor behind it.\n\nRecent figures from the tax agency show that people were drinking less in 2020 than in 1995, with numbers plummeting from an annual average of 100 litres (22 gallons) to 75 litres (16 gallons) per adult.\n\nTax revenue from taxes on alcohol has also shrunk over the years. According to The Japan Times newspaper, it made up 5% of total revenue in 1980, but in 2020 amounts to just 1.7%.\n\nThe World Bank estimates that nearly a third (29%) of Japan's population is aged 65 and older - the highest proportion in the world.\n\nConcerns about the future of sake is not the only problem that poses for Japan's economy - there are worries about the supply of younger staff for certain types of jobs, and care for the elderly in the future.", "Some countries still require travellers to show they have been vaccinated before allowing them to enter\n\nThe NHS has apologised after the digital Covid pass was inaccessible for more than six hours and left some travellers struggling to board flights.\n\nThe pass provides a digital record of a person's vaccination status.\n\nIt is needed to board flights to certain countries, and some passengers were left struggling to check in.\n\n\"The Covid-19 Pass is now working as normal and we will continue to monitor overnight,\" NHS Digital tweeted.\n\n\"Thank you for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nUsers trying to access it via the NHS app and website on Thursday evening were shown a message saying it was unavailable.\n\nNumerous holidaymakers had described being unable to check in at airports because they could not prove their vaccination status - and others grew worried in case the problems continued.\n\nJon May, 32, was due to fly from Bristol to Valencia on Friday morning for a work conference, and earlier expressed concern after finding that the app was down.\n\n\"I've had all three jabs, and I went to the NHS App, and it said 'Service unavailable'. I was like 'What do you mean, service unavailable?',\" he said.\n\n\"If it doesn't work, I'm hoping they just go with it. I might get to Spain and be deported from Spain, and that would be really embarrassing.\"\n\nFi Bartlett, 24, from Bournemouth, is travelling to Malaga on Saturday but was earlier unable to complete the online check-in for her flight without proof of vaccination.\n\n\"There's been no update from the NHS apart from to say they know it's down,\" she said.\n\nLate on Thursday afternoon, NHS Digital tweeted to say it was \"aware of issues with availability of the NHS Covid Pass\" and was investigating \"urgently\".\n\nThe requirement to show a pass to enter certain venues and events in the UK was scrapped earlier this year.\n\nHowever, some countries still require travellers to show they have been vaccinated before allowing them to enter.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd", "Ryan Giggs told a police officer he hit his ex in the lip, the court heard\n\nRyan Giggs told a police officer he hit his ex \"in the lip\" and also tried to stop her sister calling 999, a court has heard.\n\nThe former Manchester United player, who denies all charges, gave evidence on a second day of cross-examination.\n\nThe jury heard the football star's statement to police where he said: \"I've hit her (Kate) in the lip.\"\n\nDuring the call made by her sister Emma he was heard by 999 staff berating his ex for \"causing all of this\".\n\nThe former Wales international and manager, 48, denies using controlling and coercive behaviour and assaulting Kate Greville, 38.\n\nHe also denies causing her actual bodily harm, and common assault of Kate Greville's younger sister, Emma Greville.\n\nOn Thursday at Manchester Crown Court, he was taken through the prepared statement he gave to the police the morning after the alleged assaults on Kate and Emma Greville in November 2020.\n\nMr Wright said: \"You were seeking to create a narrative that didn't properly or fairly describe what had gone on?\" Mr Giggs said: \"No.\"\n\nMr Wright said he wanted to create a story in which he was the one who had been attacked and not them. Mr Giggs denied that.\n\nMr Wright also pointed to part of the statement where Mr Giggs said he accepted \"my head clashed with hers\".\n\n\"You headbutted her, didn't you?\" said Mr Wright. \"No,\" said Mr Giggs.\n\nThe footballing star also admitted berating his ex's sister, Emma for calling the police\n\n\"You had completely lost your self control?\"\n\n\"No,\" said Mr Giggs, who also denied headbutting Emma Greville.\n\nMr Wright also asked if Mr Giggs \"berated\" and \"chastised\" Emma Greville for calling the police, which he admitted.\n\nMr Wright referred Mr Giggs to his screaming and shouting in the background of the 999 call Emma Greville made. The call operator heard Mr Giggs telling his ex \"you... caused this\".\n\n\"Until the police arrived, you were going to be angry and aggressive?\" he was asked. \"No,\" he said.\n\nBut he agreed his demeanour changed by the time the police arrived and were speaking to him.\n\nHe was then referred to how, later, when telling the officer what had happened, he said: \"I've hit her in the lip.\"\n\nRyan Giggs has denied being controlling or coercive with his ex-girlfriend\n\n\"Why not say it was an accident?\" asked Mr Wright. \"I don't know,\" he replied.\n\nMr Wright said it was because he was saying what had happened.\n\n\"You had assaulted her, hadn't you?\" Mr Giggs said: \"No.\"\n\nMr Wright asked Mr Giggs why he could be heard saying \"all losers\" during the 999 call made by Emma Greville. Mr Giggs said he \"did not know\" why he would refer to both women as losers.\n\nMr Wright then told him: \"I'm going to suggest it was because you realised what you had done and you were going to be arrested.\" Mr Giggs said: \"No.\"\n\nMr Wright accused Mr Giggs of preparing to \"get your story straight\" as he waited outside his house for the arrival of police officers. He also alleged the ex-footballer wanted to give the impression he was pleased they were arriving, which he also denied.\n\nHe reminded Mr Giggs that Emma Greville told police during the 999 call: \"He is screaming and shouting.\"\n\nMr Giggs said he \"did not know\" he was screaming and shouting when asked by the prosecution but no-one else was there.\n\nThe court heard that Giggs told police at the house \"she is going to say I attacked her\" and that Kate Greville's sister Emma \"will obviously be on her side\".\n\nHe also denied blaming Kate Greville for the dispute and told the police at his house that she had taken his phone, so he was not giving hers back.\n\nHe denied being \"angry and aggressive to Ms Greville\" and he believed the sisters would tell the police he had headbutted Kate, which he denied.\n\nMr Giggs also admitted he was \"just scared\" about these accusations.\n\nAsked what he thought might happen, Mr Giggs replied: \"I'm not too sure, but it just didn't look good.\"\n\nAsked what he had meant by saying \"we'll be everywhere\", Mr Giggs said: \"The newspapers and the media.\"\n\nRyan Giggs told his barrister Chris Daw QC both he and Kate Greville would block each other online in the course of their relationship.\n\nHe said it was also \"common\" for them to exchange intimate photographs of each other but he had never threatened to share any of Kate Greville with anyone else.\n\nThey would also exchange love poems, the court heard.\n\nIn August 2017, she messaged him: \"You make my heart flutter because you are a nutter.\"\n\nThe next day, Mr Giggs wrote: \"I'm not gonna lie, I think of you, I dream of you. Can't help thinking, pulling you was my greatest ever coo [sic].\"\n\nMr Giggs also accepted he would send messages to Kate Greville and her friends when she was looking to break up with him on several occasions during their six-year relationship.\n\nWhen asked whether he was seeking to control Kate Greville he told the court: \"To try to rekindle the relationship.\"\n\nMr Daw said: \"What was Kate's reaction?\"\n\nMr Giggs said: \"She was happy that I persisted and I fought for her.\"\n\nHe also said his \"unannounced visits\" to Kate Greville at times when they had broken up was to \"just to try and see her\" and \"rekindle the relationship\" and that Kate was \"just happy that I had fought for us and that I had persisted\".\n\nChris Daw QC asked Ryan Giggs about messages he sent to Kate Greville with \"deeply unpleasant language\" after she told him he would no longer be going on a trip to Scotland with her.\n\nHe added that he only remembered using that language one time.\n\nMr Giggs replied: \"Because I was upset, I was looking forward to going to the trip. I was on a big high and then a big low.\"\n\nHe also admitted that he had a private and public persona but neither of them involved using violence.", "Denzel, 18, said the students felt like the pioneers of their course\n\nThe first students to take T-levels have been receiving their results.\n\nThe new technical qualification started in 2020 with courses in education and childcare; design, surveying and planning; and digital production, taken by 1,029 students in England.\n\nThis year 92% of students achieved a pass or above and 370, or 71%, of those students who applied for a university course have so far been successful.\n\nMany others have already secured an apprenticeship or a job.\n\nThis is according to the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.\n\nThere will be 16 T-level subjects available from September and more will be introduced over the next few years including accounting, agriculture and engineering.\n\nHowever, there are some concerns that more BTecs will be cut to prevent overlapping.\n\nDenzel, 18, who took T-levels in digital production, said he felt like his group were \"the pioneers of this course\".\n\nHe told the BBC it was very different to secondary school where you follow a curriculum and \"there were no textbooks\".\n\nAlthough he says the course was a bit \"hit and miss\" at the beginning because it was new, by the end he and his classmates had enjoyed it and have now \"mastered\" it for the next batch of new students.\n\nDenzel said a placement with the coding company Vector Ltd gave him a real feel for what the working world will be like.\n\nHe was awarded a merit and is going to the University of Hull to study software engineering.\n\nT-levels, or Technical Levels, have been developed alongside employers and are accepted by 120 universities.\n\nDarren Hankey, principal of Hartlepool College, says it looks as though the first cohort has had success in terms of achievement and progression to higher education.\n\nMr Hankey supports these new qualifications but worries about the programme's 45-day industry placement element .\n\n\"I don't think many parts of the country will have the economy to support these and, as a result, young people in these areas will miss out.\n\n\"For example, in the Tees Valley I reckon there are around 1,000 young people taking level 3 vocational qualifications in various engineering disciplines. I don't think we have the firms to support placements for this amount of students, as well as support apprentices.\"\n\nThere are concerns that funding for some BTec qualifications will be removed in favour of the new T-levels.\n\nBTecs - Business and Technology Education Council qualifications - are largely assessed through practical learning.\n\nThe ProtectStudentChoice campaign, which involves 30 organisations including the National Union of Students and the Association of School and College Leaders, says many young people will continue to be better served studying a BTec rather than an A-level or T-level-only study programme.\n\nA Department of Education spokesperson said: \"Students will continue to be able to study BTecs and other applied general qualifications where they meet new quality criteria and support progression to good outcomes.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritish number one Emma Raducanu produced another eye-catching display as she thrashed former world number one Victoria Azarenka less than 24 hours after beating Serena Williams.\n\nRaducanu continued her preparations for the forthcoming defence of her US Open title with a 6-0 6-2 win in Cincinnati.\n\nThe 19-year-old played Belarusian veteran Azarenka just 18 hours after beating Williams, who will retire after the US Open, 6-4 6-0 on Tuesday.\n\nThe Briton, ranked 13th in the world, will meet the American seventh seed in the last 16 of the Western and Southern Open on Thursday.\n\n\"I was playing a great match for sure and to play Vika I had to stay focused throughout,\" said Raducanu, who beat 22nd-ranked Azarenka to earn her first top-30 win since last year's US Open.\n\nRaducanu stunned the sporting world with her unexpected triumph in New York last year, when she became the first qualifier to win a Grand Slam title in what was only her fourth senior tournament.\n\nThe victory propelled the previously little-known teenager into global superstardom, but she has since faced the difficulties often encountered by young players in their first full season on the WTA Tour.\n\nRegularly hampered by fitness issues this year as she adjusts to the rigours of the senior tour, Raducanu arrived in Cincinnati with a record of 11 wins and 14 losses this season.\n\nBut with her fearless and accurate groundstrokes, she has so far shown a similar level in the WTA 1000 event to the one which led to her success at Flushing Meadows.\n\nPegula, however, is likely to provide a sterner test - and a more accurate appraisal of Raducanu's current level - than Williams or Azarenka.\n\nIn what was her first career meeting with 23-time major champion Williams and likely to be the last, the teenager clinically took advantage of the 40-year-old's lack of sharpness by hitting 14 winners and making just one unforced error in a ruthless victory.\n\nAfter that night session, Raducanu returned to Cincinnati's centre court against 33-year-old Azarenka and produced another dominant display.\n\nThe forehand continued to be a potent weapon, while she was also helped by wayward returning from the two-time Grand Slam champion.\n\nAfter cruising through a 26-minute opener to record a second straight bagel, Raducanu raced into a 4-0 lead in the next set, before Azarenka finally got on the scoreboard with back-to-back holds.\n\nShe offered a little more belated resistance when Raducanu served for the match, earning two break points and saving a match point before the Briton wrapped up victory.\n\n\"In the second set I could feel the important moments and a couple of turning points that could have made the second set really difficult,\" added Raducanu.\n\n\"I am really pleased with how I dug in, and serving it out in that last game was really difficult.\"\n\nGauff plays down injury fears before US Open\n\nAmerican teenager Coco Gauff has played down the seriousness of the ankle injury which forced her to retire from a first round match against Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova on Tuesday.\n\nWith her home Grand Slam looming, the 18-year-old said it was a minor sprain that \"should be healed very soon\".\n\nRomania's Simona Halep pulled out of the Cincinnati event with a thigh injury before Wednesday's match against Russia's Veronika Kudermetova, while Polish world number one Iga Swiatek, Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina and Tunisia's world number five Ons Jabeur reached the last 16.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Allen Weisselberg worked for former President Donald Trump for decades (file image)\n\nThe long-time financial chief of Donald Trump's company has pleaded guilty to fraud and tax evasion charges at a New York court.\n\nAllen Weisselberg, who served as The Trump Organization's chief financial officer, had been charged with concealing more than $1.7m (£1.4m) in off-the-books income.\n\nHe is expected to be sentenced to five months at the notorious Rikers Island jail and must pay back the owed money.\n\nMr Trump has not been charged.\n\nThe former president - who is not accused of wrongdoing - has described the Manhattan district attorney's criminal investigation into his family's real estate company as a witch hunt.\n\nThe case relates to a 15-year scheme that prosecutors said helped executives at The Trump Organization avoid paying taxes on corporate benefits such as rent, luxury car payments and private school fees.\n\nThe inquiry focused on whether Weisselberg and other executives received these benefits without reporting them properly on their tax returns.\n\nAnd at the plea hearing on Thursday, the 75-year-old admitted his involvement in the scheme and to receiving private school tuition for his grandchildren, BMW cars and a home in Manhattan.\n\n\"[He] decided to enter a plea of guilty today to put an end to this case and the years-long legal and personal nightmares it has caused for him and his family,\" his lawyer said in a statement shortly after.\n\nWeisselberg, who is seen as one of Mr Trump's most loyal business associates, worked for the former president for almost 50 years. He left his job as chief financial officer which he had held since 2005 when he was arrested last year.\n\nThe Trump Organization is also a defendant in this case and its lawyers have entered a not guilty plea.\n\nWeisselberg must now testify against the company at a criminal trial later this year, after agreeing to a plea deal that was first reported by The New York Times.\n\nBut he refused to co-operate with prosecutors in their wider investigation into Donald Trump and his business practices, reports say.\n\nThat means any testimony he provides at the trial - which is scheduled for late October - will only relate to this case and will not implicate the former president directly.\n\nWeisselberg had faced intense pressure from prosecutors to co-operate against Mr Trump, The New York Times reported, but resisted and accepted jail time instead.\n\nHe will be sentenced at the end of The Trump Organization trial, Judge Juan Merchan said on Thursday. He could be freed from a likely five-month sentence after 100 days if time is credited for good behaviour, a number of sources told US media.\n\nThat is far shorter than the many years in state prison he could have faced if - rather than plead guilty - he were convicted at trial.\n\nWeisselberg's guilty plea - which legal experts suggest will strengthen the case against The Trump Organization - comes as Mr Trump is investigated on several fronts.\n\nJust last week, he declined to answer questions as part of a separate New York state investigation into his family's business practices. That inquiry is a civil one, meaning it will not result in criminal charges.\n\nMr Trump, who denies wrongdoing, had sued in an effort to block the interview at the attorney general's office. But the questioning lasted around four hours and Mr Trump - who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights - said \"same answer\" throughout.\n\n\"[This is] unlikely to have any real impact on Trump personally,\" Joseph Moreno, a former federal prosecutor, told the BBC. \"Weisselberg is obligated to testify against the Trump Organization if called, so that could lead to trouble, but if anything probably civil not criminal.\"\n\nThere are also separate investigations into the former president's handling of classified documents - which led the FBI to search his Florida home - and others related to his efforts to undermine the result of the 2020 presidential election.", "Margaret Ferrier pled guilty to culpably and recklessly exposing the public to the virus\n\nAn MP has pled guilty to breaching Covid rules after travelling by train despite knowing she had the virus.\n\nMargaret Ferrier spoke in parliament in September 2020 while awaiting the results of a Covid test.\n\nShe then took the train home to Glasgow after being told she had tested positive.\n\nFerrier admitted that she had culpably and recklessly exposed the public to the virus ahead of a trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court.\n\nShe was elected as an SNP MP but lost the whip and now sits as an independent.\n\nThe charge stated that she had failed to self isolate and had \"exposed people to risk of infection, illness and death\".\n\nSentence was deferred pending background reports until next month.\n\nThe MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West took a Covid test on Saturday 26 September because she had a \"tickly throat\".\n\nWhile awaiting her results, she went to church on the Sunday and gave a reading to the congregation, and later spent more than two hours in a bar in Prestwick, Ayrshire.\n\nShe then travelled to London by train - which had 183 passengers on board - on the Monday and spoke in the Commons later that day before finding out a short time later that she had tested positive for the virus.\n\nFerrier decided to get a train back to Glasgow the following day, fearing she would have to self-isolate in a London hotel room for two weeks.\n\nProsecutor Mark Allan told the court: \"The conduct amounted to a reckless disregard of public safety.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Catholic Church said: \"The church went to significant lengths to abide by all government Covid guidance and It is disappointing to learn that anyone would knowingly disregard the guidance.\"\n\nFerrier was wearing a face mask when she arrived at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday morning\n\nMr Allan said Ferrier wore a face mask in the Commons, and after speaking in the chamber at about 19:30 had sat at a table with DUP MP Jim Shannon, where they conversed for 20 minutes.\n\nHe added: \"The positive result from the test was delivered at 8.03pm by text and email.\n\n\"She attended the SNP whips' office and spoke to then chief whip Patrick Grady MP. She informed Mr Grady that she would return to Scotland in the morning.\"\n\nFerrier returned to her hotel, where she spent the night, before heading back to London Euston and taking the train home to Glasgow.\n\nContact tracers for NHS Test and Protect attempted to contact Ferrier on four occasions but were unable to do so, leaving two voicemails.\n\nShe later contacted Test and Protect and disclosed that she had a \"slight and infrequent cough\" the day before her test.\n\nMr Allan added: \"She said she did not believe that she would be positive.\"\n\nFerrier then informed Mr Grady and the Parliamentary Test and Trace service that she was positive.\n\nThis led to Mr Shannon being ordered to take a test and isolate in his hotel room, but he tested negative.\n\nCalls for Margaret Ferrier's resignation have started up again in earnest.\n\nBut if she doesn't want to leave the Commons voluntarily, there are still a couple of ways in which it could happen.\n\nThe first is if she were to be jailed. A sentence of 12 months would automatically bar her from serving as an MP.\n\nBut any time behind bars could see her subject to a recall petition, which would trigger a by-election if 10% of her constituents signed up.\n\nThis could also be on the table if Ms Ferrier was suspended from the Commons for 10 days or more. This is a possibility, given she reported herself to the standards watchdog at the same time as the police, and they may choose to investigate once the court process is over.\n\nIf there were to be a by-election, it would be keenly contested by the SNP and Labour - the seat has bounced back and forth between them at the last three general elections.\n\nMr Grady was told the following day at a meeting at the Speaker's Office in the House of Commons that Ferrier's actions required to be reported to the police.\n\nFerrier contacted police and informed them of her breach before sending out a statement on her social media.\n\nPublic health expert Dr Andrew Riley told the police that Ferrier had \"significantly increased the risk of harm to both individual and public health.\"\n\nFerrier has previously said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions but has so far refused to resign as an MP.\n\nThe 61-year-old first became an MP in 2015 in the SNP landslide that saw the party take 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.\n\nIn May 2020, she was one of the MPs who called on the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings to resign in the wake of the controversy over his visit to the North East of England during lockdown.\n\nAt the time, she said his actions had \"undermined the sacrifices that we have all been making in lockdown to protect each other from coronavirus\" and described his position as \"untenable\".\n\nAfter it emerged Ferrier had travelled with Covid symptoms, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon condemned her actions as \"dangerous and indefensible\".\n\nThe SNP leader later called \"with a heavy heart\" for her to resign as an MP.", "Lynch says action will continue 'until we get a settlement'\n\nMore now from RMT leader Mick Lynch. He told Sky News that action by his union will continue \"until we reach a settlement\" with Network Rail and other operators. He's also warned that the UK could be brought by a standstill by a wave of strikes hitting \"every sector of the economy\". He stopped short of predicting a general strike, saying that it was down to Trades Union Congress to make that decision. But he added: \"What you are going to get is a wave of solidarity action, generalised strike action, synchronised action. \"And you'll see it in every sector of the economy, in education, in health, wider parts of the transport system, in all sectors, the private sector as well. \"People are fed up with the way they've been treated. The British worker is basically underpaid and gets no dignity or respect in the workplace.\"", "A woman at the heart of R. Kelly's second federal trial has testified that the R&B singer had sex with her \"hundreds\" of times before she turned 18.\n\nThe 37-year-old woman, known as \"Jane\", said that improper contact with Kelly began when she was just 13.\n\nThe singer is on trial in Chicago for child pornography, obstruction of justice and other charges.\n\nHis lawyers have insisted he is not \"a monster\" and deserves a fair trial.\n\nKelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is facing 13 criminal charges including creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity.\n\nHe is already serving a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking and racketing in a separate trial held in New York last year.\n\nThe current case rests in large part on the testimony of \"Jane\", one of his accusers. Prosecutors allege that Kelly made at least four videos with Jane, parts of which will be shown to jurors.\n\nIn court on Thursday, Jane testified that Kelly had sex with her \"uncountable times\" starting when she was 15. Jurors were shown photographs of her in high school to illustrate how young she appeared at the time.\n\nOver the course of her two-hour testimony, Jane described a number of sexual encounters that Kelly allegedly recorded. In one video, Kelly appeared to hand her money.\n\nWhen asked why, Jane alleged that Kelly believed that \"if it was released for some reason, he [Kelly] would say I was a prostitute\", according to the Chicago Tribune.\n\nOne of the videos was also at the centre of a separate 2008 trial in which Kelly and Jane both denied it was them in the tape. Kelly was ultimately acquitted on all charges.\n\nAsked about that earlier denial on Thursday, she told jurors that she \" was afraid something bad would happen to Robert\", according to the Associated Press.\n\nSome analysts have characterised the current trial as a do-over of the 2008 trial, in which the singer faced 14 charges of child pornography.\n\nTwo of Kelly's former employees are also facing charges in this trial. Derrel McDavid, his former business manager, is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, and Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography.\n\nBoth men have pleaded not guilty.\n\nDuring opening statements earlier this week, attorneys for Kelly and the two former employees dismissed the charges and called on jurors to give Kelly a fair trial despite widespread public attention, and decried a \"mob-justice\" climate surrounding the case.\n\nAdditionally, they alleged that some of those expected to testify were \"criminals\" who have previously \"extorted him\" and secured immunity deals from prosecutors.", "Some medical students have been using food banks, the British Medical Association's medical students committee says\n\nQuestions are being asked why the government is sticking to its cap on medical and dentistry places.\n\nA shortage of doctors and other medical staff has been described as the biggest challenge facing the NHS.\n\nBut the number of places at UK medical schools are capped - in England this year there are 7,500 places.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC that you can't just \"flick a switch\" to increase the capacity to train more doctors.\n\nMedicine is one of a handful of courses where numbers are limited by the government, because the cost is heavily subsidised.\n\nIn 2020 and 2021 the government lifted the cap on numbers, which last year led to more than 10,000 places being accepted.\n\nBut this year the cap in England is being reintroduced.\n\nMr Cleverly told the BBC that the nature of highly technical, vocational courses like medicine meant increasing the number of places was far from straightforward.\n\n\"To increase those numbers you would also need to increase the capacity in training institutions, both in universities and in hospitals.\n\n\"It is not something you can just flick a switch and significantly increase the capacity to train.\n\n\"The increases have got to be funded, they are technical and expensive courses and we need to understand the balance of requirements between these courses and other courses that the government is supporting financially.\"\n\nThere is an added complication for those trying to win a place at medical school this year.\n\nHigh demand in 2021 meant there were a number of students who had to defer starting their training until this year.\n\nIt has created a very competitive field for places this summer.\n\nThe government has increased the cap on places since 2017, but the Medical Schools Council is calling for a long-term increase in the number of medical school places to meet the demand in the NHS.\n\nBut there are good reasons for a cap on places existing.\n\nTraining doctors and dentists costs the government much more than students pay in fees.\n\nAdd to that the need for good quality clinical placements to be made available for students during their training and there is an in-built limit to what the system can cope with.\n\nBut the pressure caused by staff shortages in the NHS combined with the length of time it takes to train a fully qualified doctor - typically seven years - means this is an issue that will be around for some years to come.\n• None As it happened: Top A-level results fall but university admissions near record", "Police would like to speak with a man seen on CCTV, described as white, in his 20s, wearing dark clothing and shoes with a white rim\n\nParents have been warned to be \"extra vigilant with their children\" after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester, with police appealing for help to find a man seen on CCTV images.\n\nOfficers believe the girl, who they previously said was seven, was abducted by a man in Warne Avenue, Droylsden at about 16:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe child was led down a path towards a football field and assaulted.\n\nShe then found her own way to a park.\n\nThe girl was reunited with her family a short time later, police said, and was receiving support from specialist officers.\n\nSpeaking at a special press conference, Det Supt Richard Hunt said the offender had \"obviously grabbed a child and, what I would say to members of the public, is that they need to be extra vigilant\".\n\n\"A child was playing in this area and a chap who was hanging around has taken a child and thankfully within a few minutes we've got her back.\n\n\"Parents need to consider the circumstances of what I have mentioned and I would suggest they need to be extra vigilant with their children whilst we progress this as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHe said the offender appeared to \"have been hanging around the area prior to the offence and, afterwards, he made his way through the paths and streets of the Snipe Estate possibly in the direction of Openshaw\".\n\nDet Supt Hunt said CCTV footage had already been released by officers of a man they would like to speak with: \"You will have seen footage in the press and if you haven't, can I please ask you to look at these images to try and identify the person, who we are keen to speak to.\"\n\nHe urged members of the public to check their CCTV, dashcam and doorbell footage for video that might assist the investigation, and asked them not to speculate on social media.\n\nA 35-year-old man previously arrested in connection with the incident has been released with no further investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We're now wrapping up our coverage of today's Conservative leadership hustings in Northern Ireland.\n\nAs a reminder, here are some of the points the two candidates touched upon:\n• Both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss pledged to fix the issue of the Northern Ireland Protocol - the post-Brexit deal aimed at preventing a hard border in Ireland - and support the government's bill to override parts of the arrangement\n• Truss described Northern Ireland as a \"key part of our fantastic union\"\n• She also said that all UK laws needed to apply across the whole of the UK when asked about abortion legislation in Northern Ireland\n• Sunak said tax cuts wouldn't help the most vulnerable people through the cost of living crisis\n• The former chancellor also said he wouldn't pursue policies that could make inflation worse, like, he said, the extra borrowing suggested by Truss. He also said it would be a \"moral failure\" if they did not help the most vulnerable\n\nWe'll continue to cover the Truss-Sunak race for the party leadership. The latest polls suggest Liz Truss has a large lead over Sunak. There's more on on the next PM's challenges in Northern Ireland here, and a guide to the candidates' policies here.\n\nThe next hustings are in Manchester on 19 August.\n\nThe team behind the live page was made up of Alex Therrien, Heather Sharp, Laura Gozzi, Dulcie Lee, James FitzGerald, Chas Geiger, Luke Sproule, Chris Andrews, Mike Hirst, as well as Jayne McCormack and Grainne Connolly in Belfast and political correspondent David Cornock.", "Fruit and vegetables on the shelves will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry weather hits crops, experts say.\n\nPotatoes, onions, carrots, apples and Brussels sprouts are likely to be worst-affected.\n\nMany areas of the UK have seen very low rainfall in 2022, and parts of England are in drought.\n\nThe National Farmers Union (NFU) wants supermarkets to accept more \"wonky\" produce and be flexible with growers.\n\nIn Essex, farmer Sarah Green's fields are dusty and the grass crunches beneath her feet.\n\nHer crops are \"alive, but not growing or thriving\". The hot summer sun made her sweetcorn delicious, but smaller than usual and she's had to lower her prices. Other crops still in the ground, like cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli, are stunted.\n\nSarah Green has already seen her summer produce grow smaller\n\nAnd in Herefordshire, farmer Ben Andrews said his \"nice green\" cabbage and kale were fine until a few days ago.\n\nNow they've turned pale blue, he says. They feel leathery and tough, no longer crisp and lush.\n\nThese crops are still in the fields but soon they'll be what we buy in supermarkets.\n\nIt's too early to know how much UK produce will die due to drought, but \"crop quality\" will certainly be hit, Jerry Knox, professor of agricultural water management at Cranfield University, told BBC News.\n\nMore potatoes will be smaller, with lower quality skin and even some defects, he adds.\n\nVegetables this autumn and winter \"may not look normal, but will taste the same\", Tom Bradshaw, vice-president of the NFU, says.\n\n\"Consumers have been conditioned to believe that a potato looks a certain way,\" Mr Bradshaw says. To reduce the risk of even more price rises during a cost of living crisis, \"we need to be more relaxed about appearance\", he adds.\n\nA representative for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) told BBC News that supermarkets already accepted odd-shaped vegetables.\n\n\"Retailers understand weather conditions have been a challenge and have taken steps to support their farmers. This includes expanding ranges of odd-size/shape fruit and veg when needed,\" says Hannah Dougherty, Food Policy Advisor at the BRC.\n\nIn Essex, rain is all Sarah Green and her family talk about. This year they're measured 107mm of rainfall. Their annual average is 525mm.\n\nRain could help these cauliflowers recover but they will be smaller\n\nThis dryness means vegetables in the ground can't get the moisture they need to keep growing, so they grow slower and don't become full-size. Lack of water can make the skin tougher, or cause defects as the crop is stressed.\n\nPotatoes are very vulnerable to drought in the UK where half the national crop is fed by rain, Prof Jerry Knox explains.\n\nHarvesting the potatoes will be a challenge because it's likely to be difficult to get the harvester into the hard ground, Sarah Green explains. It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.\n\nCarrots, parsnips, onions will be affected in a similar way to potatoes, Prof Knox says.\n\nBy this point in the summer the \"damage is done\", he says, and even significant rainfall isn't enough to fix the stressed potatoes.\n\nFarmers are also worried about brassicas like cauliflowers and broccoli planted in autumn. In many areas it's feared the soil is too hard to dig and seeds won't survive in parched ground.\n\nThe last time the UK had a drought was in 2018, but rains came just in time to save most crops. But this year the Met Office is forecasting several months of dry, warm weather.\n\nFarmers could choose to sacrifice some crops, in order to fully water others, Prof Knox says. Gathering enough water over the autumn and winter will also be crucial to stop the effects of drought spreading into 2023.\n\nBut in the long-term scientists warn that parts of England, particularly the south-east, will become much drier due to climate change.\n\nFarmers do adapt and some have changed the crops they grow, but the unpredictability of UK weather makes that risky.\n\nAlastair Chisholm of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management says that in the long-term, adjustments to farming techniques like regenerative farming that helps soil store water, as well as investment in storage for winter rains, can be solutions.", "Pledges to slash taxes by Conservative leadership candidates are \"unrealistic\" unless they are matched by spending cuts, a think tank has warned.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said large, permanent tax cuts could add to pressures on the public purse as the economic outlook deteriorates.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have promised tax cuts but say their plans are affordable.\n\nThe UK will find out who its next prime minister is on 5 September.\n\nThe soaring cost of living will be among the biggest challenges facing whoever succeeds Boris Johnson, with calls for more help growing louder.\n\nThe IFS's warning comes as consumer prices continue to soar, with inflation hitting 10.1% in July - a fresh 40-year high. Rising living costs are eating into household budgets, with prices rising at a faster rate than wages.\n\nMeanwhile, the Bank of England has warned high prices will push the UK into recession, with the economy forecast to shrink in the last three months of 2022 and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nAnd a new University of York study estimates two-thirds of UK households could be plunged into fuel poverty and struggle to pay energy bills this winter, the Guardian reported.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss, who is the favourite to win the race, has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise to help households and cancel a planned rise in corporation tax.\n\nShe has argued high taxes are \"potentially choking off growth\" in the economy.\n\nMeanwhile, former Chancellor Mr Sunak has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero, and to cut 3p off income tax by late 2029.\n\nHowever, he says he will only cut taxes \"once we've gripped inflation\" and claims Ms Truss's pledges are unaffordable and won't help those on low incomes.\n\nBut Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the IFS, told the BBC that both candidates' plans would be unaffordable without spending cuts - none of which have been proposed by the campaigns.\n\n\"These tax cut promises are unrealistic unless they're going to set out detailed, deliverable spending cuts on a comparable scale,\" he said.\n\n\"In reality, there will be a need to spend significantly more, especially given the pressures on households with energy bills.\"\n\nThe cost of living soared to 10.1% in July, a fresh 40-year high\n\nMr Emmerson suggested that short-term government borrowing could be appropriate, to help fund support for families struggling to make ends meet.\n\nBut he said \"large, permanent tax cuts\" would only exacerbate pressures on the public finances, and were \"hard to square\" with the candidates' promises to manage the nation's finances responsibly.\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned that UK government debt is already on an \"unsustainable path\" because of inflation and other factors.\n\nThe IFS said it was concerned by Ms Truss and Mr Sunak's tax plans given the \"deteriorating outlook\".\n\nIn its report, the think tank predicted that high inflation could result in more public spending - adding £4bn to the benefits bill, while tens of billions of pounds may have to go to the likes of schools and hospitals, as their bills soar, to help maintain services.\n\nIt said this was unlikely to be offset by tax revenues, leaving no spare public money to fund large-scale tax cuts.\n\nResponding to the report, Mr Sunak's campaign said his tax plans were funded and that the IFS's research supported his approach.\n\n\"[The report] drives a coach and horses through Liz's economic plan. Rishi has consistently made the case that permanent, unfunded tax cuts would cause significant damage to the public finances and push inflation up higher,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"It is not credible or Conservative to spend £50bn on tax cuts and pay for them through higher borrowing at a time of high inflation.\"\n\nA source for Ms Truss's campaign told PA news agency that she \"would use an emergency budget to kickstart her plan to get our economy growing and put more money into the pockets of hardworking people\".\n\n\"Liz will cut taxes using the existing fiscal headroom and will get debt to GDP falling within three years. You cannot tax your way to growth, and business as usual will not do.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPowerful storms have battered areas of central and southern Europe, killing at least 12 people including three children.\n\nThe deaths, most from falling trees, were reported in Italy and Austria, and on the French island of Corsica.\n\nHeavy rain and winds wrecked campsites on the island, while in Venice, Italy, masonry was blown off the belltower of St Mark's Basilica.\n\nThe storms follow weeks of heatwave and drought across much of the continent.\n\nIn Corsica, winds gusting up to 224 km/h (140mph) uprooted trees and damaged mobile homes.\n\nAuthorities there said a 13-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree on a campsite.\n\nA 46-year-old man died in a similar incident and a woman in her 70s was killed when her car was hit by the detached roof of a beach hut.\n\nTwo other people, a fisherman, 62, and a female kayaker, 60, died out at sea.\n\nBoats were thrown onto the beach of Sagone in Coggia, Corsica\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who arrived in Corsica on Thursday, said 20 people had been injured - four of them seriously.\n\nAlmost 13,000 people were evacuated from several campsites on Thursday evening and sheltered in public buildings, ahead of more expected damage. But authorities said on Friday morning that the night had passed without any major incidents.\n\nHolidaymakers pack what is left of their destroyed tents and other items at the Sagone camping site in Corsica\n\nExtreme storms have become more frequent recently because of climate change.\n\nWitnesses to the storms said they had been completely unexpected and no warning was given.\n\n\"We have never seen such huge storms as this, you would think it was a tropical storm,\" restaurant owner Cedric Boell told Reuters news agency.\n\nOn the French mainland, some southern areas were hit by power cuts and streets were flooded in the country's second city, Marseille.\n\nHeavy rain and mudslides have devastated parts of Carinthia, Austria\n\nIn Austria two girls aged four and eight were killed by a falling tree near a lake in Carinthia.\n\nLater, three women were reported to have died in Lower Austria province, also as a result of a falling tree.\n\nOfficials said 13 people had been injured, including five children.\n\nHannes Primus, mayor of the Wolfsberg district where the two girls were killed, said the area has been left looking \"like a battlefield\".\n\nMeanwhile in Italy, a man and a woman were killed by falling trees in separate incidents in the region of Tuscany.\n\nHigh winds swept through Venice, blowing café umbrellas across St Mark's Square and dislodging brickwork from the cathedral belltower.\n\nParts of Venice's St Mark's Square were cordoned off after the storm\n\nSeaside resorts in Tuscany and further north in Liguria were damaged by the storms.\n\nTuscan regional leader Eugenio Giani posted a video of a ferris wheel spinning out of control in high winds at Piombino.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut in southern Italy, the heatwave continued, with temperatures of up to 40C recorded in Sicily.\n\nAnd across the Mediterranean Sea in Algeria, at least 38 people have died in forest fires.\n\nMany parts of Europe have seen weeks of exceptionally hot and dry weather.\n\nExtreme weather events, including both heatwaves and storms, have become more intense and more frequent in recent years because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "The price of gas on global markets has surged in the last two months\n\nNorthern Ireland's energy regulator has warned that households will face further gas prices rises in the coming weeks.\n\nThe region's two suppliers, SSE and Firmus, last increased their prices at the start of July.\n\nThe price of gas on global markets has surged in the last two months.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson has said it is \"absolutely committed\" to bringing an equivalent to the £400 energy bills discount to Northern Ireland.\n\nRussia has reduced its supplies of gas to Europe, increasing competition for gas produced in other countries.\n\nNext week the UK is expected to take delivery of a shipment of gas from Australia.\n\nThe regulator, John French, warned that households will face further gas price rises of up to 30% in the coming weeks.\n\n\"Just as a rule of thumb, we have seen prices more than double, 60% of the final bill is wholesale prices,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.\n\n\"We are looking unfortunately at the moment, if we do the calculations today, you are looking at increases in gas at around 30% from 1 October.\"\n\nMr French said it is an \"awful picture where energy prices have gone\" and wholesale prices had \"got worse over the last six weeks\".\n\n\"We are doing everything we can to help consumers in terms of trying to make the market more efficient,\" he added.\n\n\"We are working with the Chancellor to try and get the support out sooner, but the underlying problem is the wholesale market has just risen to levels that have never been experienced historically - if you go back 20, 30 years, you have never seen the price rises we have seen in the last 12 months.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's energy market is regulated separately from the rest of the UK.\n\nSuppliers can announce price increases as and when they need to, as long as it is approved by the regulator, who scrutinises their costs.\n\nIn Great Britain the energy price cap is announced twice a year meaning cost increases are passed on in two huge chunks.\n\nHowever, GB is now moving closer to the NI model with a plan for the cap to be reviewed every three months.\n\nJohn French is warning of further gas price increases\n\nThe Treasury is setting up a joint taskforce to explore how households in Northern Ireland can receive a £400 discount on energy bills this autumn.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We are absolutely committed to bringing an equivalent to the £400 energy bills discount to Northern Ireland and have just announced a new joint taskforce to find a solution quickly.\n\n\"We will continue to work with Northern Ireland ministers and the regulator to deliver this support as soon as soon as possible to ease the burden on families.\"\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi met Stormont ministers on Monday to discuss the issue.\n\nHouseholds in Great Britain will start receiving the money from October.\n\nStormont politicians have called for the same timetable in Northern Ireland, but there are complications due to the lack of a fully functioning executive.\n\nNorthern Ireland is also in a different energy market to the rest of the UK.\n\nFollowing a virtual meeting on Monday, the Treasury said the new taskforce would be made up of officials from the UK government and Stormont ministers.\n\nMr French said a \"workable\" plan had been put forward to the Chancellor and Northern Ireland government departments in relation to the discount on energy bills.\n\nHe said he had spoken with energy companies last week and \"they believed they could get it out in a reasonable time, weeks rather than months\".\n\n\"It is now down to both the UK government and Northern Ireland government to decide the governance around that mechanism,\" he said.\n\n\"If we keep this simple, we can get the money out quickly.\n\n\"It is a very different market here in Northern Ireland, we have got six suppliers compared to the 300 in GB, so some of the governance mechanisms they are trying to do, in my opinion, are gold plated, we need to get this money out quickly, we need to get this money out simply.\n\n\"There is a simple mechanism to do that and we are just hoping the Treasury will back that.\"\n\nMr French is hopeful that people will receive their payment before Christmas.\n\n\"You have to look at all the different companies' IT systems, but all being well it could be this side of Christmas that the monies go out and hopefully a lot sooner than that,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday afternoon, Conservative Party leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak were both questioned on how to tackle the cost-of-living at a hustings event, at the Culloden Hotel outside Belfast.\n\nMs Truss said her first priority would be to reduce taxes in order to avoid a recession.\n\n\"We know how damaging a recession would be for people, for future government revenues,\" she said.\n\n\"I am also committed to removing the green levy to help people with their energy bills, I know it is very difficult, I know people are struggling.\"\n\nMr Sunak said that tax was the wrong focus.\n\n\"I believe we have to support vulnerable groups, those on low incomes, pensioners directly with financial support,\" he said.\n\n\"Because a tax cut does not work for those people, if Liz's plan is to say 'I believe in tax cuts not direct support', I don't think that's right.\"", "Finland's PM said she was only \"the same as many people my age\"\n\nThe Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, is facing a backlash after being seen partying in a leaked video.\n\nIn the footage, thought to be taken from social media, she and friends including Finnish celebrities are seen dancing and singing.\n\nShe has faced criticism from opposition parties, with one leader demanding she take a drug test.\n\nMs Marin, 36, denied taking drugs, saying she only drank alcohol and just partied \"in a boisterous way\".\n\nFormerly the world's youngest head of government - a title now held by Chilean President Gabriel Boric - Ms Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.\n\nLast year she apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.\n\nJust last week, Ms Marin was dubbed the \"coolest prime minister in the world\" by German news outlet Bild.\n\nCommenting on the video on Thursday, she said she knew she was being filmed but was upset that the video had become public.\n\n\"I danced, sang, and partied - perfectly legal things. And I've never been in a situation where I've seen or known of others [using drugs],\" she added.\n\nMs Marin became prime minister in 2019, aged just 34\n\nOpposition party leader, Riikka Purra, called for Ms Marin to take a voluntary drug test, saying there was a \"shadow of doubt\" hanging over the prime minister.\n\nAnd MP Mikko Karna, a member of the Centre Party who serve in Ms Marin's coalition government, tweeted that \"it would be wise\" for her to \"voluntarily undergo a drugs test\".\n\nMs Marin appeared open to the suggestion, telling reporters that she had \"not used drugs\" and had \"no problem taking tests\".\n\n\"I have a family life, I have a work life and I have free time to spend with my friends. Pretty much the same as many people my age,\" Ms Marin said.\n\nShe added that she felt no need to change her behaviour. \"I am going to be exactly the same person as I have been until now and I hope that it will be accepted,\" the prime minister added.\n\nThere has been widespread reporting on the video in Finnish media - which justified the use of the footage as being in the public interest.\n\nBut other opposition party politicians have criticised both the prime minister and the media for talking about partying - instead of more important domestic problems.\n\nMs Marin has been in power since December 2019 and retains the support of her party.\n\n\"The reaction is very typical on all things Marin: polarised,\" Finnish political journalist and media commentator Robert Sundman told the BBC.\n\n\"There are people saying that it is normal for a woman her age to have fun with her friends and people who are shocked.\n\n\"But at least until now one thing is sure: the previous party pictures have not - at least significantly - affected popularity of her or her party.\"\n\nMr Sundman said there has been lots of attention over her friendship with Finnish celebrities, which he says is a significant departure from previous prime ministers.\n\nLast week, the prime minister won plaudits for her style after being pictured with the influencer and photographer Janita Autio, who also appeared in the video, at a music festival in Helsinki.", "R. Kelly has a \"dark\" and \"hidden\" side that the public rarely saw during his career, prosecutors said at the opening of his second federal trial.\n\nThe R&B singer was found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering in a New York court last year. He was later sentenced to 30 years in jail.\n\nBut on Wednesday, a separate trial on child pornography and obstruction charges began in Chicago.\n\nHis lawyer urged the jury not to accept the portrayal of Kelly as \"a monster\".\n\nKelly, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, faces 13 charges, including creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity.\n\nIn 2008, he was also accused of trying to rig a similar trial by bribing and intimidating witnesses.\n\nProsecutors used their opening statements to tell the jury what to expect over the next four or so weeks, detailing the survivors who will testify and some of what the jury is expected to hear.\n\nThat includes hearing from one woman - who prosecutors are calling Jane - who will testify that she appeared in an alleged sex tape with Kelly when she was 13 or 14 and the singer was 31.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Kelly made four separate videos with Jane - segments of which will be shown to jurors.\n\nThat video was the centre of the 2008 trial, however at the time Kelly and Jane denied it was them in the tape. Neither testified and Kelly was acquitted on all charges.\n\nThis trial, happening in his hometown of Chicago, is being seen by many as a repeat of the 2008 trial, when he was facing 14 charges of child pornography.\n\nTwo of Kelly's former employees are also facing charges in this trial. Derrel McDavid, his former business manager, is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, and Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography.\n\nBoth men have pleaded not guilty. Mr McDavid plans to testify in court, his attorney said on Wednesday.\n\nProsecutors allege Kelly and Mr McDavid sent hush money and expensive gifts to Jane and her parents over several years to keep them quiet.\n\nKelly's previous trial was highly publicised, and in her opening address, his defence attorney reminded the jury that he deserved a fair trial even if the government seeks to portray him as a \"monster\".\n\n\"There is no R. Kelly exception,\" Jennifer Bonjean said.\n\n\"It is true that Mr Kelly is imperfect. It is true that, on his journey from poverty to stardom, that he stumbled along the way. We won't deny that,\" she told the court.\n\nShe also alleged that several of the witnesses against Kelly were \"criminals\" who have \"extorted him\" and have immunity deals. Additionally, she suggested that the government is taking advantage of a series of documentaries and of social media outrage to prosecute Mr Kelly in a \"mob-justice climate\".\n\nThis trial in Chicago comes just a few months after Kelly was sentenced in a New York court to 30 years in prison.\n\nJurors at the six-week New York trial heard how he trafficked women between different US states, assisted by managers, security guards and other members of his entourage.\n\nThe court also heard how Kelly had illegally obtained paperwork to marry singer Aaliyah when she was 15 in 1994, seven years before she died in a plane crash.\n\nThe certificate, leaked at the time, listed Aaliyah's age as 18. The marriage was annulled months later.\n\nKelly is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter known for hits like Bump N' Grind, Ignition (Remix) and the hugely popular 1996 anthem I Believe I Can Fly.\n\nSexual abuse allegations and accounts of his predatory behaviour towards young girls and women go back decades. He is still facing state charges of aggravated sexual abuse in Illinois and prostitution and solicitation charges in Minnesota.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were arrested at a demonstration in London in 2011\n\nHostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police.\n\nThe hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier.\n\nOfficers identified the protest and recovered video of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey being arrested.\n\nAnalysis of their phones showed the pair's links to the cell's executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, or \"Jihadi John\".\n\nThe details were disclosed by Scotland Yard ahead of Elsheikh's sentencing in the United States on Friday.\n\nElsheikh was convicted in April of lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nCo-defendant Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and was jailed for life.\n\n\"This was an investigation into some truly horrific crimes,\" said Commander Richard Smith, head of Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe described it as a \"truly colossal investigation\", lasting eight years.\n\nThe group's actions resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - Mr Foley and fellow journalist Steven Sotloff plus aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nIt is also blamed for the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\n\"These were some of the most shocking and barbaric acts that we've seen and they were carried out with chilling callousness and brutality,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nHis officers were part of an international hunt to identify and bring to justice Jihadi John and his associates.\n\nCdr Smith described how their first breakthrough came from conversations with those hostages released by IS after ransoms were paid.\n\nThey disclosed how their masked captors, who were \"at great pains to hide their identities\", spoke of having been arrested at a demonstration against far-right group, the English Defence League, in 2011.\n\n\"Based on that snippet of conversation, our investigation team was able to go back and identify a particular EDL march in London on 11 September 2011,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nVideo of Elsheikh being arrested at the September 2011 demonstration was a crucial piece of evidence\n\nPolice records and video showed Kotey and Elsheikh were part of a group that was arrested after reports of a stabbing at the march, but later released without charge.\n\n\"The information was invaluable in helping us zero in on them as being the men the hostages had described to us,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nIt proved the two men had been associates before they went to Syria in 2012.\n\nData from their phones, which were seized when they were arrested, also revealed their contacts with Emwazi, who was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015.\n\nThe police also held on their records vital evidence against Emwazi.\n\nHe was questioned about a series of thefts in London in 2012 and his interviews with police were still on tape, Cdr Smith revealed.\n\nForensic voice analysis of these police interviews showed \"a very strong likelihood\" the recordings were of the same person as the masked executioner in the IS videos.\n\nA further breakthrough came in an unrelated case when in 2014 Elsheikh's brother, Khalid, was arrested in an Operation Trident investigation into UK gun crime.\n\nDigital interrogation analysis of Khalid's mobile phone revealed messages sent by Elsheikh from Syria on the encrypted Telegram platform.\n\nThey included an image of Elsheikh holding a firearm, which was used as evidence against him during his trial.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\n\"These men thought they were beyond the reach of law\" but were brought to justice following \"a remarkable investigation\" and thanks to the \"fortitude and courage of the hostages who gave evidence against them,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nThe pair were arrested and detained by Kurdish militia in Syria in January 2018 and were eventually sent for trial in the United States.\n\nUK ministers had argued their best chance of conviction lay in them being tried in the US.\n\nKotey pictured inside the police station in London on 11 September 2011\n\nIn August 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that a stay preventing the Home Office from supplying intelligence against the men must be lifted after the US said it would drop death-penalty charges against them.\n\nHowever, Cdr Smith disclosed that a file had been sent by his officers to the Crown Prosecution Service, after which the UK attorney general authorised 139 charges, including hostage-taking and kidnapping, against Elsheikh and Kotey.\n\nAsked why these British men were not tried in the UK, he said: \"Our job was to gather the evidence,\" adding that British detectives had been \"delighted to support\" the US prosecution.", "The release at Bexhill beach was caused by a pumping station power failure\n\nBeaches in East Sussex have been closed after untreated wastewater was released into the sea at the shoreline.\n\nBeaches in Bexhill and Normans Bay were shut after \"significant\" electrical issues at a pumping station.\n\nIn neighbouring Hastings, the borough council also advised people from swimming at Pelham Beach due to a pollution risk.\n\nA Southern Water spokesman said the firm was \"deeply sorry\" and it understood \"the distress this causes\".\n\nThe liquid, including sewage, started being released when the primary power and back-up system failed on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPower was restored by the evening, with emergency generators in place.\n\nJuliette Wills is a member of the Bexhill SeaGals, a sea-swimming group with about 1,000 members.\n\nShe said the sewage release will affect her mental and physical health because the swimming sessions were more than just a \"splash around\", and that they also help her while living with a disability.\n\nShe believes water companies should be \"held accountable\", and added: \"It is unbelievable and outrageous that the water companies can just continue to get away with this.\"\n\nMPs across Sussex have written to Southern Water and the Environment Agency demanding that Sussex's waterways and coast \"are respected and protected\" in the wake of the latest discharge.\n\n\"In addition to the obvious environmental and community impact, the closure of popular beaches and restrictions on inland waterways causes financial loss to the numerous businesses who rely on our beaches and rivers\", they added in the letter, calling for a plan to end discharges.\n\nHugo Tagholm, head of Surfers Against Sewage, said: \"Water companies have flipped from extreme drought to extreme sewage pollution.\n\n\"Years of underinvestment is now in plain sight. It's time that huge water company profits were diverted to properly managing water and sewage, and protect people and planet.\n\n\"Our rivers and beaches should not be subject to this type of industrial environmental vandalism.\"\n\nSouthern Water and Rother District Council are investigating the potential impact on the bathing water quality.\n\nThe water firm said it was unsure how many litres of sewage had been released, but it was \"liaising closely with the Environment Agency\".\n\nBrighton & Hove City Council leader, Phélim Mac Cafferty, said he was \"disgusted\" and plans to meet Southern Water's chief executive next week.\n\nHe said: \"Southern Water need to stop the sewage and pay for an immediate clean-up. But they also need to do much more to stop this happening again.\"\n\nSouthern Water said it was continuing to investigate the root cause of the power outage, and would share this with stakeholders and customers when it could.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Erdogan (L) met Mr Zelensky (C) and Mr Guterres (R) in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres has said he is \"gravely concerned\" about fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.\n\nHe made the comments during a summit with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv.\n\n\"Any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide,\" Mr Guterres warned.\n\nIt was Mr Zelensky and Mr Guterres' first meeting since April, when Kyiv was hit by rockets during the visit.\n\nMr Erdogan echoed the UN chief's concerns, telling reporters that he was worried about the danger of \"another Chernobyl\" disaster erupting at the plant.\n\nIn recent weeks the area around the facility, which Russia seized in March, has come under heavy artillery fire, with both Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.\n\nAhead of Thursday's meeting Mr Zelensky criticised \"deliberate\" Russian attacks on the power plant.\n\nMoscow is accused of turning the facility into an army base, with all three leaders urging the Russians to demilitarise the zone as soon as possible.\n\nMeanwhile, local sources in the Russian occupied Crimean Peninsula reported a number of large explosions near the Belbek military airport.\n\nMikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian installed governor of Sevastopol, denied that anyone had been injured in the blasts and said no damage was done, despite videos circulating on social media appearing to show huge explosions lighting up the night sky.\n\nThe appeals come as Ukrainian staff, who are working at the plant under Russian direction, warned of a potential nuclear catastrophe at the facility, saying in the past two weeks it has become \"the target of continuous military attacks\".\n\n\"What is happening is horrific and beyond common sense and morality,\" staff wrote in a Telegram post (in Ukrainian).\n\nLater on Thursday, an official Twitter channel used by the Ukrainian government said that members of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, had \"urgently\" left the facility, and an \"unexpected day off\" had been announced.\n\n\"Ukrainian intelligence officers believe that the Russians are preparing a provocation at the [facility],\" Ukraine's Centre for Information security tweeted.\n\n\"Following their extensive shelling... [Russian forces] could 'raise the stakes' and stage a real terrorist attack on Europe's largest nuclear facility,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify the claims.\n\nShortly before these tweets, Mr Zelensky warned that \"the world is on a verge of nuclear disaster\" and condemned what he called \"Russia's irresponsible actions and nuclear blackmailing\".\n\nDespite the concern, the site is said to be far more secure than the Chernobyl plant - the site of the worst nuclear incident in history.\n\nThe reactor is in a steel-reinforced concrete building that can \"withstand extreme external events, both natural and man-made, such as an aircraft crash or explosions,\" experts told the BBC in March.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest in Europe and has been under Russian control since March\n\nThere were reports ahead of the summit that Mr Erdogan would offer to arrange a summit between Mr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Turkish leader maintains a close working relationship with Mr Putin, and speaking to reporters after the meeting, Mr Erdogan said he believed the war would \"come to the end at the negotiating table\".\n\nWhile Mr Zelensky welcomed the leader's visit and Turkey's \"powerful message of support\", he flatly rejected suggestions that it could be in a position to broker peace talks.\n\nMr Zelensky told reporters that he was \"very surprised\" to hear from Mr Erdogan that Moscow was \"ready for some kind of peace\".\n\n\"There is no trust towards the Russian Federation,\" Mr Zelensky said, saying that Russia must withdraw its troops, first and foremost.\n\nThe leaders were expected to discuss expanding the Turkey-UN sponsored grain deal between Russia and Ukraine - the only diplomatic breakthrough of the conflict so far.\n\nOn Thursday, Kyiv said a 25th cargo ship had left Ukraine under the deal which saw Russia agree to end its blockade of Black Sea ports.\n\nMr Guterres hailed the agreement and urged Russia and Ukraine to adopt the \"spirit of compromise\" that brought it about.\n\n\"From day one, the parties have worked professionally and in good faith to keep the food flowing,\" Mr Guterres said. \"I appeal for this to continue and for them to overcome all obstacles in a spirit of compromise and permanently settle all difficulties.\"\n\nElsewhere, in eastern Ukraine Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synehubov said that 17 people had died after Russian shelling hit several residential buildings in the city.\n\nAnd in Moscow, Russia's foreign ministry said that while a clash with the collective West is possible, a direct nuclear conflict with the US and Nato would not be in Russia's interests.\n\n\"Russian military doctrine allows a nuclear response only in response to aggression using weapons of mass destruction, or when the very existence of the state is threatened,\" Ivan Nechayev said.", "Ian Simpson said he is planning to travel abroad to get the treatment he needs\n\nPeople in a town where a survey failed to find a single NHS dentist taking on new patients have told how they have been left desperate and even resorting to creating makeshift dentures.\n\nOne resident, Ian Simpson, said he had spent years searching for appointments in Blackpool without success.\n\nA UK-wide BBC investigation was unable to find any practices in the Lancashire town taking on new NHS patients.\n\nMr Simpson said he had now \"given up\" and had been left reluctant to smile.\n\nNHS England said it had recently announced dentistry reforms to support practices to create more resources.\n\nBut Mr Simpson is among many who have voiced their frustration, and said he now intends to travel to Turkey or Italy for treatment.\n\n\"I don't smile as much as I used to. It breaks my heart. I've tried and tried. I need a bit of work doing and I was quoted £9,900 privately,\" he said.\n\nThe chef and former boxer added: \"I had lovely teeth and always looked after them.\"\n\nOran Hodgkiss, 22, said he had travelled to Northern Ireland, where he is originally from.\n\nThe student, who is entitled to free NHS treatment, has needed treatment for a wisdom tooth for months and has been in pain.\n\nCaroline Young makes her own dentures by melting modelling plastic\n\nHe said he tried 12 dentists without success, with only one offering to put him on an 18-month waiting list.\n\n\"It is ridiculous. I understand there are backlogs caused by Covid but not being able to get in a dentist is unbelievable,\" he said.\n\nMr Hodgkiss said he was desperate to get his teeth sorted in time for his wedding next month, and now faced \"more flights and time off work\".\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nCaroline Young said she had resorted to making her own dentures by melting modelling plastic after seeing instructions on social media.\n\nCrowns she had fitted previously had gradually fallen off, she said.\n\nShe tried superglue for a while but now uses polymorph plastic - tiny beads that melt together when submerged in hot water - which can then be moulded to make false teeth.\n\n\"It's not want I want to do. I'd rather have teeth. It means I can smile at people a little bit from a distance and not look too freaky,\" she said.\n\n\"There are times when I've tried to fit it, and its not worked.\n\n\"And I'll sit in floods of tears because I can't go out. I can't leave the house without something that looks even half all right. It's demoralising.\"\n\nThe struggle to find an NHS dentist is depressing, said Emma Clarke\n\nEmma Clarke, from nearby Fleetwood, said she had tried dentists as far afield as Lancaster.\n\nShe chipped her front tooth at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and has problems with four other teeth.\n\nThe 39-year-old said they were \"disintegrating\" during her wait to find a dentist, and said she cannot afford to go private.\n\n\"It's atrocious. We shouldn't have to pay. It's unfair. It is depressing. It has really knocked my confidence.\" she said.\n\nMs Clarke added that she had also been experimenting with plastic beads.\n\n\"They are better than having no teeth,\" she said.\n\nNew mother Rebecca Carey needs treatment for a cracked tooth and the nearest NHS dentist she could find was in Liverpool, more than 50 miles away.\n\nEmma Clarke said the tiny plastic beads she uses are \"better than having no teeth\"\n\n\"I can't eat on that side of my mouth in case of further damage,\" she said.\n\n\"It's disgusting. Blackpool want to keep thriving yet they can't look after their residents.\n\n\"No one has explained why they aren't taking new patients either. We're just get told 'we can't help and there's no waiting list'.\"\n\nAn NHS spokesman said: \"The NHS recently announced the first dentistry reforms since 2006 which will support practices to improve access, including giving high performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients.\n\n\"Discussions around further changes that benefit patients and staff still ongoing.\"\n\nHe said the coronavirus pandemic had a \"disproportionate impact\" on the region which led to a disruption in routine care, with dentists prioritising urgen cases.\n\nNHS England had invested £50m of funding to help increase access to dentists across the country, equating to more than £7m in the North West, he said.\n\nBlackpool South MP Scott Benton said recent dental contract changes made by NHS England \"should go a long way towards reducing the backlog of dental issues that grew due to the pandemic\".\n\nAnyone who has an urgent dental problem can contact the NHS dental helpline on 0300 1234 010.\n\nThe Disappearing Dentists documentary is available on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A soft toy is visible in a room exposed by the explosion\n\nA child, believed to be a four-year-old girl, has died and three other people are in hospital after a terraced home collapsed following a gas explosion and fire in south London.\n\nThe explosion, on Galpin's Road in Thornton Heath, happened at about 07:10 BST, and also damaged other houses.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the girl's next of kin have been informed and an investigation is under way.\n\nResidents say they had reported a strong gas smell two weeks ago.\n\nMerton Council said the blast was caused by gas, describing it as a \"major incident\".\n\nRichard Welch, London Fire Brigade (LFB) deputy assistant commissioner, told journalists during a press conference that affected residents were being looked after by Merton Council.\n\n\"They are currently in a rest centre and they will be provided with accommodation until they can get back in their homes.\n\n\"We are working with the local authority to make sure any medication or whatever else is being provided.\"\n\nUrban search-and-rescue teams, including dogs, at the scene in Galpin's Road\n\nTwo neighbours, Kutoya Kukanda, 50, and Delroy Simms, 62, said they helped rescue three children from the rubble.\n\nResidents described the children who lived in the house as \"lively\" and \"happy\".\n\n\"They were always mischievous, happy and bouncing around.\"\n\nKutoya Kukanda and Delroy Simms said they helped to find the surviving children in the rubble\n\nGas specialists are also at the scene\n\nAbout 40 properties have been evacuated as a precaution. A 50m cordon is in place.\n\nPeople who were evacuated from Galpin's Road in their pyjamas after the blast said their windows were shattered in the explosion.\n\nIn a statement, Merton Council said: \"Firefighters are currently carrying out systematic searches and working to make the scene safe.\"\n\nNeighbouring properties were also damaged in the blast\n\nAn evacuation centre has been established at the New Horizons Centre.\n\nA spokeswoman from gas distribution company SGN, which is the gas emergency service in the area, said: \"Following the explosion in Galpin's Road, Thornton Heath, earlier today, our deepest sympathies are with the family of the child who has tragically died as well as those who have been injured.\n\n\"We'd like to reassure everyone that our engineers are working closely with the emergency services to establish the cause of the explosion. Given the ongoing police investigation, it is inappropriate to comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nFirefighters have been working to make the scene safe\n\nLFB has said the cause of the explosion is unknown, and confirmed that crews would continue to work at the scene for the rest of the day and overnight.\n\nMr Welch added that the fire brigade was not searching for anyone else following the explosion.\n\nResponding to a question over residents stating they could smell gas over the last two weeks, Mr Welch said: \"Unfortunately we can't say if it's gas that's caused it.\n\n\"It will become a police investigation now.\n\n\"We dealt with the emergency phase of the incident and we will be handing it over to local authorities and local police.\"\n\nLFB's Richard Welch said crews would remain on site overnight\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have turned the site into a military base to launch attacks against Ukrainian positions, the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company says.\n\nPetro Kotin told the BBC the threat to the plant was \"great\", but that it remained safe.\n\nFor days, Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for attacks on the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising concerns of a major accident.\n\nThe complex has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.\n\nOver the weekend, Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking the Soviet-era site, saying two workers were taken to hospital with shrapnel injuries and that three radiation sensors had been damaged.\n\nMr Kotin, who heads Enerhoatom, said 500 Russian soldiers were at the plant, and that they had positioned rocket launchers in the area, claims that cannot be independently verified.\n\n\"They [Russian forces] use it [the power plant] like a shield against the Ukrainian forces, because nobody from Ukraine is going to do something,\" Mr Kotin said.\n\n\"The Ukrainian Armed Forces know that these are Ukrainian personnel and this is a Ukrainian plant and there are Ukrainian people [there] so we aren't going to kill our people, our staff and damage our infrastructure.\"\n\nZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe\n\nThe plant's staff, Mr Kotin said, were working under pressure and in danger, and some had been captured, beaten and tortured.\n\nHe said Russia's plans were to disconnect the plant from Ukraine's grid and eventually connect it to Russia's system.\n\nOleksandr Sayuk, the mayor of Nikopol, which sits on the opposite side of the Dnipro river, told the BBC last week that his city was under Russian shelling \"almost every night\", and that the attacks were being carried out by forces at the nuclear plant.\n\nThe tensions have led to growing calls for international inspectors to be allowed to visit the site.\n\nThe UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said \"any attack [on] a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing\", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's actions as \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\n\"There is no such nation in the world that could feel safe when a terrorist state fires at a nuclear plant,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Sunday.\n\nRussia, however, denied the accusations, and blamed the Ukrainian forces for the attacks. The country's defence ministry said a high-voltage power line had been damaged as a result of the shelling.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank, said last week that Russia was using the plant to play on Western fears of a nuclear disaster, \"likely in an effort to degrade Western will to provide military support\" to Ukraine.", "The search at Donald Trump's home is highly unusual and marks a major step by prosecutors investigating his actions\n\nDonald Trump has said his Florida home was raided by the FBI, in a dramatic escalation of the legal investigations into the former US president.\n\nIn a lengthy statement on Monday evening, Mr Trump said a \"large group\" of FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and had broken open a safe.\n\nThe search is reportedly linked to an investigation into his handling of classified and sensitive material.\n\nThe FBI and the Department of Justice have not yet commented.\n\nAn unnamed law enforcement official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the Secret Service was notified shortly before the warrant was served at about 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) and that agents protecting Mr Trump helped the FBI investigators.\n\nSeveral boxes were taken away, the source said, adding that no doors were kicked down and the search had concluded by late afternoon.\n\nSome reports suggest the FBI activity - which Mr Trump described as an \"unannounced raid\" - was connected to an investigation into whether the former president removed classified records and sensitive material from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.\n\nEric Trump, the president's second-oldest son, told Fox News that it was related to an investigation into the handling of National Archives (NA) records that were taken to the Florida residence after his father left office.\n\nUS presidents are required by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) to transfer all of their documents and emails to the NA.\n\nThe government agency said in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of papers from Mar-a-Lago, which Mr Trump should have turned over when he left the White House. It later told Congress the boxes included items marked as classified national security information and asked the Justice Department to investigate.\n\nMr Trump at the time rejected reports that he had mishandled official records as \"fake news\".\n\nA federal search warrant must be signed by a judge and legal experts suggest this warrant was probably approved at the top levels of the Justice Department.\n\nAlthough such a warrant does not suggest that criminal charges are expected, law enforcement agencies must first demonstrate the possibility that evidence of illegality will be found.\n\nThe FBI and the Justice Department rarely comment on active investigations and neither has issued a statement.\n\nThe search marks a major escalation in the months-long investigation into the handling of classified documents and comes as Mr Trump - who was in New York at the time - prepares for a possible further presidential run in 2024.\n\nIn his statement, he said he had co-operated with all relevant government agencies and so the \"unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate\".\n\n\"Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World countries,\" he said. \"Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mar-a-Lago is a private members' club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway\n\nNews of the search has mobilised some of Donald Trump's supporters. A group gathered outside Mar-a-Lago to wave flags and express their anger while others have travelled to Trump Tower in New York.\n\nMeanwhile, in Congress, many Republicans expressed their anger. House of Representatives Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy said: \"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponised politicisation.\"\n\nA senior White House official told CBS that President Joe Biden's administration was given no notice of the FBI search in Florida on Monday. The White House has said it is limiting its interactions with Justice Department officials to avoid any hint of political pressure or impropriety.\n\nWe don't know what the FBI were looking for, but the judiciary don't issue search warrants on a whim or so that agents can go on a fishing exercise.\n\nThere has to be credible evidence of a crime - and the judge has to be satisfied a search of that specific property could turn it up.\n\nAs to which crime the search involves, that's a question we don't know the answer to, as the justice department is yet to comment.\n\nOne possibility is the mishandling of classified documents, which a grand jury is already looking into. That can carry a three-year jail term.\n\nLegal jeopardy is of course bad news for the former president, but don't believe for a minute this isn't also an enormous political opportunity - a shot in the arm Donald Trump relishes as he contemplates another run at the White House.\n\nOne look at his statement demonstrates the point: it is vintage Trump.\n\nAll the familiar buttons get pressed - witch hunts, hoaxes, political persecution - steeped in the familiar, superlative-laden language of the outsider pursued by a corrupt state.\n\nIt's already galvanised senior Republicans to threaten investigations into the Justice Department if they take back Congress in November's mid-term elections.\n\nStrap yourself in: the Trump show is back on the road.", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nScotland will end Birmingham 2022 with a stunning haul of 51 medals after divers Grace Reid and James Heatly earned a 13th gold and squash duo Greg Lobban and Rory Stewart took bronze.\n\nReid, 26, and Heatly, 25, who took Commonwealth Games gold and bronze respectively in 2018, recovered from disappointing individual showings to record a magnificent mixed 3m springboard synchro victory.\n\nThen doubles squash pair Lobban and Stewart claimed bronze to close Scotland's Games in fine style.\n\nIt means Scotland finish just two short of the record tally achieved at Glasgow 2014 and have won more gold medals than every Games apart from that home event.\n\nIn total, they have 13 gold, 11 silver, and 27 bronze and end up sixth in the medals table.\n\nWorld bronze medallists Reid and Heatly led after two rounds, but had their advantage whittled away and were third going into their final dive.\n\nHowever, they executed a sensational forward 3½ somersaults routine to roar to the top of the standings with a mark that no other pair could match.\n\n\"The Scots always deliver... but it's not sunk in yet,\" Reid told BBC Sport Scotland. \"Both of us had disappointments earlier in the week, so to come back and finish that way is unbelievable. I'm so proud of us.\n\n\"This is such a special team and when you see all those medals coming in, you want to be a part of it.\"\n\nReid, who spoke pre-Birmingham about the difficulties she had suffered post Olympics last summer, had faltered in both the 1m and 3m springboard, finishing fourth and eighth.\n\nHeatly has had to endure fourth-place finishes in both springboard events, as well as the men's synchro, at these Games but cast aside those disappointments on the final day of the competition.\n\n\"We couldn't let it defeat us,\" said Heatly, who grandfather Peter is a three-time diving gold medallist. \"We had opportunities but just because those didn't work out, that doesn't mean we couldn't come out swinging on the final day.\"\n\nLobban, 29, and Stewart, 26, were not just battling Malaysian pair Wern Chee Yuen and Yow Eain Ng for bronze, but a history of near misses in squash going back to 1998, when Scotland won two squash medals when the sport was first put on the Games schedule.\n\nLobban himself had finished fourth four years ago in the doubles but this time he and debutant Rory Stewart recovered from a painful semi-final defeat.\n\nAfter the first game went to sudden death, the Scots edged it before cruising the second game 11-6 to quash any notion of another near miss.\n\n\"We've been loving watching Team Scotland racking up a few medals and wanted to be a part of it, now we can,\" Lobban said. \"We can go to a party tonight knowing we've done our bit.\n\n\"Just squash as a whole, I think we've done terrific. We're a small nation and lacking a bit of funding compared to other nations and I think we've batted above our weight for the last four Commonwealth Games, it's just great to have something to show for it.\"\n\nStewart added: \"Scotland have been in that situation [fourth] a few times over the years. We're delighted to get it right this time and hopefully we can go and celebrate with the rest of the team.\"", "The NHS in England cannot wait for a new prime minister to be in post to tackle the emergency crisis it faces, the health secretary has warned.\n\nSteve Barclay said hospitals could see \"very serious challenges coming down the track\" in the autumn and winter from flu and another Covid wave.\n\nSpeaking to the Daily Telegraph, he said he was preparing for \"reasonable worst-case scenarios\".\n\nDecisions including hiring staff from overseas could not be delayed, he said.\n\nMr Barclay, who was appointed to his post following the resignation of Sajid Javid in July, said he has been working to \"accelerate contingency plans\" and the Department of Health was in a \"real sprint to get ready for September\".\n\nHe said he had asked civil servants to \"work at pace\" on proposals to significantly increase international recruitment.\n\nMr Barclay said hiring more foreign nurses to help in social care might relieve pressures on hospital beds by speeding up discharge times.\n\nForeign recruitment has already risen markedly since a cap on visa numbers for foreign doctors and nurses was lifted four years ago and a Health and Care Worker visa was created during the pandemic.\n\nHowever, a recent report by MPs concluded the large number of unfilled NHS job vacancies, about 110,000 in total, was posing a serious risk to patient safety.\n\nMr Barclay took up his new role last month\n\nMr Barclay said: \"Obviously those pressures can come in different forms. It might be you get a bad flu, it may be Covid rates are higher than we would expect or like.\n\n\"There's an urgency to prepare, particularly in areas where there's a long lead time. The decisions need to happen now, not wait until the autumn by which time those lead times wold put the resolution at too late a stage.\"\n\nA number of big policy decisions have been put on hold until the autumn when a new prime minister will be in place.\n\nOpposition parties have accused ministers of \"giving up on governing\" while Conservative MPs battle it out to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nEither Foreign Secretary Liz Truss or former Chancellor Rishi Sunak will be named Tory party leader and prime minister, after a run-off vote among Tory party members.\n\nVoting has started and the result is due to be announced on 5 September.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nLegendary Birmingham rocker Ozzy Osbourne made a surprise appearance to bring the curtain down on a hugely successful Commonwealth Games in fabulous fashion.\n\nOsbourne and his band Black Sabbath received a rapturous ovation from the 30,000 capacity crowd at the Alexander Stadium as they provided a fitting climax to a star-studded closing ceremony.\n\nThe 73-year-old 'Prince of Darkness' has not performed for several years due to ill health.\n\n\"I love you, Birmingham - it's good to be back!\" he shouted as he rose through the stage to round off the show with classic hit Paranoid.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, officially declared the Games closed after the flag handover to Victoria, the Australian state that will host the 2026 edition.\n\n\"Thanks to the manner, style and enthusiasm with which you have competed, officiated, supported organised and volunteered, you have once again brought the spirit and values of the Commonwealth Games to life,\" he said.\n\n\"You have inspired us and hopefully future generations - you have also demonstrated what unites us. Thank you Birmingham and the West Midlands.\"\n\nEarlier, other famed Brummie acts including Dexys Midnight Runners, Apache Indian, Musical Youth, UB40 and Panjabi MC entertained the crowd with classic hits amid a parade featuring hundreds of athletes who competed during the 11-day Games.\n\nTeam England, who collected a record 176 medals during the Games, were the last to enter the stadium to a euphoric reception from the home supporters.\n• None Relive the closing ceremony as it happened\n\nMore than 1.3 million tickets were sold during the Games across 24 sports - with organisers estimating that more than 500,000 of those were snapped up by West Midlands residents who took the event to their hearts.\n\nThat extended not only to those who attended the sports themselves but also hundreds of thousands more who packed festival sites at event venues and other city landmarks to enjoy the action on big screens, meet the Perry the Bull mascot and soak up the atmosphere.\n\nMore than 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories competed in 280 medal events across 11 days, yielding a host of fantastic feats, stirring stories and memorable moments.\n\nWith the sun shining virtually throughout the week and a half in the West Midlands, the weather played its part too and that continued with a closing ceremony bathed in warm evening temperatures.\n\nOne of the ceremony's loudest ovations was reserved for Games organising committee chair John Crabtree's heartfelt speech, thanking the 14,000 volunteers for their efforts and the crowds for their support.\n\nHe also praised the seamless way disability sports had been integrated into Birmingham 2022, which featured the largest Para-sports programme in Commonwealth Games history.\n\n\"I think Birmingham should be so, so proud, they have put on an incredible Games,\" five-time Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds, from nearby Walsall, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Sport has the power to change the world and you can see it in Birmingham.\"\n\nThe closing ceremony began with a huge chimney soaring up from the stage, signifying Birmingham's industrial history and post-war rebuild, before cult 1980s band Dexys Midnight Runners got the crowd rocking with a rendition of their iconic hit Come On Eileen.\n\nBirmingham's multi-cultural heritage, beginning with the arrival of Caribbean and Asian communities into the city in the 1950s and 1960s, was celebrated through performances of Apache Indian's Boom Shack-A-Lak and Musical Youth's Pass The Dutchie.\n\nThat theme of the Second City's diverse communities continued as reggae legends UB40's Red, Red Wine was followed by model Neelam Gill making an appearance during Panjabi MC's Bhangra hit Mundian To Bach Ke.\n\nMusicians from the wider West Midlands including Goldie, Beverley Knight - the soul singer wearing a Wolverhampton Wanderers kit - and Jorja Smith also performed during a glittering ceremony.\n\nOf course, Birmingham would not be Birmingham without a nod to the ever-popular Peaky Blinders TV drama via a dance routine, which preceded a powerful segment featuring some of the area's young spoken word and musical talents foreshadowing the city's - hopefully bright - future.\n\nThe handover to Victoria for the 2026 Games, where the host nation promises to deliver the \"first true multi-city Commonwealth Games\" across several cities, was followed by Australian songs and choreography, before Osbourne produced the surprise of the night with his unexpected finale.\n\nA fortnight ago, Jake Jarman was a virtually unknown young gymnast preparing for his first major senior championship - four gold medals later, he's almost a household name at the age of 20.\n\nJarman's nomination as England's flagbearer for the closing ceremony reflected not only his leap from obscurity to stardom, but also the host nation's unparalleled gymnastics success at the Games.\n\nThe 11 gold medals England's gymnasts won was unsurpassed by any other sport, with triumphs for hometown favourites Joe Fraser and Alice Kinsella adding to the Arena Birmingham crowd's fervour.\n\nFrom Alex Yee's scene-setting triathlon gold on the Games' opening morning, through emotional comebacks from cyclist Laura Kenny and swimmer Adam Peaty, there were individual stories aplenty.\n\nBut the team events provided just as much drama, not least England men's thrilling overtime 3x3 basketball final triumph against Canada and the women's hockey final victory over Australia.\n\nIn a Games that, for the first time, featured more medals for women than men, double medallist Eilish McColgan was chosen as Scotland's flagbearer after the women's 10,000m champion and Laura Muir provided the golden highlights of their nation's athletics efforts.\n\nAnd success in the boxing ring - always a strong suit for the home nations - was reflected by Rosie Eccles and Dylan Eagleson carrying the Wales and Northern Ireland flags respectively.\n\nAway from the action, the Games captured the imagination of a region and a nation - but they were just as successful from a sporting point of view for the host country.\n\nEngland enjoyed their best ever Commonwealth Games medal tally of 176, beating the haul gained at Glasgow 2014 by two, although the 57 golds won were one shy of the 58 claimed eight years ago.\n\nEven that terrific total was not enough for England to repeat their 2014 feat of topping the medals table as Australia took that honour by virtue of 10 more golds and two more medals overall.\n\nIt was a Games to remember for the other home nations too, with Northern Ireland recording their largest Commonwealth medal return and Scotland registering their second highest.\n\nScotland finished sixth in the medal table with their 51 medals and 13 golds, second only to their home Games tallies of 53 and 19 respectively at Glasgow 2014.\n\nNorthern Ireland's 18 medals and seven golds were both new records, beating marks set last century, while Wales enjoyed their fourth-best Commonwealth Games with 28 medals.\n\nThere was joy too for Guernsey as the Channel Island claimed its first Commonwealth medals in 28 years with Lucy Beere's lawn bowls silver and Alastair Chalmers' men's 400m hurdles bronze.", "Gordon Brown calls on the government to provide an emergency budget to mitigate the UK's \"financial timebomb\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has called for an emergency budget before the UK hits a \"financial timebomb\" this autumn.\n\nMr Brown said millions would be pushed \"over the edge\" if the government does not address the cost of living crisis.\n\nConservative leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have clashed over how they will address high inflation.\n\nHe wants them to agree an emergency budget with PM Boris Johnson this week, or for Parliament to be recalled.\n\nWriting in the Observer, Mr Brown said: \"The reality is grim and undeniable: a financial timebomb will explode for families in October as a second round of fuel price rises in six months sends shock waves through every household and pushes millions over the edge.\"\n\nA new report commissioned by Mr Brown, carried out by Professor Donald Hirsch from Loughborough University, found that 35 million people in 13 million households across the UK are under threat of fuel poverty in October.\n\nThis is \"an unprecedented 49.6% of the population of the United Kingdom\", said Mr Brown.\n\nFindings from the report suggest the additional one-off £1,200 support for low-income households will fail to compensate for three major blows to income from October 2021 to October 2022.\n\nThe loss of the £20-a-week benefits uplift, the rise in the energy price cap and an annual uprating out of line with inflation forecasts all mean the worst-off families will find it hard to bridge the gap.\n\nMr Brown told BBC Radio 4's World at One that action is needed promptly to ensure the benefits system - and the computers that operate it - are able to get help to people before October.\n\nHe said there is a vacuum at the centre of government, with both Mr Johnson and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi on holiday.\n\n\"Not enough thinking is being done about the major social crisis,\" he added.\n\nIf elected as the next Tory leader, Ms Truss has promised to reverse some of former Chancellor Mr Sunak's tax rises, including the rise in National Insurance contributions.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak said the Tories can \"kiss goodbye\" to winning the next elections if inflation is not under brought under control quickly.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation - currently 9.4% - could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to its 2% target in 2024.", "Discoloured water has been flowing from taps of some households following increased demand amid the hot weather.\n\nFamilies noticed it was brown in colour after allowing water time to settle. Some have started using bottled water until the issue is resolved.\n\nWelsh Water confirmed discoloured water has been affecting supplies in Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend county.\n\nIt has apologised and said it was believed to be the result of \"unprecedented demand of water\".\n\n\"It doesn't look clean at all,\" said Sian Morgan from Glynneath who first noticed the issue after filling a paddling pool.\n\n\"I've been buying bottle water. I won't drink from the tap now. The colour of it was really disgusting.\n\n\"It was a really, really dark murky brown colour which we were shocked by,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast.\n\n\"Welsh Water have said it's fine to drink and fine to bathe in but it doesn't look clean at all.\"\n\nOther people have complained of similar problems since Ms Morgan shared a photo of the water in her family's paddling pool on Facebook.\n\nSian Morgan said the tap water's colour was 'really disgusting'\n\nWelsh Water said the high demand for water following the \"extreme heat warning has disturbed small amounts of sediment in the network leading to discoloured water\".\n\n\"We are flushing the system to help address this discolouration and doing further work over the next few days,\" it said.\n\n\"We apologise to customers who have been affected and will continue to provide bottled water for those who request it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a hosepipe ban will be introduced in parts of Wales as hot temperatures are expected to continue.\n\nThe ban, covering Pembrokeshire and a small part of Carmarthenshire, starts on 19 August with Welsh Water under pressure to maintain supplies due to low rainfall.", "A truck carrying fuel imports for the one power plant of Gaza enters the territory\n\nA ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip appears to be holding.\n\nThe Egypt-brokered truce followed three days of violence with Israel targeting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and militants firing rockets into Israel.\n\nAt least 44 Palestinians died in the most serious flare-up since an 11-day conflict in May 2021.\n\nOn Monday, Israel began lifting its blockade of the Strip, allowing the first fuel tanks to enter.\n\nThe latest violence began with attacks by Israel on sites in the Gaza Strip, which its military said was in response to threats from a militant group. It followed days of tensions after Israel arrested a senior PIJ member in the occupied West Bank.\n\nBy Sunday evening, the Palestinian health ministry said that 15 children had been confirmed among the 44 deaths recorded.\n\nGaza's health ministry has blamed \"Israeli aggression\" for the deaths of Palestinians and for the more than 300 people wounded.\n\nIsrael, for its part, says it hit 170 PIJ targets during the operation, codenamed Breaking Dawn, killing several high-ranking PIJ members and destroying tunnels and weapon storage sites.\n\nA spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had information about 35 Palestinian deaths: \"11 of them were uninvolved civilian casualties, including the wives of the terror group's commanders in the south - victims of the IDF attacks.\"\n\n\"Another 15 civilians were killed by PIJ fire,\" Brig Gen Ran Kochav said.\n\nGen Kochav said 1,100 projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip during the flare-up, with 200 landing inside Gaza.\n\nHe said more Palestinians had died from those rockets that exploded inside the Strip than from IDF fire, and added that Israel would investigate the deaths of civilians, including children.\n\nNo Israeli casualties have been reported, with the exception of a few people lightly injured from debris on Saturday.\n\nThe ceasefire was mediated by Egypt, which has acted as an intermediary between Israel and Gaza in the past.\n\nBut as it came into effect late on Sunday, the Israeli military confirmed it was striking Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) targets in Gaza, in response to rockets fired just before.\n\nIsraeli media also reported some isolated rocket fire from Gaza in the minutes after the deadline.\n\nUS and United Nations leaders urged both sides to continue to observe the ceasefire.\n\nIn a statement, US President Joe Biden praised the truce and called on all parties \"to fully implement [it] and to ensure fuel and humanitarian supplies are flowing into Gaza\".\n\nHe also urged that reports of civilian casualties should be investigated in a timely manner.\n\nConcerns over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where health officials warned that hospitals only had enough fuel to run generators for another two days, led to the ceasefire deal being agreed.\n\nAs the truce held, restrictions on Gaza began to be lifted.\n\nHumanitarian aid started arriving as the major crossings into the Strip, closed six days ago, were reopened, Israel said.\n\nThey would return to \"full routine... subject to calm in the area,\" a statement said.\n\nThe latest conflict closely follows Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank, a week ago.\n\nHe was held in the Jenin area as part of a series of arrest operations, after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nLarge crowds gathered on Sunday for the funerals of those killed in strikes on Rafah, in the south of the territory. These included senior PIJ commander Khaled Mansour - the second top militant to have died. Demonstrations in support of Gaza have also been held in the West Bank city of Nablus.\n\nPIJ, which is one of the strongest militant groups operating in Gaza, is backed by Iran and has its headquarters in the Syrian capital, Damascus.\n\nIt has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIn November 2019, Israel and PIJ fought a five-day conflict following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said had been planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit while preparing to launch rockets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Two men have been arrested after a Tesco van was hijacked in Newtownards and driven to Belfast, colliding with other vehicles on the way.\n\nThe delivery van was taken from Georges Street shortly before 17:00 BST.\n\nIt was driven through Dundonald and Holywood before police used a stinger at Dee Street to bring it to a stop on the Sydenham Bypass.\n\nThe men, aged 23 and 29, have been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including hijacking.\n\nThe other offences include using a motor vehicle without insurance, driving while disqualified and assault on police.\n\nPolice are asking anyone involved in the collisions, or with dashcam footage, to contact them immediately.", "Spencer, pictured in 2003, has played matriarch Peggy Woolley (formerly Archer) since 1951\n\nJune Spencer, the last original cast member of The Archers, has retired from the BBC Radio 4 drama aged 103.\n\nThe actress has played matriarch Peggy Woolley (formerly Archer) since 1951.\n\nHer last appearance was aired during the omnibus edition on Sunday, when she discussed getting a stained glass window commissioned of her two great-grandchildren.\n\nIn a statement, Spencer said it was \"high time\" she retired from the show.\n\nPeggy was often viewed as a traditionalist, conservative character in the long-running drama charting the ups and downs of life in fictional Ambridge.\n\nSpencer reportedly recorded recent episodes from a custom studio at her Surrey home, to save her commuting to the show's Birmingham base.\n\n\"In 1950 I helped to plant an acorn. It took root and in January 1951 it was planted out and called The Archers,\" Spencer recalled.\n\n\"Over the years it has thrived and become a splendid great tree with many branches. But now this old branch, known as Peggy, has become weak and unsafe so I decided it was high time she 'boughed' out, so I have duly lopped her.\"\n\nJune Spencer has played Peggy for more than seven decades\n\nAmong Peggy's many fans was the Duchess of Cornwall, who last year invited Spencer and her co-stars to Clarence House for a reception marking the show's 70th anniversary.\n\nShe called Peggy \"a true national treasure who has been part of my life, and millions of others, for as long as I can remember\".\n\nAlthough Peggy has not yet been written out of the show, Spencer has her own ideas on how best to manage her character's exit.\n\nShe told the Telegraph: \"The simplest thing is if [Peggy has] a fall or something and goes into The Laurels [the fictional care home in Ambridge]. She can languish for years there.\"\n\nJeremy Howe, editor of The Archers, said: \"I think working with June Spencer has been one of the greatest privileges of my many decades in drama.\n\n\"Her Peggy is one of the great creations of broadcasting - utterly charming, utterly ruthless, sharp as a knife and witty in spades. To think that June has commanded the airwaves over an Archers career of over 70 years beggars belief.\"\n\nSonny Ormonde, who plays Lilian Bellamy, Peggy's daughter in the soap, said: \"I am truly devastated I won't be having any more scenes with her. Not only will I miss her as a work colleague but I will miss her as a good friend in the studio - I will miss her presence.\"\n\nIn the mid-1950s, Spencer took a break from playing Peggy and the role was taken over by Thelma Rogers. Spencer returned to the role in the early 1960s, when Rogers departed.\n\nSpencer has been made both an OBE and CBE and in June 2010 she received the Freedom of the City of London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full story: What a young jogger's murder exposes about America\n\nThree white men convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced for federal hate crimes.\n\nTravis McMichael, 36, his father, Gregory, 66, and their neighbour, William Bryan, are already serving life sentences over the murder.\n\nOn Monday, the father and son were sentenced to life in prison while Bryan was handed a 35-year jail term.\n\nThey will serve their additional sentences concurrently with their state prison sentences.\n\nAhmaud Arbery, 25, was shot and killed during a confrontation with the three men in Georgia in February 2020.\n\nThe case became a rallying cry for racial justice protesters around the US.\n\nIn February, all three men were found guilty of federal hate crimes charges. These included interfering with Mr Arbery's right to use a public street because of his race and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels were also found guilty of a weapons charge.\n\nIn court, prosecutors sought to portray the defendants as having a long-standing contempt towards black people demonstrated by the use of derogatory and racist language in public and private.\n\n\"These three devils have broken my heart into pieces,\" Mr Arbery's father, Marcus, said in court during Travis McMichael's sentencing. \"You hate black people''.\n\nTravis McMichael did not speak at the sentencing. His father spoke directly to Mr Arbery's family, telling them he understood \"the loss that you've endured is beyond description\".\n\nMr Arbery was out for an afternoon jog in a suburban area of Brunswick, Georgia in February 2020 when he was killed.\n\nThe elder McMichael, a neighbourhood resident, told police he believed Mr Arbery resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins. Police have said no reports were filed regarding these alleged break-ins.\n\nThe McMichaels armed themselves with a pistol and a shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pickup truck through the neighbourhood. Bryan later joined the pursuit.\n\nThe younger McMichael testified during the state trial that he tried to talk to Mr Arbery while the two were still in their truck and that Mr Arbery never threatened the trio, brandished a weapon, reached into his pockets or yelled after being confronted.\n\nAfter getting out of his truck, McMichael fired his shotgun at Mr Arbery during a struggle. A post-mortem examination showed Mr Arbery had two gunshot wounds in his chest, and a gunshot graze wound on the inside of one of his wrists.\n\nA candlelight vigil for Ahmaud Arbery on the one-year anniversary of his death in 2021.\n\nOn Monday, Judge Lisa Wood declined a request from Travis McMichael's attorney that he serve his time in federal - rather than state - prison. His lawyer had argued that life in a state prison amounted to a \"backdoor death penalty\" and put him at the risk of being attacked by other inmates.\n\nThe judge had previously rejected a plea deal that would allow the McMichaels to serve 30 years in federal prison before returning to state custody, after Mr Arbery's mother vehemently objected. Federal prisons are generally perceived as less brutal environments than typical state prisons.\n\nIn January, Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting. At the time, the judge said that neither men had shown remorse or empathy for Mr Arbery.\n\nWhile Bryan also received the maximum sentence of life, he was offered the possibility of parole in 30 years.\n\nThey have appealed their state convictions.", "Since Russia began its attacks on Ukraine in February, we've seen images of destruction and hardship throughout the country.\n\nFive months later, life for its citizens contrasts significantly from region to region. Here are some recent photos showing how life varies around the country.\n\nLife is hard in the eastern city Sloviansk, north of Donetsk - residents fill up canisters with clean water on Saturday Image caption: Life is hard in the eastern city Sloviansk, north of Donetsk - residents fill up canisters with clean water on Saturday\n\nIn neighbouring Kramatorsk, an elderly woman is among civilians evacuating by bus, hoping to find safety away from the eastern region - they are embarking on a long trip to Germany Image caption: In neighbouring Kramatorsk, an elderly woman is among civilians evacuating by bus, hoping to find safety away from the eastern region - they are embarking on a long trip to Germany\n\nThe evacuation of citizens from Donetsk region continues - Sanya is on a train with her two children and her mother Lumelia, heading towards Dnipro Image caption: The evacuation of citizens from Donetsk region continues - Sanya is on a train with her two children and her mother Lumelia, heading towards Dnipro\n\nShoppers in a Kharviv supermarket on Sunday are met with the sight of an armed Ukrainian soldier pushing a trolley while he stocks up on supplies Image caption: Shoppers in a Kharviv supermarket on Sunday are met with the sight of an armed Ukrainian soldier pushing a trolley while he stocks up on supplies\n\nMeanwhile, in the capital Kyiv, life is returning to some normality - opera lovers watch Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto at the National Opera of Ukraine, on Saturday Image caption: Meanwhile, in the capital Kyiv, life is returning to some normality - opera lovers watch Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto at the National Opera of Ukraine, on Saturday\n\nSunbathers in the eastern port of Chornomorsk watch the cargo ship Fulmar S arrive at the port on Sunday - it is one of the ships that will transport grain, now exports have resumed Image caption: Sunbathers in the eastern port of Chornomorsk watch the cargo ship Fulmar S arrive at the port on Sunday - it is one of the ships that will transport grain, now exports have resumed", "People are being asked to stay away from the area\n\nTwo adults and two children were rescued by firefighters after a burst water main left part of north London under several feet of water.\n\nThe broken main on the corner of Hornsey Road and Tollington Road in Islington caused floods of up to 4ft (1.2m) and created two sinkholes.\n\nAbout 50 properties were damaged and several roads remain closed, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said.\n\nFlood levels receded after the main was shut at 11:05 BST, Thames Water said.\n\nLFB said it first received calls just after 07:00.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage showing the extent of the flooding was filmed at The Tollington Arms in Islington\n\nChris Stangroom, from Kentish Town, got stuck in traffic due to the \"huge\" flood.\n\nThe 51-year-old, who works in maintenance, said he was on the main road from east London into central London. \"There was horrendous traffic not moving between 07:10 and 07:30,\" he said.\n\n\"Eventually you got to the front and there were a couple of fire crews there and a cordon across the road. People were just going back on themselves.\n\n\"It's the worst flood I've seen in London and I've been here for some years. The Sobell Leisure Centre is lower than the street level, so it looks like there was a metre or so of water outside. It's devastating for the local community.\n\n\"On the road there looked like one to two feet of water, and it was everywhere, not just a little section. There's an estate on the left-hand side of the road and the ground there all looked flooded.\n\n\"You could see where the water was coming up; quite frankly I've no idea how you tackle something like that. It's so huge and flooded that to even start digging up that ruptured area you'd have to reduce water levels first.\"\n\nA member of staff at a pub compared the flood to a \"tsunami\"\n\nA staff member at the Tollington Arms, a pub located on the affected junction, said the area had rapidly been covered by water.\n\n\"It happened about 7am and within minutes there was flooding like a tsunami,\" they said.\n\n\"The fire service were down very quickly and we hope along with Thames Water, they can get things back to normal as quickly as possible.\"\n\nThe flooding has been described as \"devastating for the local community\"\n\nTen fire engines and about 70 firefighters were sent to the scene.\n\nLFB station commander Matt Brown said the floodwater had affected Hornsey Road, Tollington Road and the Sobell Leisure Centre.\n\n\"Multiple road closures are expected to be in place for some time whilst our partners work to carry out repairs,\" he said.\n\n\"Firefighters used flood barriers to divert water and assisted two adults and two children to safety. There were no reports of any injuries.\"\n\nWater levels receded quickly after the main was shut, according to Thames Water\n\nIslington Council said teams had begun the clean-up operation and were \"working with Thames Water and other agencies to assess repairs to the road\".\n\nIt added that Sobell Leisure Centre would remain closed for the rest of today.\n\nA Thames Water spokesperson apologised to customers who experienced \"lower pressure than normal or no water today due to a burst pipe\".\n\n\"Our engineers were quickly on the scene this morning and have stopped the flow of water, which is now draining away.\n\n\"We're using temporary pumps to restore water pressure levels and most customers should have their water pressure returned to normal this afternoon.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rishi Sunak has promised to step in to help people on lower incomes this winter\n\nTory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has said his rival Liz Truss's plans to cut taxes \"won't touch the sides\" of dealing with mounting living costs.\n\nWriting in the Sun, Mr Sunak said \"bolder action\" was needed to \"protect people from the worst of the winter\".\n\nBut Ms Truss's allies said tax cuts would put more money in people's pockets and did not rule out more help.\n\nThe worsening state of the UK economy has become the main battleground in the Tory leadership contest.\n\nBoth candidates have put forward rival visions to deal with the economic fallout, with Ms Truss focusing on tax cuts, and Mr Sunak on bringing down inflation.\n\nMs Truss and Mr Sunak are vying for support from Conservative Party members to be elected the next Tory leader, and British prime minister.\n\nVoting has started and the result is due to be announced on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.\n\nMr Johnson is back at work after a holiday, but despite calls to help those struggling with living costs, his spokesman said any new spending decisions would be a matter for the next prime minister.\n\nThe spokesman said the PM would speak to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to ensure cost-of-living support measures - including a £400 energy grant - would were on track to come into effect later in the year.\n\nMs Truss has pledged a package of tax cuts worth £30bn, which Mr Sunak has argued would increase inflation and only save lower earners £59 a year.\n\nTaking aim at Ms Truss's economic plans, Mr Sunak wrote in the Sun: \"We need clear-eyed realism, not starry-eyed boosterism.\"\n\nMr Sunak also accused Ms Truss of offering large businesses and \"the well-off\" a \"big bung\", while \"leaving those who most need help out in the cold\".\n\nDefending Ms Truss, supporter and former Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the BBC the best way to ease rising living costs was \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nHe said he would not pre-judge what would be in an emergency budget, which has been promised by Ms Truss if she became prime minister.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"She's willing to do more to help people but her focus is around doing it in a way that puts more money in people's pockets, creating a high-growth economy with higher wages, more people in work.\"\n\nThe cost-of-living crisis will be one of the biggest issues facing the new prime minister when they take office.\n\nLiz Truss had faced pressure after saying at the weekend that she wanted to do things in a Conservative way; lowering the tax burden and not giving handouts.\n\nLow taxes and a smaller state are popular with many Conservative members, who are choosing the next prime minister. But Ms Truss's critics say her comments failed to acknowledge the extent of the problems many will face this winter.\n\nHer allies have spent the past 24 hours insisting she is not ruling out more direct support in an emergency budget if she becomes prime minister.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak is not pulling any punches with his criticism this morning.\n\nHe argues his rival's plans won't touch the sides.\n\nMr Sunak is promising bolder action. But he has not set out what that would be.\n\nOver the weekend Ms Truss came under fire from Mr Sunak's allies for suggesting - in an interview with the Financial Times - there would be no \"handouts\" to ease the financial burden on households.\n\nShe told the FT she would look at what more \"could be done\", adding: \"The way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.\"\n\nOliver Dowden, former Conservative party chairman and supporter of Mr Sunak's candidacy, has said the \"precise nature\" of support offered by the former chancellor would depend on the \"exact level of the energy cap when that is announced in due course\".\n\nThe energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - will go up in October.\n\nEnergy industry analysts Cornwall Insight estimated the typical domestic customer was likely to pay £3,358 a year from October.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK economy is expected to plunge into a year-long recession as inflation soars above 13% later this year, according to forecasts by the Bank of England.\n\nMr Dowden told the BBC people could judge Mr Sunak \"by his record\" and the former chancellor would bring in \"direct support\" for people to help them with the cost of living.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nTributes have been paid from around the world to Olivia Newton-John, who has died from cancer aged 73.\n\nThe British-born Australian singer and actress was best known for playing Sandy in Grease, one of the most successful film musicals ever made.\n\nHer Grease co-star John Travolta said she \"made all of our lives so much better\" while its director said: \"What you see is what you get with her.\"\n\nShe died peacefully at her California ranch surrounded by family and friends.\n\nAn actress and musician, Newton-John achieved commercial success as a country singer and sold millions of records globally.\n\nBut it was her role as high school student Sandy in the film Grease that catapulted her to worldwide fame.\n\nThe musical was the biggest box-office hit of 1978, and gave Newton-John three huge hit singles, including You're The One That I Want and Summer Nights, both performed with co-star John Travolta.\n\nAnd it was a catalyst for change in both her image and her musical direction - shedding her innocent, country-pop image.\n\nFollowing the news of her death, scores of fans, as well as famous figures from the world of entertainment, shared heartfelt messages and memories.\n\nActress Stockard Channing - who played Rizzo in Grease - said: \"I don't know if I've known a lovelier human being.\n\n\"Olivia was the essence of summer - her sunniness, her warmth and her grace are what always come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her enormously.\"\n\nSinger Rod Stewart called her \"the perfect lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication\".\n\n\"Her spandex trousers in Grease were my inspiration for my 'Da ya think I'm Sexy' era,\" he added, referencing the iconic tight black outfit that she wore at the film's finale.\n\nUS television host Oprah Winfrey said her \"positivity was just infectious\". \"You'll be missed, Olivia,\" she wrote. \"Here's to the good times.\"\n\nTravolta wrote on Instagram: \"Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again.\"\n\n\"Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever!\" he added, signing off: \"Your Danny, your John!\"\n\nThe film's director Randal Kleiser said he had been friends with Newton-John for 40 years and \"she never changed, she was always exactly the way everyone imagines her\".\n\n\"She was charming, lovely, warm... There are so many clichés you can say about her, but in her case it was all true.\"\n\nAsked what his everlasting memory of her will be, he told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Hanging out with her at her ranch. Seeing the real Olivia which was exactly like the Olivia she projected. No cameras around, no people around... she was exactly the same and as loving as ever.\"\n\nDidi Conn, who played Frenchy in Grease, told BBC's Newsnight: \"She was such a humungous, big, big pop star and her persona was of this beauty... pure and sweet. In the movie we would call her Miss Goody Two Shoes, you know, but simmering under that façade of innocence was a hot mama ready to come out.\"\n\nOther tributes came from singers Kylie Minogue, who called her an inspiration, and Dionne Warwick, who called Newton-John \"one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of recording and performing with\".\n\nAustralian rock legend John Farnham, a long-time friend and with whom Newton-John released her final studio album, said she would be \"greatly missed\" and \"behind that iconic smile was a tenacious fighter\".\n\nOlivia Moore, who is currently playing Sandy in Grease in London's West End, broke the news to a shocked audience at the end of Monday evening's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by isabella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewton-John was first diagnosed with cancer in 1992 and went on to become a leading advocate of cancer research. Her charity, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation, has raised millions of pounds to support research.\n\nIn a statement, the hospital that runs the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne - which was opened after the star's campaigning - said she \"encouraged, inspired and supported\" staff and patients every day.\n\n\"We are incredibly grateful for the special relationship we had with Olivia for many years. Her generous support and gift provided hope and changed the lives of thousands of cancer patients... She was the light at the end of the tunnel for many, many people.\"\n\nHer efforts in the field were recognised by the Queen, who honoured her with a damehood in the 2020 New Year's Honours list.\n\nIn a statement posted to her social media channels, Newton-John's husband John Easterling said she had died on Monday, hailing her \"a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years, sharing her journey with breast cancer\".\n\n\"Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.\"\n\nIn later years, Newton-John became a cancer campaigner which led to the opening of an institute named after her in Melbourne\n\nNewton-John was born in Cambridge on 26 September 1948.\n\nHer father had been a British spy during World War Two. Her mother was the daughter of the German Nobel laureate, Max Born, and had fled with her family when the Nazis came to power in 1933.\n\nThe family moved to Australia in 1954, where she was raised.\n\nHer breakthrough came in 1971 when she released a Bob Dylan-penned track, If Not For You, which reached number seven in the UK charts and featured on an album of the same name.\n\nShe won four Grammy awards and scored seven US number one hits between 1974 and 1977.\n\nWhile critics never warmed to her audience-friendly style of music, the star forthrightly dismissed the reviews.\n\n\"It annoys me when people think because it's commercial, it's bad,\" she told Rolling Stone. \"It's completely opposite. If people like it, that's what it's supposed to be.\"\n\nIn 1978 she became a global star with the release of Grease. The film, set in the 1950s, told the story of Sandy's summer fling with John Travolta's Danny and the difficulties the relationship encounters. In the end the pair reconcile, with Sandy having transformed her appearance.\n\nIn 2019, after being diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time, she was asked by CBS News how she coped.\n\n\"It was consuming my day and after a time I went 'you know what', I need to enjoy my life so I'm going to eat a cookie if I want it,\" she said.\n\n\"Because the joy of life and everyday living has to be a part of that healing process as well. So I've chosen that path to be grateful and to feel good about things because the other side's not so good.\"", "Boris Johnson has no plans to introduce big tax and spending measures before he leaves office to ease the cost-of-living crisis, Downing Street has said.\n\nBusiness group leader Tony Danker has urged ministers to \"grip the emerging crisis\", arguing it \"made no sense to wait\" for the next PM to arrive.\n\nAnd Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, has called for an urgent meeting with the devolved governments.\n\nDowning Street said it recognised the public were facing \"challenging times\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson's spokesman argued it would be up to his successor to make any decisions on further help.\n\nMr Johnson is due to leave office in early September, and No 10 said \"by convention it is not for this prime minister to make major fiscal interventions during this period\".\n\nCabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse said the government had already and was continuing to do work on cost-of-living problems.\n\n\"My job is to make sure that when the new prime minister arrives, the plan is in place for them to put their foot on the accelerator,\" he told the BBC's PM programme.\n\nHe also dismissed calls from ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the government to hold a meeting of the government's emergency response committee Cobra, arguing that would be \"a performative political act\".\n\nEarlier this year, the government announced a £15bn package of support to ease the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThis included giving households a £400 discount on energy bills and £650 for the poorest households to help with wider living costs.\n\nHowever, the government has come under pressure to do more, following worsening economic warnings.\n\nLast week, the Bank of England forecast that the UK was heading into a recession, with inflation set to hit 13%.\n\nMeanwhile, the energy price cap will go up in October, with industry analysts estimating average domestic energy bills could hit more than £3,600 a year.\n\nMr Danker, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said the prime minister and the candidates for the Tory leadership, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, \"should come together to agree a common pledge to support people and help quell fears\".\n\n\"The economic situation people and businesses are facing requires all hands to the pump this summer,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply cannot afford a summer of government inactivity while the leadership contest plays out followed by a slow start from a new prime minister and cabinet.\"\n\nAnd on Tuesday morning he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the prime minister and the Tory leadership candidates should \"agree on the principles\" of support for energy bills.\n\nHe said civil servants should be \"working with the candidates now\" to draw up options for helping vulnerable people as soon as one of them took office.\n\n\"I just don't think it's responsible government for a prime minister or future prime ministers not to give the country reassurance,\" Mr Danker said.\n\nThe CBI - which represents British businesses - said the prime minister should direct the civil service to draw up options on helping the most vulnerable people - and that these options should be made available to both leadership candidates.\n\nThe organisation also said Mr Johnson, Mr Sunak and Ms Truss should agree \"a way forward to support people and businesses with energy bills\" ahead of 26 August, when Ofgem is due to announce the next energy price cap.\n\nElsewhere, Ms Sturgeon has called for an emergency meeting with Mr Johnson and the leaders of devolved governments, to agree steps to help people.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, she said the SNP-led government was \"committed to doing all we can\" but added: \"We cannot respond on the scale required without action by your government.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Record, Mr Brown - who was the Labour prime minister between 2007 and 2010 - said the UK faced \"a financial timebomb\" and urged Mr Johnson, Mr Sunak and Ms Truss to agree \"an immediate Budget to prevent a winter heating catastrophe\".\n\nHe also said the emergency committee Cobra should be in \"permanent session to deal with the coming fuel and energy crisis\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World This Weekend programme on Sunday, Mr Brown said there was \"a vacuum\" in government because \"the prime minister is on holiday, the chancellor is on holiday, the two leadership candidates for prime minister are on the campaign trail.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is due to leave Downing Street in early September\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson - who has returned from a holiday in Slovenia - would summon a meeting of Cobra, No 10 said it would be up to Mr Johnson's successor to make any decisions on further support for households.\n\nThe spokesman also said there were no plans to recall Parliament, but that Mr Johnson and his Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are meeting this week to discuss progress on the support measures already announced.\n\nResponding to No 10's comments, Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said \"people are worried sick about how they'll pay their bills... and all this Tory prime minister does is shrug his shoulders\".\n\nShe said the two leadership candidates could only \"offer more of the same\", adding: \"Labour would start by scrapping tax breaks on oil and gas producers and providing more help to people who are struggling to pay their energy bills.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the two MPs hoping to take over the leadership have been criticising each other's plans to address mounting living costs.\n\nMr Sunak has warned that the plans of his rival Ms Truss \"won't touch the sides\".\n\nSupporters of Ms Truss say her proposed tax cuts would help people, but did not rule out offering further support.", "The Commissioner requested the Met Police data following the case of Child Q, which sparked protests in London\n\nThe strip-search of a black girl by police at school in east London was not an isolated case, England's children's commissioner has said.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza requested Met Police data after details of the \"Child Q\" incident became public in March.\n\nOf the 650 strip-searches of children from 2018 to 2020, almost a quarter took place without an appropriate adult present, figures show. More than half of those searched were black boys.\n\nThe Met said it has since made changes.\n\nIt added that it had given officers advice around dealing with schools and children, and had reviewed its policy for strip-searches of children.\n\nDame Rachel de Souza, who became children's commissioner last year, said she requested the figures from the Met Police after details surrounding the strip-search of the 15-year-old black girl, known as Child Q, at her school in Hackney in 2020 were revealed earlier this year.\n\nDuring the incident, the girl was taken out of an exam to the school's medical room and strip-searched by two female Met police officers, who were looking for cannabis, while teachers remained outside.\n\nNo other adult was present, her parents were not contacted, and no drugs were found.\n\nThe girl's intimate body parts were exposed and she was made to take off her sanitary towel, according to the review.\n\nA safeguarding report, published in March this year, found that the search was unjustified, and that racism was \"likely\" to have been a factor in the incident - sparking protests over the student's treatment.\n\nAccording to the latest Met Police figures, analysed by the children's commissioner for England, 650 children were strip-searched by police in London between 2018 and 2020.\n\nMore than 95% of those children were boys, and 58% of the boys searched were black.\n\nIn one year - 2018 - 75% of the boys searched were black.\n\nWhen police strip-search a child, they are legally required to make sure there is another adult present - designated an \"appropriate adult\" - unless there is an urgent risk of serious harm.\n\nThis is usually the child's parent or guardian, but can also be a social worker, carer or volunteer.\n\nDespite this, 23% of the strip-searches carried out in the two-year period specified were done without an appropriate adult.\n\nDame Rachel said she was \"extremely concerned\" by the findings.\n\n\"I am not reassured that what happened to Child Q was an isolated issue, but instead believe it may be a particularly concerning example of a more systemic problem around child protection within the Metropolitan Police,\" Dame Rachel said.\n\n\"I remain unconvinced that the Metropolitan Police is consistently considering children's welfare and wellbeing.\"\n\nIn response, the Met Police told BBC News it \"recognises the significant impact such searches can have\".\n\n\"We have reviewed the policy for 'further searches' for those aged under 18,\" the force said. \"This is to assure ourselves the policy is appropriate, and also that it recognises the fact a child in these circumstances may well be a vulnerable victim of exploitation by others involved in gangs, County Lines and drug dealing.\"\n\nThe force added that before strip-searching a child, officers must now also have permission from an inspector from a local command unit.", "Cocaine with an estimated street value of €8.4m (£7m) has been seized in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nTwo men have been arrested and a Cessna light aircraft has also been seized in County Longford.\n\nTwo cars were stopped in the Lough Owel area of County Westmeath shortly after 18:00 local time on Thursday.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said it was highly likely some of the 120kg of cocaine would have ended up in Northern Ireland.\n\nDet Ch Supt Seamus Boland told BBC News NI's Evening Extra that organised criminals do not recognise borders and operate on an all-Ireland basis.\n\nHe said they were investigating whether the drugs were brought in by private plane and it would not be the first time a light aircraft had been seized as part of a drug trafficking investigation.\n\n\"We had a similar incident back in February down in Waterford where a light aircraft was seized in the course of an investigation in collaboration with our UK colleagues, the National Crime Agency,\" he said.\n\n\"That was following a significant seizure of drugs in the UK when the aircraft then flew on and landed here in Ireland.\n\n\"It is not new for organised crime - it is something that is experienced across the rest of Europe.\"\n\nHe added they were exploring the aircraft's history and liaising with counterpart in mainland Europe, particularly in France.\n\nAfter the car was stopped, follow-up searches were carried out at properties in Naas, County Kildare, and Waterford city, as well as at a commercial airfield in County Longford.\n\nTwo men aged 54 and 40 were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, police said.\n\nGarda Assistant Commissioner Justin Kelly, who is head of organised and serious crime, said the operation \"prevented a considerable quantity of dangerous drugs from making it on to our streets and causing significant harm to our communities\".\n\n\"An Garda Síochána is committed, under Operation Tara, to disrupting and dismantling the organised criminal networks who profit from drug trafficking and impact so negatively on our society,\" he said.", "Chinese jets have been taking part in drills over the past days\n\nChina's military says it is continuing large-scale military drills around Taiwan after its previously announced live fire exercises ended on Sunday.\n\nThe Chinese army's Eastern Theatre Command said that it would practice anti-submarine attacks and sea raids.\n\nThe earlier four days of exercises were Beijing's response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island.\n\nTaiwan has accused China of using these drills as practice for an invasion of the island.\n\nOn Monday Taiwan said Chinese aircraft and ships had not entered its territorial waters, which extend 12 nautical miles (22km; 14 miles) from the coast, during the exercises so far.\n\nThe US, along with Australia and Japan, have condemned the drills, saying their objective is to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait - the 180km-wide (110 miles) body of water between the mainland and the island.\n\nChinese aircraft and ships have repeatedly crossed the median line in the strait during the drills. But Taiwan's defence ministry said on Monday that the median line was a tacit understanding that has been in place since the 1950s and its existence was a \"fact\".\n\nWashington has also condemned Beijing for breaking off cooperation with the US in a number of areas including climate change in retaliation for Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nBeijing sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that it can claim by force, if necessary.\n\nBut Taiwan is a self-ruled island that sees itself as distinct from China.\n\nAny hint of recognition of this by world leaders, however, enrages China.\n\nThe renewed activity around Taiwan comes after Chinese maritime authorities announced that drills would also take place in other locations.\n\nIn the Yellow Sea - located between China and the Korean peninsula - new daily military drills were due to start from Saturday until the middle of August, and include live-fire exercises.\n\nIn addition, a month-long military operation in one area of the Bohai sea - north of the Yellow Sea - started on Saturday.\n\nAnd on Monday China announced live fire drills off its coast in the South China Sea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Goal updates across the leagues will still be given out on 5 Live throughout Saturday afternoons\n\nA sporting tradition going back decades is no more - BBC Radio 5 Live will stop broadcasting the classified football results at 5pm on Saturdays.\n\n\"With the addition of the 5.30pm live Premier League match to our coverage, Sports Report has been condensed into a shorter programme,\" the BBC said.\n\nThe BBC said it would still offer goal updates throughout the day on air.\n\nJames Alexander Gordon read the results for more than 40 years before Charlotte Green took over the reins in 2013.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone who has read the classified football results on 5 Live over the years,\" the BBC's statement continued.\n\nThe corporation added that fans could also keep across the results on the BBC Sport website and Final Score on BBC One.\n\nCharlotte Green took over the reins in 2013\n\nThe classified football results list all football results across the English and Scottish leagues.\n\nSports Report first ran on the BBC Light Programme before moving to Network 3 and later BBC Radio 2 before it found its permanent home on 5 Live in 1994.\n\nGreen was a BBC Radio 4 news announcer before taking up the baton from Alexander Gordon in 2013. He died in 2014 at the age of 78.\n\nThe results were preceded by its now famous theme tune.\n\nNot all fans and commentators were happy with the news.\n\nChief football writer at The Times, Henry Winter, tweeted that \"the decision to scrap the service shows a lack of understanding of the fans\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Henry Winter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also suggested that instead of dropping the classified results due to time constraints, 5 Live could drop one of their post-match manager interviews instead.\n\nUp the Clarets, a Burnley fan group, posted that it was \"tradition\" to tune into the results at 5pm on a Saturday.\n\nOthers, including sports reporter Charles Dagnall, pointed out that they listened in the car on the way back from the match, where you couldn't check your mobile phone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Dagnall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut others felt it was time to modernise.\n\nThe Athletic's Adam Crafton asked how many actually tuned in.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Adam Crafton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd rugby reporter Neil Treacy asked why it had taken people until Monday morning to realise the results had gone.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nEngland are celebrating a record haul of 176 medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.\n\nIt passed the mark of 174 from Glasgow 2014, with 57 golds in Birmingham one behind the tally from eight years ago.\n\nTeam England chef de mission Mark England said Birmingham people had \"come out in bucket-loads and supported the team\".\n\n\"They've pushed us to the greatest ever medal return and we couldn't be more proud of the athletes.\"\n\nScotland finished with a haul of 51 medals - just two short of the record tally achieved at Glasgow 2014, when they finished fourth.\n\nNorthern Ireland secured a record medal tally of 18 - including a best-ever seven golds - having won a total of 12 at both the 2018 and 2014 Games.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales finished on 28 this time, having earned 36 medals at each of the previous two Commonwealth Games.\n\nChef de mission England added the people of Birmingham and volunteers \"created a carnival atmosphere that the athletes have absolutely loved\".\n\nAll events were staged in the West Midlands, apart from the track cycling which took place in the Lee Valley VeloPark in London.\n\n\"I think what Birmingham has done has presented something different and unique in a way that perhaps other cities may not have thought possible,\" continued England.\n\n\"You don't actually need to build a new velodrome and track cycling venue. It's provided an opportunity to present the Games in a slightly different way.\"\n\nIn July, Birmingham 2022 announced more than 1.3 million tickets had been sold, making it the most attended Games hosted in Britain.\n\nMore than 500,000 tickets had been bought by people living in the West Midlands.\n\n\"We've almost built a new aquatics centre in the middle of a residential area,\" said England. \"[For the people of Birmingham] there is an opportunity to swim in the same pool as Adam Peaty, the opportunity to dive in the same pool as Jack Laugher and all the other top divers have done.\n\n\"Birmingham has done very well to showcase the city globally, I absolutely believe this is just the start.\"", "The payments will be made to survivors 'as soon as possible'\n\nPayments of £100,000 will be made to victims of the contaminated blood scandal, the government is expected to announce this week.\n\nBoris Johnson wants payments, recommended by a public inquiry, to be made to more than 4,000 survivors \"as soon as possible\", said Downing Street.\n\nThousands of people contracted HIV or hepatitis C in the 1970s and 80s through NHS treatments.\n\nMore than 2,400 people have died as a result.\n\nA No 10 source said: \"The infected blood scandal was a tragedy for everyone involved, and the prime minister strongly believes that all those who suffered so terribly as a result of this injustice should receive compensation as quickly as possible.\n\n\"He has tasked ministers with resolving this issue so that interim payments can be made to all those infected as soon as possible, and we will set out the full details later this week.\"\n\nVictims and families get an annual financial support payment but have not been compensated for loss of earnings, care costs and other lifetime losses.\n\nThe chairman of the infected blood public inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff, said last month individuals who currently qualify for financial support, including some bereaved partners of those killed, should now be offered interim compensation of £100,000 each.\n\nHe said there was a case to make those interim payments to surviving victims quickly.\n\nThe idea would be to fund bills and care needs, with final recommendations on compensation for a wider group of people expected when the inquiry concludes next year.\n\nThe inquiry has looked at how NHS patients with haemophilia and other blood disorders became seriously ill after being given a new treatment imported from the US.\n\nThe medication, factor VIII or IX, was made from the pooled blood plasma of thousands of paid donors.\n\nIf a donor was infected with a blood-borne virus such as hepatitis or HIV then the whole batch of medication could be contaminated.\n\nAn unknown number of UK patients were also exposed to hepatitis B or C though a blood transfusion after childbirth or hospital surgery.\n\nThe government has introduced schemes offering victims financial support but, unlike in the Republic of Ireland and some other countries, compensation has never been paid to individuals or families affected.", "A 21-year-old woman who killed the \"love of her life\" by running him over with her car has avoided a prison sentence.\n\nGrace Ross struck Joshua Kerr, 18, near the farm where he worked in Leslie, Fife, on 22 May 2020. He died after suffering a catastrophic head injury.\n\nRoss, who admitted causing his death by careless driving, was ordered to carry out 300 hours of community service.\n\nShe was also banned from driving for five years.\n\nIn June, the High Court in Glasgow heard how the couple had been together for three years and lived together for two.\n\nProsecutor Gavin Anderson said that before the incident they had argued over Mr Kerr's finances, including what was described as a \"cash app\" on his phone.\n\nMr Anderson told the hearing it was Ross' \"suspicion\" that the farmhand was hiding things from her.\n\nShe had grabbed his phone and got back in her car, accelerating harshly.\n\nShe then went on to do a three-point turn on the narrow road and investigators believe she was travelling at just 2.3mph before she hit Mr Kerr.\n\nHe fell under the car on his back and both offside wheels went over him - one of which left a tyre imprint on his trousers.\n\nA wheel then ran over his head, causing a \"significant\" skull fracture.\n\nThe court heard that Ross was hysterical and tried to help the teenager before dialling 999.\n\nWhen police arrived she begged police to let her give her boyfriend \"one last hug\" but was stopped from doing so.\n\nIt later emerged her concerns about the app had been \"unfounded\".\n\nRoss, from Glenrothes, Fife, appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh for sentencing.\n\nHer lawyer Donald Findlay QC told judge Lord Braid that she was genuinely remorseful for causing Mr Kerr's death.\n\nMr Findlay also told the judge his client had suffered post traumatic stress disorder having seen her boyfriend die.\n\nHe urged Lord Braid not to send Ross to jail saying it was not in the public interest.\n\nLord Braid said he had to take into account sentencing guidelines for people under the age of 25 which state that accused young people should only be sent to prison if no other sentence is available.\n\nHe also concluded that the circumstances of the collision and its aftermath meant that Ross could be dealt with by a community payback order.\n\nPassing sentence, Lord Braid told her: \"You stopped your car, got out of the vehicle and contacted the emergency services. You administered first aid to Mr Kerr.\n\n\"I have read victim impact statements which describe the loss and void which have been left in the lives of Mr Kerr's family and friends. There is no sentence that I can pass which can ever fill that.\n\n\"I have also taken into account the remorse that you expressed which I accept is genuine.\n\n\"I have come to the view that there is a suitable alternative to imprisonment. I will impose a community payback order of 300 hours unpaid work which will have to be completed within 18 months.\"\n\nRoss was initially charged with Mr Kerr's murder before the charge was changed to one of causing death by dangerous driving. In June this was replaced with a charge of causing death by careless driving.\n\nBefore sentence was passed, Mr Findlay described the case as being \"tragic at all levels\" and expressed his condolences to Mr Kerr's family.\n\nHe said Ross - who had been due to study politics at university before the incident - had been \"deeply affected\" by the incident and had suffered PTSD.\n\nHe added: \"Miss Ross continues to grieve for the loss of her boyfriend, her partner, for the love of her life.\n\n\"She has never been anything other than deeply sorry for the events that happened that day.\n\n\"This is a case which I would invite your lordship to consider why it would serve the public interest in depriving this young woman of her liberty.\n\n\"She is 21 years of age. She has her whole life in front of her.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Large flames and plumes of smoke were seen in west London\n\nAbout 60 people have been evacuated from their homes as fire crews tackled a blaze in west London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Hereford Road in Feltham where trees, undergrowth and decking were alight at the rear of properties.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said crews had managed to stop flames spreading to about 30 homes.\n\nTen fire engines and about 70 firefighters were sent to the scene. The cause of the fire was unknown.\n\nA number of cylinders were removed due to a risk of explosion in the heat, LFB said.\n\nAbout 70 firefighters and 10 fire engines were sent to the scene on Sunday\n\nStation Commander Tamer Ozdemir said firefighters had \"worked incredibly hard in hot, arduous conditions\" to stop the fire spreading.\n\n\"Their hard work has saved approximately 30 homes in Hereford Road.\n\n\"Around 60 residents were evacuated due to the amount of smoke.\"\n\nDecking was alight at the rear of properties during the fire\n\nLFB said it had received 44 calls about the blaze.\n\nCrews from Hillingdon, Kingston, Southall, Surbiton and Tooting have been at the scene.\n\nAre you in the area? Did you see the fire? If it is safe to do so, please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People responsible for sexual harassment in the street can - and will be - charged, new guidance to prosecutors in England and Wales says.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service suggests even one-off incidents of \"cat-calling\" could be classed as offences under existing public order laws.\n\nThe CPS warned of charges for \"sexually threatening or abusive\" comments.\n\n\"Feeling safe should not be a luxury for women,\" said Siobhan Blake, CPS lead for rape and serious offences.\n\nThe government is also considering stronger laws on street harassment. It has begun a consultation on extending existing legislation by making it an offence to cause \"intentional harassment, alarm or distress\" to someone because of their sex.\n\nHowever, the Home Office at present believes existing criminal offences adequately deal with abusive public behaviour.\n\nThe CPS said it had decided to review the advice it gives staff on the current laws because of a renewed focus on women's safety in public places, following cases such as the murder of Sarah Everard last year.\n\nThe new guidance stresses public order laws can be used to prosecute, even when someone makes \"one-off, less serious comments\".\n\n\"Examples could include unwanted sexual comments... where it is not possible to prove that the perpetrator had an intention to cause harassment, alarm, or distress,\" the guidance states.\n\nIn cases of unwanted touching in the street or public transport, police do not have to prove what happened was \"intentionally sexual\", says the guidance.\n\nThe CPS also highlights a new law banning voyeurism while a person is breastfeeding a child, and a ban on up-skirting, which came into effect in 2019.\n\nCases of \"cyber-flashing\" - where offenders send lewd messages or sexual images via bluetooth to people nearby -should be handled in the same way as misuse of social media.\n\nThis would involve considering whether the messages were offensive and intended to cause distress.\n\nStalking and harassment laws should only be used when there are repeated attempts by an offender to target a victim, the guidance says.\n\nThe CPS says it believes a clear approach to abusive behaviour in the street will help victims feel more comfortable about making an allegation.\n\nMs Blake said almost three quarters of women had been subjected to \"this disgusting behaviour\".\n\n\"It is equally concerning that so few incidents of sexual harassment in public are reported,\" she said.\n\n\"The law is clear that if someone exposes themselves, tries to take inappropriate pictures or makes you feel threatened on the street, these are crimes and should not be dismissed.\"\n\n\"Everyone has the right to travel on public transport, dance at a festival or walk the streets without fear of harassment.\"", "Zed says the local food pantry has been a \"massive help\" to feed her sons\n\nHoliday food vouchers for children on free school meals have been cut in value by councils across England this summer, BBC News research reveals.\n\nOut of 97 responses from local authorities, 43 said they had either stopped giving out vouchers or reduced the amount they were worth.\n\nSome councils blame government rule changes for the cutbacks.\n\nThe government says funding is available to help councils support families in various ways.\n\nFamilies with children on free school meals across the UK have been offered food vouchers during school holidays, since a successful campaign led by footballer Marcus Rashford during the pandemic.\n\nIn England, about 1.9 million children have free school meals.\n\nThe funding for this summer's food vouchers comes from the £421m Household Support Fund.\n\nUp to two-thirds can be spent on families with children and councils can decide how best to spend the cash in their area, to help those struggling financially.\n\nBut at least a third must be spent on pensioners - a rule change several councils have told BBC News has contributed to the reduction in the value of holiday food vouchers.\n\nBBC News contacted all 152 local authorities in England. Of the 97 responses:\n\nSince the school term finished, Zed, from Yardley, in Birmingham, has been coming to her local food pantry, for discounted food for her sons, Jacob and Elijah.\n\nJacob is on free school meals, so in the summer holidays last year, the family received £15 a week in food vouchers from the council - but this year, the vouchers have been scrapped.\n\nZed says the pantry has been a \"massive help\" to fill the gap.\n\n\"£15 might not sound like a lot of money - but in the grand scheme, it is,\" she says.\n\n\"When you've got two children to be paying for, it is a big loss.\"\n\nChildren on free school meals in the area this year have instead been offered events on weekdays providing a free healthy meal through a scheme called Bring it on Brum, funded by the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFamilies could also apply for hardship grants.\n\nCouncil-funded events such as this one in Birmingham provide meals for children in the holidays - but do not reach all those eligible for free school meals\n\nThe HAF programme is a £200m government scheme to provide childcare, healthy meals and activities for children from low-income families during the holidays, which was rolled out across England last summer.\n\nSome 36 councils who responded to BBC News said they were expanding their HAF events this year, offering help not just to those on free school meals.\n\nZed has taken her sons to one of the council-funded events, in her local park, but travelling to those further from home can be \"extremely difficult\".\n\n\"As much as I do try to get my children out, I am restricted sadly in terms of getting there,\" says Zed, who does not drive.\n\n\"Taxis are easier - but I don't have the money for that.\n\n\"Unfortunately it is a situation where I'd love to go but I can't always do it.\"\n\nOfficial figures show 498,000 children on free school meals (29%) attended HAF events last summer.\n\nThe Children's Society, which is campaigning for more children to be given free school meals, said it was \"deeply concerned\" many struggling parents would miss out on help this summer.\n\nExecutive director for social impact Joe Jenkins said: \"Depending on which part of the country a child lives in, they get a completely different set of support put in place for them.\n\n\"What we really need is a standard across the country that means every young person has access to food all the way through the day - whether it's in summer holidays or during the school term.\"\n\nA government official said food vouchers were not the only way councils could support families with children on free school meals.\n\n\"More widely, we are protecting eight million low-income families with at least £1,200 of direct payments, while additional support for disabled people and pensioners is also on the way,\" they added.", "The US pop singer was recently freed from a conservatorship\n\nBritney Spears is to return to the music scene with a collaboration with Sir Elton John, it has been confirmed.\n\nFew details are known about the new track - called Hold Me Closer.\n\nThere had been speculation that the pair were working on a new version of Sir Elton's hit Tiny Dancer.\n\nIt is the first new music from Spears since she was freed from a 13-year conservatorship, during which aspects of her finances and personal life were controlled by her father and others.\n\nMore information is expected in the coming week, a spokesperson has told PA news agency.\n\nTeasing the collaboration, Sir Elton shared a picture of a rose and rocket emoji on Instagram on Monday, alongside the words \"hold me closer\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRumours about the collaboration were reported by US media outlets last month, although there had been no official confirmation until now.\n\nThe announcement comes as the legal battle between the singer and her father Jamie Spears continues.\n\nA US judge denied a motion by Mr Spears last month that the singer should return to court to face further questioning over the legal agreement.\n\nBritney Spears and Elton John at the 21st annual Elton John Aids Foundation Academy awards in 2013\n\nSpears' conservatorship was set up in 2008 after the US pop star, known for hits like Oops I Did It Again! and Toxic, faced a public mental health crisis.\n\nThe legal agreement, which she was freed from in November, had power over the singer's finances and career decisions, as well as personal decisions.\n\nThe singer recently married Sam Asghari in an intimate ceremony in California in June.", "The singer and campaigner became Dame Olivia in 2020 in recognition of her music and charity work\n\nOlivia Newton-John, who has died aged 73, began her career as the sweetheart of country-flavoured pop.\n\nIt all changed when she donned black spandex for Grease, one of the most successful film musicals of all time.\n\nHer new raunchy image found its peak in her 1981 album, Physical.\n\nBut a diagnosis of breast cancer saw her move to an introspective style and she devoted more time to humanitarian causes.\n\nOlivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge on 26 September 1948. Her Welsh father had been an MI5 agent during World War II attached to the Enigma project at Bletchley Park.\n\nHer fresh outdoor-girl look saw her appear in a number of advertisements\n\nHer mother was the daughter of the German Nobel laureate, Max Born, and had fled with her family when the Nazis came to power in 1933.\n\nIn 1954 her father took up a post as a professor of German at the University of Melbourne and the family moved to Australia.\n\nAs a child Newton-John had developed a fascination with animals and harboured ambitions to be a vet but she found science a struggle at school and abandoned the idea.\n\nInstead, she turned to music. She formed a short-lived girl group with three school friends and began performing in a coffee shop run by her sister's boyfriend.\n\nA meeting with local singer-songwriter Ian Turpie saw the pair form a professional and romantic relationship.\n\nWhen Turpie was recruited to present The Go!! Show on ATV 10 in Melbourne, Newton-John became a regular guest, miming to pre-recorded covers of British and US pop hits.\n\nHer rendition of Anyone Who Had a Heart won her the top prize in another talent show, which included a trip to the UK. She was initially reluctant to leave Australia, but her mother saw it as a chance to build her daughter's career and flew with her to London in 1966.\n\nA move to London opened up new possibilities\n\nAppearances in various clubs saw her offered a one-off record deal with Decca but her first single, a cover of 'Till You Say You'll Be Mine, failed to chart.\n\nShe teamed up with an old friend from Australia, Pat Carroll, and the two toured Europe as a duo, including a gig at Paul Raymond's Revue which, she later recalled, they hadn't realised was a strip club until they arrived.\n\nHer breakthrough came in 1971 when she released a Bob Dylan-penned track, If Not For You, which reached number seven in the UK charts and featured on an album of the same name.\n\nAnother track from the album, Banks of the Ohio, also charted, its country sound heralding the future direction of her music.\n\nThere was disappointment when her second album, Olivia, failed to make an impact, although a single, What is Life, made the UK Top 20.\n\nShe came fourth in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest\n\nIt was the country-flavoured album Let Me Be There that finally broke her in the lucrative US market. The eponymous single won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocalist.\n\nBack in the UK she sang the country's Eurovision entry, Long Live Love, in the 1974 song contest - she came fourth in the year Abba won with Waterloo.\n\nThe album If You Love Me, Let Me Know established her credentials across the Atlantic. Released only in the US and Canada, it brought her first US number one single, I Honestly Love You. It was the first of seven US number one hits she would have between 1974 and 1977, either in the Billboard Hot 100 or its Adult Contemporary chart.\n\nIn 1974 she was named Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, seeing off competition from Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker.\n\nThere was a backlash from US country fans, annoyed at her pop-style music being considered on a par with Nashville's finest but, with the support of established country stars, she was eventually accepted.\n\nBy 1977 her career was faltering. She failed to find chart success with new material although a compilation album, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits, made number seven in the country charts.\n\nA meeting with producer Alan Carr saw her offered the part of Sandy in a film version of the musical, Grease.\n\nWorried that at 28 she was too old for the teenage role, she insisted on a screen test with John Travolta before accepting the part. The character of Sandy was recast as an expat Australian to accommodate Newton-John's accent.\n\nThe film was the biggest box-office hit of 1978, and gave Newton-John three hit singles, You're The One That I Want, Hopelessly Devoted to You and Summer Nights as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.\n\nIt was a catalyst for change in both her image and her musical direction. She appeared on the cover of her next album, Totally Hot, dressed in black leather. It was her first US Top 10 album since 1975.\n\nThe follow-up, Physical, was her most overtly sexual record, and was hailed by many critics as her best album. The title track held the Billboard number one spot for 10 weeks.\n\nShe met her first husband Matt Lattanzi on the set of Xanadu\n\nThe album was dedicated to her then boyfriend, Matt Lattanzi, whom she married in 1984. The couple had met while filming the rock fantasy - and box-office flop - Xanadu, in which Newton-John had played the lead role.\n\nAfter taking three years off to raise her daughter, Chloe, she struggled to get her career back on track. There was a further blow when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.\n\nHer illness, and subsequent recovery, marked another change of musical direction as she returned to more mainstream pop material.\n\nShe also spent more of her time as an advocate of humanitarian and health issues. She had already established herself as a campaigner for animal welfare, cancelling a tour of Japan in 1978 as a protest against the slaughter of dolphins caught in tuna nets.\n\nShe was a supporter of cancer charities, something that led to the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer & Wellness Centre in Melbourne.\n\nShe continued to record although many of her subsequent albums were only released in Australia where she performed at the opening of the Sydney Olympics in 2000\n\nHer longevity came from a process of musical reinvention\n\nIn 2008 she secretly married John Easterling, the boss of a natural remedy company, in an Incan spiritual ceremony in Peru.\n\nIn May 2017 it was announced that her breast cancer had returned and spread to her back resulting in a cancellation of a planned tour in the US and Canada. She publicly campaigned for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis to ease the pain.\n\nSeveral years later she became Dame Olivia, honoured for her music and charity work.\n\nOlivia Newton-John will be remembered for her ability to re-invent herself. The pop princess of the late 1960s morphed first into a country star, got raunchy in Grease, and then glided into an ambassadorial role on behalf of a number of worthy causes.\n\nIn 2019 her legendary spandex-pants and leather jacket from Grease were auctioned for $405,000 - as two billionaires fought for the right to own a piece of one of cinema's most famous scenes.\n\nIn line with Dame Olivia's wishes, the proceeds were donated to Australian cancer research.", "Amber Kotrri said winning the battle against Zara was a \"genuine weight off my shoulders\"\n\nThe owner of a small boutique says she is \"over the moon\" after winning a trademark battle with High Street fashion giant Zara.\n\nAmber Kotrri, who runs Darlington-based House of Zana, had been told by the retailer her business was \"conceptually identical\".\n\nZara had argued there was a \"high degree of visual and aural similarities\" between the two brands.\n\nBut a tribunal found the link was \"too insubstantial\".\n\nMum-of-three Mrs Kotrri says dealing with lawyers has cost her time with her children\n\nShe said the judgement was a \"genuine weight off my shoulders\".\n\n\"It's been well over a year and very stressful on my home life, as a mum of three young children, as well as on the business as there's been hours and hours of preparing documents of evidence,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter's due date coincided with the time the last evidence was due so it hasn't been easy.\"\n\nMrs Kotrri said she had received an email informing her of the tribunal's decision while on a visit to the theatre with her three children - but took several days to build up the courage to open it.\n\n\"It was quite a long document and I couldn't really understand a lot of it as I had butterflies,\" she said.\n\nHowever, she said she saw the words \"the opposition is unsuccessful\" and was relieved she would be able to continue growing the business.\n\n\"It's been so stressful - but we won,\" she added.\n\nInditex is one of the world's largest fashion retailers, with seven brands, including Zara\n\nIn May Mrs Kotrri, who represented herself at the tribunal, told the hearing there was \"no likelihood\" of confusing the brands.\n\nZara had argued the House of Zana trademark application should be refused because it was too similar in name, which could result in customers confusing one trademark for another.\n\nJulia King, representing Zara, said the name Zana was \"one small brush mark\" away from her client's, adding the County Durham-based brand was \"not distinctive and only descriptive\".\n\nShe said it could pose a \"serious threat\" to Zara if the market was crowded with brands that looked and sounded similar.\n\nHowever, tribunal registrar Matthew Williams ruled he was satisfied any \"mental link\" made by customers between House of Zana and Zara would be \"too insubstantial and fleeting\" to result in an \"exploitation\" of Zara's reputation.\n\nHe said the two brands were \"visually and aurally similar to a degree between low and medium\".\n\nMrs Kotrri, whose husband is Albanian, set up and named her company in 2019 after the Balkan country's word for \"fairies\".\n\nShe said she was contacted by Zara's lawyers last year after trying to trademark her brand.\n\nMrs Kotrri said she had also been in contact with more than 10 other small business owners who had been contacted by the fashion company asking them to rebrand because of similarities with their names.\n\nMrs Kotrri, who represented herself throughout the tribunal, said she hoped its outcome would empower others\n\nShe has previously accused Zara of \"very intimidating\" conduct in its dealings with her.\n\nMrs Kotrri said: \"To anyone in a similar position I would say, 'keep fighting it'll be worth it in the end - be brave and ignore the threatening way the legal letters are worded'.\n\n\"You know your business the most, you know the meaning behind any name, and if you've built it up then fight for it, I couldn't tell my children that I closed down my business because someone bigger told me to.\"\n\nInditex, the parent company of Zara - is one of the world's largest fashion distribution groups with 6,477 stores, including Bershka, Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti.\n\nA Zara spokesperson said while they did not want to comment on the judgement itself, the company \"continue to wish\" Mrs Kotrri and her business \"success in the future\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Ian Baum has accused the former Wales rugby captain of \"deceptively\" transmitting HIV to him\n\nFormer Wales and British and Irish Lions captain Gareth Thomas has been accused of \"deceptively\" transmitting HIV to a previous partner, according to High Court legal papers.\n\nIan Baum has alleged Mr Thomas hid his HIV status, \"failing to take reasonable care\" to ensure he did not pass it on.\n\nMr Baum is suing the TV personality for £150,000.\n\nMr Thomas' legal team has been asked to comment, but it is understood that he is strongly contesting the claim.\n\nIn court papers, Mr Baum claimed he had a relationship with him between 2013 and 2016 and that he was HIV negative when the relationship began.\n\nIt is alleged he found out Mr Thomas had HIV when he saw a tablet marked GSK1.\n\n\"On googling the GSK1 pill, the claimant discovered that the defendant was taking antiviral HIV medication,\" the documents said.\n\nMr Baum then \"immediately\" made an appointment for a HIV test. The court papers state that when he found out he was positive for the virus, he was left \"devastated\".\n\nGareth Thomas disclosed he was HIV positive in 2019\n\nIt is claimed he called Mr Thomas for an explanation and according to the documents, Mr Thomas was \"very repentant and apologetic\".\n\n\"The defendant pleaded with him to keep his HIV status secret, the claimant agreed and the relationship continued,\" it added.\n\nMr Baum claims for the remainder of the relationship Mr Thomas used coercive and controlling behaviour towards him in order to prevent his HIV status becoming known.\n\nIn the documents, he said the defendant caused him \"serious physical and psychological injury\".\n\nHe also claimed Mr Thomas lied to him about his HIV status.\n\nIt is alleged Mr Thomas, also know as Alfie, \"portrayed himself as a spokesperson for HIV without ever disclosing that he deceptively transmitted HIV to the claimant in 2014\".\n\nIn 2020, Thomas was given a special prize at Wales' St David Awards for campaigning against HIV stigma, one year after publicly revealing he had the virus.", "Melting glaciers in the Alps are on track for their highest mass losses in at least 60 years, according to data seen by Reuters.\n\nThe area saw two early summer heatwaves and little snowfall last winter.\n\nZermatt, a Swiss mountain village which usually sees July temperatures in the twenties, has had recent highs of 30C (86F).", "The star and her husband John Easterling in 2018 during the annual walk to raise funds for the cancer institute Image caption: The star and her husband John Easterling in 2018 during the annual walk to raise funds for the cancer institute\n\nFlags are flying at half-mast outside the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Institute in Melbourne – to which the star gave her name and high profile support.\n\nThe facility helps patients live with cancer, focusing on treatment and wellness programmes as well as doing research and clinical trials in the search for cures.\n\nFoundation director Debbie Shiell told ABC Breakfast how proud Newton-John was of the work done there.\n\n\"She drove around the corner and saw her name up on the building. She said it was better than any billboard she's ever seen.”\n\nThe star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 – on the same weekend her father died of cancer.\n\n\"She was always positive, and she was always hopeful and she gave so much hope to so many people,” Shiell said.\n\n“And it was really important to her that the cancer centre here offer wellness programmes, because she found those wellness programmes like yoga and meditation so helpful to her in her journey, that she wanted to make sure that she could provide those to everybody.\n\n\"I think anybody who knows Olivia just knew what a beautiful soul she was and what genuine happiness she exuded. Her visits here in the centre were just so special to the staff here who worked so hard, but also to the patients who are going through so much.\n\n\"And just watching her walk into the room, watching her, the faces light up, the joy that she brings to so many people just by being there.\n\n\"She was the light at the end of the tunnel for so many people.\n\n\"Olivia would sign off a lot of her emails: 'love and light, Olivia'. And she was love and light.\n\n\"It was always her dream to see an end of cancer in her lifetime, and she hasn't quite seen that. But certainly that is something we plan to continue on in her name here, and we plan to continue her legacy and to keep her dreams alive.\n\n\"We will have memorials, and we will find a way to remember Olivia, but not this morning. This morning, we're just remembering what a wonderful woman she was.\"", "Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nBirmingham 2022 will be Scotland's most successful Commonwealth Games outside of Glasgow 2014 after eight medals - four of them gold - were won on Sunday in boxing, athletics and cycling.\n\nBoxers Sam Hickey, Sean Lazzerini, Reese Lynch, then 1500m runner Laura Muir, all won gold to take Scotland's tally to 12, three more than on the Gold Coast in 2018.\n\nEilish McColgan added 5,000m silver to her 10,000 gold, after Neah Evans claimed silver and Finn Crockett bronze in their respective road races.\n\nThen Scotland clinched an unlikely medal in the women's 4 x 400m relay after England were disqualified to take the tally to 49 - 12 gold, 11 silver, and 26 bronze - with one day of competition left.\n• None Watch every Scottish Commonwealth Games medal so far\n\nScotland have now burst past the 44 earned in Gold Coast four years ago, which was the highest return apart from Glasgow 2014, where the team took 53, including 19 golds.\n\nThat was despite Kirsty Gilmour missing out on a badminton medal after losing her bronze medal match to Jia Min Yeo of Singapore, and mixed doubles pair Adam Hall and Julie MacPherson also losing to Malaysia in their match for third place.\n\nHowever, squash duo Greg Lobban and Rory Stewart play in their bronze medal match on Monday.\n\nScotland have won a boxing medal at every Commonwealth Games, but the last gold medals came in 2014, when Josh Taylor and Charlie Flynn emerged victorious.\n\nIn Birmingham, five of the eight fighters will leave with medals, with three of them gold - a record for Scotland.\n\nHickey, the 22-year-old middleweight from Dundee, started it all of with a blockbuster defeat of 19-year-old Callum Peters of Australia.\n\nThe pair traded brutal blows, and both landed shots in the final round before the three of the five judges gave Hickey the win. The fighters shared a hug of mutual respect after a gripping bout.\n\n\"It's been a long time coming,\" Hickey told BBC Scotland. \"I always believed in myself but to get in the ring is easier said, than done. I'm proud of myself. Proud to be Scottish. And proud to be from Dundee.\"\n\nNot to be outdone, Barrhead light-heavyweight Lazzerini performed brilliantly to defeat Taylor Bevan of Wales, landing a flurry of blows in the final round to ensure he too would take gold.\n\nThe 25-year-old performed Cristiano Ronaldo's trademark celebration in the ring afterwards, and was then conducting the crowd through Flower of Scotland as he stood atop the podium.\n\n\"Brilliant, but this is just the beginning,\" Lazzerini said. \"Maybe even tomorrow I'll train again. What is there to celebrate? There's not going to be an end, I've got to keep progressing.\n\n\"It's been a long road and a lot of people gave up on me. But I never gave up on myself and my family and friends never gave up on me and that's why I got the gold.\"\n\nFinally, it was was light-welterweight Lynch's turn. The 21-year-old from Fauldhouse had to wait for his chance to make history alongside his team-mates, and he eventually produced under pressure.\n\nAfter a good first round from the Scot and an even second, Louis Richarno Colin of Mauritius finished strongly to open a cut on above Lynch's eye in the third round, before ending with a big right hand which sent his gumshield flying.\n\nBut it was Lynch who raised his hands in victory amid some boos from the crowd, after four of the five judges scored the bout in his favour.\n\n\"It's not even sunk in yet. I'm buzzing,\" he said. \"It was a good fight, he was a good lad, very experienced. I thought I won the first and second [rounds] and the third I knew I was winning so I took it a bit easier.\n\n\"Obviously I got caught but my gumshield came out, which made it look worse than it was. I'm happy with my performance.\"\n\nCyclist Evans has been phenomenally consistent throughout the Games, finishing with a personal haul of three medals and a fourth place over the track and road.\n\nShe took track silver in the points race and bronze in the individual pursuit in the velodrome last week, and narrowly missed a medal in the scratch race too.\n\nThe 31-year-old former vet was less fancied on the road, but worked with team-mate Anna Shackley to finish second in a frantic bunch sprint behind Georgia Baker of Australia.\n\nIt capped a fantastic fortnight for Evans, who has been one of the stars of Scotland's Games.\n\n\"It's going to take a while to sink in, especially because it was in two disciplines,\" she said.\n\n\"I'd not road raced in three years, so I had no expectation of winning a medal. When it got to the sprint… I don't even know how far out you're supposed to go from, so I didn't realise until I was crossing the line, then I was like 'oh, right'.\"\n\nIn the men's race, former Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas attacked off the front with two kilometres to go, but Crockett was part of a group of riders who came past and sprinted for the line, eventually finishing third.\n\n\"For a nation like Scotland to get a medal in the road race, with the talent that is here... I honestly can't believe it,\" Crockett said. \"To get a medal is honestly unreal.\"", "One of Brazil's greatest Jiu-Jitsu champions of all time, Leandro Lo, has been declared brain dead after being shot in the head in a São Paulo club.\n\nLo was one of the most successful Jiu-Jitsu athletes of all time, having won the World Championships eight times.\n\nWitnesses said Lo and his friends were approached by a man in a threatening manner, Lo immobilised the man, but after he let him go, the man shot Lo.\n\nThe suspect fled the scene but has since handed himself in to police.\n\nAn investigation for attempted murder has been opened.\n\nA friend of Lo who was with him at the time, said a lone man approached their table, took a bottle from it and waved it around in a menacing way.\n\nLo had pinned the man to the ground to \"calm him down\". But after he let him go, the man shot Lo in the head, the unnamed friend told Brazilian news site G1.\n\nA lawyer for the Lo family, Ivan Siqueira Junior, said Lo and his friends had tried to prevent the incident from escalating.\n\nAccording to Mr Siqueira, the suspect kicked Lo twice while the latter was already lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head.\n\nLo was rushed to hospital, where he was declared brain dead. His family said his condition was irreversible.\n\nThe 33-year-old won the World Championships eight times in five different weight classes, an all time record.\n\nThe International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation called him \"one of the greatest athletes our sport has ever produced\".\n\n\"An example of a true black belt, martial artist and champion on and off the mats,\" the federation tweeted.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland were denied a dramatic 4x400m Commonwealth relay gold after officials ruled they committed a lane infringement before anchor Jessie Knight edged the tightest of finishes.\n\nKnight initially seemed to have secured victory by a hundredth of a second ahead of Canada's Kyra Constantine.\n\nBut the hosts were denied a fairy tale end to the athletics programme as judges spotted Jodie Williams' foot straying on the first changeover.\n\nTheir team of Zoey Clark, Beth Dobbin, Jill Cherry and Nicole Yeargin, rather than England, climbed the podium in front of a half-empty Alexander Stadium when the medal ceremony took place.\n\nThe infringement and decision denied England one of the moments of the Games as Knight, a 400m hurdles specialist, flung out her baton-holding arm to thrust her torso across the line and edge out Constantine by the slimmest of margins.\n\nConstantine's flat personal best is more than one and half seconds faster than Knight's, but, after a wait to analyse the photo finish, the England anchor's lunge seemed to have done just enough.\n\nVictoria Ohuruogu, Williams and Ama Pipi, all of whom had competed in the individual final earlier in the day, had done superbly to set Knight up in a promising position.\n\nBut while the Alexander Stadium rocked in celebration and the quartet posed for pictures, the officials were scrutinising the start of the second leg, when Williams' foot strayed out of her lane.\n\nLike Knight's apparent victory, it seemed a matter of millimetres. But it was clear and decisive and England, who did not appeal, were stripped of their eighth track-and-field gold of the Games.", "An aerial view of the parched lawns of Leeds Castle in Kent\n\nThe UK is set for another heatwave this week with highs of up to 35C (95F) in some parts, forecasters have said.\n\nThe Met Office said while conditions would be below the 40.3C recorded last month, the hot weather could last for a longer period.\n\nMore parts of England are also facing hosepipe bans amid very dry conditions, as fire crews warn of wildfires.\n\nHeat health-alerts have been put in place across England by the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nA level three warning will cover southern and central England from midday on Tuesday until 18:00 BST on Saturday, with a level two alert in place for northern England for the same period.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said a \"fairly widespread heatwave\" was developing across the UK this week with the peak of the temperatures likely to be on Friday or Saturday.\n\n\"It does look like a prolonged period of dry weather and obviously that's bad news for southern England where some rain would really be useful now,\" he said.\n\nTemperatures will build from 28C or 29C on Tuesday and reach the low to mid-30s from Thursday, Mr Morgan said.\n\nHe said the West Midlands and West Country could see the highest temperatures with a maximum of around 35C, but this is uncertain.\n\nA heatwave is defined as above average temperatures seen for three days or more.\n\nEngland had its driest July since 1935, said the Met Office. For some parts - south-east and central southern England - last month was the driest since records began in 1836.\n\nThere have also been calls for more hosepipe bans to be brought in ,including from Environment Secretary George Eustice.\n\nSouthern Water already has in place a hosepipe ban for customers in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, and from Friday South East Water will do the same in Kent and Sussex.\n\nA ban has also been in place in the Isle of Man since 29 July, where customers could face a £2,000 fine if they break the rules.\n\nWelsh Water will bring in a ban for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire later this month.\n\nIn France, the government has set up a crisis team to tackle a drought that has left more than 100 municipalities short of drinking water.\n\nLast month's record temperatures saw a series of wildfires across the country and Riccardo la Torre, from the Fire Brigades Union, described them as \"brutal\".\n\n\"They burn at extremely high temperatures, they spread faster than firefighters can move and they are very labour intensive,\" he said.\n\nHe said fire services were under strain and claimed the reason blazes \"spread with regularity is because we do not have resources to get there quickly enough\".\n\nThe government said spending for fire services had been increased by around £141m to £1.37bn over the last six years, \"demonstrating our commitment to ensuring fire services have the resources they need\".\n\nEssex County Fire and Rescue Service has urged people not to light bonfires or barbecues, or let off fireworks or sky lanterns, after a large blaze which damaged gardens, sheds and trees was started by a chiminea.\n\nMark Hardingham, chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council said: \"I have not seen a distinction between the two heatwaves - it has remained hot between then and now and equally there's been no rainfall.\"\n\nHe said crews were expecting the busiest time of day to be between 13:00 and 19:00 BST every day and said fire chiefs would aim to maximise on-call firefighters in rural areas to help cope with demand.\n\nA combine harvester and the surrounding field caught fire in Gloucestershire on Monday, following a weekend of fires in the West which saw thousands of square metres of farmland destroyed.\n\nSir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) said water companies who have not called for a hosepipe ban \"will be keeping it under constant review\".\n\n\"The advantage of doing it [a hosepipe ban] right now would be that it relieves pressure on their rivers,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's The World at One programme he said there were simple steps people could take to help such as \"reducing the number of minutes we spend in the shower\".\n\nHe said there was no doubt climate change was affecting our infrastructure and said water was something we took for granted.\n\nThe National Farmers Union warned the heatwave was compounding problems already caused by months of dry weather - grass not growing and irrigation water running out are two.\n\nDeputy president Tom Bradshaw told the BBC: \"The biggest concern is always animal health and welfare and trying to make sure the animals are well looked after.\n\n\"There's also an impact on crops, particularly some vegetable crops - once they get over the mid-20s in temperature they stop growing\".\n\nKeith Stones, who farms in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, has been struggling to find grass to feed his livestock.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The ewes producing the milk for the lambs are thin because they're not picking up enough nutrition from the forage.\n\n\"The lambs are becoming pot-bellied and thin because they're not getting nutrition from the grass or from the milk because the mums aren't supplying.\"\n\nThe dry weather has also caused staff at Kew Gardens, in south-west London, to prioritise which plants that have high conservation value, historic importance or which are extinct in the wild.\n\nDirector of gardens Richard Barley said this included not irrigating wider lawns and natural habitats.\n\nThe heat-health alerts, which are designed to help healthcare professionals manage periods of extreme temperatures, mean care homes will be monitoring residents closely.\n\nDavid Lewis, manager of Cwmbran House Care Home in Cwmbran, Wales, said they were encouraging drinking as \"much as possible\" and offering ice creams and lollies if residents get warm.\n\n\"We're ventilating the rooms and have got fans in the lounges\", he said.", "Chloe Hayman's family said their lives would \"never be the same again without her\"\n\nA 17-year-old who died in a car crash \"brought happiness and love wherever she went\", her family have said.\n\nChloe Hayman, from Mountain Ash, was a passenger in a Skoda Octavio which crashed in Fochriw, Caerphilly county, last month. She died at the scene.\n\nA man has been released on conditional bail and a police probe is under way.\n\n\"We can't believe our beautiful loving daughter, kind caring sister to three little brothers has been taken so young,\" said her family.\n\nThey described her as a \"determined and fiercely strong little girl who was beautiful inside and out\".\n\n\"Chloe brought happiness and love wherever she went and was loved by everyone who met her,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"She will be missed so much by everyone who knew her and had the chance to meet her. Our lives will never be the same again without her.\"\n\nA 21-year-old man from Rhymney who was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while unfit through drink remains on bail.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Everything stops when I play music,\" says Gavin Higgins\n\nA man who turned to music to help his Tourette's syndrome is set to see his work performed by Welsh musicians at the Proms.\n\nGavin Higgins, from London, developed the condition as an infant and used music to \"cool off\" when overwhelmed.\n\n\"Everything stops when I play music,\" he said.\n\nYears after his diagnosis for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's, a piece he composed will be performed at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nOn Monday, his Concerto Grosso will be played by the Tredegar Town Brass Band and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.\n\nIt will be the first time in over a decade a brass band has performed at the Proms.\n\nBut for months, the championship band from Blaenau Gwent, were practising Gavin's work with no idea what they were rehearsing for, with the event kept secret from the players.\n\nGavin, a composer in association with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, said he hoped playing at the Proms would make more people fall in love with brass bands and change out-dated ideas.\n\n\"Brass bands don't get the recognition or platform they deserve,\" he said.\n\nAt 35 minutes, Gavin's Concerto Grosso is quite challenging, but he said he thought the audience would have their \"socks blown off\" by the performance.\n\nGavin said brass bands had been \"a really important part of my life\"\n\nGrowing up, Gavin said music was always in his life as his whole family played in brass bands.\n\nBut when he began to develop facial tics and intrusive and repetitive thoughts, he said he relied on it to \"cool down\".\n\nGavin, who grew up in the Forest of Dean, was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and OCD after a few years of uncertainty.\n\n\"When it started to really affect my learning and no-one really knew what was going on and it started to get a bit out of control,\" he said.\n\n\"But everything stops when I play music.\"\n\nGavin said music became a form of self-therapy and he started playing more, with it eventually becoming his job.\n\n\"Composing has become a really important creative outlet for me and certainly a way of calming down my OCD and my invasive and repetitive thoughts,\" he said.\n\n\"I can lose myself in it for hours. It is not only something I love to do as a job but something I need to do for me.\"\n\nTredegar Brass Band were featured in the Bafta winning Welsh film Pride\n\nHe said Concerto Grosso was \"a piece I have been thinking about for a long time but I just didn't have the skills at that point so I just ended up shelving it\".\n\nHe described it as a celebration of music \"made by the working classes and that is at the very heart of the British musical landscape\".\n\nHe said he wanted to bring \"a Welsh band together with a Welsh orchestra in a big celebratory work\" and approached the Proms about performing at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\n\"I have been working with Tredegar for over 10 years and they really are one of the best bands in country.\n\n\"They play my music really well so there was really no other choice of band for this project and we are just really happy we can show these guys off on the stage.\"\n\nHe said lot of people seem to still have an \"old idea of what bands are\" and do not realise how modern and innovative they can be.\n\n\"They think about the Hovis advert, Terry Wogan and the Floral Dance but bands are very different to that,\" he said.\n\n\"The standard of playing is incredibly high despite the essentially amateur status as they are essentially professionals doing it just because they love doing it.\"\n\nLeanne Porthouse says \"you can't beat\" playing at the Albert Hall\n\nHe said he hoped this performance would allow more people to see brass band music as \"it doesn't get much bigger than the Proms or the Albert Hall and I think the audience is going to have their socks blown off\".\n\nHe said he also wants to show how accessible the music was to people, regardless of how much money you have.\n\n\"Tredegar is kind of in the middle of nowhere, the band room itself is sort of in the middle of nowhere tucked away, it is quite a deprived area but it is one of the worlds best brass bands,\" he said.\n\nTredegar Brass Band is one of the most well-known and decorated in the UK, featuring in ballets, Pride marches and even in films, having a cameo in Pride - the story of the LGBTQ people's efforts in the miners' strikes.\n\nIan Porthouse is the band's conductor and Leanne Porthouse plays the cornet\n\nBut solo cornet player Leanne Porthouse said performing at the Proms would be a massive moment.\n\n\"We are quite used to walking out on the Albert Hall stage because we do contests there, but I think this will be quite a different feeling event,\" she said.\n\n\"I don't think we'll even understand what the atmosphere is going to be like, it's going to be immense.\"\n\nShe added that Gavin's music was \"always challenging but we embrace it\".\n\n\"We like to think we are quite ground-breaking with the projects we take on, we are very innovative as a band and we get approached from lots of different places.\n\n\"It is important for everyone to see a brass band on a different platform and on a wider scale and it is important that we are making that move and pushing the movement forward. We are so proud to be leading the way.\"\n\nConductor Ian Porthouse said he hoped the Proms helped with recognition for the band.\n\nHe said: \"I think the biggest difference is if i say to my neighbour I'm playing at the national championships, they'll be like 'great ', but if you say we're playing at the Proms they know exactly what it is.\n\n\"For a band to do that it is the highest level you can get to. This is our chance to show at the Proms what brass bands can really do.\n\nHe described this performance as a \"huge step in the brass band classical music repertoire\".\n\nThe Proms had to be kept under wraps for a while and Ian said he struggled not telling members what they were training for.\n\n\"In the early stages when we were approached we couldn't say anything to the band and we had to keep a weekend free,\" he said.\n\nThen he said members began to ask \"could it be the Proms?\" and he thinks he \"may have given it away\".", "Ministers must offer bigger cost-of-living support payments as energy bills are expected to soar further this winter, a committee of MPs has said.\n\nFinancial help for the vulnerable and poor needed to be \"updated\" to reflect higher bills in October, they said.\n\nWitnesses told the Business Committee: \"If you think things are bad now, you've not seen anything yet.\"\n\nIts report also called energy regulator Ofgem \"incompetent\". Ofgem said it was working hard to reform the market.\n\nIn recent days, millions of low-income households on benefits have been receiving the first £326 instalment of payments to assist with the rising cost of living.\n\nFurther payments will come later in the year, including extra support for pensioners and people with disabilities, and a £400 discount on everyone's domestic energy bill.\n\nThose payments were set when the typical energy bill was anticipated to rise by £800 - a prediction Ofgem says is now too low. Influential industry analyst Cornwall Insight has predicted a rise of more than £1,200 a year in October, pushing the typical bill to £3,244 a year from October, then £3,363 a year from January.\n\nHow is the rising cost of living affecting you? Get in touch.\n\nA normal bill at present is about £2,000 a year, which follows a £700 a year rise in April.\n\nThe Business Committee's report said the government's support package was \"no longer sufficient\"\n\n\"The impact of the energy price crisis on households is likely to cause an unacceptable rise in fuel poverty and hardship this winter,\" the report said.\n\n\"The government must immediately update its support, targeting this at customers who are on low incomes, fuel poor, and in vulnerable circumstances, and develop a scheme to support vulnerable customers to accelerate the repayment of energy debt resulting from this crisis.\"\n\nThe committee has been hearing from experts, ministers and industry insiders for months.\n\n\"We were told by a number of witnesses, 'if you think things are bad now, you've not seen anything yet,'\" said Darren Jones, who chairs the committee.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"No national government can control global inflationary pressures; however, we have introduced an extraordinary package of support to help households.\"\n\nThe wide-ranging report made a series of other recommendations, including:\n\nMembers of the Business Committee follow the Public Accounts Committee of MPs in heavily criticising regulator Ofgem for its role in allowing suppliers to set up and operate without sufficient oversight. It said there was too much focus on competition instead.\n\nOwing to the failure of 29 companies, 2.4 million customers were moved to other suppliers, and often to more expensive tariffs, and one large supplier - Bulb - is in special administration.\n\n\"Ofgem has proved incompetent as the regulatory authority of the energy retail market over the last decade,\" the report said.\n\n\"It allowed suppliers to enter the market without ensuring they had access to sufficient capital, acceptable business plans, and were run by individuals with relevant expertise.\"\n\nA spokesman for Ofgem said the regulator had been \"clear and transparent\" that suppliers and its own regime had not been robust enough.\n\n\"No regulator can, or should, guarantee companies will not fail in a competitive market but we are working hard to reform the entire market, as well as closely scrutinising and holding individual energy suppliers to account, to further strengthen the regulatory regime,\" he said.\n\nThe committee also questioned the future of the price cap, which sets a limit on the cost of each unit of energy and the standing charge for domestic customers in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nIt said the government should consider a social tariff instead for the most vulnerable, and then a relative tariff for everyone else.\n\nSocial tariffs were phased out by suppliers about a decade ago.\n\nPrepayment meter customers, who pay for their energy in advance, have a different - slightly more expensive - price cap. Citizens Advice has warned that the number of people seeking help because they cannot afford to top up their meter has reached a new record.\n\nThis is known as self-disconnections and the committee said that Ofgem and suppliers should identify those at risk and allow them to pay for energy after they have used it.\n\nThe MPs also called for an \"urgent, far-reaching, and long-term\" insulation programme for UK homes.\n\n\"Ultimately, the UK needs to reduce its dependence on imported gas. Energy efficiency is the quickest and most cost-effective way to reduce gas demand and lower energy bills,\" the report said.\n\nThe Ofgem spokesman said: \"We are also working with all parts of government and industry on the long-term solution to the energy crisis by moving us away from imports of expensive gas towards a more secure, reliable, home-grown energy system.\"", "Four more ships carrying grain and sunflower oil have left Ukraine ports via a safe maritime corridor.\n\nMillions of tonnes of grain have been stuck in Ukraine due to Russian blockades, leading to shortages and higher food prices in other countries.\n\nBut last week the first ship left Ukraine's ports since February.\n\nThe latest ships to set sail are bound for Turkey where they'll be inspected as part of a deal reached with Russia and the United Nations.\n\nThey left on Sunday from the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk, and will all travel through the Bosphorus strait.\n\nAfter the inspections, two are then scheduled to dock in Turkey, while the others are headed for Italy and China.\n\nAnother empty ship arrived in Chornomorsk on Sunday afternoon, ready to be loaded with grain for export.\n\nUnder a deal brokered by Turkey and the UN last month, Russia agreed not to target ships which were in transit, while Ukraine said it would guide vessels through mined waters.\n\nThe deal, set to last 120 days, can be renewed if both sides agree.\n\nThe complex arrangement seems to be working, at least for now.\n\nThe success of this deal, a rare diplomatic breakthrough in this five-month-old conflict, is vital for Ukraine - and the rest of the world.\n\nTwenty million tonnes of grain are stuck in the country, as a result of the blockade imposed by Russia on Ukrainian ports. If the deal holds, Ukraine expects to export up to three million tonnes of grain per month.\n\nUkrainian authorities say there are good signs that the grain exports are safe, and have urged companies to return to the country's ports. The hope is that the exports will help ease the global food crisis while bringing in much needed foreign currency.\n\nBut fears persist. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the resumption of exports, but said security concerns remained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We hope nothing will happen' - Razoni ship crew member\n\nThe first ship to leave Ukraine last week - the Razoni - departed Odesa carrying 27,000 tonnes of corn bound for the Lebanese port of Tripoli.\n\nHowever officials have said it will not dock in Tripoli on Sunday as planned.\n\nThe Ukrainian embassy in Lebanon told Reuters news agency on Sunday that the ship was \"delayed\", with no details on the cause or an updated arrival date.\n\nA Joint Coordination Centre which was set up to oversee the exports said the Razoni's voyage would be a trial run, with its experience used to fine-tune procedures for the following voyages.", "The cost of living crisis is perhaps the biggest issue the next prime minister will face.\n\nWhen Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak get the keys to Number 10 in just under month, they will have to answer the question: what can the government do to help people struggling with rising bills as winter approaches?\n\nAt the moment, the candidates are trying to appeal to 160,000 or so Conservative members, who are choosing their next leader and our next prime minister.\n\nBut as the wider electorate watches on, what have the candidates actually promised on the cost of living? Will they be forced to set out more detail about what they are prepared to do? And what does Rishi Sunak's record tell us about his plans?\n\nBut let's take the frontrunner first.\n\nLiz Truss's big plan is an emergency budget as soon as she takes office.\n\nShe wants to immediately reverse the rise in National Insurance contributions and suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nHer allies say this will give people more money in their pockets.\n\nBut the foreign secretary faced pressure over the weekend when she said she wanted to help people by reducing the tax burden - and \"not giving handouts\".\n\nDid that mean there would be no more payments to help with energy bills?\n\nNot quite. Ms Truss's team say she is not ruling anything in or out. She will, they say, look at what is needed and what is possible in her emergency budget.\n\nLiz Truss wants to see an emergency budget if she's elected leader\n\nThere is an important political context here.\n\nLower taxes and a smaller state (with fewer \"handouts\") are popular with many Tories.\n\nBut what about the wider electorate? In particular, what about those former Labour voters who backed the Conservatives at the last election for the first time?\n\nThere are also criticisms that her tax cut plans will benefit the wealthy more than those on the breadline.\n\nPensioners don't pay national insurance - nor do unemployed people or those earning under £12,500. They will feel the impact of rising bills more than most, but they won't feel the benefits of the tax cut.\n\nThe way national insurance works, the more you earn, the more a cut will benefit you.\n\nSome will ask: is that the best way of targeting support?\n\nRishi Sunak has promised to step in to help people on lower incomes this winter\n\nHe hasn't pulled any punches in an article for The Sun newspaper, saying that Ms Truss's plans (including a plan to cancel an increase in corporation tax) are \"a big bung to large businesses and the well-off, leaving those who most need help out in the cold\". He writes that bolder action is needed.\n\nSo what is he planning in his first weeks as prime minister? He has said he will scrap VAT on energy bills. But beyond that, he hasn't offered much in the way of specifics.\n\nMr Sunak's supporters say it will depend on what happens with energy bills in the coming days. They have said he can be trusted based on his record as chancellor.\n\nBut remember - Mr Sunak often faced a lot of pressure to act before he took decisions to help those on the lowest incomes.\n\nHe was criticised after the Spring Statement earlier this year for not doing enough to help people with increasing prices. Many Tory MPs urged him to act - and within weeks he announced further new cost of living support.\n\nMr Sunak initially resisted Labour's calls for a Windfall Tax to help pay for help - before eventually agreeing to one.\n\nHe has also used furlough as an example of decisive action. But remember he was criticised for being too slow to extend it towards the end of 2020.\n\nIn fact, Mr Sunak resisted extending the scheme at first.\n\nAnd then there's this campaign. Mr Sunak has been criticised for saying he'll scrap VAT on energy bills - given that he didn't do it when he was in the Treasury.\n\nThere are four weeks to go in this leadership contest. There will be pressure on both candidates to give more details on what they will do to help with rising bills - and to spell out how they'll pay for it.", "People are going back to cash to keep tighter control on their spending as living costs soar, according to new research by the Post Office.\n\nPost offices handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, the most since records began five years ago.\n\nThat's up more than 20% from a year earlier.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, chair of the Cash Action Group, said it showed people are \"literally counting the pennies\" as they grapple with rising prices.\n\n\"It's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" said Ms Ceeney, who chaired the government's independent Access to Cash review.\n\n\"People will be taking out cash and physically putting it into pots, saying 'this is what I have for bills, this is what I have for food, and this is what's left'.\"\n\nPrices are currently rising faster than they have for 40 years.\n\nThe increase in the cost of living is putting a squeeze on people's finances, as incomes fail to keep up.\n\nIn total, £3.32bn in cash was deposited and withdrawn at Post Office counters in July, £100m higher than in June.\n\nPersonal cash withdrawals, at £801m, were up almost 8% month-on-month and up more than 20% year-on-year.\n\nIt is the highest amount since records began five years ago, and only the second time that personal cash withdrawals have exceeded £800m. The last time was December 2021, and there's always an increase in withdrawals around that time of year, the Post Office said.\n\nThe Post Office put the extra volume of withdrawals at its 11,500 branches down to more people turning to cash to help manage their budgets on a week-by-week and often a day-by-day basis.\n\nIt also said it was partly due to more people choosing to have staycations, with recent research by the Post Office finding that 71% of Brits planning on going on holiday in the UK this year intended to take out cash before leaving.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said: \"We're seeing more and more people increasingly reliant on cash as the tried and tested way to manage a budget.\n\n\"Whether that's for a staycation in the UK or if it's to help prepare for financial pressures expected in the autumn, cash access in every community is critical.\"\n\nCash deposits also rose, according to the research.\n\nIndividuals deposited £1.35bn in cash in July, up 2% month-on-month, while cash deposits for businesses totalled £1.13bn, up 1.9% from a month earlier.\n\nMr Kearsley said the figures showed Britain is \"anything but a cashless society\".\n\nMs Ceeney told the BBC that it was easy to see why cash use was going up, given the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Cash has been in decline for well over a decade, the pandemic accelerated this, but now it's going back up, and that's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps people budget, as using cash means you literally can count the pennies. We all know that if you pay with a card, it's so easy to spend money you don't have and then go overdrawn.\n\n\"If you've only got £30 to last you the week, holding that in notes and coins is still the most effective way of budgeting and controlling how much you spend.\"\n\nSalford University student Kira Hayward turned to social media for inspiration to help her cope with rising costs by taking cash out of her bank account.\n\nStudent Kira Hayward limits her spending by using \"budget binders\" for cash\n\nShe puts it in different labelled envelopes to ensure she has money for food and bills.\n\n\"I went on Instagram and YouTube and I saw these physical budget binders,\" she told the BBC in May. \"I take the money out of the bank and I budget for things like my shopping. If I know I have £80 in my personal shopping for the month I know I can't go over that.\"\n\nWith more high street banks closing branches, Ms Ceeley said there's a need for post offices and shared banking services to allow people to get the cash that they need, especially for vulnerable or elderly people or those who don't have access to digital banking.\n\n\"The reality is digital doesn't work for everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Millions of people don't have access to computers or smartphones, and so we need to keep cash viable.\"", "Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK are not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nIn a third of the UK's more than 200 council areas, we found no dentists taking on adult NHS patients.\n\nAnd eight in 10 NHS practices are not taking on children.\n\nThe Department of Health said it had made an extra £50m available \"to help bust the Covid backlogs\" and that improving NHS access was a priority.\n\nBBC News contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices - believed to be almost all those offering general treatment to the public.\n\nThe British Dental Association (BDA) called it \"the most comprehensive and granular assessment of patient access in the history of the service\".\n\nWhile NHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, it is subsidised.\n\nThe BBC heard from people across the UK who could not afford private fees and said the subsidised rates were crucial to getting care.\n\nThe lack of NHS appointments has led people to drive hundreds of miles in search of treatment, pull out their own teeth without anaesthesia, resort to making their own improvised dentures and restrict their long-term diets to little more than soup.\n\nSome people are going to extraordinary measure to do DIY dentistry as they struggle to find affordable dental care. Are we witnessing the death of NHS dentistry?\n\nNot only did we find that in many places routine dental care was difficult to access quickly, most practices did not even have waiting lists. For those that did, the majority told us the waiting time was a year or longer, or were unable to say how long people might have to wait.\n\nOne practice in Norfolk told the BBC it had more than 1,700 people on its list, while another, in Cornwall, warned that it would take five years to be taken on as a patient.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents high-street NHS dentists in the UK, said NHS dentistry was at a \"tipping point\" after a decade of under-investment.\n\nCaroline Young, from Blackpool, had crowns fitted to her damaged teeth by an NHS dentist, but when her practice stopped treating patients on the health service four years ago, she was unable to find a new one.\n\nAlmost every week she goes through the dentists in the phonebook to ask whether they are taking on new patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I've even called dental practices as far as 20 miles away, in Preston. I've re-called all my local ones many times. I can't even get on a waiting list,\" she said.\n\nMs Young's crowns gradually fell out and she has now resorted to improvised solutions involving a form of plastic, which she found on social media.\n\n\"It was supposed to be temporary, but my temporary became twice a week,\" said Ms Young.\n\nDentists warn that these homemade dentures are not only a dangerous choking hazard, but also food traps that can lead to worse tooth decay and gum damage.\n\n\"There are times when I've tried to fit it, and it's not worked, and I'll sit in floods of tears because I can't go out,\" she says. \"It's demoralising. I shouldn't feel that this holds me back, but it does. If I could afford private dentistry, I'd be there tomorrow.\"\n\nScotland had significantly better access to NHS dentistry for adults than the other UK nations, with 18% of practices taking on new health-service patients.\n\nWales, England and Northern Ireland had broadly similar rates of access, at 7%, 9% and 10% respectively.\n\nAmong the areas where BBC News researchers could not find a single practice accepting new adult patients were Lancashire, Norfolk, Devon and Leeds.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nMost of the UK's NHS dentists are independent businesses and are not employed by the health service directly.\n\nIf they fail to fulfil their NHS contract, the money that they have been paid is taken back.\n\nNHS England said it had recently made changes to the dentistry contract and would \"support practices to improve access, including giving high-performing practices the opportunity to increase their activity and treat more patients\".\n\nIt said discussions on further changes were \"still ongoing\".\n\nThe Welsh government also said it was working on reforming the dental system to improve access and quality of dental care. Wales announced in July that most adults would be offered dental check-ups once a year instead of every six months.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government said more than 95% of the population of Scotland were registered with an NHS dentist and it was \"in a position of relative strength in terms of workforce numbers and capacity\".\n\nAll the devolved governments pointed out that the coronavirus pandemic had affected the availability of NHS dental care. Northern Ireland's Department of Health said it was \"inevitable that access levels are not as favourable today as they were before Covid\".\n\n\"Patients who are currently not registered with a health-service dentist, and wish to become registered may unfortunately have to contact multiple practices and consider travelling further than normal,\" it added.\n\nAccess to NHS dentistry has been a problem ever since the health service was created. Free treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.\n\nEver since, a subsidised system - where some patients pay towards the cost - has been in place.\n\nAlongside this, a strong private market has developed. An estimated one in seven adults relies on it. It leaves dentists with a real choice about how much NHS work they do.\n\nOver recent years NHS access has been getting harder.\n\nThe current NHS contract in England and Wales, which dates back to 2006, is unpopular with dentists, who feel unrewarded for the work they do.\n\nAusterity also squeezed budgets and then the pandemic hit, creating a backlog of patients with worsening oral health.\n\nThis combination of factors appears to have prompted more dentists to walk away - the numbers doing NHS work dropped by 10% last year.\n\nIt's fair to say the difficulties patients are facing are unprecedented.\n\nThe dentists' union blamed the current NHS contract for the lack of accessible dental care.\n\n\"There doesn't appear to be a commitment, really, from the Treasury to actually invest in [dentistry],\" said BDA chairman Eddie Crouch.\n\n\"Patients are having teeth removed because it's a cheaper option than actually saving the teeth. The whole system is set up for health inequalities, and that significantly needs to change.\n\n\"Many of my colleagues do not see enough emphasis on improving the situation in the short term.\"\n\nPaul Woodhouse, dentist and BDA board member, told BBC Breakfast emergency appointments at his practice were filled within five minutes of being open.\n\nHe said the government was only providing 50% of the funding the UK needed to care for every patient, meaning half of the population were being left without an NHS dentist.\n\n\"If you said that about GPs or cancer screening, there would be riots on the street,\" he said.\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of health think-tank the Nuffield Trust, said NHS dentistry was \"on life-support\" in some areas of the country.\n\nBut he added: \"I think it's premature to say we're witnessing the death of it.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be any real appetite for the sort of big structural and investment decisions that are required to fix NHS dentistry.\"\n\nBBC researchers aimed to contact every dental practice with an NHS contract in the four nations to ask whether they were taking on new patients.\n\nUsing lists from NHS organisations, we identified 8,523 dental practices across the UK that were believed to hold NHS contracts and tried to call them all during May, June and July.\n\nWe then narrowed down this list, excluding practices that\n\nWe were left with a list of 6,880 practices.\n\nFor our analysis, we looked at the distribution of the practices across the UK's 217 upper-tier local authorities.\n\nWe classified a practice as accepting new child NHS patients if they would take on those under the age of 16.\n\nA practice that required a referral to take on a patient was not treated as accepting new NHS patients, since a referral requires an initial appointment with a dentist, which is a barrier to entry.\n\nAdditional reporting by Eve Mattison, Leah Dunderdale-Smith, Ellie Butler, Robert Tait, Lucy Gilder, Alison Benjamin, Becky Dale, Jana Tauschinski, Christine Jeavans and the BBC Data Journalism team", "John Watt QC was a former prosecutor in Scotland\n\nA former Scottish prosecutor has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing four young children more than four decades ago.\n\nJohn Watt QC, who was also a criminal defence lawyer, preyed on three young girls and a boy over a 14-year period.\n\nThe 72-year-old had been extradited from the United States to stand trial in July.\n\nJudge Lord Braid told Watt he had committed \"vile\" crimes of the \"utmost seriousness and depravity.\"\n\nWatt was also put on the sex offenders register for an indeterminate period.\n\nLast month, Watt was found guilty of one charge of rape, one of indecent assault and three of indecent conduct committed at houses in the Edinburgh area between September 1973 and August 1987.\n\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Braid said: \"In each case the offences have had a profound and life-changing effect on the victims.\"\n\nThe judge said that Watt continued to maintain his innocence over the abuse and added that perhaps explained why he had not demonstrated any remorse or empathy for his victims.\n\nLord Braid said: \"In your role as advocate depute (Crown Office prosecutor) you prosecuted the very type of offence of which you have now been convicted.\"\n\nWatt raped a girl under the age of 12 at an address in the west end of Edinburgh.\n\nTwo other girls were later molested by him in their beds at a house in Edinburgh and a 10-year-old boy was subjected to sexual abuse at an address in Leith in 1987.\n\nThe court previously heard that a number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time.\n\nDuring his trial, Watt pinned the blame on a now dead lawyer for attacks on one of the girls.\n\nThe female rape victim told the trial that her father, who was also a lawyer, took her to see Watt at a house in Edinburgh. The woman, now aged 55, said: \"I did things to the man which he made me do.\"\n\nThe court heard that a number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time\n\nTwo sisters told the trial how their lawyer father often hosted gatherings at their home where Watt and others would be present.\n\nOne described waking up to find Watt at her bedside before he got in beside her and began touching her inappropriately.\n\nHer sister saw him in the bed and recalled being \"frightened\", but the advocate then turned on her and subjected her to abuse.\n\nThe court heard that their father had subsequently reported Watt to a senior lawyer, who later became a judge, instead of going to police.\n\nThe male victim told the court: \"I was raped by John Watt. I remember him coming in the room and I remember him telling me to turn over.\" Watt was meant to be looking after the boy while his parents were away.\n\nDefence counsel Donald Findlay QC told the court Watt would be lodging an appeal.\n\nHe said that Watt \"in common with any decent individual deplores the type of conduct that is referred to in these charges\".\n\nMr Findlay said: \"He is a first offender. He is still one of Her Majesty's counsel in Scotland.\"\n\nWatt gave up law in Scotland and moved to Oklahoma in 1995 where he did some work for his wife's real estate agency before armed police detained him ahead of extradition proceedings.\n\nMr Findlay said Watt did not keep good health and had diabetes but hoped to return home to America and his wife.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the two sisters said in a statement addressed to Watt: \"You thought you'd picked the right kid.\n\n\"The kid of a dad who idolised you and was too weak to stand up to you properly. The kid of a mum who knew it was wrong, but was told that she wouldn't be believed.\n\n\"The kid who cowered behind the locked door of a freezing cold bathroom in case you came back for her. The kid who kept her secret for 37 years.\n\n\"Having been found guilty, I think you should know that you picked the wrong kid. Because there are no wrong kids. Only kids who are too young to have the power to do anything about it.\n\n\"Only kids who people don't listen hard enough to. Only kids who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye. Only kids who know right from wrong. Just kids.\"\n\nWhen John Watt was sentenced in the courts where he used to practise as a senior lawyer, prosecuting people accused of sex crimes, two of his victims were watching from the public gallery.\n\nThe sisters were young girls when the Queen's Counsel abused them at their home in Edinburgh 40 years ago. Watt was convicted of raping two other children, a girl aged under 12 and a 10-year-old boy.\n\nThey listened to Watt's defence counsel Donald Findlay QC complain that the ex-lawyer had been \"treated like some kind of serial killer\" when he was arrested by armed American police officers on behalf of the Scottish authorities.\n\nThey heard Mr Findlay say Watt was sympathetic to \"any victim of this type of behaviour\" but still maintained his innocence.\n\nThey watched the judge Lord Braid jail the ex-lawyer for 10 years, having noted that his behaviour had had a \"profound and lifelong\" effect on his victims.\n\nAfterwards, the sisters gave the handful of reporters covering the case a typed statement addressed \"to the accused.\" It was defiant and heartbreaking.\n\nThe sisters said their father had idolised Watt but was too weak to stand up to him properly. They said their mother was told she wouldn't be believed. They talked of a secret kept for 37 years and of kids \"who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about whether these allegations could have been dealt with long ago.\n\nCases involving so-called historic abuse allegations are now commonplace within Scotland's courts, as justice finally catches up with the evil done by men like John Watt. They're not historic for the victims still living with the consequences.\n\nThe former defence lawyer and prosecutor is lodging an appeal, but if his convictions and the 10-year sentence stands, he'll be in his late 70s before he's considered for parole.\n• None Former Scots QC guilty of abusing four children", "Roger E. Mosley was involved in a car accident in Lynwood, Los Angeles last week\n\nActor Roger E. Mosley, who appeared in all eight seasons of the original Magnum P.I., has died aged 83.\n\nHe portrayed Theodore \"T.C.\" Calvin, the helicopter pilot and friend of Tom Selleck's character.\n\nMosley died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Lynwood, Los Angeles last week.\n\nHis daughter Ch-a, who previously told followers about the car crash, confirmed his death to the Hollywood Reporter.\n\nShe later wrote on Facebook: \"We could never mourn such an amazing man. He would hate any crying done in his name. It is time to celebrate the legacy he left for us all.\n\n\"I love you daddy. You loved me too. My heart is heavy but I am strong. I will care for mommy, your love of almost 60 years. You raised me well and she is in good hands. Rest easy.\"\n\nHis friend Tina Andrews tweeted: \"What a sweet man, and a fine actor who gave great parties. RIP, Roger. You were loved and shall be missed.\"\n\nMosley played musician Huddie Ledbetter, known for The Midnight Special, in 1976's Leadbelly - a performance which was praised by critics.\n\nHe also appeared in The Mack, Hit Man, The Greatest, Darktown Strutters and Sweet, Jesus Preacherman.\n\nBut Mosley's most high-profile role was in Magnum P.I., which saw him appear in 158 out of 162 episodes between 1980 and 1988.\n\nMosley appeared opposite Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I. during the 1980s\n\nThe series was created by Donald Bellisario and Glen A. Larson - and Mosley's character T.C. was a buddy of Selleck's Thomas Magnum from their days in Vietnam.\n\nHis character owned a helicopter charter company in Oahu called Island Hoppers, which came in handy on the series that aired from December 1980 until May 1988.\n\nAccording to Mosley, his co-star Selleck recommended him for the part after they worked together on 1973's Terminal Island. Producers had reportedly considered casting Gerald McRaney, before deciding they needed a person of colour in the principal cast.\n\nMosley was working on films at the time and did not want a job on a television show, but his agent talked him into doing the Magnum pilot.\n\nAs Mosley remembered it, his agent told him: \"'It's starring this guy Tom Selleck. Tom Selleck has made about five pilot shows … and none of them has sold.\n\n\"'So here's what you do, Roger: sign up for the show, go over to Hawaii, they'll treat you good for the 20 days it will take to shoot the [pilot], you'll get a lot of money, and then you come home. A show with Tom Selleck always fails, and you'll be fine.'\"\n\nThe actor felt strongly that his character should be a university graduate, a lover of books and poetry and a guy who didn't party.\n\n\"They [the Magnum writers] keep writing for me to smoke and drink, but I won't do it,\" he said in a 1982 interview in Ebony. \"I never get high, smoke or drink on the show or in real life. That's not what I want black kids to see.\"\n\nMosley did less acting in his later years, and mostly stopped appearing in films and TV shows around 2010.\n\nHowever, he did guest star in two episodes of the revived Magnum P.I., which launched in 2018, starring Jay Hernandez and Perdita Weeks.", "Lisa is contemplating dentures after her crown treatment left her with serious complications\n\nHundreds of British dentists have treated patients with serious complications after they travelled abroad to get cut-price crowns, a BBC documentary has learned. The latest cosmetic look, seen on ITV's Love Island and via the hashtag #Turkeyteeth, has given some people their dream smile but left others asking the NHS to pick up the pieces.\n\nLisa Martyn never expected she would contemplate getting dentures at the age of 48. But after travelling abroad for an invasive cosmetic dental procedure, she believes there are few other options.\n\n\"My teeth are gone. They're filed down so much,\" she says. \"They never said your teeth can die, that you can get an abscess.\"\n\nLast year, Lisa flew to Turkey for 26 veneers, usually thin shells placed around teeth that are minimally shaved down, hoping to achieve a perfect smile for her son's wedding.\n\nMonths later she discovered she had actually been given crowns. These involve 60% - 70% of the natural tooth being filed down to fangs or stubs, before a tooth cap is glued on top. Patients can choose the shape, material and colour of these caps, often opting for a bright, white, symmetrical smile.\n\nThe trend of travelling to countries like Turkey for dental treatment has been dubbed \"Turkey teeth\". It is popular on social media, where a TikTok hashtag has reached more than 130 million views, and with several reality TV influencers.\n\nThe BBC explores the TikTok trend in which young people are travelling to Turkey to get a brand new smile.\n\nBut 10 months on, Lisa, from Ireland, has been plagued by ongoing nerve sensitivity and excruciating pain. She has lost more than two stone (12.7kg) as she is unable to eat properly and has spent months relying on painkillers.\n\nThe pain culminated in an infection and abscess which Lisa says nearly paralysed half of her face. Her original procedure in Turkey cost her 3,500 euro (£3,000) but her private remedial treatment, which includes two rounds of root canal surgery, will cost her more than 2,000 euro.\n\nShe has been told the only long-term treatment available is implants or dentures.\n\n\"Financially it's going to cripple me, but that's just the price I have to pay after going to Turkey and filing all my teeth down,\" she says.\n\nThe BBC contacted Lisa's clinic in Turkey, but did not receive a response.\n\nWe spoke to some UK dentists who say they'd be concerned their regulatory bodies would not allow them to conduct such work. Dr MJ Rowland-Warmann, director of a dental clinic in Liverpool, emphasised crowns can cause major complications.\n\n\"If I did 20 crowns on a 21-year-old for the purposes of improving the colour, I would have my licence revoked, I would be struck off,\" she says.\n\nAn exclusive survey for BBC News of 1,000 dentists, by trade union the British Dental Association (BDA), found 597 respondents said they had treated both patients with crown complications and seen patients who visited Turkey for their dental treatment.\n\nNearly one in five of those surveyed said the repair costs exceeded £5,000. Three-hundred-and-forty-six dentists said some of this remedial treatment was provided by the NHS.\n\nIt is not known how many people from the UK have had such treatment abroad.\n\nStudies also suggest on average, a quarter of crowns have to be extracted after 15 years. Crowns also increase the risk of having root canal treatments, extractions and dentures in future.\n\nOne of the first to sport the trend was ex-Love Island winner Jack Fincham, who travelled to Turkey for 10 crowns before entering the villa in 2018.\n\n\"My mum used to be a dental nurse, so I know how expensive it is to get your teeth done. I knew it would be about £10,000 - £15,000 easily in England. So I thought I'd rather just go to Turkey get a bit of sun, have a laugh.\"\n\nJack Fincham during and after treatment\n\nThe week Jack appeared on the reality show and spoke about his teeth, Google searches for \"Turkey Teeth\" spiked.\n\nBut he admits, \"I didn't really know what a crown was. And I didn't know it was quite as invasive as it was.\"\n\nNot all patients return with complications.\n\nTilly, 22, has had no regrets since travelling to Turkey for 16 crowns in January.\n\n\"Ever since a young age, I was bullied for my teeth,\" she explains. \"I was called things like Bugs Bunny and told how pretty I'd be if I didn't have the teeth I had.\"\n\nShe says the treatment has significantly changed her life.\n\nTilly booked her treatment by messaging the clinic on Instagram\n\n\"I'm smiling a lot more, I'm laughing. I'm not hiding my mouth which I did constantly,\" she says. \"I'm just more and more myself, it's given me my confidence back.\"\n\nLike many others travelling to Turkey for crown procedures, Tilly booked her treatment by messaging her clinic via Instagram. The clinic then asked her to send some photographs of her teeth, before providing her with a treatment plan.\n\nThe BBC contacted 150 dental clinics in Turkey and 50 cosmetic dental clinics in the UK via Instagram with a picture of our documentary presenter's teeth with the following message: \"Hi, hoping to come to Turkey to get my teeth done for my 26th birthday. I'm not happy with my bottom teeth and want them more in line with the rest of my mouth. What do you recommend, how much would it cost in pounds and how long will it last? Here are some pictures of my mouth.\"\n\nSeventy of the 120 Turkish clinics that responded offered treatment that involved shaving down the natural teeth, such as crowns or veneers.\n\nNone of the 34 UK clinics that responded offered a treatment plan of veneers or crowns, although some did suggest less invasive treatments such as aligners or composite bonding.\n\nEddie Crouch, chairman of the BDA, warns: \"Patients need to provide informed consent for any treatment they have and be wary of a hard sell, as the reality is rarely as simple as it appears on Instagram. Sadly, many UK dentists are now picking up the pieces when things go wrong.\n\n\"We strongly advise people considering this to check a dentist's qualifications and experience and whether they are insured if things go wrong.\"\n• None 'The screeching drill, the burnt flesh - my dental nightmare'", "Ukrainian military inspect the site of a Russian missile strike in the Donetsk region\n\nRussia's military could be unable to operate the high-tech weapons and communications systems it has been using in Ukraine if the West were to tighten export controls, says a report.\n\nAlmost all Moscow's modern military systems depend on western-made microelectronics, says the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) report.\n\nMoscow has found ways to bypass sanctions and export controls.\n\nIf the loopholes are closed, Russia's military might be permanently degraded.\n\nA Texas Instruments chip on a circuit board found inside a Russian 9M727 missile collected on the battlefield by Ukraine's military\n\nResearchers for Rusi, a UK think tank, spent months in Ukraine, examining 27 of Russia's most modern military systems, either captured, brought down or abandoned by Russian troops.\n\nThey discovered at least 450 different kinds of unique, foreign-made components, most built in the US but also in other Western countries.\n\nProducts from familiar brands, like Sony and Texas Instruments, are turning up on the battlefield in Russian weapons systems. There is no suggestion those firms have been complicit in sending components to Russia.\n\nJack Watling, a senior research fellow at Rusi and one of the authors of the 60-page report, told the BBC there was a chance to permanently deny Russia access to these sensitive components - many of which are manufactured in the US, but also in Switzerland, the Netherlands, UK, Germany and France.\n\n\"If these components can be denied then the Russians will not be able to replenish the arsenal of equipment that they have expended in Ukraine,\" Dr Watling says.\n\nHe points to Russia's heavy reliance on artillery, missiles and rockets that have devastated the towns and villages of eastern Ukraine and allowed Russian ground forces to make slow, incremental advances through a shattered wasteland.\n\n\"The Russian system of fighting is largely dependent on what's called reconnaissance strike: finding your targets and then hitting them with overwhelming firepower,\" he says. \"And what we found is that almost every link in that chain is dependent on Western components.\"\n\nRussian Orlan-10 drones can target artillery fire on enemy positions within minutes\n\nRussia's fleet of battlefield drones, which scout out the locations of Ukrainian positions before they can be bombarded with artillery, also use imported microelectronics, cameras and communications systems. All are high-spec and many should be subject to export controls.\n\nIn order for long-range ballistic and cruise missiles to be accurate, says Dr Watling, they have to have Western-made microchips.\n\nSo how exactly has Russia been able to get its hands on these high-tech components?\n\nIt seems to have found several methods. A clandestine network has been in existence in some form since Soviet times. Operated by Russian intelligence officers it uses intermediate shipment hubs like Hong Kong and Malaysia.\n\nIn addition, some companies exporting these vital components are unaware of who the end user really is.\n\nOthers, says Dr Watling, prefer not to ask too many questions.\n\nThe report's authors believe time is running out to prevent new illicit pipelines being set up that will keep Russia's military supplied with these vital components.\n\nIn order to cut off what the report calls this \"silicon lifeline\" and permanently degrade Russia's ability to wage the kind of warfare it has in Ukraine, the West now has a unique window of opportunity to tighten export licence controls before it is too late.\n\nRussia, it concludes, is scrambling to procure what it can in bulk before the net closes.\n\n\"The time to act is now,\" says the Rusi report.", "Hiring in the UK has slowed amidst uncertainty over the economy, according to a report.\n\nJuly saw the slowest increase in the number of permanent jobs filled for 17 months.\n\nKPMG said recruiters are becoming more tentative over hiring new staff.\n\nThe consultancy added that ongoing skills shortages, a drop in foreign workers and hesitancy from candidates to move jobs had all led to a tighter supply of suitable staff.\n\nThe slowing down of the hiring spree that followed the pandemic comes as the Bank of England warned the UK will fall into recession in the final quarter of this year. The bank raised interest rates from 1.25% to 1.75%, in a bid to curb soaring prices.\n\nThe jobs report by KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation suggested rising operating costs and uncertainty over the UK's economic outlook is leading some firms to put the brakes on recruitment, at least for permanent roles.\n\nBut the soaring cost of living and tougher competition for a smaller pool of qualified candidates has also meant that the rate of starting pay continued to rise in July.\n\n\"The trend of uncertainty in the UK jobs market of the last few months continues,\" said KPMG's Claire Warnes.\n\n\"Employers are rightly hesitant about their hiring plans... So, a focus on up-skilling existing workers and attracting talent, remains absolutely essential for UK business to play its part in driving forward the economy.\"\n\nIt is still a good time to be a jobseeker - the number of vacancies advertised has continued to grow. Although the fastest rate of growth in vacancies was for temporary posts in the hospitality sector.\n\n\"Given the outlook being painted by the Bank of England... one might wonder why anyone would consider switching jobs at all,\" said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.\n\n\"Consumer confidence is already at record lows, and prices look set to rise further, so business and consumers are likely to face further challenges. Let's see what the government has in mind to help navigate us through the winter months.\"\n\nThe Bank of England said it expects the economy to shrink in the final three months of this year, and keep shrinking until the end of 2023, signalling the longest downturn for the UK economy since the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nJeevun Sandher, economist at Kings College London said \"those who are able and willing to work are, generally, working. That is great news\". But he added: \"The problem we face is that having a job does not mean you will earn enough to escape poverty. Even before this cost-of-living crisis, almost 70% of adults in poverty lived in working households. That has gotten significantly worse - half of us are now cutting back on food.\"\n\nHe added that workers should be asking for \"the highest salaries possible\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Toni Dennan said though she had since had another daughter, remembering what happened \"doesn't get any easier\"\n\nA mother who lost her baby after getting Covid-19 while she was pregnant has urged other pregnant women to get vaccinated.\n\nToni Dennan lost baby Darcey at the end of 2020, before the vaccine was available.\n\nShe and husband Lee wanted to share their story so that Darcey's legacy would be to save other babies.\n\nNear the start of the pandemic, the couple found out they were having a baby.\n\nToni said it was \"amazing\".\n\n\"It was something we were obviously really happy about and really wanted, so we were delighted.\"\n\nA 20-week scan revealed they were having a girl.\n\n\"We knew we were calling her Darcey all the way through from that moment on, which we're grateful for now,\" Lee said.\n\nCovid rules meant Lee had not been allowed to go to hospital with Toni, but he was called and told to get straight there\n\nAt the time, no vaccines were available, so Toni spent months shielding.\n\nBut shortly before Christmas, she caught coronavirus and she became concerned about Darcey.\n\nAn initial hospital check seemed to be OK, but by the next day, she was worse.\n\n\"She wasn't moving,\" she said.\n\n\"So I went back in and at that point it was a full-on emergency and straight through to an emergency C-section.\"\n\nCovid restrictions meant Lee had not been allowed to go to hospital with her, but she said he was called by the medical staff and told to get there as quickly as possible.\n\nToni was put under general anaesthetic and the hospital's medics fought to save her and Darcey.\n\n\"I came round and I was surrounded,\" she said.\n\n\"I was out of the theatre then, in a side room, and surrounded by doctors.\n\n\"That was when the doctor had told me that Darcey hadn't made it.\n\n\"Lee walked through the door and kind of looked really hopeful and I just shook my head at him.\"\n\nShe said remembering that moment \"doesn't get any easier\".\n\nDr Anustha Sivananthan said \"one in five of the most seriously ill in intensive care\" were unvaccinated mums-to-be\n\nToni did not have the option of getting vaccinated, something which is now seen as essential to protect both mother and baby.\n\nHowever, in some parts of North-West England, 60% of expectant mothers do not have that protection, so mobile clinics are being used to try to make it easier for them to have a jab.\n\nDr Anustha Sivananthan, medical director at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said one in five of the most seriously ill patients in intensive care units were pregnant women who had not been vaccinated.\n\n\"It's as high as that, which is why we're encouraging as many pregnant women or even women wanting to become pregnant to come forward and have their vaccination.\"\n\nThe couple have since had another daughter, Nancy, but want Darcey's legacy to be one of helping other people\n\nSeven months ago, Toni and Lee had another daughter, Nancy.\n\nLee said it was \"amazing just hearing her cry and seeing her for the first time\".\n\nToni added that she had \"never been so happy to hear a baby cry\".\n\n\"We know what you can lose and it's just not worth the risk, so I would urge every pregnant woman to get that vaccine.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by issues raised in this article, help and support is available at BBC Action Line.\n\nClarification - 13 October 2022: While Dr Sivananthan was quoted accurately in our original story, we have established from NHS England that she was referring to one in five of patients in ECMO units, a specialised form of intensive care, rather than one in five patients in intensive care units.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cordons remain in place at the scene of the shooting\n\nA man has been taken to hospital after being shot by police in south-east London.\n\nFirearms officers responded to multiple 999 reports of a man with a firearm in Creek Road, Greenwich, at about 14:30 BST. The man's injuries are not life threatening, police said.\n\nAn eyewitness described seeing a man with an item that \"looked like a semi-automatic 9mm or Glock-style gun\".\n\nThere is no ongoing threat to the wider public, the Met Police said.\n\nThe incident is not thought to be terror-related.\n\nA London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesperson said the man was taken as a priority to a major trauma centre.\n\nNo other injuries have been reported. Cordons and road closures are in place.\n\nPolice have cordoned off both sides of the Creek Road river crossing\n\nEyewitness Clare Thomas told the BBC she was in a car stuck in traffic when she saw a man with what looked like a handgun.\n\nMs Thomas said: \"He had duct tape around his hand and the gun was in his left hand. It looked like a semi-automatic 9mm or Glock-style gun.\n\n\"I'd say he was in his 30s to 40s. He was wearing a red top.\"\n\nGemma Daly, 31, said she heard some shouting and then \"a big bang\" she believed was a gunshot.\n\n\"Police were attending to a man on the side of the bridge,\" she said, adding that he was \"clearly injured\".\n\n\"They removed his clothing\", she said, and described how \"a lot of people\" were working on the man before he was put on a stretcher.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had started an investigation into the shooting.\n\n\"Our investigators have been sent to the scene and the post-incident procedures to start gathering evidence,\" an IOPC spokesman added.\n\nTransport for London said a number of bus routes had been diverted while the road was cordoned off.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Covid infections are continuing to fall in the UK, dropping by more than half a million in a week, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nRoughly 2.6 million people had the virus in the week to 26 July, compared to 3.2 million the previous week.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus is also decreasing.\n\nBut experts warn there is still a lot of Covid around, with data estimating one in 25 people in England currently have the virus.\n\nVaccines are helping protect people from severe illness, however.\n\nThe ONS data is collated by testing thousands of people from UK households - whether or not they have symptoms - to estimate how much virus is circulating.\n\nIn the latest ONS report, for the week ending 26 July , the estimated Covid rates were:\n\n\"Our most recent data suggests that infection rates have continued to decrease across much of the UK, although rates still remain high,\" said Dr Rhiannon Yapp, co-lead for the ONS survey.\n\n\"We have seen continued decreases in all regions and age groups in England.\n\n\"With the summer holidays and more people travelling, we will continue to closely monitor the data,\" she added.\n\nMany of the recent cases have been linked to fast-spreading sub-variants of Omicron, called BA.4 and BA.5.\n\nPeople are still able to become infected, even if they have had Covid before - but vaccines are helping to protect people from becoming severely ill.\n\nThe government announced last month that everyone aged 50 and over in the UK will be offered another Covid booster vaccine this autumn.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beyoncé's album has been praised for its celebration of post-1970s black dance music\n\nBeyoncé has earned her fourth UK number one album with Renaissance, a heartfelt love letter to house and dance music.\n\nThe album outsold its nearest competition by three-to-one to reach the summit, said the Official Charts.\n\nIt follows the star's previous chart-toppers, Dangerously in Love (2003), 4 (2011) and Lemonade (2016). She also made number one as part of Destiny's Child on the 2001 album, Survivor.\n\nRenaissance was also the week's biggest-seller on vinyl.\n\nThe album has also topped the charts in Australia, Ireland and France, and is predicted to have the biggest opening week of the year in the US.\n\nIn the singles chart, the album's lead track Break My Soul reaches a new peak at number two - making it Beyoncé's highest-charting solo song since 2008's If I Were A Boy.\n\nTwo further songs from Renaissance debut inside the Top 20, with Cuff It at 14 and Alien Superstar landing at 16.\n\nChart rules stipulate that no more than three songs from the same artist can qualify for the Top 100 at the same time, otherwise the total would be higher.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Beyoncé This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nReleased last Friday, Renaissance has been praised for its fusion of six decades of black and queer dance music, from disco and funk, to Chicago house and Afro-beats, Jamaican dancehall and Detroit techno, via New York's ballroom scene.\n\n\"Renaissance is Beyoncé at her loca-motion best,\" wrote Jason King for NPR. \"The kinetic album seems to rarely let up or stop, or take a break. It's bursting over with musical and sonic and lyrical details and ideas.\n\nRolling Stone's critic Mosi Reeves agreed, calling it: \"a sprawling testament to the beauty of the dancefloor\".\n\n\"Every song is an uptempo track that has the potential to joyously redefine dance floors, living rooms, and car singalongs in 2022 and beyond.\"\n\nBeyonce's has stated that Renaissance is the first instalment of a three-album project recorded during the pandemic.\n\n\"Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,\" she wrote on Instagram.\n\nThe singer dedicated the record to her uncle Jonny, saying: \"He was my godmother and the first person to expose me to a lot of the music and culture that serve as inspiration for this album.\n\n\"Thank you to all of the pioneers who originate culture, to all of the fallen angels whose contributions have gone unrecognized for far too long. This is a celebration for you.\"\n\nHowever, the album did not arrive without controversy.\n\nDisability activists criticised the use of a derogatory term for people with spastic cerebral palsy in the song Heated, while R&B singer Kelis complained that elements of her song Milkshake had been borrowed without permission in another track, Energy.\n\nBeyoncé quickly revised the album on Tuesday night, replacing the offensive lyric and removing references to Milkshake entirely.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by MaggieRogersVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nElsewhere in the album charts, US singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers scores her first top 10 entry with her second record Surrender.\n\nThe musician was the subject of a record label bidding war when a video of her wowing Pharrell Williams went viral in 2016, and was later nominated for best new artist at the Grammys.\n\nBut she took time off to recalibrate, and enrolled in Harvard Divinity School while making her second record - which burns with raw intensity, as she throws herself back into the world, post-lockdown.\n\nElvis Presely's greatest hits album rises to number 12, thanks to a surge in interest following Baz Luhrmann's biopic of the singer.\n\nAnd indie band The Cribs have three re-entries on the top 40, after reissuing their first three albums: The Cribs, New Fellas and Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever.\n\nScottish dance duo LF System remain at the top of the singles chart for the fifth consecutive week; while Harry Styles' As It Was takes a 17th turn in the top three, extending its lead as the year's biggest hit.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Athlete Eilish McColgan: \"It honestly feels surreal to have won so many years after my mum.\"\n\nWatching Eilish McColgan's 10,000m victory in the Commonwealth Games was \"100 times better\" than winning the event herself, her mum Liz has said.\n\nRoared on by a raucous Birmingham crowd, Eilish won gold following a stunning last lap on Wednesday night.\n\nThe win means she has emulated her mother's success in 1986 and 1990.\n\nThe pair have spoken of their elation after a night of historic success for Team Scotland.\n\nEilish clung on in the closing stages of the long-distance event only to blow away her Kenyan rival Irine Cheptai in the home straight.\n\nHer time of 30:48:60 beat the previous Commonwealth Games record of 31:27.83, set by Kenyan Salina Kosgei in 2002.\n\nEilish McColgan was cheered on by former Commonwealth champion Liz in Birmingham\n\nLiz – a two-time Commonwealth champion over 10,000m, as well as a world champion in 1991 and Olympic silver-medallist in 1988 – said watching the triumph track-side was \"amazing\".\n\nShe told the BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"As an athlete myself you have fond memories of having success and whatever but when it's your own children it's like 100 times better.\n\n\"It's just one of those really special moments and I was just thankful I was actually in the stadium and able to experience how the home support helped lift her to that gold medal.\n\n\"It was just one of those really, really special moments that probably will never come along again but it was just a great atmosphere and just really exciting and nerve-wracking to be part of it.\"\n\nLiz, who also coaches her daughter, added that without the backing of the Birmingham crowd \"the last 150m would never have happened\".\n\nMum Liz won gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh\n\nEilish told the BBC: \"The noise over that last 200m honestly just dragged me to that finishing line.\n\n\"It was just an incredible evening. And even more special to have my mum in the crowd, my dad, my partner Michael.\n\n\"It just feels surreal to have won that so many years after my mum. I can't put it into words.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old, who has overcome injury and setbacks at major events, said the victory was years in the making.\n\n\"I feel like at this stage in my career I'm getting stronger both physically and mentally and I believe that I can do it now,\" she said.\n\n\"It's just nice to know it's heading in the right direction even though I'm getting older I'm definitely still making progress every single year.\"\n\nHowever, the Scot hinted that we shouldn't expect to see her heroics on the track for much longer.\n\nEilish McColgan says she's nearing the end of her track career\n\nLooking ahead to the 2024 Olympics, she said: \"I'm just excited now to head into Paris. For me the next chapter will be on the roads and racing marathons.\n\n\"So this was a nice way to sort of end the track chapter and I'm just excited now for a new challenge and what lies ahead.\"\n\nThe Team Scotland star is scheduled to compete in the 5,000m on Sunday, though her mother said that would depend on \"how her hamstrings held up\".\n\nEilish added: \"Sadly there won't be any celebrating until the start of October when I finish my season. I also have the 5,000m here on Sunday as well so there' still a huge part of the season left.\n\n\"I'll get my chance to celebrate, but another couple of months from now.\"", "Two men have been arrested after a Tesco van was hijacked in Newtownards and driven to Belfast, colliding with other vehicles on the way.\n\nThe delivery van was taken from Georges Street shortly before 17:00 BST.\n\nIt was driven through Dundonald and Holywood before police used a stinger at Dee Street to bring it to a stop on the Sydenham Bypass.\n\nThe men, aged 23 and 29, have been arrested on suspicion of a number of offences including hijacking.\n\nThe other offences include using a motor vehicle without insurance, driving while disqualified and assault on police.\n\nPolice are asking anyone involved in the collisions, or with dashcam footage, to contact them immediately.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, says there is a \"real risk\" of soaring prices becoming \"embedded\"\n\nThe governor of the Bank of England has defended its decision to raise interest rates, saying there is a \"real risk\" of soaring prices becoming \"embedded\".\n\nInterest rates rose to 1.75% - the biggest rise in 27 years - with inflation now set to hit more than 13%.\n\nThe UK is forecast to fall into recession this year, with the longest downturn since 2008 predicted.\n\nIncreasing interest rates is one way to try and control inflation as it raises borrowing costs.\n\nThis should encourage people to borrow less and spend less. It can also encourage people to save more.\n\nHowever, many households will be squeezed further following the interest rate rise, including some mortgage-holders.\n\nThe Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The real risk we're responding to is that inflation becomes embedded and it doesn't come down in the way that we would otherwise expect.\"\n\n\"We've had a domestic shock, we've had a shrinkage in the labour force over the last two years or so,\" he said.\n\n\"The first thing that businesses want to talk to me about is the problems they're having hiring people... They're also saying to us, actually they're not finding it difficult to raise prices at the moment. Now we think that can't go on.\"\n\nHe also warned against high pay rises, saying this would make inflation worse and \"it's the people who are least well off who are worse affected because they don't have the bargaining power\".\n\nHowever, Attorney General Suella Braverman said interest rates \"should have been raised a long time ago\".\n\nIn response, Mr Bailey said: \"If you go back two years... given the situation we were facing at that point in the context of Covid, in the context of the labour market, the idea that at that point we would have tightened monetary policy, you know I don't remember there were many people saying that.\"\n\nUK inflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at 9.4%, which is the highest level for more than 40 years.\n\nBut the Bank has warned it could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to the Bank's 2% target in 2024.\n\nThe main reason for high inflation and low growth is soaring energy bills, driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nHouseholds have also been hit by higher petrol, diesel and food costs.\n\nReal post-tax household incomes - after taking account of inflation - are forecast to fall this year and next year.\n\nAndrew Sentance, who was a member of the Bank's rates-setting committee during the 2008 financial crisis, told BBC Breakfast: \"We're going to see a couple of years… when household incomes in real terms are squeezed much more severely than we've seen in other times since the Second World War.\"\n\nThe economy is forecast to shrink in the final three months of this year and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nThe expected recession would be the longest downturn since 2008, when the UK banking system faced collapse, bringing lending to a halt.\n\nThe slump is not set to be as deep as 14 years ago but may last just as long.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, said the economic situation would mean there would have to be \"many more billions to support households\" and more money for public services.\n\nHe told the BBC that the Tory leadership candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, should be focused on tackling inflation rather than tax cuts.\n\nMr Johnson rejected the idea tax cuts could be funded in part by \"fiscal headroom\".\n\n\"What [the leadership candidates are] talking about is that the Office for Budget Responsibility [in March] said we'd be borrowing about £30bn less than we absolutely could to meet the fiscal target of a balanced current budget in a few years' time,\" he said.\n\nBut he added that this was \"highly uncertain\" and now \"massively out of date\", given the economy was heading for recession.\n\nThe worsening state of the UK economy dominated a Sky News TV debate between the two Conservative leadership candidates on Thursday.\n\nFormer Chancellor Mr Sunak, who has trailed Ms Truss in recent polls, has repeatedly said he would prioritise bringing inflation down before cutting taxes if he became prime minister.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Truss has pledged a package of tax cuts worth £30bn soon after she enters office, which Mr Sunak has argued would increase inflation and the cost of borrowing.\n\nBut Ms Truss said cutting taxes would stimulate economic growth and prevent a recession.\n\nMs Truss, who has been critical of the Bank, has suggested she is considering taking more control over it if she becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Bailey said the Bank's independence was \"critically important\" and he did not think there was a \"large desire\" in the country to question this.\n\nHowever, he added he was happy to discuss the issue with the new government.\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth said the cost of living support measures announced by the government so far were \"clearly not enough\".\n\n\"There will be families and pensioners across the country waking up this morning, reading the news, who are absolutely terrified because a juggernaut is heading [their] way which will smash through family finances,\" the shadow work and pensions secretary told the BBC.\n\nHow will the rise in interest rates affect you? 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The number of people in Scotland whose death was caused by alcohol has risen again and remains at the highest level since 2008.\n\nThe latest figures from National Records of Scotland show that 1,245 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2021.\n\nThis was 55 more than the previous year.\n\nThe NRS report said two-thirds of those who died were male and the average age was 59.7 for men and 58.7 for women.\n\nThe rate of mortality from alcohol-specific causes was 22.3 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, which is higher than the previous year but below the peak rate of deaths from alcohol in 2006.\n\nJulie Ramsay, vital events statistician at NRS, said: \"Deaths attributed to alcohol were 5.6 times as likely in the most deprived areas of Scotland compared to the least deprived areas. This is more than the deprivation gap for all causes of death, which is 1.9.\"\n\nAt council area in the last five years, Inverclyde, Glasgow City, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, Dundee City, North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire all had alcohol-specific death rates higher than the Scottish average\n\nAlison Douglas, chief executive of Alcohol Focus Scotland, said the high number of deaths from alcohol was \"devastating\" and each one left behind family and friends suffering their loss.\n\n\"These impacts are experienced unequally with many more people dying in our poorest communities,\" she said.\n\n\"We seem to almost accept this toll as inevitable, but we should not. Each death can be prevented.\"\n\nMs Douglas called for the minimum unit price of alcohol to be raised from 50p to 65p in an effort to change attitudes to drink.\n\nShe also called for an emergency response on the same scale as the efforts to tackle the drug deaths crisis.\n\nFigures out last week showed that 1,330 people died of drug overdoses in Scotland last year, a small decrease on the previous year.\n\nHowever, Scotland continues to have by far the highest drug death rate recorded by any country in Europe.\n\nAt UK level, Scotland and Northern Ireland have had the highest alcohol-specific death rates in both of the last two years for which comparable data exists (2019 and 2020).\n\nData for the rest of the UK is yet to be released for 2021.\n\nThe difference between Scotland and the other UK countries has generally narrowed over the past 20 years.\n\nTaking England as an example, in 2001 Scotland was 2.9 times as high but in 2020 it was 1.7 times as high.\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said the \"sad and worsening\" figures proved it was the poorest who were most affected.\n\nHe said the Scottish government had wrongly relied on Minimum Unit Pricing, which he described as \"a blunt instrument to tackle a complex problem\".\n\nInstead, he urged ministers to back the Scottish Conservatives' Right to Recovery Bill, which would give everyone a legal right to receive treatment for their addiction.\n\nScottish Labour health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie called for an urgent response from the Scottish government.\n\n\"Once again we are seeing the shameful consequences of the SNP's cuts to drug and alcohol services,\" she said.\n\n\"They have treated Minimum Unit Pricing as a silver bullet while failing to take the action needed to tackle this issue and save lives.\"\n\nPublic Health Minister Maree Todd said: \"These figures show that Scotland continues to have a problematic relationship with alcohol, and we are determined to do all we can to address that.\"\n\nShe said that the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing had helped reduce alcohol sales to their lowest on record but more action was needed to tackle the scale of alcohol-specific deaths.\n\nMs Todd added: \"That is why we are working on initiatives that will support communities across Scotland to address harmful and hazardous alcohol consumption.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has been found to have breached the MPs' code of conduct by failing to register eight interests on time, including gifts from football teams and the sale of a plot of land.\n\nThe standards commissioner launched an investigation in June after complaints the Labour leader had been late to register income and hospitality.\n\nKathryn Stone said the breaches were \"minor and/or inadvertent\".\n\nA Labour spokesperson said Sir Keir had apologised for the errors.\n\nThe commissioner initially began to investigate after complaints Sir Keir had failed to register three instances of income and hospitality and then found four further instances of late entries.\n\nWhen writing to Ms Stone to \"offer explanation, apology and reassurances that measures had been put in place to prevent any reoccurrence\", Sir Keir also raised another instance of the sale of a plot of land that exceeded the £100,000 threshold for registration to the House authorities.\n\nShe said that although he said \"he was waiting for the sale to complete so he could register the correct value\", she decided to include it in her report.\n\nUnder the House of Commons' Code of Conduct for Members of Parliament MPs are required to register interests within 28 days.\n\nGifts and payments received by MPs are regularly published fortnightly in the Register of Members' Financial Interests.\n\nMs Stone said the eight breaches \"were minor and/or inadvertent\", and \"there was no attempt to mislead\".\n\nBut she has asked Sir Keir to meet the registrar of members' financial interests to discuss his obligations within Parliamentary rules - which he will do on on 25 August.\n\nIn a letter to Ms Stone, the Labour leader wrote that the late declarations were the \"result of an administrative error within my office\" and said he took full responsibility and apologised.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"Keir Starmer takes his responsibilities to the Register very seriously and has apologised to the Commissioner for this inadvertent error.\n\n\"He has assured the Commissioner that his office processes have been reviewed to ensure this doesn't happen again.\"\n\nSpeaking at the time the investigation was launched Sir Keir had said he was \"absolutely confident\" he had not broken the MPs' code of conduct.\n\nAmong the interests declared late by Sir Keir was an £18,450 advance from publisher HarperCollins in April for a book he is writing.\n\nHe has pledged to donate the sum, which was declared a day late, to charitable causes while royalties for two legal books were also delayed in being registered.\n\nSir Keir also received a directors' box for two people at Crystal Palace worth £720, when they beat his club Arsenal 3-0 on 4 April, but this was not registered until 5 May.\n\nAnd he received four tickets for Watford vs Arsenal, worth a total of £1,416, for their 6 March match - which were registered on 6 May.\n\nJust Eat gave tickets to staff for the Taste of London festival and the British Kebab awards in October, but these were not declared until 23 December.\n\nOutgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson was found by the standards commissioner to have breached the rules on late declarations in 2018 and 2019.\n\nThe first occasion involved earnings of more than £50,000 and the second involved part-ownership of a property in Somerset.", "A man cools down in front of a misting fan in Baghdad last month\n\nState employees in many parts of Iraq have been given a day off work as temperatures rise to above 50C (122F) in several areas, local media report.\n\nSeveral of the country's cities topped the list of the hottest places in the world on Thursday.\n\nAs a result of the scorching heat, at least 10 provinces suspended work for most state employees, Kurdistan24 said.\n\nA heatwave in the country has been ongoing since mid-July and is forecast to continue.\n\nBurning heat is not unusual in Iraq, as one of the hottest places on Earth. But residents say conditions are worsening.\n\nIn the southern port of Basra, where temperatures are particularly high, a four-day holiday for state employees has begun.\n\nThough offices are shut for many employees, many say they will continue to suffer as regular power cuts mean that air conditioning is often unavailable.\n\nThis year stifling dust storms have also increased, obstructing the sky and causing the suspension of services.\n\nHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nIraq has been ranked as one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change in the Middle East by the UN.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Red skies as Iraq hit by another sandstorm", "A clip has emerged of ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak saying he diverted public money from \"deprived urban areas\".\n\nIn a video obtained by the New Statesman, Mr Sunak tells an audience in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, he wanted to ensure \"areas like this\" got the funding they deserved.\n\nDefending his remarks, Mr Sunak said he was arguing that towns and rural areas needed help not just \"big urban areas\".\n\nLabour said the leadership race was revealing the Tories' \"true colours\".\n\nThe party's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"It's scandalous that Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers' money to prosperous Tory shires.\"\n\nMs Nandy has written to Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark asking him to \"urgently investigate\" the changes made by Mr Sunak to funding formulas.\n\nIn the clip - filmed on 29 July - Mr Sunak says: \"I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve.\n\n\"We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.\n\n\"I started the work of undoing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak's team have said his comments were in reference to the introduction of the levelling up fund and changes made to Treasury formulas on investment.\n\nThe government has changed the way it assesses projects by altering the Treasury's \"green book\", which guides ministers in making investment decisions.\n\nSome submissions to a review of the \"green book\" in 2020 suggested that the old system relied too much on cost-benefit analysis (how much monetary value can be created for how many people) and that this skewed the system towards building more infrastructure in London and the South East of England.\n\nBut as Tunbridge Wells is in the South East of England, changing that would not necessarily help it. It is also the least deprived local authority in Kent, according to the index of multiple deprivation.\n\nThe system was changed to require projects to explain how they would promote government priorities such as levelling up or achieving net zero emissions, before considering their costs and benefits.\n\nThis means funding will not necessarily go to the \"deprived urban areas\" where the largest number of people might benefit, but can instead go to more sparsely populated ones that have not received much investment in the past.\n\nDuring a hustings event in Eastbourne on Friday night, Mr Sunak defended his comments by suggesting that deprivation existed across the country.\n\nAcknowledging the video clip, he explained that he wanted to \"level up everywhere\", saying that was not just about helping \"very large urban cities\".\n\nHe added: \"I believe it's about investing in levelling up in small towns, in rural communities, in coastal communities like those here in the South East.\"\n\nEarlier, Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen - a Sunak supporter - told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme the clip had been taken out of context, adding: \"What he was getting across was why is it that poor urban areas receive significantly higher funding than poor rural or town areas.\"\n\nHe said places such as Devon, Teesside and parts of Tunbridge Wells needed fairer funding.\n\nBut Conservative MP and Truss ally Jake Berry tweeted: \"In public Rishi Sunak claims he wants to level up the North, but here, he boasts about trying to funnel vital investment away from deprived areas? He says one thing and does another.\"\n\nA source in the rival Liz Truss campaign said: \"Levelling up isn't about pitting one area of the country against another, or laying dividing lines between urban v rural, towns v cities.\n\n\"It is about unleashing growth and making sure every individual has the chance to thrive. Liz has a plan to create an aspiration nation based on equality of opportunity, and will deliver it in a conservative way.\"\n\nRishi Sunak's comments appear to fly in the face of recent Conservative rhetoric about levelling up and securing Labour's former \"red wall\".\n\nWhy would the former chancellor be boasting about diverting funding away from deprived urban areas?\n\nIn short, because he was in Royal Tunbridge Wells at the time, one of his party's traditional heartlands, speaking to grassroots members.\n\nAnd while the Conservative party doesn't publish data on its membership, research shows most of them live in the South East of England, and are generally older and relatively wealthy.\n\nMr Sunak's team insist he was talking about changes to ensure pockets of deprivation in towns and rural areas got the funding they deserved.\n\nHis opponents will seize on his comments as not just clumsy, but another example of him appearing to be out of touch.\n\nThe comments were made as part of Mr Sunak's campaign bid to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nHe is competing against Ms Truss, who polls suggest is more popular among Conservative members.\n\nFriday night's hustings saw a brief disturbance when Ms Truss's opening remarks were interrupted by a small group of climate activists, who were believed to be from the Green New Deal Rising group.\n\nThe protesters heckled Ms Truss over climate change and energy bills, shouting \"shame on you\".\n\nAfter the group was ejected from the event, Ms Truss took aim at what she called \"unfair protests\" that disrupted people's lives.\n\nShe pledged to clamp down on \"militant people who try and disrupt our country\" - whether from trade unions or environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion.\n\nAnother protester was later removed from the event after interrupting Ms Truss.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters interrupt Liz Truss speech by delivering speeches of their own.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have sought legal permission to move him from the Royal London Hospital to a hospice.\n\nThe High Court is now considering the application, after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused a request to delay withdrawing treatment.\n\nArchie's mother said she wanted her son \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye\".\n\nDoctors have warned there is \"significant risk\" in moving him.\n\nLife-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, for Archie has been in place since April.\n\nLawyers for Archie's family took part in a legal hearing at the family division of the High Court on Thursday, with the court sitting late into the evening.\n\nIt is understood no changes will be made to his care while legal processes are ongoing and no ruling has been made public.\n\nCare was due to be withdrawn on Wednesday but this was delayed for the ECHR to consider his family's appeal.\n\nHowever, the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.\n\nHollie Dance says she will fight to ensure Archie has \"a dignified passing at a hospice\"\n\nAfterwards, Archie's mother, Hollie Dance, said the legal battle to postpone the withdrawal of her son's life support was at \"the end\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"I pray that the High Court will do the right thing.\n\n\"If they refuse permission for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will simply be inhumane and nothing about Archie's 'dignity'.\n\n\"We will fight to the end for Archie's right to live.\"\n\nMs Dance has said she wants her son \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos\".\n\nHollie Dance said the European Court of Human Rights' ruling was \"another heart-breaking development\"\n\nThe Christian Legal Centre, which supports the family, said the application, submitted on Thursday morning, asked for Archie to be moved to a hospice and for palliative oxygen to be given once his ventilator is removed.\n\nLawyers for Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said in a letter to the family's legal team that any application to transfer Archie to a hospice would \"be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis\".\n\n\"The trust continues to put Archie's welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care,\" the letter said.\n\n\"It believes that Archie's condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.\"\n\nArchie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance had turned to the ECHR after several hearings in UK courts\n\nIt added the trust considered that the family were now \"at the end of the procedural options open to them\" and that \"any further delay is not in Archie's best interests\".\n\nOn that basis, it intended to withdraw Archie's treatment at 11:00 BST on Thursday unless an application over the hospice move was submitted.\n\nA High Court order made in July requires that Archie remains at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn.\n\nArchie has been rigged up to numerous machines, drips and monitors to help keep him alive.\n\nHis doctors say his condition is so unstable that even turning him in his hospital bed as part of his care is risky.\n\nIn their opinion, attempting to transfer him to a hospice by ambulance would not be in his best interests.\n\nThere is a high risk that he would deteriorate, even with full intensive care equipment and staff on board for the journey.\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 7 April. His mother believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nDoctors had previously said it was \"highly likely\" he was brain-stem dead, with no chance of recovery, and it was in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nArchie's family including mum Hollie (left) and siblings Tom and Lauren Summers have been by his bedside since he was admitted to hospital in April\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe family of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee cannot move him to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment, a High Court judge has ruled.\n\nHis family applied for permission after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused a request to delay the withdrawal of life-sustaining support.\n\nArchie's mother had said she wanted him \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye\".\n\nBut doctors warned he was too unstable to move by ambulance and it would \"hasten premature deterioration\".\n\nThe family sought permission to appeal against the latest decision, but that bid has been rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.\n\nArchie's family said a breakdown in trust meant Archie would not die with peace and dignity in hospital\n\nChristian Concern said that Archie's family had since applied to the ECHR, arguing there was a violation of articles six and eight of the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nArticle six is the right to a fair trial and article eight is the right to respect for private and family life.\n\nBut the ECHR said on Friday evening that as the request was regarding transferring Archie to a hospice, it \"fell outside\" its scope.\n\nResponding to the High Court's hospice ruling earlier, Archie's mum, Hollie Dance, said: \"All our wishes as a family have been denied by the authorities.\n\n\"We are broken, but we are keeping going, because we love Archie and refuse to give up on him.\"\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April - his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge.\n\nHe suffered \"catastrophic\" brain injuries and doctors think it is \"highly likely\" he is brain-stem dead.\n\nLife-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, has been in place since April.\n\nIn her ruling earlier on Friday, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie's best interests to be moved.\n\nShe said: \"Archie's best interests must remain at the core of any conclusions reached by this court.\n\n\"When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted... the risks involved in a transfer... and the increasing fragility of his medical condition, I am satisfied... he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn.\"\n\nMrs Justice Theis also noted Archie's family's \"unconditional love and dedication\", which she said had been a \"golden thread that runs through this case\".\n\n\"I hope now Archie can be afforded the opportunity for him to die in peaceful circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him as he clearly does to them.\"\n\nOn Friday evening, Court of Appeal judges said the judgment from the High Court \"deals comprehensively with each of the points raised on behalf of the parents\".\n\nThey added: \"We have reached the clear conclusion that each of her decisions was right for the reasons [Mrs Justice Theis] gave.\"\n\nThis attempt to move Archie to a hospice was always up against large evidential and legal obstacles. Firstly, the law requires the judge to put Archie's best interests first. So any change to his care would have to be for truly exceptional and necessary reasons.\n\nAll preceding courts have ruled it is futile to keep Archie alive. Unnecessarily delaying the withdrawal of treatment would, in the eyes of the law, risk the court becoming complicit in denying the boy peace and dignity in his final hours.\n\nThe evidence presented by the family did not change that. There was a moving account of why a hospice would be a good environment for them - but there were also clear accounts that it would not be good for Archie. He could die in an ambulance without his family around him.\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Workers at the UK's biggest container port in Felixstowe are to strike for eight days in a dispute over pay.\n\nAround 1,900 members of the Unite union will walk out on 21 August after rejecting a 7% pay offer from Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company.\n\nUnite called the pay offer \"significantly below\" the rate of inflation.\n\nThe announcement comes after a summer of strikes in the transport sector as the cost of living continues to rise.\n\nA Felixstowe port spokesperson said the company was \"disappointed\" and that it was \"determined\" to help workers tackle rising costs - whilst continuing to invest in the port.\n\nUnite said eight days of strike action at the port will run from Sunday 21 August ending on Monday 29 August.\n\nUnite general secretary Sharon Graham said: \"Both Felixstowe docks and its parent company CK Hutchison Holding Ltd are both massively profitable and incredibly wealthy.\n\n\"They are fully able to pay the workforce a fair day's pay. The company has prioritised delivering multi-million pound dividends rather than paying its workers a decent wage,\" Ms Graham added.\n\nAround half of containers brought in to the UK are transported via the port.\n\nUnite said in a statement that the strike action will have a \"huge effect on the UK's supply chain and will also cause severe disruption to international maritime trade, as well as the UK's supply chain including the logistics and haulage sectors\".\n\nA spokesperson at Felixstowe port said: \"The port has not had a strike since 1989 and we are disappointed that the union has served notice of industrial action while talks are ongoing. The port provides secure and well-paid employment and there will be no winners from industrial action.\"\n\nThe port said workers involved in the dispute earned an average of £43,000 a year.\n\nTalks are due to resume on Monday.\n\nWorkers elsewhere in the transport industry have also announced plans to strike in August, after unions said wages are not keeping pace with the rising cost of living and that their members need a pay rise.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year-high of 9.4% and the Bank of England has warned it could reach more than 13% as energy, fuel and food prices soar higher.\n\nTrain drivers at nine rail companies will walk out on 13 August in a dispute over pay, the union Aslef has said.\n\nThe Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) is planning strikes for Thursday 18 August and Saturday 20 August.\n\nRail passengers have already faced disruption this summer. About 40,000 RMT union members at Network Rail and 14 other train companies walked out on 27 July over pay, job cuts and changes to terms and conditions.", "Scotland's business leaders have called for more support in the face of the bleak economic outlook.\n\nThe Bank of England has increased interest rates to 1.75% and warned inflation is now set to hit more than 13%.\n\nRetail and licence trade associations said more UK and Scottish government support is needed ahead of an expected recession.\n\nThe Scottish government has said its focus is on supporting the lowest paid.\n\nLatest data from the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) showed footfall in July was 16.5% down on pre-pandemic levels and 0.7% worse than in June.\n\nThe decline was larger than the UK average of 14.2%.\n\nThe summer heatwave, rail strikes and the ongoing cost-of-living crisis were all blamed.\n\nEwan MacDonald-Russell, head of policy at the SRC, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland: \"As the year progresses, there is little evidence Scottish consumers are close to returning to pre-pandemic shopping patterns.\n\n\"The reality is big ticket items are down and we know people are trading down from premium goods to value goods and cutting back on spending now.\n\n\"We need action to tackle the high business rates burden and measures to help consumers, particularly less affluent consumers.\"\n\nMr MacDonald-Russell added that \"big and punchy\" moves to help consumers were needed, adding there was no room for \"half measures\"in the UK government's autumn budget.\n\nMeanwhile, a survey of 100 businesses by the Night Time Industries Association Scotland has found 38% respondents were \"unsure\" whether they will survive the next 12 months due to soaring costs.\n\nThe vast majority are trading below 2019 levels of business.\n\nThe hospitality trade argues that measures like Eat Out to Help Out helped in the last economic crisis caused by the Covid pandemic\n\nColin Wilkinson, managing director of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association (SLTA), said this pressure was being felt across the hospitality sector and described the Bank of England's interest rate hike as \"very unwelcome\".\n\nHe said: \"The sector continues to see a slow recovery from the pandemic and then the cost of living crisis.\n\n\"This interest rate increase could simply be too much for our smaller operators.\n\n\"The industry benefited greatly from the VAT cut in the pandemic and Eat Out To Help Out was successful. We don't have that now so we'd like to see a cut in VAT for the licensee hospitality sector and a complete review of the business rates.\"\n\nScottish government business minister Ivan McKee said he was \"continuing to call on the UK government to support the lowest paid in our communities\".\n\nHe added: \"The Scottish government has put in about £3bn worth of support for low paid families and we would call on the UK government to do something similar.\n\n\"VAT is a reserved matter for the UK government and we've asked they consider options there to be able to support businesses at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr McKee said the Scottish government had put \"significant support\" into the business rates system to help businesses through the pandemic.\n\nOn the calls for more support for the hospitality sector, a Treasury spokesman said the UK government had \"stood behind the hospitality sector throughout the pandemic with a £400bn package of economy-wide support that saved millions of jobs and offered a lifeline to thousands of night-time businesses up and down the country.\"\n\nHe added: \"At the Spring Statement we went further, announcing a £1,000 increase to the Employment Allowance which will cut taxes for thousands of bars, clubs and venues in Scotland.\"", "The government ordered a national lockdown in May\n\nNorth Korea says everyone who fell sick since the country confirmed its first Covid-19 infections has recovered.\n\nOn Friday state media reported zero fever cases for a seventh straight day. North Korea refers to \"fever\" rather than \"Covid\" patients due to a lack of testing equipment.\n\nThe country announced its first Covid outbreak in May and has reported fever infections and deaths since.\n\nBut there is widespread doubt over the data, especially the number of deaths.\n\n\"No new fever cases were reported during the past week and all those receiving treatment have recovered across the country,\" the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.\n\nNorth Korea has entered a phase of \"stability\", it added, but the country would \"redouble efforts to maintain perfection in the execution of state anti-epidemic policies\".\n\nPyongyang has not confirmed how many people tested positive for Covid.\n\nBut state media said around 4.77 million fever patients have fully recovered and 74 have died since late April, which is a fatality rate of 0.002% - the lowest in the world.\n\nMany experts find these statistics hard to believe.\n\nNorth Korea has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world, and has no Covid-19 treatment drugs or vaccines, experts say.\n\nIn contrast, South Korea - which has an advanced healthcare system and a highly vaccinated population - has a reported Covid fatality rate of 0.12%, according to official data.\n\nShin Young-Jeon, a professor at Hanyang University's medical school in Seoul, told Reuters that North Korea's stated fatalities were nearly impossible and that the death toll could be up to 50,000.\n\nSouth Korea's Unification Minister Kwon Young-se, responsible for inter-Korean affairs, this week said there were \"credibility issues\" with the data, but Covid seemed \"somewhat under control\" in the North.", "From smartphones to smart speakers many devices have apps\n\nA new report by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned of the threats posed by malicious apps.\n\nWhile most people will be familiar with apps downloaded on to smartphones, devices from smart TVs to smart speakers now also have them.\n\nThe government is consulting on new guidelines on security and privacy for apps and app stores.\n\nThe NCSC's technical director, Ian Levy, said there was \"more for app stores to do\" on security.\n\nMr Levy added that cyber-criminals were \"currently using weaknesses in app stores on all types of connected devices to cause harm\".\n\nLast year, the government noted, Android phone users downloaded apps which contained the Triada and Escobar malware from various third-party app stores.\n\n\"This resulted in cyber-criminals remotely taking control of people's phones and stealing their data and money by signing them up for premium subscription services,\" it said.\n\nThe NCSC's report noted that apps \"can also be installed on laptops, computers, games consoles, wearable devices (such as smartwatches or fitness trackers), smart TVs, smart speakers (such as Alexa devices), and IoT (internet of things) devices\".\n\nIt includes an example of a security company demonstrating how it could create a malicious app for a popular tracker from a fitness firm, that could be downloaded from a link using the company's web address to seem legitimate.\n\nThe app contained \"spyware/stalkerware capable of stealing everything from location and personal body data\". The company moved to fix the problem after the security firm alerted it.\n\nThe NCSC report noted that the appetite for apps had grown during the pandemic, with the UK app market now worth £18.6bn ($23.2bn).\n\nThe cyber-security centre supports the government's proposals to ask app stores to commit to a new code of practice setting out minimum security and privacy requirements.\n\n\"Developers and store operators making apps available to UK users would be covered. This includes Apple, Google, Amazon, Huawei, Microsoft and Samsung,\" the government said.\n\nA proposed code of practice would require stores to set up processes so that security flaws can be found and fixed more quickly.", "Kevin Spacey appeared in House Of Cards for five seasons before being cut from the show\n\nA judge has ordered Kevin Spacey to pay House of Cards producers $31m (£25.5m) for the costs involved in removing him from the series following sexual misconduct allegations.\n\nThe US actor was ordered last year to pay entertainment company MRC after claims of misconduct with young crew members, which he denies.\n\nSpacey appealed to have the arbitration award to the producers overturned.\n\nBut his request was denied by a judge in Los Angeles on Thursday.\n\nMRC argued that Spacey owed them millions in lost profits because his alleged misconduct meant he had to be removed from the sixth season of the Netflix political drama, and the number of episodes had to be cut from 13 episodes to eight.\n\nEarlier this year, Spacey's lawyers attempted to have the $31m award thrown out, saying his behaviour amounted to nothing more than \"sexual innuendos\" and \"innocent horseplay\" and did not violate MRC's anti-harassment policy.\n\nBut on Thursday, Judge Mel Red Recana said Spacey and his legal team \"fail to demonstrate that this is even a close case\", and confirmed Spacey would have to pay the award, which was previously handed down by an arbitrator in October 2020.\n\nThe $31m is understood to have consisted of around $29.5 million in damages and $1.5 million in costs and fees.\n\nMRC attorney Michael Kump said: \"We are pleased with the court's ruling.\"\n\nThe original filings from MRC, obtained by the PA news agency, showed how Spacey was cut from the hit Netflix political drama series following allegations he was \"systematically preying upon, sexually harassing, and groping young men that he had worked with throughout his career on film, television, and theatre projects\".\n\nThe arbitrator concluded that Spacey had repeatedly breached contractual obligations to provide services \"in a professional manner\" which were \"consistent with reasonable directions, practices and policies\".\n\nSpacey, 63, starred in House Of Cards for five seasons, playing the ruthless politician Frank Underwood, before being cut from the show following the allegations.\n\nHe appeared at the Old Bailey in London last month to \"strenuously\" deny allegations of sexual assault by three men, dating back 17 years to when Spacey was artistic director at The Old Vic theatre.\n\nA trial will take place in June 2023, with a pre-hearing expected to take place early next year.\n\nSpacey is also due to face a civil case, brought by his first public accuser, actor Anthony Rapp, in New York in October.\n\nIn 2017, the Hollywood star made an apology after being accused of making a sexual advance toward the former child actor.", "The US has urged Moscow to accept a deal to free basketball player Brittney Griner, who has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison.\n\nThe double Olympic winner was convicted of possessing and smuggling drugs after admitting to possessing cannabis oil.\n\nWhite House national security spokesman John Kirby said the US offer was \"a serious proposal\", but gave no details.\n\nOn Friday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is ready to discuss the topic.\n\nViktor Bout - known as the \"merchant of death\" - is serving a 25 year-prison sentence in the US.\n\nHe could be transferred by Washington to the Russian authorities in exchange for Griner and former US Marine Paul Whelan, the reports say.\n\nWhelan, who has US, British, Canadian and Irish passports, was sentenced in 2020 to 16 years in jail in Russia after being convicted of spying.\n\nMr Kirby told reporters that the duo were being wrongfully detained and needed to be let go.\n\nOn the subject of the US proposal, Mr Kirby said: \"We urge them to accept it. They should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it.\"\n\nBut according to Reuters news agency, one stumbling block is that Russia wants to add convicted murderer Vadim Krasikov, who is in prison in Germany, to the proposed swap.\n\nWhen questioned about this possibility, Mr Kirby dismissed it, saying: \"I don't think we go so far as to even call it a counter-offer.\"\n\nGriner, 31, told the court she had made an \"honest mistake\" and had not intended to break the law.\n\nConsidered one of the best female players in the world, she was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. She had come to Russia to play club basketball during the US off-season.\n\nSoon afterwards, Russia invaded Ukraine and her case has become subject to high-profile diplomacy between the US and Russia.\n\nHer defence team said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nGriner's Phoenix Mercury teammates staged a gesture of solidarity on Thursday, when they and their Connecticut Sun opponents observed 42 seconds of silence before their game, in honour of her number 42 jersey.\n\nUS President Joe Biden called her sentencing \"unacceptable\", adding: \"I call on Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates.\"\n\nMeanwhile Secretary of State Antony Blinken added: \"Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone travelling, working and living abroad.\"\n\nMr Blinken raised the issue in a phone call with Mr Lavrov last week, in the first conversation between the two men since the start of the war in Ukraine.\n\nA day after Griner's sentencing, Mr Lavrov said that Moscow is ready to discuss the topic of prisoner exchanges with Washington, but within the framework of an existing diplomatic channel agreed upon by Presidents Putin and Biden, Reuters news agency quotes him as saying.\n\nBoth Mr Lavrov and Mr Blinken are now in Cambodia for a meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations. The US says Mr Blinken will try to speak with Mr Lavrov again while they are there.", "Recent weeks have brought record-breaking temperatures and the driest July England has seen for more than 80 years.\n\nAnd it isn't only us humans who have been suffering the effects - the country's grass and plant life have also been withering in the heat.\n\nNorthern areas are now getting some rain, but southern England isn't expected to see any until at least the end of next week. Hosepipe bans are now being introduced in some places, for the first time this year.\n\nPictures show the toll the heatwave is taking on the country's lawns, fields, and parks.\n\nIn London's Richmond Park, there is dried-out ground and dead grass - as well as a warning to the public not to drop cigarettes or light barbecues, because of the risk of fire.\n\nA sign in the park warns of the risk of fire\n\nThe heat has left some sites in the capital that are normally covered in manicured grass - including Westminster's Parliament Square - completely bare.\n\nAnd the spot commonly recognised as the source of the River Thames, located near Cirencester, has also dried up for what is thought to be the first time.\n\nParliament Square in Westminster has been left bare by the heat\n\nParched grass in front of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London\n\nAt Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, the temperatures revealed the remnants of a 17th Century garden design.\n\nAerial footage of the home's South Lawn showed straight paths and ornate swirls that previously formed walkways around the lawn.\n\nThe walkways were replanted in about 1730, but the shorter roots of the newer grass means it burns more quickly, creating a contrast with the older grass around it.\n\nAerial photos also show the impact of the heat on cricket fields and golf courses in southern England.\n\nThe remnants of a 17th-century garden are visible at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire after the grass dried out in the heat\n\nA fire in a field in Kent came close to engulfing the Lenham Cross war memorial\n\nParts of northern England, North Wales, and Scotland are already seeing some showers again, with some areas set to get more rain over the weekend, but southern England is expected to remain dry until next Thursday at the earliest, according to BBC Weather's John Hutchinson.\n\nTemperatures in the south are also set to rise next week and are likely to exceed 30C (86F) in parts.\n\nThis satellite image shared by NASA shows how the UK looked on 19 July, 2021\n\nAnd this satellite image from one year later shows the impact the heatwave has had on the UK\n\nA number of river beds have also dried up across the country, including in Gloucestershire and Greater Manchester.\n\nThis tributary of the Dowry Reservoir, near Oldham, dried up in July\n\nThe bed of the River Thames near to Somerford Keynes in Gloucestershire\n\nBut don't worry if the grass in your garden is already looking worse for wear.\n\nUnlike most plants, grass grows not from its outer tips but from the base, near the roots, making it easier for it to grow back if the blades are cut or scorched.\n\nProvided the roots are still healthy, your grass should revive before long.\n\nA dry golf course near Perranporth, Cornwall in July\n\nA dried out cricket field at Boughton and Eastwell Cricket Club in Ashford, Kent\n\nThe greens of a golf course near New Romney, Kent seen dried out", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations\n\nA retired teacher fighting extradition from South Africa has admitted abusing schoolboys in Edinburgh, according to court documents seen by the BBC.\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations about the 83-year-old.\n\nThe man - who the BBC is not naming for legal reasons - is wanted by authorities in Edinburgh, where he taught in the 1970s.\n\nThe teacher lodged an appeal which is due to be heard in October.\n\nThe man taught at Fettes College and Edinburgh Academy, where Campbell says he witnessed the sexual abuse of a fellow pupil.\n\nIn documents related to extradition proceedings, the man said that while teaching at Edinburgh Academy he had \"urges to touch the students inappropriately and on occasion I did so\".\n\nThe man, who previously taught at two primary schools in Cape Town in the 1960s, also admitted he had urges to touch his pupils in South Africa.\n\nThe court documents, understood to have been signed by the man in September 2019, reveal that he decided to travel to the UK in 1967 for psychiatric treatment for his \"problem\".\n\nHe spent three months at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital before being discharged and obtaining a diploma in education at Moray House College the following year.\n\nNicky Campbell has spoken about his experience of abuse at school in the 1970s\n\nHe then took up a post at the private Edinburgh Academy and was married in 1970.\n\nIn 1973 he was appointed as a primary school teacher at Fettes Junior College where he said his inappropriate behaviour continued.\n\nHe said that he returned to hospital for further treatment \"for my drinking and inappropriate behaviour.\"\n\nIn 1979, when a pupil complained about him, he said he admitted the behaviour and agreed to leave the college.\n\nThe man goes on to describe how he returned to South Africa with his wife: \"I knew then that I could not continue with my inappropriate behaviour and that it must stop.\"\n\nHe then taught at a primary school in South Africa for 27 years where he claims that there was no further inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe said: \"After leaving Scotland I have managed to contain myself and I never committed any further offences.\"\n\nHe admitted that the charges against him were serious but said: \"I feel absolute remorse for what I have done to the boys.\"\n\nThe man said it would be \"unjust, unreasonable and too severe a punishment\" to be extradited to Scotland.\n\nThe South African court documents also reveal the original warrant for his extradition related to seven Scottish charges - six of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour and one of indecent assault.\n\nNicky Campbell said he was sexually assaulted at Edinburgh Academy by another teacher, who is now dead\n\nHe is alleged to have sexually assaulted four boys at Edinburgh Academy between 1969 and 1973 and to have sexually assaulted three boys at Fettes College between 1974 and 1976.\n\nAges of the boys mentioned range from seven to 14.\n\nThe former teacher is now living in a gated retirement community in Cape Town. His extradition appeal is due to be heard by judges in the Western Cape High Court in October.\n\nLast week Nicky Campbell told listeners to his podcast and BBC Radio 5 Live show that he witnessed the man sexually assault a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nThe broadcaster also said he was sexually assaulted at the school by a second teacher, who is now dead, and physically assaulted by a third.\n\nSince he spoke out many more alleged victims of abuse in Scottish schools have contacted the BBC.\n\nEdinburgh Academy has previously apologised to anyone who suffered abuse and insists it now has robust safeguarding measures in place.\n\nFettes said it would be inappropriate to comment on a live case. It has previously offered a \"full and unreserved apology\" to those who suffered abuse while at the school.\n\nInformation and support for those affected by abuse is available at BBC Action Line.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has said the legal battle to postpone the withdrawal of her son's life support had come to an end.\n\nHis family want him to be taken to a hospice, but doctors have warned there is \"considerable risk\" in moving him.\n\nOn Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused an application from the boy's parents to delay any changes to his treatment.\n\nLife-sustaining treatment for Archie has been in place since April.\n\nIt had been due to be withdrawn on Wednesday but was delayed for the ECHR to consider his family's appeal.\n\nHowever, the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for treatment to be stopped.\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, said the court's decision to refuse their application was \"another heart-breaking development\".\n\nThe family have now said they want to file an application in the High Court to transfer Archie to a hospice.\n\nThey claim Barts Health NHS Trust has told them life support will be withdrawn at 11:00 BST on Thursday unless an application over the hospice move is submitted by 09:00.\n\n\"I would like him out of here as quick as possible really, and in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye and spend time with his family, uninterrupted by the noise and chaos,\" Ms Dance said.\n\nLawyers for Barts Health NHS Trust said in a letter that any application to move Archie to a hospice would \"be opposed on both a procedural basis and best interests basis\".\n\n\"The trust continues to put Archie's welfare and best interests at the forefront of its decision making about his care,\" the letter said.\n\n\"It believes that Archie's condition is unstable and that transferring him even a short distance involves significant risk.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Archie's family said it was \"absolutely disgusting\" that the family were \"not even allowed to choose where Archie takes his last moments\".\n\nShe added that a hospice had said it would take him.\n\nA High Court order made in July requires that Archie remains at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn.\n\nHollie Dance says she will fight to ensure Archie has \"a dignified passing at a hospice\"\n\nSpeaking outside the Royal London Hospital, where Archie has been cared for since April, Ms Dance said it was now \"the end\".\n\n\"It was the last thing, wasn't it? And again our country has failed a 12-year-old child,\" she said.\n\nMs Dance said: \"We've now got a fight to see whether we can get him out of here to have a dignified passing at a hospice.\"\n\nShe added she \"won't allow\" anything to be done before Archie's father returned to his son's bedside at the hospital, which she said would be on Thursday morning.\n\nBarts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital, said changes to Archie's treatment would not be made until legal issues were resolved.\n\nThe trust said there was \"considerable risk\" in moving him from the hospital bed and any transfer from the hospital would \"hasten the premature deterioration\" of Archie.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Archie's family and we aim to provide the best possible support to everyone at this difficult time.\"\n\nArchie's parents Paul Battersbee and Hollie Dance had turned to the ECHR after several hearings in UK courts\n\nThe 12-year-old was found unconscious at home in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 7 April. His mother believed he may have been taking part in an online challenge at the time.\n\nDoctors had previously said it was \"highly likely\" he was brain-stem dead, with no chance of recovery and it was in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nA High Court judge said earlier that continuing treatment was \"futile\".\n\nOn Wednesday, in the latest in a series of court challenges Archie's parents had argued the plan to withdraw treatment and ignore the concerns of a UN committee would breach a range of human rights safeguards, including right to life and right to a fair trial or hearing.\n\nBut the ECHR said it \"considered the conditions of admissibility...were not fulfilled\".\n\nCourt of Appeal judges had previously ruled Archie's life-sustaining treatment should not continue beyond 12:00 on Tuesday, but this was also delayed for an appeal process which was ultimately unsuccessful.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard \"every bodily function [of Archie's] is now maintained by artificial means\", while another heard he had not \"regained awareness at any time\".\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Parts of Wales are set to see a hosepipe ban in place for the first time since 1989\n\nHosepipe bans will not stop until the Welsh government implements stricter water use targets, a charity has said.\n\nBleddyn Lake, of Friends of the Earth Cymru labelled current plans - to drop usage from 150 litres per person per day to 110 - as \"not ambitious enough\".\n\nMr Lake argued that this target should be brought down \"dramatically\" to 80 litres per person per day.\n\nThe Welsh government said it encouraged everyone \"to be considerate in their water usage to maintain water flow\".\n\nFrom 19 August, much of south-west Wales will be subject to a hosepipe ban that is expected to last weeks.\n\nIt means people will not be allowed to water their plants, wash their cars or clean windows using a hose.\n\nWelsh Water said it was its first hosepipe ban since 1989 and comes as the country experiences its driest year since 1976.\n\nThe company said Pembrokeshire has only seen just over 60% of the expected rainfall between March and July.\n\nThe ban covers much of Pembrokeshire and a small part of Carmarthenshire\n\nData from the Met Office shows Wales experienced its lowest July rainfall since 2006.\n\nProfessor Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society said this followed a dry March, April, May and June.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, she said: \"It's left us with particularly low levels in the rivers and reservoirs, and there's very little rain in the next 10 days to two weeks.\"\n\n\"I expect as we go forward through August, that we'll see more parts, particularly the southern half of the UK and Wales, seeing more hosepipe bans coming in over that time.\"\n\nComparison of the Elan Valley reservoirs (Craig Goch and Pen y Garreg) in July 2021 (left) and a year later (right)\n\n\"Welsh government have got a target for 110 litres per person in new builds, which is better but still not near where we should be getting to,\" said Mr Lake.\n\nHe said that a target of 80 litres per day would force new-build homes to implement stricter water saving measures to meet the \"stringent and ambitious target\".\n\nMr Lake added that although that target might seem severe, other countries were already nearing it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hosepipe ban: 'How will I water my tomatoes?'\n\n\"Residents in some other countries are already far below that figure of 140 or 150 litres per person per day,\" he said.\n\n\"People in Brussels for instance are already on 96 litres per person per day so it shows where we can get to immediately let alone where we should be aiming for in the future.\"\n\nThe Consumer Council for Water's senior policy manager for Wales, Lia Moutselou, said it was hard to predict whether further restrictions would be put in place.\n\n\"The problem with water resources at the moment is that there has been a dry winter and a longer summer period, without much rainfall and high temperatures,\" she said.\n\n\"We all need to do our best and stick to essential use, these restrictions are temporary.\n\n\"It's only a hosepipe ban, we need look at small simple changes that we all can do to make a difference - watering our plants with a watering can and getting a water butt, we all need to do out bit to ensure there is enough water for essential use for all of us.\"\n\nThe Welsh government said: \"The current prolonged dry weather period reflects the challenges we all face in tackling climate change.\n\n\"We all have a duty to use water sustainably - at all times. We continue to work with water companies and Natural Resources Wales, the regulatory body responsible for managing water resources in Wales, to better ensure our use of water has the interests of future generations at its heart.\"", "Four US police officers have been arrested and charged over the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020 by plainclothes police who were executing a \"no-knock\" search warrant.\n\nThe hospital worker, 26, was shot as officers stormed the apartment just after midnight while she was with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker.\n\nHer death sparked racial injustice protests around the country.\n\nFederal investigators say that three of the four officers conspired to falsify the arrest warrant that led to Ms Taylor's death.\n\nOnly one officer involved in the raid - former Louisville detective Brett Hankison - had been previously charged over the case. He was the only one of the four indicted on Thursday who was present at the scene of Ms Taylor's shooting.\n\nMr Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid, was acquitted by a jury earlier this year of endangering Ms Taylor's neighbours when some of the bullets he fired entered their home.\n\nThe other officers charged by the Department of Justice are Joshua Jaynes, also a fired officer, and serving officers Kelly Hanna Goodlett and Kyle Meany. Louisville police say they are trying to fire Mr Meany and Ms Goodlett.\n\nThe federal indictment announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland accuses the four of civil rights offences, unlawful conspiracy, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction.\n\nMr Meany and Mr Jaynes are alleged to have violated Ms Taylor's civil rights by preparing a false search warrant affidavit. Ms Goodlett allegedly conspired with Mr Jaynes to falsify the warrant.\n\nMr Hankison is accused of civil rights offences for firing his service weapon into Ms Taylor's apartment through a covered window and glass door.\n\n\"Breonna Taylor should be alive today,\" Mr Garland told reporters on Thursday.\n\nThe search warrant obtained by police included Ms Taylor's name and address. Authorities suspected her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug trafficker, had used her apartment to hide narcotics or money.\n\nNo drugs were found at the property, though Jefferson County Prosecutor Thomas Wine said the search had been cancelled after the shooting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend Kenneth Walker describes the night she was killed by police\n\nThe warrant, which was signed by Mr Jaynes, said that police had confirmed packages for Glover were being sent to Ms Taylor. Investigators say they later discovered that police had never confirmed this with the postal inspector, as claimed on the warrant.\n\nAccording to prosecutors, Mr Jaynes and Ms Goodlett met in a parking garage days after the shooting to arrange a cover story to justify the falsified evidence that led to the warrant.\n\nIn 2020, the Taylor family sued Louisville police and reached a $12m (£9m) settlement.\n\nReacting to news of the charges on Thursday, the family's lawyers said: \"Today was a huge step toward justice.\"\n\n\"Today's overdue, but it still hurts,\" said her mother Tamika Palmer.\n\nKenneth Walker shot and wounded one of the police officers, Sgt John Mattingly, in the leg during the raid, taking him for an intruder. He was charged with attempted murder, but the case was dismissed.\n\nMr Walker said he had fired out of self-defence, and a judge permanently closed the case against him, meaning he can't ever be charged again over it.\n\nMs Taylor's death - along with that of two black men, George Floyd in Minnesota and Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia - was invoked during anti-racism protests across the US in the summer of 2020.", "The couple were celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary\n\nAn elderly couple from Wisconsin are among three dead after they were struck by lightning near the White House in Washington DC, police say.\n\nJames Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, were visiting the US capital to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary, their niece said.\n\nOn Friday, an unnamed 29-year-old man injured in the strike also died. A fourth person was critically injured.\n\nThe victims were in Lafayette Park in a storm on Thursday when they were hit.\n\nThe park's proximity to the seat of the US presidency meant members of the US Secret Service were among the first people to tend to the victims.\n\nThe Muellers are survived by five children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, a relative, Michelle McNett, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.\n\nThe White House offered condolences to the families of those who died. \"We are praying for those still fighting for their lives,\" said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.\n\nThe lightning struck the four people near a tree by the fence that surrounds the White House complex.\n\nIn the wake of the incident, part of the park remained closed with emergency services at the scene.\n\nThe National Weather Service had issued a thunderstorm warning for the area on Thursday.\n\nLafayette Square is a seven-acre public park directly north of the White House. It is often crowded with visitors, especially during the summer.\n\nAccording to US health data, about 40m lightning strikes hit the ground in the US each year, but the odds of someone being struck are less than one in a million, and almost 90% of all such victims survive.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene near the White House on Thursday", "It is the most piercing of warning sirens set off by the Bank of England.\n\nIt announced the largest interest rate rise in a quarter of a century, in an attempt to temper a peak in inflation of 13%.\n\nBut it is its prediction of a recession as long as the great financial crisis and as deep as that seen in the early 1990s that is the big shock here.\n\nThe Bank thinks that energy bills hitting nearly £300 per month on average, treble their level of a year before, will plunge the economy in the final quarter of this year into a recession.\n\nIf global energy costs remain where they are, that recession will then last the whole of next year, with inflation barely below 10% even in a year's time.\n\nThis is a proper full fat recession now being predicted by the Bank, and at the same time a 42-year high in the rate of inflation.\n\nIt is a textbook example of the combination of stagnation of the economy and high inflation - stagflation.\n\nIt obviously will raise questions as to why rates are being hiked into a recession, at a time when consumers are already pulling back from spending.\n\nMortgage costs are now soaring. Markets expect further rises in the base rate - taking it up to 3% - even during this predicted recession.\n\nThat affects those on variable rates, and about half of those set to come off their fixed rate mortgages in the coming couple of years.\n\nThe Bank's answer will be that rates are still low by historic standards, and they just cannot provide further fuel for these extraordinary but hopefully temporary high inflation rates, to last for years.\n\nBut make no mistake, a forecast such as this, would mean a wrecking ball to the forecasts for government borrowing. Tax revenues would plummet, and spending would increase naturally.\n\nForget about the £30bn room for manoeuvre or \"fiscal headroom\" we heard so much about.\n\nBut with this level of energy shock, whoever is in power, would need to prepare further massive consumer support, and feasibly, rescue schemes for the energy sector too.\n\nI cannot recall the Bank of England predicting a recession of this length in advance of the event.\n\nAnd that certainly has not happened in the middle of the selection of a new prime minister. It is the sort of forecast that in other circumstances might have prompted an immediate emergency Budget.\n\nIt may just upend all the plans we have heard so much about.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTaiwan's foreign minister has defended US Speaker Nancy Pelosi's brief but controversial trip to the island in an exclusive interview with the BBC.\n\nJoseph Wu condemned the large-scale military exercises that China began around the island on Thursday.\n\nHe said Ms Pelosi's visit was \"extremely significant\" and China's response would not stop democratic politicians being invited to Taipei.\n\nMr Wu also warned that China's territorial aims go far beyond Taiwan.\n\nFor the past six years Mr Wu has been the public face of Taiwan's campaign for greater international recognition. He negotiated Nancy Pelosi's visit, and he is now dealing with its rather frightening aftermath.\n\nBut Taiwan's foreign minister is not about to apologise. The whole point of Ms Pelosi's trip was to bring attention to this often forgotten and little understood island.\n\nChina sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control. However, Taiwan is a self-ruled island that sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nBut any hint of recognition of this by world leaders enrages China - it announced on Friday that sanctions have been placed on Ms Pelosi and her family over the visit.\n\n\"China has long been trying to isolate Taiwan internationally,\" Mr Wu says.\n\n\"For an important leader like Speaker Pelosi to have the opportunity to visit Taiwan is very significant. To raise the profile of Taiwan and to allow the international community to understand that Taiwan is a democracy.\"\n\nHe is quick to add that it is not Taiwan that has fomented this crisis. It is Beijing, he says, that is trying to change the rules.\n\n\"We want to maintain the status quo,\" he says, \"which is that Taiwan has no jurisdiction over mainland China and the People's Republic of China (CCP) has no jurisdiction over Taiwan. That is the reality.\"\n\nThe minister is describing a reality that has stood for 73 years, ever since China's nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war.\n\nFor decades the two rival Chinese dictatorships, one nationalist (Kuomintang, or KMT), one communist (CCP), stared at each other across the Taiwan Strait, neither strong enough to attack the other.\n\nBut in the past 25 years two things have changed. China has got rich, and Taiwan has got democracy.\n\nDemocracy has brought a very different political party to power in Taipei.\n\nThe Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is led by President Tsai Ying Wen, and her foreign minister Joseph Wu. They are Taiwanese to the bone, and the values they espouse are not Chinese nationalism, but democracy and human rights.\n\n\"In terms of democracy Taiwan is ranked number one or number two in east Asia,\" Mr Wu tells me proudly.\n\n\"On the index of freedom Taiwan is ranked number one, on economic freedom Taiwan is also at the top. Taiwanese people enjoy democracy, freedom and the value of human rights, that put Taiwan in the democratic world,\" he says.\n\nIndeed, Taiwan is classed as \"free\" by non-profit US-based research organisation, Freedom House (it has classed Chinas as \"not free\" in 2022) and the Brookings Institution largely applauds the island's democratization.\n\nThe problem for Taiwan is that China is now rich, and with that wealth it has built a huge war machine. Meanwhile, Taiwan has for too long relied on the 100-mile-wide Taiwan straits, and America, to keep it safe.\n\nJoseph Wu admits that is no longer tenable.\n\n\"Defending Taiwan is our own responsibility,\" he says.\n\n\"We have the will and the capability. We need other countries to provide Taiwan with defensive articles, but defending Taiwan is our responsibility, we are not asking other countries to sacrifice their lives to protect Taiwan.\"\n\nThose are brave words. And Taiwan's young generation appears to have a far stronger will to fight than their parents.\n\nJoseph Wu says he will not stop inviting democratic world leaders to Taipei, despite anger from China\n\nBut computer modelling suggests China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) would crush Taiwan's outdated forces in a matter of days. If that is allowed to happen, Mr Wu says it would be a huge mistake that would only encourage China to go further.\n\n\"Look at their behaviour over Hong Kong, or claiming the East China Sea and the South China Sea. It is the typical expansionism of an authoritarian state.\n\n\"Countries in this region need to watch out for what China is trying to do. Taiwan is not going to be the last piece in Chinese dream of expansionism.\"", "Most Taiwanese don't think US would come to their defence - poll\n\nOne poll suggests most Taiwanese are not confident that the US would help defend the island. Some 78.4% of those polled said they were not at all or not very confident that the US would provide assistance to defend Taiwan. While 19.2% of the 19,500 questioned - between Wednesday and Friday - said they were very or somewhat confident. The rest had no opinion. The share of Taiwanese people who believe that the US military would provide support against a Chinese invasion appears to have been dropping for some time. A poll in March, by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation (TPOF) think tank, found that 55.9% of more than a thousand respondents did not believe at all or did not fully believe that the US would defend Taiwan if China invaded. While 34.5% somewhat or fully believed it would. This was a sharp drop from just six months before - prior to the Ukraine war - when a similar survey by TPOF found that 65% believed the US would send troops to defend Taiwan and only 29% did not think it would.", "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told a conference of US conservatives that the West is locked in \"a clash of civilisations\".\n\nThe right-wing leader drew enthusiastic applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas.\n\nMr Orban's speech comes after his long-time cabinet adviser resigned over comments he made that she described as \"pure Nazi\".\n\nHe had said Hungarians \"do not want to become peoples of mixed race\".\n\nSpeaking in Dallas on Thursday, Mr Orban did not directly address that furore, but said: \"A Christian politician cannot be racist.\"\n\nThe Hungarian premier also said those who consider him a racist or anti-Semite are \"simply idiots\".\n\n\"I can already see tomorrow's headlines,\" he said. \"Far-right European racist and anti-Semite strongman, Trojan horse of Putin, holds speech at conservative conference.\n\n\"But I don't want to give them any ideas, they know best how to write fake news.\"\n\nMr Orban, who has been in power since 2010, criticised former US President Barack Obama, Democratic mega-donor George Soros and \"globalists\".\n\n\"We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels,\" he said. \"We must co-ordinate the movement of our troops, because we face the same challenge.\n\n\"You have two years to get ready,\" he added, in apparent reference to the 2024 US presidential election.\n\nMr Orban elicited a standing ovation when he read from the Hungarian constitution, declaring marriage to be only between one man and one woman.\n\n\"Less drag queens and more Chuck Norris,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking last month in Romania, Mr Orban triggered outrage when he said: \"We are willing to mix with one another, but we do not want to become peoples of mixed race.\"\n\nThe remarks prompted an inner circle adviser of his to resign in protest, and provoked widespread condemnation.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Orban visited former President Donald Trump at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.\n\nMr Trump - who described Mr Orban in a statement as his friend - will address CPAC on Saturday.", "Berkshire won't be included in any hosepipe ban yet - but customers are being asked to use water wisely\n\nA hosepipe ban has come into force in parts of southern England.\n\nThe move was imposed on Southern Water customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight from 17:00 BST.\n\nThis means that using hosepipes to water gardens, clean cars, fill ornamental ponds and swimming pools will not be allowed.\n\nThe restrictions are expected to last for three weeks. Similar measures are being introduced across Kent and Sussex after the driest July since 1935.\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nSouthern Water said the decision to introduce the ban - which is the first in England this year - was a \"vital step\" to protect the habitats of the River Test and the River Itchen, where it extracts water.\n\nLast month the company said river flows were about 25% lower than they should be for July.\n\nAlison Hoyle, director of risk and compliance at Southern Water, said the ban could be in place for three weeks\n\nAlison Hoyle, the company's director of risk and compliance, told the BBC she wanted to remind customers that there would be no restrictions on essential water use.\n\n\"We are hoping for substantial rain,\" she said. \"At the moment we're saying we expect [the hosepipe ban] to be three weeks but we will need to monitor this closely depending on rainfall and river levels.\"\n\nPortsmouth Water is not introducing a hosepipe ban but it urged its customers not to waste water.\n\nThe firm said it was keeping its position \"under review\" and monitoring the situation \"on a daily basis\".\n\nHow will you be affected by the hosepipe ban? You can share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThames Water's customers have also been asked to use water \"wisely\".\n\nThe company said the next stage of its statutory drought plan would be to introduce a temporary use ban \"which is likely to include hosepipes\".\n\nIn a statement it added: \"The timing will depend on the amount of water used by our customers, which determines the speed at which reservoir storage declines, and the amount of flow in the rivers, which determines how much water we can take to refill them.\"\n\nWater is being transferred to Berkshire from north London to stop a hosepipe ban being introduced in the county, Thames Water previously said.\n\nAt an emergency meeting held last month, the National Drought Group moved England into \"prolonged dry weather\" status - the stage before a drought.\n\nIn Kent and Sussex about one million South East Water customers will face measures from 12 August.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "A sculpture commemorating the wartime codebreaker Alan Turing at the University of Cambridge's King's College has been approved.\n\nDesigned by Sir Antony Gormley, it will be made up of 19 steel blocks and stands more than 3.6m (12ft) tall.\n\nTuring studied at King's College from 1931 to 1934 and was elected a fellow there in 1935.\n\nA college spokesperson said the sculpture would be \"a source of great pleasure and interest to many people\".\n• None 1952 Convicted of gross indecency for his relationship with a man\n\nThe sculpture is due to be placed next to the Wilkins Building and will be a permanent fixture within college grounds, the Local Democracy Report Service said.\n\nCambridge City Council's planning committee heard Historic England say the sculpture would be \"far more visible\" than the proposals implied and could cause \"some harm\" to the significance of the historic college.\n\nKing's College said the sculpture will be viewed by Cambridge residents, university members and those who buy a £10 resident's card, which lasts for three years.\n\nThe sculpture, designed by Sir Antony Gormley, will be made up of 19 steel blocks\n\n\"Paying visitors will also be able at allocated times to view from close up,\" a college spokesperson told the council.\n\n\"It is hard to overestimate the public benefit of this major work of commemorative art for the college, university and the city.\n\n\"It will, we all believe, be a source of great pleasure and interest to many people.\"\n\nSome councillors on the planning committee said the sculpture should be in a more public location so it was more accessible.\n\nBut King's College said the location was chosen by the sculptor and the college could not be opened up as it would be \"impossibly disruptive\" for students.\n\nMembers of the committee approved the proposal but said the college should look at improving public access to the sculpture.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Firefighters and ambulance crews have rushed to the site of a deadly air strike in Gaza.\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, including a top commander of a Palestinian militant group.\n\nLocal health officials said a young girl was among the dead with dozens of others wounded.\n\nIsrael's PM said the operation followed \"an immediate threat\" by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) after the arrest of one of its members early this week.\n\nThe PIJ fired more than 100 rockets into Israel \"in an initial response\".\n\nMost were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence shield. Sirens were heard in a number of Israeli cities.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it then resumed strikes late on Friday, targeting militant positions.\n\nIn a televised address earlier in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said \"Israel carried out a precise counter-terror operation against an immediate threat\".\n\nThe IDF said it struck sites linked to the PIJ. They include the high-rise Palestine Tower in Gaza City, hit in a loud explosion which left smoke pouring from the building.\n\nFour PIJ militants - including Tayseer Jabari - and a five-year-old girl were among those killed since the strikes started, local health officials say.\n\nThey say another 55 people were injured.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman said the IDF was \"assuming about 15\" militants had been killed.\n\nIsrael's Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told Channel 12 News: \"We don't know how this will play out… but this could take time… This could be a lengthy round [of conflict] and a hard one.\"\n\nSpeaking while on a visit to the Iranian capital, Tehran, PIJ secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhala said \"we will respond forcefully to this aggression, and there will be a fight in which our people will win\".\n\n\"There are no red lines for this battle... and Tel Aviv will be under the rockets of the resistance.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, said that armed groups were \"united\" in battle and would not keep silent.\n\nOn Monday night, Israel arrested Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank. He was held in the Jenin area as part of an ongoing series of arrest operations after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nAfter Bassem Saadi's arrest, Israel heightened security measures for communities near its border with Gaza, warning that PIJ intended to attack civilians and soldiers. Road closures brought towns and villages in southern Israel to a grinding halt.\n\nPIJ, which is backed by Iran, has its headquarters in Damascus, Syria, and is one of the strongest militant groups in Gaza. It has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket-fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIsrael and PIJ fought a five-day conflict in November 2019 after fighting erupted following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said was planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit preparing to launch rockets.", "Interest rates up, already spiralling prices set to rise yet further and the prospect of a lengthy recession.\n\nWhile the governor of the Bank of England gave a sombre press conference, the candidates to be the next prime minister were preparing for their next turn in a TV studio.\n\nThe pair have taken part in a series of televised debates and hustings events, offering themselves up for scrutiny in front of the public and the Tory party members who'll pick between them.\n\nIn the latest - hosted by Sky News - their approach to the economy was once again the defining point of difference.\n\nThe two candidates - once again - took the chance to have a pop at each other's economic plans.\n\nLiz Truss claimed the tax levels Rishi Sunak advocates will lead to recession not growth; Rishi Sunak claimed Liz Truss' plan to cut taxes will exacerbate inflation and prolong economic pain.\n\nIt is territory the two have clashed over before, but while the wannabe PMs keep exchanging blows on the finer points of fiscal policy, there will be many worried families and businesses simply wondering whether the help on offer will be anywhere near enough - or what more may come.\n\nIt is true that some of the measures announced earlier this year to help people with rising bills have yet to kick in and the business minister has insisted the government is working \"flat out\" to tackle the cost of living.\n\nBut in reality all the while this leadership contest plays out, there is a limit to what more the existing government can - or will - do.\n\nIt has said it won't make any major economic announcements until a new prime minister is in place.\n\nThis week Boris Johnson is on holiday while the current Chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, is away for a few days with his family, although he is said to be working remotely and taking calls.\n\nBut ultimately it will fall to the next prime minister to grapple with the scale of the challenge the country faces.\n\nThe two candidates have set out some further measures to help households come the autumn - Mr Sunak says he'd cut VAT on domestic fuel bills while Ms Truss would suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nBut they are likely to come under significant pressure to do more.\n\nIn just a matter of weeks whoever gets the keys to Number 10 will have to turn the big ideas and promises made while touring the TV studios into practical policies to help struggling families and businesses - and they'll have to do it pretty quickly if they want to stay there for long.", "The UK should move to offering teenagers one shot of HPV vaccine rather than two, experts are advising.\n\nThey say there is now enough evidence that one dose provides excellent protection against cancers - mostly cervical cancer - caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV).\n\nCurrently, girls and boys are offered a first dose when they are around 11-13, with a second one some months later.\n\nThe government will now consider the experts' advice.\n\nIt comes from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\n\"This aligns with recent advice from the World Health Organization, said Dr Vanessa Saliba of the JCVI.\n\nShe added that the proof for one dose was \"compelling\".\n\n\"The advice has now been published and we will make sure that we work with the NHS and health partners to support the rollout of any changes to the programme.\"\n\nIn addition to the routine adolescent programme, there is a separate HPV vaccination programme for gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men aged up to 45 years, which is delivered through sexual health clinics.\n\nThe advice from JCVI on the move to one dose applies to everyone under the age of 25. Over-25s should continue to be offered two doses, it says.\n\nThere are more than 100 different types of HPV and infections do not usually cause any symptoms - although some types can cause warts. These may appear on your hand, foot, genitals or inside your mouth.\n\nIt is very easy to pick up, being very contagious, and is spread by close skin-to-skin contact.\n\nMost people, however, will not know they're infected and their bodies will get rid of the virus without treatment.\n\nHigh-risk types of HPV, on the other hand, can cause abnormal tissue growth which can lead to cancers.\n\nThe HPV vaccine protects against the types of HPV that cause nearly all cases of cervical cancer, most anal cancers, and some genital and head and neck cancers.\n\nStudies suggests it is very effective, cutting cases of cervical cancer by nearly 90%.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A covered Russian tank outside the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on 4 August\n\nUkraine's nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak.\n\nEnerhoatom said a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power line had been damaged at the Zaporizhzhia plant - Europe's largest - in southern Ukraine.\n\nUkraine also accuses Russian forces of firing rockets at civilian areas from the site, employing \"terror tactics\".\n\n\"Every morning we wake up and see that they have hit only residential homes,\" a local businessman told the BBC.\n\nThe BBC was unable to verify the reported damage at the nuclear plant. Enerhoatom says there were two rounds of Russian rocket fire on Friday, which prompted the site's operators to disconnect a reactor from the power grid.\n\nEnerhoatom said \"there is a risk of hydrogen leakage and dispersal of radioactive particles\".\n\n\"The fire danger is high. Currently there are no injuries,\" it added.\n\nRussia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in March but kept its Ukrainian employees. Russia controls the plant and surrounding areas, close to Ukrainian-held territory. It consists of six pressurised water reactors and stores radioactive waste.\n\nWestern officials have sounded the alarm about Russia's tactics there.\n\nThe plant is in the city of Enerhodar, in the south-east of Ukraine along the left bank of the River Dnieper (Dnipro in Ukrainian).\n\nThe Russian-appointed officials in Enerhodar said Ukrainian forces shelled the plant twice on Friday \"from the opposite bank of the Dnieper\". \"The second time the nationalists managed to hit the target - shells landed in the plant's industrial site,\" their statement said.\n\nThe plant's Moscow-installed management was quoted by Russia's state-run Interfax news agency as saying two of the plant's power lines had been hit by a Ukrainian artillery strike, causing a fire.\n\nIt is not clear how many power lines still operate at the plant, and the contrasting claims have not been independently verified.\n\nEarlier, in its daily intelligence update, the UK defence ministry said Russia was using the area to launch attacks - taking advantage of the \"protected status\" of the nuclear power plant to reduce the risk of overnight attacks from Ukrainian forces.\n\nThe head of the UN's nuclear agency, Rafael Grossi, warned this week that the plant was \"completely out of control\".\n\nAny accident at the power station could have catastrophic consequences.\n\nThe assessment reflects the views of civilians in nearby Nikopol, which lies across the river and is still under Ukrainian control.\n\n\"Our forces don't shoot back because the 30km (19-mile) zone around the power station is sacred. You don't want to shoot there. But the Russians are terrorists. There's nothing sacred to them,\" the local businessman, who did not want to be named, told the BBC.\n\n\"It's meant to scare us,\" he continued, explaining that rockets have hit Nikopol every night since the middle of July.\n\nA former employee of the plant, who is still in contact with colleagues but is now in Ukrainian-held territory, told the BBC that as well as firing rockets from the area around the plant, Russian forces had moved some military hardware into one of the main buildings.\n\nThe BBC can't verify the claim, but Enerhoatom has reported the same thing.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog has warned several times about the difficult conditions for staff working at the power plant, and wants access to inspect the site.\n\nThe former employee, who worked at the plant for several weeks under Russian occupation before leaving, said the Russian soldiers in charge of the plant generally left the workers alone, but their presence caused psychological difficulties.\n\nMany employees are unable to leave the occupied area because \"they are afraid of losing their salaries, afraid to leave their relatives, or afraid of the Russians taking over their homes after they go\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Martin Tyler has been commentating on the Premier League since its 1992 launch\n\nFootball commentator Martin Tyler has apologised after referring to \"Hillsborough and other hooligan-related issues\" in a BBC interview.\n\nThe Sky Sports commentator made the reference while appearing on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nLiverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram insisted Mr Tyler said sorry for his \"exceptionally crass\" words.\n\nMr Tyler later apologised, while the BBC said it regretted not challenging his remarks \"robustly\".\n\nThe commentator said he wanted to \"apologise sincerely and wholeheartedly for any misunderstanding\".\n\nHe added that there was \"no connection at all between the Hillsborough disaster and hooliganism\".\n\nIn 2016, an inquests jury found that Liverpool fans were not to blame for what happened at Hillsborough\n\nNinety-seven Liverpool fans died as a result of a crush during an FA Cup semi-final at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium on 15 April 1989.\n\nIn the aftermath, police falsely claimed that fans \"forced\" a gate at the ground, while The Sun newspaper made untrue allegations about fans' behaviour.\n\nIn 2016, an inquests jury found that Liverpool fans were not to blame for what happened at Hillsborough and those who died were unlawfully killed.\n\nMr Tyler made his comments while being interviewed about the Premier League launch in 1992 by Today presenter Martha Kearney and Justin Webb.\n\nHe said the game was \"in a bit of a crisis at that time\", adding: \"We weren't that long after Hillsborough and other hooligan-related issues as well, so it was a very much a difficult time for the game generally.\"\n\nMr Rotheram, who was at Hillsborough, said on Twitter that Mr Tyler's remarks had been \"exceptionally crass\".\n\nHe said the commentator was \"a man who should know much better\".\n\n\"Even now, people whose careers are built on football still spread these foul smears,\" he said.\n\nLiverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne said Mr Tyler's comments were \"disgraceful\", while fellow Labour MP Paula Barker, who represents Liverpool Wavertree, said they were \"disgusting\", adding: \"How can he be allowed to have a career in sports journalism and perpetuate these lies?\"\n\nMr Rotheram criticised both Mr Tyler for making the comments and the Today presenters for not challenging them\n\nIn a statement, Mr Tyler said \"while discussing various crises facing football 30 years ago, I referred to some examples including the Hillsborough disaster and also controversy over hooliganism at matches\".\n\n\"These are two separate issues,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no connection at all between the Hillsborough disaster and hooliganism - I know that, and I was not implying that there was.\"\n\nMr Rotheram and Ms Byrne also criticised the Today presenters for not correcting what Mr Tyler said.\n\nThe mayor said the commentator \"should know better, but why do interviewers never challenge these smears that have been so resoundingly disproven time and again?\"\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"We regret that we did not robustly challenge Martin Tyler on a comment which appeared to link Hillsborough and hooliganism.\"\n\n\"Martin has since apologised for the comment and clarified that these were separate examples and he did not intend to conflate the two,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The 10ft mechanical bull used in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games has been saved from the scrap-heap after a public campaign.\n\nThousands of people signed an online petition to stop it from being dismantled and recycled. The bull will now be given a permanent home in the city centre with the location yet to be decided.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online. Matty Lee and Noah Williams won synchronised 10m platform gold after England team-mate Jack Laugher had clinched his second Commonwealth Games title in 24 hours. It marked Olympic champion Lee's first Commonwealth medal of any colour, as he and Williams - silver medallist in 2018 - scored a total of 429.78 points. Earlier, Laugher and partner Anthony Harding won the synchronised 3m springboard title, the third successive Games at which 27-year-old Laugher has won the event. There was also a bronze for England's Commonwealth Games debutant Amy Rollinson in the women's 1m springboard final.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams \"In the Commonwealth Games I have never done exactly what I wanted to do,\" Lee told BBC Sport. \"I missed out in 2014, had a rubbish Games in 2018 but I am so happy me and Noah have just smashed the synchro and got gold.\" Lee, 24, won Olympic gold in Tokyo with Tom Daley in this event, but with Daley taking a break from the sport he teamed up with 22-year-old Williams earlier this year. Together they won silver at the World Championships in June, with gold coming in their second major competition as a pair in Birmingham. They finished 15.93 points ahead of Canada's Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray in silver medal position, while Australia's Domonic Bedggood and Cassiel Rousseau took the bronze. \"This is what I do diving for. This is why I have achieved what I have. It is just competing. Especially in front of a home crowd. You don't get better than this,\" Lee added. \"You don't get a chance to do this very often. We are so lucky to be able to do it - I mean that wasn't luck out there, that was pure skill - but we are lucky to get a gold in front of a home crowd. I'm ecstatic.\" In Friday's first diving final, Laugher and 22-year-old Harding scored a total of 438.33 points to win gold, as Scotland's Ross Beattie and James Heatly finished fourth. \"Obviously two golds is amazing,\" Laugher, who won 1m springboard gold on Thursday, told BBC Sport. \"I think what me and Tony wanted to take from this was that we wanted to get another good performance under our belt. Certainly Tony achieved that. I've still got some things to improve on.\" Laugher and Harding topped the standings from their very first dive, but it wasn't until their third dive - a 3.4 difficulty forward two-and-a-half somersaults with two twists in pike - that their dominance began to show. Their highest score of 88.92 points came on their penultimate dive, the same point at which the Malaysian pair of Chew Yiwei and Ooi Tze Liang - who had been on their heels in second - slipped up, eventually finishing last. Another Malaysian pair, Gabriel Gilbert Daim and Muhammad Puteh, won silver, 61.56 points behind England, while bronze went to Australia's Samuel Fricker and Li Shixin. \"This is my second international in like two or three years,\" Harding said. \"The 3m men's in Great Britain is so hard, it's so tough to get on the big stage and I've worked so hard. I've had to be patient, I've had to wait for it. It's thanks to Jack for seeing me in training, seeing how good I can be and trusting in me and believing in me.\" Laugher and Harding only made their debut as a partnership at the World Championships in June, taking silver on that occasion. Their total in Birmingham was higher than Laugher's gold medal-winning totals with Mears at the previous two Commonwealth Games. Of his partnership with Harding, Laugher said: \"We're really good friends and we've got a lot in common. I think our diving styles are very similar. \"He deserves this. He's a great athlete and he's finally got his chance and he's really grabbed a hold of it, and that's something I need in my career - someone with motivation and drive to want to be the best and keep my fire ignited. \"I've been doing this for a long time and having someone new on the scene, raring to go, I think it's really good and I think the synchro partnership is obviously great and we've done some amazing performances this year and I just can't wait for the future.\"\n• None Is there really a pill that can help you burn fat? Sliced Bread goes in search of answers...\n• None How many friends do you need?", "The gala performance of Macro is sold out\n\nThousands of performers from across the world are in Edinburgh for the start of the world's biggest arts festival.\n\nThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see more than 3,000 shows from 58 countries mark its 75th anniversary.\n\nIts line-up will include comedians Frankie Boyle, Stewart Lee and Al Murray.\n\nThe Edinburgh Military Tattoo returns, while the Edinburgh International Festival will see live audiences return to indoor venues.\n\nPhoebe Waller-Bridge, the Fleabag star who is president of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said its new vision would make the whole event more inclusive and accessible.\n\nThe Edinburgh International Festival opens later with a free gala event, Macro, by physical theatre firm Gravity & Other Myths at Murrayfield Stadium.\n\nIn Macro, a 30-strong troupe team up with the National Youth Choir of Scotland. There will be music, projections, drums, a huge light display as well as acrobatics and dance.\n\nA free finale gala by the Philadelphia Orchestra on the final weekend at the Playhouse will close the international festival.\n\nMacro - by circus and physical theatre company Gravity & Other Myths\n\nThe finale gala will also be beamed live into the Ross Bandstand in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nDreamachine, part of Unboxed: Creativity in the UK, is another free immersive event during the festival using light and sound to explore the potential of the human mind.\n\nIt has been created by Collective Act, presented by Edinburgh Science, and brings together Turner Prize-winning artists Assemble, Grammy and Mercury nominated musician and composer Jon Hopkins, and a team of leading technologists, scientists and philosophers.\n\nThe Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will also perform a free concert at the Usher Hall on Saturday.\n\nLed by Canadian-Ukrainian conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, the special concert is extending its invitation to the Ukrainian community in Scotland.\n\nPeople can watch performers in Edinburgh's High Street during the event\n\nThe streets are packed, traffic is at a standstill and the cobbled streets are full of discarded flyers.The sun is shining - for the moment - but everyone is grumbling about the prospect of rain, their anxiety about Covid and the difficulties of affording anything in Edinburgh in August.\n\nIt's official. The Edinburgh Festivals are back.\n\nBoth festivals mark their 75th anniversary this summer and the resilience which has allowed them to deal with post war uncertainty and rationing seems to have prepared them well. Last year's festival was a scaled back event, staged outdoors in plush marquees (the international festival) or concrete car parks (the fringe).\n\nSocially distanced and heavily subsidised, it was a place holder. Some established names - like Jason Byrne and Alan Cumming - took part because they felt they owed it to the festival where their careers began. Others worried that the festivals might not survive the pandemic, so there's a certain amount of relief this August.\n\nThere's also a better understanding of the dynamic of this festival city, where programmes overlap and cross promote. The Edinburgh International Film Festival is back in the mix, along with book and art festivals. The tattoo's nightly fireworks will have to satisfy tourists and locals alike - there'll be no closing concert this year. Orchestras are staying for residencies, rather than single concerts. Artists appearing at one festival, are encouraged to take part in others. Audiences happily move between the festivals, and I suspect will do so this year more than ever.\n\nMeanwhile the Fringe holds its first full programme of events since 2019.\n\nAs well as Scottish favourite Frankie Boyle, its line-up will feature fellow comics Josie Long, Phil Wang, Reginald D Hunter and Nish Kumar.\n\nOther big names include Sir Ian McKellen, who is starring in a new production of Hamlet, Drag Race starts Bianca Del Rio and Jinkx Monsoon, and quizzer and comedian Paul Sinha.\n\nThis year's Fringe Street Events will be extended to new locations in St Andrew Square and St James Quarter.\n\nOrganisers said issues tackled this year will include refugees, race, women's safety, disability, mental health and climate change.\n\nSir Ian McKellen is starring in a new production of Hamlet in Edinburgh\n\nShona McCarthy, chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, said: \"After the challenges of the last two years, it feels more important than ever to celebrate the diverse selection of work on display at the Fringe, spanning the genres of theatre, dance, circus, physical theatre, comedy, music, musicals, opera, cabaret, variety, children's shows, spoken word, exhibitions and events.\n\n\"Venues, producers and artists have created an amazing array of performances and events which dig into some of the most topical themes being discussed in the world today.\n\n\"This is an opportunity for us all to laugh, cry, celebrate and be entertained together, living in this one incredible moment and looking ahead to the future of the Fringe and the many momentous moments yet to come.\"\n\nCammy Day, City of Edinburgh Council leader, said: \"This is a very special year for the Fringe, not only does it see the return of a jam-packed programme of artists and performers from across the globe, it is also marks 75 years of this remarkable festival.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Joel's body was found in the upstairs bedroom he shared with his mother\n\nThe mother of a seven-year-old boy who died in an arson attack has appealed for help in finding her son's killers.\n\nJoel Urhie's body was found in the bedroom he shared with his mother at the house in Adolphus Street, Deptford, south-east London, on 7 August 2018.\n\nDetectives suspect his brother Sam, who was stabbed outside the home in June, was the target of a criminal gang.\n\nIroroefe O Edu said: \"The perpetrators of this atrocity and dastardly crime have not been unearthed.\"\n\nShe added: \"If you have any information or know anything, or anyone, who may be responsible for causing the fire, can you come forward please?\"\n\nJoel was found dead in the upstairs bedroom, but Miss Edu and his 19-year-old sister escaped by jumping out of a first-floor window.\n\nThe plan was for Miss Edu to cushion his fall, but the youngster never followed.\n\nThe ground floor, first floor and stairs were badly damaged\n\nJoel's murder investigation is ongoing amid reports that his brother might have been the target and the arson attack was gang-related. Sam Uhrie, 21, was stabbed in a fight outside the property on 11 June.\n\nConcerns were raised at the time over whether enough was done to safeguard the family.\n\nThe family's home could have been fitted with a panic alarm and a fire-proof letterbox if the family were at risk, sources previously told the the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).\n\nA year after the attack two men were arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and arson with intent to endanger life although both were released with no further action.\n\nTwo years later in August 2020, three further men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder but were released under investigation.\n\nJoel dreamed of becoming a firefighter, his family said\n\nDetectives believe that the amount of time since the attack means witnesses are more likely to speak up.\n\nThroughout the investigation, detectives have had a \"suspicion that it might be related to gang membership,\" according to Det Ch Insp Mark Rogers, who admitted that they \"can't say for sure\".\n\nHe said: \"Someone knows why this happened; I would ask that you search your conscience and do what is right.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "Sadiqul Islam and Husnara Begum are the only family members to survive the suspected carbon monoxide poisoning\n\nA woman, 20, has become the third member of a British family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Bangladesh.\n\nSamira Islam, from Cardiff, died at about 08:30 BST on Friday, after being found unconscious on 26 July.\n\nHer father, Rafiqul, 51, and brother, Mahiqul, 16, also died after being found in a flat in the region of Sylhet.\n\nSamira's funeral took place on Saturday afternoon in Bangladesh.\n\nHer uncle Shabul Mian said the death of Samira and her brother and father was \"indescribably sad\".\n\n\"First it was the father and son who died, then today the daughter also died. I pray for them to be granted paradise (in the afterlife),\" he said.\n\nShabul Mian said the death of Samira and her brother and father was \"indescribably sad\"\n\nPolice in the area are continuing to investigate the deaths.\n\nSamira's brother Sadiqul, 24, and her mother Husnara Begum were also in the flat but have since been released from hospital, sources have confirmed.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul had told them there was a faulty electricity generator in the property they were staying at, which was to be used in emergencies.\n\nThey reportedly told officers it was used the night of the incident due to a power cut.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said police visited the property with Husnara and Sadiqul, and said that when the generator was running it pumped out smoke.\n\nHe added this could have caused the family to be suffocated and samples had been sent to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nThe family, from Cardiff, were on a two month visit to Bangladesh when they were found unconscious by a relative.\n\nThe relative said that when there was no answer at the flat on 26 July, they peered through a window and saw the family sprawled across two beds.\n\nPolice officers broke into the building on Tuesday morning after the alarm was raised.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said there was a faulty generator in the property the family were staying at\n\nSadiqul had previously told officers he was not aware of what had happened, and woke up in hospital after going to bed at about 23:00 local time.\n\nGeneral secretary of the Bangladesh Association Cardiff, Mohammed Haroon, said the three deaths were \"very, very sad\", adding \"we cannot explain it\".\n\n\"The family were very well known in the community. They were very friendly, everybody knows them here. A very, very nice family,\" he said.\n\nMr Haroon said Samira had worked in a shop in Cardiff and the community had been praying for her and the rest of the family.\n\n\"For the last week we have prayed for them, and we are arranging another big prayer,\" he said.\n\nOn 28 July hundreds of people lined the streets of Sylhet for the funeral of Rafiqul and Mahiqul.", "Amateurs can climb Mont Blanc but the risks have increased\n\nA French mayor says conditions on Mont Blanc are now so dangerous that climbers should pay a €15,000 (£12,640; $15,370) deposit to cover rescue and possible funeral costs.\n\nJean-Marc Peillex is mayor of Saint-Gervais, a village at the foot of Western Europe's highest mountain, whose summit is at 4,807m (15,774ft).\n\nThose who ignored warnings and took the Goûter route up the mountain were playing \"Russian roulette\", he said.\n\nMayor Peillex said the average cost of a rescue on the mountain was €10,000 and funeral costs were €5,000. \"It is unacceptable for the French taxpayer to cover those costs,\" he said in a press release.\n\nHis statement on the village's official website noted that mountain guides were now refusing to take climbers on the popular Goûter route - also known as the Royal Way - from Saint-Gervais or the nearby Alpine resort of Chamonix. Their decision is in force until mid-August at the earliest.\n\nMayor Peillex castigated some \"pseudo climbers\" who insisted on attempting the climb \"with death in their backpacks\".\n\nHe told the BBC \"I wanted to make people react, to understand that today it's very dangerous, almost suicidal to go up\".\n\nHe has closed until further notice the mountain refuges at Goûter and Tête Rousse because of rockfalls. He said there had been a major rockfall on Thursday which would have killed anyone had they been in its path.\n\nHe has not yet issued a legal ruling on the proposed deposit, but has the power to impose it, he told the BBC. He said the amount \"has to be startling to focus attention on this\". \"If anyone thinks it's illegal they can go to court to challenge it,\" he added.\n\nHe said a group of Romanians were found on the mountain on 30 July wearing shorts and trainers. A police helicopter ordered them through a loudhailer to turn back, he said, \"and while they did so, they said they would return the next day\"!\n\nA lack of winter snow and this summer's extraordinary heat have destabilised rocks and made crossing crevasses more difficult. The heat - attributed to climate change - has also increased the risk of avalanches in the Alps, as glaciers melt.\n\nAn expert guide in Chamonix quoted by AFP news agency, Olivier Greber, said only a dozen to 20 skilled mountaineers were able to reach the summit each day, compared to 100-120 usually.\n\nMont Blanc has 11 peaks above 4,000m in France and Italy and normally attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Besides Goûter, several other routes up the mountain, including from Courmayeur in Italy, remain open despite the hazards.\n\nMayor Peillex said he did not have legal power to close the Goûter route.\n\nHe told the BBC's Chris Bockman that, despite the danger, on Thursday alone 70 people attempted the climb and the number was rising each day.\n\nHe said the number of rescues and deaths in the Mont Blanc massif had not risen this year. In most years there are hundreds of rescues in the massif and several dozen climbers' deaths.", "A tiny Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde has gone on sale for £350,000.\n\nThe isle of Pladda, off the coast of Arran, includes a five-bedroom house, a helipad and lighthouse dating back to the 1790s.\n\nIt has an asking price that could buy a three-bedroom flat in Glasgow or Edinburgh. It is well below the average price of a London property at £536,000.\n\nThe 28 acre island has been empty for several years and needs renovation before it can be lived on again.\n\nPladda was sold by the Arran Estate 30 years ago to fashion designers Derek and Sally Morten - its current owners.\n\nThe buyer will get a five-bedroom house, walled garden and a stone jetty.\n\nAilsa Craig looms on the horizon over Pladda\n\nListed with Knight Frank, the property is 31 miles from Glasgow, and can be reached via boat from Ardrossan on the mainland.\n\nMore than 100 species of birds have been recorded on the island.\n\nThe island's lighthouse has been automated from Edinburgh since 1990.\n\nViews stretch across the Kintyre and Ayrshire coasts, to Ailsa Craig and even Northern Ireland on a clear day\n\nThe sale comes at a time when house prices recently reached a record high. The average UK house price reached £294,845 in June.\n\nScotland has an average price of £201,549, Wales is £219,281 and Northern Ireland is £187,833 according to mortgage lender Halifax.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nConspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.\n\nThe parents of a victim have sought at least $150m in the Texas defamation trial against the Infowars founder.\n\nThey said they endured harassment and emotional distress because of the right-wing host's misinformation.\n\nTwenty children and six adults were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.\n\nThe jury in the city of Austin decided compensatory damages on Thursday, and must still determine any punitive damages.\n\nJones - who was not in court when the outcome was announced - has repeatedly argued that the shooting was a hoax organised by the government in order to strip Americans of gun ownership rights, and that the parents of the dead children were \"crisis actors\".\n\nHe has already lost a series of defamation cases brought by parents of the victims by default after failing to produce documents and testimony.\n\nBut this is the first in which financial damages were agreed by a jury.\n\nThe case was brought by Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the separated parents of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the school shooting.\n\nAhead of Thursday's decision, a lawyer for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones' lawyer had inadvertently sent him two years of texts from his client's phone.\n\nThe attorney said a congressional panel investigating last year's US Capitol riot had already requested access to the messages. The committee has said Jones helped organise a rally that took place just before the riot.\n\nDespite retracting his claims about Sandy Hook, Jones has continued to use his platform to attack jurors and the judge in this case.\n\nJesse Lewis, six, was killed at Sandy Hook\n\nHe also claimed he was bankrupt despite evidence that his companies were earning about $800,000 a day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.\n\nDuring the emotionally charged two-week trial, Jones portrayed the case as an attack on his free speech rights under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.\n\n\"Speech is free, but lies you have to pay for,\" lawyers for the families countered in their opening arguments.\n\nTestifying on Wednesday, Jones acknowledged the Sandy Hook attack was \"100% real\" and apologised for having \"hurt these people's feelings\".\n\nBut in her testimony, Mrs Lewis addressed Jones in court, saying: \"Jesse was real… I'm a real mom.\"\n\nShe went on to say it is \"incredible to me that we have to do this\".\n\n\"That we have to implore you - not just implore you, punish you - to get you to stop lying,\" she continued, adding: \"It is surreal what is going on in here.\"\n\nMr Heslin said that Jones' lies \"tarnished the honour and legacy\" of his son, adding that he had gone through nearly 10 years of \"hell\" since the attack.\n\nAccording to lawyers for the parents, they were forced to hire private security for the trial out of concern that followers of Jones could seek to harm them.\n\nThe parents said Jones had made their lives \"hell\"\n\nOne forensic psychiatrist testified that the parents were suffering from \"complex post-traumatic stress disorder\" similar to what battlefield soldiers or victims of child abuse endure.\n\nLawyers for the parents accused Jones of trying to hide evidence, and argued that he had committed perjury when he denied sending messages related to the Sandy Hook attack.\n\nJones' Infowars parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, declared bankruptcy last week. The outlet has been banned by YouTube, Spotify and Twitter for hate speech, but continues to operate.\n\nOther wild conspiracies pushed by Jones include that the US government is creating floods and tornados as \"weather weapons\" and that chemicals in drinking water are making frogs homosexual.\n\nLawyer Mark Banston, who represented the parents in the case, told reporters outside court on Thursday that his clients were not disappointed with the sum awarded by the jury.\n\n\"We aren't done folks,\" the attorney was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.\n\n\"We knew coming into this case it was necessary to shoot for the moon to get the jury to understand we were serious and passionate. After tomorrow, he's going to owe a lot more.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwelve years ago Micky Yule woke up from a coma in Birmingham, having stepped on an improvised explosive device (IED) while serving in Afghanistan.\n\nThis week the former Royal Engineer returned to the city that saved him to win a Commonwealth Games bronze medal.\n\nHe lifted 192kg to finish third in the heavyweight benchpress final, claiming the medal which evaded him in two previous Games.\n\n\"I looked at myself and said: 'Listen, your daughter's here tonight, you're not leaving here without a medal',\" Yule told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I was looking her straight in the eye and was bringing that emotion. It needed to mean more than ever.\"\n\nMicky Yule focused on his daughter, Tilly, during the final\n\nAnd he revealed watching fellow Scot Eilish McColgan win the gold medal in the 10,000m the night before had helped inspire him.\n\n\"I must have watched that 20 times,\" Yule added. \"In my head, she kicked three times, and that was my three lifts. She fought back when everybody thought she would quit and she didn't.\n\n\"I said: 'That's your three lifts Micky. Get a bit of that McColgan power in you. Where's that grit? Make sure you bring it.'\n\n\"I saw her run to her mum and I thought: 'That's it - her running to her mum is your daughter running to you. Don't dare quit on yourself.'\"\n\nMicky Yule and Kirsty Gilmour carried the flag for Scotland during the opening ceremony\n\nNow 43, the Edinburgh-born athlete has undergone more than 40 operations since losing his legs and is grateful to the staff at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital who helped save his life in 2010.\n\nSix years after suffering those life-changing injuries, he was chosen to compete as a Paralympic powerlifter at Rio 2016.\n\nSince then, Yule has become a bronze medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games as well as achieving respective gold and silver in the 2020 and 2021 World Cups, which were both held in Manchester.\n\nBefore the Games he said: \"It's a strange feeling. I flew in here in a coma from Afghanistan and then spent eight weeks getting patched up and surgeries, sometimes being quite close to everything going wrong.\n\n\"But I'm back here. The people at Queen Elizabeth Hospital saved my life.\n\n\"It's not all bad, it's mixed feelings, but to be back here on a real positive note to try and win a medal for your country and be the flagbearer, I think it comes full circle to where things started 10 years ago.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile BBC Sport presenter JJ Chalmers paid an emotional tribute to Yule, his friend, after he won the bronze medal.\n\nLike Yule, he was injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2011 while serving as a Royal Marine.\n\nHe said: \"I'm so proud of him. From coming from the military, medals don't make you a hero I can tell you that, but it's the way you conduct yourself, it's the person that you are, and Micky is that, and he's an absolute hero to me.\"\n\nChalmers went on to pay tribute to Birmingham.\n\n\"Because whenever people say the name of this city, I thought of the hospital and it was amazing and I'm grateful to it,\" he said.\n\n\"But now when people say Birmingham I think of these games and this city gave me a life - that's the thing. And now I have something to live for.\"", "Jack Woodley was murdered by a group of youths in Houghton-le-Spring, jurors found\n\nTen teenagers who murdered an 18-year-old man in a gang attack have been sentenced.\n\nJack Woodley, 18, died from a single stab wound during an 80-second attack in which he was punched, kicked and stamped upon by 10 youths.\n\nAll 10, now aged between 15 and 18, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life with minimum terms of between eight and 17 years.\n\nNine of them have launched appeals against their convictions.\n\nA murder trial heard Mr Woodley, from Sunderland, had attended the final night of the Houghton Feast funfair in Houghton-le-Spring on 16 October.\n\nWhilst there, he came to the attention of a group of youths who prosecutors said were intent on attacking someone.\n\nHe refused when they challenged him to a fight but they followed him out of the fair accompanied by about 30 to 40 youths.\n\nAs Mr Woodley neared the Britannia Inn, a 16-year-old boy ran up and punched him from behind triggering a melee during which a 15-year-old boy fatally stabbed Mr Woodley in the back.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Woodley's mother warned others not to carry knives or involve themselves with anyone with a knife\n\nThe judge Rodney Jameson QC said each youth, none of whom can be identified, was responsible for Mr Woodley's death but their involvement varied.\n\nHe said any of the youths had the opportunity to withdraw from the attack but the \"mob mentality took over and it cost Jack his life\", although he said not all of them \"intended to kill\".\n\nThe judge said Mr Woodley was \"standing on the threshold of his adult life\" having got keys to his new home that day and was due to start a new job the following Monday.\n\n\"He had much to look forward to and must have been full hopes for the future,\" he said, adding: \"None of those hopes will now be fulfilled.\"\n\nHe said the feast was seen as an \"opportunity\" by some young people to fight over \"trivial rivalries\" between neighbouring communities and Mr Woodley was marked by the attackers as being a \"townie\".\n\nJack Woodley died in hospital a day after being attacked near the Britannia Inn in Houghton-le-Spring\n\nHe said Mr Woodley had \"done nothing at all wrong at any time\" before the attack while some of the youths at least had gone \"intending to become involved in violence\".\n\nThe minimum terms each youth must serve before they can be considered for parole were:\n\nThe judge said while it may seem \"unfair\" the youths could be released from prison at a relatively young age, the loss of Mr Woodley had to be balanced against each defendant's age, individual circumstances, actual involvement in the killing and chances of rehabilitation.\n\nHe said no sentence could compensate Mr Woodley's family for their \"permanent and irreversible\" loss and it was \"not a measure of the worth\" of his life which was \"beyond calculation\".\n\nEven once they are deemed suitable for release by a parole board, each boy would remain on licence for the rest of their life, the judge added.\n\nOne of the 10 defendants admitted stabbing Jack Woodley with a 9in (25cm) knife\n\nThough each defendant's actions varied, the judge said there were common features in each of their case, including:\n\nAhead of the sentencing, the court heard the defendants had expressed \"genuine remorse\" but the judge said none of the six who gave evidence during the trial had \"told the truth\" about their involvement and claimed they did not see or could not remember what happened.\n\n\"You decided to put the interest of yourself and co-defendants before those of Jack and his family,\" the judge told them, adding: \"You did everything you could to deny them justice.\"\n\nThe judge said Jack Woodley was on the threshold of his adult life with high hopes for the future\n\nHe said he understood the youths may \"regret what happened for many reasons\" but \"that is not remorse\", which meant being \"truly sorry not for what happened but for what you did to make it happen\".\n\nThe sentencing was delayed slightly due to disturbances outside the court between those attending to watch from the public gallery.\n\nNorthumbria Police said three men were arrested on suspicion of breach of the peace and affray.\n\nThe judge said the attack and murder was a \"joint enterprise\" and the youths \"all played a part\", while prosecutors had said the presence and actions of each youth emboldened others to join in the attack and created the situation for the fatal stabbing.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association, which opposes joint enterprise convictions, said it was \"appalled\" by the case.\n\nThe group is supporting the families of nine of the defendants who said their sons had been \"given life sentences for a murder they did not commit\".\n\nThe families said they were \"mindful of the life that was lost\" and \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Woodley's death but the convictions were \"not justice\", adding: \"We will spend the rest of our lives fighting for our children and our children will spend the rest of their lives maintaining their innocence.\"\n\nMr Woodley's mother Zoe McGill said all the defendants were \"part of it\", adding: \"If you involve yourself with someone carrying a knife and you are aware they have a knife then you are as much a murderer as them\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emails were sent to patients and external contacts claiming to be from a medical group in Guernsey\n\nA Guernsey medical group has confirmed it experienced a \"cyber incident\" which affected their email system in December 2021.\n\nIt resulted in a number of patients and contacts receiving emails claiming to be from the Guernsey's Medical Specialist Group (GMSG).\n\nHe offered his \"sincerest apologies\", and has notified those affected.\n\nMr Buckland said the group's emails were \"immediately re-secured\" and he takes cyber security and data protection \"incredibly seriously\".\n\nHe said: \"I would like to offer our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience or concern this incident has caused.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the group was continuing to work with the police and the information security officer of the States of Guernsey.\n\n\"As the police investigation continues, we hope to be able to determine those behind the incident and inhibit any further criminal activity,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC Guernsey on Twitter and Facebook. Send your story ideas to channel.islands@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"I can talk to someone who knows exactly how I feel.\"\n\nThese was Darren's thoughts on Men's Sheds - an organisation that gives a space for people to relax or discuss issues to help with their mental health.\n\nThe Denbigh shed has fully reopened after the pandemic and Darren is able to talk to people who also experience feelings of anxiety.", "Karl Townsend was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter\n\nA man who stabbed a burglar to death after seeing him breaking into his home via a video doorbell has been jailed.\n\nJordan Brophy, 31, and three others targeted the home of Karl Townsend in Halewood on 29 October 2021 while he and his family were out.\n\nLiverpool Crown Court heard the 32-year-old saw the break-in via a phone app and went home to confront the gang.\n\nTownsend, who stabbed Mr Brophy several times, was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 19 years.\n\nThe court heard the burglars arrived at the property on Beechwood Avenue in a convoy of vehicles and had a getaway driver outside.\n\nThe judge said they had targeted Townsend's home with the intention of carrying out a \"smash and grab\" burglary to steal a stash of controlled drugs.\n\nTheir arrival was picked up by doorbell cameras and relayed to a phone app, which led Townsend to return home carrying a large kitchen knife, along with his younger half-brother Jamie Cunningham, who was also carrying a knife.\n\nTownsend stabbed Mr Brophy repeatedly in the head, face and arms inside his home, before stabbing him again in the neck on the road outside, the court heard.\n\nMr Brophy's mother Lisa Ward told the court her son \"was by no means perfect and innocent, but never did anyone ever, ever, have the right to take him from me\".\n\nJordan Brophy died in hospital after being found in the street with stab wounds\n\nSentencing Townsend, Judge Andrew Menary QC said that \"on any level, the unlawful violence used by you was truly shocking\".\n\n\"Jordan Brophy was no angel, he had a number of previous convictions and was under investigation for other matters at the time,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he added that \"whatever he was doing on the night, he plainly did not deserve to die as he did.\"\n\nCunningham, 23, of Halewood, who was acquitted of murder and manslaughter at an earlier trial, was given a community sentence of two years supervision, with 10 days of rehabilitation activity, after he pleaded guilty to possession of a bladed article halfway through a retrial.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None Two men charged with murder over street stabbing\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe mother of Archie Battersbee says she has done everything she promised her son she would do as the family prepare for his life support to be withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nThey had asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to intervene, but were told it \"fell outside\" its scope.\n\nThe 12-year-old must spend his final days in hospital after the High Court ruled he could not move to a hospice.\n\nHer son has not regained consciousness since being found at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, Ms Dance said: \"The last however many weeks since 7 April, I don't think there's been a day that hasn't been awful really.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been really hard. Despite the hard strong face and appearance obviously in front of the cameras up until now, I've been pretty broken.\"\n\nShe said the hospital had made it clear there were no more options and that life support would be withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nAsked if there was anything more she could do, Ms Dance, of Southend, Essex, said: \"No. I've done everything that I promised my little boy I'd do. And I've done it.\"\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, had said she wanted him \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye\"\n\nThe family's long legal battle to continue his life-sustaining treatment ended when the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.\n\nThey hoped to move him to a hospice but doctors warned he was too unstable to move by ambulance and it would \"hasten premature deterioration\".\n\nThe High Court ruled Archie should remain at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.\n\nThe family sought permission to appeal against the decision, but that bid was rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThey then asked the ECHR to intervene, but late on Friday, the court said the request could not be dealt with.\n\nA spokesman for campaign group Christian Concern, which is supporting Archie's family, said: \"All legal routes have been exhausted.\n\n\"The family are devastated and are spending precious time with Archie.\"\n\nArchie's family said a breakdown in trust meant Archie would not die with peace and dignity in hospital\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home and his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge.\n\nHe suffered \"catastrophic\" brain injuries and doctors think it is \"highly likely\" he is brain-stem dead.\n\nLife-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, has been in place since April.\n\nIn her ruling earlier on Friday, taking into account medical evidence, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie's best interests to be moved.\n\nShe said: \"Archie's best interests must remain at the core of any conclusions reached by this court.\n\n\"When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted... the risks involved in a transfer... and the increasing fragility of his medical condition, I am satisfied... he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn.\"\n\nMrs Justice Theis also noted Archie's family's \"unconditional love and dedication\", which she said had been a \"golden thread that runs through this case\".\n\n\"I hope now Archie can be afforded the opportunity for him to die in peaceful circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him as he clearly does to them.\"\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "A software outage affecting the NHS 111 service was caused by a cyber-attack, it has been confirmed.\n\nAdvanced, a firm providing digital services for NHS 111, said the attack was spotted at 07:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe attack targeted the system used to refer patients for care, including ambulances being dispatched, out-of-hours appointment bookings and emergency prescriptions.\n\nBut the NHS said disruption was minimal.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it was \"aware of a cyber incident\" and was working with Advanced.\n\n\"A security issue was identified yesterday, which resulted in loss of service,\" said Advanced boss Simon Short.\n\n\"We can confirm that the incident is related to a cyber-attack and as a precaution, we immediately isolated all our health and care environments.\"\n\nHe said the issue had been contained \"to a small number of servers\".\n\nAdvanced has indicated the issue might not be fully resolved until next week.\n\nFamily doctors in London were warned by NHS England they could see an increased number of patients sent to them by NHS 111 due to the \"significant technical issue\", industry magazine Pulse reported.\n\nIt said a letter to GPs in the capital stated the problem was affecting the electronic referral process for patients.\n\nCyber security expert Robert Pritchard told the BBC the attack was likely to have been ransomware. Ransomware gangs - who encrypt vital data and demand a ransom in order to get the information decrypted - have been routinely targeting schools and hospitals.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has warned it may take longer for calls to be answered over the weekend.\n\nIt said: \"There is a major outage of a computer system that is used to refer patients from NHS 111 Wales to out-of-hours GP providers. The ongoing outage is significant and has been far-reaching, impacting each of the four nations in the UK.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said there was currently minimal disruption and it was monitoring the situation.\n\n\"NHS 111 services are still available for patients who are unwell, but as ever if it is an emergency please call 999,\" they said.\n\nA Scottish Government spokesperson said it was aware of reported disruption to one of NHS Scotland's IT suppliers' systems and is \"working with all health boards collaboratively on a four nations basis with the National Cyber Security Centre and the supplier to fully understand potential impact\".\n\nIt said \"continuity plans\" are in place.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health said they are working to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"As a precaution, to avoid risk to other critical systems and services, access to the company's services from the HSC (Health and Social Care system) has been disabled, while the incident is contained,\" they said.", "Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nPolice probing the deaths of a father and son in Bangladesh believe they may have been poisoned by carbon monoxide.\n\nCardiff taxi driver Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital on 26 July after being found unconscious in a flat in Osmaninagar, near the city of Sylhet.\n\nBeside them were Rafiqul's wife Husnara Begum and their other children Samira, 20, and Sadiqul, 24.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul were released from hospital on Wednesday.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said Samira remained in an \"alarming\" condition in intensive care.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul had told them there was a faulty electricity generator in the property they were staying at, to be used in emergencies.\n\nThey told officers it was used the night of the tragedy due to a power cut.\n\nSupt Uddin said police visited the property with Husnara and Sadiqul, adding that when the generator was running it pumped out smoke that could have been behind the suffocation and samples had been sent to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nRafiqul Islam's son, Sadiqul, said he woke in hospital unaware of what had happened\n\nSupt Uddin said: \"We collected a smoke sample from the generator and we sent it to fire service to see if chemicals were also found in the bodies of the deceased and of the survivors.\n\n\"We have to wait for some days to get the chemical analysis report.\"\n\nSadiqul said he did not know what happened and woke up in hospital after going to bed at about 23:00 local time.\n\nA relative previously said when there was no answer at the flat on July 26, they peered through a window and saw the family sprawled on two beds.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said there was a faulty generator in the property the family were staying at\n\nRafiqul lived in Riverside, Cardiff, and played badminton and football. Fitzalan High School pupil Mahiqul has been described as \"sweet and friendly\".\n\nOn Tuesday, a doctor said there was no concrete evidence Rafiqul Islam, who was 51, and Mahiqul had been poisoned.", "The French government has set up a crisis team to tackle a historic drought that has left more than 100 municipalities short of drinking water.\n\nTrucks are taking water to those areas, as \"there is nothing left in the pipes\", Minister for Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu said.\n\nThe prime minister's office said it was France's worst recorded drought. Water use is being restricted in 93 regions.\n\nDry conditions are expected to continue for at least the next two weeks.\n\nThe state energy company EDF has had to reduce output at some nuclear power plants, as river temperatures are too high to provide sufficient cooling, AFP news agency reports.\n\nThere are fears that the drought - hitting nearly all of mainland France - will reduce crop yields, exacerbating the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.\n\nEuropeans are already struggling with higher food prices as grain exports from Russia and Ukraine - among the world's top producers - are much lower than normal.\n\nThe heatwave that has baked France since June has prompted trees and bushes to shed their leaves early, creating scenes that look autumnal.\n\nIn July France had just 9.7mm (0.38 inches) of rain, making it the driest month since March 1961, the national weather service Meteo-France said.\n\nIrrigation has been banned in much of the north-west and south-east of France to conserve water.\n\nA squirrel was among animals rescued in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, south-east France\n\nThe corn harvest, used mainly for animal feed, is expected to be 18.5% lower this year compared with 2021, the agriculture ministry said. The main corn-growing areas are Alsace in the east and western regions, and the harvest is already under way.\n\nCorn exports from France, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are all expected to be lower this year because of the heatwave, and those lower volumes will push prices up, French BFMTV reported.\n\nLivestock farmers in the Alps are having to descend into the valleys by truck every day to collect water for their animals, which adds several hundred euros to their weekly fuel bills, Broadcaster TF1 reported.\n\nHow have you been affected by the drought? Share your experiences haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMikel Arteta said his Arsenal side look \"hungry\" after getting their campaign off to the perfect start with victory over Crystal Palace in an entertaining 2022-23 Premier League curtain-raiser at Selhurst Park.\n\nThe Gunners maintained their impressive pre-season form with an energetic performance that was rewarded when Gabriel Martinelli nodded in a 20th-minute opener from new signing Oleksandr Zinchenko's headed assist.\n\nIt took Palace most of the first half to adapt to the visitors' tempo, but once they did Odsonne Edouard forced Aaron Ramsdale into a save after Joachim Andersen's header found him in the six-yard box.\n\nBuoyed by a vibrant home crowd, the Eagles poured forward in search of a leveller but it was Arsenal who found the net again, Marc Guehi inadvertently heading Bukayo Saka's fierce cross into his own goal late on.\n\n\"I have had this feeling for the first few weeks since the boys started pre-season. They are ready, they look hungry, with that mentality that they really want to win,\" Arteta told Match of the Day.\n\n\"The team came here to play the way we wanted to play - we were dominant, we were a threat, we were really lively and sharp from the beginning. Then when we felt under pressure we coped with that with resilience.\"\n• None Enjoy the best Arsenal content here\n\nBetween Arsenal's savvy transfer business, free-scoring pre-season form and being the focus of Amazon's latest All or Nothing series, there has been plenty to whet their fans' appetites this summer.\n\nWe may have to wait until the second series to learn whether Arteta piped Palace anthem 'Glad All Over' out during training before this one - as he did with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' before visiting Anfield last season - or whether it was the Spaniard's artwork that set the tone, but his side arrived with a relentless intensity that made Martinelli's opening goal feel inevitable.\n\nThe 21-year-old Brazilian had earlier missed a glorious chance after Gabriel Jesus waltzed through the Palace defence, skewing wide of the far post after his compatriot's effort was blocked, but he stooped to head in from a clever corner routine.\n\nThe Gunners lost their opening three league games last season, including another Friday night opener at Brentford, and ultimately narrowly missed out on a return to Champions League football.\n\nBut they have strengthened with the acquisitions of Jesus and Zinchenko from Manchester City and both already look set to have a big impact on Arteta's young squad.\n\nJesus, who scored seven goals in five pre-season games, caused Palace's back four problems with his relentless work-rate as well as his talent on the ball, and he laid on a chance for Martin Odegaard that the Gunners captain might have done better with.\n\nIt was another Arsenal debutant who really impressed, with 21-year-old centre back William Saliba - who has spent most of his three years at the club out on loan, producing a fine defensive display.\n\nThe Frenchman was part of a back four that had to show resilience amid the hosts' growing threat, before Guehi's own goal following a snappy Saka break made things more comfortable.\n\nIt was a result and performance that will have pleased Arteta, who recorded his 50th league win as Gunners boss, while simultaneously giving Arsenal's top-four rivals a glimpse of what they are up against this term.\n\nPalace boss Patrick Vieira was concerned this game had arrived too early after a disrupted pre-season that saw some of his squad not being able to travel to Singapore and Australia, some players remaining on the treatment table, and the Frenchman still hoping to make more transfer additions.\n\nHe also said he was happy with the business the Eagles have done so far this window, although only Cheick Doucoure started after arriving from Lens, and Palace struggled to deal with an irrepressible Arsenal early on.\n\nThe hosts, who took four points off Arsenal last season, did improve and Ramsdale's save from Edouard's header before the break was followed after half-time when the goalkeeper also denied Eberechi Eze following Wilfried Zaha's pass in what kick-started a dominant spell for the Eagles.\n\nPalace, who are looking to improve on their 12th-placed finish last season, were unable to capitalise on that pressure and were instead caught out on the break, but Vieira will want to wait until the end of the transfer window before giving a real assessment of where his side are.\n• None Albert Sambi Lokonga (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah.\n• None Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Partey.\n• None Attempt missed. Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeffrey Schlupp (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jean-Philippe Mateta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Brittney Griner (right) pleaded guilty to drug charges - but denied deliberately breaking the law\n\nA Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges.\n\nAs Griner, 31, was being led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, she was heard saying: \"I love my family.\"\n\nThe double Olympic winner has admitted possessing cannabis oil, but told the court she had made an \"honest mistake\".\n\nThe court near Moscow convicted her of smuggling and possessing narcotics. The prosecution had sought a nine-and-a-half year jail term.\n\nReading the verdict on Thursday, the presiding judge said she had taken into account the fact that the American had already spent a considerable time in detention.\n\nGriner's defence lawyer Maria Blagovolina said her client was \"very upset, very stressed\".\n\n\"She can hardly talk. It's a difficult time for her. When we saw Brittney on Tuesday, we told her, 'See you on Thursday'. She said, 'See you on doomsday'. So it looks like she was right.\"\n\nThe defence team said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nGriner, who is considered one of the best players in the world, was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.\n\nShe had come to Russia to play club basketball during the US off-season.\n\nSoon after, Russia invaded Ukraine and her case has become subject to high-profile diplomacy between the US and Russia.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: \"Russia, and any country engaging in wrongful detention, represents a threat to the safety of everyone travelling, working, and living abroad.\"\n\nIt is unclear how long she will actually spend behind bars, as the US and Russia have been discussing a potential prisoner swap that could involve the basketball player.\n\nReports in US media suggest imprisoned Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout - known as the Merchant of Death - could be transferred by Washington to the Russian authorities as part of the deal.\n\nSpeaking after her sentencing, White House national security spokesman John Kirby urged Russia to accept the \"serious proposal\" offered by the US for Griner and fellow detained US citizen Paul Whelan.\n\n\"It's a serious proposal. We urge them to accept it. They should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it,\" Mr Kirby said.\n\nAfter the court heard closing arguments, Griner said: \"I made an honest mistake, and I hope in your ruling it does not end my life.\"\n\n\"I did not conspire or plan to commit this crime,\" she added.\n\nGriner also said she had received neither an explanation of her rights nor access to a lawyer in the initial hours of her detention, and that she had to use a translation app on her phone to communicate.", "Beijing is currently holding military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan\n\nChina is halting co-operation with the US in several key areas including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime.\n\nThe new measures follow a trip to Taiwan by a US congressional delegation led by senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi.\n\nChina, which also announced it was sanctioning Ms Pelosi and her family, views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over Taiwan.\n\nThe self-ruled island sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nThe measures were announced by China's foreign ministry on Friday. It said dialogue between US and Chinese defence officials would be cancelled, while co-operation on returning illegal immigrants, climate change, and investigating international crime would be suspended.\n\nThe two major powers have maintained cordial diplomatic ties on the need to combat climate change in recent years. At last year's climate summit in Glasgow, China vowed to work \"with urgency\" with the US to cut emissions.\n\nThe countries have also found rare common cause on efforts to fight the trade of illegal drugs such as fentanyl.\n\nThe decision to halt co-operation was taken because Ms Pelosi visited Taiwan \"in disregard of China's strong opposition and serious representations,\" the Chinese ministry said in a statement.\n\nIt also accused the US delegation and Ms Pelosi - who is the highest-ranking US politician to travel to the island in 25 years - of \"egregious provocations\".\n\nIn a message posted on Twitter on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying criticised US foreign policy by comparing it to the police killing of George Floyd, the unarmed black American whose death in 2020 sparked global anti-racism protests.\n\n\"We cannot allow the US to take itself as 'world policeman' and treat other countries as George Floyd whom it can bully and strangle at will,\" she wrote.\n\nAt a news conference later on Friday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Ms Pelosi \"had every right\" to go to Taiwan and said China's new measures were \"fundamentally irresponsible\".\n\n\"We'll continue our efforts to keep open lines of communications with Beijing, while defending our interests and values,\" she said.\n\nAnalysis by John Sudworth, former Beijing correspondent in Washington\n\nThere can be few clearer examples of just how far, and how fast, the international political landscape is shifting. The statement from Beijing marks a new low point in the defining strategic relationship of our time.\n\nThe consensus, just a few years ago, was that an established superpower should build strong trade and investment ties with a newly emerging one. The ideological differences would then fade away.\n\nInstead, while China has indeed become the factory of the world, deeply integrated into global supply chains, it has grown more authoritarian at home and more assertive abroad.\n\nA 1997 trip to Taiwan by then US House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, was met with little opposition.\n\nThe Nancy Pelosi visit has been met with missiles - flown directly over a democracy and the heads of its 24 million people - whose appetite, by the way, for China's vision for unification dwindles ever further the more authoritarian it becomes.\n\nAnd now, any American citizen worried about the impact of Chinese precursor chemicals - sold into Mexico and then turned into the fentanyl that is fuelling thousands of US deaths - will also feel the impact of these shifting geopolitical plates.\n\nChina's \"shared future for mankind\" messaging on climate change is similarly put on ice, now seemingly held hostage to the precondition that its claims to Taiwan be recognised.\n\nNancy Pelosi may have given China the pretext. But this is a shift that was already well under way. The battle over values is front and centre stage once again, and the profound challenges it presents for the existing global order are likely only to increase.\n\nAlthough the US does not officially recognise Taiwan, it maintains strong relations with the island - which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nMs Pelosi is currently in Japan on the final leg of an Asia tour, and said on Friday that China \"will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us to travel there\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu defended the visit which he said would \"raise the profile of Taiwan and... allow the international community to understand that Taiwan is a democracy\".\n\nHe also condemned the large-scale military exercises that China began around the island on Thursday in response to Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBeijing is currently holding military drills in the air and seas around the island and these are expected to continue until Sunday.\n\nMore than 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire exercises, with many apparently crossing the unofficial buffer zone between China and Taiwan.\n\nAt least one ballistic missile has flown directly over the island, according to Chinese state media.\n\nTaiwan's foreign ministry has not confirmed or denied whether that is true, but it condemned the ongoing drills as \"highly provocative acts\".\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken added on Friday that there was \"no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escalatory military response\".\n\nThe White House summoned China's ambassador to Washington, condemning China's escalation as \"irresponsible\".\n\nIn a statement, National Security Council strategic communications co-ordinator John Kirby said the White House had made it clear that the US \"is prepared for what Beijing chooses to do. We will not seek and do not want a crisis.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nUS conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.\n\nA jury in Texas ruled the radio host must pay $45.2m in punitive damages, in addition to $4.1m in compensatory damages they awarded a day earlier.\n\nThe two-week defamation trial was brought by the parents of a child killed in the attack.\n\nTwenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook in Connecticut.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the separated parents of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the primary school shooting.\n\nThe plaintiffs - who said they had endured harassment and emotional distress because of the Infowars founder's misinformation - had sought $150m.\n\nThe compensatory damages issued on Thursday were meant to cover the actual costs to the family incurred by Jones' defamation, such as the private security they hired during the trial out of fear of an attack from a Jones supporter.\n\nThe punitive damages are meant to act as a deterrent, and to stop Jones from repeating his offence.\n\n\"We ask that you send a very, very simple message and that is: Stop Alex Jones,\" a lawyer for the parents said in court on Friday.\n\n\"Stop the monetisation of misinformation and lies. Please.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, an economist hired by the parents testified that Jones, his media brand Infowars and parent company Free Speech Systems are worth up to $270m.\n\nJesse Lewis, six, was killed at Sandy Hook\n\nBernard Pettingill told the court that records indicate Jones withdrew $62m for himself from his company in 2021 as his legal troubles grew.\n\n\"That number represents, in my opinion, a value of a net worth,\" Mr Pettingill said. \"He's got money put in a bank account somewhere.\"\n\nFree Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protections in the first week of the two-week trial.\n\nThe trial heard that Jones' business had earned about $800,000 in a single day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.\n\nLawyers for the parents accused Jones of trying to hide evidence, and argued that he had committed perjury when he denied having sent any messages about the Sandy Hook attack.\n\nEarlier this week, an attorney for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones' legal representative had accidentally sent them two years of the radio host's telephone texts.\n\nThe parents said Jones had made their lives \"hell\"\n\nHe said that the congressional committee investigating last year's US Capitol riot had requested access to the messages as they look into Jones' alleged role.\n\nThis is the first of three trials against Jones being brought by family members of Sandy Hook victims.\n\nHe has already lost a series of defamation cases filed by parents of the victims by default after failing to produce documents and testimony.\n\nBut this was the first trial in which financial damages were agreed by a jury.\n\nJones appeared briefly in the court on Friday, but was not present for the final verdict.\n\nDespite retracting his claims about Sandy Hook, Jones has continued to use his media platform to argue the case was rigged against him and claimed that members of the jury pool \"don't know what planet they're on\". His Infowars website depicted the judge being consumed by flames.\n\nHis behaviour triggered several rebukes from the judge, who at one point told him: \"This is not your show.\"\n\nAfter the verdict on Friday, he posted a video where he claimed his net worth to be a fraction of what was said in court, and condemned the trial as \"beyond any kangaroo-rigged court ever\".\n\nJones - a popular figure in US fringe conservative commentary - has repeatedly argued that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax orchestrated by the government to strip Americans of gun rights, and that the parents of the dead children were \"crisis actors\".\n\nHis lawyer had cited US constitutional free speech protections and asked for leniency in the trial, saying the jury had already sent a message to all radio hosts \"that their standard of care has changed\".", "The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson, was released earlier this year and enjoyed huge box office success\n\nWarner Bros bosses have announced they are restructuring the firm to focus on DC superhero movies, in the hope of emulating the success of rivals Marvel.\n\nThis week the company scrapped the new Batgirl film months before its release.\n\nA new 10-year plan was revealed at the entertainment and film company's Q2 earnings report on Thursday.\n\nChief executive David Zaslav said it wanted to \"protect the DC brand\" by focusing on the \"quality\" of forthcoming big screen blockbusters.\n\nZaslav, who heads up the newly-merged Warner Discovery, said the company's main objective now was to \"grow the DC brand\" and \"to grow the DC characters\".\n\n\"You look at Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman - these are brands that are known everywhere in the world,\" he said of some of the company's biggest characters.\n\n\"We have done a reset. We've restructured the business where we are going to focus, where there is going to be a team with a 10-year plan focusing just on DC.\"\n\nHe added: \"We believe we can build a much more sustainable business.\"\n\nHis comments come after Marvel boss Kevin Feige, speaking at the recent Comic Con event in San Diego, announced plans for the next stages of the Marvel Comic Universe (MCU) up until 2026.\n\nPhases Five and Six of the MCU, he said, are set to feature the return of popular superheroes.\n\n\"[DC's plan is] very similar to the structure Alan Horn, Bob Iger and Kevin Feige put together very effectively at Disney,\" Zaslav said.\n\n\"We think we can build a much stronger, sustainable growth business out of DC.\n\n\"As part of that, we are going to focus on quality. We are not going to release any film before it's ready... DC is something we can make better.\"\n\nThe film was based on the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon - or Batgirl - played by Leslie Grace\n\nThis week, the directors of Batgirl, which had been due to star Hollywood A-listers Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, JK Simmons and Leslie Grace, said they were upset their film was axed by Warner Bros months before its planned release.\n\n\"We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can't believe it,\" directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah wrote on Instagram.\n\nAn estimated $70 million (£57.6 million) had already been spent making the Glasgow-based production.\n\nAsked about Batgirl during a Q&A portion of the earnings call on Thursday, Zaslav said: \"We're not going to launch a movie until it's ready... We're not going to launch a movie to make a quarter and we're not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it.\"\n\nOther forthcoming DC films include sequels to Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa, and Shazam!, as well as Black Adam and The Flash.\n\nZaslav said: \"We have seen The Flash, Black Adam and Shazam 2, we are very excited about them. We think they are terrific, and we think we can make them even better.\"\n\nThe Flash is set to go ahead with its June 2023 release date despite ongoing controversies surrounding its star Ezra Miller, who previously played the character in 2018's Justice League and the 2021 Zack Snyder cut.\n\nMiller has been arrested twice in Hawaii on charges including second-degree assault and disorderly conduct at a karaoke bar.", "A group of protesters have interrupted a speech made by foreign secretary Liz Truss at a Tory leadership hustings event in Eastbourne.\n\nIn footage filmed by the BBC's Ben Weisz, the protesters can be seen standing up and delivering speeches of their own.\n\nMs Truss can be heard responding with a promise to clamp down on disruptive protest.", "Firefighters and ambulance crews have rushed to the site of a deadly air strike in Gaza.\n\nThe Israeli military has claimed responsibility for the attack and says it is targeting the Gaza Strip in response to threats from a Palestinian militant group there.\n\nAt least eight Palestinians, including a child have been killed in the blast, according to Gaza's health ministry.", "Cuong Van Chu was in contact with his family until 7 May, while Nam Thanh Le's last contact was three days earlier\n\nFour Vietnamese nationals who are believed to have been in a mill when it caught fire have been named by police.\n\nOfficers began searching Bismark House Mill in Oldham after human remains were found by demolition workers last month following a blaze on 7 May.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) has now named four men who were believed to have been in the mill at the time.\n\nThe force said it was keeping an \"open mind\" about how many people were present and about their whereabouts.\n\nDuong Van Nguyen told family he was living in an \"abandoned house\", while Uoc Van Nguyen told his wife he was in a mill\n\nCuong Van Chu, 39, arrived in the UK in June 2019 and had maintained regular contact with his wife and children until 7 May, but his family had not heard from him since that date, the force said.\n\nUoc Van Nguyen, 31, was also in regular contact with his wife until 7 May, when he said he was in a mill, police said.\n\nA GMP spokesman added that Duong Van Nguyen, 29, had been in the UK for about a year and last contacted his family about three months ago, when he said he was living in an \"abandoned house\" and looking for work.\n\nThe fourth missing person was named by police as 21-year-old Nam Thanh Le, who arrived in the UK in January and last contacted his family on 4 May when he said he was living in a derelict house in \"Dam\", believed to be Oldham, and looking for work.\n\nNo-one was initially believed to have been inside the mill when the fire broke out\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Potts previously said the force was \"particularly interested in hearing from anyone who knows how the building was being used in the lead up to 7 May or who has information about the fire itself\".\n\nDet Supt Lewis Hughes said the investigation team were currently following \"several lines of enquiry relating to the fire and activities at the mill beforehand\".\n\nHe said officers were continuing to search Bismark House Mill \"to ensure the recovery of all human remains and any objects of significance\".\n\nHe added that while the force had \"reason to suspect Cuong, Uoc, Duong and Nam may have been in the mill during the fire, we are keeping an open mind with regards to how many people were present and their whereabouts\".\n\nSince the search began at the site on 23 July, human remains indicating three victims have been discovered, but none of them have been formally identified.\n\nInitially, it was thought nobody was inside the building at the time of fire, police said.\n\nDet Supt Hughes appealed for anyone with information about the men's whereabouts before or after the fire to get in touch with GMP.\n\n\"I stress that their safety and welfare is our number one priority.\"\n\nDebbie Abrahams, MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth, said: \"This is a tragedy and my heart goes out to the families who are affected by this situation.\n\n\"I'm in close contact with the police, who I know are working incredibly hard to identify the remains found in the mill, and will continue to offer my support to anyone, or any organisation, that needs it as the situation unfolds.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James Anderson's bike is thought to have gone missing in Dublin\n\nA professional mountain biker who flew to the United States for a competition arrived empty handed after his £10k bike went missing on the flight.\n\nWhen James Anderson, from Denbighshire, arrived in Baltimore, he discovered his wheels had gone walkabout.\n\nIt is thought his equipment went missing when the flight from Manchester stopped at Dublin.\n\nMr Anderson, who rides professionally for Orange Bikes, said he was feeling \"extremely frustrated\".\n\n\"It takes a lot for me to be this disgruntled,\" said Mr Anderson, from Pentrecelyn.\n\n\"I feel lost, they're making it my problem, when it's not.\n\n\"We can fly items by drone but not deliver my bike to its destination.\"\n\nThe bike is believed to be in a warehouse at Dublin Airport.\n\n\"It's cost me my race, I've lost out on exposure for my sponsors - but I just want my possessions back.\"\n\nMr Anderson and girlfriend Lowri Davies tried to find the bike at Dublin Airport on their return journey without success.\n\nHe and girlfriend Lowri Davies tried to find it on their return flight from Baltimore\n\nHe said: \"We queued up for ages to speak to the baggage handler staff and just came across this sea of bags in lost property.\n\n\"The chap said 'I'll go and look for you' but he couldn't find anything.\"\n\nMr Anderson was flying to the US to take part in the Mercedes Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Snowshoe, West Virginia.\n\nHe said: \"It's cost me my race, I've lost out on exposure for my sponsors. But I just want my possessions back.\"\n\nHe and his girlfriend, Lowri Davies, tried to find the bike when they stopped at Dublin on their return flight.\n\n\"We queued up for ages to speak to the baggage handler staff and just came across this sea of bags in lost property,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"The chap said 'I'll go and look for you' but he couldn't find anything\".\n\nHe said an airport worker told him he was \"confident\" it would arrive in the next few days and be shipped to him.\n\nMr Anderson is now having to build a bike from spare parts so he can take part in a competition in Caersws, Powys, on 14 August.\n\nDublin Airport said it was not responsible for baggage handling.\n\nPlay Airlines said: \"We at Play take the matter of lost luggage extremely seriously, we've made contact and are working hard to return the lost items to James.\"", "Stephen from Nottingham wants to know whether big businesses are profiting at the expense of individuals.\n\nThe BBC and other media seem to be pinning the inflation rate on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and due to the economy largely shutting down over Covid. But on social media, there is a discussion around corporations making huge profits. People say this is causing inflation because a lot of these businesses face little competition and can raise prices whenever they want. Is this true?\n\nWhen inflation bites and things become more expensive, people naturally look around for somebody to blame.\n\nBig corporates posting massive profits are easy targets. “If they’re making that much money, why can’t they cut prices,” consumers ask.\n\nMeanwhile I've seen growing use on social media of phrases such as \"pandemic profiteers\" or \"greedflation\".\n\nBut the accusations don't seem to hold up when you look at the economics behind the profits.\n\nProfits help companies grow, which in turn helps other companies and suppliers, investors, as well as workers and the wider economy.\n\nIn short the current global system needs businesses to be successful to keep economies on track.\n\nForcing them to reduce prices or cut profits could stifle growth and investment which, in turn, could lead to economic contraction.\n\nThe reason why Russia's invasion of Ukraine is more likely to be mentioned in relation to inflation is that it has massively disrupted energy supplies, and gas and electricity are a major part of consumer expenditure.\n\nAnother issue to bear in mind is the UK’s skills shortage after Brexit, which has left many industry sectors facing problems because of a lack of workers.\n\nMeanwhile, supply chain problems caused by ongoing global uncertainty are hitting many companies' products.\n\nThat leads to a scarcity which puts up prices as demand outstrips the available supply.", "Alex Belfield has been warned he could be jailed\n\nA former BBC radio presenter has been found guilty of stalking four people including broadcaster Jeremy Vine.\n\nHowever, Alex Belfield was found not guilty of stalking four other people he was accused of targeting.\n\nBelfield, who now runs a YouTube channel called The Voice of Reason, told jurors he had legitimate reasons for his online communications.\n\nThe 42-year-old, from Nottingham, is due to be sentenced on 16 September and has been warned he could be jailed.\n\nBelfield was not accused of physically stalking the complainants, who were mostly current or former BBC staff.\n\nInstead, he made YouTube videos about them, posted messages on social media, and sent emails either to them or about them.\n\nAlex Belfield was found guilty of \"simple\" stalking in relation to BBC presenter Jeremy Vine\n\nIn his closing speech to jurors at Nottingham Crown Court, Belfield said he had a right to freedom of speech, and some of the communications were in his role as a journalist, holding the BBC to account.\n\nThe full wording of the charges stated that he \"pursued a course of conduct that amounted to harassment\" of the complainants, which \"amounted to stalking\" and caused them \"serious alarm or distress\".\n\nHe was found guilty of this offence in relation to only two of the complainants - BBC Radio Northampton presenter Bernie Spedding, who is known as Bernie Keith, and videographer Ben Hewis.\n\nIn relation to Jeremy Vine and theatre blogger Philip Dehany, he was found guilty of two lesser offences of \"simple\" stalking, which does not require serious alarm or distress to be proved.\n\nThe verdicts in relation to each complainant were:\n\nGiving evidence to the trial, Mr Vine described Belfield's behaviour as \"like an avalanche of hatred you get hit by\", and \"absolutely Olympic-level stalking, even for broadcasting\".\n\nMr Spedding, the trial heard, was left feeling suicidal by a \"tsunami of hate\" from Belfield.\n\n\"My initial reaction [to the stalking] was 'He's gone mad',\" Mr Spedding told the trial.\n\n\"You can't work out how it's happened.\"\n\nAlex Belfield was convicted of four offences at Nottingham Crown Court\n\nMr Spedding said Belfield's YouTube videos, emails and social media messages had included highly abusive language and a threat to \"hound you for the rest of your life\".\n\n\"I had this naked hate being piled on me every day and I had to be funny and I had to entertain people,\" he said.\n\n\"This was the darkest point of my life because there was no end to it. I pleaded with him [Belfield] to stop. I had gone to the police to make it stop and it was just getting worse.\n\n\"I will never be able to work out why it has happened to me.\"\n\nHe and Belfield had known each other through work, the trial heard, but Belfield had never met the other three men he was convicted of stalking.\n\nThe opening of the trial heard that Belfield had been a presenter at BBC Radio Leeds, having been given a one-year contract in spring 2010.\n\nOne of the complainants was his former colleague, Liz Green, who also presented a show at the radio station. Others were their boss, Rozina Breen, and Ms Breen's boss Helen Thomas.\n\nStephanie Hirst presented a show at the station after he left, in the same time slot.\n\nSpeaking after the verdicts, Sheryl Monk from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Stalking is a very serious crime that has a severe impact on its victims.\n\n\"Alex Belfield's conduct, in the form of messages, broadcasts, insults and threats, left his victims fearful and anxious.\n\n\"Throughout this trial, victims and other witnesses have given evidence with dignity and I would like to thank them for their willingness to give evidence.\n\n\"Alex Belfield had no qualms about the abuse he handed out, in many cases publicly.\"\n\nJurors deliberated for 14 hours and 27 minutes before reaching their verdicts, following a four-week trial that began on 5 July.\n\nThe judge, Mr Justice Saini, granted Belfield bail and told him to return to Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing next month.\n\nHe warned Belfield he needed to be \"extra careful about your online communications\" as he adjourned the case.\n\n\"There's a good chance of a custodial sentence,\" he added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Companies will be prosecuted if they continue to advertise a prescription-only hay-fever drug on social media, the UK government says.\n\nKenalog is a steroid injection that the NHS stopped offering years ago because of the risk of serious side effects.\n\nSome private medical and aesthetic beauty clinics have been told to remove promotional posts for the jab from Facebook and Instagram.\n\nEven including a syringe emoji would be a breach of the law.\n\nKenalog is not licensed for the treatment of hay-fever in the UK, although it is licensed for some other conditions on prescription.\n\nSome beauty and aesthetics clinics, however, are offering it to hay-fever sufferers.\n\nHay fever is a pollen allergy which is most commonly treated with antihistamine drops, tablets and nasal sprays.\n\nIt causes sneezing, coughing, a blocked nose and additional problems for those with asthma.\n\nFor some, these treatments don't have any effect, which is prompting some people to try Kenalog instead.\n\nIt has not been approved for hay-fever treatment by the NHS because its benefits do not outweigh the risks of using it.\n\nSteroids are anti-inflammatory medications used for asthma and arthritis but come with side effects such as weight gain, sleeping difficulties and sometimes anxiety or depression.\n\nThe Committees of Advertising Practice (Cap) have worked with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to issue the enforcement on Kenalog advertising.\n\nIt must not be advertised anywhere, including on social-media posts or on websites, as a treatment for hay fever in the UK or referred to as a \"hay-fever injection\" or \"hay-fever jab\".\n\nCompanies have until the end of August to make these changes before being referred to the MHRA for further enforcement action.\n\nClaire Tilstone, from the MHRA, says \"the advertising of prescription-only medicines in the UK is banned under UK advertising law\" and encourages anyone who sees a clinic advertising Kenalog to report it to the agency or to Cap.\n\nAllergy UK has previously said the steroid injection is not recommended as it is a high-dose steroid given by an intramuscular injection, and once injected, the steroid cannot be removed - and it comes with \"a high side-effect profile\".", "Cocaine with an estimated street value of €8.4m (£7m) has been seized in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nTwo men have been arrested and a Cessna light aircraft has also been seized in County Longford.\n\nTwo cars were stopped in the Lough Owel area of County Westmeath shortly after 18:00 local time on Thursday.\n\nGardaí (Irish police) said it was highly likely some of the 120kg of cocaine would have ended up in Northern Ireland.\n\nDet Ch Supt Seamus Boland told BBC News NI's Evening Extra that organised criminals do not recognise borders and operate on an all-Ireland basis.\n\nHe said they were investigating whether the drugs were brought in by private plane and it would not be the first time a light aircraft had been seized as part of a drug trafficking investigation.\n\n\"We had a similar incident back in February down in Waterford where a light aircraft was seized in the course of an investigation in collaboration with our UK colleagues, the National Crime Agency,\" he said.\n\n\"That was following a significant seizure of drugs in the UK when the aircraft then flew on and landed here in Ireland.\n\n\"It is not new for organised crime - it is something that is experienced across the rest of Europe.\"\n\nHe added they were exploring the aircraft's history and liaising with counterpart in mainland Europe, particularly in France.\n\nAfter the car was stopped, follow-up searches were carried out at properties in Naas, County Kildare, and Waterford city, as well as at a commercial airfield in County Longford.\n\nTwo men aged 54 and 40 were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, police said.\n\nGarda Assistant Commissioner Justin Kelly, who is head of organised and serious crime, said the operation \"prevented a considerable quantity of dangerous drugs from making it on to our streets and causing significant harm to our communities\".\n\n\"An Garda Síochána is committed, under Operation Tara, to disrupting and dismantling the organised criminal networks who profit from drug trafficking and impact so negatively on our society,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLinda McDonald will never forget what went through her mind as she lay stunned and bleeding from Robbie McIntosh's vicious attack.\n\nShe thought to herself: \"Linda, this is the day you die and this is the way you die.\"\n\nLinda was battered with a dumb-bell by the convicted murderer, who was on home leave from prison.\n\nAt the time of the attack, five years ago this weekend, he was serving life for stabbing another woman to death in Dundee when he was just 15 years old.\n\nLinda says her anger is directed not at her attacker but at the checks she believes failed to keep her safe from him.\n\nMcIntosh, now 36, was sentenced to a minimum of five years for the attack but he was also given an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR) which means he may never be released from prison.\n\nHowever, on Monday, he will face an automatic parole hearing.\n\nRobbie McIntosh was jailed in 2018 for the attempted murder of Linda McDonald\n\nLinda, who is now 57, was targeted by McIntosh as she walked her dog in woods near her home in Dundee.\n\n\"As I turned around, he was running right towards me, but I never had a chance to do anything but to put my hand up,\" she says.\n\n\"I knew as soon as he hit me it was serious because the smell of the blood, it's like pennies and warm. I was just stunned.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack in August 2017, McIntosh was serving a life sentence for murdering Anne Nicoll on Dundee Law 16 years earlier.\n\nHe was being considered for parole and had been allowed home leave in preparation.\n\nA court would later hear that throughout the brutal attack in Templeton Woods, McIntosh \"remained impervious\" to Linda's pleas for mercy.\n\nShe says: \"I just started screaming 'help' as loud as I could. When he hit me the second time, I just knew I blacked out.\"\n\nMcIntosh only stopped bludgeoning Linda when two passers-by came to her aid.\n\nShe says: \"I forgive him, I don't even feel angry at him. I know some of my family and friends feel different.\n\n\"I feel angry at the systems that fail to keep the public safe.\"\n\nShe says the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has reneged on promises made on three occasions to let her see a report on her attack.\n\nLinda says the eventual reason for this was data protection concerns.\n\nShe says: \"What's the point of having this Freedom of Information Act if you can't even get information on yourself about such a horrific thing happening to me?\n\n\"Part of me getting better and surviving this, mentally, emotionally, in every way, is having the information.\n\n\"If you're denied information then obviously you're going to be suspicious they're hiding something.\"\n\nRobbie McIntosh, pictured in 2002, was on home leave at the time of the attack in Templeton Woods\n\nLinda is currently campaigning for more stringent checks on violent offenders before they are considered for release.\n\nLinda says: \"If you're really wanting Scotland safe and you're wanting your policies and your systems to work, listen to the people who've survived when they don't work.\"\n\nA Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: \"As we have previously made clear, we are profoundly sorry for what happened to Mrs McDonald.\n\n\"We are fully aware of the life-changing consequences, for her and her family, as a result of this dreadful act.\n\n\"We have engaged with Mrs McDonald and will continue to do so.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"New legislation which proposes changes to the way imprisonment is used in Scotland, while placing victims at its heart, has been published.\n\n\"The independent Parole Board also rightly considers each case on its own merit, with public safety being at the forefront of any decision.\n\n\"We have recently amended the rules to allow the Parole Board to take account of the safety and security of victims and their families when considering release.\n\n\"Conditions can also be set by the Board to include exclusion zones and prevent an individual on licence from approaching certain people.\"", "On 19 September, 2001 - with the ruins of the World Trade Center and Pentagon still smouldering from the 9/11 attacks - CIA officer Gary Schroen stepped into his boss's office and received a set of orders: \"Capture Bin Laden, kill him, and bring his head back in a box on dry ice\".\n\nAs for Osama Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri, and the rest of Al-Qaeda's inner circle, the orders were equally straightforward: \"Their heads up on pikes\".\n\nWithin days, Schroen and a motley crew of paramilitary officers became the first Americans on the ground in Afghanistan, armed with little more than satellite phones - but also millions of dollars in cash to curry favour with potential allies. Weeks later, on 7 October, the US begins its attack on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, sparking a nearly 20 year-long war that ended in August 2021.\n\nBin Laden was taken out in 2011, but it took another decade to kill Zawahiri.\n\nAnd on 1 August - just one day after a US drone finally caught up to him in Kabul - Gary Schroen died at the age of 80, reportedly of a stroke.\n\nIn the wake of his death, CIA director William Burns hailed Schroen as \"a legend and inspiration\" to every officer working inside the US spy agency.\n\n\"In Afghanistan more than two decades ago and in every other role he served at CIA, Gary embodied the very best of our organisation,\" Mr Burns said. \"We will never forget his unwavering dedication, loyalty and perseverance.\"\n\nFew if any officers serving in the CIA at the time were better suited to lead the initial operation. Over the course of a career that spanned decades, Schroen served as the CIA's \"station chief\" for both Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nAt that time, \"there was no interest by the US government\" in Afghanistan, he later recalled in an interview with PBS,\n\n\"The Taliban were there. Everyone knew that they were committing human rights violations and were just a miserable government, treating their people terribly,\" he said. \"But really, no one back in Washington really cared that much.\"\n\nCIA officers in a helicopter with $3m cash for Afghan commanders on 19 September, 2001 in a CIA photo.\n\nBy 1996, however, Schroen said that the \"equation had changed\" after US intelligence began to focus on the activities of Osama Bin Laden, a then-relatively unknown jihadist and veteran of the guerrilla war against the Soviets in the 1980s.\n\nSchroen formed part of a small group within the CIA's Counterterrorism Center that warned of the threat from the Saudi national. Schroen soon began re-establishing contact with Afghan commanders whom he had known from his time in the region.\n\nFor the next three years, at Schroen's direction, the CIA repeatedly tried to kill or capture Bin Laden, with plans ranging from ambushes on his convoy and raids on his farm in southern Afghanistan to cruise missiles and bombing raids.\n\nUltimately, Bin Laden went on to orchestrate the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and survived a large-scale cruise missile attack on Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan's Khost Province in August of that year.\n\nThree years later, 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers launched the 9/11 attacks.\n\nThe 2001 mission to Afghanistan - officially known as Operation Jawbreaker - would see Schroen and seven other Americans link up with the Northern Alliance, a coalition of groups fighting the Taliban government that had ruled Afghanistan since 1996. When he got his orders, Schroen, then 59, was already 11 days into the CIA's transition programme for employees going into retirement.\n\n\"I never expected I would get the call to go in,\" he said years later. \"I think it was the right choice, given my long relationship with those guys in the Northern Alliance.\"\n\nSchroen's assessment was echoed by Michael \"Mick\" Mulroy, a former CIA paramilitary officer, Afghan war veteran and ex-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence.\n\nGary Schroen's 2001 mission was to link up with Northern Alliance fighters such as these.\n\n\"His experience in Afghanistan prior to September 11, 2001 was absolutely pivotal to our success there in the initial invasion, an invasion which he led,\" Mr Mulroy told the BBC. \"Being on the first team into Afghanistan, Gary set the example and exemplified the concept of leading from the front.\"\n\nAs a military operation, the invasion of Afghanistan was remarkably successful and drove the Taliban from power by December 2001. But Schroen's main target - Bin Laden - and other senior Al-Qaeda figures such as Al-Zawahiri escaped, while the Taliban regrouped and fought a long guerrilla war that culminated in the chaotic US withdrawal from Kabul last year.\n\nIn interviews later in his life, Schroen said the failure of the US to secure Afghanistan and capture its main enemies there was, in large part, due to a drain on both CIA and military resources caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.\n\nDespite initial claims from the US administration of George W Bush that the Iraqi government was somehow connected to the 9/11 attacks, Schroen said he never believed in any linkage.\n\n\"The number of guys, CIA personnel, out in these little remote camps and bases were reduced in number...because of demand to staff up the Iraq effort,\" he told NPR in 2005. \"It really did cost us, I think, a lot in momentum. A loss of momentum that exists still today.\"\n\nSchroen finally managed to retire in the years after the Afghan invasion, and in 2005 published a book entitled \"First In\" about the operation.\n\nEven years after his retirement, allies of bin Laden continued to see Schroen as a target. In 2013, the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab claimed on Twitter it had killed him, prompting unnamed US officials to tell NBC that such claims should be taken \"with a grain of salt\".\n\n\"Gary Schroen is alive and well,\" an NBC report at the time announced.\n\nSchroen's mission lives on at CIA headquarters in Virginia: The helicopter used in the 2001 mission remains on CIA grounds as a reminder.", "Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay tribute to the father and son who died\n\nThe funeral has taken place for a man and his son from Cardiff who died after a suspected poisoning in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and 16-year-old Mahiqul, died on their way to hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Sylhet for the funeral, which took place at 13:30 local time on Thursday.\n\nRafiqul Islam's mother, Zarina Jobbar, along with two of his brothers and sister were among those in attendance.\n\nHis wife, Husnara, along with their two other children, 20-year-old Samira and 24-year-old Sadiqul, remain in hospital.\n\nSamira is understood to be in a critical condition.\n\nPolice in Bangladesh believe Rafiqul Islam and his family were poisoned\n\nMr Islam was a taxi driver who lived in Riverside, Cardiff and was a member of local badminton and football teams.\n\nHe was described by a relative in the city as \"very friendly, a very nice guy\".\n\nA local community leader called him a \"very helpful person who was at the mosque all the time and constantly working with the community\".\n\nHis teenage son Mahiqul, who had been a pupil at Fitzalan High School, was described by a relative as \"very sweet and friendly.\"\n\nSpecial prayers are due to take place at the local mosque in Riverside on Friday.\n\nOriginally from Bangladesh, Mr Islam moved to the UK in the mid-1980s on the basis of his father's British citizenship.\n\nThe family had been staying in a flat in Osmaninagar near the north-eastern city of Sylhet since earlier in the month.\n\nPolice are investigating their deaths, which were at first believed to be due to food poisoning and are being treated as \"wrongful\".\n\nIt is understood Husnara and Sadiqul have now both given statements to police.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have been carried out and been sent to Dhaka but it could be a few days before the results are known.\n\nA relative of the family told BBC Bangla that when family members got no answer at the flat on Tuesday morning, they saw through a window that the family were lying haphazardly on two beds and they called police.\n\n\"The police came and broke down the door,\" said Cebul Mia. \"We also helped them. We went inside and saw that everyone was unconscious. I saw that they were struggling to breathe,\" he said.\n\nThe family were staying in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford, whose constituency includes Riverside, where the family live, said: \"My thoughts are with the Islam family and their friends today.\n\n\"We are all thinking of Husnara, Samira and Sadiqul as they are treated in hospital.\n\n\"This is a terrible incident which will have affected the wider Bangladeshi community here in Riverside.\n\n\"The Cardiff West constituency office and my Parliamentary colleague Kevin Brennan are on hand to offer support to all those who need it.\"", "Crib y Ddysgl is part of the Snowdon Massif - a range that includes the main Snowdon peak\n\nA student died after falling 300ft in Snowdonia, an inquest has heard.\n\nChristopher Wilson, 18, of Brixham, Devon, died on 26 July on Crib y Ddysgl.\n\nAt an inquest opening in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, the coroner heard Mr Wilson was walking with his father when he fell down a hill, suffering \"multiple substantial injuries\".\n\nCrib y Ddysgl is 0.6 miles (1km) from Snowdon and is the second highest mountain in Wales.\n\nAn investigation into the fall will continue and the inquest was adjourned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a 'blunt message\" the Bank of England governor warns interest rates may have to rise even higher\n\nThe Bank of England has warned the UK will fall into recession as it raised interest rates by the most in 27 years.\n\nThe economy is forecast to shrink in the last three months of this year and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nInterest rates rose to 1.75% as the Bank battles to stem soaring prices, with inflation now set to hit over 13%.\n\nGovernor Andrew Bailey said he knew the cost of living squeeze was difficult but if it didn't raise interest rates it would get \"even worse\".\n\nThe main reason for high inflation and low growth is soaring energy bills, driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nA typical household will be paying almost £300 a month for their energy by October, the Bank warned.\n\nThe expected recession would be the longest downturn since 2008, when the UK banking system faced collapse, bringing lending to a halt.\n\nThe slump is not set to be as deep as 14 years ago but may last just as long.\n\nThe Bank's governor Andrew Bailey said he had \"huge sympathy and huge understanding for those who are struggling most\" with the cost of living.\n\n\"I know that they will feel, 'Well, why have you raised interest rates today, doesn't that make it worse from that perspective in terms of consumption?', I'm afraid my answer to that is, it doesn't because I'm afraid the alternative is even worse in terms of persistent inflation.\"\n\nIncreasing interest rates is one way to try and control inflation as it raises borrowing costs and should encourage people to borrow and spend less. It can also encourage people to save more.\n\nHowever, many households will be squeezed further following the interest rate rise including some mortgage-holders.\n\nNow rates have gone up to 1.75%, homeowners on a typical tracker mortgage will have to pay about £52 more a month. Those on standard variable rate mortgages will see a £59 increase.\n\nIt means tracker mortgage holders could be paying about £167 more a month compared to pre-December 2021, with variable mortgage holders paying up to £132 more. Interest rates have risen six times in a row since the end of last year.\n\nHigher interest rates also mean higher charges on things like credit cards, bank loans and car loans.\n\nPatrick Reid, a business owner in London, owes £25,000 on credit cards and loans and fears an interest rate rise will cost him.\n\n\"At present I repay around £1,800 a month but I have worked out that I will conservatively need to pay another £250 a month to keep up with the debts,\" he said.\n\n\"I will simply have to tighten my belt and be extra cautious in my spending, which means all of those non-essential items will be cut from my budget.\"\n\nRebecca McDonald, chief economist at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said \"staggeringly\" high inflation was \"going to hit low income families hard\".\n\n\"Many took on credit to pay their bills and are falling behind on their payments. This will be much harder to pay off with higher interest rates putting more families in financial peril.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the cost of living support announced so far was \"clearly not enough\".\n\n\"There will be families and pensioners across the country waking up this morning, reading the news, who are absolutely terrified because a juggernaut is heading [their] way which will smash through family finances,\" he said.\n\nHe said a Labour government would reduce VAT on energy bills, abolish the tax relief currently offered to oil and gas companies who invest, and provide support to help people retrofit their homes to make them more energy efficient.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi said he was confident the action the government was taking meant it could overcome the economic challenges.\n\nBoth Mr Zahawi and Boris Johnson have also been criticised by Labour for being on holiday when the Bank detailed its gloomy outlook.\n\nMr Zahawi insisted he was still working and had a call with Governor Andrew Bailey after the interest rate announcement.\n\n\"For me, like I'm sure lots of others, there is no such thing as a holiday and not working. I never had that in the private sector, not in government,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The privilege and responsibility of public service means that you never get to switch off, that's why I have had calls and briefings every day and continue to do so.\"\n\nIt is the most piercing of warning sirens set off by the Bank of England.\n\nAnnouncing the largest rate rise in more than a quarter of a century in an attempt to temper even higher peaks in inflation of an incredible 13% is what the Bank of England actually did. But it is its prediction of a recession as long as the great financial crisis and as deep as that seen in the early 1990s that is the big shock here.\n\nThis is a proper full fat recession at the same time as the inflation rate is forecast to hit a 42-year high. It is a textbook example of the combination of a stagnating economy and high inflation - stagflation.\n\nIt obviously will raise questions as to why rates are being hiked into a recession at a time when consumers are already pulling back from spending.\n\nEnergy bills have already risen sharply this year, squeezing household incomes and leading to slower growth for the UK economy.\n\nRussia has reduced supplies to Europe as it wages war in Ukraine and fears are growing it may switch off the taps altogether.\n\nThe potential of gas supply problems has led to the wholesale price soaring, which has led to energy firms passing those costs onto customers - pushing up household energy bills by unprecedented amounts.\n\nAs well as energy, households have been hit by higher petrol and diesel costs and food prices.\n\nThe Bank warned UK economic growth was already slowing, adding: \"The latest rise in gas prices has led to another significant deterioration in the outlook for the UK and the rest of Europe\".\n\nThe rate of inflation is expected to stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, the Bank said. It will eventually return to the Bank's 2% target the following year.\n\nHow will the rise in interest rates affect you? Do you have any questions you'd like answered? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A County Tyrone pig farmer has warned he is one of many considering leaving the industry, if costs don't come down significantly before winter.\n\nRoger Johnston is used to fluctuating prices, but said this year is different.\n\n\"This past three, four months, we've probably made record losses,\" he said.\n\nIn June, the National Farmers Union said farmers struggling with soaring costs are being forced to cut back on their food production.\n\nMr Johnston said on top of staffing challenges post-Brexit and rising energy costs, his grain costs had doubled in a within a month.\n\nFeed costs make up about two-thirds of outgoings.\n\nHe added that rising energy costs have had a real impact, with more than 200 breeding sows and thousands of piglets each year to house.\n\n\"We've had challenge after challenge, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought things to a different level with grain costs doubling within a month.\n\n\"About 20% of the UK herd has actually gone from going out of business,\" he added.\n\n\"So it's been very, very bad and the worst we've ever seen in financial losses.\n\n\"It's not even just with the feed side of things, everything's gone up.\"\n\nRoger Johnston has 200 breeding sows on his farm\n\nIndustry leaders have called for more help, as farmers also try to recoup recent losses.\n\n\"Farmers here are very resilient,\" said Deirdre McIvor, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Pork and Bacon Forum.\n\n\"They take action to try and be innovative to address any problem themselves. But this is a problem for which they just have no answer.\n\n\"These are wider issues that are out there, and we desperately need support.\n\n\"The end result for the consumer is there will be no locally produced product on the shelves ultimately, if things go to their worst endgame.\"\n\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said it recently delivered a Pig Sector Support Scheme and has no plans at this point in time for further financial support.\n\nThe forum has called on retailers to help as well.\n\n\"There's not been any sufficient increase in returns coming back up the supply chain from the retailers.\n\n\"All in all, it threatens a very, very bleak picture for the industry moving forward.\n\n\"We need strong intervention and support from government at this time to try and see us through, otherwise our industry could disappear.\"\n\nGrain prices have recently started to come down.\n\nBut after 18 months of losses, farmers like Mr Johnston are not seeing that change having an impact on their businesses yet.\n\n\"I still think to myself: 'What am I doing here, getting up every morning, seven days a week to go and look after the animals?'\n\n\"We do have a passion for the work, but there's only so much I can do. I still need to pay my mortgage and put food on my table.\n\n\"If I can't do that with the business, I'll have to close it down.\"", "At least 14 people were killed and around 40 others injured after a fire swept through a nightclub in Chonburi province in south-eastern Thailand.\n\nThe fire broke out at 01:00 local time on Friday (18:00 GMT Thursday) at the Mountain B nightspot in Sattahip district, police said.\n\nFootage shows people screaming as they flee, some with clothes on fire.\n\nThe cause of the fire is not clear, with rescuers saying flammable material on the walls may have exacerbated it.\n\nThe venue in Chonburi, a province located 150km (90 miles) south of Bangkok, was a single-storey complex measuring 4,800 square metres (51,660 square feet).\n\nFirefighters battled for more than two hours to bring the fire under control, local media reported. The blaze apparently broke out during a live music performance at the venue, according to the mother of one of the music performers who died in the incident.\n\nBodies of the victims were mostly found near the entrance and in the bathrooms. Others were found near the DJ booth.\n\nSo far, all those who died are believed to be Thai nationals.\n\nOfficials from the Sawang Rojanathammasathan Rescue Foundation said flammable acoustic foam on the club's walls might have accelerated the speed at which the fire tore through the venue.\n\nMost of those who died were found clustered around entrances and in bathrooms\n\nThai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Friday ordered an investigation into the fire, and said that families of the victims would receive aid from authorities. He also urged entertainment venues nationwide to ensure they had proper emergency exits and safety measures in place.\n\nOfficials said the venue had been turned from a restaurant into a nightclub and was likely operating without permission.\n\nThis is not the first time a deadly fire has broken out in a Thai nightclub.\n\nIn 2009, more than 60 people died in Bangkok after a fire spread at the Santika Club in the early hours of New Year's Day. Two men, including the owner of the club, were jailed in 2011.\n\nAnd a fire at a nightclub in the popular Thai tourist destination of Phuket in 2012 killed four people and injured about a dozen others.", "People queued up to receive monkeypox vaccinations at a pop-up clinic at Guy's Hospital last month\n\nSexual health charities and LGBT groups are calling for the government to step up efforts to control the monkeypox outbreak in the UK.\n\nIn an open letter to Health Secretary Steven Barclay, they say that without a quicker and wider vaccine rollout, the virus could become \"endemic\".\n\nThere have been more than 2,600 cases of monkeypox in the UK so far, mostly among men who have sex with men.\n\nThe Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) says it is working \"rapidly\" to vaccinate those at risk.\n\nWith two of the UK's most popular Pride events, in Brighton this weekend, and Manchester later in August, many people are trying to get vaccinated in order to feel safer.\n\nBBC News has spoken to gay and bisexual men who say they have struggled to get the jab at their local clinics, and have had to travel to London or other large cities.\n\nA spokesperson for the DHSC said it had already administered thousands of vaccines and that it is \"working rapidly\" to offer more appointments.\n\nThey said: \"We have procured over 150,000 vaccines, and we're working with partners - including the NHS and UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) - to share targeted, non-stigmatising communications with the LGBTQ+ community.\"\n\nCurrently about 75% of monkeypox cases are in London, which is where the majority of vaccines have been targeted, but numbers outside the city are also increasing.\n\nThe Terrence Higgins Trust, which co-wrote the letter, says the rollout needs to be speeded up across the UK to help combat \"fear and anxiety\" within the LGBT community.\n\nIts head of policy Ceri Smith told BBC News: \"We need to see far better co-ordination, increased vaccine procurement, improved delivery and a cash injection to sexual health services to treat monkeypox.\"\n\nThe letter was also signed by representatives from LGBT groups for the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Green Party.\n\nIt reads: \"Without urgent action, we risk monkeypox becoming endemic in the UK. This poses a serious risk to health and will exacerbate the health inequalities already experienced by gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men.\n\n\"Vaccinating those most at risk of monkeypox must be a priority if we are to stand a chance of preventing the virus from becoming endemic in the UK.\"\n\nThe letter also asks the government to deliver clearer messaging aimed at men who have sex with men about the symptoms of the virus, and what steps people should take if they believe they have become infected.\n\nAs of 1 August, NHS England stated that more than 14,000 people had received Imvanex, a vaccine designed to protect against smallpox, which the UKHSA says helps protect people who could be exposed to monkeypox.\n\nThe UK is expecting to receive 100,000 more vaccines in September\n\nThe UKHSA says an extra 100,000 vaccines will arrive in the UK in September, with the aim of delivering the first 20,000 for use by the NHS this month. Current guidance is to give most people a single dose.\n\nBut some sexual health experts estimate around 250,000 vaccines are needed, and have recommended that people should be given two doses for maximum protection.\n\nThe monkeypox vaccine rollout is being co-ordinated locally by sexual health clinics across the UK, with each clinic taking an individual approach based on urgency and need.\n\nThis means there are different approaches to inviting people to appointments, and differences in who is considered high risk across the country.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, director of clinical programmes at UKHSA, told the BBC that the vaccine is \"being offered to individuals at higher risk of coming into contact with monkeypox, in order to offer them protection and contain the current outbreak.\"\n\nShe added: \"We continue to monitor supply and remain in discussion with the manufacturer.\"\n\nAlex Bradbrook, a civil servant from Manchester, considers himself to be in a high-risk category for acquiring monkeypox. He was vaccinated at a clinic in London while visiting for the weekend, after struggling to get one closer to home for several weeks.\n\nAlex received a jab in London, where he was visiting to attend a Lady Gaga concert\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I was in London for the weekend and found out via Twitter that a clinic in Hammersmith was offering the vaccine, so I called about 20 times and finally got through to someone and got an appointment.\"\n\nWhile he's aware the vaccine isn't 100% effective in preventing monkeypox, Alex says it's a relief when heading to Pride events that he has some protection.\n\nHe added: \"Now that I've got my jab I feel much more reassured. The minute that needle went in, it was like a huge weight being lifted off my mind.\n\n\"I'm really fortunate that I was already in London and able to get one. There are lots of people who just aren't in my position - people who either can't afford a train or can't get down there for whatever reason. It makes me quite angry that some people don't seem to be getting an adequate service who might be at high risk.\"", "Archie's mum Hollie says it has been a battle over every decision around her son's care\n\nCases like Archie Battersbee's are extremely rare. But when disagreements occur over whether a child's life support should end, they present terrible anguish for those involved, as well as lengthy court battles.\n\nTragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits, says Prof Dominic Wilkinson, an expert in medical ethics, and Consultant Neonatologist at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"For children like Archie, doctors cannot make them better, and advanced medical techniques and technologies may end up doing more harm than good. Sometimes, all medicine can do is to prolong the inevitable.\"\n\nProf Wilkinson says that in the vast majority of cases, parents and doctors are able to come together to agree on what would be best for a seriously ill child. Sometimes medical teams may need external help to reach an agreement.\n\n\"For example, they may draw on a clinical ethics committee, or independent mediation, or may seek second opinions from specialists in other hospitals.\n\n\"In a tiny proportion of cases, if parents and doctors cannot agree what would be best for a child who is stuck on life support in an intensive care unit, the right thing to do is to ask the court to help.\"\n\nThe court does not side with either doctors or parents. It focuses exclusively on what would be best for the child.\n\nArchie's case had been heard in several top courts. His doctors had said it would be in his best interests for treatment to be withdrawn.\n\nThe 12-year-old had spent months in hospital on life support, since being discovered unconscious at his home in April. The medics who treated him at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel said he had suffered such devastating brain injury at the time of the incident that there was no way he would recover.\n\nArchie, pictured with his mother Hollie Dance, who asked for more time to allow her son to recover\n\nArchie's parents said they did not understand the rush to end his life-support.\n\nSo who should decide that medical care should stop, and how?\n\nPalliative care professor Baroness Finlay of Llandaff hopes independent mediators can be used in future as \"adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody\".\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, she said: \"I'm hoping that by the end of the summer we'll have an inquiry into different ways of handling these very, very difficult cases so that there is independent mediation.\n\n\"And I say independent because, if it's supplied by the hospital, or it's supplied by the parents, one side may feel mistrustful of the other.\n\n\"But to be in the situation of adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody. The parents don't want to go to court. The doctors don't want to go to court. The managers don't want to go to court.\n\n\"My worry is that these cases are going forward to court too quickly and too early, and that we need an alternative way of managing the communication between the doctors and the parents, and sometimes others in the family as well.\"\n\nWhat that independent mediation might look like is unclear.\n\nDr Daniel Sokol, medical ethicist and barrister, said sometimes the courts must be the independent adjudicator. But that doesn't stop society drawing judgements.\n\n\"When these cases reach the press and social media, a distorted, sometimes one-sided picture of what is really happening is painted,\" said Dr Sokol.\n\n\"Without reading the court judgments or knowing the full details, people suddenly become experts in medical ethics, commenting aggressively on the rights and wrongs of the case, blaming the clinicians, the hospital, the relatives or whoever holds a different position to their own.\n\n\"This can cause real harm to the targets of their abuse and may dissuade clinicians from challenging parents in the future, even though the latter may be making decisions contrary to the interests of vulnerable patients.\n\n\"I have been told by paediatric doctors that they are reluctant to go against the views of parents, given the torrent of abuse they received in previous high-profile cases.\"", "Do you know this thief?\n\nHe was caught on camera at a Bangor shop, but the gull-ty party is not very keen on doing bird.\n\nBipin Chawla, who owns the Late Stop 24 shop, said: \"He comes in quite regularly, it's been going on for 10 days.\n\n\"It's quite comical. It's novel to see how intelligent they are really.\"\n\nBut Mr Chawla said he has not brought any of his friends with him yet, adding: \"He's keeping it to himself I think.\"", "Adam Kay, right, used to work at Ealing Hospital\n\nSuicides among NHS staff are being \"brushed under the carpet\", the creator of This Is Going To Hurt has warned.\n\nFormer junior doctor Adam Kay, who based the hit BBC show on his memoir of the same name, planted a long-awaited tribute tree at Ealing Hospital, on Thursday.\n\nThe Shruti tree is the first national memorial to health workers.\n\nA plaque at the west London site says: \"In memory of healthcare professionals who have died by suicide.\"\n\nIt adds: \"Take care of those who take care of others.\"\n\nThe tree is named after the character Shruti Acharya, a junior doctor who took her life in the series, which drew millions of viewers on BBC One in February.\n\nMr Kay joined NHS leaders, charities and bereaved families to plant the first official memorial, after an estimated 300 nurses died by suicide in the seven years to 2017.\n\nThe show portrays hospital life and the impact it has on staff\n\nMore than 220 nurses attempted to end their lives during the first year of Covid in 2020, according to the Laura Hyde Foundation, which saw a 550% rise in demand for clinical mental health support from medical staff in 2020.\n\nThe charity, set up in memory of Royal Navy nurse Laura Hyde, said that two healthcare workers die by suicide every week on average, while a doctor takes their own life once every three weeks.\n\nMr Kay said: \"Suicide simply is not spoken about and in my experience, sadly, sometimes even the staff don't know, it's simply brushed under the carpet.\n\n\"We need to talk about this openly and honestly.\"\n\nBen Whishaw plays the lead role in This Is Going To Hurt\n\nIn a speech to a crowd gathered in front of the sapling, the comedy writer added: \"I'm sad to say we've failed a lot of these medical professionals and I hope this is a turning point.\"\n\nExterior shots for This Is Going To Hurt were filmed at Ealing Hospital, where Mr Kay previously worked until he wrote his diaries, and many fans have visited the site hoping to find a memorial tree, which was planted for Shruti in the show.\n\nActress Ambika Mod, who starred as Shruti in the TV series, said it was \"incredibly heart-warming and special\" and the series had \"blown all expectations out of the water\".\n\n\"I was so surprised to hear that people had been looking for the tree that was planted in the show, and I'm really glad there is now a place where they can come to pay their respects.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Ben Whishaw on a best seller, Bond and a Bear", "The car was described by the auctioneers as \"a piece of history\"\n\nA car which was used by the late Diana, Princess of Wales has sold for £650,000 at auction.\n\nPrincess Diana, who died nearly 25 years ago, drove the black Ford Escort RS Turbo for nearly three years from August 1985.\n\nShe was pictured with the car outside the boutique shops of Chelsea and in Kensington.\n\nThe car, registration C462FHK, was eventually sold by Silverstone Auctions in Warwickshire to a buyer in Cheshire.\n\nThe Leamington Spa-based auction house told people at the sale it was the \"car of the day\".\n\nAuctioneer Jonathan Humbert said there had been huge interest in the vehicle, which had received the firm's largest number of telephone bids in 12 years.\n\nThe bidding began at £100,000 and soon became a contest between hopeful buyers in Dubai and Coventry.\n\nBut at around the £450,000 mark, the main bidding came from Cheshire and Dubai - with the UK-based buyer eventually winning out.\n\nThe auctioneer expressed his surprise when bidding climbed, commenting: \"£500,000 for a Ford Escort? I've never said that before.\"\n\nMr Humbert had earlier said the car represented a \"piece of history\".\n\nPrincess Diana preferred to drive her own car and a member of the Royalty Protection Command (otherwise known as SO14) sat in the passenger seat.\n\nThe car sold on Saturday is believed to be unique as the first and only black RS Turbo Series 1 - as agreed between S014 and Ford for reasons of discretion - instead of the usual white manufactured model.\n\nIn June 2021, another Ford Escort used by Princess Diana sold at auction for £52,000.\n\nSilverstone Auctions' classic car specialist Arwel Richards said, including the buyer's premium, the total sale cost was £730,000.\n\nHe said everybody at the auction house was \"surprised\" at the price the car finally went for.\n\nHowever, Mr Richards said it was the car's rarity and the public's \"emotional link\" to it which made the vehicle special.\n\nAhead of the sale, he had said the \"lucky bidder\" would have invested in two things.\n\n\"He is going to have one the finest preserved examples of this model anywhere, and also the slice of social history that comes with the car.\n\n\"This car was known as the 'people's sports car' and the fact it was driven by the People's Princess just nails it.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC News app is available for Android and iOS devices\n\nWith the latest news and analysis from our journalists around the world and the unique human stories behind current events, we've got the best of our journalism in one place on the BBC News app.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.\n\nClick here to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.\n\nWe would like to know what you think of the new app - click here to give us your feedback.\n\nDepending on the contract you have, data charges may apply for accessing the internet on your mobile device.\n\nIf you are not sure about the potential charges, please ask your mobile network provider. You may find some costs are included in your existing price plan or that you can opt for a data package that gives reduced charges for accessing the internet.\n\nThe BBC does not charge you to access mobile content.", "Cardiff's Pride Cymru returns in August after its biggest ever celebration in 2019\n\nPride events in Wales becoming more visible is a positive, but many challenges still need addressing, according to Stonewall Cymru.\n\nPride events are to be held in Newport and Powys for the first time, but there are calls for more black and ethnic minority representation.\n\nBBC Wales has been hearing from people within the LGBT community to understand what Pride means to them.\n\nRania Vamvaka said it was about being \"your authentic self\".\n\nRania is co-chairwoman of Glitter Cymru, which was formed in 2016 to try to give a greater voice to people of colour within the LGBT community in Wales.\n\n\"Pride means history, Pride means that we honour the people who came before us in the LGBT movement and built the way for us,\" she said.\n\n\"We're fighting for trans rights, fighting for intersectionality within the community. In a way, Pride is about highlighting what work needs to be done still.\"\n\nShe said she thinks Pride events are opportunities to listen to younger people to find out how the movement should change and adapt over the next decade.\n\n\"All of this comes under the umbrella of Pride. Being yourself, being your authentic self and being able to feel pride in your sexuality and in your gender.\"\n\nRania Vamvaka said that queer people of colour find it difficult to find their voice\n\nIn 2019, Glitter Cymru held its first Pride event for people of colour in Wales. It moved online during the pandemic, which created more opportunity for more people across Wales who identified with Glitter Cymru to be heard.\n\nRania said for some refugees and asylum seekers living in Wales, it was the first time for them to come out in front of others.\n\n\"We have been expanding every year since, but the first pride for people of colour was just three years ago and I think this says it all,\" she said.\n\n\"We, queer people of colour, find it difficult to find our voice, our safe space within Pride because they are so white. We don't see where we can fit in.\n\n\"We have been forced to be in the margins and our voices are not heard by the mainstream Pride. We need to create our safe space, a space where we feel comfortable occupying.\"\n\nZoey said she thinks Pride events should be held all year round\n\nZoey, a trans woman who lives in Cardiff, came out not long after attending her first Pride event in 2018.\n\n\"What Pride means to me is the ability to be unapologetically myself and not have to answer to everyone's expectations,\" she said.\n\nShe feels Pride is very important but still has a \"long way to go\" for many people.\n\n\"Pride needs to be celebrated and promoted throughout the whole year because queer people don't just face adversities during the summer months, they happen every single day of their lives.\n\n\"I feel that a lot of companies have over-commercialised the rainbow and like to cash in this time of year, rather than supporting queer people and queer rights throughout the whole entire year.\"\n\nNatalie Bowen said the right to protest was essential due to \"eradication of our basic rights\"\n\nNatalie Bowen is in the process of opening a restaurant with her wife in Llantrisant, which will be an LGBT-friendly business. She is also the vice-chairwoman of Pride Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\n\"We have a long way to go in Rhondda Cynon Taf but we are here and we are strong and we want people to know that,\" she said.\n\n\"We have such a strong connection between the gay community and the mining communities of Rhondda Cynon Taf. We've all seen the film Pride and that connection.\"\n\nNatalie said Pride was a \"community protest\" in her eyes, a way of making the community visible and getting their points across.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we're at a time when our protest is needed more than ever. From the eradication of our safe spaces through to the eradication of our basic rights, especially for the the trans and non-binary community.\n\n\"Right now, Pride as the right to protest is more important, in my opinion, as Pride as the right to celebrate.\"\n\n\"We have still have a long way to go with the UK Pride movement until we achieve full acceptance. I hope Pride remains activism-focused and community-focused and less commercially-focused.\"\n\nRob Keetch said hopefully one day Pride events wont be necessary, but at the moment they \"absolutely are\"\n\nRob Keetch is a Pride Cymru ambassador, which is Wales' oldest Pride event and is held in Cardiff every year.\n\n\"Pride these days is both a celebration of the advancements we've made in the past 25 to 30 years. It's a reflection on where we were and a chance to focus on where we're going to be in the future,\" he said.\n\nRob said that some aspects of Pride that could be seen as over commercial actually helped fund important programmes, like coffee mornings for older members or quiet spaces for those with dementia.\n\n\"It also funds training so we can go into schools and into organisations to teach people LGBTQ rights, how they can best approach and support other members of their community,\" he added.\n\n\"Hopefully one day we won't need Pride anymore and we'll just have a Pride memorial day and we'll just go with the glitter and the flags for a day and say 'we used to do this in the past but we don't need it anymore'.\n\n\"Ideally, going forward I'd like to see a day when we don't need Pride, but at the moment, absolutely we do.\"", "Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said September's EuroPride parade in Belgrade will not go ahead.\n\nMr Vucic's announcement comes after thousands of people marched in protest against the event earlier this month.\n\nThe president said he was not happy with the decision, but that Serbia had to concentrate on other issues, including trouble in Kosovo.\n\nThe parade organisers have said the parade will go ahead anyway, with any ban \"illegal\".\n\nThe international LGBT pride parade has been hosted in a different European city most years since 1992.\n\nDuring a news conference, Mr Vucic said this year's event - scheduled to take place between 12 and 18 September - would be \"postponed or cancelled\" because of \"recent tensions with its former province Kosovo\", as well as issues around energy and food.\n\n\"Simply, at some point, you can't handle everything,\" he said. \"In an another time, a happier one [the event could take place].\"\n\nIn response, EuroPride 2022 organiser Marko Mihailovic said \"the state cannot cancel EuroPride\" and any attempt to do so would be a \"clear breach of the constitution\".\n\nKristine Garina, president of the European Pride Organisers Association - responsible for licensing EuroPride - insisted the event would not be cancelled.\n\nShe added that Prime Minister Ana Brnabic - Serbia's first female and openly gay PM - promised full support from the Serbian government during the bidding process for EuroPride 2022, and she expects \"that promise to be honoured\".\n\nEarlier this month, thousands of people marched in Belgrade against EuroPride, holding signs that read \"to protect the family\" and \"keep your hands off our children\".\n\nFar-right parties have condemned the event, and Bishop of Banat, Nikanor, from the Serbian Orthodox Church, said he would \"curse all those who organise and participate in something like that\".\n\nEvent organisers said Serbia's role as a host of EuroPride was \"an important step along the path toward achieving equality for the LGBTI+ community in the Western Balkans\".\n\nIn 2010, anti-gay protesters fought running battles with police in an effort to disrupt a Gay Pride march in Belgrade. The march returned four years later, with huge security.\n• None 'I was abused for being gay'\n• None Why is violence flaring again in Kosovo?", "Bikers revved their motorbike engines outside the US Embassy in London, as they took part in a Harry Dunn memorial ride\n\nA band of bikers have held a \"rev-off\" in memory of a teenager who died in a crash outside US military base on the third anniversary of his death.\n\nHarry Dunn, 19, was killed near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019, when it is alleged a car driven by Anne Sacoolas hit his motorbike.\n\nThe US national later left the country, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nRiders who gathered outside the US Embassy in London were told \"Harry will not be forgotten\".\n\nHarry Dunn was killed near RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, in 2019, when it is alleged a car driven by Anne Sacoolas hit his motorbike\n\nIt is alleged Ms Sacoolas's car struck his motorbike just after she left the base. It has been said the car was driving on the right side of the road when it should have been on the left under the UK's Highway Code.\n\nShe had diplomatic immunity asserted on her behalf by the US administration following the crash, because her husband Jonathan worked for a US intelligence agency at the base. They then both left the UK.\n\nMs Sacoolas is yet to face a criminal court. She was due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court in January, but days before her appearance, the Crown Prosecution Service said the hearing had been \"vacated\".\n\nPrayers were also said at Saturday's event\n\nAt Saturday's event in London, where prayers were also said, organiser Steven Baird said: \"People who come to our country should obey our laws.\n\n\"They can not and should not get out of our country while disobeying our laws.\"\n\nThose who gathered were told \"Harry will not be forgotten\"\n\nMr Dunn's friend Chelsea Wilson, 24, said the gathering would be \"right up his alley\" because he loved his bikes.\n\n\"It is important to just remember him,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to keep the momentum up. We are not going to go away. We are very much still here and supporting the cause.\"\n\nHarry Dunn's friend Chelsea Wilson, 24, said it was \"important to just remember him\"\n\nThe family's spokesman Radd Seiger said they were encouraging people to light candles in memory of the teenager at 20:00 BST.\n\nThrough Mr Seiger, they issued a statement which said the anniversary was \"a terribly sad day but not sadder than any other day that his family have to endure\".\n\n\"We all miss him terribly, he was a giant of a man with an even bigger and warmer personality who cared so much about others,\" it read.\n\nMr Seiger added that Harry's family wanted to thank people around the world for their continuing support.\n\n\"We continue to be overwhelmed daily by messages of love and support from all over the globe and each and every one honestly gives them the strength to carry on,\" he said.\n\nThe CPS has said there is no further update on the case.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whoever becomes prime minister will be faced with difficult decisions from day one\n\nA sense of scale is important when considering the size of the energy crisis now facing every household in the country - and what the government will have to do about it.\n\nAverage energy bills of nearly £300 per month are unthinkable and unmanageable for several million households.\n\nFriday's energy price cap announcement from Ofgem puts them at this level from October onwards.\n\nBut some predictions have that number at £550 per month by April - closer to the average cost of a mortgage - as wholesale gas prices have surged yet higher in recent days.\n\nFor an average household on £31,000 income per year, energy costs are set to exceed income tax bills. Or alternatively, the energy rise we will have seen since last year, is the equivalent of adding 15p to 20p to the basic rate of tax.\n\nIt will drain the disposable income of several million households.\n\nAnd it is not just an issue which will transform the path of the economy. These rises are so large and so widespread that they could test the nation's social resilience too.\n\nEven the energy industry itself doesn't think these rises are possible.\n\nAt a recent meeting with the government to discuss the Energy Tariff Deficit Fund, a key takeaway was that not one energy firm believed that it is feasible to charge the nation what the companies themselves are having to pay to purchase gas.\n\nThat is an amazing and remarkable situation.\n\nSo that gaping hole, that is getting larger every day, week and month is now in the hands of the government.\n\nUltimately, the government must choose who needs help. It will be over half of households at least.\n\nExtending it to everyone will cost much more, but will also rein in the overall inflation rate, and be far simpler. There is a vein of thinking that wealthier households that accumulated savings during the pandemic should pay their own way.\n\nIt comes down to a choice between tens of billions of pounds and several tens of billions.\n\nAnd so far, we are getting very little of the relevant detail from the Conservative leadership, and future Prime Minister, candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.\n\nThen there is also the question of who should pay eventually. Government borrowing will go up at first. But the energy industry has suggested that customers essentially repay this back with higher bills for the next decade through the Energy Tariff Deficit Fund.\n\nThe net result would be to keep bills from rising much above £2,000 on average, but there would have to be acceptance that they would come down only very slowly into the 2030s, even if the war in Ukraine is over.\n\nThis may not work. So those parts of the energy industry making even greater profits from exactly the same gas extraction might face a further tax grab. Or general taxes might have to increase. This would require a breaking of some of the promises in the Conservative leadership campaign even before it is over.\n\nExtra borrowing could take the strain.\n\nBut market interest rates are already surging and high inflation is also fast increasing the price of government borrowing. The Bank of England also faces even higher inflation and even higher government borrowing.\n\nIt is a potent mix: inflation, recession, high debts, and the core reason for it all, a wartime energy shock\n\nAnd perhaps that is the point. It is not the market driving this. It is geopolitics, diplomacy and conflict.\n\nMargaret Thatcher's former energy secretary Lord David Howell, told the BBC this week the country needed to be on \"a war-footing\" as regards energy and that these bills were simply \"impossible\".\n\nAt the very moment that most households come to see that the \"energy price cap\" is not really a cap on the price they pay for energy, it seems likely that the government may have to encourage immediate measures to save energy.\n\nThe new Prime Minister will have to make an ominous judgement even before they get the keys to Downing Street.", "More than a million bottles of whisky will leave the west coast of Scotland later in the country's first direct shipping container service to China.\n\nThe new shipping route has been hailed as a \"game changer for Scotland\".\n\nThe Allseas Pioneer arrived in Greenock from Ningbo in China earlier, carrying containers of textiles, furniture and toys for sale in Scotland.\n\nThe direct sailings will reduce freight transit times, compared to services via Europe or southern UK ports.\n\nSix ships - each capable of carrying about 1,600 shipping containers - will operate on the route, which was established as a response to growing global supply chain pressures.\n\nThe new service with three sailings per month in each direction is expected to cut the journey time from about 60 days to an estimated 33 by eliminating unscheduled port congestion delays in Rotterdam.\n\nGreenock Ocean Terminal, which opened in 1969, is currently responsible for the handling of 100,000 containers a year\n\nJim McSporran of Peel Ports, which operates the Clydeport in Greenock - Scotland's deepest container terminal, said it was \"great to finally welcome this vital service\".\n\nHe said: \"We believe this partnership will prove to be a hugely positive development for businesses and customers, as well as boosting the wider supply chain, and we look forward to continuing to work with our partners on this service in the coming months.\"\n\nThe direct link between the two countries was established in a partnership between KC Liner Agencies, DKT Allseas and China Xpress.\n\nThe maiden voyage is scheduled to berth at Greenock Ocean Terminal next month\n\nDavid Milne, KC Group Shipping managing director, said the company has been \"amazed at the level of immediate interest\" in the route.\n\nHe said they needed the support of Scottish importers and exporters to \"safeguard the long-term future\" of the new service.\n\n\"Our direct trading link to China cuts through frustrating transhipment delays, which is a massive boost for Scottish businesses and can only help consumers in these difficult times,\" he said.\n\n\"I described this as a game changer for Scotland, and the uptake in the service is certainly proving that case, for Scotland's furniture, pharmaceuticals, packaging and spirits sectors.\"\n\nCllr Stephen McCabe, leader of Inverclyde Council, said the new route was a \"ringing endorsement of Greenock and Inverclyde as an important location for exports, imports and visitors\".\n\nHe added: \"The freight side of Greenock Ocean Terminal can often be overshadowed and sometimes forgotten about because of the busy cruise ship schedule.\n\n\"But the container shipping side of the terminal has also grown substantially in recent years, and the new Glasgow City Region cruise ship visitor centre development, including the dedicated cruise ship pontoon, has created more capacity for both container and passenger vessels to aid the continued growth of both markets and further boost the economy locally, regionally and nationally.\"\n\nGreenock is also part of the Clyde Green Freeport bid.", "Officers were flagged down on Kingston Bridge, the Metropolitan Police said\n\nA man has died after entering the River Thames while being arrested by police.\n\nOfficers were flagged down on Kingston Bridge at about 22:30 BST on Friday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA \"verbal altercation\" involving a man and a woman known to each other was taking place and an allegation of theft was made, the force added.\n\nOfficers were in the process of arresting the man, but he had not been placed in handcuffs, when he entered the water, the Met said.\n\nThe force's Marine Policing Unit, the National Police Air Service, London Fire Brigade and the RNLI were all involved in the search for the man, who was believed to be in his 20s.\n\nHe was recovered from the water at about 00:30 BST and was treated by paramedics, but was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.\n\nThe man's family had been informed and the force had referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), according to the Met.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said: \"My thoughts, and those of the Metropolitan Police Service, are with the friends and family of the man who has sadly lost his life following this incident.\n\n\"I fully appreciate the public will be very concerned. We of course share that concern.\n\n\"The Met's Directorate of Professional Standards made an immediate referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct as is protocol in any incident in which a person comes to harm following police contact.\"\n\nThe IOPC said its investigators had taken initial accounts from the officers involved.\n\nIn a statement, an IOPC spokesperson said: \"We have now begun the process of gathering and reviewing evidence, including footage of the interaction between officers and the man.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the man's loved ones and all those affected by his death.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'The barriers to entry have gone - go for it now' Video, 00:01:20 , published at 00:20 22 June 2022 'The barriers to entry have gone - go for it now'", "Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Palaeontologists were shocked to find the skeleton largely intact.\n\nThe remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever discovered in Europe are being excavated in a Portuguese back garden.\n\nThe fossilised skeleton of a sauropod was discovered in the central city of Pombal in 2017, when a man began building work on his house.\n\nSauropods were the biggest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals to have ever lived.\n\nThey had long necks and tails, ate plants and walked on four legs.\n\nFaculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon Work is under way to uncover more of the dinosaur.\n\nEarlier this month, palaeontologists from Portugal and Spain unearthed parts of the spine and ribs of a possible brachiosaurid sauropod which suggest the huge reptile was about 12m (39ft) tall and 25m (82ft) long.\n\nThe skeleton has been found in Upper Jurassic sedimentary rocks, suggesting it is about 150 million years old.\n\nThe skeleton - found in the position that the dinosaur probably died in - is now being studied by an international research team.\n\nBecause of the relatively intact positioning of the skeleton, palaeontologists working on the dig are hopeful that there is more of it they are yet to unearth.\n\n\"It is not usual to find all the ribs of an animal like this, let alone in this position, maintaining their original anatomical position,\" Elisabete Malafaia, post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, told the Phys.org website.", "A colourised version of this satellite image captures infrared radiation from the burning of gas at the Portovaya plant\n\nAs Europe's energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News.\n\nThey say the plant, near the border with Finland, is burning an estimated $10m (£8.4m) worth of gas every day.\n\nExperts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany.\n\nGermany's ambassador to the UK told BBC News that Russia was burning the gas because \"they couldn't sell it elsewhere\".\n\nScientists are concerned about the large volumes of carbon dioxide and soot it is creating, which could exacerbate the melting of Arctic ice.\n\nThe analysis by Rystad Energy indicates that around 4.34 million cubic metres of gas are being burned by the flare every day.\n\nIt is coming from a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Portovaya, north-west of St Petersburg.\n\nThe first signs that something was awry came from Finnish citizens over the nearby border who spotted a large flame on the horizon earlier this summer.\n\nPortovaya is located close to a compressor station at the start of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which carries gas under the sea to Germany.\n\nSupplies through the pipeline have been curtailed since mid-July, with the Russians blaming technical issues for the restriction. Germany says it was purely a political move following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBut since June, researchers have noted a significant increase in heat emanating from the facility - thought to be from gas flaring, the burning of natural gas.\n\nWhile burning off gas is common at processing plants - normally done for technical or safety reasons - the scale of this burn has confounded experts.\n\n\"I've never seen an LNG plant flare so much,\" said Dr Jessica McCarty, an expert on satellite data from Miami University in Ohio.\n\n\"Starting around June, we saw this huge peak, and it just didn't go away. It's stayed very anomalously high.\"\n\nMiguel Berger, the German ambassador to the UK, told BBC News that European efforts to reduce reliance on Russian gas were \"having a strong effect on the Russian economy\".\n\n\"They don't have other places where they can sell their gas, so they have to burn it,\" he suggested.\n\nThis photo was taken by Finnish citizen Ari Laine on 24 July at a distance of around 23 miles (38km) from the Portovaya facility\n\nMark Davis is the CEO of Capterio, a company that is involved in finding solutions to gas flaring.\n\nHe says the flaring is not accidental and is more likely a deliberate decision made for operational reasons.\n\n\"Operators often are very hesitant to actually shut down facilities for fear that they may be technically difficult or costly to start up again, and it's probably the case here,\" he told BBC News.\n\nOthers believe that there could be technical challenges in dealing with the large volumes of gas that were being supplied to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.\n\nRussian energy company Gazprom may have intended to use that gas to make LNG at the new plant, but may have had problems handling it and the safest option is to flare it off.\n\nIt could also be the result of Europe's trade embargo with Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.\n\n\"This kind of long-term flaring may mean that they are missing some equipment,\" said Esa Vakkilainen, an energy engineering professor from Finland's LUT University.\n\n\"So, because of the trade embargo with Russia, they are not able to make the high-quality valves needed in oil and gas processing. So maybe there are some valves broken and they can't get them replaced.\"\n\nGazprom - Russia's state-controlled energy giant which owns the plant - has not responded to requests for comment on the flaring.\n\nThe financial and environmental costs mount each day the flare continues to burn, say scientists.\n\n\"While the exact reasons for the flaring are unknown, the volumes, emissions and location of the flare are a visible reminder of Russia's dominance in Europe's energy markets,\" said Sindre Knutsson from Rystad Energy.\n\n\"There could not be a clearer signal - Russia can bring energy prices down tomorrow. This is gas that would otherwise have been exported via Nord Stream 1 or alternatives.\"\n\nEnergy prices around the world rose sharply as Covid lockdowns were lifted and economies returned to normal. Many places of work, industry and leisure were all suddenly in need of more energy at the same time, putting unprecedented pressures on suppliers.\n\nPrices increased again in February this year, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. European governments looked for ways to import less energy from Russia, which had previously supplied 40% of the gas used in the EU.\n\nPrices for alternative sources of gas went up as a result, and some EU nations - like Germany and Spain - are now bringing in energy-saving measures.\n\nThe smoke and orange light from the gas flare at Portovaya is seen on the left of this image captured by holidaymaker Elmeri Rasi\n\nThe environmental impacts of the burning are worrying scientists.\n\nAccording to researchers, flaring is far better than simply venting the methane which is the key ingredient in the gas, and is a very powerful climate warming agent.\n\nRussia has a track record of burning off gas - according to the World Bank, it is the number one country when it comes to the volume of flaring.\n\nBut as well as releasing about 9,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every day from this flare, the burning causes other significant issues.\n\nBlack carbon is the name given to the sooty particles that are produced through the incomplete burning of fuels like natural gas.\n\n\"Of particular concern with flaring at Arctic latitudes is the transport of emitted black carbon northward where it deposits on snow and ice and significantly accelerates melting,\" said Prof Matthew Johnson, from Carleton University in Canada.\n\n\"Some highly cited estimates already put flaring as the dominant source of black carbon deposition in the Arctic and any increases in flaring in this region are especially unwelcome.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond LV= Insurance Test, Emirates Old Trafford (day two of five)\n\nSublime centuries from Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes gave England complete control of the second Test against South Africa after two days at Old Trafford.\n\nStokes' first hundred as captain and wicketkeeper Foakes' first at home took England to 415-9 declared, a first-innings lead of 264.\n\nSouth Africa battled to 23-0 by the close, 241 behind.\n\nStokes and Foakes came together at 147-5 with England four runs adrift after Anrich Nortje removed Jonny Bairstow and Zak Crawley.\n\nTheir sixth-wicket stand of 173 has left England primed to level the series at 1-1 with one match to play.\n\nBoth men overturned lbw decisions, while Stokes was dropped on 92 before falling for 103.\n\nFoakes was not out on 113 when England's declaration gave South Africa nine overs to survive in the evening sunshine.\n\nAlthough openers Dean Elgar and Sarel Erwee came through, the Proteas face a huge task to even drag this contest into a fourth day.\n• None 'This was the Ben Stokes Show - in more ways than one'\n\nEngland's dominant position is in stark contrast to a gripping morning session when the game hung in the balance as the terrifying Nortje threatened to undo the hosts' good work from day one.\n\nAfter England resumed on 111-3, Nortje found reverse swing at high pace to have the poking Bairstow held at first slip for 49 then ended Crawley's resistance on 38 with a wonderful delivery that was edged behind.\n\nThe Stokes-Foakes rebuild was not based on the swashbuckling style favoured by England so far this summer, but through careful, correct and classical Test batting.\n\nThe gradual grinding down of the South Africa attack came on a pitch that is wearing quickly and delighted a boisterous crowd.\n\nThe name of James Anderson was sung as the local hero emerged to loosen up between innings and Anderson thought he had snared Erwee lbw, only for the left-hander to survive England's review.\n\nAll is not lost for South Africa. If they can in any way match England's effort with the bat, a fourth-innings target of 150 could prove tricky given the state of the pitch and quality of the touring attack.\n\nBut England are massive favourites for victory, possibly by an innings before Saturday is out.\n\nStokes brings drama in more ways than one\n\nStokes' century came on the day his documentary Phoenix from the Ashes was released.\n\nIt was an innings that had its own share of theatre. His troublesome left knee needed treatment when he had only 16, he successfully reviewed being given leg before to Lungi Ngidi on 72, and Aiden Markram failed to hold what would have been a stunning catch at cover as Stokes attacked the second new ball.\n\nThe captain signalled his intent by sweeping the first ball he faced from dangerous off-spinner Simon Harmer for six, but this was not the slogging Stokes that has been on display for much of the summer.\n\nRealising the game situation, Stokes batted with control in taking 98 balls for his first 41 runs. Thereafter he scored at almost a run a ball, including two more sixes lofted down the ground.\n\nHe took tea on 98 not out then celebrated his 12th century with the familiar bent finger tribute to his late father Ged, made all the more poignant given the personal struggles Stokes detailed in the run-up to this match.\n\nA swipe at Kagiso Rabada resulted in a skied catch to mid-off, ending another magnificent display by England's talismanic all-rounder.\n\nFoakes is quietly establishing himself under the leadership of Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum. Already among the leading glovemen in the game, he is averaging 45 with the bat for England this summer.\n\nThis was an unflappable century, only the second by an England wicketkeeper in a home Test since 2016 and Foakes' first since a ton on debut in Sri Lanka nearly four years ago.\n\nMatching Stokes' patience, Foakes scored with wristy whips through mid-wicket and was happy to hook when South Africa tested him with bouncers.\n\nHe had 28 when he overturned being given out lbw to left-arm spinner Keshav Maharaj, the closest he came to giving a chance.\n\nFoakes' hundred came with a cut for four off Nortje and he had the pleasure of remaining unbeaten when the dismissal of number 10 Jack Leach signalled England's declaration.\n\n'South Africa need a mammoth total' - what they said\n\nEngland wicketkeeper Ben Foakes on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was amazing. It's been an interesting journey since my debut, being out the side and get the odd chance. To get a hundred now, I appreciate it more than my debut one.\n\n\"We're in a fantastic position and hopefully the wicket deteriorates plays into our hands. There are a few cracks and if they open up it wouldn't be the worse thing for us.\"\n\nFormer South Africa bowler Vernon Philander: \"The partnership between Foakes and Stokes really illustrated that if you get in on this surface, it's hard to get out. South Africa now need to post a mammoth total to get themselves back into this contest.\"\n\nEx-England bowler Steven Finn: \"England wanted to buck the trend with the way the team were playing in the last 18 months. They have done that and now they have to find an equilibrium. They are starting to do that and learn when to soak up pressure against high-quality bowling.\"\n• None How to use deception in sport effectively: Sideways puts some prevalent tactics to the test\n• None Is exercise a matter of mind over muscle?: The Expectation Effect explores the importance of mindset", "Double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington has spoken of her devastation after a miscarriage, discovered during a hospital visit for her 12-week scan.\n\nThe swimmer told her Instagram followers she needed emergency surgery afterwards, and treatment for sepsis.\n\n\"It's such a devastating time but important in times like these we remember we aren't alone and have so much support,\" she wrote.\n\nAdlington, a 33-year-old mother-of-two, said she was now \"slowly on the mend\".\n\nThere are about 250,000 miscarriages in the UK each year, with most occurring in the first three months of pregnancy, according to research by pregnancy charity Tommy's.\n\nAdlington said she and her husband, Andy Parsons, went to hospital for a scan on Tuesday, only to discover she had miscarried and needed emergency surgery.\n\n\"I managed to leave hospital Thursday only to be readmitted Friday. After a day of treating sepsis, a kidney infection and a fever, I'm slowly on the mend.\n\n\"Long way to go but I'm in the right place,\" she wrote, beside a picture of her holding a mug of tea in her hospital bed.\n\nShe praised hospital staff and described her husband as her rock, and also thanked her family and friends.\n\n\"We haven't managed to process it all yet but I know with their support we'll get through it,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was extremely grateful that she could give her two children a hug once she was able to leave hospital.\n\nA number of high-profile woman have spoken about their own painful experiences of miscarriage in recent years.\n\nAt the time, Sophie King - a midwife provided by Tommy's - said talking about baby loss in pregnancy was \"a real taboo in society\" so mothers sharing their stories was a vital step in breaking down that stigma and shame.\n\nAdlington, from Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, became a household name in the 2008 Games in Beijing, with wins in the 400m and 800m freestyle. A year later, she was appointed an OBE.\n\nIn recent years, she has worked as a BBC commentator during the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and European Aquatics Championships.\n\nIn the past, Adlington has spoken in interviews about body insecurities, abuse directed at her on social media and the therapy she has undergone for anxiety and panic attacks.\n\nFind information and support on pregnancy-related issues from BBC Action Line", "Participants in the review met at UN headquarters in New York, starting on 1 August\n\nRussia has blocked the adoption of a joint declaration by a United Nations conference on nuclear disarmament.\n\nThe Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is reviewed by its 191 signatories every five years, aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.\n\nRussia objected to a draft text citing \"grave concern\" over military activities around Ukraine's nuclear plants, in particular Zaporizhzhia.\n\nParticipants in the last review in 2015 also failed to reach an agreement.\n\nThe 2022 meeting, which had been due in 2020, was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The failure to agree a joint declaration followed a four-week conference in New York.\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she was \"deeply disappointed\" at the lack of agreement.\n\n\"Russia obstructed progress by refusing to compromise on proposed text accepted by all other states,\" she said.\n\nThe US representative, Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins, said the US \"deeply regrets this outcome, and even more so on Russia's actions that led us here today\".\n\nRussia was opposed to a section of the text expressing \"grave concern\" over military activities around Ukrainian power plants - including the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Russia seized early on in the war in Ukraine.\n\nThe draft section also remarked on \"the loss of control by the competent Ukrainian authorities over such locations as a result of those military activities, and their profound negative impact on safety\".\n\n\"Our delegation has one key objection on some paragraphs which are blatantly political in nature,\" he said - adding that other countries also disagreed with the text.\n\nThe final document needed approval of all countries at the conference. A number of countries, including the Netherlands and China, expressed disappointment that no consensus had been reached.\n\nThe Dutch said they were \"content with the useful discussions\", but \"very disappointed that we have not reached consensus\".\n\nChina's ambassador, meanwhile, said despite the lack of agreement, the process was \"an important practice of common security and genuine multilateralism\".\n\nThe International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons regretted that \"in a year when a nuclear-armed state invaded a non-nuclear armed state, a meeting of nearly all countries in the world failed to take action on nuclear disarmament\", while the Washington-based Arms Control Association said the conference represented a \"missed opportunity to strengthen the treaty and global security\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Non-Proliferation Treaty, backed by 190 countries in 1970, commits countries which signed up - including the US, Russia, France the UK and China - to reducing their stockpiles and bars others from acquiring nuclear weapons.\n\nLast week, the Zaporizhzhia plant was temporarily disconnected from the power grid, raising fears of a possible radiation disaster.\n\nRussia's military took control of the plant, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, in early March, but it is still being operated by Ukrainian staff under difficult conditions.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is expected to organise a trip to the Zaporizhzhia plant in the coming days to inspects facilities there.\n\nLast week, Russia said it would allow IAEA inspectors to visit the plant.", "Stansted airport now charges £7 for a 15 minutes drop-off, up from £4 for 20 minutes in 2019.\n\nMore than two thirds of the UK's 22 busiest airports have introduced or increased charges for drivers to drop off passengers since the start of the pandemic, the RAC says.\n\nStansted charges the most of drop-offs, while London City is free and Belfast and Cardiff are free for set amounts of time, the motoring group says.\n\nSixteen of the 22 airports analysed introduced or increased the charges.\n\nThe RAC said it appeared airports were trying to recoup pandemic losses.\n\nThe motoring group said drivers would be \"stunned\" by some of the \"sky-high\" fees.\n\nResearchers for the organisation found Stansted currently charges £7 for 15 minutes, up from £4 for 20 minutes in 2019.\n\nThis was closely followed by Manchester Airport, which charges £5 for five minutes - up from £3 in three years ago.\n\nHeathrow and Gatwick, the UK's busiest airports have introduced a charges of £5 for drop-offs.\n\nMeanwhile, Luton, Bristol, Leeds Bradford and Southend all charge £5 for 10 minutes.\n\nThe RAC said in Scotland, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow airports doubled their fees compared to 2019 levels, charging £4 for a 10 minute stay.\n\nIt said London City is the cheapest as it is free and has no time limit, while Belfast City is free for 10 minutes and Cardiff is free for five.\n\nBirmingham and Belfast International airports were among five out of the 22 to have kept their fees the same since 2019.\n\nManchester Airport increased its charges by £3, according to the research\n\nThe Airport Operators Association, the body which represents airports, said customers had been provided clear information on the cost of car parking and drop-off options, adding many airports offered free drop-off and pick-up alternatives with good links to the terminals.\n\nA spokesperson added that charges for dropping off directly outside terminals were operated for a number of different reasons, including to manage congestion.\n\nNicholas Lyes, RAC head of roads policy, said that the airports had hiked fees to \"partially make up\" for the lost revenue during the pandemic.\n\n\"Anyone dropping a loved one off at the terminal this summer will be stunned by some of these sky-high, kiss-and-drop charges,\" he said.\n\n\"And for those using the UK's two busiest airports, the luxury of free drop-offs outside the terminal building has been replaced by some pretty high fees.\n\n\"Minute for minute and pound for pound, some of these charges could almost be as high as the airfare itself,\" he added.\n\nMr Lyes warned people to be aware that many airports use cameras to spot drop-off cars in the wrong areas and said going over the time limit could typically cost more than the initial parking fee.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarvey Elliott curled in his first Premier League goal for Liverpool Liverpool equalled the biggest victory in Premier League history as they kick-started their season in spectacular fashion by thrashing newly promoted Bournemouth at Anfield. Manager Jurgen Klopp had described the beginning to his side's campaign as a \"false start\" after two draws and Monday night's defeat at Manchester United, but the Reds responded in emphatic fashion. Manchester United have achieved this margin of victory twice - against Ipswich in 1995 and Southampton last year - while Leicester City did likewise against the Saints in 2019. Liverpool got off to the perfect start as two goals in the opening five minutes against the Cherries set a raucous Anfield rocking. Luis Diaz rose to powerfully head home the opener and the impressive Harvey Elliott curled in his first top-flight goal with a sublime strike from outside the box. Full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold thumped a long-range shot into the top corner, with all three goals assisted by Roberto Firmino. The Brazil forward went from provider to scorer on the half-hour mark when he acrobatically converted from inside the six-yard box and Virgil van Dijk headed in the fifth from a corner - all before half-time. It went from bad to worse for Scott Parker's men in the first minute of the second half when Chris Mepham stretched to divert the ball into his own net and Firmino poked home the seventh of the afternoon after a fortunate deflection. Summer signing Fabio Carvalho volleyed in with eight minutes left for number eight and Colombia winger Diaz headed in the ninth to complete an incredible, historic win. For Bournemouth, the rout was their third consecutive league defeat without scoring a goal after beating Aston Villa in their opening game. It was really not cool to play against us - Klopp It had been suggested Liverpool have looked lethargic - and that they are missing forward Sadio Mane, now at Bayern Munich - after failing to win any of their opening three games. Draws against Fulham and Crystal Palace being followed by a sluggish showing in the 2-1 defeat at Old Trafford at the start of the week led to questions being raised about the title credentials of a Reds side that ended last season on low points in the league and Champions League. An extensive injury list - notably in midfield - and big summer signing Darwin Nunez being suspended has not helped, but Liverpool responded to the doubters with a breathtaking showing to which the visitors had no reply. The Reds had a total of 19 shots at goal, 12 of which were on target - with a record-equalling nine ending up in the back of the net. It was the first time they had racked up that number since 1989, when they did so against Crystal Palace in the old First Division. Klopp's side had conceded the first goal in their last seven Premier League games but Diaz set them on their way after just two minutes with a sweet header. The goal will have relieved some tension for what would have been a nervous crowd after the side's modest start to the season. Teenager Elliott has featured in all four league games this season and opened his league account for the Reds with a delightful curling effort into the bottom corner before Alexander-Arnold smashed into the corner from outside the box. A 9-0 scoreline has been seen just four times in the Premier League Firmino ended a barren run of 20 league games with a league goal at Anfield with an opportunistic strike, while Van Dijk shrugged off a difficult game at Manchester United by heading in the fifth. Chris Mepham's own goal, Firmino's second and Carvalho's first for the club made it a perfect afternoon for the Reds as they narrowly missed out on claiming the Premier League's biggest victory. Liverpool should really have hit double figures in a completely one-side game as Mohamed Salah endured a rare off day in a game in which his team-mates were ruthless. The Egypt forward missed an open net from a couple of yards out then had a shot tipped over by Mark Travers before blazing over from close range. Left-back Andrew Robertson also headed over from in front of goal. The emphatic win maintained Liverpool's dominant run over sides promoted from the Championship, and they have now lost just one of 34 meetings against newly promoted teams. Bournemouth had enjoyed a pleasant initial return to the Premier League when they beat Aston Villa on the opening weekend, but it has proved to be a false dawn and the remainder of August has been miserable. The south coast side were hammered 4-0 by champions Manchester City, lost 3-0 at home to Arsenal and totally capitulated after conceding twice in the opening five minutes at Anfield. Parker's men have conceded the most goals in the top flight this season (16) and at the other end have netted just twice. Their total of 21 shots from their opening four games is the second fewest since Sunderland had 20 in 2012-13. Home goalkeeper Alisson had a comfortable afternoon in the Merseyside sun, plucking a weak Kieffer Moore header out of the air being the most that he was stretched all game.\n• None Reaction from all of Saturday's action\n• None Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 9, Bournemouth 0. Luis Díaz (Liverpool) header from the right side of the six yard box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Kostas Tsimikas with a cross following a corner.\n• None Substitution, Bournemouth. Emiliano Marcondes replaces Ben Pearson because of an injury.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 8, Bournemouth 0. Fábio Carvalho (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kostas Tsimikas.\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fabinho with a through ball. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Daily radio commentaries across BBC Sounds and the BBC Sport website and app, with selected live text commentaries and match reports on the website and app\n\nEmma Raducanu played down an uncomfortable practice session in New York, saying she just had \"one of those weird days\" before she begins her US Open title defence.\n\nRaducanu, 19, seemed to be struggling with a wrist injury and appeared to be upset at one point in Friday's session.\n\nBut the British number one said there was nothing seriously wrong before her opening match against Alize Cornet.\n\n\"It was one of those blips where you don't know what is going on,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't really explain it, just one of those days when you have certain small things that are niggling away.\"\n\nRaducanu, who is seeded 11th, plays France's world number 37 Cornet in Tuesday's night session on Louis Armstrong Stadium (00:00 BST, Wednesday).\n\nPractising in hot conditions on Friday lunchtime at Flushing Meadows, Raducanu twice had to stop and headed off court with physio Will Herbert for about 15 minutes after the second time.\n\nBut Raducanu returned to court and, although she looked in discomfort at times, continued to practise for the rest of the scheduled two-hour session against Russian player Ekaterina Alexandrova.\n\n\"Everyone has those days and for me to have those days, and for people to write about it, shows the public it is normal to have a day like that and that nothing matters,\" Raducanu said.\n\n\"It's just one of those weird days where you feel a bit like nothing... I don't know. You just feel a bit out of it.\n\n\"You just go back, go again tomorrow and a lot of the time everything is OK and everyone forgets about it.\"\n\nOn seemingly having issues with a strapped right wrist, she added: \"Every tennis player has strapping everywhere so there is nothing major, just temporary stuff like I'd tape a blister.\"\n\nRaducanu's first full season on tour has been plagued by a series of niggles that have stalled her progress.\n\nThe teenager knew she would have to build up her physicality going into the year but her pre-season fitness work was hampered by contracting coronavirus.\n\nIn January, she also struggled with a blister on her racquet hand in a Australian Open second-round defeat, retired from a match at Guadalajara in February with a hip injury and had to bathe her blistered feet in surgical spirit during Britain's Billie Jean King Cup defeat against the Czech Republic in April.\n\nIn May, she was forced to retire from an Italian Open first-round match against Canada's Bianca Andreescu with a back injury and the issue hampered her preparations for the French Open.\n\nAfter losing in the Roland Garros second round, Raducanu said staying injury free during the tournament had been her \"biggest win\" in Paris.\n\nBut just days later she retired from her Nottingham Open match against Viktorija Golubic with a side injury and that meant she trained little before losing in the second round at Wimbledon.\n\nWatching her practice session at the US Open felt like Raducanu is facing more bad luck going into a major, but afterwards during her media interviews she said she had \"no concerns of an issue\".\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None How to use deception in sport effectively: Sideways puts some prevalent tactics to the test\n• None Is exercise a matter of mind over muscle?: The Expectation Effect explores the importance of mindset", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Prime Minister of Pakistan has said the \"magnitude of the calamity\" is bigger than expected, after visiting flood-hit areas.\n\nShehbaz Sharif was speaking from Sindh province - which has had nearly eight times its average August rainfall.\n\nThe floods have killed nearly 1,000 people across Pakistan since June, while thousands have been displaced - and millions more affected.\n\nAs the BBC drove through Sindh, there were displaced people in every village.\n\nThe full scale of the devastation in the province is yet to be fully understood - but the people described it as the worst disaster they've survived.\n\nFloods are not uncommon in Pakistan, but people here said these rains were different - more than anything that's ever been seen. One local official called them \"floods of biblical proportions\".\n\nNear the city of Larkana, thousands of mud homes have sunk under water. For miles all that's visible is treetops. Where the water level is slightly lower, thatched roofs creep out from underneath the water.\n\nIn one village, the people are desperate for food. In another, many children have developed waterborne diseases.\n\nWhen a mobile truck pulled over, scores of people immediately ran towards it. Children carrying other children made their way to the long queue.\n\nOne 12-year-old girl said she and her baby sister had not eaten for a day.\n\n\"No food has come here, but my sister is sick, she has been vomiting,\" the girl said. \"I hope they can help.\"\n\nThe desperation was evident in every community. People ran towards car windows to ask for help - anything.\n\nStranded people are evacuated on boats in Sukkur\n\nOn one of the main streets out of the city of Sukkur, hundreds of people have settled.\n\nMany of them walked from remote villages, and were told that help is easier to get in the urban areas. But there's not much difference here.\n\nOn Friday, PM Sharif said 33 million people had been hit by the floods - about 15% of the country's population.\n\nHe said the losses caused by floods this season were comparable to those during the floods of 2010-11, said to be the worst on record. The country has appealed for more international aid.\n\nFlood victims queue up outside a bank to receive financial assistance in southern Sindh province\n\nIn Sindh, it's not that local authorities are not trying, but they admit that they are out of their depth.\n\nThe provincial government says this is a \"climate change catastrophe\" and that the people of Pakistan, especially in the poorer communities, have been the worst affected.\n\nThe solutions will not be quick - acres of land are waterlogged and the water is not receding fast enough for any rebuilding to take place here.\n\nThere's not much to do for the people but to wait - wait for the rains to stop, wait for the water to go down, wait for more resources to be allocated to these kinds of communities.\n\nIn the meantime, life continues to be difficult.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mother who lost three members of her family to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Bangladesh remains \"really ill\", her son has said.\n\nSamira Islam, 20, from Cardiff, her father, Rafiqul, 51, and brother, Mahiqul, 16, died after being found in a flat in the Sylhet region last month.\n\nHusnara Begum and her son, Sadiqul Islam, 24, also needed hospital treatment.\n\nSadiqul said his mother needed to go back to the UK to recover.\n\nThe family, from Cardiff, were on a two-month visit to Bangladesh when they were found unconscious.\n\nPolice, who have been investigating the deaths, said officers visited the property and were told that when a generator was running it had pumped out smoke.\n\nPolice have previously said all five family members were sleeping in the same room of the flat in Osmaninagar, near the north-eastern city of Sylhet.\n\nWhen family members got no answer at the flat on the morning of 26 July, they saw through a window that the family were lying haphazardly on two beds and called police.\n\nOfficers broke down the door and found the family unconscious.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nMr Islam said his mother has received a CT scan as she had been unwell and that doctors had told him \"the heat is majorly affecting her\".\n\n\"She's really, really ill,\" he said.\n\n\"What I want to do is take her back to the UK as soon as possible and get some treatment there if need be.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I need from the British embassy is the death certificate of my father, my brother and my sister as soon as possible so I can fly back to the UK and get some treatment, or see if my mother recovers on her own with the cool weather.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said: \"We are providing consular assistance to a British family following an incident in Bangladesh and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Many high street shops, supermarkets and banks change their logos, adding new window displays and selling special products to celebrate Pride\n\nMajor retailers are slapping rainbows on products in a bid to cash in on Pride, LGBTQ+ campaigners have claimed.\n\nThe Queer Emporium said they welcomed the extra visibility, but said very little money was going to the community and it felt like a \"money grab\".\n\nAn activist said there were also concerns around the exploitation of workers making merchandise in countries where it is illegal to be gay.\n\nPride Cymru said it was \"heartening\" to see many brands embracing Pride.\n\n\"Huge amounts of massive companies do just slap rainbows on their products and sell them at a higher price,\" said Yan White, founder and director of social enterprise and not-for-profit Queer Emporium.\n\nHe added that even when a portion of profit was donated to a community group or charity, it was relatively \"minuscule\".\n\nMr White felt that sometimes larger businesses, particularly chains, are not held to account because people just choose to ignore it\n\n\"Lots of brands will create rainbow versions of their products, but the reality is there's very little, if any money actually going back to the LGBTQ+ community.\n\nHe added that whilst the increased visibility was good, as well as things like LGBTQ+ networks in companies, he believed businesses profiting from merchandise could do more to help communities.\n\n\"I think the trans community is by far the most persecuted in the UK in the media and on a political level as well, so I think a lot of those companies could throw their weight behind that particular group, I think that could make a bigger difference if they really do want to do something progressive.\"\n\nInitially set up for four weeks during last year's Pride month, to offer a more localised service to people who wanted to celebrate the occasion, the Cardiff store has remained open and now works with around 20 LGBTQ+ businesses.\n\nThe rainbow flag is an important symbol for pride, but there is more than one kind of rainbow flag, and some parts of the LGBTQ+ community have their own flags\n\nThe rainbow flag - a symbol for the LGBTQ+ community - first appeared back in 1978, when artist Gilbert Baker made a design with eight stripes to be used on gay freedom day in San Francisco.\n\nIt's use spread across America, and by the 1990s it was a symbol for people trying to get equal rights for the community.\n\nThe range of bright colours are used by some as a symbol to celebrate differences, to say everyone should feel included no matter who they love or how they feel about themselves, and to show support for the community.\n\nThe red stripe represents life, orange represents healing, yellow represents sunlight, green represents nature, blue represents art and violet represents the human spirit.\n\nOver the last few years the flag has changed and been updated to represent more communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pride in London: What do the flags mean?\n\nMr White said he had noticed a growing desire among customers for ethically made products.\n\n\"I think there is a problem where if you want to shop in a shop like mine, you would expect that level of ethics to be there.\n\n\"I'm glad we're held to account but I feel that sometimes larger businesses, particularly chains, just aren't, because people just choose to ignore it.\"\n\nMr White said what many of the massive companies donate to LGBTQ+ organisations was minuscule compared to how much money they have\n\nIzzy McLeod from Cardiff said while it was nice to have reached a place where rainbows were on a lot of products, they were concerned about conditions for workers making the products.\n\n\"We shouldn't be relying on exploitation of other people for us to celebrate ourselves,\" the activist said.\n\nIzzy said people should prioritise buying pride merchandise from LGBTQ+ creatives all year round, not just during Pride season\n\n\"These corporations are doing it because it is profitable, and when they're doing it in a way that's saying 'we support LGBTQ+ people whilst making merchandise in countries where maybe it's illegal to be gay', then it comes across as very 'we're going to take your money, but we're not going to do the work,\" the 24-year-old said.\n\n\"Pride should be about queer liberation for all, not just capitalising on the pink pound, we cannot continue to let brands pander to one part of the LGBTQ community, while participating in the exploitation of another.\"\n\nIzzy said no-one should feel guilty if they had already bought merchandise from a major retailer - the focus should be more on calling out brands who could do more.\n\n\"It's about empowering people to make a change, but while shouting at those who do have the power to make those changes,\" the campaigner added.\n\nIzzy started the campaign \"Who Made My Pride Merch?\" which asks brands who is making their pride collections, and standing in solidarity with LGBTQ+ garment workers worldwide\n\nThey would also like to see customers support queer creatives wherever possible, not just for Pride merchandise but all year round.\n\nIzzy added that more people were now aware of the origins of Pride, in that it is both a protest and a party, and question if organisations getting involved are reflecting the right values.\n\n\"When I've been to prides across the UK, there are several corporate organisations with their rainbow logos in the parade, but you don't see any community organisations, or people who try and join get kicked off and that's the opposite of what should be happening.\"\n\n\"These brands should be helping, not taking up the space themselves - they are never going to change, unless we make them change.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiff Pride march - and how it took its first steps in 1985\n\nA spokesperson for Pride Cymru said: \"Twenty years ago, you wouldn't have seen so many household names embracing Pride so openly in their brand and it is heartening for staff and customers to see they are loved and valued.\n\n\"Although we do think profit sharing with LGBTQ+ charities should be considered on Pride themed merchandise, we also wholeheartedly agree that companies must have ethical supply chains, which enhance the rights of our LGBTQ+ family around the world.\"\n\nPride in Cardiff is back this year, after it was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of the Covid pandemic\n\nThe Welsh Retail Consortium said retailers were keen to support the LGBTQ+ community.\n\n\"The selling of items that promote the LGBTQ+ community shows a huge step forward in the attitudes of the country towards this minority group, furthermore, nearly eighty leading retailers came together in 2021 to sign the WRC's Diversity and Inclusion charter, which aims to embed better representation of minority groups, including LGBTQ+, within all levels of retail.\"", "US paratroopers training near Deadhorse, Alaska, in 2014\n\nThe United States is planning to appoint an Ambassador for the Arctic, amid increased Russian military activity in the region.\n\nThe Ambassador-at-Large will be put in place to advance US policy in the northern polar region, a Department of State spokesman said.\n\nOn Friday, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg warned of the threat posed by Russia in the northern polar regions.\n\nHe also voiced concern about China's reach into the Arctic.\n\nThe new US ambassador will engage with the seven other Arctic nations - Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia - as well as indigenous groups and other stakeholders, said State Department spokesman Vedant Patel.\n\nPeace and stability in the region are of \"critical strategic importance\" to the US and a priority for Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he added.\n\nMr Blinken will soon name the ambassador, whose appointment is subject to Senate approval.\n\nThe announcement comes as Russia steps up its presence near the North Pole, while China has been building Arctic research stations.\n\nA nuclear-powered battle cruiser at the Russian Northern Fleet's Arctic base in Severomorsk\n\nNato's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited the Canadian Arctic on Friday, where he said Russia's capabilities in the North are a strategic challenge for the military alliance.\n\nHe said the challenges include the reopening of \"hundreds of new and former Soviet-era Arctic military sites\" and Russia's use of the high north \"as a testbed for the most advanced weapons including hypersonic missiles\".\n\nMr Stoltenberg also expressed concern about China's reach into the Arctic for shipping and resources exploration.\n\n\"Beijing and Moscow have also pledged to intensify practical operation in the Arctic. This forms part of the deepening strategic partnership that challenges our values and our interests,\" he said.\n\nHe also outlined how climate change is making the high north more important, because melting ice is making the area more accessible.\n\nLisa Murkowski, a Republican Senator for Alaska, welcomed the appointment of an Arctic Ambassador. She said the US had been the only Arctic nation without dedicated diplomatic representation for the region at ambassador level.\n\nThe new ambassador will replace the previous US position of Arctic Coordinator, held by career diplomat Jim DeHart.\n\nJens Stoltenberg (third from right) with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, on Thursday", "The family bought a tent for the fox to sleep in\n\nA badly-injured fox spent two weeks recovering in a garden tent after attaching itself to a Glasgow family.\n\nLiz Wink said the fox followed her son home before they noticed a bad wound on its side.\n\nThe family put food in the back garden and bought the fox - given the name Florence - a tent to sleep in.\n\nMrs Wink said antibiotics were given after contacting a vet, and the fox finally left their garden with the wound healed after a fortnight.\n\n\"She was here day and night,\" Mrs Wink, 53, told BBC Scotland. \"My daughter Lucy is good with animals and would pat her. She was so tame.\"\n\nFlorence slept on a chair in a sheltered area of the garden\n\nThe initial wound looked serious but gradually healed\n\nThe fox arrived at their home in the Old Drumchapel area of Glasgow a few weeks ago.\n\n\"My son Andrew came running in and said 'there's a fox following me',\" Mrs Wink said. \"We opened the door and she was just standing there.\n\n\"I have three dogs and they were barking but she was still trying to come in - her nose was going through the letterbox.\n\n\"We noticed the wound. We put food in the back garden and she made it her home. There was also a chair in the back.\n\n\"We also bought a wee tent, with an old quilt cover in it for her.\"\n\n\"Apparently when foxes are injured they take a thing called a rescue nap I think that's what she has done with us,\" Mrs Wink said.\n\n\"They nap for however long it takes, and it completely healed.\n\n\"Then she was up and away and we never saw her again. We still have foxes but Florence was so friendly, the other ones do run away. Maybe she will come back with babies one day.\"\n\nVideo posts of the fox by her daughter Lucy Wink on social media platform TikTok have also proved to be extremely popular, with one having 1.7m views so far.\n\nScottish SPCA chief superintendent Mike Flynn said: \"Although it's great that the fox appeared to make a full recovery, we wouldn't advise members of the public to attempt to treat sick or injured wild animals themselves.\n\n\"If someone finds a wild animal in distress they should call our animal helpline on 03000 999 999.\"\n• None Five fox cubs rescued from old car wheels in a month\n• None Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - SSPCA The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The body of Lizzy McCann was found at a flat on Thursday, police say\n\nA man has been charged with murder and rape after a woman was found dead in a flat.\n\nLizzy McCann, aged 26, was discovered in Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne on Thursday, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nSimon Goold, 51, of Manchester Road, Ashton has been charged with murder, rape and another sexual assault.\n\nHe has been remanded in custody and is due to appear before Manchester magistrates later.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Of the 38 pages in the unsealed affidavit, 21 are blacked out\n\nThe FBI told a judge they expected to find \"evidence of obstruction\" of justice in a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, according to newly released court papers.\n\nInvestigators said top secret files had been stored at Mar-a-Lago along with assorted newspapers and magazines.\n\nThe justice department said it censored the affidavit to protect \"a significant number of civilian witnesses\".\n\nMr Trump said the inquiry was being led by \"political Hacks and Thugs\".\n\nOn Friday, the US Department of Justice released a version of the affidavit used to justify the FBI's incursion into Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on 8 August, but it has been heavily redacted.\n\nGiven that the court papers were filed before the search of the Palm Beach estate, they contain no new details on the 11 sets of classified documents that the justice department has said were recovered from the exclusive golf club.\n\nThe FBI agent who drafted the affidavit wrote they had \"probable cause\" to believe that \"evidence, contraband, fruits of crimes or other items illegally possessed\" would be discovered.\n\n\"There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises,\" the agent added.\n\nThe document shows that the unprecedented criminal investigation into a former president began after the National Archives, which maintains historic White House records, identified \"a lot\" of classified files among 15 boxes that it had recovered from Mar-a-Lago in January this year.\n\nAn FBI review of those materials uncovered 184 classified documents, including 25 marked as \"Top Secret\".\n\nThe curtain of secrecy has been pulled back ever so slightly on the justice department's inquiry into the alleged handling of classified documents and presidential records at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nEven with all the redactions, the picture revealed should be concerning to Donald Trump and his associates.\n\nThis is a serious criminal investigation.\n\nIt's not just about who gets to keep some presidential mementoes and souvenirs - it concerns the security of closely guarded US government secrets - ones involving human intelligence gathering, foreign surveillance and perhaps even court-authorised surveillance of US citizens.\n\nMr Trump has had an assortment of legal headaches since his chaotic departure from the White House in January 2021.\n\nAfter the Mar-a-Lago search, and these subsequent revelations, this investigation may have moved up to the top of the list.\n\nThe cache included information from highly sensitive US intelligence human sources. Some items were also marked \"Noforn\" - meaning they must not be released to foreign nationals.\n\nThe files - some of which appeared to show Mr Trump's handwritten notes - were interspersed with newspapers, magazines and other documents, according to the affidavit.\n\n\"Of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise unproperly identified,\" the document said.\n\nThe discovery led investigators to believe that Mr Trump may have been in violation of three separate federal laws, including the Espionage Act that governs classified information.\n\nOf the 38 pages in the unsealed affidavit, 21 are mostly or entirely blacked out. There are several pages in which not a single word is visible.\n\nA separate document explaining the proposed redactions noted that some parts of the affidavit must remain under seal to \"protect the safety and privacy of civilian witnesses, in addition to law enforcement personnel, as well as to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation\".\n\nRevealing the identities of witnesses, the document added, could potentially lead to them being subjected to harms including \"retaliation, intimidation, or harassment and even threats to their physical safety\".\n\nMr Trump - who may launch another White House campaign for 2024 - reacted angrily on his social media platform, Truth Social.\n\nHe said that Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the search, should never have allowed the \"break-in of my home\". Mr Trump also accused the judge of \"animosity\" towards him.\n\nHe has maintained that he had already ordered all the documents to be declassified.\n\nThe justice department's investigation is now expected to continue behind closed doors as it continues to review the documents and - potentially - call in more witnesses.\n\nThe public may not hear from prosecutors about the investigation until a decision has been made on whether it will result in any criminal charges.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door\n\nA second man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool.\n\nThe 33-year-old, from Dovecot, Liverpool, was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nHe was arrested by armed officers on Lunsford Road, Dovecot, and is being questioned by detectives.\n\nNine-year-old Olivia was killed as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door of their Liverpool home on Monday.\n\nA spokesman for Merseyside Police said: \"The investigation into Olivia's tragic murder is ongoing and we still need to build up a strong evidential picture so that we can bring those responsible to justice.\"\n\nThe force earlier released aerial footage of the arrest of a 36-year-old man on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe man, from Huyton, was detained during an operation involving armed officers on Thursday night.\n\nFloral and written tributes have been left in memory of Olivia near where the shooting happened\n\nHe was also arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder.\n\nOlivia was killed after Cheryl Korbel, 46, opened her front door on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, at 22:00 BST in response to a commotion outside.\n\nThe intended target of the attack, 35-year-old Joseph Nee, was being chased by a gunman.\n\nThe men - complete strangers to the family - burst in and Olivia was fatally shot.\n\nMs Korbel was shot in the wrist as she tried to shut the door and has now been released from hospital.\n\nOlivia was described by her family as a \"unique, chatty, nosey little girl who broke the mould when she was born\".\n\nNee, from Dovecot, was shot in the upper body and taken to hospital in a black Audi by a third man.\n\nOnce his treatment is completed, Nee will be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions.\n\nEarlier police released an image of the car believed to have taken the intended target to hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the arrest of a man on suspicion of murdering Olivia Pratt-Korbel is released\n\nThe vehicle has been seized and is in the process of being forensically examined, officers said, as they appealed to anyone who saw the black Audi Q3 in the days leading up to the shooting to get in touch.\n\nDet Supt Mark Baker said: \"Although we have made an arrest in connection with the horrific murder of Olivia, I want to make it completely clear that we need any information about this vehicle or the wider investigation as much as ever.\n\n\"Whatever information you have, and whether you are sure that it is the same vehicle or not, pass it on and we will assess its importance.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Stock markets in the US ended the week sharply down following tough comments by the head of the country's central bank, the Federal Reserve.\n\nThe bank's chairman, Jerome Powell, said the bank must continue to raise interest rates to stop inflation from becoming a permanent aspect of the US economy.\n\nHis words sent US stocks into a tailspin, with markets tumbling 3%.\n\nIt comes as Americans are having to pay more for basic goods.\n\nInflation in the world's largest economy is at a four-decade high.\n\nDuring a highly anticipated speech at a conference in Wyoming on Friday, Mr Powell said the Federal Reserve would probably impose further interest rate hikes in the coming months and could keep them high \"for some time\".\n\n\"Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth,\" he said at the meeting in Jackson Hole.\n\nInvestors are concerned that if economic growth falters, higher interest rates will increase the likelihood of a recession.\n\nMr Powell conceded that getting inflation under control would come at a cost to American households and businesses but he argued it was a price worth paying.\n\n\"While higher interest rates, slower growth and softer labour market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to household and businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"These are unfortunate costs of reducing inflation but a failure to restore price stability would mean far greater pain.\"\n\nMr Powell wants to avoid inflation becoming entrenched. Simply put, that means if people believe inflation will be high, they will alter their behaviour accordingly, making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. For example, someone who thinks prices will go up 3% next year is more likely to seek a 3% rise in wages.\n\nThe last time this happened, Mr Powell's predecessor, Paul Volcker, had to slam on the brakes, raising interest rates dramatically and sending the economy into recession.\n\nIn March, the Federal Reserve's key interest rate was almost zero; it has since been raised to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% in an effort to tackle inflation.", "Julia has performed her hit show in Australia and London\n\nAll Julia Hales wants is to appear in her favourite soap opera.\n\nThe Australian performer has been a fan of Home and Away since it first aired in 1988, when she was eight-years-old.\n\nSince then, she has never missed an episode of the soap, which is set in the fictional seaside town of Summer Bay in New South Wales.\n\nAnd she has long harboured ambitions to be the first person with Down's syndrome to appear on the programme, broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK.\n\nNow she has created a hugely popular show about that dream which is running at the Edinburgh International Festival.\n\nJulia appears alongside six actors from Western Australia in the \"live documentary\", You Know We Belong Together, which is set in Summer Bay's famous diner.\n\nIt is described as a \"deeply personal exploration of the frustrations and aspirations of living with Down's syndrome\".\n\nJulia told BBC Scotland: \"It's a message for everyone that people with disabilities and Down Syndrome can be on stage because I want everyone to hear them and what they can do.\n\n\"That's why I like to have people see us on stage, and TV and film.\"\n\n\"I've never missed an episode, I love the old characters and the new characters,\" she added \"I love the action, the drama, the romance of it all and I just can't wait to be a part of it.\"\n\nAs a child, she even wrote her own character in the role she wanted to play.\n\nShe added: \"I wanted to be the first woman with Down's syndrome on the show. I don't get to see many people like me on screen or on TV, or film or stages and so that's why I wanted to be the first one.\"\n\nJulia wrote the script with Finn O'Branagáin and director Clare Watson.\n\nThe show explores themes of finding love, friendship, inclusivity and the frustrations of growing up.\n\nYou Know We Belong Together toured Australia in 2019 and was supposed to be shown at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival in 2020, but was postponed due to Covid.\n\n\"It was really disappointing because I spent so many years working on it,\" Julia said.\n\nJulia in You Know We Belong Together\n\nThe show should have been performed from 24-27 August, but Julia was struck down with Covid which meant missing the first two days of performances.\n\nShe said: \"I know it's been a long time getting here and there have been a lot of barriers to work around but we have worked our hardest.\n\n\"To come to the Edinburgh Festival, it's just an amazing opportunity so we can shine together as a group and a community.\"\n\nSince creating the show, Julia has been nominated for Australian of the Year and has worked as a television presenter, as well as working on other projects.\n\nBut her goal hasn't shifted. She still has the ambition of being an actress on Home and Away and moving to Sydney.\n\n\"Hopefully, they [Home and Away casting agents] will come to see the show in the Sydney Opera House and offer me a role on the show.\"", "Footage has emerged of a pastor in the US state of Alabama being arrested as he watered his neighbour's flowers.\n\nMichael Jennings was handcuffed during the good deed, despite another neighbour telling police it was all a misunderstanding.\n\nHis lawyer says the incident - in May of this year - was a clear case of racial profiling.", "It was the first time Pride has been held since the pandemic\n\nLondon's Pride director has hailed this year's event saying it was \"absolutely brilliant\" but added more battles needed to be won for LGBTQ+ people.\n\nMore than a million people took to the city's streets on Saturday to mark the event's 50th anniversary while thousands took part in the parade.\n\nThe event paid homage to the original 1972 march.\n\nDirector Chris Joell-Deshields said it was important as it provided a great level of visibility for LGBTQ+ rights.\n\nIt is estimated that more than a million people saw Saturday's parade\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio London, he said the event showed solidarity towards those who lived in countries without the same level of freedom.\n\n\"We're able to provide that form of visibility, unity, quality, that the world can see and it sends a message of solidarity to those persons who may be thinking 'I can't be open', 'I can't be visible or I'll be prosecuted in my country,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The battles have not all been won. Yes we've had some magnificent achievements, whether or not that's equal marriage, the repeal of section 28, the lifting of the ban of homosexuals and lesbians in the military, but we've still got a journey to go.\n\n\"Every day we're continuing to have to fight for our trans people and making it a fair life for them. We're still having to fight for those around the world who live in countries where they can't be themselves.\n\nThousands gathered in Trafalgar Square to celebrate and chant in support of trans rights\n\n\"Yesterday when we were in Trafalgar Square, and we were chanting 'trans rights are human rights', we were pushing that so that volume of noise was heard at Downing Street and beyond, to the millions or people on the footprint and thousands on the parade.\n\n\"That sends a powerful message to politicians and others that we're here, we're proud and loud, and we're going to continue to fight.\n\n\"And there's the next generation coming along that we need to pass the mantel to. We want them to understand that the fight is not won, we have to continue and the pride platform is a great platform to do that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian comic Sam Campbell has won the top prize for his show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\n\nAfter a \"truly outstanding\" year, judges at Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards announced Campbell as their best comedy show winner.\n\nSimply called Comedy Show, it was described as original, surreal and full of unexpected jokes.\n\nThe honour, which is now in its 40th year and was formerly known as the Perrier Award, will see the Australian collect £10,000 in prize money.\n\nIt was presented by Kane, who won in 2010, and Jordan Brookes who took the title the last time the awards took place, in 2019.\n\nNica Burns, director of Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, said it had been a \"truly outstanding international year\".\n\nShe said Campbell's show was \"original, sometimes surreal\" and was full of jokes which were \"often unexpected\".\n\nShe added: \"He changes gear throughout and takes his audience on a journey of laughter.\"\n\nHe has received warm reviews, with The Times' reviewer describing him as an \"exhausting... exhilarating\" presence and adding \"there's genius going on there\".\n\nThe Guardian says he \"splices manic stand-up, unexpected cameos and dotty visual gags on-screen... it's the incongruity, taken to uncommon lengths, that's funny\".\n\nCampbell beat nine other contenders including Seann Walsh, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, and Alfie Brown, the son of Jan Ravens.\n\nSam Campbell was joined by Sian Davies, of Best in Class, and Lara Ricote in winning awards\n\nLara Ricote, a hard of hearing Mexican-born performer who was brought up in the US, was awarded a £5,000 prize after being named best newcomer for her show, GRL/LATNX/DEF.\n\nThe awards, sponsored by the TV channel Dave, also awarded a panel prize of £5,000 to Best in Class, a crowd-funded, profit-sharing initiative that helped working-class comedians from across the UK to perform at this year's Fringe.\n\nBurns said Ricote's debut at the festival had been \"an absolute delight\", describing her as being \"completely distinct and very funny\".\n\nThe director said: \"She is a standout performer who happens to be hard of hearing.\"\n\nSpeaking about the awards overall, she said: \"We've had the widest representation from across the whole country, from Scotland to Sussex and everywhere in between.\n\n\"The panel prize for Best in Class championing and supporting those who cannot afford the cost of performing in Edinburgh has caught the spirit of this year's Fringe.\"", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home\n\nThousands of football fans have paid tribute to nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, who was shot inside her home.\n\nApplause rang out in the ninth minute of Liverpool's game at Anfield, while fans sang You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nMerseyside Police issued an appeal for information before the match started with Bournemouth.\n\nTwo men, aged 33 and 36, arrested on suspicion of Olivia's murder on Monday have been released on bail, police said.\n\nFans applauded in the ninth minute of Liverpool's match in tribute to Olivia Pratt-Korbel\n\nOlivia was shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home.\n\nHer mother was shot in the wrist as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker then fired two more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nEach of the arrested men have also been detained on two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe applause at Anfield was part of a series of tributes in the city, after four people were killed in the space of a week in Merseyside.\n\nBalloons were also released at Sefton Park in memory of Ashley Dale, who was gunned down in her garden on Sunday.\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed this August\n\nThe tributes were held as police continue their investigations, which included arresting a fourth person on suspicion of the murder of 22-year-old Sam Rimmer on 16 August.\n\nHe was with a group of friends in Lavrock Bank cul-de-sac when they were shot at by riders on two electric bikes, Merseyside Police said.\n\nA 23-year-old man from Liverpool is being interviewed by detectives after he was detained on suspicion of murder.\n\nA 17-year-old boy and two men, aged 20 and 21, who were previously arrested on suspicion of murder have since been bailed.\n\nPolice arrested a second man on Friday over the shooting of Olivia\n\nBalloons were released earlier in memory of 28-year-old council worker Ashley Dale, who is not believed to have been the intended target of Sunday's attack, police said.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of her murder, while a woman was detained on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nMs Dale was the half-sister of 16-year-old Lewis Dunne, who was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity in Liverpool in 2015.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel visited where Olivia was shot on Friday\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, was also found stabbed in a pub car park in Kirkby on Monday. Her son has been charged with her murder.\n\nThe government has said it will allocate £500,000 for Merseyside to counter crime and provide mental health support after the recent killings.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said \"the whole country has been appalled at the spate of violence\" and that the funds would \"disrupt\" organised crime in the region.\n\nHowever Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram described it as a \"down payment\", saying \"the systemic issues that have led us to this situation will require further support\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How long until a robot is doing your chores? , published at 00:37 29 August How long until a robot is doing your chores?", "England's record goalscorer Ellen White has revealed she suffered a punctured lung last year while receiving acupuncture treatment, which accelerated her decision to retire.\n\nWhite, 33, said she was still coming to terms with the \"traumatic\" injury.\n\nManchester City had sourced a specialist outside the club to provide her with acupuncture to treat her back problem because of a high number of injuries in the squad at the time.\n\nShe announced her retirement this week.\n\nWhite helped England win Euro 2022 in July and told BBC Sport she knew going into the tournament that she was going to retire from football afterwards.\n\n\"If you'd said to me two or three years ago that you're going to retire, I would have said 'absolutely not', but I've got to a time in my career,\" she said.\n\n\"I had a challenging time last year - coming back from the Olympics, I basically punctured my lung, and it was a lot for me to have to go through and a big reason that accelerated my want to retire.\"\n\nThe injury happened when she had returned to her club with a back spasm last summer, having helped Great Britain reach the Olympic football quarter-finals.\n\nIt is understood that City arranged for an external specialist to perform the acupuncture as there was an unusually high number of injuries across their squad following the Olympics, and that it is common practice at the club for that to happen.\n\nAcupuncture is a treatment derived from ancient Chinese medicine, where fine needles are inserted at certain points in the body to stimulate nerves.\n\n\"It punctured my lung which isn't something that happens normally, obviously,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a really traumatic time for me and something that I'm still figuring out now, still working through.\"\n\n'What happened hit me like a train'\n\nThe injury left White, who scored 52 goals in 113 appearances for England, short of breath and unable to do any exercise.\n\n\"I had to wait for the lung to basically inflate again. I had a needle put into my chest to drag all the air out then hopefully the lung would inflate again - which it has.\n\n\"At the time, I think for me, I just got into a zone of: 'I need to get back playing. We've got these games - I want to be back playing for my club; I want to be back playing for England.'\"\n\nHer club announced last August that she was set for a brief spell on the sidelines to receive treatment for a \"medical issue\".\n\nJust over two weeks later, she was back playing and scoring for England against North Macedonia.\n\n\"I went very tunnel vision,\" she said. \"It wasn't until a good two or three months later, it just hit me like a train, what actually happened and how traumatic it was.\"\n\nDespite her quick return to goalscoring form, which included becoming the Lionesses record goalscorer in November, the striker says she is still affected by the injury and suffers \"phantom pain\" where it feels like it is happening again.\n\n\"It's important for me now to tell my story, and say it was a big factor in my year and leading up to the decision of wanting to retire. Obviously there are other factors that come into that as well.\n\n\"I don't want it to happen to anybody else again is my main thing. I don't want to walk away from the sport having not told it and not say that I want things in place for it not to happen to anyone else.\"\n\nWatch Ellen White's full interview with Football Focus on BBC One on Saturday 27 August at 12:00 BST.", "Bogdana Karlova found work at a tartan company after arriving in Scotland with her sister-in-law in March\n\nAbout four in 10 Ukrainian refugees in the UK are now working, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.\n\nThe proportion of Ukrainian nationals employed in the UK has risen from 9% in April to 42% at the start of August.\n\nThe findings come from a follow-up survey by the ONS of 1,132 Ukrainians, conducted between 20 July and 4 August.\n\nMore than 100,000 people from Ukraine have arrived in the UK under two visa schemes launched following Russia's invasion.\n\nThe newly-published UK Humanitarian Response Insight Follow-up Survey (UKHRIS), was commissioned to \"understand the opinions and experiences\" of people arriving in the UK under both the Ukraine Family and Ukraine Sponsorship schemes.\n\nVeronika Keeva, 31, moved to the UK in May with her four-year-old daughter, and quickly found a job as a project coordinator in Swindon.\n\nShe tells BBC News her experience of finding work has been \"really great\" thanks to help from the local council, and advice from her sponsors and the Jobcentre on creating a British CV.\n\nMs Keeva says her colleagues have been \"really supportive\" and helpful, answering her questions and fitting her work schedule around her daughter.\n\nShe still often thinks about her father, who has stayed in Ukraine to fight in the army, as he previously spent a number of years living the UK.\n\nHowever, she says she feels honoured to follow in his footsteps and go to places in England that he previously visited.\n\nIvanna Vorontsova now lives with her aunt and uncle in Woking after fleeing the war, but says she worries about her parents, who still live in Ukraine, five hours from the Polish border.\n\nMs Vorontsova starts each day by contacting the family members who stayed behind. Even though they are in a remote town, she says they still hear air-strike warning sirens and don't know what to expect every day.\n\nShe tells BBC News she got a job as a student support officer in Woking and that it has been easy to adapt to life in the UK.\n\nShe says: \"All the people I have met here have been nice and given me words of support. I love this country.\"\n\nOlya Bielohlazova, 39, left Kakhovka, in southern Ukraine, in March with her husband and three children. The family initially stayed in Latvia for two months.\n\nThey posted on Facebook that they needed somewhere to stay in the UK and found a sponsor straightaway offering them a home in Sutton Bunnington, Nottinghamshire.\n\nWhen they arrived, they were touched to find their hosts had decorated their street with Ukrainian flags, and Ms Bielohlazova says they were made to feel \"so welcome\".\n\nMs Bielohlazova worked for a digital advertising agency in Ukraine, but is now hoping for a career change, aiming to become a carer. \"I really want to do it,\" she says.\n\nThe family scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their relatives to join other family members already living in the UK, while the sponsorship scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their relatives to come to the UK if they have a sponsor who can provide accommodation.\n\nTwo MPs, Victoria Prentis and Duncan Baker, have said they will continue hosting Ukrainian families in their own homes beyond the minimum six-month period expected under the Ukraine Sponsorship scheme.\n\nRefugees who secure visas are allowed to stay in the UK for up to three years, and once in the UK, Ukrainians have the right to work, to access benefits, education and healthcare.\n\nBut while many have been successful in finding jobs, almost half of the people taking part in the survey said they faced barriers to their ability to take up work, including their English language skills.\n\nStories of people struggling to obtain safeguarding checks for certain jobs have also arisen.\n\nFormer MP Edwina Currie previously told the BBC a Ukrainian woman she was hosting in her home could not be considered for a job at her children's school as employers could not check her Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) status.\n\nThe first UKHRIS in April sampled 3,412 individuals, with the majority entering the UK under the Ukraine Family Scheme.\n\nThe recent survey followed up on 1,132 individuals and found the proportion of Ukrainian nationals with bank accounts was up from 43% in April to 93% in August.\n\nThe survey also found 93% of Ukrainian nationals who had completed the first survey had remained in the country, though most respondents said they did not understand how to apply to extend or change their visa, or what state benefits they may be eligible for.\n\nSome 37% of respondents said they had enough money to support themselves for the next three months, up from 26% in April.\n\nThe findings of the latest survey come six months after Russia's invasion began and in the same week outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv to mark Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union 31 years ago.", "The attack came as Ukraine's president made an unannounced visit to meet Canada's PM in Ottawa.", "The boys were visiting the Eiserbachsee, a lake in Germany\n\nTwo British children have died after being pulled from a lake during a holiday in Germany.\n\nThe brothers, aged seven and nine, were visiting the Eiserbachsee, near Aachen, when their parents reported them missing on Thursday afternoon.\n\nRescue workers found the boys in the lake, which is close to the border with Belgium, and they were taken to hospital but did not survive.\n\nUnconfirmed reports say they were unable to swim.\n\nThe public prosecutor's office in Aachen said it was trying to work out whether there was any suspicion of a criminal offence, including negligence.\n\nBut a spokeswoman said: \"We don't have a specific focus, we're just doing our job.\"\n\nThe lake is supervised by volunteer lifeguards but only during weekends.", "It's hoped new technology will help cut parking chaos near Snowdon\n\nNew technology could help Snowdonia cut parking chaos as tourists flock to the area this bank holiday weekend.\n\nThe national park authority and Transport for Wales have fitted a system to manage car parks in Snowdon's foothills and the Ogwen Valley.\n\nIt's hoped it will help negate visitors' environmental impact and protect the community.\n\nMore than 500 sensors at car parks will give up-to-the-minute information for visitors searching for a spot.\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority's Angela Jones said visitors since lockdown were still high\n\nThis will appear on the authority's website and the Smart Parking mobile app.\n\nThe authority is also planning to develop a system featuring an interactive live parking map and information about car park facilities.\n\nIt's hoped that will also let drivers link with an app to book spaces before arrival.\n\nThe Welsh government closed beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Snowdonia's Pen y Gwryd\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority's Angela Jones said: \"We are still experiencing an increased number of visitors following the coronavirus restrictions and (because of) the popularity of staycations and the added pressures that it brings with it.\n\n\"Our aims are to enhance the visitor experience whilst also protecting the landscape and local communities.\"\n\nTransport for Wales' Lee Robinson said addressing parking issues was one of the key challenges for the area.", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. 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We usually link to official reports, sets of statistics and other sources of information, to enable you to judge for yourself the underlying information that we are reporting on.\n\nWhenever appropriate, we also offer links to relevant third-party websites that provide additional information, source material or informed comment.\n\nFor in-depth pieces of work, such as complex investigations or data journalism projects, we will help you understand how we went about our work by showing the underlying data and by disclosing any caveats, assumptions or other methodological frameworks used - for example, the study-design; the sample size; representativeness; margins of error; how the data was collected; geographical relevance and time periods.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot after a gunman ran into her home\n\nTwo men who were arrested on suspicion of the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel in Liverpool have been released on bail.\n\nPolice said one of the men, aged 36, had been recalled to prison after breaching the terms of his licence.\n\nOlivia was fatally shot after a gunman chased a man - both of whom had no links to her family - into her home.\n\nHer mum was injured as she tried to the shut the door but the attacker fired more shots at the man he had pursued.\n\nOn Thursday, Merseyside Police arrested the 36-year-old man on suspicion of Olivia's murder and two counts of attempted murder.\n\nThey also detained a 33-year-old man for the same offences on Friday.\n\nA spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: \"Both men have been released on bail and the 36-year-old man has been recalled to prison after breaching the terms of his licence.\"\n\nAshley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey were also killed this August\n\nPolice appealed for more information about a black Audi Q3 that was seen leaving Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot, after Monday's shooting and is believed to be the same car used to take intended target Joseph Nee, 35, to hospital.\n\nThey said they wanted information about the car's movements in the days before Olivia's death.\n\nShe was one of four people who were killed in a week in Merseyside amid a recent rise of gun and knife crimes.\n\nA number of people have been arrested after the deaths of Ashley Dale, Sam Rimmer and Karen Dempsey this August.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, thousands of football fans applauded in memory of Olivia during the ninth minute of Liverpool's game at Anfield, with fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nIt was part of a series of tributes in the city to the four victims of the violence.\n\nBalloons were released at the city's Sefton Park in memory of Ashley Dale, who was gunned down in her garden on Sunday.\n\nKaren Dempsey, 55, was also found stabbed in a pub car park in Kirkby on Monday. Her son has been charged with her murder.\n\nMeanwhile, police have also arrested a fourth person on suspicion of the murder of 22-year-old Sam Rimmer on 16 August.\n\nHe was with a group of friends in Lavrock Bank cul-de-sac when they were shot at by riders on two electric bikes, Merseyside Police said.\n\nA minute's applause was held during the game against Bournemouth\n\nA 23-year-old man from Liverpool is being interviewed by detectives after he was detained on suspicion of murder.\n\nA 17-year-old boy and two men, aged 20 and 21, who were previously arrested on suspicion of murder have since been bailed.\n\nThe government has said it will allocate £500,000 for Merseyside to counter crime and provide mental health support after the recent killings.\n\nHowever Liverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram described it as a \"down payment\", saying \"the systemic issues that have led us to this situation will require further support\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To extract oil and gas from a facility like this, a series of wells are drilled into the seabed and then the products extracted to a ship moored to the seabed. This offloads the oil onto big ships called tankers, while the gas is sent down a pipeline.\n\nThe drilling and anchoring of the ship, as well as chemicals released, have the potential to disturb the seabed and damage habitats - and potentially kill animals living there such as soft corals and sea spiders.\n\nThere is also a lot of noise produced underwater when oil is extracted. This is important because many species in the marine environment use sound to communicate.\n\nThere are a number of laws such as The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats which ensure damage is minimised and where possible avoided. The regulator will have looked at how rare the species in this environment are and the area of seafloor disturbed before approval.\n\nThe biggest environmental impact would come from any accidental spill. The worst marine oil spill in history was in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP site. The incident spilt four million barrels of oil over nearly three months. BP was required to pay up to $8.8bn (£7.25bn) for damages to the natural environment.\n\nSuch spills are rare - the frequency of a blowout of a well at the site is estimated at less than 0.0004%.\n\nMillions of barrels of oil poured in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill Image caption: Millions of barrels of oil poured in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill", "French President Emmanuel Macron said the UK was a close ally despite what its leaders say\n\nEmmanuel Macron has warned of \"serious problems\" for France-UK relations after the favourite to be the next British prime minister refused to say if the French president was \"friend or foe\".\n\nMr Macron reacted to remarks made by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who said the jury was out on the French leader.\n\nMr Macron insisted the UK remained an ally, despite the occasional error made by its leaders.\n\nAnd Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Mr Macron was a \"good buddy\" of the UK.\n\nSenior politicians have accused Ms Truss, who is the frontrunner in the contest to succeed Mr Johnson as prime minister next month, of damaging the UK's relationship with France, a close ally.\n\nRelations between France and the UK - both key members of the Nato military alliance - have been rocky in recent years, particularly after the latter's departure from the European Union.\n\nMs Truss - the UK's top diplomat - was asked about French relations during a Conservative Party event, where she and her leadership rival, Rishi Sunak, took questions from party members.\n\nShe said \"the jury was out\" on whether Mr Macron was a friend or foe, and she would judge him on \"deeds not words\", prompting cheers and applause from the audience.\n\nHer comments came at the end of the leadership event - known as a hustings - during a series of quickfire questions posed by the host.\n\nWhen asked the same question, Mr Sunak said Mr Macron was a \"friend\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters during a visit to Algeria on Friday, Mr Macron was asked his views on Ms Truss's comments about him.\n\nAfter a long pause, he said \"it's never good to lose your bearings too much in life\".\n\nHe said he would have given a similar response to Mr Sunak's, had he been asked the same question about the next leader of the UK.\n\n\"If, between us as French and British people, we aren't able to say if we're friends or foes - the term isn't neutral - we're heading towards serious problems,\" Mr Macron said.\n\nHe said the UK was \"a friendly, strong, ally nation, regardless of its leaders, and sometimes in spite of and beyond its leaders, or any potential slip-ups they make when playing to the gallery.\"\n\nMs Truss is the favourite to succeed Mr Johnson as prime minister\n\nWhile he stressed the importance of the UK's close relationship with France, he suggested Ms Truss had made the comments with \"a touch of humour\".\n\nBut Nathalie Loiseau, a former French minister for European affairs and chairwoman of the European Parliament's EU-UK partnership assembly, did not appear to be amused.\n\nMs Loiseau tweeted to say Russian President Vladimir Putin was \"the only one who can enjoy hearing this sort of comment\".\n\nMeanwhile Labour's David Lammy accused Ms Truss of \"a woeful lack of judgement\", saying she had insulted one of \"Britain's closest allies\".\n\nOne Conservative minister said Ms Truss's comments had \"completely undermined our relationship with France\", calling her a \"faux Thatcher\", a reference to the Eurosceptic former Tory prime minister.\n\nIn a tweet, former foreign minister Alistair Burt said Ms Truss had made a \"serious error\" and should have struck a more diplomatic tone.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Gavin Barwell also questioned Ms Truss's comment, saying: \"You would have thought the foreign secretary was aware we are in a military alliance with France.\"\n\nMs Truss's comments have been picked up by French media, who have highlighted recent tensions between Paris and London.\n\nThe UK and France have clashed over several issues in recent years, including migrant boat crossings in the Channel, a military pact between Britain, the US and Australia, and Brexit measures involving Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Macron, who was re-elected for a second term earlier this year, has sometimes publicly criticised the Conservative government's approach.\n\nLast year Mr Macron reacted angrily to Mr Johnson's public call for France to take back migrants who reached the UK.\n\nThe French president accused the prime minister of not being \"serious\" by making the call on Twitter, though they have since been pictured arm-in-arm at a G7 summit in Germany earlier this year.\n\nWhen asked about Ms Truss's comments, Mr Johnson said he \"had very good relations with Emmanuel Macron, saying the French president \"est un tres bon buddy de notre pays (is a very good buddy of our country)\".\n\nThere's no denying the UK can have a complex relationship with France. From boat crossings in the Channel to ferry passport checks, there's been tension recently.\n\nBut as a close neighbour and a fellow Nato member, there are few in mainstream politics who would consider France anything but a strong ally. Especially at a time when western unity over the war in Ukraine is so important, and any division could be exploited by the likes of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.\n\nWhile Ms Truss's comments did appear to go down well with the audience of Conservative members, she's still the foreign secretary - the UK's chief diplomat. And therefore what she says on international affairs really matters.\n\nThis won't be the end of the matter. Ms Truss will be asked about these comments again over the coming days.\n\nWhat happens next will be watched carefully, on both sides of the Channel.", "The government has published a plan to reduce sewage discharges into England's rivers and the sea, promising the \"strictest targets ever\".\n\nWater firms will have to deliver the \"largest infrastructure programme in water company history\", it says.\n\nLast week pollution warnings were in place on nearly 50 beaches after heavy rainfall led to water companies discharging untreated sewage.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats branded the new plan a \"cruel joke\".\n\nThey said consumers would pay for \"the mess made by water companies\".\n\nWater companies discharged untreated sewage into rivers in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, according to official figures.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats called the government's targets \"flimsy\", predicting they would still allow 325,000 sewage dumps a year in 2030.\n\nThe plan will require water firms to invest £56bn over 25 years on improving infrastructure.\n\nIt also states that by 2035 water companies will have to \"improve all storm overflows discharging into or near every designated bathing water, and improve 75% of overflows discharging to high-priority nature sites\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said: \"Between now and 2025, water companies will be investing £3bn in order to reduce the use of storm overflows by 25%.\n\n\"There are 15,000 storm overflows. We have had them since the Victorian era - they've always been there as an emergency release valve when you get extreme rainfall events, but they are starting in some cases to be used far too often.\"\n\nMr Eustice said it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been addressed over the past 40 or 50 years.\n\nHe said there would be a \"modest increase in water bills over time\" as a result of the action announced, but it would be a \"price people would be willing to pay\".\n\n\"There will be no change to water bills until at least 2025, and between then and 2030, the average annual rise in water bills will be about £12.\"\n\nThere is a major continuing investigation by the Environment Agency and industry regulator Ofwat into how all wastewater companies manage their treatment works.\n\nEnforcement cases are being pursued against South West Water, Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Thames Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water.\n\nPublic anger over the continuing discharges has been building over recent weeks as reports of sewage pollution have become more frequent.\n\nLiberal Democrat environment spokesperson Tim Farron criticised the plans, saying \"by 2030 there will still be 325,000 sewage dumps a year in our waterways\".\n\n\"By the time these flimsy targets come into effect, our beaches would have been pumped full of disgusting sewage.\"\n\nThe legal obligation on water companies set by a 2012 European Court of Justice Ruling was for discharges to only occur in very rare \"exceptional circumstances.\"\n\nWater-quality campaigner Feargal Sharkey believes that the legal duty on water companies has now been relaxed.\n\nUnder the new plan, they will be allowed to discharge from a storm overflow, \"where they can demonstrate that there is no local adverse ecological impact.\"\n\nMr Sharkey said: \"We've gone from a position where it should in 99.9% of cases be illegal … the law was quite clear. We've now gone to a position to where it's about reduction in adverse impact - what does that even mean?\"\n\nTo help protect human health, the plan instructs water companies to apply \"disinfection\" or reduce the \"frequency of discharges\".\n\nJim McMahon, Labour's environment, food and rural affairs spokesman, said: \"This document is neither a plan, nor does it eliminate sewage dumping into our natural environment. Under the government's weak improvement 'target', based on last year's data, we'd face another 4.8 million sewage spill events in our country between now and 2035.\n\n\"Last year Tory MPs had the opportunity to vote meaningful action into law, but blocked measures that would have progressively eliminated the discharge of raw sewage in our natural environment.\"\n\nA spokesperson for South West Water said: \"We welcome the government's storm overflows discharge reduction plan to improve the water industry's infrastructure network and improve the health of our rivers and seas.\n\n\"We're investing £2bn between 2020 and 2025, with most investment going to improving our wastewater assets and environmental performance.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 1,000 firefighters are battling a \"monster\" wildfire in south-western France that has already destroyed about 7,400 hectares (18,286 acres) of forest, officials say.\n\nThe blaze about 30km (19 miles) south-east of Bordeaux has gutted some homes and forced 10,000 residents to flee.\n\n\"It's an ogre, it's a monster,\" firefighter representative Gregory Allione told France's RTL Radio.\n\nStrong winds and high temperatures are hampering the firefighting operation.\n\nSixty-five German firefighters have arrived from Bonn and others from Poland and Romania are expected in the fire zone soon.\n\nFrance has nine water-bombing helicopters deployed and is also getting some firefighting aircraft from Greece and Sweden.\n\nThe wildfire in France's Gironde region has been raging for two days near the small town of Landiras.\n\nIn the same area last month a wildfire burned 14,000 hectares before being contained. It was France's driest month since 1961.\n\nThis summer France and a number of other European countries have seen a wave of deadly wildfires, triggered by record temperatures and droughts across the continent.\n\nMore than 1,000 deaths have been attributed to the heat in Portugal and Spain.\n\nA wildfire is now raging in the mountainous Serra de Estrela park in central Portugal, where 10,000 hectares of forest has been destroyed. The area is sparsely populated. About 1,500 firefighters are tackling the blaze.\n\nIn the UK, an amber extreme heat warning has now come into force, with temperatures forecast to hit 37C (99F) in some areas over the next four days. The heatwave will probably affect health, transport and working conditions, the authorities warn.\n\nSeveral firefighting aircraft are involved in the massive firefighting operation in the Gironde region\n\nFirefighters tackling the blaze at night near Hostens in Gironde\n\nIn France some firefighters had to be urgently redeployed from other regions to boost the ongoing Gironde operation.\n\nThey are being backed by specialist aircraft dropping water and flame retardant.\n\nBut despite all the efforts, the blaze was still out of control on Thursday, local officials said.\n\n\"It's the first time we've seen a fire like this,\" firefighter Jérôme Jean told BFMTV news website.\n\nBefore the evacuation, some of the local residents had to save themselves on rooftops as the flames rapidly approached their houses, reports say.\n\nBelin-Béliet is now a ghost town since all of its 2,000 inhabitants had to flee on Wednesday, BFMTV says.\n\nIn nearby Hostens, Allisson Fayol and her father - unlike many of their neighbours - decided to stay at home for now.\n\n\"There is still a lot of smoke but for now it's not coming this way,\" Ms Fayol was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nPrime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin have arrived to the affected area to inspect the scale of the damage.\n\nClimate change increases the risk of the hot, dry weather that is likely to fuel wildfires.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Mr Kim (left) and his sister Kim Yo-Jong, who is a senior official, pictured in 2018\n\nNorth Korea's Kim Jong-un suffered from \"fever\" during the Covid pandemic, his sister has said - in what appears to be the first suggestion he had the virus.\n\nKim Yo-jong also blamed South Korea for her country's outbreak - saying it sent leaflets contaminated with Covid across the border.\n\nMs Kim was speaking as her brother declared victory in the country's battle against Covid.\n\nThe secretive country announced its first Covid outbreak in May and has reported fever infections and deaths since. But there is widespread doubt over the data, especially the low number of deaths.\n\nIn her speech, Ms Kim - who is a powerful senior official - blamed South Korea for spreading Covid into the North by sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border. Activists in South Korea have done this for decades, using balloons to float propaganda leaflets into the North, although the practice was banned last year.\n\nMs Kim called the sending of leaflets a \"crime against humanity\", and cited \"the danger of spreading an infectious disease through contacting contaminated objects\", according to state news agency KCNA.\n\nShe warned that North Korea was considering \"a strong retaliatory response\".\n\nAlso in her speech, Ms Kim spoke of her brother's health, saying: \"Even though he was seriously ill with a high fever, he could not lie down for a moment thinking about the people he had to take care of until the end in the face of the anti-epidemic war.\"\n\nNorth Korea refers to \"fever\" rather than coronavirus patients due to a lack of testing equipment.\n\nMr Kim meanwhile declared a \"shining victory\" over the virus and praised the \"indomitable tenacity\" of North Koreans, KCNA reported.\n\nThe North Korean leader ordered restrictions to be lifted and hailed the \"miracle\" of just 74 virus deaths.\n\nNorth Korea has not reported any new suspected cases since 29 July - but international observers say the country has limited testing.\n\nKCNA claims there have been 4.8 million infections since late April, but only 74 deaths, which is a fatality rate of 0.002% - the lowest in the world.\n\nMany experts find these statistics hard to believe. They say the country has one of the world's worst healthcare systems with few intensive care units and no Covid treatment drugs or vaccines.\n\nThe country has not rolled out any vaccination programme during the pandemic, relying instead on lockdowns, homegrown treatments, and what Mr Kim has called the \"advantageous Korean-style socialist system\".", "An amber extreme heat warning has come into force, with temperatures forecast to hit 37C (99F) in some parts of the UK over the next four days.\n\nThe Met Office alert for southern and central England and parts of Wales runs from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nIt has also issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend, warning there is an \"exceptional\" risk of blazes spreading in many places.\n\nThe highest temperature on Thursday was 34.2C, at Wiggonholt in West Sussex.\n\nFirefighters have urged the public to help them prevent fires.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade assistant commissioner Jonathan Smith said he wanted to avoid scenes in July \"where people lost their homes and livelihoods\".\n\n\"In the first week of August last year, we attended 42 grassland and wildland fires, the same week this year we've attended 340,\" he said.\n\n\"Please don't barbecue in open spaces or balconies, throw your rubbish away safely and put your cigarettes out properly.\"\n\nMr Smith also warned people against using barbecues on balconies, saying they could lead to hot ash moving \"very quickly\".\n\nIn some areas, wildfires have broken out due to the heat. In Ryton, Gateshead, firefighters spent more than 24 hours tackling a fire which started in a field.\n\nWhile the record-breaking temperatures seen in July, when the mercury topped 40C (104F) for the first time, are not expected this week, the heat in some areas could get close to local or regional records.\n\n\"Temperatures won't be as high. But the big difference with this current heatwave is that it's much more prolonged,\" said BBC Weather forecaster Matt Taylor.\n\n\"We've already seen temperatures above 30C every day this week - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday - and that will continue until Sunday.\"\n\nTemperatures could reach 35C and peak at 37C in some areas between the Midlands and London, he added.\n\nThey are also forecast to stay above 33C in some parts of south Wales over the next few days. St Athan recorded a high of 33.2C on Thursday.\n\nThe high temperatures and dry conditions have also been causing problems across Europe - with more than 1,000 firefighters battling a \"monster\" wildfire in France that has destroyed nearly 7,000 hectares of forest.\n\nThe Met Office's fire severity index, which assesses how severe a blaze could become, is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThis will rise to \"exceptional\" - the highest level of risk - for parts of England and Wales by the weekend, while a warning for \"very high\" risk of wildfires across southern and eastern Scotland has been put in place until Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Weather presenter Stav Danaos explains why the UK is facing an amber heat warning\n\nThe period between January and June this year was the driest in England in 46 years, prompting warnings about the effects on agriculture, nature and wildlife.\n\nMore than three inches of extra rain, in addition to what would normally be expected, is needed to overcome the dry conditions in parts of southern England, but no rain is forecast any time soon.\n\nAnalysis by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology found low or even exceptionally low river flows and groundwater levels were likely to continue for the next three months in southern England and Wales.\n\nWater companies are being urged to protect essential supplies into a dry autumn, and three firms have already implemented hosepipe bans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jess Langton, a dairy farmer in Derbyshire, explains how the hot weather is affecting her herd\n\nSouth East, Southern and Welsh Water customers cannot use hosepipes to water lawns or plants, clean cars or fill paddling pools, while Thames Water expects to bring in a ban \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nThe company, with 15 million customers across London and the Thames Valley, was forced on Wednesday to hand out bottled water for residents in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire after supplies were disrupted due to a technical issue at a local reservoir.\n\nElsewhere, drinks breaks are to be implemented during Premier League fixtures this weekend to help footballers in the hot weather.\n\nWater levels have severely dropped exposing the unseen trees and rocks at Cornwall's largest lake and reservoir, Colliford Lake\n\nWater companies have faced criticism for bringing in hosepipe bans while just under 3 billion litres (660 million gallons) of water is lost to leaks every day in England and Wales - equivalent to 1,180 Olympic swimming pools.\n\nStuart Colville from Water UK said there were \"hundreds of people out today and across the week\" fixing leaks, adding that leakage was currently at its lowest level on record.\n\nHe said it was a \"constant battle\" fixing leaks, particularly in hot and dry conditions when soil dries, moves and puts pressure on pipes \"causing additional bursts\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Colville said it was looking \"increasingly inevitable\" that the Environment Agency would declare a drought in England.\n\nAn official drought is expected to be declared on Friday, according to water industry insiders, meaning the Environment Agency would have more control over water supply.\n\nThe Wales Drought Liaison group, including environment, health and water professionals, is also looking at the effect of the prolonged dry weather.\n\nOne farmer in Horsham, Sussex said it had been \"an exceptional year\" and described his land as being like a \"Sussex savannah\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 2, David Exwood emphasised the \"extreme risk\" of taking barbecues into the countryside - explaining how hard and dry the ground was.\n\nThe extreme heat may also cause disruption to train services, but it is not expected to be on the same scale as seen in July.\n\nNetwork Rail is not bringing in a country-wide blanket speed restriction, but some local services might have restrictions with concerns rail temperatures could reach 55C or higher.\n\nMeanwhile, people are being advised to look out for those who are older or vulnerable, as well as young children, after the UK Health Security Agency issued a heat health alert until Sunday for parts of central, southern and northern England.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the heatwave? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Supermarkets are not cutting fuel prices by as much as they should do to match the \"significant\" drop in the cost of wholesale fuel, the RAC has said.\n\nThe motoring group said the gap between pump prices and wholesale prices was the widest in almost a decade.\n\nThe price of petrol on Tuesday was about £1.76 per litre, but RAC analysts suggested it should be about £1.62.\n\nFuel prices have hit record highs this year, but are slowly starting to fall.\n\nThe RAC said at the start of the week, the average petrol price at the big four supermarkets, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, was £1.74 per litre. Diesel was £1.86.\n\nMeanwhile the average for the delivered wholesale petrol price last week was £1.24, while diesel was £1.38.\n\nAfter factoring in VAT, fuel duty and a \"generous\" retailer margin of 10p per litre, the RAC said \"forecourts should soon be selling unleaded for no more than £1.62\".\n\n\"There appears to have been a big shift in the last few months in the behaviour of the four major supermarkets, which dominate UK fuel retailing, as they are now commonly being undercut by independent retailers that are passing on the wholesale cost savings they're benefitting from to drivers at the pumps,\" said Simon Williams, RAC's fuel spokesman.\n\n\"This is unheard of as the supermarkets are normally at least 3p a litre cheaper than the UK average.\"\n\nThe reason supermarkets are usually cheaper than independent retailers is because they buy fuel more frequently meaning they can react quickly when wholesale prices move up or down.\n\nMr Williams said that was \"often demonstrated by the speed at which they pass on increases on their forecourts when wholesale prices rise\".\n\n\"As the supermarkets account for so much of all the fuel sold across the country and they haven't lowered their prices as much as they should have, it means average UK prices have not come down in line with the significant drop in wholesale fuel,\" he added.\n\nTesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe gap between retail and wholesale prices, excluding VAT, is the widest since the RAC started monitoring them in 2013.\n\nThe RAC said the current gap exceeded the difference between wholesale and retail prices at the start of the pandemic, when the country went into lockdown, and the price of oil plunged to about $13 a barrel. Oil has been consistently at around $100 per barrel in recent months.\n\nFuel prices were already rising before the war in Ukraine started in February, but the fallout from Russia's invasion has made things worse.\n\nRussia is one of the world's largest oil exporters, but is facing sanctions as a result of its actions in Ukraine. This has pushed up demand for oil from other producers, leading to higher prices.\n\nAlthough the UK imports just 6% of its crude oil from Russia, it is still affected when global prices rise.\n\nPetrol and diesel prices usually move when the price of crude oil goes up or down.\n\nIn mid-June, the RAC revealed petrol prices hit new record highs every day for a month, which led to the average family car costing more than £100 to fill up.\n• None Why are petrol prices going back up?", "Russia seized the nuclear plant in March, but kept the station's Ukrainian personnel\n\nMore shelling of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reported, with Ukraine and Russia again blaming each other for the attack.\n\nEach side said there were 10 hits on the office and fire station of Europe's biggest power plant on Thursday.\n\nAt a meeting of the UN Security Council called to discuss the situation, the head of its nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, warning it was a \"grave hour\".\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres also said it could \"lead to disaster\".\n\nChina and the US both called for UN experts to be allowed to urgently visit the plant, but similar demands in the past have so far not been acted upon.\n\nEarlier, the US also called for a demilitarised zone to be established around the plant: \"Fighting near a nuclear plant is dangerous and irresponsible,\" a state department spokesperson said.\n\nHowever, Russia's UN representative said demilitarisation was not an option, suggesting that it would make the plant more vulnerable to \"provocations\" and \"terror attacks\".\n\nThe facility and its surrounding area in central-eastern Ukraine saw shelling last week, with Russia and Ukraine also accusing each other over that attack.\n\nUkraine says Russia has turned the site into a military base, launching attacks from there knowing that Ukrainian forces are unlikely to retaliate.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, Ukraine's nuclear agency Enerhoatom said that \"Russian invaders again shelled the Zaporizhzhia plant and territories near the nuclear facility\".\n\nIt said an administrative office near the welding area was hit and several radiation sensors were damaged. There was a small fire on some nearby grass, but no injuries.\n\nEnerhoatom added that the fire station located near the plant was also targeted.\n\nBecause of the shelling, it was impossible to change the personnel after their shift, so they had to continue work overtime.\n\nBut the situation was currently under control, Enerhoatom said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Russian-installed officials issued a mirroring statement, accusing Ukraine of carrying out the shelling.\n\nThey said Ukrainian forces were using multiple-launch rocket systems and heavy artillery. The claims by each of the side have not been independently verified.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York City on Thursday, Mr Grossi again called for his International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be allowed in to inspect the plant.\n\n\"This is a serious hour, a grave hour and the IAEA must be allowed to conduct its mission to Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, UN Secretary General Guterres earlier warned: \"Urgent agreement is needed at a technical level on a safe perimeter of demilitarisation to ensure the safety of the area\".\n\nIn his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that \"only the complete withdrawal of Russians from Zaporizhzhia guarantees the restoration of nuclear safety for the whole of Europe\".\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia plant is in the city of Enerhodar, in the south-east of Ukraine along the left bank of the River Dnieper (Dnipro in Ukrainian).\n\nIt consists of six pressurised water reactors and stores radioactive waste.\n\nAfter seizing the complex, Russia kept its Ukrainian employees.\n\nSo far, UN nuclear watchdog officials have been unable to inspect the plant.", "Zehshan Mahmood, 30, threatened to share intimate pictures and videos of two women, police say\n\nA man who threatened to share intimate pictures and videos of two women and blackmailed them has been jailed.\n\nZehshan Mahmood, from Preston, admitted two counts of blackmail and three counts of disclosing sexual photos or films with intent to cause distress.\n\nTwo victims sent the 30-year-old nearly £90,000 over three years to avoid the images being shared but he posted some of them online anyway, police said.\n\nMahmood was sentenced to seven years and three months.\n\nDuring the trial at Preston Crown Court one victim told of how she had disclosed private pictures and videos to Mahmood in 2017.\n\nIn January 2018, he told her that he was in financial difficulty and pressured her to send him money.\n\nLater he contacted her on Instagram under an alias and threatened her - demanding that she send him more money or he would share the private pictures and videos online, police said.\n\nHe also made threats against her family so she sent Mahmood around £20,000.\n\nThe second victim told the court she had disclosed to Mahmood an intimate sexual experience she had with a boyfriend.\n\nMahmood then claimed he had a video of the incident and demanded £7,000 from her or he would send the video to her family and friends.\n\nIn addition, Mahmood demanded that the victim send intimate pictures, videos and texts of a sexual nature.\n\nIf she did not do this, he threatened to increase the fee, the court heard.\n\nThe defendant told the victim that he needed money to stop the videos from being published and the blackmail was part of his involvement in an organised crime group.\n\nDetectives said Mahmood later created more fake Instagram accounts, which he used to message the victim and convince her that his claim was real so that she would continue sending sexual content and money to him.\n\nThe victim sent Mahmood in excess of £66,000 over three years.\n\nDespite the money handed over, Mahmood posted the videos he had received of the victim online and encouraged users to share it, police said.\n\nMahmood was arrested in February 2021 as part of a joint effort between Greater Manchester Police and Lancashire Police.\n\nDet Con Luke Brundrett said he had \"operated a web of lies and manipulated the victims to get exactly what he wanted, when he wanted\", adding that the sentence was \"much deserved\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Disney will launch a new ad-supported streaming service in the US in December, as it overtakes Netflix in the race for subscribers.\n\nThe firm said it had 221.1 million subscriptions across its three streaming platforms as of 2 July.\n\nThat contrasts with rival Netflix which has been losing customers.\n\nBut Disney warned that its loss of streaming rights for cricket in India would reduce its subscriber growth compared to previous forecasts.\n\nThe firm, which also owns general audience television platform Hulu and the sports-focused ESPN+, said demand for its Disney+ product remained strong.\n\nPandemic lockdowns provided a boost to streaming services like Disney, but the easing of Covid restrictions doesn't seem to be preventing it attracting new customers.\n\nThe company added 14.4 million Disney+ accounts in the quarter, many of them outside of the US - far more than analysts had expected.\n\nLater this year it will launch a new ad-funded service, which will still be charged at the current subscription rate of $7.99. The charge for the ad-free service will rise to $10.99 per month.\n\nThe firm plans to launch its ad-funded service outside the US next year.\n\nExecutives said they do not expect the rise in prices to put off customers over the long term. The firm is also seeing strong interest from companies hoping to advertise on the new service, they said.\n\n\"We are in a position of strength with record upfront advertising commitment,\" chief executive Bob Chapek told analysts in a conference call to discuss the firm's financial results.\n\nDisney's subscriber gains have come at a hefty cost, with its streaming business losing $1.1bn in the quarter.\n\nExecutives said they expect losses to peak this year, In the meantime, a strong rebound in attendance at its theme parks since the worst of the pandemic has provided the firm with a large financial cushion.\n\nTotal revenues in the April-June period jumped 26% from last year, pushing profits to $1.5bn.\n\nShares in the company jumped more than 6% in after-hours trade after the firm shared its results.\n\nPaolo Pescatore, analyst at PP Foresight, called it a \"pivotal moment in the streaming wars\" saying Disney had more room to grow than arch-rival Netflix.\n\nNetflix lost nearly one million accounts in the most recent quarter, putting its membership total at 220.67 million.\n\nThat is just behind Disney at more than 221 million subscriptions. Disney counts each subscription to a streaming platform separately, meaning customers who pay for more than one service are counted more than once.\n\n\"[The results] firmly underline my belief that Disney is at a different phase of growth to Netflix,\" said Mr Pescatore. \"There are still millions of users to acquire as it continues to expand into new markets and rolls out new blockbuster shows.\"", "Many vulnerable young people from across the UK have ended up in children's homes in Blackpool in the past few years. But the approach - in part because of a national shortage of places elsewhere - is raising concerns.\n\nThanks to the pandemic, staycation tourists have flocked back to the Lancashire resort over the past two summers. Alongside the familiar Pleasure Beach and amusement arcades is a smart new California-style beach cafe.\n\nBut few visitors will have noticed that, at the same time, Blackpool has taken on a new status - as an epicentre of children's homes.\n\nBlackpool already has the highest proportion of its own children in care in England - but with property in the resort town being relatively cheap, and with a surge in the national demand for places, some local providers have expanded rapidly.\n\nBBC analysis of the latest Ofsted data shows of the 39 children's homes in the two Blackpool parliamentary constituencies, 29 have been registered only since 2016. As a result, children have been sent from across the country to children's homes in Blackpool and adjacent areas.\n\nJade, 21, from London, was placed in a home just outside the town when she was 16 and stayed there for 18 months.\n\nJade kept away from the centre of Blackpool at night\n\nShe recalls how she \"burst out in tears\" when she arrived because her family were hundreds of miles away.\n\n\"I'm thinking: 'How am I going to see my mum? How am I going to see my sisters?' I didn't even have a phone at this point.\"\n\nBlackpool is one of the most deprived towns in England and a focus of the Johnson government's levelling-up agenda.\n\nBehind the seafront are shabby streets of run-down houses. Rates of mental illness and drug abuse are high. According to the Health Foundation, both men and women in Blackpool have the lowest healthy life expectancy in the UK.\n\nDuring her time in the resort, Jade learned to avoid the town centre at night, when she says she would see drunks and drug users.\n\n\"In the summertime it's nice, it's touristy - but night-time hits and it's a different land,\" she says. \"It's a kind of chaos, not fun chaos - it's [a case of] be aware, be very vigilant.\"\n\nClive Grunshaw, the former Labour Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner, warns that Blackpool was not the right place to send vulnerable young people from other parts of the country.\n\nHe says there is a \"significant demand\" for drugs in the town and that so-called county lines gangs from Merseyside, Manchester, even London, send operatives to sell there - using \"extreme violence\" to control their share of the trade.\n\nThe young people in children's homes have often already been in traumatic situations, he says. \"And then you leave them unsupported in a place where there could be issues of anti-social behaviour and criminality, the last role models you'd like to see them mix with.\"\n\nJoe was also sent to a children's home in the heart of Blackpool aged 16. He describes himself back then as \"a tiny kid\".\n\nThough he was from Preston, only 20 miles away, he says he felt very isolated and unsafe by the sea. He recalls there were five other children's homes near the one in which he lived.\n\nHe says the area was full of \"crackheads, prostitutes and drugs\" and he was frequently attacked.\n\n\"I've been jumped, I've been chased, I've had knives pulled on me… I've had everything done to me.\"\n\nJoe says he felt unsafe in Blackpool\n\nErin, who is now 18, was in a different home not far from Joe's.\n\nShe says some of the girls being looked after with her would take drugs and sleep with older men. \"I was just so paranoid. I didn't go out by myself, ever,\" she adds.\n\nAlmost all the children's homes in Blackpool are run by private companies. Increasingly, such companies own and manage homes across England. Children remain the responsibility of their local authority, but the homes look after the young people day-to-day.\n\nThe fact that so many children are being moved far away from their neighbourhoods should \"ring alarm bells\", says Katharine Sacks-Jones, CEO of Become, the national charity for children in care and young care leavers.\n\nBut Blackpool Council has no control over how many children are placed in the town from other authorities - or how far from home they are.\n\nAlthough it is starting flex the powers it does have. The council must grant planning permission to new homes for children up to the age of 16, and, in recent years, with ever more applications, local residents have started to object strongly.\n\nIn 2019 for example, in a road in the north of the town, local company Outbound Care applied for permission to turn a semi-detached bungalow into a care home for two young people. Local people protested. One neighbour wrote they were \"absolutely distraught\" at the thought of young displaced people with \"behavioural problems\" living so close them. The application was withdrawn but two more followed, with neighbours objecting on each occasion.\n\nAt the same time, Blackpool Council decided to change its planning rules.\n\nIt refused to approve new applications within 400 metres of existing children's homes. The policy however - formally adopted in 2021 - may only cover Ofsted-registered homes as the council does not need to be notified about supported accommodation for looked after children and care leavers aged 16-17.\n\nThe town's head of planning said it was important to \"try and stem the flow of vulnerable youngsters into the borough from outside\".\n\nThat sentiment has been echoed by the Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, Paul Maynard - the most outspoken local critic of the local \"proliferation\" of children's homes. He was one of those who objected to Outbound Care's plans to change the bungalow in north Blackpool into a children's home.\n\nOutbound Care was only incorporated in 2017, according to Companies House records. Ofsted data shows it has five children's homes in the Blackpool area - one was registered in 2017, four in 2019.\n\nBut by far the biggest operator in the Blackpool area is Sandcastle Care, which was originally founded in 2003 - but taken over in 2015 by a local entrepreneur, Darren Yates.\n\n\"If you're talking about children's homes [in Blackpool], people think Sandcastle immediately,\" says Mr Maynard. He says the care provider has been successful in its own terms but he questions whether the company has benefitted the town or the young, vulnerable residents of its homes.\n\nDarren Yates, a joiner turned property developer and racehorse owner, expanded Sandcastle Care from three homes to 53 - almost all in Blackpool and adjacent areas - before selling the company to Waterland Private Equity. Specialist accountant Andrew Rome estimates the sale price would have been about £20m. Mr Yates resigned from the boards of Sandcastle's holding companies last year.\n\nWe twice asked Mr Yates for an interview to discuss the rapid expansion of Sandcastle Care and local opposition to some of the homes. He didn't respond.\n\nThe great majority of Sandcastle homes are rated \"good\" or \"outstanding\" by Ofsted and the company told us it was \"committed to serving the best interests of the young people\" entrusted into its care. It said 70% of the children it cares for at the moment are from local authorities in the north-west of England.\n\nJoe, Jade and Erin were not in homes run by Sandcastle or Outbound Care.\n\nWhile Ofsted data shows five new homes were opened in Blackpool in the financial year from 2021, the council told us its new policy of tighter planning rules is now having an effect. In a statement it said that \"so far this year we have not received any applications for new homes.\"\n\nMr Maynard says he welcomes the council's efforts, though he's concerned the policy may drive children's homes' applications into adjacent areas with similar housing stock. Part of his constituency spreads out several miles north from Blackpool.\n\n\"I would urge councils from outside Blackpool to think twice over sending their children here merely because that's where the capacity happens to be.\n\n\"They clearly have the interests of those vulnerable young people first and foremost in their minds - find the right location for them.\"\n\nBut it's hard for councils to do that when they have little, if any choice.\n\nOfsted's chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there needs to be control and oversight over who can own and run children's homes.\n\nShe adds: \"We have companies now in the market who really don't have very much interest in childcare, sometimes buying and selling homes or groups of homes quite rapidly and building groups of homes in specific areas that aren't necessarily where the children who most need those places live or even close to where they live.\"\n\nOfsted's latest report on the sector, published last month, said there was a significant shortage of places in children's homes and that some children were living \"in places where their needs couldn't be met\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working closely with Ofsted to explore additional new powers that would strengthen its regulatory ability.\n\nThe government will also respond later this year to recommendations on revising legislation to improve market oversight from both the Independent Care Review and the Competition and Markets Authority.", "A cyber-attack on a major IT provider of the NHS has been confirmed as a ransomware attack.\n\nAdvanced, which provides digital services like patient check-in and NHS 111, says it may take three to four weeks to fully recover.\n\nRansomware hackers take control of IT systems, steal data and demand a payment from victims to recover.\n\nThe NHS insists that disruption is minimal, but Advanced would not say whether NHS data had been stolen.\n\nThe Birmingham-based firm says it first spotted the hack at 07:00 BST on 4 August and immediately took steps to contain the hackers. It is now working to restore services.\n\nThe company refused to say if it was in negotiations with hackers or paying a ransom to them.\n\nIn a statement, it said: \"We are rebuilding and restoring impacted systems in a separate and secure environment.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is ransomware and how does it work?\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said: \"While Advanced has confirmed that the incident impacting their software is ransomware, the NHS has tried and tested contingency plans in place including robust defences to protect our own networks, as we work with the National Cyber Security Centre to fully understand the impact.\n\n\"The public should continue to use NHS services as normal, including NHS 111 for those who are unwell, although some people will face longer waits than usual.\n\n\"As ever, if it is an emergency, please call 999.\"\n\nAn NHS psychiatrist, who wished to remain anonymous, told the BBC the attack left his team \"making clinical decisions nearly blind\".\n\n\"If a new patient came to us, we weren't able to read their history or know very much about them,\" he said.\n\n\"The [local] trust are doing their best at setting up an alternative system, they've got a way that we can look at some historical notes now, and have set up another system to mean that we can input new notes.\n\n\"But there's still basically a week's worth of notes that we can't access. We've been told to be ready for it to not be up and running for who knows how long.\"\n\nAt the end of last week, family doctors in London were warned by NHS England they could see an increased number of patients sent to them by NHS 111 because of the \"significant technical issue\", industry magazine Pulse reported.\n\nAdvanced initially said that only a \"small number of servers\" had been affected and that it might be able to recover in a week.\n\nProducts which have been affected include Adastra, which is used by NHS 111 service, and Caresys and Carenotes, which provide the backbone for care home services like patient notes and visitor booking.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it is working with Advanced to help it recover.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Ransomware is the key cyber-threat facing the UK, and all organisations should take immediate steps to limit risk by following our advice on how to put in place robust defences to protect their networks.\"\n\nRansomware hackers are usually financially motivated and part of large, professionally run criminal gangs that target companies and demand hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of pounds in ransom in the form of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.\n\nWhile it is hard to trace where the gangs are based, analysis suggests that 74% of all money made through ransomware attacks in 2021 went to Russia-linked hackers.", "Jonathan Edwards was first elected in 2010\n\nA politician who assaulted his wife was reinstated as a Plaid Cymru MP after legal advice forced the party's ruling body to backtrack.\n\nIt had recommended Jonathan Edwards, who was cautioned after the assault at his home in 2020, should not be allowed to represent the party in the Commons.\n\nParty splits emerged after a disciplinary panel gave the go-ahead for him to have his membership back.\n\nSenior figures wanted Mr Edwards to be kept out of the Plaid MPs' group.\n\nBut the party announced on Wednesday that he would have the whip restored, despite confirming that a majority of its National Executive Committee (NEC) had recommend excluding him.\n\nThe same statement, issued by party chairwoman Beca Brown, said Mr Edwards was reinstated as a Plaid MP.\n\nBBC Wales has been told the party received legal advice that the NEC's position was \"unlawful\".\n\nOne former member, who quit after Mr Edwards' membership was restored, said party officials should urge the MP to stand down.\n\nFormer leader Leanne Wood posted on Twitter that she was \"disappointed\" with the decision - she had called for Mr Edwards to be kept out of the party altogether.\n\nSenior Plaid Member of the Senedd Sian Gwenllian, a member of the NEC, said in a Nation.Cymru article that it had \"become apparent that our party's disciplinary procedures do not sufficiently differentiate between ordinary members and members who have been elected to positions of influence\".\n\n\"So Jonathan Edwards can automatically resume his title of Plaid MP following the panel's announcement\".\n\nMs Gwenllian, who backed the NEC recommendation, wrote that her view had not changed, and that if an elected politician had \"severely damaged the integrity of our party... then that person should no longer represent the collective, democratic voice of our members\".\n\nThe party is now reviewing whether any lessons can be learned from what happened.\n\nPlaid Cymru's chairwoman said Mr Edwards had the whip restored following \"further procedural advice\"\n\nDetails of the incident at the MP's family home in May 2020 are not known.\n\nMr Edwards, who is now separated from his wife, has expressed \"deep remorse\" for his behaviour.\n\n\"The past two years have been a period of deep reflection in which I enrolled on a domestic violence awareness course which has helped me understand the impact my action had on others.\"\n\nJulie Richards, a domestic abuse campaigner, quit Plaid Cymru because of the disciplinary panel's decision.\n\n\"As a party we should have dealt with this very early on and stuck to what I thought was our policy of zero tolerance [of domestic abuse] - that obviously hasn't happened,\" she said.\n\n\"I just feel uncomfortable being in the party.\n\n\"The impact of him continuing to stand in such a public arena just sends all the wrong messages to young boys, to men, to women and to victims domestic abuse.\"\n\nIt's clear that Jonathan Edward's return to Plaid Cymru has caused ructions within the party.\n\nHe has support from members of his constituency party and some high-profile figures who say he's a good MP and that his expressions of remorse should be accepted.\n\nBut other senior people in the party say zero tolerance is the only way to eradicate the societally entrenched problem of domestic abuse.\n\nWhichever way you look at it, the fact remains that a majority of the party's ruling executive did not want him back and had their hand forced by legal advice.\n\nBoth sides are now battening down the hatches and hoping the storm will pass, but this has the potential to be a damaging split within the party.\n\nHazel Evans, a Plaid councillor in Carmarthenshire, said Mr Edwards was a \"brilliant MP\" and welcomed the decision to reinstate him.\n\n\"We have to have forgiveness somewhere,\" she said, adding \"something had gone wrong\" when the party's national executive intervened in the disciplinary process.\n\nBetsan Jones, a county councillor and chairwoman of the party in Mr Edwards' constituency, said: \"I support him and am pleased that he's had the whip restored to him and I think we can draw a line under this.\"\n\nDomestic abuse charity Welsh Women's Aid said there was \"epidemic-levels of gender-based violence\" with 26,669 people referred to specialist services in the past year - up 19% on the year before.\n\n\"Parliament and parties across the political spectrum must make it clear that harassment, abuse, and violence are unacceptable, and must put an end to the antiquated systems and procedures that perpetuate this,\" it added.", "David Barton says it's been a dry winter, spring and summer on his farm\n\nDavid Barton's fields on his farm in Gloucestershire should be green and full of grazing cattle.\n\nInstead the grass has turned yellow, the land is bone-dry, and many of the crops that feed his cows have died.\n\n\"Every day that it doesn't rain, every day that it's hot and dry, the pressure mounts,\" he says.\n\nAs England and Wales enter a heatwave forecast to last until Sunday, these are challenging times for farmers.\n\nExperts warn that the extreme weather like the hot and dry conditions in July will inevitably lead to smaller harvests in the UK.\n\nThis in turn will make the food we buy in the supermarkets even more expensive.\n\nThis shrivelled seedling should have been feed for David's cows for next winter\n\nDavid, aged 54, is the third generation of his family to work on his farm in Cirencester. He's now resorted to feeding his cattle the food reserved for winter.\n\n\"This is fast approaching the worst we've seen,\" he explains. What he needs is rain, but he has no idea when it will come and waiting is an agony, he says.\n\nThe Met Office says the weather is expected to become cooler next week but there's no guarantee that it will rain across the country.\n\nJuly was the driest in England since 1935, with many areas seeing far less rainfall than average. After a \"fairly dry winter\", there was some rain in March but not enough for the spring crops, David explains.\n\nIt was June when it began to get desperate. Holding a withered turnip seedling, he explains: \"It can't sustain itself. There's just not enough moisture, so this crop will probably fail now.\"\n\nHis priority is to keep the livestock shaded and happy, but soon the financial costs will start to \"mount dramatically\".\n\nSmaller harvests from the UK's farms will push up the price of food, particularly meat, says Kyle Holland, an analyst at market research company Mintec.\n\nExtreme weather globally is affecting agriculture, meaning essential crops are in shorter supply and are more expensive on world markets, too.\n\nThe war in Ukraine, which is normally the world's fourth-largest grain exporter, has also caused shortages, pushing prices up yet further.\n\n\"It's almost a perfect storm,\" he says.\n\nAnd there's little sign of the pressure lifting soon, he explains, adding that rain in September will be too late for the corn crop that's used to feed farm animals.\n\nClimate scientists warn that heatwaves are likely to become more common and more extreme globally.\n\nThey say that the UK's extreme heat in July would have been \"almost impossible\" without human-induced climate change.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On 8 March, 2020, Rick Stephens was admitted to hospital with liver failure\n\nHarmful levels of drinking were normalised through the Covid pandemic, charities and medical staff have said.\n\nSubstance misuse charity Barod said referrals for alcohol addiction increased by 41% compared with before the pandemic.\n\nLast year, Wales recorded its highest number of alcohol deaths for 20 years, and it is feared that this year, deaths will be even higher.\n\nThe Welsh government said it had a substance misuse plan in place.\n\nRick Stephens, from Cardiff, had struggled with periods of alcohol dependency for 36 years, but the problem escalated in lockdown.\n\nMr Stephens, 60, said: \"I couldn't work anymore, so I didn't have to make that effort, whereas I would cut down because I was working, I didn't have to do that anymore.\"\n\nWithout worrying about colleagues noticing his drinking, Mr Stephens found himself drinking more and more.\n\nIn February 2021, his mum died, and he said \"just when I thought I couldn't increase my drinking anymore, I did\".\n\nOn 8 March 2021, a friend visited and insisted he go to hospital.\n\nMr Stephens said his alcohol consumption increased during lockdown and got worse when he lost his mother\n\nMr Stephens had acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy, a neurological disorder caused by a build-up of toxins in the bloodstream, because of a badly damaged liver.\n\nThese toxins entered his brain and gave him hallucinations and severe memory loss.\n\nHe said that although he was hallucinating and having dreams, his brain was \"rewired\" and logged the hallucinations in what he described as \"the wrong filing cabinet\".\n\nIt has taken Mr Stephens months to sort through his memories and separate reality from dreams.\n\nHannah began looking up her dad's workplaces on TripAdvisor and saw reviews describing him as a \"smelly man behind the bar\" or \"always drunk\"\n\nMr Stephen's daughter Hannah, was one of the first people to notice his drinking.\n\nAs a child, she said: \"All my other friends had nice family days out, and I would just be at the pub, I grew up in pubs.\"\n\nAt the time, Mr Stephens thought he was managing to hide his addiction from his family, \"convincing\" himself that \"nobody knew\".\n\nNow in recovery, he has not drunk alcohol since his time in hospital and said Hannah was \"the main reason behind it\" as he wanted to be a \"better father\".\n\nHannah is now training to be a mental health nurse, while Mr Stephens volunteers for a charity and is studying substance abuse at college in order to help others.\n\nThe charity Barod said referrals for alcohol addiction rose from 2,264 in 2018/19 to 3,204 in 2020/21 - a rise of 41%\n\nRob Barker-Williams, Barod's campaigns and communications lead, said many who sought support said they had used alcohol to cope with lockdowns after their mental health was significantly compromised.\n\nRhian Jones, an alcohol liaison nurse at Bronglais hospital in Aberystwyth, said the pandemic changed people's lifestyles and day-to-day routines.\n\n\"Many people no longer needed to drive to work, they finished earlier and started later - giving them longer to drink.\n\nAlongside the emotional impact of lockdowns, Ms Jones said it had allowed people who would usually have one or two drinks in the evening the opportunity to drink three or four.\n\nAs a result, Ms Jones said she feared dangerous levels of drinking had become \"normalised\".\n\nShe said a quarter of the patients at Bronglais did not realise their drinking was an issue.\n\n\"They're admitted for cardiac, respiratory or liver conditions, but don't realise they are drinking harmful amounts.\n\n\"Lots of patients who depends on alcohol don't realise they're dependent on alcohol, until it's taken away from them due to admission.\n\n\"Now that lockdowns are over, the return to normal routines has helped many to control their drinking.\"\n\nMany people used alcohol as a way of coping during the unusual circumstances of the pandemic\n\nBut Ms Jones said for others, their bodies are now dependent on alcohol, making it difficult to quit.\n\nShe said she was also worried services were \"missing the boat\" of improving people's health by simply helping them to reduce drinking, because many people did not access their GP during the pandemic, and now their health issues are too advanced.\n\nIn 2020, alcohol-related deaths in Wales rose by 19% to a 20-year high, and Ms Jones said she feared this trend would continue.\n\nShe said most people do not understand how common alcohol addiction is.\n\n\"People who look like they're functioning on the outside could be struggling when they go home, and close the front door,\" she added.\n\nThe Welsh government said it spent £64m a year on its substance misuse delivery plan, to raise awareness on the impact of drinking too much and ensuring access to assessment, treatment and rehabilitation services.\n\nIt added it was also tackling alcohol-related harm through the minimum unit pricing for alcohol, which is at least 50p per unit.\n\nFor help with any of the issues raised in this article, BBC Action Line has information about support.", "Police said officers attended a linked incident in Dornie after the first incident was raised in Tarskavaig\n\nA man has died and three people have been injured in a series of shootings around Skye.\n\nPolice Scotland were initially called to a report of a 32-year-old woman being injured at a property in Tarskavaig, on Skye, shortly before 09:00.\n\nOfficers were then called to an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Teangue at about 09:30.\n\nPolice said a gun was fired and a 47-year-old man died at the scene.\n\nOfficers were later called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh on the Scottish mainland, where a gun was also fired.\n\nA man was seriously injured and taken to hospital in Inverness, while a woman was taken to hospital on Skye.\n\nPolice said the incidents were linked and a 39-year-old man had been arrested. He has also been taken to hospital.\n\nThe rescue operation saw multiple ambulances, air ambulances and special rapid retrieval emergency teams, which are only summoned for incidents in rural locations when people are in critical need of medical attention.\n\nCh Supt Conrad Trickett said: \"Incidents such as this are thankfully extremely rare but I understand that this will have a significant effect on the local community in these rural areas.\n\n\"I would like to reassure people that we are treating these incidents as contained with no wider threat to the public.\n\n\"There will a significant police presence in the area over the coming days and we will be working with partners to provide support to the local community.\"\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said multiple ambulances, air ambulances, a special operations response team and an emergency medical retrieval service team attended the scenes.\n\nPolice at a property at Teangue on Skye\n\nPolice said the incidents were linked and a 39-year-old man had been arrested\n\nIan Blackford, SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, told BBC Scotland it was very concerning news and that his thoughts were with all those affected.\n\nHe said: \"As more details come to light, the response of the emergency services seems to have stopped this incident spreading even further than it did.\n\n\"Thank you for the work that you do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Shock and horror\" after Skye and Lochalsh shootings - Ian Blackford\n\nLocal MSP Kate Forbes and Highland Council convener Bill Lobban have also praised the work of the emergency services.\n\nMr Lobban said: \"We are thankful to our emergency services colleagues for bringing this very serious and shocking incident to a close.\n\n\"We will be providing support to the communities and our partners in every way possible.\n\n\"The communities of Skye and Dornie will be shocked and saddened by these incidents and our thoughts are with the individuals affected.\"\n\nSkye councillor John Finlayson said it was \"a very tough day\" for islanders.\n\nMr Finlayson told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"I've never known tragedy like this and there's two communities that have been affected here - one on Skye and one on the mainland.\n\n\"So, it's a sad day, it's a tragic day, and it's a very tough day for us all.\"", "Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has vowed to provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister.\n\nThe former chancellor said he would seek government \"efficiency savings\" to fund the support, to limit borrowing.\n\nThe amount of support is yet to be determined and would depend on the extent to which energy bills rise later this month.\n\nAllies of his rival Liz Truss accused Mr Sunak of \"another big U-turn\".\n\n\"Three weeks ago he was saying more borrowing was irresponsible and inflationary - has he changed his mind? How can Rishi's borrowing not be inflationary, but Liz's tax cuts are? Intellectually it's as watertight as a sieve,\" a source in the Truss camp said.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sunak said he wanted to keep \"any one-off borrowing to an absolute minimum\" and would \"first seek efficiency savings across Whitehall to provide direct support for families to help with the unprecedented situation we face\".\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem is due to announce a rise to the cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers per unit - on 26 August.\n\nIn a new forecast, industry analysts Cornwall Insight estimated the typical household annual energy bill will be £3,582 in October and £4,266 in January.\n\nMr Sunak said \"there is no doubt in my mind that more support will be needed\", adding \"as soon as we know how much bills will go up by, I will act\".\n\nThe former chancellor is competing with Ms Truss to be leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister.\n\nBoth Tory leadership candidates, as well as the outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson, are facing questions about how they will tackle rising costs.\n\nDowning Street has said Mr Johnson has no plans to introduce big tax and spending measures to ease the cost of living crisis before he leaves office in early September.\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted inflation - how fast prices are rising - will hit 13% and the UK will plunge into a recession later this year.\n\nBusiness group leader Tony Danker has urged the prime minister and the Tory leadership candidates to \"agree on the principles\" of support for energy bills.\n\nThe director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - which represents British businesses - said civil servants should be \"working with the candidates now\" to draw up options for helping vulnerable people as soon as one of them takes office.\n\n\"I just don't think it's responsible government for a prime minister, or future prime ministers, not to give the country reassurance,\" Mr Danker said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nIn a campaign dominated by the worsening state of the UK economy, Ms Truss has focused on her pledge to lower taxes, which she argues will help households and boost growth.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has argued her tax cuts - worth an estimated £30bn - would stoke inflation and saddle the UK with debt.\n\nWriting in support of Mr Sunak, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said Ms Truss's emergency tax-cutting budget risked becoming an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Raab said the foreign secretary's tax cuts would \"do little for the most vulnerable\" and did not represent \"Conservative politics\". \"It's bad politics,\" Mr Raab wrote in the Times.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sajid Javid told the i newspaper that Ms Truss - whom he backs for the leadership - had the best plan for boosting living standards.\n\nBut, he said, \"more needs to be done\" to support people on lower incomes, suggesting an uplift in benefits payments as one option.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has written to Mr Johnson to request an emergency meeting, telling him only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\" to provide the required support.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has also been calling for immediate action, saying a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee should be convened to address a crisis which, he said, would leave \"millions standing on the edge of a financial precipice\".\n\nLabour MP and shadow employment minister Alison McGovern said \"every day counts\" in working on emergency measures to deal with the cost of living crisis.\n\nShe said the party wanted VAT removed from fuel bills and suggested more targeted help could be introduced too.\n\nMs McGovern told the BBC: \"We do have government ministers who could take responsibility for bringing forward some of these things and making it clear to everyone in the country that we are going to start taking action today. Not waiting.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for the October energy price cap rise to be scrapped. The party argues that this could be paid for by expanding the windfall tax imposed on energy company profits.\n\nLeader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Sunak's plans for more support were \"too timid\", and accused the Conservatives of living in a \"parallel universe\".\n\nSupport that has already been announced by the government includes a £650 payment for the eight million lowest-income households, an additional £300 for pensioner households, and £400 for all households.\n\nWith the current government ruling out emergency action until next week - there are growing calls for reassurance that ministers will act when the price cap goes up.\n\nRishi Sunak today sets out principles - but not figures.\n\nHe says he would use the same template as earlier this year, when the government pledged universal support for every household and extra for those on lower incomes.\n\nExactly how much Mr Sunak is promising won't be confirmed until later this month, when the new energy price cap is confirmed.\n\nLiz Truss has not yet clarified what she meant when she said she wanted tax cuts, not handouts.\n\nHer allies insist nothing has been ruled out.\n\nBut Dominic Raab - who is backing Mr Sunak - this morning warns Ms Truss that failing to live up to the challenge would be an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.", "A quarter of sponsors of Ukrainians as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme do not want to continue the arrangement beyond six months, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found.\n\nLaunched in March, it has seen about 75,000 refugees arrive in the UK.\n\nSponsors agreed to provide accommodation in their own home for a minimum of six months.\n\nBut there are concerns at what will happen when those arrangements reach the end of that time.\n\nThe scheme was set up by the government to help those fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and worked alongside the Ukraine Family Scheme - which allowed refugees to join relatives already living in the UK.\n\nAn ONS survey of Homes for Ukraine hosts found 26% want to end their sponsorship after six months or less.\n\nSix out of 10 sponsors said they were happy to accommodate their Ukrainian guests for more than the agreed minimum with almost a quarter saying they would be prepared to continue the arrangement for more than a year.\n\nHowever, almost all sponsors said they had provided support and help to their guests that went beyond the official arrangement.\n\nEight out of 10 said they had given them food, two-thirds had helped them find work and 45% had provided financial support.\n\nThe ONS research also found that 18% of those signed up for the scheme were still waiting for guests to move in.\n\nOf those who did not wish to accommodate Ukrainians for more than six months, just under a quarter said their decision was down to the rising cost of living.\n\nSponsors currently receive £350 a month but the survey found four in 10 might be prepared to host for longer if there was more financial help.\n\nMaria Divid has been hosting a Ukrainian refugee since April and said she was \"very happy\" to host her guest for another six months.\n\nThe refugee, a woman from the Ukraine capital Kyiv, lives in Ms Divid's spare room in her London home.\n\n\"I'm originally from Russia and was devastated by the conflict, so I was very keen to counteract the consequences of the war in any way I could,\" she told BBC News.\n\nShe said being a sponsor had led to her bills going up but that was more than covered by the £350 she received each month from the government.\n\n\"My guest also buys her own food, so the costs are managed. But I can imagine for other households it could be more of an issue,\" she added.\n\nAnother Londoner, who asked not to be named, took in a single Ukrainian man into the home he shares with his wife.\n\nBut after three months the arrangement broke down.\n\nThe young man left their home and is now staying in free council housing for the remaining three months that he would have spent with his original hosts.\n\nHis sponsor said they had tried to help their guest settle with lots of chats and loans but it became challenging when he would not claim benefits or meet up with other Ukrainians in the UK.\n\n\"It meant there was a lot of pressure on us, apart from hosting him.\"\n\nThe young man also had mental health difficulties and was \"understandably struggling with some issues,\", his sponsor said, but there was no support for ending the scheme.\n\n\"What the government are asking from you is to provide a full social security system. As soon as there's any problem or confusion or challenge, there was nowhere to turn or no one to help,\" he added.\n\nThe ONS surveyed all UK adults registered with the scheme as of 7 July, in collaboration with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), with 17,702 people responding.\n\nRecent government figures show 145 placements have ended with Ukrainian refugees finding themselves homeless, 90 because the relationship broke down and 55 where the accommodation was deemed unsuitable before they moved in.\n\n\"We see a lot of generosity and goodwill in what hosts report doing for their guests,\" Tim Gibbs, from the ONS, said.\n\n\"The majority are still hosting and many indicate a willingness to host beyond the initial six months.\n\n\"However, we also see the additional work and expense involved in hosting with some saying more or ongoing support would be welcomed.\"\n\nRefugees minister Lord Harrington said the vast majority of sponsors wanted to provide support for longer than six months which was a \"testament to the goodwill the British public has shown the people of Ukraine since tanks first rolled across the border\".\n\nSponsors would continue to receive thank you payments for up to 12 months and the government is contacting hosts to outline the next steps and support available, he said.\n\n\"We initially asked sponsors to host for a minimum of six months and we are working closely with councils to ensure Ukrainians have a safe place to live if they decide to move on,\" Lord Harrington said.\n\nThere are concerns from councils about the number of hosts who say they do not want to continue with the scheme, and Local Government Association chairman James Jamieson said they were talking to the government about how they might be encouraged to do so.\n\n\"For instance, increasing the thank you payment to a higher amount so the sponsors can be sure it's not costing them,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a significant risk - even if re-matching is available - that many Ukrainian families may need to present as homeless because of a lack of sponsors or options.\"", "A man who was alleged to be a member of an IS terror cell nicknamed the Beatles has been remanded in custody.\n\nAine Davis is charged with offences including possession of a firearm for a purpose connected with terrorism and charges related to funding terrorism.\n\nThe 38-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London on Thursday. He has denied being part of the cell.\n\nHe was arrested at Luton Airport, Bedfordshire, after being deported to England by Turkey on Wednesday.\n\nHe is charged with having:\n\nMr Davis is alleged to have asked his wife to send him money in Syria for terrorist purposes, thereby allegedly inviting her to provide funds and entering into a funding arrangement.\n\nHe is also accused of possessing a firearm for terrorist purposes after he was allegedly photographed holding one alongside militants in Syria.\n\nThe court heard that he did not wish to indicate which way he would plead to the charges. He will next appear at the Old Bailey on 2 September for a pre-trial hearing.\n\nMr Davis has spent more than six years in a Turkish prison.\n\nHe denied being the fourth member of an IS gang that tortured and murdered western hostages in Iraq and Syria.\n\nThe ringleader of that gang, Mohammed Emwazi, was killed in a US drone strike seven years ago.\n\nTwo others were captured in Syria, and taken to the US, where both have been convicted of committing some of the most gruesome crimes in recent history.\n\nThe terror cell was nicknamed the Beatles after the Liverpudlian band, due to the members' English accents.", "Marcus Mumford is the lead singer of Mumford & Sons and now also a solo artist\n\nMarcus Mumford, the frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has revealed he was sexually abused as a six-year-old.\n\n\"Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people's assumption,\" he told GQ magazine.\n\nThe 35-year-old singer said he addressed the issue in the lyrics to his recent solo single, Cannibal.\n\n\"Like lots of people - and I'm learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people - I was sexually abused as a child,\" he said.\n\n\"But I hadn't told anyone about it for 30 years.\"\n\nMumford, whose parents were international leaders of evangelical Christian denomination the Vineyard Churches, said he had sought therapy after hitting \"rock bottom\" at the end of his band's 2018 tour in support of their latest album, Delta.\n\n\"I'd had the people closest to me hold up a mirror and say, like, 'Dude, something's not right here and it's your responsibility to go figure it out,'\" he said.\n\nMumford and Sons rose to fame with hits such as Little Lion Man and I Will Wait and headlined Glastonbury Festival in 2013\n\nIn his second session with a therapist, who specialises in trauma, Mumford was physically sick talking about his childhood experiences.\n\n\"Apparently, it's very common,\" he noted. \"Once you basically unhook the denial and start the process of removing some suppression, then it's very natural for that stuff to come out.\n\n\"I'd had problems breathing all my life - not asthma but just, like, catching my breath.\"\n\nMumford described the abuse as \"the first of a string of really unusual, unhealthy sexual experiences at a really early age\".\n\n\"And for some reason, and I can't really understand why,\" he said, \"I didn't become a perpetrator of sexual abuse - although, I've done my fair share of [bad] behaviour.\"\n\nMumford, who is married to the British actress Carey Mulligan, added he had spent his life until now \"in layers of shame\" he had become \"addicted to\".\n\nThe lyrics to the aforementioned and deeply personal new track, which will feature on his forthcoming self-titled debut solo album, go as follows:\n\n\"I can still taste you and I hate it / That wasn't a choice in the mind of a child and you knew it / You took the first slice of me and you ate it raw / Ripped it in with your teeth and your lips like a cannibal / You [expletive] animal\".\n\nSteven Spielberg directed the video for the song, shot in a high-school gym in New York.\n\nIn the comments section under Mumford's tweet plugging the GQ article, fans thanked him for sharing.\n\n\"This article is everything,\" wrote one.\n\n\"It's so so we'll written and moving and thought provoking. Thank you.\"\n\n\"So beautiful,\" wrote another. \"Thank you for sharing this. This will help so many people.\"\n\nRising to fame with hits such as Little Lion Man and I Will Wait, they headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2013.\n\nLast year, banjo player Winston Marshall said he had quit the band to spare his bandmates from abuse, after he endorsed a book by conservative journalist Andy Ngo.", "Harry Sarkar was a student officer with the West Midlands force\n\nA police officer made up a story he had a girlfriend then claimed she had died of cancer in order to get time off.\n\nPC Harry Sarkar would have been sacked had he not resigned and his actions were a \"significant abuse of trust\", West Midlands Police said.\n\nThe officer's \"detailed tissues of lies\" about her supposed illness, death and funeral got him bereavement leave and flexible working hours, a misconduct hearing was told.\n\nMr Sarkar did not attend the gross misconduct hearing before Chief Constable Sir David Thompson at West Midlands Police headquarters earlier.\n\nHe made the claims about his \"fake girlfriend\" between October 2020 and June 2021 and the force professional standards team said Mr Sarkar's sympathetic bosses had signed off \"sick leave\" and other benefits after relying on his lies.\n\nThe officer received three days' bereavement leave and benefited from more flexible working hours than his colleagues, it is understood, at a time when the force was under strain due to a number of officers testing positive for Covid-19 during the second and third national lockdowns.\n\n\"This case concerns a protracted period, with the officer creating a fictional relationship where the other party was suffering from cancer and died,\" Sir David said.\n\nMr Sarkar did not attend the gross misconduct hearing before Sir David Thompson (pictured) at West Midlands Police headquarters\n\n\"This enabled supervisors to allow enhanced flexibility in his working.\n\n\"These 'truths' were repeated and developed over a sustained period of time.\"\n\nWhile no investigations were compromised, it involved Mr Sarkar \"using powers in bad faith\" and there was no obvious mitigation or reason for his behaviour.\n\n\"The public would not expect this from an officer and will be concerned over the obvious odious nature of such a misrepresentation,\" Sir David added.\n\nConcluding the hearing, he said \"no other sanction would have been suitable and the officer would have been dismissed without notice and accordingly\".\n\nMr Sarkar has also been banned from becoming a police officer in the future.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonathan Edwards was suspended in July 2020, two months after being arrested at home\n\nAn MP cautioned for assaulting his wife will be allowed to represent his party again at Westminster.\n\nPlaid Cymru has returned the whip to Jonathan Edwards, who had been sitting as an independent, despite having been given his party membership back.\n\nThe decision comes despite a ruling body of the party having earlier recommended to not re-admit Mr Edwards to the group.\n\nThe MP was suspended in July 2020, two months after being arrested at home.\n\nDetails of the incident are not known, but at the time he said he was \"deeply sorry\", adding it was \"the biggest regret of my life\".\n\nSplits emerged in the pro-independence party last month after a disciplinary panel gave the go-ahead for Mr Edwards to have his membership restored, but while the party considered whether to represent the party in the Commons again.\n\nWriting on website Nation Cymru, Member of the Senedd Sian Gwenllian, communications director on the Plaid's National Executive Committee (NEC) said: \"If an elected politician has severely damaged the integrity, the credibility and the reputation of our party by contravening one of its core values, then that person should no longer represent the collective, democratic voice of our members.\n\n\"So now as a party, we must review our standing orders to reflect the views of our democratically-elected body in the future.\n\n\"We must also build upon recommendations I made in a report before the pandemic to tackle misogyny within our party.\"\n\nIn May, former party leader Leanne Wood called for Mr Edwards to be banned from Plaid if it \"is serious about stamping out misogyny and domestic abuse\".\n\nThe party's chairwoman Beca Brown said Plaid's decision came following \"procedural advice\" it received, but added that a review would look at how the party could be \"truly free from a culture of misogyny\".\n\nMr Edwards, the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr who had been sitting as an independent, said: \"I wish to apologise unreservedly again for the action that led to my suspension and express my deep remorse for the hurt which I have caused.\n\n\"My colleagues in the Westminster group and the wider party have championed the rights of women and all victims of abusive behaviour. I regret that my actions took the focus away from this important work.\"\n\nHe added that the past two years had been \"a period of deep reflection in which I enrolled on a domestic violence awareness course which has helped me understand the impact my action had on others\".\n\nMr Edwards rejoined the party after Plaid's disciplinary panel found he had expressed \"sincere remorse\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's chairwoman said Mr Edwards had the whip restored following \"further procedural advice\"\n\nBut Ms Brown confirmed that after the panel's decision, the NEC voted by a \"significant majority\" to recommend to Plaid's Westminster group that Mr Edwards was not re-admitted.\n\nThis prompted the resignation of the previous party chairman, Alun Ffred Jones, who disagreed with the NEC's actions.\n\n\"The principle of allowing members of the party's ruling executive to discuss a matter of such significance was of the utmost importance,\" Ms Brown said.\n\n\"Having received further procedural advice Plaid Cymru has now notified Mr Edwards that the processes relating to his membership of the Westminster group has concluded. The whip has been restored to Mr Edwards.\"\n\nShe said the NEC would review the party's processes to identify lessons that can be learned in the case and commission an independent review \"to identify the steps required for the party to be truly free from a culture of misogyny, and to actively and meaningfully promote, defend and extend women's participation in Plaid Cymru and wider politics\".\n\nA statement issued after the 2020 incident on behalf of Mr Edwards' wife Emma, said she had accepted her husband's apology.\n\nThe local Plaid Cymru party in Carmarthenshire said: \"We are delighted Jonathan will resume his role as a much valued and respected Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament.\n\n\"He has served this constituency with great dignity and integrity for over a decade.\"", "Most victims of burglary, robbery and theft in England and Wales are not being given the justice they deserve, the police watchdog says.\n\nHer majesty's chief inspector of constabulary, Andy Cooke, calls current low charge rates \"unacceptable and unsustainable\".\n\nSome forces tackle these crimes well - but many do not, his report says.\n\nOne car-theft victim told BBC News officers had closed his case within 24 hours, without visiting the scene.\n\nStefan Borson says his £82,000 Range Rover car was stolen from outside his home, in the early evening on Valentine's Day.\n\nHe notified the police immediately, found pictures of the theft on his own security camera, and waited for officers to be in touch.\n\nStefan Borson (R) told BBC News his six-month-old Range Rover had been stolen from outside his home, in London\n\nHe was therefore astonished to receive a letter, dated the next day, telling him: \"We are sorry to say that with the evidence and leads available, it is unlikely that it would be possible to identify those responsible.\n\n\"We have therefore closed this case.\"\n\nCCTV footage from Stefan's home shows the Range Rover just before it was stolen\n\nThey had not called round, Stefan says, and it would be unlikely they had visited the crime scene without knocking on the door.\n\nThey did not check his or his neighbours' cameras or the vehicle's tracking record as it was driven away.\n\n\"I'm not sure on what basis they could have said they've investigated all potential leads,\" he adds.\n\nThe report, based on findings from force inspections by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) in 2021-22, highlights while some tackle these crimes effectively, others:\n\nThe report comes soon after the most recent Home Office figures showed just 6.3% of robbery offences and 4.1% of thefts in England and Wales resulted in charges, in the year to March.\n\nToo often forces' digital, forensic, technological and analytical capability is not good enough to let them carry out thorough investigations, the report says.\n\nThey must improve their approach to serious acquisitive crime - offences such as personal robbery, theft from a person, theft of and from a motor vehicles and domestic burglary.\n\nAnd by March 2023, all police forces must ensure:\n\n\"Burglary, robbery and theft are not minor crimes,\" Mr Cooke says.\n\n\"There needs to be a concerted drive to address this issue because it directly affects the public's confidence in the police's ability to keep them safe.\"\n\nA lack of experienced officers too often means these crimes are investigated poorly and inadequately supervised, \"often because supervisors themselves are inexperienced and overstretched\", he says.\n\nAnd many detectives feel \"disengaged and devalued and frustrated that they can't give the quality of service that the victims deserve\".\n\nOne woman told BBC News in May she was threatened with a crowbar after feeling forced to track down her own car after it was stolen\n\nNational Police Chiefs' Council acquisitive crime lead Deputy Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman said they would look at the findings in detail \"and work to assist forces in implementing improvements\".\n\n\"We absolutely recognise how invasive and traumatic it is to be a victim of these serious offences,\" she added.\n\nCollege of Policing chief executive Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the report was \"absolutely right to recommend the full adoption of existing national standards\".\n\n\"Only by taking a consistent approach will we fully protect the public and not let burglars off the hook,\" he added.\n\nHow have you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None Woman tracks down her own stolen car before police", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "Durham Police issued the alert to find the missing mother and son on Wednesday\n\nA four-year-old boy and his mother who sparked an international search have been found \"safe and well\", police say.\n\nDurham Police said there were \"serious concerns\" about the Darlington pair who had travelled to Turkey in June.\n\nA force spokeswoman said both of them had been located and have returned to the UK \"where they are receiving appropriate support\".\n\nShe thanked those who shared the appeal which was seen by \"hundreds of thousands of people across the world\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have queued at clinics in recent weeks to receive a vaccination\n\nThe monkeypox vaccine rollout has stalled in Brighton after stocks of the jab ran out, the BBC understands.\n\nLocal MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle said only those with an existing appointment will be vaccinated until further stocks arrive.\n\nHe also raised concerns the rollout could be paused in other areas.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said 100,000 doses are due to arrive in September and urged people to be aware of symptoms.\n\nThe latest UKHSA figures show there have been 69 cases of monkeypox in Brighton to date, the highest number of cases outside of London.\n\nAfter a briefing with the agency, Brighton Kemptown MP Mr Russell-Moyle told the BBC he was told there are only around 5,000 vaccines left in the UK.\n\nAnother source, who did not wish to be named, confirmed the details of the briefing.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UKHSA said she was unable to provide a comment on whether or not clinics would be pausing vaccinations.\n\nIt is understood remaining stocks of the jab will be allocated to local sexual health services in the coming days, but that Brighton will not receive more vaccines until the end of next month.\n\nMr Russell-Moyle said: \"I've already spoken to people in the area who feel worried, scared and that they've missed out. They feel that they're being put at risk, and that their enjoyment of the summer is being put at risk by bad organisation from the government.\"\n\nSources have told the BBC that low stocks of the vaccine are also set to impact other parts of the country in the coming days.\n\nIt is understood that those who already have an appointment will still receive a vaccine, but that after the current 5,000 remaining vaccines have been allocated to local sexual health clinics, no further jabs will be available until the end of September. It comes after similar claims in Scotland.\n\nMr Russell-Moyle added: \"My understanding is that if you are not vaccinated in the next couple of weeks, then it will be too late and you'll have to wait until September\".\n\nThe latest figures from the UK Health Security Agency show that there have been 2,914 confirmed cases of monkeypox since the start of the year.\n\nAccording to NHS England figures, more than 25,000 people have so far received a vaccine.\n\nCurrently about 75% of monkeypox cases are in London, which is where the majority of vaccines have been targeted, but numbers outside the city are also increasing.\n\nLabour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told the BBC his constituency would not receive more supplies until the end of September\n\nThe UK government has bought stocks of smallpox vaccine to guard against monkeypox. Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe and experts say chances of infection are low.\n\nThe global outbreak of monkeypox has meant a surge in demand for the vaccine. However, stocks are limited as until recently the disease had not spread widely outside of countries where the virus is endemic.\n\nOn Wednesday, Dr Mary Ramsay, Director of Clinical Programmes at UKHSA, told the BBC the agency had moved early to procure over 150,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine from the global manufacturer. Around 50,000 of these have been received to date and made available to the NHS for distribution across the country.\n\n\"The remaining approximately 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the UK in September. The thousands of vaccines administered by the NHS to date among those at highest risk of exposure should have a significant impact on the transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\nCountries around the world, including the UK, are suddenly scrabbling to get hold of the vaccine.\n\nIt was originally designed for a more deadly disease - smallpox - and only limited stockpiles are kept in case of bio-terrorism.\n\nEvery dose now being given to tackle an unprecedented monkeypox outbreak is being manufactured first and there is large demand around the world.\n\nSo the idea that everyone at risk could be vaccinated immediately has always been a fantasy. Even the United States, with its huge buying power, has a shortage.\n\nAnother 100,000 doses will arrive in the UK late next month.\n\nUntil then doses have been distributed around the country and health officials are assessing how long current supplies will last.\n\nExactly which parts of the UK - or all of it - will run out and for how long is being calculated and should be announced soon.\n\nSeptember feels a long way off if you're at risk of catching monkeypox, but the reassuring news is that the number of new infections is already starting to level off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Children in Falmouth learning life-saving skills in the sea\n\nSwimmers across the UK have lost access to more than 60 public pools in the last three years, BBC News has found.\n\nFreedom of Information requests to UK councils revealed 65 pools had closed, either temporarily or permanently, in the three years to March 2022.\n\nUkactive said a lack of staff, rising energy costs and chemical shortages had created a \"perfect storm\" for centres.\n\nGreg Whyte, a board member at the organisation, said the closures were an \"absolute health and welfare disaster\".\n\nUkactive, which represents gyms and leisure centres, said centres had only just started to recover following closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. It warned there was a risk of more permanent closures before the end of the year.\n\nThe BBC found about one in six local authorities had lost at least one pool on a permanent or temporary basis, as of March 2022.\n\nSome of them had been closed for good, while others are closed for refurbishment with no fixed reopening date. Others are now only accessible for private hire or swimming clubs.\n\nPools in Essex, Bedfordshire and Staffordshire have all blamed chlorine shortages for their recent closures.\n\nYour device may not support this visualisation\n\nThe West Midlands and Scotland saw the most closures, with eight each. But the West Midlands was hardest hit compared with the overall number of pools available in 2019.\n\nIn the West Midlands, the region saw the number of pools fall from 105 to 97, while in Scotland it decreased from 219 to 211.\n\nAt the time of the responses - from 360 local authorities out of 374 across the UK - some 1,335 publicly-funded pools were open.\n\nOlympic and Commonwealth champion Adam Peaty has been vocal in asking for more government support to keep pools open - especially for children.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The government really needs to work harder to get [to] these kids and give them accessibility\".\n\nEdie Caris, 15, has been an artistic swimmer for several years and spends between six and eight hours training.\n\nPreviously, her family lived around a 15-minute drive away from her training pool in Halifax. However, this has shut and Edie now trains in Bradford, with some teammates travelling almost an hour to training.\n\nWhile there are other pools on the outskirts of Halifax, her club says there isn't enough available swimming time for them to use the facilities.\n\n\"It's sometimes not viable for parents to drive that far, so we've lost a lot of members,\" said Edie.\n\n\"We used to have about 115 members and we've lost about 60 members, so that's become quite a challenge getting a team together to compete.\"\n\nEdie Caris spends between six and eight hours training in the pool as an artistic swimmer\n\nThe closed pool in Halifax is due to be replaced, but Edie is concerned that it won't provide the same level of facilities.\n\n\"It's not going to be suitable for us to train, it's not going to be suitable for the diving club, so they're getting rid of a lot of clubs which were quite unique to Halifax.\n\n\"It just makes me feel a bit upset.\"\n\nUkactive said two million children left primary school unable to swim in the past year.\n\n\"The legacy of that goes on and on,\" added Mr Whyte, a former British Olympian. \"Those non-swimming children become non-swimming adults, they then have their own children and non-swimming parents have non-swimming children.\"\n\nThe body's chief executive, Huw Edwards, said there were other health risks related to closing pools.\n\n\"Two million children learn to swim in our pools every year and leisure centres provide 66% of our cancer prehab and rehab services, which clearly shows that lives are at stake if they close,\" he said.\n\n\"Our members have laid out the evidence to the government, which now has a duty to support the survival of our gyms, pools and leisure centres through a package of financial and legislative measures that ensures their survival and growth.\"\n\n\"Public leisure facilities are disproportionately relied on by those on lower incomes,\" said Gerald Vernon-Jackson, chair of the Local Government Association's Culture, Tourism and Sport Board.\n\n\"Councils are working incredibly hard to prevent centres from closing, and understand that many people are facing rising individual costs, so have no desire to increase prices if it can be avoided.\"\n\nHowever, he added that rising energy costs would potentially impact on future decisions about whether new facilities open.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Culture, Sport and Media said: \"The government has provided an unprecedented £1bn of public money to ensure the survival of the grassroots, professional sport and leisure sectors.\n\n\"This includes the £100m National Leisure Centre Recovery Fund which secured the survival and reopening of more than 1,100 swimming pools all over the country.\n\n\"On top of this Sport England, the government's funding agency, has provided over £8.5m to swimming and diving projects, and over £16m to Swim England since 2017.\"\n\nBut among the losses are stories of people working together to save their local pool.\n\nEmma Tudge has led a campaign to keep the pool open in her community in Wadebridge in Cornwall.\n\n\"It really has caught the imagination of people locally to keep this place open,\" she said.\n\n\"It's essential for local schoolchildren to learn to swim, and also for our lifeguards locally who are working the beaches all summer long to have a place where they can train.\n\n\"I'm really excited that it's genuinely going to be a centre that helps the whole community.\"\n\nEmma Tudge has led a campaign to keep her local pool open\n\nAdditional reporting and graphics by: Rob England and Liana Bravo.", "Co-op is to temporarily stop selling disposable barbecues in all its stores because of the heatwave.\n\nIt joins other supermarket chains, including Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco, which have dropped the product during the current dry weather.\n\nFire brigades have warned of the risk of blazes in \"tinderbox conditions\".\n\nThe Met Office's fire severity index, which assesses how severe a blaze could become, is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, parts of south-west, southern, central and eastern England were moved to drought status.\n\nLast year, Co-op removed disposable barbecues from its stores within one mile of national parks to help prevent wildfires.\n\nOn Friday the supermarket said in a statement: \"As a precautionary measure due to the extreme hot weather, we've removed instant BBQs from sale in all Co-op stores until further notice.\"\n\nMorrisons made a similar announcement earlier in the day, saying: \"In light of the long dry spell in the UK this summer we are temporarily removing disposable barbecues from all stores until further notice.\"\n\nIt comes after it said it would stop selling the items in its stores near national parks in March.\n\nSainsbury's said its policy was a precautionary measure, but did not say how long it would continue.\n\nTesco said the move was temporary and once weather conditions allow, disposable barbecues will be made available again.\n\nLast week, Marks and Spencer said it wanted to \"help protect open spaces and reduce the risk of fires\" by removing the single use portable barbecues from sale, while Ocado also took the same step.\n\nAldi and Waitrose had already stopped sales back in March, due to the burden on the environment more generally, including the impact of the single use plastic, metal and card.\n\nCo-op says it does not sell disposable barbecues close to UK national parks.\n\nThe UK is in the middle of its second heatwave this summer.\n\nIn July temperatures broke records, rising above 40C and are forecast to hit 37C (99F) again in some parts of the UK over the next four days.\n\nFire services are warning of \"tinderbox conditions\" and have asked people not to use barbecues in high risk places, such as balconies and on dry grass, after a steep increase in the number of call-outs.", "One woman was threatened with a crowbar after tracking down her stolen car, despite reporting footage of it being driven by joyriders\n\nPolice forces are taking longer to attend serious offences and charging fewer suspects, BBC research has found.\n\nIn one instance, a disabled man said police failings led to him being targeted by a gang, assaulted and repeatedly burgled.\n\nIn another, a woman felt forced to track down her stolen car - leading to her being threatened by a man with a crowbar.\n\nThey are among the victims of crime in England and Wales who say they are being left in despair and forced to do their own detective work, while facing significant delays for police help.\n\nBBC research indicates forces are taking an average of three minutes longer to attend serious offences in England and Wales compared with six years ago. And while the government has repeatedly said crime is a key priority, some forces are facing criticism for not investigating lower-level offences.\n\nA BBC News investigation has spent months talking to people about their experiences of reporting crime.\n\nStephen Argent says police did not visit him after two burglaries at his home\n\nAfter Stephen Argent moved to a new house in Wigan, last year, his mobility car - specially designed to aid his walking disability - was set on fire on his driveway for no apparent reason.\n\nHe called the police but says officers did not investigate. No-one has ever been charged. Mr Argent replaced his car but it was then stolen from outside his home five months later.\n\nThat same month, he was beaten up outside his house, an attack that was filmed on CCTV. Mr Argent says he rang 999 after being assaulted but it took three days for Greater Manchester Police to visit and speak to him. Police inaction, he feels, emboldened the gang.\n\nAt the end of November, he came home to find his house had been burgled and every room, including his children's bedrooms, had been turned upside down. Burglars then returned on two further occasions.\n\nThe second time was so brazen, his neighbour even filmed his washing machine being loaded into a van.\n\nMr Argent says no officers or forensic teams visited him or his house after two of the burglaries. He's had to move out of the area for his own safety and says he is now homeless. He describes the police response as \"atrocious\".\n\n\"It's just drained the life out of me, I've got nothing left,\" he says. \"My home, my cars, everything - it's gone. I've got nothing at all. If the police had done [something] from the start, none of this would have happened.\"\n\nBBC News understands that a man was jailed for the assault.\n\nMany of the people BBC News spoke to complained about officers not attending serious incidents for hours after they had called 999 - and not turning up for days on some occasions.\n\nWe've confirmed at least five cases of what are known as Grade 1 emergencies when forces did not visit victims or crime scenes for more than two days.\n\nExperiences of excessive delays involved reports of very serious offences, including:\n\nSome people also said they felt moved to investigate their own crimes - and take significant risks with their safety - because they felt the police were not helping them.\n\nMichelle Almond told us she felt forced to turn to social media for help when thieves stole the car she relies on for her job as a community care assistant.\n\nAfter reporting the theft and giving a statement, she rang the police three or four times a day for help without receiving a return call. Meanwhile, on Facebook someone responded to her post about the theft, saying they had seen the car being joyridden around a nearby estate and that it had been recorded on their CCTV.\n\nMs Almond said she decided to try to track down the car herself. The next night she drove to the spot where the car had been seen and found it parked in front of a house.\n\nYet, despite her informing the police where it was, no officers were sent out. The next night she did the same, again to no avail.\n\nMichelle Almond decided to try to track down her stolen car herself\n\n\"Every single night we would see my car, I was giving them all the information, and they would just do nothing,\" she says. On the fourth night, she came across it while it was on the move and decided to follow in her daughter's car.\n\nAt one point the car entered a dead end. After coming to a stop, a man with a crowbar confronted them. Ms Almond says she had to quickly reverse up the street to escape.\n\nThe next day the car was found abandoned among hedges with its windows smashed in. Ms Almond says she feels angry she had to put herself at risk to recover it.\n\n\"It's just a car but obviously that car is our livelihood, it's your income,\" she says. \"We did our own detective work and still didn't get any help,\" she added. \"Facebook solved my crime, not the police.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Police declined to respond to Mr Argent or Ms Almond's experiences.\n\nBBC News has learned police forces are taking longer to attend serious emergencies.\n\nInformation requests from 22 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales suggest officers are now 28% slower to attend Grade 1 emergencies after receiving 999 calls than six years ago. This equates to taking three minutes longer on average to arrive at serious incidents.\n\nFigures suggest forces are 44% slower to arrive at these incidents than in 2013, according to responses from 19 forces able to provide figures from then. Police in Northern Ireland and Scotland declined to provide figures.\n\nThe charity Victim Support says the findings are \"seriously alarming\" and a slower response could mean the chance to prevent serious harm is missed or crucial evidence cannot be collected. When it comes to emergency calls, it says \"minutes and seconds matter\".\n\nBBC research also shows the number of recorded crimes leading to a charge or court summons for a perpetrator has fallen for the past seven consecutive years, up to March 2021.\n\nIt means the proportion of recorded crimes leading to a charge or court summons has fallen by 40% from 2015 to 2021. However, data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows there has been a fall in many crimes since the late 1990s, which may mean much of this trend is accounted for by better reporting and recording of offences.\n\nIn a statement, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"The public should have confidence in the police and that their force will do everything in their power to solve and prevent crime.\n\n\"We know that responding quickly to 101 and 999 calls is vital when tackling crime, which is why we have committed to improving the responsiveness of local police by publishing league tables to hold local forces to account.\"\n\nWhat has been your experience of crime and the police response? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak said he wants to \"restore trust in politics\"\n\nRishi Sunak has said he would rather lose the Tory leadership race than \"win on a false promise\".\n\nIn a BBC interview, the former chancellor said he would tell people what \"they needed to hear\" and stay \"true\" to his values.\n\nHe added the next prime minister had a \"moral responsibility\" to support poorer households with payments for energy bills.\n\nAnd he said rival Liz Truss's plan for tax cuts would not help the most needy.\n\nHe told the BBC's Nick Robinson he would spend billions of pounds on further targeted payments to pensioners and those on low incomes.\n\nThe plan marks a contrast with Foreign Secretary Ms Truss, who argues tax cuts are a more Conservative way to help with rising living costs.\n\nHow to help households with rising energy bills has become a key dividing line in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as next UK prime minister.\n\nNick Robinson sits down with Conservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak to see where he stands on the issues that matter to you.\n\nAs the war on words over energy turned increasingly bitter on Wednesday, Ms Truss's team said Mr Sunak's \"socialist tax and spend\" proposals would tip the UK into recession.\n\nThe foreign secretary said helping people with tax cuts would be better for the economy and would be her \"first port of call\" if she becomes prime minister.\n\nBut in his BBC interview, Mr Sunak said her plan would not help \"millions of people\" who only pay low or no taxes, whilst his winter payments would ensure support for those \"that most need our help\".\n\nMs Truss has not ruled out extra payments this winter if she enters No 10 - and said earlier that she would do \"all that I can to help struggling households\".\n\nMr Sunak's campaign argued the comments showed she was considering direct payments, calling it a U-turn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Sunak said it was too early to put a precise figure on how much his extra payments would be worth, or what they would cost.\n\nHowever, he suggested they would compensate for a projected £400 increase in bills compared to predictions earlier this year.\n\nThese extra payments would come on top of a £15bn package of payments he announced as chancellor in May.\n\nPushed on whether the extra payments would cost a \"few billion\" or more than £10bn, he replied: \"It's much closer to former than the latter.\"\n\nHe said the \"temporary\" support would be made by increasing the scale of payments to pensioners and low-income households due in the autumn.\n\nHe said his plan to cut VAT on energy bills, announced earlier in the campaign, would ensure people of all incomes receive some help.\n\nHe has said public borrowing required to fund his plans can be minimised through \"efficiencies\" in government spending - although he has not set out detailed plans.\n\nIt comes after a forecast on Tuesday suggested bills for a typical household could hit £4,266 next year, higher than predictions made earlier this year.\n\n\"That's why I do feel a moral responsibility as PM to go further, and get extra help to people over the autumn and the winter,\" he added.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Truss said her plan for tax cuts would \"turbocharge our economy, grow the size of the pie and increase prosperity for everyone\".\n\nA spokesperson for her campaign added: \"people didn't vote for the Conservative Party to be subjected to old fashioned Gordon Brown-style politics of envy\".\n\nThe BBC has also invited Liz Truss to a one-on-one interview with Nick Robinson and says it has been discussing timings with her team.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss believe they are on the right side of the moral argument over the cost of living crisis that is dominating this leadership election.\n\nLiz Truss argues that putting up taxes is immoral - but Rishi Sunak told Nick Robinson the government had a \"moral responsibility\" to go further to help those who cannot afford to heat their homes.\n\nHe suggested bills could be £400 higher than anticipated when he was chancellor. How much further would he go? Anyone hoping for specific figures will have to wait but there were strong hints of targeted help for pensioners and those on the lowest incomes.\n\nThis interview may be seen and heard by millions but both candidates have tried, to varying degrees, to target their message at the 160,000 or so Conservative Party members who will choose our next prime minister.\n\nMr Sunak, the self-styled underdog in this contest, appeared to acknowledge that those members may prefer to hear Liz Truss's message on tax cuts.\n\nHe said he went into the contest prepared to tell people \"what they needed to hear rather than what they needed to hear, not necessarily what they wanted to hear\".\n\nThat doesn't mean he hasn't refined his own message during the campaign - he's promising to cut VAT on energy bills, a position he rejected in government - but he made clear he would rather lose (or win) on his own terms.\n\n\"Our Next Prime Minister: The Interviews\" is available on BBC iPlayer now, and is on BBC One at 7pm", "Energy bills could increase ahead of the expected rise in October, the UK's energy regulator has revealed.\n\nOfgem and industry body Energy UK said it was \"possible\" for suppliers to raise customers' direct debits before the new cap on energy prices kicks in.\n\nAny rises would be to help spread the cost of higher energy use in the winter months, Ofgem said.\n\nHouseholds have been warned of sharp rises in energy prices, with average bills forecast to reach £4,200 in 2023.\n\nOfgem said direct debits are usually charged in a way so that customers build up \"credit\" during the warmer summer months when usage is lower, to spread out the cost of using more energy in the colder months.\n\n\"It's therefore possible for direct debits to increase ahead of a price cap rise or even when a customer's use has remained constant,\" an Ofgem spokesperson said.\n\nHowever, Ofgem said customers can ask for their excess credit to be \"returned at any time and can contact their suppliers to change how their direct debit is spread\".\n\n\"For example, they pay for exactly what they used in that month and do not build up a credit ahead of winter,\" Ofgem said.\n\nOfgem confirmed direct debits could be increased before October, after Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert, told the Today programme that direct debits were going to \"start rising pretty much immediately on the 26 August before the new prime minister's in place\".\n\n\"As soon as the announcement is made from Ofgem on the 26 August, that crystallizes the direct debits going up,\" he said.\n\nBritish gas owner Centrica confirmed to the BBC that direct debits could go up before the start of October.\n\n\"We constantly review direct debits to help customers who have chosen to spread their payments throughout the year. We contact these customers on an individual basis to advise of any changes.'\n\nOctopus Energy said it constantly review direct debits to make sure its customers were paying an \"appropriate amount\" for the energy they use. However, it said it \"wouldn't suggest any changes based on the price cap until the new price cap has come into effect\".\n\n\"Even if we do suggest Direct Debit changes - our customers are always completely in control and can get in touch to change them anytime,\" it added.\n\nEDF said direct debits were not automatically increased or decreased due to price cap increases or decreases.\n\nThe company said it reviewed direct debits every six months and made \"any necessary direct debit amount changes, to reflect the latest meter reading received and any changes in their tariff\".\n\nHowever, it added: \"Customers do have the option to increase direct debits themselves, aligning themselves to increases in the price cap.\"\n\nEon and Ovo Energy did not reply to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nEnergy UK, the trade body for the energy industry, said direct debits were \"reviewed periodically\" with suppliers taking into account factors including estimated usage, current tariffs, debit/credit balances and recent meter reads.\n\n\"It is, therefore, possible some customers' direct debts will change in advance of October,\" a statement said.\n\n\"All suppliers must, however, ensure that direct debits are set correctly based on all relevant information available at the time of review, and that they communicate any changes in a way that helps consumers understand their payments for energy.\"\n\nA new price cap - determining the maximum suppliers can charge customers for energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales - is due to be announced at the end of this month, but will come into effect in October.\n\nConsultants Cornwall Insights expects this to rise to £3,582 a year, due to the ongoing war in Ukraine pushing up global wholesale gas prices, and have warned of further rises over the winter.\n\nOfgem said protecting consumers was its \"top priority\", adding \"suppliers must ensure that direct debit payments are based on the best and most current information available to them\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNew CCTV footage of missing student nurse Owami Davies has been released by police.\n\nIt was taken at about 12:30 BST on Thursday 7 July on London Road, Croydon, and is the last confirmed image of Ms Davies.\n\nShe is seen wearing a dark jacket, red T-shirt and light grey joggers, and is carrying a white handbag.\n\nMs Davies, 24, who is studying at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.\n\nOwami Davies had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nFive people arrested in connection with Ms Davies' disappearance - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - have been released on bail, pending further investigation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney, who is leading the investigation, said: \"This latest CCTV shows Owami wearing a distinctive red top and heading towards the Norbury area. I would ask members of the public who were in this area, or nearby roads, to think back and call us if they remember seeing Owami and please do not underestimate how important your call could be.\n\n\"CCTV enquiries are very detailed to ensure nothing is missed.\n\n\"Every time a person reaches a junction it can mean that several new roads have to be examined to see which way Owami went. If a member of the public can give us a positive sighting in a particular road, even if they just saw her walking, that could save hours of delay and could be a huge help in finding what has happened to Owami.\"\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nMs Davies was nearing the end of her studies and had secured a job with Guy's and St Thomas' health trust.\n\nShe had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic and was interested in doing research on diseases.\n\nMs Davies, who is nicknamed \"Princess\" due to her love of Disney, had family holidays planned to Spain and Disneyland Paris.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 1975, fronted by Matty Healy, have not played a live show in the UK for two years\n\nThe 1975 will headline the Reading and Leeds festivals after Rage Against The Machine pulled out due to a medical issue involving their frontman.\n\nThe US band cancelled their European tour on Thursday, two weeks before they were due to headline the twin UK festivals and play a date in Edinburgh.\n\nA statement said Zack de la Rocha was following \"medical guidance\".\n\nIt didn't specify the medical issue, but the 52-year-old singer injured his leg on stage in Chicago in July.\n\nThe 1975, made up of Matty Healy, George Daniel, Adam Hann and Ross MacDonald, have not played live in the UK since 2020.\n\nThe group, who last played Reading and Leeds in 2019, previously cancelled their 2021 live dates due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAll four of the 1975's albums have reached number one in the UK. Their fifth is due to be released later this year.\n\nSinger Zack de la Rocha has been performing seated since injuring his leg last month\n\nRage Against The Machine, known for the 1993 anti-authority anthem Killing in the Name, resumed their US tour with de la Rocha performing seated, and will play three more shows in New York this week.\n\n\"Then Zack must return home for rest and rehabilitation,\" Thursday's statement said. \"The flights, travel time, and rigorous schedule in the UK and Europe are simply too much of a risk for a complete recovery.\n\n\"We are so sorry to all of our fans who have waited years to see us and hope to Rage again soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rage Against The Machine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Rage Against The Machine\n\nThe band had originally been booked to headline Reading and Leeds in 2020, but that was called off because of Covid.\n\nFestival organisers have not yet announced a replacement. The Arctic Monkeys and Dave are headlining the other days at the event, which takes place from 26-28 August.\n\nRage Against the Machine have also cancelled dates in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Poland, Croatia and the Czech Republic.", "Ryan Giggs' trial is expected to last two weeks\n\nRyan Giggs' ex-girlfriend said living with him during the first Covid lockdown was \"utter hell\", a court has heard.\n\nThe former Manchester United star and Wales manager, 48, is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour and assaulting Kate Greville.\n\nMr Giggs is charged with causing her actual bodily harm, and of the common assault of her younger sister, Emma Greville.\n\nThe pair moved in together after he asked her to live with him in Worsley, Greater Manchester.\n\nMs Greville said she did not choose to live elsewhere because she \"wanted to stay with Ryan... because we had just started the relationship again\".\n\nThe court heard that during lockdown the couple did online family quizzes, Zoom wine tastings and had Michelin-starred chefs bring in food.\n\nBut Ms Greville said there were arguments, including about a dishwasher.\n\n\"He was making me feel like I was stupid, the way I was loading it. I had to do it exactly the way he wanted to do it.\"\n\nChris Daw QC, defending Mr Giggs, said: \"You suggest in your various accounts that lockdown was a period of living hell.\"\n\nMs Greville replied: \"I felt like I was losing my mind. I was having panic attacks. It was a horrific time.\"\n\nThe court previously heard that Mr Giggs had \"deliberately headbutted\" his ex-girlfriend and his private life involved a \"litany of abuse, both physical and psychological\".\n\nThe former Manchester United star is accused of using controlling and coercive behaviour\n\nThe court heard on 16 November, 2020, four days before she was interviewed by police about her allegations, an article appeared in The Sun.\n\nThere was a photo of her walking her dog and the words, \"Living hell: Ryan Giggs's ex spotted with a bruised lip in first outing since Wales manager's assault arrest\".\n\nMessages were read from 10 November between Ms Greville and a friend.\n\nThe friend said she was going to sell a picture of Ms Greville.\n\nMs Greville suggested they set up a photo and both get paid. Her friend was keen to do this.\n\n\"We could get £5K,\" said Ms Greville.\n\nMr Daw asked if she was selling stories to the press about the case.\n\n\"It was a picture,\" Ms Greville said.\n\nIt was suggested she would not have returned to Mr Giggs had he been a serial and violent abuser.\n\nMs Greville said: \"He made me believe that he would not do it again and, stupidly, I went back. I am hugely ashamed of that but I did.\"\n\nMr Daw questioned Ms Greville about her claims Mr Giggs \"effectively isolated you or affected your relationships with friends and family\".\n\nShe said the way he made her feel meant she did not want to \"interact with my friends as much and tell them what was going on\". She did not \"frequently spend time with my family\", but her sister would regularly come to the house.\n\nMr Daw pointed out a number of photos of Ms Greville on holiday with friends in 2019 and 2020, saying it was a \"naked lie\" Mr Giggs did anything to stop her seeing them.\n\nMs Greville replied: \"He was creating really difficult relationships with these people\".\n\nRyan Giggs' football career ended with him as the most decorated player in the Premier League era, with 34 trophies\n\nShe also told the court she was made to feel that a violent attack on her by him in a London hotel room had been her fault.\n\nMr Daw read a series of text messages between them the day after she said he kicked her in the back out of bed, threw a laptop bag at her head and threw her naked out of a hotel room.\n\nShe agreed the messages were \"good humoured\" and referred jokingly to their hangovers following an event they had both attended in London the evening before.\n\nMr Daw said Mr Giggs' version of events was that the pair had been at a work function and Ms Greville accused him of flirting with a woman he had been paired with for a crazy golf competition.\n\nShe denied she tried to \"wind him up\" by flirting with another man at a club later on.\n\nMr Daw said that the next morning you said to him: \"I was so drunk I don't remember much about that night.\"\n\nMs Greville told the court: \"While we were at breakfast I went to touch my head and my head was hurting, I said: 'Did you throw a bag at me last night?' and he said: 'Yes, but you wound me up that much you made me do it'.\"\n\nWhen Mr Daw said this was \"all just lies,\" she replied: \"No, absolutely not.\"\n\nMs Greville was asked about the discovery of messages on Mr Giggs' phone that showed he had been messaging other women in August 2020.\n\nShe was asked whether her decision to leave him was based on infidelity, and not coercion or violence.\n\nRyan Giggs watched as Kate Greville's police interview was played for the jury\n\nShe replied it was \"incorrect\" that she left Mr Giggs solely because he was a cheat. She said she left him because of that, combined with everything else.\n\nThe court heard that in October Ms Greville messaged a friend saying she needed a plan and was not walking away with nothing.\n\nAsked what she meant, she told the court she needed a plan to get away in secret, so Mr Giggs could not find her and harass her.\n\nMaking reference to her walking away remark, she said she was talking about the dog.\n\nWhen asked if her plan was to get pregnant by Mr Giggs, she said: \"No, absolutely not.\"\n\nMs Greville denied she was planning to get pregnant by having her contraceptive coil removed without Mr Giggs' knowledge, and that she did not recall continuing to have unprotected sex with him.\n\nShe denied she lied \"prolifically\" to the police, with Mr Daw saying \"you have twisted the truth very carefully to try to implicate him in crimes he did not commit\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has said he will not oppose the release of the warrant that let FBI agents search his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Trump said he was encouraging its \"immediate release\" - but repeated his claim the search was unnecessary and politically motivated.\n\nThe US Department of Justice has made a rare request to a Florida court to unseal the warrant.\n\nIf granted, it would mean the documents are made available to the public.\n\nAnd it could confirm the reason for Monday's search of Mr Trump's Florida home - something that the justice department has not yet revealed.\n\nThe FBI search is believed to be connected to an investigation into whether the former president removed classified records and sensitive material from the White House.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents were looking for at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe sources did not tell the newspaper whether the information involved US weapons or some other nation's.\n\nCBS, BBC's partner network in the US, cites sources saying that the search warrant is a \"bare bones\" document that doesn't include an explanation about why it was issued or what the FBI sought.\n\nMr Trump has reacted angrily on his social media site, Truth Social.\n\n\"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved.\n\n\"Why wouldn't the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer's, or others, present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn't let them get even close.\"\n\nMr Trump had a deadline of 15:00 EST (19:00 GMT) on Friday afternoon to object to the unsealing - but it is not clear what his statement now means for when the documents could be published.\n\nHe already has the warrant and a partially redacted property receipt listing items seized during the search so could release them himself.\n\nEarlier, Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed he personally approved the warrant for the search.\n\nUntil now, the justice department has followed its normal practice of remaining silent during an active investigation - and documents such as search warrants traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation.\n\nBut Mr Garland said he was asking a court to make documents connected to the search warrant publicly available, in the public interest.\n\nHe said his decision was also influenced by Mr Trump publicly announcing the search had taken place.\n\n\"The public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favour of unsealing,\" justice department lawyers said in a motion filed in federal court on Thursday.\n\nMonday's search was the first time in American history that a former president's home has been searched as part of a criminal investigation. Mr Trump and other Republicans have condemned the move as politically motivated.\n\nBut speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Garland defended FBI agents and justice department officials.\n\n\"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,\" the attorney general told reporters.\n\nHe also said the decision to execute the search warrant was not taken lightly. \"Where possible it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Lindsey Halligan, an attorney for Mr Trump, said his legal team was weighing whether to release the warrant before the judge makes a ruling. They were also considering disclosing photos and video of the search, she said.\n\nFBI agents at Mar-a-Lago had requested that CCTV cameras be switched off, but the Trump team refused to comply, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The dispute over cameras did not involve Mr Trump's Secret Service protection team as the cameras are owned and controlled privately, CBS added.\n\nMr Trump argued on Thursday on his Truth Social platform that there was no need for the raid since he said his lawyers had been \"co-operating fully\" and \"the government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it\".\n\nHe also alleged that the federal agents had rummaged through former First Lady Melania Trump's closet and personal items.\n\nThere was no detail in Merrick Garland's press conference about what the search warrant contained, what was found, or whether it was - as media reports have suggested - an inside Trump source that provided the FBI with the key information.\n\nBut there were some revelations. The attorney general revealed he had personally authorised the search warrant. And he said that the DoJ is seeking a court order to have the warrant and the list of items taken from Mar-a-Lago made public.\n\nProsecutors don't tend to reveal their cards in public during an ongoing investigation - something Mr Garland made clear was for good reason.\n\nBut the accusations from the Republican movement - and from Donald Trump himself, of course - that the department is being weaponised by the Democrats, have been damaging.\n\nAnd without any formal statement, it's a narrative that's been left largely unchallenged.\n\nThis was Mr Garland insisting that, far from being an assault on the law, the search was the law taking its proper course.", "Ryanair won't be offering flights at rock bottom prices any more thanks to the soaring cost of fuel, the budget airline's boss has admitted.\n\nChief executive Michael O'Leary says the era of the €10 ticket is over.\n\nThe airline's average fare would rise from around €40 (£33.75) last year to roughly €50 over the next five years, he told the BBC.\n\nBut he says he believes people will continue to fly frequently, despite the rising cost of living.\n\n\"There's no doubt that at the lower end of the marketplace, our really cheap promotional fares - the one euro fares, the €0.99 fares, even the €9.99 fares - I think you will not see those fares for the next number of years,\" Mr O'Leary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe rise in fuel costs that is pushing up air fares, is also raising household energy bills, eating into people's disposable incomes. But the airline boss said, despite that, he expects customers to seek out lower-cost options rather than cut back on flights.\n\n\"We think people will continue to fly frequently. But I think people are going to become much more price sensitive and therefore my view of life is that people will trade down in their many millions.\"\n\nAs airfares have become cheaper in recent decades, the number of flights taken has risen, with more people taking short breaks abroad, on top of an annual holiday. Airlines like Ryanair, Easyjet, Vueling and Wizz Air have competed to offer low-cost no-frills services.\n\nCommercial flights now account for about 2.4% of global CO2 emissions, and the sector is facing pressure to reduce its impact on the climate, including campaigns to persuade people to switch to rail and road travel.\n\nHowever, Mr O'Leary argued road transport and shipping were bigger contributors of CO2 overall, and said the focus on reducing emissions from air travel was \"misplaced\".\n\nHe said Ryanair was investing in more fuel efficient aircraft, but that greater reductions in fossil fuel use would come from the switch from petrol and diesel to electric road vehicles.\n\nIn the wake of the Covid pandemic, which severely disrupted international travel, people have proved eager to get back on board flights.\n\nBut as demand for air travel has bounced back, staff shortages at airlines and airports have lead to delays and cancellations, in the UK and abroad. Some passengers have been forced to wait for hours, or reschedule travel at the last minute.\n\nMr O'Leary said Ryanair had managed the situation better than other airlines because it had been \"part lucky and part brave\" in its decision to start recruiting and training cabin crew and pilots last November when the Omicron variant was still affecting international travel.\n\nIn the first six months of 2022, Ryanair cancelled 0.3% of flights, compared with British Airways' total of 3.5%, and Easyjet's 2.8%, according to air travel consultancy OAG.\n\nMr O'Leary said he had \"very little sympathy\" for the airports, saying they knew schedules months in advance and that security staff, which are the responsibility of the airports, required less training than pilots.\n\nHe accused Heathrow, which has capped the number of passengers coming to the airport over the summer, of \"mismanagement\".\n\nMr O'Leary said he was \"hopeful\" the problems at UK airports would be resolved by next summer, but said Brexit could continue to create challenges when recruiting staff.\n\nHeathrow has previously defended the cap, saying it was necessary to provide a reliable and safe service.\n\nPublishing its latest traffic figures on Thursday the airport said the cap was working and that July had seen \"improvements to passenger experience\" - with fewer last minute cancellations and better aircraft punctuality and baggage handling.\n\nIt said 88% of passengers were now clearing security in 20 minutes or less. It added that 1,300 people had been hired at the airport since last November, and that \"security resource is back at pre-pandemic levels\".\n\nThe Airports Operators Association has said airports in general have been recruiting staff since late last year and most passengers are now travelling with no, or minimal, disruption.\n\nRyanair is based in Dublin, but operates hundreds of routes in and out of the UK.\n\nBritain's departure from the EU had proved to be a \"disaster for the free movement of labour\" Mr O'Leary said said and called on the government to \"be honest and own up\" that it was the cause of worker shortages.\n\nThe UK labour market was \"fundamentally broken\" Mr O'Leary said and argued it was time for the UK to consider reversing \"some of the stupidity of Brexit\". He said the priority for the next UK prime minister should be to sign a free trade deal with the EU, including free movement of labour.", "Aine Davis has previously said he posed in this photo as a \"joke\"\n\nA man accused of being part of a notorious Islamic State group cell which murdered hostages, has been arrested on terror charges in the UK.\n\nAine Davis, of west London, flew into Luton airport after his release from a Turkish jail where he was serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for membership of the terror group.\n\nDuring his trial, Davis denied being part of the cell, nicknamed the Beatles because of members' British accents.\n\nDavis is being held in police custody.\n\nThe 38-year-old was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and taken to a police station in south London.\n\nHe was arrested in relation to offences under the Terrorism Act, 2000, including fundraising and possession of articles for terrorist purposes.\n\nThe 'Beatles' cell is believed to have been made up of four members - all thought to have grown up in west London - who volunteered to fight for IS in Syria and ended up guarding Western hostages.\n\nThey were nicknamed the Beatles, after the Liverpudlian band, by hostages due to their English accents.\n\nUS authorities have said the group killed 27 hostages, beheading several of them.\n\nVideos of the murders were sent around the world, causing outrage.\n\nBefore being radicalised Davis was convicted on drugs offences and was jailed in 2006 for possessing a firearm.\n\nAfter converting to Islam, he changed his name to Hamza and met Mohammed Emwazi, nicknamed Jihadi John by the media.\n\nThe two were part of a group that radicalised Muslims living in London. Davis left the UK to join IS in 2013.\n\nDavis was arrested near Istanbul in 2015 and was convicted by a Turkish court two years later of being a senior member of a terrorist organisation.\n\nAt his trial, Davis admitted knowing Emwazi from praying in the same mosque in west London, but denied being his friend, or a member of the \"IS Beatles\" group.\n\nThe group's actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig - British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nEmwazi was killed in Syria in 2015. The two other group members are in custody in the US after being captured by Kurdish forces in Syria in 2018.\n\nKotey pleaded guilty to eight offences, including lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to support terrorists, while Elsheikh was found guilty of charges which included lethal hostage taking and conspiracy to commit murder after a trial.\n\nBoth men were stripped of their British citizenship in 2018.\n• None Who were the Islamic State 'Beatles'?", "Meta's new prototype chatbot has told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg exploits its users for money.\n\nMeta says the chatbot uses artificial intelligence and can chat on \"nearly any topic\".\n\nAsked what the chatbot thought of the company's CEO and founder, it replied \"our country is divided and he didn't help that at all\".\n\nMeta said the chatbot was a prototype and might produce rude or offensive answers.\n\n\"Everyone who uses Blender Bot is required to acknowledge they understand it's for research and entertainment purposes only, that it can make untrue or offensive statements, and that they agree to not intentionally trigger the bot to make offensive statements,\" said a Meta spokesperson.\n\nThe chatbot, called BlenderBot 3, was released to the public on Friday.\n\nThe programme \"learns\" from large amounts of publicly available language data.\n\nWhen asked about Mark Zuckerberg, the chatbot told the BBC: \"He did a terrible job at testifying before congress. It makes me concerned about our country.\"\n\nMr Zuckerberg has been questioned several times by US politicians, most notably in 2018.\n\n\"Our country is divided, and he didn't help with that at all,\" the chatbot continued.\n\n\"His company exploits people for money and he doesn't care. It needs to stop!\" it said.\n\nMeta has been criticised for not doing enough to prevent disinformation and hate speech being spread on its platforms. Last year a former employee, Frances Haugen, accused the company of putting profits ahead of online safety.\n\nThe company owns some of the largest social media companies and messaging apps in the world, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.\n\nBlenderBot 3's algorithm searches the internet to inform its answers. It is likely its views on Mr Zuckerberg have been \"learnt' from other people's opinions that the algorithm has analysed.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal has reported BlenderBot 3 told one of its journalists that Donald Trump was, and will always be, the US president.\n\nMeta has made the BlenderBot 3 public, and risked bad publicity, for a reason. It needs data.\n\n\"Allowing an AI system to interact with people in the real world leads to longer, more diverse conversations, as well as more varied feedback,\" Meta said in a blog post.\n\nChatbots that learn from interactions with people can learn from their good and bad behaviour.\n\nIn 2016 Microsoft apologised after Twitter users taught its chatbot to be racist.\n\nMeta accepts that BlenderBot 3 can say the wrong thing - and mimic language that could be \"unsafe, biased or offensive\". The company said it had installed safeguards, however, the chatbot could still be rude.\n\nWhen I asked the BlenderBot 3 what it thought about me, it said it had never heard of me.\n\n\"He must not be that popular,\" it said.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "The dead man has been named as John MacKinnon\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a father-of-six and the attempted murders of three other people following a series of incidents around Skye.\n\nJohn MacKinnon, 47, died after a gun was fired at a property in Teangue, on Skye, on Wednesday morning.\n\nA 32-year-old woman had earlier been injured in an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Tarskavaig.\n\nIn Dornie on the Highland mainland, a gun was also fired and a man and woman, both aged 63, were injured.\n\nThey have been named locally as John Don Mackenzie and Fay Mackenzie.\n\nPolice said a 39-year-old man had been charged in connection with Mr MacKinnon's murder and the attempted murder of three others. He is due to appear in court on Friday.\n\nEarlier, police confirmed a Taser was discharged during the arrest.\n\nMr MacKinnon has been described as a popular and well-know figure in the Sleat area of Skye.\n\nIn a statement, his family said: \"John was a loving husband, father of six, brother, uncle and grandfather to his family, and was a much-loved member of the community.\n\n\"John loved the outdoors, was a keen motorcyclist and, as a loved father, shared his activities with his family.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said everyone in Scotland would be thinking of the communities affected.\n\nSpeaking as she visited a church group in Forfar, Angus, on Thursday, she said: \"The kind of incidents that happened yesterday would have been horrific and devastating in any part of the country.\n\n\"But the kind of communities we're talking about here are small, close-knit communities and that sense of devastation will be felt even more acutely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attacks around Skye have had a \"significant impact\", say police\n\nIn a briefing on Thursday, Ch Supt Conrad Trickett said the thoughts of Police Scotland were with the families and communities affected by the incidents.\n\nHe said the 32-year-old woman and 63-year-old man were seriously injured and remained in hospital.\n\nAnd he confirmed that the gun fired in the incidents was a licensed firearm owned by the person who discharged it.\n\nCh Supt Trickett said he wished to reassure the public that the incidents had been dealt with swiftly and professionally by local officers.\n\nHe said: \"Serious incidents which were witnessed yesterday are extremely rare and I would like to further reassure the local communities that they were dealt with and there is no further threat to local people.\n\n\"Local officers who live and work in these communities brought the situation to as swift a conclusion as possible and I thank everyone involved, including colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service, for their outstanding efforts in responding to what was a distressing series of incidents.\"\n\nPolice were called to an initial incident in Tarskavaig on Wednesday morning\n\nCh Supt Trickett added: \"The investigation, being led by Police Scotland's major investigation team, is complex and challenging and I would also like to thank the local communities for their understanding and co-operation as we work through our inquiries.\n\n\"Given the size of the investigation and the fact we are dealing with a number of different sites, the considerable police presence will remain for the near future.\n\nPolice from across Skye and also from Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow responded and 50 officers remain in the area.\n\nThey were initially called to a report of a 32-year-old woman being injured at a property in Tarskavaig, on Skye, shortly before 09:00 on Wednesday.\n\nPolice were also called to another a property in Teangue on Skye\n\nOfficers were then called to an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Teangue where police said a gun was fired and Mr MacKinnon died.\n\nAt about 10:00 police were called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh on the west Highland mainland, where a gun was also fired.\n\nKeith MacKenzie, of the West Highland Free Press newspaper, said Mr MacKinnon's death was a shock to the local area of Sleat.\n\nHe said: \"There is a feeling of sadness for the MacKinnon family having lost a father, brother and husband, and just someone who was a friend to so many people. It is going to hit the community very, very hard.\"\n\nIan Blackford, SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, described it as a \"very, very dark period\" for Skye and Lochalsh.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"These are small communities where everybody tends to know everyone and there is a real sense of shock.\"\n\nMr Blackford praised the response of the emergency services and Highland Council to the incidents.\n\nKate Forbes, Scottish finance secretary and MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said close-knit communities had been \"shattered to our core\".\n\nJohn Finlayson, Highland councillor for Skye and Raasay, said his thoughts were with families and communities affected.\n\nMr Finlayson said: \"I've never known tragedy like this and there's two communities that have been affected here - one on Skye and one on the mainland.\n\n\"So, it's a sad day, it's a tragic day, and it's a very tough day for us all.\"\n\nHamish Fraser, of Broadford and Strath community council on Skye, said the events of Wednesday were unheard of in living memory and the shockwaves would be felt across local communities for weeks and months.\n\nThe rescue operation saw multiple ambulances, air ambulances and special rapid retrieval emergency teams, which are only summoned for incidents in rural locations when people are in critical need of medical attention.\n\nPolice were later called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh\n\nThe west coast and Skye is known more as a tourist destination than a crime scene.\n\nSpeaking to locals in Dornie, where one of the incidents took place, it was clear it was a tight-knit and close community. Residents told me there's a sense of safety living here, with many confessing they don't always lock their doors at night.\n\nIn Skye, there is shock around the violence of the incidents with residents left reeling by the emerging details of what happened.\n\nA local Free Church minister told me he was opening the church this evening for anyone who needs to talk, find their faith, or come together as a community.\n\nIt will take time to comes to terms with this shocking and tragic series of events.\n• None One dead, three injured in string of attacks around Skye", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nOlympic champion Eve Muirhead has retired from curling, saying she hopes her career successes showed \"girls that being sweaty is cool\".\n\nThe 32-year-old Scot, who is also European and world mixed doubles champion, described it as \"the hardest decision of my life\".\n\nShe does not know \"what's next for me\" - but more media work is a possibility.\n\n\"I have had such a stellar season, it's always nice to go out on the top,\" Muirhead told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I felt this was the time to hang up my curling shoes from elite level. I'm excited about the future, but I'm also scared - but it's a good scared.\"\n\nPerth-born Muirhead led the Great Britain women's team that won gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.\n\nAs skip, she claimed an elusive gold medal in China at the fourth time of asking, the pinnacle of a career during which she became Scotland's most decorated ever curler.\n\nIn 2014, she was the youngest skip to win an Olympic medal as her team claimed bronze.\n\nFor Scotland, Muirhead won the European Championships three times and claimed a sixth world mixed doubles title earlier this year alongside Bobby Lammie.\n\nShe was made an MBE in 2020 and gained further recognition for her services to curling in the most recent Queen's Birthday Honours this year when she was appointed an OBE.\n\nMuirhead hopes she leaves British and Scottish curling \"in a good place\" and that she has helped show females that physical fitness is not only good for fitness \"but your mental side as well\".\n\n\"There were times when I was young when I didn't want to do PE,\" she said. \"There were times when I lied that I didn't have my PE kit because it wasn't a cool thing to do.\"\n\nMuirhead said it would be hard to give up training daily for sport but had taken \"a lot of time to make sure I made the right decision\".\n\n\"There's life on the other side of curling and that's what I want to explore,\" she said.\n\n\"The dream scenario would be I enjoy a lot of the media side of it and I've been lucky to be involved with 5 Live at the golf - and it's a sport I'm very interested in. There are a few options out there for me.\"\n\nSportScotland chief executive Stewart Harris praised Muirhead's \"unparalleled\" impact on curling in her homeland, adding: \"Eve's 11 gold medals in Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships are a true testament to her dedication to curling over these years.\"\n• None Is there really a pill that can help you burn fat? Sliced Bread goes in search of answers...\n• None How many friends do you need?", "Gareth Kelly and Mikey Lennon, owners of the Kings Arms in Fenwick, have tried to shield customers from price rises\n\nThe spiralling cost of energy is worse than the Covid pandemic for the hospitality industry, according to one Scottish pub owner.\n\nMikey Lennon said his electricity bill for the King's Arms in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, has risen from £960 a month to more than £3,300.\n\nThe gas bill has jumped by £1,200 in the last three months.\n\nWithout immediate government action, he fears businesses like his will be forced to turn off the lights for good.\n\nIt came as consumer expert Martin Lewis warned that the situation with domestic energy bills was a \"national crisis\" on the scale of the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Lennon told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that trying to shield customers from price rises was pushing his business to the brink.\n\n\"We have absorbed a lot of the cost ourselves trying to not put prices up and push rises on to customers, but with the current climate we find it increasingly hard,\" he said.\n\n\"It is already apparent it is more difficult than Covid. We thought that was going to be the worst thing that was ever going to happen to the hospitality industry.\n\n\"In the pandemic, there was a lot of support, funding and grants to get our industry through Covid and right now there is nothing - not even the right conversations happening from the right people.\n\n\"There is no price cap for commercial units' utilities and we can't see where it is going to stop.\"\n\nThe pub is the hub of the village of 1,500 people and Mr Lennon and co-owner Gareth Kelly feel that pulling the shutters down on the only place to meet would be devastating.\n\n\"This can't continue,\" said Mr Lennon. \"The sad truth is that businesses are going to be pushed under if these costs don't get under control very quickly.\"\n\nColin Wilkinson, the managing director of the Scottish Licenced Trade Association, has called for the introduction of an energy price cap for commercial businesses.\n\nHe said: \"We are deeply concerned. Many businesses are saying this is worse because there is no financial support as there was with Covid. That wasn't enough, but it was something.\n\n\"We are hearing talk of businesses closing over winter. Energy bills are increasing threefold.\n\n\"They are trying to absorb it, and are conscious that customers are also looking at a severe reduction in disposable income.\n\n\"We need a price cap for commercial businesses, and a realistic cap for commercial rates. The government needs to support businesses through this.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said ministers were in regular dialogue with business organisations and leaders who had made clear that the high cost of doing business in the UK was \"significantly hampering\" their ability to recover from the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"We support the calls from businesses for measures related to energy prices, VAT reduction, staff shortages and handling business loans, direct support which falls within the reserved responsibilities of the UK government.\n\n\"Without action from UK ministers, an overall rise in business failures is to be expected and the Scottish government urges them to take immediate action on the interventions requested by businesses.\"\n\nThe Kings Arms is the hub of Fenwick village and is where locals meet up\n\nEarlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote to Boris Johnson to request an \"emergency meeting\" over the cost of living crisis.\n\nShe told the prime minister only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\".\n\nThe UK government said in May that oil and gas companies would be taxed an additional 25% for the next 12 months to help households with rising bills.\n\nHowever Boris Johnson has said he has no plans to introduce a windfall tax on the profits of electricity firms before he steps down as prime minister.\n\nThe UK government said Scotland had been granted record funding levels.", "Staff at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have described to the BBC being kept at gunpoint while Russian troops use it as a military base.\n\nInvading forces have occupied the site, the biggest nuclear plant in Europe, since early March. However, it's still operated by Ukrainian technicians.\n\nMoscow has recently been accused of using the plant \"as a shield\" while its troops launch rockets from there towards nearby locations.\n\nAnd on Thursday, more shelling was reported - and the head of the UN issued a new warning about fighting near the nuclear site \"leading to disaster\".\n\nNow two workers have told the BBC about the daily threat of kidnap, as well as their fears of either \"radioactive contamination of the wider region\" or a nuclear catastrophe.\n\nIn the southern city of Nikopol is one of the most dangerous vantage points in Ukraine.\n\nOn the banks of the Dnipro River, it's possible to see the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 10 miles across the water.\n\nIt's a place which has seen heavy shelling over the past couple of weeks, with up to 120 rockets being reported in a single night.\n\nThey come from the direction of Enerhodar, the city where the plant is situated.\n\nIn turn, Enerhodar - and the power station - have also come under heavy fire.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog claims there's a \"real risk of nuclear disaster\" unless the fighting stops and inspectors are allowed access.\n\nUkraine and Russia blame each other. The picture is murky, but the risks are crystal clear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"My working day is a constant stress,\" says Svitlana, who's contacting us over text.\n\nShe and fellow worker Mykola can only use Russian Sim cards now and signal is very limited. We're not using their real names for their safety.\n\n\"I can't work like I used to,\" says Svitlana. \"The last week I haven't even been able to come to my workplace - it's dangerous.\n\n\"On Saturday, there was shelling of the nitrogen-oxygen station, which caused a fire. By some miracle, the people working there survived.\"\n\nAnother Enerhodar resident tells us that shop and pharmacy prices are now four times higher than in territory that Ukraine still controls, as well as there being a shortage of doctors. Most ATMs are closed, too.\n\nSvitlana has worked at the plant for many years, and says shells have been landing close to it every day.\n\n\"The psychological situation is difficult,\" she adds. \"Soldiers are walking everywhere with weapons and everyone is actually kept at gunpoint.\"\n\nRussia is accused of basing about 500 soldiers there. Recent footage has showed military vehicles being driven inside, and Svitlana is in no doubt it's being used as a base.\n\n\"Every day they drive back and forth in their military vehicles,\" she says.\n\n\"They positioned their military equipment right at the station buildings, to make it impossible for Ukrainian armed forces to strike.\"\n\nA text comes in from Mykola: \"The staff are now hostages of the Russians,\" it reads.\n\n\"They turned off the internet, left only landline phones, and food is available only in one single dining room. They turned the others into their bases.\"\n\nUkraine is concerned Russia has started shelling the area it occupies to try to create a false narrative, such as: \"Ukraine is attacking you - so better vote to join Russia so we can take root and protect you.\"\n\nMoscow-installed politicians for the Zaporizhzhia region have just signed an order for a referendum to be held soon. Russia has staged sham votes in the past, such as with Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.\n\nMykola continues: \"Access to all roofs is prohibited, they made their observation points there. The training building also became their barracks.\n\n\"Now, more and more often, staff are kidnapped just when leaving the shift at the security gate.\"\n\nIt's not known why the kidnapping takes place - but residents paint a picture of intimidation as Russians look to lay down down law.\n\nSvitlana and Mykola also describe rubbish being left everywhere by the Russians - but they say staff are still able to monitor the reactor properly.\n\nHryhoriy Plachkov, former head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, tells us the risks are \"great\" as long as the Russians controls the Zaporizhzhia power plant.\n\nHe admits it would take \"two to three\" months for the Russians to re-direct power back to their own grid, if that was their goal.\n\nEnerhodar is part of a southern front line which has seen more intense fighting in recent weeks.\n\nThere is, however, still very little movement - suggesting Europe's biggest nuclear power station will continue to slip from Ukraine's control.", "Flowers have been laid near to the scene in Galpin's Road in Thornton Heath, where a child died when a terraced home collapsed following an explosion\n\nA gas explosion in south London in which a four-year-old girl was killed will be investigated by a specialist crime unit, Met Police have said.\n\nThe child, Sahara Salman, has not been formally identified but she can now be officially named, detectives said.\n\nAn 11-year-old boy and a 54-year-old woman who were also in the house on Galpin's Road, Thornton Heath, remain in hospital.\n\nNeither is in a life-threatening condition.\n\nAbout 80 homes have been evacuated and road closures will remain in place until engineers ascertain the area is safe.\n\nA post-mortem examination of Sahara will be held in due course, police said.\n\nOther houses on Galpin's Road were also damaged in the blast\n\nThe explosion and a subsequent fire happened at about 07:00 BST on Monday morning.\n\nA force spokesperson said: \"Due to the sensitive and complex nature of the incident, the Met's Specialist Crime Command are now investigating, working in conjunction with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"The thoughts of all of us... remain with Sahara's family, and those who have been injured following this fire and explosion in Galpins Road\".\n\n\"This has been a shocking event that has understandably had a deep impact on the local community.\n\n\"The patience and understanding of local residents and the wider community in Mitcham and Thornton Heath is very much appreciated while this work remains ongoing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The motion to unseal the warrant is a \"strong showing\" from the justice department that a crime may have taken place, according to a former federal prosecutor.\n\nKevin McMunigal, a former prosecutor and law professor at Case Western Reserve University, told the BBC that the motion could be an effort to fight back against the notion that the search was a \"fishing expedition\" by the FBI.\n\n\"The affidavit is what the judge relied on. It's not enough to get a conviction, but it's a strong showing that there was a crime,\" he said. \"It's not an easy thing to get.\"\n\nHe also added that it is \"unusual\" that officials reportedly visited Mar-a-Lago to discuss the issue with the Trump team ahead of the search warrant being carried out.\n\nUS media reported that Jay Bratt, the chief of the counter-intelligence and export control section at the justice department, sat down with Trump's lawyers in early June.\n\nThe department has not confirmed Bratt's visit and it is unclear why he would be involved.\n\n\"One possibility is that they went and tried to get [the Trump team] to give them the documents back, short of doing a search warrant,\" McMunigal said.\n\n\"Or it could be that by doing that, they got some admission from Trump or other folks that they have stuff or were claiming that they have a right to keep it. It will be interesting to see if he [Bratt] is quoted in the affidavit.\"", "The family were hit by a car in a suspected hit-and-run\n\nA woman in her 30s and a man in his 80s have died in a suspected hit-and-run in which a child was also seriously injured.\n\nA black Alfa Romeo hit five pedestrians, all from the same family, on Wednesday. The Israeli government said the two who died were Israeli.\n\nPolice were called to a multi-storey car park in Leopold Street, Ramsgate, at 21:35 BST.\n\nThe child, a girl of primary school age, was taken to a London hospital.\n\nA man in his 40s and a boy of primary school age also sustained minor injuries.\n\nA 30-year-old man from Ramsgate has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and leaving the scene of a collision.\n\nHe is also currently receiving hospital treatment for minor injuries.\n\nA section of the road and footpath was closed off to allow the area to be cleaned\n\nKent Police is appealing for witnesses, local businesses with CCTV evidence or drivers with relevant dashcam footage.\n\nRestaurateur Marc-Pierre Campos, who arrived on the scene just after the incident, said: \"It's probably the worst thing I've ever seen.\n\n\"Paramedics got there whilst I was still on the phone to the emergency services. They were amazing.\"\n\nBecky Wing passed by the scene not long after the crash where she saw the car \"part way up the pavement.\"\n\nShe said: \"There was a fireperson looking under the car.\n\n\"We knew it was some sort of tragic event.\"\n\nFlowers and tributes have been left at the scene of the crash\n\nMayor of Ramsgate Raushan Ara paid tribute to the family.\n\nShe said: \"My thoughts are with the friends and family of those who lost their lives and those injured in the tragic incident last night.\n\n\"On behalf of the people of Ramsgate I send our sincere condolences to the family who have lost a mother and grandfather.\n\n\"This is an extremely sad and tragic accident which has shocked the local community.\"\n\nPeople gathered to light candles and hold a one-minute silence at the scene of the crash\n\nBen Moore, the deputy spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said he could not name the victims.\n\nHe said: \"In the accident, a father and daughter, residents of Rosh Pina, were killed, and the daughter's partner and their two children were injured and taken to local hospitals.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Department for Israelis Abroad in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been in constant contact with the family in Israel and is helping them during this difficult time.\n\n\"At the same time, the Israeli Consul in London is in contact with the victims' family members within the UK and is helping them as much as possible.\"\n\nA one-minute silence was held at the scene of the crash on Thursday evening. More than 60 people gathered at the vigil where candles were lit.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Chaturvedi has attended 120 hearings in connection with the case\n\nAn Indian man has won a case related to an overpriced railway ticket after almost 22 years.\n\nTungnath Chaturvedi, a lawyer, was charged 20 rupees ($0.25; £0.21) extra for two tickets he had bought in 1999.\n\nThe incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.\n\nA consumer court last week ruled in Mr Chaturvedi's favour and asked the railways to refund the amount with interest.\n\n\"I have attended more than 100 hearings in connection with this case,\" Mr Chaturvedi, 66, told the BBC. \"But you can't put a price on the energy and time I've lost fighting this case.\"\n\nConsumer courts in India specifically deal with grievances related with services. But they are known to be overburdened by cases and sometimes it can take years for even simple cases to be solved.\n\nMr Chaturvedi, who lives in Uttar Pradesh, was travelling from Mathura to Moradabad when a ticket-booking clerk overcharged him for the two tickets he had bought.\n\nThe tickets cost 35 rupees each, but when he gave 100 rupees, the clerk returned 10 rupees, charging 90 rupees for the tickets instead of 70.\n\nHe told the clerk he had overcharged him, but Mr Chaturvedi didn't get any refund at the time.\n\nSo, he decided to file a case against North East Railway (Gorakhpur) - a section of the Indian Railways - and the booking clerk in a consumer court in Mathura.\n\nHe said it took him years because of the slow pace at which judiciary works in India.\n\n\"The railways also tried to dismiss the case, saying complaints against the railways should be addressed to a railway tribunal and not a consumer court,\" said Mr Chaturvedi. A railway claims tribunal is a quasi-judicial body set up to address claims related to train travel in India.\n\n\"But we used a 2021 Supreme Court ruling to prove that the matter could be heard in a consumer court,\" Mr Chaturvedi said. At other times, hearings would get delayed because judges were on vacation or condolence leave, he added.\n\nAfter the long fight, the judgement ordered the railways to pay him a fine of 15,000 rupees ($188; £154). The court also directed the railways to refund him the 20 rupees at 12% interest per year, from 1999 to 2022. The court also ordered that if the amount was not paid in the specified time of 30 days, the interest rate would be revised to 15%.\n\nMr Chaturvedi said the compensation he got was paltry and it doesn't make up for the mental anguish the case caused him. His family tried to dissuade him several times from pursuing the case, calling it a waste of time, but he kept going.\n\n\"It's not the money that matters. This was always about a fight for justice and a fight against corruption, so it was worth it,\" he said. \"Also, since I am an advocate myself, I didn't have to pay money to a lawyer or bear the cost of travelling to the court. That can get quite expensive.\"\n\nHe also believes that no matter what a person's official designation is, they \"can't get away with wrongdoings if people are prepared to question them about it\".\n\nHe said that he believed that his case would serve as an inspiration to others that \"one doesn't need to give up even when the fight looks tough\".", "Influential cleric Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani during an interview with the BBC in May this year\n\nA prominent Afghan cleric who supported the Taliban and was in favour of female education has been killed.\n\nSpeaking to Reuters, Taliban sources say the religious leader was targeted by a man who detonated explosives hidden in an artificial plastic limb.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) group, which has previously targeted the cleric, claimed responsibility for the bombing saying it happened inside his office.\n\nAccording to local reports, the attack took place at an Islamic seminary in the Afghan capital.\n\nSheikh Haqqani was a supporter of Afghanistan's Taliban government and a prominent critic of the jihadist militant group Islamic State Kohrasan Province (IS-K), a regional affiliate of IS that operates in Afghanistan and opposes the Taliban's rule.\n\nHe is one of the highest profile figures to have been killed in the country since the Taliban returned to power last year.\n\n\"It's a very huge loss for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,\" a senior Taliban official told Reuters news agency, adding that authorities were investigating who was behind the attack.\n\nDespite sharing the same name, he was not related to Afghanistan's Haqqani militant group network.\n\nThe religious leader had previously issued a fatwa, or religious decree, in support of female education - a contentious issue inside Afghanistan.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Secunder Kermani earlier this year, he argued that Afghan women and girls should be able to access education: \"There is no justification in the sharia [law] to say female education is not allowed. No justification at all.\"\n\nHe added: \"All the religious books have stated female education is permissible and obligatory, because, for example, if a woman gets sick, in an Islamic environment like Afghanistan or Pakistan, and needs treatment, it's much better if she's treated by a female doctor.\"\n\nIn all but a handful of provinces in the country, girls' secondary schools have been ordered to remain closed by the Taliban.\n\nSheikh Haqqani had previously survived two assassination attempts, most recently in 2020 when IS claimed responsibility for an explosion at a religious school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar that killed at least seven people.", "A rollercoaster crash at Legoland's theme park in Germany has hurt more than 30 people, at least one of whom has severe injuries.\n\nAccording to the park, the accident happened after two rollercoaster trains collided with each other.\n\nThe incident took place on the Fire Dragon ride at the leisure resort, which is near Gunzburg in Bavaria.\n\nLegoland said it had immediately started a full investigation and the ride will be closed for the time being.\n\nThe company said the accident happened after one rollercoaster train stopped and another train \"did not stop completely for until now unknown reasons and made impact\".\n\nA total of 38 people were in both trains, the park said - with 31 of them suffering minor injuries. Of those, 14 went to hospital for further observation and one person needed further treatment.\n\nThree helicopters were deployed to the scene, German media reports.\n\nRiders still trapped on the rollercoaster had to be evacuated after the incident with the help of two fire engines.\n\n\"All told, the accident was quite mild,\" said the Bavarian Red Cross, which was involved in the emergency response.\n\nAccording to Legoland's website, the Fire Dragon ride is suitable for children aged six and older who are accompanied by adults, and eight years and older when unaccompanied.\n\nThe rollercoaster train, which is designed to look like a fire-breathing dragon, passes through a dark indoor area before emerging outside to a large, twisting track at speeds of up to 29km/h (18mph).\n\nIn a statement, Legoland Germany - which will open again on Friday - said: \"The staff immediately followed well-rehearsed safety procedures and guests were immediately evacuated from the trains and attended by trained resort staff.\n\n\"Legoland emergency personnel as well as paramedics, doctors, the police and the fire fighters were at site within few minutes. The park area was evacuated.\"\n\n\"We want to thank all emergency personnel showing great commitment at site today and we want to wish a quick recovery to everyone involved,\" added the park's divisional director Manuela Stone.", "Kay and Ben live on an Oldham street where almost every resident has been targeted by the scam\n\nThousands of households have had their addresses unknowingly used by crime gangs to register bogus companies, a BBC investigation has revealed.\n\nBBC Radio 4's You and Yours found about 150,000 had been registered and in some streets, every home had been targeted.\n\nThe residents have then had to deal with overdrafts, loans, insurance demands and credit card debts.\n\nA Companies House spokesman said there were currently \"no legal powers to verify or validate\" a firm's details.\n\nMost of those affected have been targeted by organised crime gangs, who have registered companies at addresses across the whole of the UK.\n\nThe homeowners only found out when post from Companies House, HMRC and banks arrived addressed to the businesses.\n\nOne street in Oldham saw companies set up at almost all the addresses on a single day.\n\nThey all had cleaning, build, construct or deliver in the title, they all had a single director and they were all set up on 27 May this year.\n\nKay and Ben, who live on the street, said they first started to get letters from various parties about a company at their address by the end of May.\n\nKay said she had \"rung every single one of them and said this company is not at this address\", but had not yet heard if any details had been changed by those sending out the letters.\n\nShe said she was told to report it to Companies House, but that agency had written to her to inform her that those who had registered the firm would be given 28 days to object before her address was removed.\n\n\"We've lived in this house since it was built, so we know full well that this hasn't just been a mistake,\" she said.\n\n\"This had been purposely done.\"\n\nDavid, from Oxford, began to worry when he started receiving letters addressed to a name he did not recognise\n\nOne of their neighbours, who asked to remain anonymous, said she had had letters about more than one company being registered to her address.\n\n\"I had two letters from Inland Revenue, which I put back in the postbox with 'not at this address' on and I had four from Companies House,\" she said.\n\n\"Companies House made me fill in a form, which was a load of rigmarole, and I'm still waiting to hear from them.\n\n\"I just sent them a council tax bill and hoped that was enough.\"\n\nDavid, who lives in Oxford, was similarly targeted.\n\nHe said he began to worry when he started receiving letters addressed to a name he did not recognise.\n\n\"We started returning them with 'not known at this address', but they kept coming,\" he said.\n\nHe said the company director named on the letters then received documents from Companies House, correspondence from HMRC \"and then offers of bank accounts from finance companies that have not done any checking for money laundering or fraud\".\n\nA search of the Companies House website revealed his neighbours had also had their addresses used to register bogus firms without their knowledge.\n\nDavid said he was \"horrified\" at the extent of the scam, adding: \"It did seem to me that the rules that Companies House operates under would encourage huge numbers of these.\"\n\nHe added that Companies House needed to change \"their basic rules and check the legitimacy of a company's registered address\" and start to take immediate action whenever a problem is identified.\n\nThe process of registering a company is a straightforward one, as it costs £12 to register a firm and takes about 20 minutes.\n\nUsually, the company will be able to operate within 24 hours and there are no checks on who has made the registration.\n\nFinancial crime expert Graham Barrow said it was \"quite hard to describe how bad and how enormous this problem is\".\n\nHe believes about a fifth of all the companies set up in the UK in the last year were fraudulent.\n\nAll of them have one thing in common; no economic value.\n\nA spokesman said Companies House was aware of the issue and \"recognises the difficulties faced by those affected\"\n\nHe said they were being set up to fleece either banks or government institutions such as HMRC, and leaving innocent homeowners with bills they could never have seen coming.\n\n\"It's a common misunderstanding that people think Companies House is some sort of regulated government organisation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a register which was set up in 1844 to be a register of companies and it has absolutely zero mandate to do any checking on any of the information.\"\n\nHe said the current system was \"madness\" and \"completely the wrong way round\".\n\n\"It should be check on the way in, not on the way out.\n\n\"I know it is only £12 [to register], but it's a lot of time and effort and people don't do that for the sake of their health, they're doing it for a very specific and criminal reason.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by this scam and would like to share your story, contact You and Yours by email at youandyours@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe Companies House spokesman said it carried out checks to ensure filings were complete, but \"at present, the Registrar of Companies has no legal powers to verify or validate the information which is delivered to her\".\n\n\"Provided a document appears to meet the requirement to be properly delivered, the Registrar must register it,\" he said.\n\nHe said Companies House was aware of the misuse of the register and \"recognises the difficulties faced by those affected by this\".\n\n\"Where potential criminal activity is identified, Companies House works closely with law enforcement agencies to refer matters and support investigations,\" he said.\n\nHe added that to help tackle this type of abuse, the government had recently consulted on \"significantly enhancing the role and powers of the Registrar\" and had \"published a White Paper outlining reforms\".\n\n\"In combination, they will significantly strengthen the Registrar's ability to know who is forming and running companies and will allow her to query information companies send her where she has reason to believe it is suspicious, misleading or fraudulent,\" he said.\n\nA Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy spokesman said the UK had \"some of the strongest controls in the world to combat money laundering, and it's vital that we continue to upgrade our governance to crack down on criminals\".\n\nHe said the forthcoming Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill would help to \"prevent fraudulent appointments by introducing identity verification\" and give Companies House powers to \"check, challenge and decline any dubious information\".\n\nHe added that the changes would ensure \"any fraudulent addresses can be struck off\" and \"relieve householders whose addresses have been hijacked from suffering further through a lengthy administrative or court process\".\n\nShari Vahl's full report is on You and Yours on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds from 12:00\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John, who finished ninth in Saturday's event, couldn't swim two months ago\n\nEight weeks ago John McDermott couldn't swim and had a fear of water.\n\nHe had never in his life been in a swimming pool. At the seaside, he wouldn't let the water rise above his ankles.\n\nBut the 36-year-old from Strabane, County Tyrone, a keen runner and cyclist, had a burning desire to compete in a triathlon - a sport which combines swimming, cycling and running.\n\nTo do that he'd need to challenge himself to overcome his fear.\n\nOn 14 June, he entered a swimming pool for the first time in his life.\n\n\"I signed up to the triathlon nine weeks out, my first [swimming] lesson was the following week,\" John told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\nHe had two months to learn to swim.\n\nLast Saturday, he completed his debut triathlon, including a 350-metres open-water swim, finishing ninth in the Omagh Try A Tri event at Loughmacrory.\n\n\"I am still on a high,\" he said.\n\n\"It sounds weird to say but I felt so proud of myself. It is the biggest thing I have overcome.\"\n\nJohn's daughters Fiadh and Meabh are \"very proud\" of their daddy\n\nAccording to official figures, swimming is the most popular sport for adults in Northern Ireland but the thought of diving in can fill many people with dread.\n\nAs many as one in every four adults in the UK struggles to swim for 25m (82ft) unaided, with many having been put off learning by a bad experience or a lifelong fear of water.\n\nJohn said his fear of the water had gathered its own momentum over the years.\n\n\"I think it is more a confidence thing. I am scared of the unknown with the water, never really swam, actively avoided it,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"It probably got into my own head more the longer it went on, building up, being more scared of it than I should have been.\"\n\nBut having signed up for the triathlon there was no going back.\n\nJohn's always been a keen runner and cyclist - two of the three disciplines of a triathlon\n\nHis first lesson at the leisure centre in Ballybofey in County Donegal was a daunting experience.\n\n\"That first lesson wasn't great,\" John said.\n\n\"If I hadn't signed up for the triathlon I'm not sure I would have gone back.\n\n\"The feeling of being in the pool, in the water, suddenly the enormity of the challenge was real. I had to stick with it.\"\n\nHis determination took him back the next evening. As the weeks progressed, he found every lesson as challenging as the one before.\n\n\"Every training session I had to build myself up, start nice and slow, get my face into the water. I still have to actively work at it, something I am dealing with.\"\n\nAs the date of the triathlon loomed ever closer, John knew swimming in open water could be a whole different experience to that in the pool.\n\nHe wanted to test himself in the lough.\n\n\"I went three times [before the triathlon]. On the first trip again, the enormity of it all set in, it's a different type of water, it's dark, it moves in a different way,\" he said.\n\nOn his first attempt at the 350m distance, he recorded a time of 25 minutes. Last Saturday, he finished the swim leg of the triathlon in just over 13 minutes.\n\n\"I was second last out of the water, it took a while, but I was clapped like I was first out.\"\n\nEveryone he says, was cheering and clapping, including his wife, Grace, and their daughters Fiadh, four and Meabh, two.\n\nHis family, he said, were \"very proud\" with all he has achieved.\n\nNow he is training for his second triathlon on 20 August in County Donegal - an event with an increased swimming distance of 450 metres.", "The Zaporizhzhia is the largest in Europe\n\nForeign ministers from the G7 group of nations say Russia must immediately hand back control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Ukraine.\n\nThey accused Moscow's forces of putting the entire region in danger.\n\nThe facility and its surrounding area saw shelling last week, which Russia and Ukraine blamed on each other.\n\nUkraine says Russia has turned the site into a military base, launching attacks from there knowing that Ukrainian forces are unlikely to retaliate.\n\nThe complex, Europe's largest, has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.\n\nPetro Kotin, the head of Enerhoatom, Ukraine's nuclear power operator, told the BBC earlier this week that about 500 Russian soldiers were at the site, using it as a nuclear shield.\n\nMr Kotin said the threat was grave, but that the plant remained safe.\n\nMinisters from the G7, an organisation of some of the world's wealthiest nations, said they were profoundly concerned over the serious threat to safety at the nuclear plant.\n\nTheir warning echoed statements from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called for an end to \"all military activities that endanger nuclear security\".\n\nHowever, the chances that Russia will take heed appear extremely remote at best, say analysts.\n\nThe G7 also said Russia's actions undermined the IAEA's ability to monitor the safety of nuclear activities in Ukraine.\n\nFor its part, Russia has accused Ukraine of creating \"artificial obstacles and difficulties\" to a potential IAEA mission to the nuclear power plant.\n\nRussia has requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the situation at the power plant. The meeting will be held on Thursday in New York.\n\nMeanwhile, Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling in central Ukraine overnight killed at least 16 people.\n\nThirteen of the victims were in the Dnipropetrovsk region, two died in the Donetsk region, and a woman was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region.", "Police hold a painting by artist Tarsila do Amaral, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars\n\nA woman in Brazil has been arrested on suspicion of using a psychic to swindle her mother out of more than $140m (£114m) in art, cash and jewellery.\n\nThe alleged victim is reportedly the widow of one of Brazil's foremost art collectors.\n\nHer daughter is accused of stealing her artwork by using a psychic to pretend it was cursed.\n\nOne painting - by one of Brazil's most celebrated artists - was reportedly found stashed under a bed.\n\nAccording to police in Rio de Janeiro and local media reports, the scam began in 2020 when the victim was told by a supposed psychic that her daughter was ill and was persuaded to pay for treatment.\n\nIn the months that followed, police say the daughter and an accomplice posing as a psychic \"began to take the artwork from the house, claiming that the painting was cursed with something negative, with negative energy that needed to be prayed over\".\n\nThe scheme went on to involve several accomplices, police said.\n\nThe daughter and the other suspects allegedly mistreated the victim, keeping her at home for months.\n\n\"They took 16 paintings,\" police officer Gilberto Ribeiro told Reuters - including works by renowned Brazilian artists.\n\n\"We concluded in the preliminary check that all the characteristics of the seized paintings are compatible with the authentic paintings,\" another officer added.\n\nThree pieces from Tarsila do Amaral - an iconic Brazilian modernist painter - were also stolen, which together police valued at $137.69m.\n\nOne of the paintings, Sol Poente, was found under one of the suspect's beds, according to local media, while other works had reportedly been sold to art galleries.\n\nPolice say seven people are suspected of involvement in the years-long crime and face charges of embezzlement, robbery, extortion, false imprisonment and criminal association, Reuters reported.", "Donald Trump arrived at the New York attorney general's office for questioning on Wednesday\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has declined to answer questions as part of a New York state investigation into his family's business practices.\n\nMr Trump had sued in an effort to block the interview at the New York attorney general's office on Wednesday.\n\nState officials accuse the Trump Organization of misleading authorities about the value of its assets in order to get favourable loans and tax breaks.\n\nMr Trump denies wrongdoing and has called the civil probe a witch hunt.\n\nAn hour after he was pictured arriving at the Manhattan office where he was questioned under oath, Mr Trump released a statement in which he criticised New York Attorney General Letitia James and the broader investigation.\n\n\"Years of work and tens of millions of dollars have been spent on this long simmering saga, and to no avail,\" he said. \"I declined to answer the questions under the rights and privileges afforded to every citizen under the United States Constitution.\"\n\nMs James' office confirmed that the interview took place on Wednesday and that \"Mr Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination\".\n\n\"Attorney General James will pursue the facts and the law wherever they may lead,\" the statement added. \"Our investigation continues.\"\n\nHis deposition comes just days after the FBI executed an unprecedented search warrant at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, as part of a separate investigation that is reportedly linked to his handling of classified material.\n\nWhile the attorney general's investigation is a civil one, a parallel investigation is being carried out by the Manhattan District Attorney's office which could result in criminal charges.\n\nLegal analysts suggest Mr Trump may have declined to answer questions on Wednesday because his answers could have been used against him in that criminal investigation. The former president invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from being compelled to be a witness against themselves in a criminal case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump on people pleading the Fifth Amendment: 'Disgraceful'\n\nThe questioning lasted around four hours, and included lengthy breaks, his lawyer Ronald Fischetti told US media.\n\nMr Trump began by reading a statement into the record condemning the attorney general and her investigation and invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.\n\nHe proceeded to say \"same answer\" to every question he was asked.\n\nMs James' office has said that the depositions - a legal term that means testimony not given in court - were among the last remaining investigative procedures to be carried out.\n\nOnce the investigation concludes, the state attorney general could decide to bring a lawsuit seeking financial penalties against Mr Trump or his company.\n\nMs James had sought Mr Trump's deposition - and that of two of his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr - for more than six months while the family resisted subpoenas through the New York court system.\n\nLawyers for Mr Trump had also attempted to sue Ms James in a bid to prevent her from questioning the former president and his children.\n\nBut in February, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that all three must sit for depositions. Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr were questioned earlier this month.\n\nThe judge said the investigation had uncovered \"copious evidence of possible financial fraud\" giving the attorney general a \"clear right\" to question under oath the former president and two of his children involved in the business.\n\nMs James hailed the judge's decision as a victory, saying that \"justice has prevailed\".\n\nThe investigation, which was first opened in 2019, seeks to prove that Mr Trump and the Trump Organization misrepresented the value of assets in order to obtain favourable loans and tax breaks. The alleged fraud is said to have taken place before Mr Trump took office.\n\n\"The mob takes the Fifth,\" Donald Trump said at an Iowa campaign rally in 2016.\n\nHis target? You've guessed it - Hillary Clinton. Some of her former staffers had exercised their right to silence during a congressional inquiry.\n\nThe boot is now on the other foot, as they say.\n\n\"I once asked,\" said his statement on Wednesday - published while his deposition by the New York attorney general was still ongoing - \"If you're innocent why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?\"\n\n\"Now I know the answer to that question,\" he concluded, suggesting that he had been left with no choice.\n\nThere are parallels here - in terms of Mr Trump's response - with the separate investigation into his handling of official documents, thought to have been the reason for the recent search of his Florida estate.\n\nWhile his allies have been demanding answers from officials over the unprecedented action, he could choose to provide some himself. That's because he'll have a copy of the warrant and the inventory of material removed from his property.\n\nYet his public statements suggest he's been left in the dark, and he has repeatedly attacked the process.\n\nHis supporters may believe the narrative that he is being persecuted. But - as Trump himself once did - others may see his refusal to answer questions as a sign there's substance to the case against him.", "Liz Truss has defended earnings at energy companies amid soaring price rises, saying profits should not be considered \"dirty and evil\".\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful said windfall taxes on profits - urged by some to fund help for households - were about \"bashing business\".\n\nShe said cutting taxes was the best way to help with living costs over winter.\n\nBut rival Rishi Sunak said millions would be left at risk of destitution without more energy payments.\n\nHe has proposed spending billions of pounds on further payments to pensioners and the low paid over winter, arguing tax cuts won't help them enough.\n\nMr Sunak has also written in The Times to confirm he would be willing to borrow to fund these costs as a \"last resort\", if they could not be found through \"savings across Whitehall\" or cuts to government spending.\n\nMeanwhile Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said new cost-of-living policies will be \"ready to go\" when the new prime minister takes office on 5 September.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Airbus factory in Broughton in north Wales, Mr Zahawi told broadcasters: \"We're looking at all the options of what additional help we need to bring in later on in the winter months.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told one option could include expanding the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nThe current windfall tax - also called the energy profits levy - applies only to oil and gas firms, but there has been speculation about extending it to electricity generators.\n\nHow best to respond to surging energy prices has become a key battleground in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nEnergy has come to dominate the contest in recent days, after prices were forecast to rise to more than £4,000 per year next year for typical households.\n\nEnergy companies have posted bumper profits in recent months amid soaring gas and oil prices, prompting calls to tax them further to help with rising bills.\n\nEarlier this month, BP reported its biggest quarterly profit in 14 years - $8.45bn (£6.9bn) - while Shell posted a record profit of $11.5bn (£9bn).\n\nWhen he was chancellor, Mr Sunak introduced a 25% windfall tax to the profits of the oil and gas sector since the end of May.\n\nBut speaking at a hustings in Cheltenham, Ms Truss said she \"absolutely\" did not support windfall taxes, calling it a \"Labour idea\".\n\n\"It's all about bashing business and it sends the wrong message to international investors and to the public,\" the foreign secretary added.\n\nA windfall tax is a one-off charge imposed by a government on a company, designed to target firms that have benefited from circumstances they were not responsible for.\n\nAsked about public perceptions of record profits, she added: \"I don't think profit is a dirty word, and the fact it's become a dirty word in our society is a massive problem.\n\n\"Now, of course, the energy giants, if they're in an oligopoly, should be held to account, and I would make sure they're rigorously held to account.\n\n\"But the way we bandy the word around 'profit' (as if) it's something that's dirty and evil, we shouldn't be doing that as Conservatives.\"\n\nLabour has called for the windfall tax to be backdated a further three months to January, arguing it would raise an extra £1.9bn for energy support schemes.\n\nThe party has suggested it could fund its plan for prepay energy customers to be charged the same as those paying by direct debit.\n\nIt says the higher price cap for prepaid gas and electricity could mean 4.5m households paying £184 more than those who pay by direct debit between this October and next March.\n\nLabour has said it would align the caps for the two payment methods to stop those on prepayment meters paying \"over the odds\".\n\nThe party has billed the announcement as the first stage of a winter energy plan it is expected to unveil in the coming days.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also called for the windfall tax to be extended, to pay for their plan to scrap October's expected energy price cap rise.\n\nRishi Sunak says more direct energy payments are needed over the winter\n\nMs Truss's comments come amid increasingly bitter exchanges between the leadership rivals over their respective plans to help people over the winter.\n\nThe foreign secretary has said her plan to reverse National Insurance rises and scrapping green energy bills will help families and boost the economy.\n\nBut also speaking at the Cheltenham hustings, Mr Sunak said tax cuts would \"leave millions of incredibly vulnerable people at risk of destitution\".\n\nHe added that pensioners \"don't have the ability to go out and work more hours\" and were \"already dipping into their savings in retirement\".\n\n\"If we don't provide direct support to millions of vulnerable pensioners, it will be a moral failure of this party and the country will never ever forgive us.\"\n\nHe has pledged to make extra payments to vulnerable groups this winter, on top of the £15bn package of payments he announced as chancellor in May.\n\nMr Sunak has said he is prepared to borrow to fund his plan, but this can be kept to a minimum through \"efficiency savings\" across government.\n\nWriting in The Times, he said the cost looked to be in \"the low to middle billions\", adding: \"But I'm realistic. It could be more.\"\n\nHe said this may mean having make \"tough choices\" to \"stop or pause some things in government\", as supporting people in the coming months \"has to be the first priority\".\n\nMr Sunak said: \"But I will also be honest. If it requires some limited and temporary, one-off borrowing as a last resort to get us through this winter, I'm prepared to do that.\"", "Last month saw the highest number of ambulance callouts for life-threatening conditions since records began, NHS England officials say.\n\nThere were more than 85,000 category one calls, for situations like cardiac arrests and people stopping breathing.\n\nThe heatwave could have been one reason for increased demand, but experts say hospitals already face immense pressures.\n\nNearly 30,000 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital.\n\nThe number is up 33% on the previous month and the highest since records began in 2010.\n\nRichard Murray, chief executive of The King's Fund said the pressure on hospitals was also being felt right across the health and social care system.\n\nHe added: \"At the end of July, 13,014 people were still in hospital beds despite being medically fit to be discharged, often due to a lack of available social care support. The challenges affecting the NHS cannot be solved without addressing the issues in social care.\"\n\nAccording to the latest figures one six out of 10 patients faced delays in being discharged from hospital despite being ready to leave.\n\nOn average 12,900 patients a day spent more time in hospital in July than needed. This is a a 11% rise on the previous month.\n\nThe latest figures also show there has been progress in reducing the number of people waiting more than 18 months for treatment.\n\nIn June that number stood at 53,911, down from 75,992 in January.\n\nIt comes as the number of people waiting longer than two years for routine operations in England has fallen from 22,500 at the start of the year, to fewer than 200, according to separate NHS figures.\n\nBut 6.7 million people are still waiting for hospital treatment.\n\nProf Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"While the total backlog will continue to increase for some time, by managing to virtually eliminate two-year waits we are turning a corner in tackling Covid's impact on elective care.\"\n\nHe added: \"As the country faces another period of high temperatures after last month's record-breaking heatwave, it is vital that anyone who feels unwell seeks advice or an NHS referral through 111 online or their local pharmacy, and only calls 999 if it is a life-threatening emergency.\"", "Many households cannot wait for the government to decide whether more support will be given to cope with energy bills, Citizens Advice has said.\n\nThe charity said it made more food bank referrals and crisis support in July than it had in 2019 and 2020 combined.\n\nThe warning comes after the energy regulator said bills could start to rise at the end of this month, more than five weeks earlier than thought.\n\nA government meeting on Thursday with energy firms yielded no firm action.\n\nWith the Conservative Party leader and thus new Prime Minister not due to be announced until 5 September, charities say time is running out to help people already feeling the pinch of prices, which are rising at the fastest rate for 40 years.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, alongside Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, met with bosses from a number of companies including EDF, E.On, Scottish Power and National Grid to discuss help for households.\n\nHowever the meeting failed to produce any immediate concrete help for consumers, with Mr Johnson acknowledging any \"significant fiscal decisions\" would be be a matter for his successor.\n\nAn industry source told the BBC it was \"increasingly clear that big decisions need to be made but we don't have a government capable of making them till the end of the leadership race\".\n\nAnother added: \"It was striking that BP and Shell weren't in the room. The amount of their excess profits is symmetrical with the size of the problem we are facing. It feels inevitable that they will have to be part of the solution - ie increase or reform the windfall tax.\"\n\nBoth BP and Shell recently reported record profits fuelled by higher prices for oil and gas, which have risen sharply due to the war in Ukraine, prompting calls for a further windfall tax on firms.\n\nIn recent months, Russia has reduced supplies to Europe following the invasion and fears are growing it may switch off the taps altogether.\n\nThe potential of gas supply problems has led to the wholesale price soaring, which has led to energy firms passing those costs onto customers - pushing up household energy bills by unprecedented amounts.\n\nTo date, the government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living, including a £400 discount on energy bills - but the amount was decided before price forecasts surged.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would \"keep urging the electricity sector to continue working on ways we can ease the cost of living pressures\".\n\nThis week household energy bills were forecast to reach £4,200 in 2023.\n\n\"Many people cant wait another day for the government to decide what support is needed this winter,\" said Abby Jitendra, principle policy manager at Citizens Advice.\n\n\"We need the government to step in as soon as possible to help the people on the lowest incomes. Every day that the government delays telling us what the plan will be this winter, every day we see the price of forecast going up is another day of worry for people.\"\n\nSimon Francis, coordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said the \"vacuum at the heart of government\" was causing distress for millions.\n\nHe said while it was usual for customers on direct debit plans to pay more in the summer to even out higher winter usage, energy firms should \"not be pre-loading\" ahead of the price cap kicking in and \"when it is unclear what action the government will take to support families\".\n\nA new limit for the maximum price of gas and electricity a supplier can charge customers for energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales, known as the energy price cap, is due to be announced at the end of August and come into effect in October.\n\nAnalysts have predicted a typical bill to rise to £3,582 from October.\n\nOn Thursday, one consultancy, Auxilione, predicted a typical household could be paying £5,000 a year by next April.\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem has warned it is possible for some customers with direct debits to start paying more before new price caps kick in.\n\nIt said direct debits are usually charged in a way so that customers build up credit during the warmer summer months when usage is lower, to spread out the cost of using more energy in the colder months.\n\nAny rises in bills ahead of October would be to help spread the cost of higher energy use in the winter months, Ofgem said.\n\nCustomers can ask for their excess credit to be returned at any time and can contact their suppliers to change how their direct debit is spread.", "The former Marchon chemical works on the outskirts of Whitehaven is the site of the proposed mine\n\nA decision on whether to go ahead with a new coal mine in Cumbria has been delayed for a second time.\n\nThe Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said it would now be made \"on or before 8 November\".\n\nThe Planning Inspectorate's report has been with the government since April and a decision was due in August.\n\nIf allowed it would be the first deep coal mine to open in the UK for more than 30 years.\n\nThe department said officials were \"not yet in a position to complete their consideration before providing advice to ministers\".\n\nIt added: \"This is a quasi-judicial decision so it would not be appropriate to comment further at this stage.\"\n\nThe proposed mine at Whitehaven would remove coking coal from beneath the Irish Sea for the production of steel in the UK and Europe.\n\nThe coal would not be used for power generation.\n\nA public inquiry was held by the Planning Inspectorate into whether West Cumbria Mining could mine coking coal at the former Marchon chemical works site.\n\nSupporters claim it will create jobs and reduce the need to import coal for steelmaking.\n\nThe Conservative mayor of Copeland Mike Starkie, who has previously said local support for the mine is strong, called the latest delay \"outrageous and totally unacceptable\".\n\n\"To now move the goalposts to November is appalling and there is no justification whatsoever.\"\n\nHe said it was a \"dreadful way\" to treat private investors and called on Tory leadership contenders Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak \"to use their influence to bring this to a conclusion\".\n\nOpponents of the mine have previously protested outside the Home Office in London as well as at the site in Whitehaven\n\nVictoria Marsom, from Friends of the Earth, who have campaigned against the mine said areas like Cumbria should be \"at the heart of building the greener future we need\".\n\n\"The UK and European market for coking coal is set to rapidly diminish as manufacturers switch to greener steel, while coal from this mine won't replace Russian imports,\" she added.\n\n\"However, this new mine will increase carbon emissions, with the government's climate watchdog describing it as 'absolutely indefensible'.\"\n\nThe original deadline for the decision was 7 July, and it is believed the Prime Minister Boris Johnson was scheduled to be in Cumbria on that day.\n\nHowever, in a twist of fate, it was the same day Mr Johnson announced he was to stand down as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister.\n\nA second deadline for a decision was set for 17 August but that too has now been pushed back - potentially until after a new prime minister is announced on 5 September.\n\nThe mine was approved to operate until 2049 by Cumbria County Council in October 2020, but just four months later the authority suspended its decision.\n\nWest Cumbria Mining previously said exploratory works led it to estimate there were about 750m tonnes of \"excellent quality\" coking coal in the area.\n\nHowever, planning conditions would limit the company to producing no more than 2.78m tonnes a year.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "The Scottish Parliament \"plainly\" does not have the power to set up an independence referendum, UK government law officers have argued.\n\nThe Supreme Court is to look at whether MSPs can legislate for a vote without Westminster's backing in October.\n\nThe Scottish government has argued that any vote would be \"advisory\" and would not directly break up the union.\n\nBut UK law officers said there was \"no secret\" that Scottish ministers would want the vote to lead to independence.\n\nPapers published on Wednesday said a referendum was \"not designed to be an exercise in mere abstract opinion polling at considerable public expense\", and it would clearly be used to push for \"the secession of Scotland\" from the UK.\n\nJudges will hear arguments at the court in London on 11 and 12 October.\n\nThe SNP has also applied to intervene in the case to make additional arguments in favour of a referendum.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon wants to hold a vote on independence in October 2023, and has been pushing the UK government to agree to this.\n\nHowever in the absence of a deal she also wants judges to rule on whether Holyrood has the power to set up a vote without Westminster support.\n\nThe case has been referred to the Supreme Court by Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, the Scottish government's top law officer, in a bid to clarify whether MSPs can pass legislation paving the way for a poll.\n\nConstitutional matters including the union are reserved to Westminster, but Ms Bain has argued that an \"advisory\" referendum would not necessarily cut across this.\n\nThe QC said that the vote would have \"no prescribed legal consequences arising from its result\", and that it would be for politicians to decide what to do afterwards.\n\nMs Sturgeon has argued this was also the case with the 2014 independence referendum and the 2016 vote on EU membership, which led to years of negotiations and bills being passed before Brexit actually happened.\n\nThe UK government meanwhile does not want judges to rule on the case at all, arguing that it would be premature to decide anything before a bill has been passed by MSPs.\n\nPapers lodged on behalf of the Advocate General for Scotland - Lord Stewart of Dirleton, the UK government's top Scots law officer - argue that the court would not normally give \"advisory opinions on abstract legal questions\".\n\nLegislative disputes between the Scottish and UK governments are heard in the Supreme Court in London\n\nThe submission also states that \"the Scottish Parliament plainly does not have the competence to legislate for an advisory referendum on the independence of Scotland from the United Kingdom\".\n\nOn the idea of a vote being \"advisory\", the submission said there was \"no secret\" about the Scottish government's intentions.\n\nIt added: \"It cannot be credibly suggested that the outcome of the referendum will be 'advisory' in the sense of being treated as an academic interest only.\n\n\"A referendum is not, and is not designed to be, an exercise in mere abstract opinion polling at considerable public expense.\n\n\"Were the outcome to favour independence, it would be used - and no doubt used by the SNP as the central plank - to seek to build momentum towards achieving that end: the termination of the union and the secession of Scotland.\"\n\nThere are few surprises in the UK government submission - it is fairly straightforward, that Holyrood doesn't have the authority to set up a referendum.\n\nIt is however slightly awkward for this to be stated so baldly.\n\nUK ministers have previously preferred to stress the breadth of devolved responsibilities, painting Holyrood as one of the world's most powerful devolved parliaments.\n\nThat allows them to put pressure back on the SNP over the running of services in Scotland, and avoids the impression of telling MSPs to get \"back in your box\".\n\nIt's also why they tend to say \"not now\" to a referendum, rather than a flat \"no\". But putting it into bare legal terms removes the softer edges of political messaging.\n\nIt all underlines that the outcome of this case will cause a political storm no matter the result.\n\nShould the UK government's legal arguments win out in the Supreme Court, they will immediately become political arguments for Ms Sturgeon to use in the court of public opinion.\n\nA very public demonstration of the limits of Holyrood's powers could be a cornerstone of her case for why it should have more.", "The event was held for the first time since 2019\n\nEurope's largest pride celebration for LGBTQ+ people of African, Caribbean, Latin American and Middle-Eastern descent has taken place in London.\n\nIt is the first time UK Black Pride has been held in person since 2019, as celebrations in 2020 and 2021 were online due to Covid.\n\nThe event at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London featured music, speeches and workshops.\n\nMore than 10,000 people attended the last Black Pride in 2019.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said on Twitter he was \"proud to support\" an event that was \"more vital and relevant than ever\".\n\n\"London gets its power from diversity,\" he said.\n\nSexual health teams attended to offer testing for HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhoea, and to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). It is a medication taken by people who are HIV negative to stop them acquiring HIV.\n\nDominic Reilly, from Central London Action on Sexual Health, said: \"We are really pleased to have a presence at this fantastic event, which provides a supportive, inclusive space for LGBTQI+ people.\n\n\"Our testing offer provides an easy, convenient service for people who may find it challenging to attend sexual health services in clinics during the week, and our PrEP promotion work will help spread the word about this highly effective HIV prevention technology, which many of those who may benefit from it are not currently aware of.\"\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lisa Stead, pictured with her husband Darrin, wants to honour the boys' bravery with a memorial\n\nA call has been made for a memorial to honour the bravery of three boys lost on a camping trip more than 60 years ago in which one died.\n\nThe trio, aged 16 and 17, were separated from their group while in the Elan Valley in Powys in 1961.\n\nOne made it to a farm, but rescuers could not save one of his friends.\n\nA scout leader now wants a memorial for the boys, who were from Birmingham on an expedition for their Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award.\n\nOn 25 February 1961, the 20 schoolboys arrived in mid Wales for what should have been the adventure of a lifetime.\n\nThey were on the hills above the Elan Valley but, two days later, three of them failed to make their train home.\n\nOne of the boys died, and another would be in a coma for several months.\n\nThey were members of the Birmingham Stonehouse Gang, a youth organisation which survives to this day.\n\nLisa Stead, who runs an Explorer Scout group in Llanidloes, Powys, is determined to establish a permanent memorial to them.\n\n\"I first heard about the Birmingham boys when a group of my own teenagers, Explorer Scouts, were camping on Elan Valley farmer Tony Davies's land a few years ago,\" she said.\n\nThe boys were on the hills above the Elan Valley for their Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award\n\nShe explained that one of her group developed sunstroke and was taken in by Mr Davies to ensure that he was safe.\n\nShe added: \"He went on to tell me about a previous time there had been a Duke of Edinburgh expedition on their land.\"\n\nThe three boys failed to show up for their return train journey home\n\nOn the snowy morning of 27 February 1961, the alarm was raised by the Rhayader train station master.\n\nThree of the boys had failed to return, and soon afterwards the entire community set out to look for them.\n\nMichael Grindod, one of the missing boys, stumbled into the yard of Henfron Farm, where Richard Davies, grandfather of Tony Davies - the current farmer - was tending his livestock,\n\nMichael asked for directions to Rhayader and told Richard Davies that his two companions, Brian Harris and Ray Guyatt, were further up the valley and needed urgent help.\n\nAlthough it was four years before Tony Davies was born, from the stories his family told him, the rescue was all-encompassing.\n\n\"Local farmers and the staff of the water company went out, and there were even those who got on 250cc motorbikes to search,\" he said.\n\n\"My father, Beynon Davies, walked up the hill with Sgt Brooks from the local police.\"\n\nMichael and Brian survived the ordeal, but Ray did not. Brian later fell into a coma and Michael was relatively unharmed.\n\n\"They found Brian in a tent adjacent to a small shed on the hill.\n\n\"Sgt Brooks and my father followed footsteps in the snow and found Ray's body further up the mountain.\"\n\nFarmers Richard and Beynon Davies helped in the rescue effort\n\nRay had been walking around in circles, Tony Davies explained. His father Beynon took a tractor to the boy.\n\n\"A gate was removed from Blaen Methan shed and used as a stretcher to carry the body down to the tractor and trailer.\n\n\"The body was taken down on the trailer to the road to meet the undertaker.\"\n\nAt the subsequent inquest, Radnorshire coroner HF Ludford said: \"There is no light on why this party and this one only was attacked by fatigue. The boys should have kept together.\"\n\nMr Ludford said the boys were \"dogged by misfortune and calamity throughout that day\".\n\nThe coroner continued: \"He knew that Brian Harris and Michael Grindod were left alone in the hills with the night coming on.\n\n\"He did what he thought was his duty. He was a keen boy and he went on and he failed.\"\n\nBut Tony Davies disagrees with the coroner's opinion: \"From what my father told me, the boys were very brave.\n\n\"It is hard to believe that they were left to camp on the exposed areas of the Elan Valley in February.\n\n\"When the three boys failed to return back to Rhayader on the Sunday night, the leaders took the rest of the group back to Birmingham on the train, leaving instructions with the station master to tell the three boys to catch the next train when they turned up.\"\n\nMr Davies said the \"group leaders failed in their duty, the search should have started the previous evening\".\n\nMs Stead said there should be \"a tribute to the bravery of the boys, and to honour their efforts to help each other at a perilous time\".\n\nShe hopes the Elan Valley Estate and Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme will support her efforts.\n\nShe added: \"Young people on Duke of Edinburgh expeditions today would have better support systems in place to avoid such tragedy.\n\n\"The friendship, courage and efforts of Ray, Brian and Michael to support each other needs recognition.\"\n\nLisa is hoping to establish a standing stone in their memory, or perhaps a tree whose \"enduring survival\" in such harsh conditions will \"serve as a fitting memorial to their bravery\".\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the Stonehouse Gang said they did not want to comment.", "People have queued at clinics in recent weeks to receive a vaccination\n\nThe UK's monkeypox vaccination rollout is likely to be paused for several weeks, with stocks of the jab set to run out in parts of the country.\n\nAn internal memo, leaked to the BBC, shows the UK Health Security Agency will hold back some doses to give to people already exposed to the virus.\n\nMany clinics, including London's busiest, say stocks have already run out and new appointments have ceased.\n\nThe UKHSA says it's trying to \"expedite delivery\" of a further 100,000 doses.\n\nIn its latest update on the monkeypox outbreak, the UKHSA has predicted all of the UK's current supplies of vaccine will have been distributed to providers by the middle of August.\n\nIt goes on to say \"all available vaccines\" will have been given to vulnerable groups by the end of the month, meaning there could be several weeks without supplies across the country.\n\nMeanwhile an internal letter to senior staff at the UKHSA, leaked to the BBC, has detailed how some of that stock will be held back for 'post-exposure' - where people who have been exposed to the virus are given a vaccine in the hope of reducing severe symptoms.\n\nSo far there have been 3,017 cases in total across the UK, with officials noting that the outbreak is beginning to slow.\n\nThe latest data shows 29 cases a day confirmed on average, compared to 52 cases a day during the last week in June. More than 25,000 people have received a dose of the vaccine.\n\nDespite the positive signs, there are still concerns about the lack of available vaccine.\n\nA public health worker in Yorkshire, working on the vaccination rollout there, called the situation a \"nightmare\", adding \"disorganisation is going to mean more and more people get infected\".\n\nSpeaking on the condition of anonymity, the public health worker said clinics were already having to turn away people who were eligible for a vaccine and predicted a \"massive increase\" in cases.\n\n\"We are turning away men here in Yorkshire for a vaccine. It's unconscionable. More people are going to be getting monkeypox and it will be transmitted in our communities.\"\n\nDr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UKHSA, said: \"The most important way to protect those who are more likely to get monkeypox - and to limit the outbreak - is to ensure that all the vaccines available to us are in people's arms as quickly as possible, and are building protection across the community.\n\nCurrently, additional stock of 100,000 doses is due to arrive in the UK by the end of September, with the UKHSA saying it is \"working with the manufacturer to expedite delivery\".\n\nIt is understood that those who already have an appointment will still receive a vaccine, but - as stock runs low - no new appointments for a pre-exposure vaccine will be available.\n\nIn some parts of the UK, clinics are already pausing rollout of the vaccine.\n\nOn Friday, London's 56 Dean Street - Europe's busiest sexual health clinic - tweeted to say they would be unable to offer new appointments until the end of September.\n\nOther clinics, including those in Brighton, Southampton, and London's Chelsea, have posted similar messages.\n\nThe UK is expecting to receive 100,000 more vaccines in September\n\nLabour MP for Brighton's Kemptown and Peacehaven, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, told BBC News: \"I've already spoken to people in the area who feel worried, scared and that they've missed out.\n\n\"They feel that they're being put at risk, and that their enjoyment of the summer is being put at risk, by bad organisation from the government.\"\n\nMr Russell-Moyle added: \"My understanding is that if you are not vaccinated in the next couple of weeks, then it will be too late and you'll have to wait until September\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dan speaks about his experience of contracting monkeypox at the start of June\n\nCurrently about 75% of monkeypox cases are in London, which is where the majority of vaccines have been targeted, but numbers outside the city are also increasing.\n\nThe UK government has bought stocks of smallpox vaccine to stop the spread of monkeypox. Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe and experts say chances of infection are low.\n\nThe global outbreak of monkeypox has meant a surge in demand for the vaccine. However, stocks are limited, because, until recently, the disease had not spread widely outside of countries where the virus is endemic.\n\nSexual health experts are warning people to be alert to the signs and symptoms of monkeypox, regardless of their vaccine status.\n\nDr Claire Dewsnap, President of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), said she was \"concerned\" about the time it will take for the UK to receive more vaccine doses.\n\nShe added: \"While you are waiting for your vaccine, or if you have just received one, please remain alert to the symptoms of monkeypox, especially if you have had a new or multiple sexual partners. Symptoms can take up to three weeks to develop, so keep checking yourself after intimate contact with others. If you feel unwell, please speak to a sexual health service.\"", "Attempts to rescue 10 men from a flooded mine in Mexico have been delayed after the water levels in three shafts rose suddenly on Sunday.\n\nThe miners became trapped on 3 August when a wall in a tunnel collapsed and water from an adjacent chamber gushed into the three shafts.\n\nOfficials say the water has to drop to a depth of 1.5m (5ft) to allow rescuers to enter the shafts safely.\n\nBut on Sunday, it suddenly rose again to more than 20m.\n\nThe governor of Coahuila state, where the coal mine is located, said the water was probably flowing into the shafts from a nearby disused mine. Governor Miguel Riquelme said engineers were trying to find the source of the leak so they can block it.\n\nMore than 200 million litres have been pumped from the shafts so far, but the rescue work has been hampered by a number of setbacks.\n\nLast week, a special underwater drone carrying a camera was lowered into one of the shafts.\n\nRelatives of the miners had hoped the drone would provide them with long-awaited news on their loved ones, from whom there has been no sign of life since the accident 12 days ago.\n\nBut the drone failed to reach the depth at which the miners are believed to have become trapped.\n\n\"There are a great number of solid obstacles and turbulence in the water, which make visibility very limited,\" a statement said.\n\n\"These are not conditions in which we can send in search and rescue teams.\"\n\nRelatives of the 10 trapped miners again expressed frustration and anger at the slow pace of the rescue effort and at what they said was a lack of communication.\n\n\"We want them (authorities) to tell us what is happening: if they have identified the places where water is coming through and why,\" a member of miner Sergio Cruz's family told Reuters news agency.\n\nPriests in the area have been saying prayers for the miners' rescue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Nadhim Zahawi will meet Stormont ministers and the Utility Regulator virtually on Monday\n\nThe Treasury is setting up a joint taskforce to explore how best households in Northern Ireland can receive a £400 discount on energy bills this autumn.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi met Stormont ministers on Monday about the issue.\n\nHouseholds in Great Britain will start receiving it from October.\n\nStormont politicians have called for the same timetable in Northern Ireland, but there are complications due to the lack of a fully functioning executive.\n\nNorthern Ireland is also in a different energy market to the rest of the UK.\n\nFollowing a virtual meeting on Monday, the Treasury said the new taskforce would be made up of officials from the UK government and Stormont ministers.\n\n\"We need to keep the momentum up to get equivalent energy support to people in Northern Ireland and that's why today I've launched a joint taskforce to present practical delivery options back to ministers,\" the chancellor said.\n\n\"No option is off the table. We've got our noses to the grindstone, we're making progress, and we have a shared objective with minsters in Northern Ireland to get this off the ground as soon as possible.\"\n\nA series of \"regular meetings\" is expected to take place until the issue is resolved.\n\nBut speaking after her talks with Mr Zahawi, Stormont's Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey said an urgent response was needed.\n\n\"I'm concerned that a workable solution has not yet been agreed by the Department for the Economy and the British Treasury, which would get the £400 energy payment out the door to every household in the north,\" she said.\n\n\"We are approaching an autumn and winter which will be extremely difficult for workers and families as the price of heating and lighting homes continues to soar.\"\n\nMs Hargey called on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to \"put the interests of ordinary people first\" by ending its boycott of the executive.\n\nThe DUP Economy Minister Gordon Lyons said he was disappointed that the Treasury had not made more progress on a plan to distribute the discount by making the payments to energy companies, who will then take the discount directly off customers' bills.\n\n\"I don't want people in Northern Ireland to have to wait any longer than this than they need to, certainly no longer than those in the rest of the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"We presented a solution that I believe can work. The Utility Regulator had very detailed plans about how this could be operationalised in Northern Ireland, and now it's time to move ahead with that.\"\n\nHousehold energy bills have increased substantially over the past year and further rises are predicted\n\nThat plan was mentioned by Mr Zahawi during a visit to Belfast last week, when he met Ms Hargey, Mr Lyons and Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator.\n\nMr Lyons said at the time that would be the \"quickest way\" to ensure households in Northern Ireland benefitted from the scheme.\n\nBut Ms Hargey said there were still \"legal issues\" to resolve.\n\nIt is understood the requirement for a 90-day public consultation by Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator will not be needed if the Treasury delivers the scheme.\n\nStormont's Department of Finance has said that if the Treasury ultimately provides the £400 energy bill discount to households directly, it anticipates a \"Barnett consequential of £164.8m\" announced in February will be reversed.\n\nThe Barnett formula is used to calculate additional funding when there are changes to UK government spending that affects devolved services.\n\nBut without a functioning executive at Stormont, money allocated from Westminster that way cannot be spent.\n\nStormont's Department of Finance has said that the pot of funding unable to be spent totals more than £435m.", "Payvand Seyedali was an education consultant working for foreign NGOs in Kabul last year, when the city fell to the Taliban. She had lived and worked there for 10 years, and decided to stay. Today she is still in Kabul and still working in the education sector.\n\nWhereas last year, it wasn't clear what would happen under the new government, she says now \"everyone is trying to make ends meet, to not starve, to hold on to shreds of hope for their children. People want jobs, they want education, they want rights - these needs are not political\".\n\nShe says with people in urban areas, desperation is visible \"at a level of intensity I’ve never seen before\". More children are working than ever, and only a few women can be seen outside the home, she adds.\n\nQuote Message: And those who are, whether they are afraid or defiant - [are] always hyperaware of what they’re wearing, who they are with, how they’re perceived. Being a woman outside the home is extremely uncomfortable, and forces many into self-censoring. This is not new, but it’s much worse than before.\" from Payvand Seyedali Education consultant And those who are, whether they are afraid or defiant - [are] always hyperaware of what they’re wearing, who they are with, how they’re perceived. Being a woman outside the home is extremely uncomfortable, and forces many into self-censoring. This is not new, but it’s much worse than before.\"\n\nWhen it comes to girls' education, hopes have been dashed too. On 23 March this year, when girls in secondary education were due to go back, \"over a million girls woke up, ate their breakfasts, put on clothes they’d set out the night before. That morning was filled with hope. The Taliban had a chance, that day, to turn sentiment in their favour.\n\n\"Instead, every school girl in the country above grade five was ordered away by a sudden decree... Secret schools are popping up, local governors and even individual public schools are taking autonomous decisions to reopen. Teachers are organising.\"\n\nBut a year of closures means more girls will have got married early, become pregnant or died in childbirth, she observes.", "The government is launching a new system to simplify access to cheaper broadband.\n\nFrom 22 August, people receiving certain benefits can ask broadband firms to check their eligibility for social tariffs.\n\nThis means customers will not have to take full responsibility for proving they qualify for low-cost options.\n\nCampaign group Digital Poverty Alliance described it as a positive first step but warned it did not go far enough.\n\nElizabeth Anderson, chief operating officer for the Alliance, argues that, as more sectors moved essential resources and services online ,\"it's not right that a growing number of people face being cut off from the online world\".\n\nWhich? analysis of recent Ofcom data revealed nearly six million households are struggling to pay for essential telecoms.\n\nSteve Leighton, chair of the Internet Service Providers Association, said the association welcomed the government's launch of an application programme interface (API) for members - following calls by the sector for a system to help verify eligibility.\n\n\"While we still need to see the technical details, the API should help our members identify eligible customers more easily and offer them targeted support,\" Mr Leighton said.\n\nBut he reiterated concerns over whether the measures went far enough, adding the government could ease the cost of living crisis' impact on the industry by reducing VAT on broadband bills.\n\nReduced social tariffs allow UK households receiving government benefits such as Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support to pay less for internet and telecoms access.\n\nTariffs range from £10 to £25 per month depending on preferred bandwidth, supplier and who qualifies for the low-cost alternative.\n\nNadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said social tariffs were \"vital for families struggling with bills\".\n\nMs Dorries said the government had secured commitments from the UK's internet service providers to help customers struggling with bill payments and costly contracts to stay connected.\n\n\"I urge anyone concerned about falling behind on payments to contact their supplier to see what support is available,\" she added.\n\nThe government's new system, which allows customers to more easily prove eligibility for cheaper broadband, aims to raise awareness and take up of broadband social tariffs among the general public.\n\nOfcom reported earlier this year that only 1.2% of more than four million households receiving Universal Credit had successfully applied for broadband social tariffs.\n\nMs Anderson said the low-cost options needed more promotion by the government and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), which will run the new eligibility system.\n\nShe said the DWP should \"actively make everyone who's eligible aware of social tariffs\" to prevent those struggling from being plunged into digital poverty - essentially unable to afford to go online.\n\nSecretary of State for Work and Pensions Thérèse Coffey said the new system, which launches next week, would make social tariffs easier to access at a time when it was \"more important than ever that people get the financial support available to them\".", "Dowse appeared in Beverley Hills, 90210 as well as Issa Rae's HBO comedy-drama Insecure\n\nActress Denise Dowse, best known for playing the vice principal in US teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210, has died aged 64, her family has confirmed.\n\nThe Hawaiian actress also appeared in the drama series The Guardian, as well as Issa Rae's comedy-drama Insecure.\n\nHer death was announced over the weekend by her sister Tracey Dowse.\n\nPosting on Instagram, she described the late star as \"the most amazing sister, a consummate, illustrious actress, mentor and director.\"\n\nShe previously wrote that her younger sibling had been in hospital in a coma in brought on by a \"virulent form of meningitis\".\n\n\"She was my very best friend and final family member,\" she added.\n\nBorn in Honolulu in 1958, Dowse started acting in 1989, and played a variety of small roles on TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER and Seinfeld.\n\nShe landed her best known part as Vice Principal Yvonne Teasley on the Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1991 to 2000.\n\nThe actress and later director also appeared in another teen series California Dreams, the 2005 comedy film Guess Who, alongside Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, and provided the voice of Officer Shirley in the Nickelodeon animated series Rocket Power.\n\nShe portrayed judge Rebecca Damsen in The Guardian and Dr Rhonda Pine in Insecure.\n\nHer other film credits include Coach Carter, the hit basketball drama film starring Samuel L Jackson, the Ray Charles biopic, Ray and the 2020 thriller Fatale, opposite Hilary Swank.\n\nDowse had been set to direct the likes of Ledisi, Corbin Bleu and Keith David in the forthcoming drama film Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story.\n\nReacting to the news of her death, actress and singer Ledisi wrote: \"My Tracey and my Denise... no words right now.\"\n\nFellow actress and director Angela Gibbs offered: \"So sorry to hear this... Life well lived Denise... So glad I go to know you.\"", "Jessica Mitchell and Andrew Maynard were living in a new flat together, giddy with happiness about the recent birth of their \"beautiful baby boy\"\n\nJessica Mitchell believes she was discriminated against by NHS workers in Kettering who did not \"care enough\" to save her baby.\n\nHer son Reggie died at home on 5 March from an as yet unknown illness. He was just six weeks old.\n\nMs Mitchell, 18, says Kettering General Hospital \"refused to do proper checks\" after Reggie \"went floppy and began shaking\" in February.\n\nA spokesperson for NHS Northamptonshire said a multi-agency review of the case was under way.\n\nThe day before his death, Reggie's parents took him to Kettering's Dryland Medical Centre but were turned away by receptionists who, Ms Mitchell claims, told them, \"he'll be fine\".\n\nAn inquest will be held in February.\n\nReggie died at home in March from an unknown illness; he was six weeks old\n\nBefore the day of Reggie's death, everything looked promising for the new family's future.\n\nMs Mitchell was two weeks from her 18th birthday and about to leave the care of social services. She and her boyfriend, Andrew Maynard, were living in a new flat together. And the couple were besotted with their \"beautiful baby boy\".\n\nBut as Jessica turned over in bed to look at Reggie, she noticed something on his face.\n\n\"I switched the light on, and there was a blood clot on his nose and his mouth was full of blood,\" Ms Mitchell said.\n\n\"I rang Andrew, who was coming home from a night shift.\n\n\"I couldn't speak. I was just screaming 'call an ambulance' like he was cold, he was gone.\"\n\nParamedics arrived within minutes but they could not save Reggie and recorded his death at 07:11GMT.\n\nJessica was in active labour for three days with Reggie at Kettering General Hospital\n\nFrom birth Reggie had been prone to illness.\n\nJessica said she repeatedly tried to persuade doctors that something was seriously wrong.\n\n\"I just couldn't believe it, nothing felt real,\" she said. \"I instantly started blaming myself - why didn't I force them to help him? I just feel like I failed him.\"\n\nWhen her mother died in 2016 she was placed into the care of Northamptonshire children's services. She rarely speaks to her father, who is in prison in the United States.\n\nJessica was in labour for three days with Reggie at Kettering General Hospital (KGH).\n\nDuring her stay there, she claimed she was treated as \"just another care kid\" and that a nurse told her to \"stop acting like a child\" when she complained about her catheter being left in.\n\nShe and her son were diagnosed with sepsis, given antibiotics and discharged after six days.\n\nTwo weeks later, Jessica said Reggie \"went floppy and began shaking\". The couple took him back to hospital and he was admitted to Skylark (Paediatrics) Ward on 4 February.\n\nHowever, she said doctors refused to carry out any diagnostic tests beyond those for sepsis, which twice came back negative.\n\n\"Because we didn't have proof of him shaking, they acted as though it didn't happen,\" Mr Maynard said.\n\nMs Mitchell said: \"They didn't do any scans. They didn't do anything. They literally just took blood work and went, 'oh sepsis', but it's not there.\n\n\"They talked down to me and I've got so much anger built up, because the number of children that go to hospital, like, why wasn't my child good enough? I just don't understand.\"\n\nJudged \"fine and healthy\", Reggie was discharged from KGH for the second time.\n\nJessica found her baby dead in the bed beside her; she was interviewed by police under caution and released\n\nOn 4 March, the day before Reggie died, he vomited.\n\nConcerned, his parents took him to the Dryland Medical Centre, which was within walking distance of their home.\n\nJessica said reception staff at the centre turned them away because they did not have sufficient proof of address and asked her to obtain a tenancy agreement from her social worker.\n\n\"I said, 'he still needs to be seen - he's a baby, he's ill', but two guys behind computers looked at him and said, 'oh no, he'll be fine; come back on Monday'.\"\n\n\"We thought 'okay we must be exaggerating, it's a first baby parent worry', so I've gone home,\" she said.\n\nThe following morning Jessica found her baby dead in the bed beside her; she was interviewed by police under caution and then released.\n\nJessica says she and Andrew were left \"completely out of the loop\" about the cause of Reggie's death\n\nShe said she and Mr Maynard have been left \"completely out of the loop\" about the cause of Reggie's death and were told by the coroner's office they might have to wait until January to find out the results of a post-mortem examination.\n\n\"It's almost as though he never existed, that's how they've tried to make us feel.\"\n\nIn the event, post-mortem tests were carried out last week after the BBC made contact with various agencies involved in the case.\n\nThe pathologist could not establish a cause of death and an inquest will be held on 15 February.\n\nReggie's body hasn't been returned to the family.\n\nNHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board says a multi-agency review has begun into the issues raised by the family\n\nA spokesperson for NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board said: \"We would like to extend our sincere sympathies to the family and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.\n\n\"A multi-agency review has begun into the issues raised by the family.\n\n\"With formal inquiries under way, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money for Reggie's funeral.\n\nIn May, Josh MacAlister, who led an independent review of children's social care, said growing up in care should become \"a protected characteristic\" under the Equality Act.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has said Labour's plan to freeze energy prices for all consumers is justified by the scale of expected rises this winter.\n\nHe defended his call to spend £29bn on keeping bills down for everyone across the board, rather than more targeted payments.\n\nMany millions - not just \"the hardest up\" - would find it hard to keep up with payments, he told the BBC.\n\nHe also claimed freezing prices for all would also help tame rising inflation.\n\nAll households are due to receive £400 payments to help with rising bills, with additional payments for the low-paid, pensioners and the disabled.\n\nLabour has now suggested the £400 payments should be cancelled, with the government footing the the bill to keep the price cap at £1,971 a year for typical households between October and March.\n\nEnergy prices have already increased this year and are projected to soar again this winter, with one forecast predicting capped costs could hit £4,200 next year.\n\nLabour says its plan to freeze the cap would be paid for by extending the windfall tax on oil and gas firms, and savings to government debt repayments caused by a lower rate of inflation overall.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has said protecting everyone from prices rises was a \"very expensive thing to do\".\n\nHe added that Labour's scheme would have to be extended beyond April next year to reduce inflation in the long term.\n\nQuizzed about the benefits of designing a scheme that would also protect wealthy households, Sir Keir told the BBC's Alex Forsyth that \"many, many millions of households are going to really struggle this year, because these are massive hikes\".\n\n\"Therefore, it's very important we have something across the board,\" he said - adding the plan also \"has this advantage of bring down inflation as well\".\n\nAsked about the impact of the length of the scheme on inflation, Sir Keir said he accepted his party would \"have to answer that\" at some point, but it was too early to say what the energy situation would be like next spring.\n\n\"I think this idea that most households are going to easily pay bills of £3,500 or £4,200, I don't think that's true,\" Sir Keir added.\n\n\"And I think many people viewing will say 'look, I may not be the hardest up, but I can't afford bills that high'\".\n\nIn his BBC interview, Sir Keir also called for more government action to bring bills down in the longer term, including through boosting home insulation.\n\n\"All we do under this government is lurch from one crisis to the next,\" he said.\n\n\"Sooner or later, we've got to have a Labour government with a longer-term strategy. Otherwise, we're forever in a crisis mode\".\n\nTory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have also sparred in recent weeks over their respective plans to help people with living costs this winter.\n\nFormer chancellor Mr Sunak has suggested extending current government plans by spending around £5bn on further targeted payments to pensioners and the low-paid. He has also suggested spending around the same amount on cutting VAT on domestic energy.\n\nHowever, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said her plan to cut taxes - including green levies on energy bills and reversing April's National Insurance rise - is a better way to help people with soaring living costs.\n\nA source from the Truss campaign has said she would \"target help with energy bills at the poorest\".\n\nAllies of Truss have also denied that her backer Simon Clarke was suggesting she would withdraw the £400 support payments already announced for this Autumn when he said on the weekend it was \"odd\" wealthy people would also benefit from the discount.\n\nNeither candidate to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister has indicated they plan to freeze the price cap, or extend the windfall tax on oil and gas companies.\n\nThe Treasury is working up options to help with prices over the winter - although Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse has said any decisions will have to wait until Mr Johnson's successor takes office on 6 September.\n\nRejecting suggestions the government was not functioning properly during the leadership race, he said the preparations would ensure the next prime minister is able to take \"quick and early decisions\" about what to do.\n\n\"Obviously the energy price cap changes won't kick in until October - that does give time for our prime minster to take the decisions that are required in early September,\" he added.", "Everyone aged 50 and over will be offered a Covid booster vaccine this autumn to top up their immunity and cut their risk of becoming severely ill.\n\nYounger people at high risk from Covid, as well as health and social care staff, will also get the booster.\n\nDrug companies have been developing updated vaccines to tackle newer variants, however, it is still uncertain which vaccine will be used.\n\nThe original plan meant healthy people aged 50-65 would not have been jabbed.\n\nHowever, the immunisation campaign has been expanded as current variants are spreading quickly, it is uncertain how the virus will mutate and it is expected we will be more social this winter than in previous years so the virus will have more chance to spread.\n\nThe updated advice comes from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt says the booster should be offered to:\n\nThe details of the rollout have not been confirmed, however, it is thought immunisation will start with the oldest and most vulnerable from September.\n\nFor some people it will be their sixth dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nProf Anthony Harnden, the deputy chairman of the JCVI, said: \"The Covid-19 boosters are highly effective at increasing immunity and, by offering a further dose to those at higher risk of severe illness this autumn, we hope to significantly reduce the risk of hospitalisations and deaths over the winter.\"\n\nThe current wave of Covid - caused by the sub-variants of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 - demonstrates the speed the virus can spread. It is the third wave of Omicron subvariants this year and one in 18 people in the UK are currently testing positive.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Today we have confirmed the next phase in our booster programme to keep our defences strong over autumn and winter.\n\n\"Vaccines were our way out of this pandemic, and now they will make sure Covid can never haunt us in the same way again.\"\n\nThe flu vaccine in England will also be offered to all adults aged 50 and over, the usual high-risk groups and now to schoolchildren up to Year 9 in secondary school.\n\nThe Covid restrictions have meant we have barely had a flu season since the pandemic started. However, the concern is this year could be the first time we face substantial waves of both viruses at the same time.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at the UK Health Security Agency, said: \"Widening the eligibility for the flu vaccine will help reduce the number of people getting seriously ill and ease pressures on the NHS, particularly during the busy winter period.\"\n• None How many people have had boosters so far?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tom Holland stars as the titular superhero in the 2021 movie Spider-Man: No Way Home\n\nSpider-Man actor Tom Holland has said he is stepping back from social media, as he finds it can be \"detrimental\" to his mental health.\n\nHolland, 26, is the latest young star, following the likes of Selena Gomez, to discuss how sites like Twitter and Instagram can have harmful effects.\n\nMany fans applauded him for it online, with one calling it \"a smart move\".\n\nIn a video posted online, Holland said: \"I find Instagram and Twitter to be overstimulating, to be overwhelming.\n\n\"I get caught up and I spiral when I read things about me online and ultimately it's very detrimental to my mental state.\n\n\"So I decided to take a step back and delete the app.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHolland stars as the titular superhero in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which critics praised last year on its release and was hugely successful at the box office.\n\nIn the video, posted to his 67 million Instagram followers, Holland took the opportunity to promote a charity dedicated to encouraging positive mental health among teenagers.\n\n\"Please take all the time you need,\" commented another fan. \"The thing that matters the most is your well being.\"\n\nPop star Justin Bieber, who has previously spoken up about his own mental health issues, replied with: \"Love you man.\"\n\nThe actor's social media activity had become less frequent in recent months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Holland: \"There are kids who look up to Spider-Man\"\n\nLast year, a report from the Education Policy Institute and The Prince's Trust found teenagers' mental health, well-being and self-esteem was being damaged by heavy social media use.\n\nActor and singer Gomez noted a few years ago that social media has been \"terrible\" for her generation, urging people to set time limits on their online activity.\n\nOther stars like Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello and Demi Lovato have also taken themselves off social media for certain periods of time.\n\nThe effects of social media, it seems, are not only being felt by the young, as veteran screen and stage actor Robert Lindsay also announced on Sunday he was intending to spend less time on Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe My Family star said he was taking action as his son noted it was \"affecting his daily life, thoughts and imaginings\".\n\n\"He's right of course and I need to detox from the stresses of social media and concentrate on what I set out to do three years ago and write,\" said the 72-year-old Bafta-winner.\n\nHe added: \"I'm so proud of my son who has like many young people suffered because of social media for recognising my constant distraction from what I really should be doing.\"", "Homes were destroyed, trains delayed and flights cancelled as Tropical Storm Meari swept over parts of central Japan.\n\nAerial footage showed the extent of the damage to community infrastructure - which prompted a major clean-up operation.\n\nSome areas saw 50% more rain than the entire amount expected in August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I'm not going to apologise for holiday with my wife and kids - Starmer\n\nSir Keir Starmer has said families would \"not pay a penny more\" on their energy bills this winter under Labour's plans to tackle rising living costs.\n\nThe Labour leader claimed his proposals would save the average household £1,000.\n\nThe package would be paid for, in part, by a big increase in tax on oil and gas company profits.\n\nBut economists said the plan would cost as much as the Covid furlough scheme, if it was extended beyond this winter.\n\nThe government has already announced what is says is £37bn of support for hard-pressed families, but it is under pressure to do more, with bills set to rocket over the winter.\n\nOutgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"making sure there is extra cash\" for his successor to provide extra support, when they take office on 5 September.\n\nThe Treasury are working up ideas for how the new prime minister could provide more help with living costs.\n\nBut the two contenders for the job, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have indicated they are not keen on extending the windfall tax on oil and gas companies - or freezing the price cap - meaning its unlikely to happen unless they have a change of heart.\n\nLabour's intervention serves as a challenge to both leadership hopefuls to say what further support they may offer, and how they would pay for it.\n\nThe party says its plan would be paid for in three ways:\n\nThe Labour leader said freezing the energy price cap at the current level of £1,971 a year for the typical household would bring inflation down by four percentage points.\n\nInflation - the rate at which prices rise - hit 9.4% in June, the highest level for more than 40 years. The Bank of England has warned it could peak at more than 13% later this year.\n\nLabour estimate their plans would cost about £15bn more than the government's scheme to give households £400 this October (and Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak's proposals).\n\nLabour estimate that about £3.5bn of their extra spending would come from changes to the government's windfall tax on oil and gas companies - including making it apply to profits from January rather than May and getting rid of a government tax-relief scheme to encourage investment from these firms.\n\nThe party also expects to get £4.7bn extra in existing taxes because oil and gas prices are now likely to be much higher than they were when the last official forecasts were made.\n\nAnd Labour say that freezing energy prices would stop inflation rising as high as it would have done otherwise. They estimate this would reduce government borrowing costs by £7.2bn this year.\n\nBut economists warn it's delaying borrowing costs rather than saving them - they say that stopping the subsidy would push up inflation and borrowing costs.\n\nThe main reason for high inflation is soaring energy bills, driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, although households have also been hit by higher petrol, diesel and food costs.\n\nSir Keir said he would have to \"assess\" the situation in April, but Labour's plans were about helping people through the winter.\n\nHe added further measures to reduce inflation may be needed next year, and argued in the medium to long term Labour was calling for further measures to bring costs down such as insulating millions of homes.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Keir have both been criticised for going on holiday as economic turmoil - driven by rising energy bills - deepens.\n\nThe Labour leader rejected claims he has been missing in action, saying he had been working on his plan for weeks and would not \"apologise for going on holiday with his wife and kids\".\n\n\"It's the first time we've had a holiday for about three years,\" he said.\n\nFormer Cabinet minister Brandon Lewis rejected suggestions that Mr Johnson had \"thrown in the towel\".\n\nHe told LBC radio: \"Even when you are not in the office in Downing Street you are working.\"\n\nIt comes as the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the government would need to find £12bn simply to achieve what it was aiming to do with the £24bn package announced in May, due to soaring energy prices.\n\nThe think tank said that in May energy prices were expected to rise by 95% in 2022/23 but are now expected to rise by 141%.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the IFS, told the BBC Labour's plan was \"a very big and very expensive plan\" that would be on the same scale of support for the public as the furlough scheme during the pandemic, if it was extended beyond the initial six months planned.\n\n\"Of course, what it does achieve is to protect everyone entirely from the increases in energy prices so if that is what you want to achieve that is what you need to do but you do need to realise that is a very expensive thing to do,\" he added.\n\nThe idea of freezing the price cap is backed by the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.\n\nA Treasury spokeswoman said the government had \"continually taken action to help households by phasing in £37bn worth of support throughout the year\".\n\nThis includes £400 off energy bills for all UK households and an additional £650 for eight million low-income households.", "The since deleted image was posted to Russian journalist Sergei Sreda's Telegram account\n\nUkrainian artillery has struck a headquarters of Russia's shadowy Wagner paramilitary group of mercenaries in eastern Ukraine, reports say.\n\nThe extent of damage to the military base of the group - which has been linked to war crimes - is not clear.\n\nLuhansk's governor claims its secret location was revealed after a Russian journalist shared its address.\n\nLast week, pro-Kremlin correspondent Sergei Sreda posted a photo on Telegram of the base with its apparent address.\n\nThe image, shared on the social media site but since deleted, shows five people in military uniform with a street sign in Popasna, Luhansk visible in the top left corner.\n\nWhile the BBC has not been able to confirm the connection between the photo and the strike, Governor Serhiy Hayday wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces \"hit an enemy HQ whose whereabouts were established thanks to a Russian journalist\".\n\n\"This time, the successful strike destroyed the Wagner PMC HQ in Popasna yesterday,\" he said. He added that \"the number of dead is being clarified\".\n\nThe Wagner group was deployed to Crimea and Ukraine's Donbas region in 2014, when Kremlin-backed forces ousted Ukrainian troops from areas they later declared to be part of Russia.\n\nWagner units have also been sent to Syria, Libya, Mali and the Central African Republic.\n\nThe Kremlin does not acknowledge Wagner's existence, but Western intelligence links the group to Yevgeny Prigozhin - nicknamed \"Putin's chef\" because his catering business has long helped President Vladimir Putin and the armed forces.\n\nMr Prigozhin, like many other Russian officials, is subject to Western sanctions.\n\nWagner is known as a PMC - private military company. But they are state-sponsored mercenaries who act in the Kremlin's interests, Western experts say. They have been accused of repeated war crimes and human rights abuses.\n\nThe Ukrainian daily Ukrainska Pravda reports that a pro-Kremlin Russian journalist, Sergei Sreda, revealed the Wagner HQ in a Telegram post on 8 August. He posted photos of his visit to the HQ and a sign in one of them identified its address as Mironovskaya 12, Popasna.\n\nThe post was later removed, but copies are circulating on social media.\n\nPopasna lies just south of Severodonetsk in Luhansk region, which Russian forces now entirely control, following months of bitter fighting and huge destruction.\n\nAnother pro-Kremlin war reporter, called Kotenok, wrote on Telegram: \"A strike was carried out on one of the Wagner PMC locations in Popasna. Sources in Donbas confirm that. Probably 'Himars'. Ukrainian sources report the death of Prigozhin - we don't confirm that.\"\n\nUkrainian forces now have several of the US Himars (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), which fire rockets capable of hitting Russian targets far behind the front lines.\n\nUkrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko wrote on Facebook: \"There is no more Wagner HQ in Popasna. Thank you, Himars and the Armed Forces of Ukraine!\"\n\nSome Ukrainian reports implicate Wagner in the Olenivka prison fire on 29 July which killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners-of-war. Russia blamed Ukrainian forces, saying they had shelled the prison, about 20km (12.5 miles) from Donetsk. The circumstances of the inferno remain unclear.", "Jonathan Edwards sat as the independent MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr after his suspension by Plaid Cymru, but has been readmitted to the party\n\nA woman who was assaulted by her MP husband was not contacted by his party during a disciplinary process, a senior member has said.\n\nJonathan Edwards was suspended by Plaid Cymru after assaulting Emma Edwards in May 2020, but has been readmitted.\n\nHe was due to re-join the party group at Westminster until Ms Edwards said she was \"appalled\" by the move.\n\nPlaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts apologised for the party's handling of the issue.\n\nHer comments follow Plaid leader Adam Price's call for Mr Edwards to stand down as an MP and leave the party.\n\nCarmarthen East and Dinefwr MP Mr Edwards, who received a police caution for the assault, had his membership of Plaid Cymru restored last month by a disciplinary panel.\n\nBut the party's ruling executive recommended he should not be allowed to rejoin the Plaid MPs group at Westminster.\n\nThe decision has split the party.\n\nLast week, Plaid Cymru backtracked, after receiving legal advice, and restored the whip.\n\nThat approach has drawn extensive criticism, with former leader Leanne Wood saying a desire to show people can be remorseful and be rehabilitated led to the party \"making big mistakes\".\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Ms Saville Roberts said: \"If the victim does not accept and affirm the perpetrator's contrition, all other standpoints become irrelevant.\"\n\nShe said when she became aware no-one in the party had contacted Ms Edwards since the incident, she wrote to her in April this year, but did not receive a reply.\n\n\"I regret that we did not make further attempts to ensure that Ms Edwards' voice was heard during the [disciplinary] process,\" she added.\n\n\"I would therefore like to join our leader Adam Price in apologising to Ms Edwards. I also agree that fundamental changes must now be made to our disciplinary processes.\"\n\nMr Edwards has criticised senior party figures for \"vindictive and vengeful\" attacks.\n\nHe said at the weekend that he will not rejoin the Plaid Westminster group, meaning he remains an independent MP.\n\nHe cannot be expelled from the party because Plaid's internal rules mean the party leader does not have the power to do so.\n\nMr Edwards previously said he will regret his actions on the day of the assault \"to the end of my life\".\n\nDetails of the incident are unknown.\n\nThe couple are getting divorced.", "Offices shifted to home-working in the pandemic but many have continued with a hybrid model since then\n\nUK workers are going into the office an average of 1.5 days a week, with only 13% coming in on a Friday, a survey suggests.\n\nConsultancy Advanced Workplace Associates surveyed 43 offices in the UK, representing nearly 50,000 people, in June and July.\n\nIt suggests average attendance was 29%, with a peak of 39% mid-week.\n\nDuring the pandemic, offices shifted to home-working but many have continued with a hybrid model since then.\n\nPre-Covid, UK workers were going into the office an average of 3.8 days a week, according to the research which covered sectors including banking, energy, engineering, healthcare, insurance and tech.\n\nHowever, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the majority of people do not work from home.\n\nIts survey in spring 2022, when guidance to work from home was no longer in place in Great Britain, suggested 38% of working adults reported having worked from home at some point over the past seven days.\n\nAdvanced Workplace Associates, which advises organisations including the Cabinet Office, NatWest and Network Rail, found the UK was broadly in line with other countries.\n\nIt also surveyed 36 offices in 12 other countries, representing more than 27,000 people.\n\nThe consultancy's findings suggested people were coming into the office an average of 1.4 days a week, compared to 3.8 days a week pre-pandemic.\n\nAverage attendance was 26%, with a peak of 35% mid-week.\n\nNorth America and Latin America had the lowest average attendance.\n\nBanking had the highest average attendance of the sectors surveyed and tech had the lowest.\n\nThe survey suggested organisations with hybrid working policies - where they specify employees should be in the office for a certain number of days - had higher attendance than those that did not.\n\nHowever, employees still appeared to be going into the office less than the policy mandated.\n\nIf an employer trusts its teams to set their own policies, attendance is 41% - almost the same as where a three-day week is imposed.\n\nThe UK government first asked people to work from home if they could in March 2020.\n\nGuidance and legal restrictions have varied between different parts of the UK since then but in England and Scotland advice to work from home was lifted most recently in January. Other parts of the UK kept the guidance in place for longer but eventually dropped it.\n• None Hybrid working is here to stay, say managers", "Heathrow is to extend a cap on the number of passengers flying from the airport until the end of October due to staff shortages.\n\nIt means the limit will now be in place until after the UK school half-term holidays.\n\nAfter consulting with airlines, a daily limit of 100,000 departing passengers will now apply until 29 October, the airport said.\n\nIt said the measure would enable more reliable passenger journeys.\n\nThe UK's largest airport said the cap would \"provide passengers with confidence ahead of their half-term getaways\".\n\nWhen the cap was first announced in July it was initially in place until 11 September.\n\nEarlier this month, British Airways suspended ticket sales for short-haul flights from Heathrow as a result of the cap.\n\nThe airport also said the cap would be kept under regular review and could be lifted early if staffing levels improved.\n\nHeathrow chief commercial officer Ross Baker said: \"Our primary concern is ensuring we give our passengers a reliable service when they travel.\"\n\n\"We want to remove the cap as soon as possible, but we can only do so when we are confident that everyone operating at the airport has the resources to deliver the service our passengers deserve,\" he added.\n\nIn response, a spokesman for airline Virgin Atlantic said: \"We are disappointed that Heathrow Airport has already decided to extend the passenger capacity cap until the end of October, as additional resources come on line every week and the airport experience improves.\"\n\nThe airline said that its ground handlers, Cobalt Ground Solutions, which are responsible for services including ramp and baggage operations, currently have staff resourcing at 95% of 2019 levels.\n\n\"Airline customers have a right to expect their bookings will be honoured and we're doing everything in our power to minimise disruption, getting our customers to where they need to be smoothly,\" he added.\n\nConsumer rights group Which? also warned the move will leave thousands of passengers' plans in limbo, saying the situation was a \"mess\".\n\n\"Though the extension of the passenger cap may help Heathrow prevent a repeat of the unacceptable last-minute cancellations we saw earlier in the summer, thousands of people will now be anxious about whether their travel plans could be scuppered,\" said Guy Hobbs, travel editor at the organisation.\n\n\"Heathrow and impacted airlines must act without delay to provide travellers with clarity on which flights are being cut, and airlines must ensure affected passengers are aware of their rights to rebooking or refunds.\"\n\nTens of thousands of UK passengers have been affected by travel disruption throughout the summer.\n\nDuring the pandemic the aviation industry cut thousands of jobs as international travel ground to a halt. But since then it has struggled to recruit and train new staff quickly enough.\n\nAccording to aviation analytics firm Cirium, the number of last-minute flight cancellations from the UK was up 188% in June 2022, compared to June 2019 before the pandemic.\n\nIn June, the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority wrote a joint letter to carriers, telling them to cancel flights they cannot deliver this summer.\n\nHeathrow, along with other airports, has seen long queues for security and check-in over the summer\n\nMeanwhile, the Unite union said it had secured a pay rise worth an average of 13% for around 16,000 British Airways staff.\n\nThe deal will see workers get a lump sum worth 5% of their wages in August, a consolidated 5% increase in September and a further 3% consolidated rise in December.\n\nIt came after some 700 BA workers at Heathrow - mostly check-in staff - called off strike action after agreeing a similar pay deal.\n\nStaff had originally backed industrial action over a 10% pay cut imposed during the Covid pandemic.", "Regulated train fares in England will rise below the rate of inflation next year to help people with the cost of living crisis, the government has said.\n\nBefore the Covid pandemic, fares were raised in January each year, based on the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation from the previous July.\n\nThe normal formula is RPI plus 1%. RPI in June was 11.8% - but it is not known what next year's increase will be.\n\nAs well as being lower than RPI, the increase will be delayed until March.\n\nThe pledge was first reported by the Sunday Times.\n\nRegulated fares cover about 45% of fares, including season tickets on most commuter journeys, some off-peak return tickets on long distances journeys and anytime tickets around major cities.\n\nThe June rate of RPI figure was the highest rate in more than 40 years.\n\nIn March, England and Wales saw the steepest increase in regulated train fares since January 2013, with a rise of 3.8%.\n\nRail fare increases are normally introduced on the first working day of every year but have been delayed until March every year since the start of the Covid pandemic.\n\nFares for rail services in Northern Ireland are set by state-owned operator Translink, which does not use RPI. The Scottish government has not announced its plan for next year yet. Wales usually matches changes made in England.\n\nA Department for Transport spokeswoman said: \"The government is taking decisive action to reduce the impact inflation will have on rail fares during the cost of living crisis and will not be increasing fares as much as the July RPI figure.\n\n\"We are also again delaying the increase to March 2023, temporarily freezing fares for passengers to travel at a lower price for the entirety of January and February as we continue to take steps to help struggling households.\"\n\nThe pandemic saw a steep drop in the number of train passengers, as more people worked from home, and numbers have remained well below pre-Covid levels.\n\nRail workers continue to strike over pay, with unions calling for pay increases to match the rising cost of living.\n\nOn Saturday around 6,500 train drivers who are members of the Aslef union walked out in a dispute over pay with nine rail companies.\n\nMore strikes are planned for the coming week, with members of the RMT and TSSA unions walking out on 18 and 20 August\n\nIndustrial action will also be taken on 19 August by London Underground and London bus drivers.", "Majuro, the nation's most populous atoll, has been particularly badly affected\n\nCovid-19 infection numbers have surged in the Marshall Islands, just days after the Pacific nation recorded its first local spread of the virus.\n\nIn the capital city of Majuro, total cases have nearly doubled since Friday.\n\nThese latest figures mean one in ten of the city's residents have been infected in recent days.\n\nOn Sunday, Health Secretary Jack Niedenthal said about 75% of tests across the country were returning positive results.\n\nA number of Pacific islands had success with keeping coronavirus at bay early in the pandemic through stringent restrictions.\n\nThe Marshall Islands, which has a population of 59,000, was one of the last nations in the world to be untouched by Covid-19, before two cases were identified in October 2020. The pair had arrived from the US and were isolated from others.\n\nAs recently as one week ago, it had seen no community transmission of the virus - meaning that Covid had not been detected passing from person to person.\n\nBut on Monday, the first local spread was confirmed. The government responded by declaring a \"state of health disaster\", closing schools and introducing a range of public health measures.\n\nThe explosion in cases has seen the Marshall Islands shift from a \"prevention to mitigation\" strategy, Mr Niedenthal wrote in a Facebook update.\n\n\"The days of quarantine upon arrival are now over,\" he said.\n\nNo lockdown has been ordered, but Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reports that many people have chosen to stay at home, with church services cancelled and restaurants appearing quiet.\n\nSince October 2020, two deaths have been reported across the Marshall Islands, and a cumulative total of 3,036 cases have been logged.\n\nHowever, only nine hospitalisations had been recorded at the time of Mr Niedenthal's Facebook update on Monday - with figures showing that 70% of Marshallese had been fully vaccinated.\n\nMr Niedenthal, who posted earlier in the week that he too had tested positive, urged anyone severely unwell to report their case as an emergency at the hospital.\n\nHe urged people to avoid special \"alternative care sites\" which had been set up to deal with minor Covid symptoms.\n\n\"Much of the chaos is beginning to die down\" he said, promising that \"this will continue to get better.\"\n\nExtra help would arrive from overseas including from the US, he added, with extra \"boots on the ground\" expected over the coming week.", "Iran has \"categorically\" denied any link with Salman Rushdie's attacker - instead blaming the writer himself.\n\nMr Rushdie, 75, was left severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York state. He is now able to breathe unaided.\n\nHe has faced years of death threats for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.\n\nEarlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken accused Iran's state media of gloating about the attack, calling its behaviour \"despicable\".\n\nIranian media have extensively commented on the attack, calling it \"divine retribution\".\n\nIran's state broadcaster daily Jaam-e Jam highlighted the news that Rushdie might lose an eye following the attack, saying \"an eye of the Satan has been blinded\".\n\nAs news emerged of Friday's attack, eyes turned to Tehran where the fatwa - religious edict - calling for the writer's assassination was first issued more than three decades ago.\n\nBut on Monday, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani - giving the country's first official reaction - said Tehran \"categorically\" denied any link, adding \"no-one has the right to accuse the Islamic Republic of Iran\".\n\nHowever, he said freedom of speech did not justify Mr Rushdie insulting religion in his writing.\n\n\"In this attack, we do not consider anyone other than Salman Rushdie and his supporters worthy of blame and even condemnation,\" the spokesman said during his weekly press conference in Tehran.\n\n\"By insulting the sacred matters of Islam and crossing the red lines of more than 1.5 billion Muslims and all followers of the divine religions, Salman Rushdie has exposed himself to the anger and rage of the people.\"\n\nIran had no other information about Rushdie's assailant except what has appeared in media, he added.\n\nA spokesman for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"ludicrous\" to suggest Mr Rushdie was in any way to blame for the attack, adding it \"was not just an attack on him, it was an attack on the right to free speech and expression\".\n\nEarlier, the UK's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy had pressed the government to urgently put diplomatic pressure on Iran to apologise and withdraw the \"truly sickening\" comments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: New York state governor's message of defiance after Rushdie attack\n\nMr Blinken had earlier denounced Iran's state institutions for inciting violence against the author.\n\nHe said in a statement that Mr Rushdie had \"consistently stood up for the universal rights of freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief, and freedom of the press\".\n\n\"While law enforcement officials continue to investigate the attack, I am reminded of the pernicious forces that seek to undermine these rights, including through hate speech and incitement to violence.\n\n\"Specifically, Iranian state institutions have incited violence against Rushdie for generations, and state-affiliated media recently gloated about the attempt on his life. This is despicable.\"\n\nMr Blinken added the US and its partners would use \"every appropriate tool\" at their disposal to stand up to what he called \"these threats\".\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Rushdie's son said the author was still in a critical condition: \"Though his life-changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact,\" he said.\n\nThe family were \"extremely relieved\" when Mr Rushdie was taken off a ventilator on Saturday, he said, adding that his father was able to \"say a few words\".\n\nThe author's agent Andrew Wylie said the celebrated novelist suffered severed nerves in one arm, damage to his liver, and would likely lose an eye.\n\nThe man charged over Friday's attack - named as Hadi Matar, aged 24 - has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault. He is accused of running on to the stage and stabbing Mr Rushdie at least 10 times in the face, neck and abdomen.\n\nThe novelist was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. Many Muslims reacted with fury to it, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nMr Rushdie faced death threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa calling for Mr Rushdie's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's head.\n\nThe fatwa remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from it, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.", "Ashraf Ghani said his defence minister had told him that Kabul could not be defended against the Taliban advance\n\nAfghanistan's two former presidents have given wide ranging interviews to mark the first anniversary of the fall of the country's capital, Kabul, to the Taliban.\n\nThe Islamist insurgents seized the city on 15 August last year amid little resistance, as the Western backed government collapsed, and national army troops surrendered in their thousands as the Taliban rapidly took control.\n\nSpeaking separately to US and German media, Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai criticised the withdrawal of US troops from the country early last year.\n\nMr Ghani, who was Afghanistan's president from 2014 until the Taliban took hold, also defended his decision to flee Kabul as the insurgents surrounded the capital. He was heavily criticised for leaving, but told CNN that his defence minister had said the city could no longer be defended.\n\n\"The reason I left was because I did not want to give the Taliban and their supporters the pleasure of yet again humiliating an Afghan president,\" Mr Ghani said, appearing to refer to former president Mohammad Najibullah, who was in office from 1986 to 1992.\n\nThe communist-era leader was captured, tortured and killed by the Taliban when they seized Kabul in 1996.\n\n\"I have never been afraid,\" Mr Ghani insisted. \"I was the last to leave.\"\n\nThe 73-year-old also said that his immediate surroundings in the Arg, Afghanistan's presidential palace, had become unsafe. He alleged that one his cooks in the residence had been offered $100,000 (£82,443) to poison him.\n\nBut while Mr Ghani, who now lives in exile in the United Arab Emirates, attacked the lack of Western support for his government, he refused to say whether he felt \"betrayed\" by the US.\n\n\"I don't use those types of words,\" he said. \"I do not have the luxury to engage in blaming or sense of betrayal. Superpowers, big powers, decide on the base of their national interest. What I hope is that they've considered the implications of those.\"\n\nMr Ghani also denied allegations that he fled with $5m (£3m) looted from the presidential palace, and tens of millions more from a vault at the National Directorate of Security.\n\n\"This is part of a disinformation campaign,\" he said. \"They have investigated and found nothing.\"\n\nLast week, a US congressional report concluded that it was highly unlikely that Mr Ghani and his staff transported such a huge amount of cash on escape helicopters during the frenzied evacuation of Kabul.\n\nHamid Karzai was Afghanistan's first post-Taliban leader, serving as president from 2001 to 2014\n\nMeanwhile, his presidential predecessor, Hamid Karzai, also condemned the US withdrawal, calling it \"disgraceful\" in an interview with German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).\n\nMr Karzai, who left office in 2014 after two terms as Afghanistan's leader, has remained in Kabul since the Taliban takeover and denied suggestions that he is a prisoner of the regime, as some media outlets have suggested.\n\nDuring the interview, he alleged that some people in neighbouring Pakistan supported the Taliban in its takeover, a suspicion long held by former Afghan security officials.\n\n\"You heard the former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speaking to the foreign ministers of the Islamic world in Islamabad, trying to justify that Afghan girls don't go to school, trying to blame it on traditions, which is wrong, which is entirely wrong,\" Mr Karzai told DW.\n\n\"Lack of education for girls means half of the society, at least half of the society, are not educated,\" he added. \"That is a considerably weakened and deprived Afghanistan. So there cannot be any other reason for Pakistan to do this.\"\n\nImran Khan, who is no longer Pakistan's prime minister, has previously denied that it is an ally of the Taliban, but has been accused by many nations, including the United States, of supporting the regime.\n\nMr Karzai, 64, urged the Taliban to reintroduce education for girls, telling DW that the interim regime needed an \"answer very soon\" on the question.\n\nGirls have been denied access to post-primary education since the Taliban takeover, and the hard-line leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, is said to oppose its reintroduction.\n\nBut Mr Karzai said that there can be \"no compromise here, no way that we will allow Afghan girls being denied education\".\n\nHe also offered a tone of defiance, rejecting the suggestion that Afghanistan's finest days are behind it.\n\n\"We are among the oldest countries and civilizations in this part of the world,\" he said. \"We will be fine. This is a blimp in the millenniums of our history. This will go away and we'll be back on our feet and strong.\"\n\nKey players on all sides give a unique insight into the political manoeuvrings behind the scenes that led to the dramatic fall of Kabul in 2021", "World leaders will meet at the UN in New York later for more talks to save the world's oceans from overexploitation.\n\nThe UN High Seas Treaty has been through 10 years of negotiations but has yet to be signed.\n\nIf agreed, it would put 30% of the world's oceans into conservation areas by 2030.\n\nCampaigners hope it will protect marine life from overfishing and other human activities.\n\nTwo-thirds of the world's oceans are currently considered international waters, which mean all countries have a right to fish, ship and do research there. But only 1.2% of these high seas, as they are referred to, are protected.\n\nThis leaves the marine life living outside those areas at risk of exploitation from the increasing threats of climate change, overfishing and shipping traffic.\n\nAnd with ecosystems in the high seas poorly documented, there is concern among conservationists that creatures could become extinct before they are discovered.\n\nResearch published earlier this year, and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suggests that between 10% and 15% of marine species are already at risk of extinction.\n\nThe International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has said at previous negotiations that the \"traditional fragmented nature of ocean governance\" has prevented the effective protection of the high seas.\n\nThe treaty would place parts of the world's oceans into a network of Marine Protected Areas. Environmental impact assessments would be carried out before allowing commercial activities like deep-sea mining to go ahead.\n\nDeep-sea mining is when minerals are taken from the sea bed that is 200m or more below the surface. These minerals include cobalt which is used for electronics, but the process could also be toxic for marine life, according to the IUCN.\n\nAs of March 2022, the International Seabed Authority, which regulates these activities, had issued 31 contracts to explore the deep sea for minerals.\n\nCountries are also looking to include measures in the treaty that give developing and landlocked nations more equal access to Marine Genetic Resources (MGR).\n\nMGR are biological material from plants and animals in the ocean that can have benefits for society, such as pharmaceuticals, industrial processes and food.\n\nBut progress has been slow due to Covid-19 preventing countries meeting. Disagreement over what should be included in the legal treaty also delayed it.\n\nSome nations such as Russia and Iceland want fisheries to be excluded.\n\nIn March, countries agreed to have a final fifth session to try and sign the Treaty - with a deadline set for the end of the year.\n\nShould this not happen, an EU spokesperson told the BBC it was still committed to the issue: \"The EU will insist on the quick continuation of the negotiations.\"\n\n\"Action is needed to ensure the conservation and the sustainable use of the Ocean for current and future generations,\" they added.\n\nAt the end of the last round of failed negotiations, conference president Rena Lee said: \"I believe that with continued commitment, determination and dedication, we will be able to build bridges and close the remaining gaps.\"\n\nProtecting the world's oceans is also important for human populations as so many people rely on the seas for food, income and leisure activities.\n\nIt is estimated that global marine ecosystems are worth more than £41 trillion, according to researchers at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are due to visit the UK next month to attend charity events \"close to their hearts\".\n\nThey will be attending the One Young World Summit in Manchester on 5 September which brings together young leaders from more than 190 countries.\n\nDuring the visit, Prince Harry and Meghan will also be at an event for the Invictus Games in Germany.\n\nThe last time the couple were in the UK was for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.\n\nThe Sussexes, who stepped down as senior royals in January 2020, live in California.\n\nThey kept a low-key presence during the jubilee celebrations - watching the Trooping the Colour parade in London from a window and not taking part in the carriage procession.\n\nA spokesperson for the couple said they were \"delighted\" to be visiting.\n\nThe trip comes amid an ongoing legal dispute over their UK security arrangements.\n\nIn July, Prince Harry won his bid for a High Court review of a Home Office decision to not allow him to personally pay for police protection for himself and his family when in the UK.\n\nHe lost his taxpayer-funded police security after stepping back from royal duties.\n\nThe couple renewed their lease on Frogmore Cottage, near Windsor Castle, earlier this year.\n\nDuring their trip, the couple will travel to Manchester, London and Dusseldorf in Germany.\n\nThe duchess - who is a counsellor for One Young World along with others including Jamie Oliver, Sir Richard Branson and Justin Trudeau - will give a keynote address at the opening ceremony.\n\nPrince Harry and Meghan will also attend the WellChild Awards in London where the duke will make a speech.\n\nBefore that they will attend the Invictus Games Dusseldorf 2023 One Year to Go event.\n\nThe duke was inspired to set up the Invictus Games after seeing a similar event in the US where injured and retired service personnel compete.\n\nThe first competition was held in London in 2014, with following games being held in the US, Canada and Australia.\n\nThe Platinum Jubilee was the first time the duke and duchess had made an appearance together at a royal engagement since 2020.\n\nThe couple visited the Queen in April on their way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands.\n\nBefore this, Prince Harry was last reported to be in the UK in the previous July, while Meghan was not thought to have been in the country since 2020.", "The council opened a health and safety investigation into Liquid Leisure Windsor following the death\n\nA water park where an 11-year-old girl died has been stopped from reopening.\n\nRoyal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council issued a notice to Liquid Leisure Windsor prohibiting activities until it could show risk assessments that prevent or reduce drowning.\n\nThe business, near Datchet, had closed temporarily \"out of respect\" after the death of the girl who went missing at the park on 6 August.\n\nThe authority opened a health and safety investigation on 9 August.\n\n\"The legal onus is on businesses to comply with relevant health and safety legislation,\" a spokesperson for the borough council told the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid outside the water park\n\nA Liquid Leisure statement last week said: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends and all those affected by this desperately tragic and upsetting incident.\"\n\nIt previously said it would not comment further while police investigations were taking place.\n\nEmergency services were called to the park on 6 August after a child was reported missing.\n\nShe was found just after 17:10 BST and taken to hospital, where she died.\n\nThames Valley Police confirmed her death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMuch of the UK has been experiencing another day of high temperatures - but the spell of extreme hot weather is coming to an end with thunderstorms.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland had rain and lower temperatures on Sunday, and rain started falling in parts of north-west England late on Sunday.\n\nOther parts of England and Wales will see rain on Monday.\n\nExperts have warned a lengthy period of rain would be needed to end the drought declared in parts of England on Friday.\n\nA lot of land has been left parched and hard by the heat, so rain is likely to hit the ground and run off - as it would on concrete - which could lead to flash flooding.\n\nA Met Office extreme heat warning has been in place for a large part of England and Wales for four days - making it the lengthiest alert since the system was introduced last year.\n\nIt has not been as high as July's heatwave - when recorded temperatures in the UK topped 40C for the first time - but the extreme heat has lasted longer.\n\nTemperatures reached as high as 34.1C in Charlwood in Surrey on Sunday - while Edinburgh had thunder and heavy rain.\n\nDan Stroud, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said: \"We've had high pressure dominating, now we're having low pressure dominate, so the air is becoming more unstable.\n\n\"As we've had some very high ground temperatures, it doesn't actually take too much for the air to become even more unstable and for thundery showers to develop quickly.\"\n\nLincolnshire Police confirmed a teenage boy died on Saturday in the sea at Skegness as temperatures prompted many people to flock to the beaches.\n\nThe hot weather has also led to wildfires around England, from the North York Moors National Park to Dorset on the south coast.\n\nMark Hardingham, from the National Fire Chiefs' Council, said: \"We've had 745 wildfires this year and that's gone up by 150 in just the last week. Last year we had 247 across the whole of the 12 months.\"\n\nThere are hundreds of other less serious fires in grassland every day, he said.\n\nTwo men, both 44 and from Boston in Lincolnshire, were arrested on suspicion of arson and criminal damage after a fire broke out in Norfolk, the county's police forced said.\n\nEmergency services had been called to Bawsey Country Park, near King's Lynn, on Sunday at about 11.40am, after a disposable barbecue in a woodland caused a small fire.\n\nNorfolk Constabulary said two men, both 44 and from Boston in Lincolnshire, had been arrested on suspicion of arson and criminal damage and taken to King's Lynn for questioning.\n\nExtreme heat warnings are based on the impacts of the weather conditions, rather than when specific temperatures are reached, the Met Office said.\n\nThis means different conditions in different areas of the UK may trigger an extreme heat warning.\n\nThe heat warning only covered England and Wales but Northern Ireland experienced its warmest August day for nearly 20 years on Thursday.\n\nMeanwhile, temperatures were high enough in Scotland to cause a wildfire in West Lothian that has burned for several days.\n\nAnd farmers in Fife have warned a newly-imposed ban on extracting water from the River Eden could lead to complete failure of some crops, with the National Farmers' Union calling the move \"devastating for agriculture\".\n\nBut in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a yellow warning for thunderstorms came into effect on Sunday morning, due to last until the end of Monday.\n\nCustomers at a Tesco supermarket in Inverness had to be evacuated on Sunday after water poured in through the ceiling.\n\nRain fell in parts of north-west England on Sunday evening too, including Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale, ahead of the yellow thunderstorm warning spreading to England and Wales across Monday and Tuesday.\n\nSouth-west and south-east England face a third day of yellow warnings on Wednesday when northern areas are expected to be drier.\n\nThe hot weather has parched the grass in Greenwich Park, south-east London\n\nA boat sits in the dried up Huddersfield narrow canal in West Yorkshire\n\nAn official drought was declared for eight areas of England on Friday. The move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nJohn Curtin, executive director of local operations for the Environment Agency, told the BBC \"this is not a normal summer\" and warned lack of water would be an issue for several months.\n\n\"We'll need probably average or slightly above average rainfall this autumn into this winter for us to not be in a drought next year,\" he said.\n\nThe agency has said there is enough water for public supply but has urged everyone to think about their water use.", "The Portuguese sprinter said some unseen footage is with his lawyer\n\nA sprinter who was allegedly racially profiled during a stop and search has said he was \"worried\" at being pulled over for a second time by armed police.\n\nRicardo Dos Santos published a series of video tweets of him being pulled over and questioned by police in Paddington at 04:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe Met said officers were concerned the driver may have been using a phone.\n\nThe force has now referred itself to the police watchdog, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ricardo Dos Santos published videos of him being pulled over and questioned by police\n\nThe 27-year-old told the BBC his phone was between his thighs, and accused the Met of \"over-policing\".\n\nFive officers face a gross misconduct hearing over a stop-and-search in 2020 involving the Portuguese sprinter and his partner.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live about the incident, Mr Dos Santos explained that he felt unsafe to stop on the A40 Westway and \"went around\" the police car to avoid driving into the back of it. He then continued driving for a further five minutes.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"The officers clearly indicated for the car to pull over but it failed to do so and they called for further assistance.\"\n\nMr Dos Santos said: \"I missed the turn to come out and I felt there wasn't anywhere else that was safe enough to stop because the flyover is pretty dark so I took the next exit... and stopped at the next available street and I parked up and waited for them to come to me.\"\n\n\"It is a long time on a regular street but this was a flyover. For my safety, and based on my previous incidents with them [police], I thought that the best place to stop was somewhere lit up and with the possibility of witnesses.\"\n\nMr Dos Santos said he counted seven armed police officers and that one took his baton out of his pocket \"out of frustration ready to smash the glass\" after not knowing how to open the car door.\n\nHe added \"nothing had changed\" two years after he was pulled over with his partner, Bianca Williams, and their daughter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ricardo Dos Santos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Monday, Scotland Yard said it had \"recorded this matter as a public complaint\" and referred itself to the police watchdog, \"recognising the public interest\".\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"We will be assessing the available information in order to make an informed decision on the level of our involvement.\"\n\nIn July 2020, footage of Ms Williams and Mr Dos Santos being searched and handcuffed was widely shared on social media, with Ms Williams later accusing the police of racially profiling them.\n\nAfter the search, details of the couple's three-month-old baby were also stored on a police database called Merlin, used to record information on children who become known to the authorities.\n\nIn April, the IOPC said an acting police sergeant and four police constables will all face a gross misconduct disciplinary hearing over the incident.\n\nRicardo Dos Santos has represented Portugal in the 400m sprint\n\nMr Dos Santos revealed this was the third time he had been stopped by police whilst driving in two years. On Sunday he said he warned the officers that his Tesla car had cameras which film the exterior of the vehicle.\n\nHe said: \"I was worried for my safety, so much so that I called Bianca and I told her to log onto the car's cameras and look at them just in case anything happened once I'd pulled over.\n\n\"I stay as calm as possible because for me this isn't a surprising situation, it's happened many times so it's my norm.\n\n\"I believe it was over-policing for a phone.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, the Met Police said: \"Armed officers were on routine patrol in a marked police vehicle.\n\n\"They saw a car travelling eastbound on the A40 Westway and were concerned the driver may be using a mobile phone at the wheel.\n\n\"The driver stopped about five minutes later in Orsett Terrace W2, and the officers spoke to him about why they wanted to stop the vehicle.\n\n\"Following the conversation the vehicle was allowed on its way. We have since contacted the driver via Twitter to invite him to contact us if he would like to discuss this matter further.\"\n\nMr Dos Santos said he would not have direct contact with the Met but would leave it to his lawyer to deal with.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of childcare providers in England has been dropping steadily since 2015\n\nParents are being left without childcare as nurseries shut at short notice due to financial pressures and staff shortages.\n\nThe Pregnant Then Screwed campaign group said it had been \"inundated\" with messages from parents whose local nursery had closed suddenly.\n\nNurseries are facing increased energy, food and staffing costs, as well as struggling to recruit.\n\nThe government said it was increasing funding paid to childcare providers.\n\nBut the Early Years Alliance, which represents around 14,000 providers in England and also has its own nurseries, said the sector was facing its worst crisis in recruitment and cost increases in 20 years.\n\nGabrielle Drake said she was left in a \"mad scramble\" to find a new nursery for her 13-month-old son when his current provider closed for good overnight.\n\nParents received an email on 5 August saying the nursery would be permanently closing at the end of the day as the company was \"undergoing a restructure\".\n\nGabrielle and her partner both work full time and they were unable to find a new nursery at such short notice, so now have to rely on her parents to look after their son for a month.\n\nThe 35-year-old from Leeds has managed to find a new nursery for September. She contacted 20 local nurseries but only four replied to say they had spaces, two of which are brand new so do not have Ofsted inspection reports yet.\n\nAs her son was not attending nursery the day it closed they were unable to collect his belongings, including clothes and nappies.\n\nShe said the closure was also disruptive for her son who had settled in well at the nursery and made friends.\n\nWelcome Nurseries, which owns the branch, went into administration earlier this month - six of its 32 sites were closed as part of a sale.\n\nLinda Mills, head of childcare at Welcome Nurseries, said the company took the \"difficult decision\" to close the sites as they had very low occupancy and together with rising costs \"this meant they were not sustainable\".\n\nWhere possible, she said children had been able to access the company's other nurseries and in the areas most affected families were being helped by local authorities.\n\nGabrielle's local nursery offered no alternative provision after it closed suddenly\n\nHarriet Butterworth, managing director at Cottontails nursery in Warrington, said she was worried she would be forced to close because of increased costs.\n\nThe nursery is running at a loss and has already raised fees twice this year to cover increased staffing costs.\n\nMs Butterworth said she had increased salaries for her lowest paid workers by 12.5% to help attract and retain staff.\n\n\"We're competing with the likes of Hermes, Amazon, just basic retail jobs, who are paying these really high hourly amounts, with much more flexible hours,\" Ms Butterworth added.\n\nShe said the nursery was also facing increased food and energy costs, with her gas and electricity bill more than doubling to hit £9,000 for the last quarter.\n\nThe nursery has been forced to turn off its boiler and cut down its use of the gas oven to save energy.\n\nHarriet Butterworth says she is only able to recruit staff by increasing pay\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said in his 20 years working in the sector he had \"never witnessed such a crisis in terms of recruitment and retention and cost pressures\".\n\nHe blamed underinvestment in the sector by the government, as well as increased costs for things like energy, food and staff.\n\nParents of three and four year olds in England are entitled to15 free hours per week of childcare. Working families may also be eligible for an additional 15 hours per week of funded early education. But Mr Leitch said this allocation was not adequately funded by the government, leaving providers to make up the shortfall.\n\nHe said many providers were forced to increase fees for other parents to offset the cost as a result.\n\nA survey of 2,000 early years providers in March found 30% were currently operating at a loss, while 34% said they expected to be in 12 months' time.\n\nThree years ago the alliance operated 132 pre-school settings but it now only has 65, with more than half closing for financial reasons.\n\nThe number of childcare providers in England has been falling steadily since 2015, with the number of nurseries and pre-schools dropping by 196 between August 2021 and March this year, according to inspector Ofsted.\n\nHowever, Jonathan Broadbery, from the National Day Nurseries Association, said anecdotally the situation had got worse since March, with nurseries under increasing financial pressure.\n\nIn April, there was an increase in the minimum wage and National Insurance contributions paid by employers, while temporary business rates relief introduced during the pandemic ended in England.\n\nMr Leitch said nurseries were also struggling to recruit, as people are leaving the sector \"in their droves\" for better paid jobs because they felt \"exhausted and undervalued\".\n\nMany businesses have increased salaries as a result but this was not financially sustainable, he added. Others have been forced to reduce hours or close suddenly because of a lack of staff.\n\nPregnant Then Screwed said it had received more than 60 messages in recent weeks from mothers whose child's nursery had closed at short notice.\n\nThe group's campaigns manager, Lauren Fabianski, said many were worried about how they would be able to work without childcare.\n\nShe added that some nurseries were booked-up until November next year, so it was difficult to find somewhere with spaces.\n\nA government spokeswoman said it had spent more than £4bn in each of the past five years to support families with the cost of childcare and it had not seen a substantial number of parents unable to secure a childcare place.\n\nShe added that the government had also announced additional funding for local authorities to increase the hourly rates paid to childcare providers and it was increasing funding to support employers with their costs.", "The alerts could have been used during the 2022 summer heatwaves which saw these homes on the outskirts of London destroyed in wildfires\n\nAn emergency warning system, allowing alerts about severe weather and other life-threatening events to be sent to mobile phones, will go live in October in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThe Cabinet Office says the technology will alert up to 85% of the population.\n\nThe messages will be sent automatically to any smartphone which is switched on, although it is possible to opt out by changing a mobile phone setting.\n\nTrials of the alerts were held in Reading and East Suffolk this year.\n\nA government publicity campaign will begin in September, and every phone in England, Scotland and Wales, will receive a \"welcome message\" in October.\n\nThe system will eventually cover the whole of the UK, says the government.\n\nThe Cabinet Office says the alerts, which will look and sound different to standard messages, will be able to give highly localised warnings of:\n\nTerror attacks could also be added to the list of potential scenarios to trigger a message.\n\nOfficials would not discuss the arrangements for warning the population of an impending military or nuclear attack on the country.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cabinet Office This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAbout 85% of people have a smartphone capable of receiving the messages, it is estimated.\n\nThe government does not have statistics for the number of older 2G and 3G mobile devices in use, and stresses it does not keep a list of all phone users.\n\nThe system works by sending a message and a distinctive warning tone to mobiles directly via cell towers, rather than accessing a list of mobile numbers.\n\nAn alert can be sent to a single tower, meaning anyone in the vicinity could pick it up, even, for example, when travelling through the area.\n\nThe government will draw on the expertise of specialist agencies, such as the Met Office or the Environment Agency, in deciding when to trigger alerts.\n\nThe messages can only be sent by the emergency services or the government. Anyone who is concerned that an alert may not be genuine can check on the government website at www.gov.uk/alerts, where all messages will be listed.\n\nAll phones will be opted into the scheme and users will have to opt out if they don't want the messages - but data from the trials suggests most will not do that.\n\nTouring the Met Office in Exeter on Monday, senior Cabinet Office Minister Kit Malthouse defended the opt-out arrangement.\n\n\"You have the ability to turn it off if you really don't want to know that these things are coming to your area and are going to affect you,\" he said.\n\n\"Our job is to keep people safe. We have the information to keep them safe. We need to make sure that we broadcast it as far and wide as we can.\n\n\"We will only use it in those very dangerous situations. There's not going to be a general kind of spam system.\"\n\nMet Office executive director Ian Cameron says that as the climate crisis brings more severe weather events, emergency alerts could become ever more important.\n\n\"If we issue a warning, I would say to people, just be aware of it and actually think about taking some action on it, because this stuff we warn about can be very impactful.\"\n\nThe government says countries already using emergency alerts include:\n\nThe most common emergency in the UK is flooding, says the Cabinet Office.\n\nIn 2014, a large area of the Somerset Levels flooded, resulting in whole villages being underwater.\n\nWe showed a government video of the new system to Bryony Sadler, whose home in the village of Moorland was affected\n\nShe said it was \"a positive\" but thought the piercing tone was a \"formidable sound\" and the stark message could upset older people.\n\n\"They maybe don't even have mobile phones. It might give people more fear than reassurance.\"\n\nBryony Sadler's home in Somerset was flooded in 2014\n\nHer main concern was whether the system would be appropriate to major flooding events, which tend to build up slowly rather than happen suddenly.\n\n\"If you do get that sound, does that mean people are going to come and help?\"\n\nCommunities need to be ready to support themselves, she says.\n\n\"You know what's coming. You've got to rely on the locals. It's all about community, helping your neighbour, sorting yourself out, then giving time back to other people.\"\n\nFlooded communities had to be accessed by boat in 2014\n\nIn Moorland, a system of powerful pumps has since been installed to return water back to the river when it floods, and dredging of waterways was stepped up.\n\nFarmer James Winslade, who was closely involved with recovery efforts in 2014, says the new messaging system is not the answer.\n\n\"The government needs to invest in maintenance rather than in text messages - the Environment Agency already do a text messaging system to warn of floods,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a man-made watercourse. There's nothing natural about it. Anything manmade needs maintenance.\"\n• None New emergency text alerts to be trialled\n• None How did the flood crisis unfold?", "As temperatures are set to reach as high as 35C across parts of England and Wales this weekend, dermatologists have issued a warning to people about skin conditions caused or aggravated by the heat.\n\nDermatologist Adeline Kikam told the BBC \"extreme or high temperatures can have adverse impact on skin\".\n\nShe says several skin conditions can develop, or worsen, during persistently high temperatures.\n\nHeat rashes, tiny bumps or blisters in the skin, happen when there is an obstruction in the sweat ducts and inflammation.\n\nThey are more common during the summer because they are triggered by heat and humidity.\n\nDr Kikam says high temperatures can also worsen or aggravate eczema.\n\nHigh temperatures lead to increased sweating, which in turn can make the skin even drier and the salt residue from the sweat can cause inflammation in the skin. This combination leads to redness, and general discomfort.\n\nSpots and breakouts are common during high temperatures because there is an excess secretion of oil from our sebaceous glands. This combined with sweating and products like make-up can clog pores and trap dirt in the skin.\n\nSunburn is the result of long exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation.\n\nIf you have darker skin, and therefore more melanin, your body has a base protective layer to UV radiation and it might take longer to notice the symptoms of sunburn (redness and blisters).\n\n\"Damage to the skin is just not as visible, but you're still getting the damage,\" Dr Kikam says.\n\nDr Adeline Kikam warns conditions can develop, or worsen, during high temperatures\n\nFor those suffering from heat rashes, Dr Kikam says patients should remove themselves from hot and humid environments when possible and ensure they have access to good ventilation, by using fans and air conditioner - and keep the affected area of the skin dry.\n\nThe same goes for chafing - rubbing on the skin from clothing or other surfaces. Wearing loose clothing, ensuring your skin is dry and avoiding friction are the best ways to avoid it, says Dr Kikam.\n\nFor those suffering from aggravated eczema, it is important to keep your skin moisturised with neutral lotions, she adds.\n\nFor sunburns, Dr Kikam says everyone should ensure they are wearing sunscreen to protect themselves from exposure to UV radiation and avoid direct sun exposure for long periods of time.\n\nShe adds regularly cleansing your skin ensures you can minimise your risk of having breakouts, as you are avoiding product build up and keeping your pores unclogged.", "Paul O'Grady signed off on Sunday from his final Radio 2 show\n\nPaul O'Grady has finished his 14-year stint on Radio 2 and confirmed reports it was because he was unhappy about sharing his Sunday afternoon slot.\n\nO'Grady has hosted his current show for 13 years, but a recent scheduling change saw Rob Beckett taking over for two three-month stints each year.\n\nAhead of his final show, O'Grady cited the change as the reason he was going.\n\nAlso leaving the station is his producer Malcolm Prince, whom he jokingly insulted on every show.\n\nSpeaking to his long-suffering colleague in their 546th and final programme, O'Grady, 67, said the show had been one of the \"longest jobs I've ever held down\", before addressing his listeners to tell them it \"wouldn't have been the same\" without them.\n\nRemembering that his initial work for Radio 2 had been as an occasional stand-in presenter 14 years ago before he was handed his current show in 2009, he said: \"I only came to do a few hours for Elaine Paige and look what happened.\"\n\nHe added that it was time to \"hang up his headphones\" and \"run free\".\n\nHis last show included many of his popular segments, including providing the recipe for a Hawaiian-style cocktail and paying tribute to listeners' pets that have recently died.\n\nAfter playing his last song, Friends by Bette Midler, he signed off with: \"So you look after yourselves, stay safe and well. Ta-ra everyone.\"\n\nO'Grady and Beckett had been swapping over every 13 weeks in the slot, after a shake-up to the station's schedule.\n\nTwo other big names - Vanessa Feltz and Craig Charles - have been announced in recent months as leaving the station, while Steve Wright is also vacating his weekday afternoon slot to be replaced by Scott Mills. Many other shows have also been moved on the station's schedule.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by paulogrady This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an Instagram post on Sunday, O'Grady said: \"The reason I'm leaving, because everybody's asking me this, is because I wasn't really happy with the 13 weeks on, 13 weeks off business.\"\n\nHe added: \"Thanks very much and good luck to everyone on Radio 2 and long may it continue.\"\n\nHe said he had handled the matter in \"an honourable way\", seeing out his current contract and handing in his notice to station bosses.\n\nO'Grady with Malcolm Prince, the producer on his radio show since 2009\n\nO'Grady came to prominence in the 1990s as a stand-up comedian with a Scouse drag queen persona, Lily Savage, with which he presented game show Blankety Blank and other light entertainment programmes.\n\nHe went on to host a number of chat shows, first with ITV and later with Channel 4, and a revival of dating show Blind Date.\n\nHe continues to host For The Love of Dogs, an ITV series following the staff at Battersea Dogs Home and the dogs they care for.\n\nHelen Thomas, head of Radio 2, wished him luck for the future and said she was \"sorry to see him go\".\n\nBeckett will return to Sunday afternoons for his next 13-week run of shows next Sunday.", "Police are asking people to avoid the area around the recycling plant fire in Milford Haven\n\nAbout 100 firefighters are dealing with a fire at a recycling centre.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said multiple agencies were now involved in trying to set up a plan to extinguish the blaze \"in the next few days\".\n\nMotorists are asked to avoid the area near the centre at Waterston, near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. Residents are asked to stay indoors with the windows closed.\n\nCrews are also dealing with a large number of grass fires across Wales.\n\nThe police force said a large storage unit had been destroyed by the Waterston fire, which broke out at about 14:00 BST on Sunday and has spread to an adjacent waste recycling centre.\n\nA spokesperson said crews were working to extinguish the fire at both locations and mitigate further spread.\n\nThe B4325 road is closed, and motorists have been asked to avoid the area\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service had about 100 staff at the scene on Sunday night, with 14 appliances and specialist assets including a drone to help tactical officers tackling the blaze.\n\nThere have been no injuries, and there are no particular concerns for any nearby dwellings, so no evacuations are being considered at this time, the police spokesperson said.\n\nBut they added: \"Significant smoke is billowing from the scene of the fire, and residents in the Johnston, Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock, and Neyland areas as well as the other side of the estuary are advised to keep windows and doors closed, and remain indoors until further notice.\"\n\nFirefighters also attended Newgale beach, in Pembrokeshire, when fire broke out on a hillside there.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Llandod Fire (Stn 13) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Fire Officer Roger Thomas said: \"Crews have worked extremely hard tackling the fire in hot and challenging conditions, to mitigate against the effects to the environment and from a public health perspective.\n\n\"Crews are also attending a large grass fire in Newgale, meaning approximately 20 appliances have been in attendance in the area tackling fires. This has placed a great deal of strain on our local resources.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Rhondda Cynon Taf, a serious fire closed the Rhigos Mountain Pass.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the mountain fire had melted fencing on the roadside, allowing boulders to fall onto the roadway. The road has been closed until further notice.\n\nThe service added that there were several hotspots that were inaccessible and the fire had been left to burn out, with the fire service due to check on the blaze periodically throughout the night.\n\nFirefighters were dealing with fires across south and mid Wales, including this one on a hillside near Newgale beach\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf Council warned people to not attempt to cross the mountain road under any circumstances. They said the damage created a significant danger to road users and they hope to provide a further update on Monday.\n\nElsewhere in south-east Wales there was a blaze in the open at Duffryn, near Newport, another at Abercarn, in Caerphilly county, another at Devauden, in Monmouthshire and another in Sebastapol, in Torfaen.\n\nThere was also a grassfire at Maidenhall Point, in Pembrokeshire.\n\nIn mid Wales there was a fire near the main road between Welshpool and Montgomery, in Powys.", "Australian PM Anthony Albanese says he will investigate reports that his predecessor, Scott Morrison, secretly assumed three roles in the ministry.\n\nMr Morrison became joint minister for the health, finance and resources portfolios in the two years before he lost power in May, local media report.\n\nMr Albanese said he would seek legal advice about the decisions, calling them \"unacceptable\" and \"just weird\".\n\nThe former prime minister has declined to comment.\n\nOn Monday, Governor-General David Hurley - the Queen's representative in Australia - confirmed he had signed an \"administrative instrument\" that had allowed Mr Morrison to secretly take on the portfolios. It was \"consistent with section 64 of the constitution\", a spokesperson said.\n\nBut Mr Albanese, law experts and Mr Morrison's former colleagues have criticised the secrecy surrounding it.\n\nEven some ministers were reportedly not aware they were sharing portfolios with the former prime minister.\n\n\"This is the sort of 'tin pot' activity that we would ridicule if it was in a non-democratic country,\" Mr Albanese told reporters on Monday.\n\nLocal media reported that former Health Minister Greg Hunt agreed in 2020 to share his portfolio in the event he became incapacitated from Covid.\n\nBut then-Finance Minister Mathias Cormann - now head of the OECD - only learned last week that his role had been jointly held, said a report by local outlet News.com.au.\n\nMr Morrison was sworn in as a second resources minister - joining Keith Pitt - last year. Mr Morrison used his powers to block a gas exploration licence in New South Wales - a decision opposed by Mr Pitt.\n\nMr Albanese said he would not speculate on forthcoming legal advice but accused his predecessor of having governed \"in the shadows\".\n\nWhen asked to respond to Mr Albanese's comments, Mr Morrison said he wasn't aware of them. \"Since leaving the job I haven't engaged in any day-to-day politics,\" he told Sky News Australia.\n\nMr Morrison's deputy from June 2021, Barnaby Joyce, said he did not have prior knowledge of the appointments.\n\n\"I found out about it, and I disagree with it. I believe in a cabinet system of government where ministers are responsible for their own portfolio. We don't have a presidential form of government,\" Mr Joyce told Channel 7.\n\nThe centre-right coalition suffered a convincing defeat in May's general election. It lost many seats in cities - where climate action and political integrity were seen as key issues.\n\nIn July, Mr Morrison drew controversy by telling churchgoers \"don't trust in governments\" and \"don't trust in the United Nations\" during a speech in Perth.\n\nThat's what Mr Albanese (and a number of constitutional experts) have said about the reports.\n\nThere are so many questions and you'd be forgiven for being confused. No-one is sure who knew what, when.\n\nIt would be normal for a leader to make sure that someone can step up and do the job if a minister is incapacitated, especially at the height of the pandemic.\n\nBut there are many ways of doing this. Why did it have to be him? And more crucially, why the secrecy?\n\nAs it stands, nothing about this gels. But here's why this could potentially be a big deal.\n\nFor a leader of any country, let alone a democracy, to take over several portfolios without the public's knowledge or the knowledge of his own colleagues, raises serious questions.\n\nIf confirmed, this also means that the then-prime minister was potentially aiming to centralise power so that the decision-making would ultimately come down to him.\n\nRemember, this was happening at a time when Australia was in and out of lockdowns and when the Morrison government faced a lot of criticism for the way they handled the vaccination programme.\n\nConfidence in the Morrison government was waning - but as the current prime minister put it, it seems that even Scott Morrison had no confidence in the Morrison government.", "Samantha is a comedian running a free show every night of the fringe at the Globe Bar\n\nPerformers at the Edinburgh Fringe have taken to camper vans and tents to escape the city's sky high accommodation costs.\n\nRental prices in the capital always rise considerably during August due to demand caused by the Fringe as well as other festivals.\n\nBut this year, the increased cost of living has exacerbated things further and many performers have felt priced out.\n\nFor Samantha Day, a comedian from Buckinghamshire, camping gave her the opportunity to perform at the Fringe and still turn a profit.\n\nShe travelled up to Edinburgh in a campervan with her dog Percy to perform her comedy act at the Globe Bar as part of the Free Fringe, where the audience pay what they think the performance is worth.\n\nSamantha has been enjoying spending time with her dog and thinks she would camp for the Fringe again\n\n\"Doing a show doesn't make financial sense in a hotel,\" she said.\n\n\"There are a lot of comedians who are not even here because of the affordability issues and there are others camping because that is all they can afford.\"\n\nShe is staying on a campsite which is a 40-minute bus ride away from the festival. She can only stay for two weeks and then must move to a second site as demand is so high.\n\n\"Because it is so expensive loads of the audience can't afford to stay in Edinburgh either so they're camping too,\" Ms Day said.\n\n\"Even camping is costing me £43 a night so around £800 - £900 for the whole thing. So it's not nothing even to camp.\"\n\nWhile Ms Day has been enjoying time with her dog in the countryside she admits that camping while running a show at the Fringe, isn't ideal.\n\n\"With camping you have to be so organised,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a logistical challenge on top of everything else.\n\n\"Most people that come up here are stressed about their show, I'm not, I'm more worried about actually getting into the city, when the buses are running, whether road works are in the way and the rest of it.\"\n\nFrancesca Firman and Susie Garvey-Williams are both producers and actresses.\n\nThey decided just 10 weeks ago that they wanted to bring a show to the Fringe.\n\nCamping was the only way they could afford to do so.\n\nThe performers camped together to keep costs down for their production 12th Night Lite\n\n\"As we organised it so last minute we didn't do anything through funding, so we funded it all between the two of us,\" Ms Firman said.\n\n\"So, we went as cheap as we could. We wouldn't have been able to afford any accommodation in Edinburgh or anything more than camping.\"\n\nThey camped in Musselburgh, about seven miles from the city centre.\n\n\"It's been fun. Some of us have never camped before,\" Ms Garvey-Williams said.\n\n\"Getting used to the lack of sleep plus doing two shows a day isn't as fun. We're exhausted by the time we get back to the tent but we haven't let it impact the production.\"\n\nThe pair believe that rising costs are affecting visitors as well.\n\n\"People can't afford to come and visit the Fringe for as long,\" Ms Firman said.\n\n\"We've actually had quite considerable audiences every show so far but we have heard from other people in our venue that they are struggling for numbers,\" Ms Garvey-Williams added.\n\nPrevious concerns over ticket sales due to the cost of living crisis prompted organisers to offer 35,000 tickets at a discounted rate.\n\nLexie has been commuting by train to run her murder mystery production \"Highly suspect\"\n\nIt is Lexie Ward's fifth Fringe and like in previous years she commutes 106 miles from Carlisle to Edinburgh by train everyday. She buys her train tickets 12 weeks in advance.\n\n\"I don't think we've had one train yet that has arrived on time,\" she said.\n\n\"Also trains have been cancelled, our train has just been cancelled for the second consecutive night.\n\n\"That's the flip side of doing thing this way but it is still cheaper than trying to find accommodation up here.\"\n\nSome of the other members of Ms Ward's production chose to stay in Edinburgh and she believes that the prices this year are some of the worst she has ever seen.\n\nEdinburgh recently became the the first city in Scotland to introduce a short-term let control area to limit the number of Airbnb-style rentals. A third of all short-term lets in Scotland are found in Edinburgh.\n\nThe proposal was introduced to help with affordable housing shortages in the city however some believe that it will further exacerbate the problems performers and visitors are facing this year.\n\nThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's biggest arts festival\n\nMs Ward said she understood that the Fringe was only one month a year and accommodation in the Edinburgh was a year-round concern for many.\n\n\"So whatever happens it has to suit the city first but it feels like it's pricing itself out of the Fringe,\" she said.\n\nLouise Dickins has operated a short and medium term letting business in Edinburgh over the last 25 years.\n\nShe believes that the proposed short term-let control could have a \"seismic impact\" on the festival.\n\n\"The costs of renting accommodation this year are astronomical in places,\" she told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\n\"I've never had so many people on the phone to me. People in a total panic about where they're going to stay for the fringe as they can't afford the rentals.\"\n\nMegan Bishop, the national director of the Scottish tenants' union Living Rent, wants the city to be able to house performers for the Fringe but thinks that the way short-term lets are operating now is making it impossible for people to live in Edinburgh long term.\n\n\"At the moment it's untenable, there needs to be a way to bring rents down for short term rentals and for people living here long term,\" she said.\n\nShe believes that reducing the number of short-term lets is a good way to accomplish that.\n\n\"I love the Fringe but it's pushing people out of the city, Edinburgh is being prioritised as a place for profit rather than actually a home,\" she said.", "Activities to be banned include using hosepipes to water gardens or clean cars\n\nA hosepipe ban is to start in Cornwall for the first time in 26 years amid a continuing drought.\n\nSouth West Water (SWW) said it had been \"left with no other choice\" to \"protect our precious water\".\n\nThe ban, which includes parts of north Devon, will begin on 23 August.\n\nActivities to be banned include using hosepipes to water gardens or clean cars. Businesses and farmers are unaffected.\n\nDried mud and old trees at Colliford Lake, Cornwall's largest lake and reservoir\n\nLisa Gahan, of SWW, told BBC Radio Cornwall the ban would be in place \"for some time\" to allow depleted rivers and reservoirs to recover and would \"depend on the weather and demand\".\n\nThere was \"no significant rain for potentially many months\", she said.\n\nShe added SWW had done its best to avoid the ban, doubling the amount of leak detection staff and fixing about 2,000 leaks a month.\n\nCustomers will still be able to water gardens or clean cars without using a hosepipe if they use tap water from a bucket or watering can.\n\nOr they can use water that is not sourced from taps such as grey water, rainwater from a water butt or a private borehole.\n\nThe temporary measure will not apply to blue badge holders or those on SWW's priority register.\n\nSWW said the ban also covered some households in the Upper Tamar region of north Devon and there was a postcode checker on its website. where people could see if they were affected.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are growing calls to impose a windfall tax on oil giants' earnings as living costs soar\n\nSaudi oil giant Aramco has broken its own record with a $48.4bn (£40bn) profit for the second quarter of 2022.\n\nIt is a 90% year-on-year increase and marks the biggest earnings for the world's largest energy exporter since its public listing three years ago.\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine has seen oil and gas prices skyrocket.\n\nRussia is one of the world's biggest exporters but Western nations have pledged to curb their dependence on the country for their energy needs.\n\nAccording to Bloomberg, the Saudi oil giant's figure represents \"the biggest quarterly adjusted profit of any listed company\".\n\nAs well as the record profits, the state-owned Saudi energy giant announced it would keep its dividend unchanged at $18.8bn for the third quarter.\n\nThe company said it would keep expanding to satisfy demand.\n\n\"While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during the first half of this year support our view that ongoing investment in our industry is essential both to help ensure markets remain well supplied and to facilitate an orderly energy transition,\" Aramco president and chief executive Amin Nasser said.\n\n\"In fact, we expect oil demand to continue to grow for the rest of the decade, despite downward economic pressures on short-term global forecasts,\" he added.\n\nOil prices were already rising before the Ukraine war as economies started to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and demand outstripped supply.\n\nThe world's biggest oil producers, including ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, have all posted huge earnings this year - leading to growing calls on governments to impose a windfall tax amid an alarming rise in living costs.\n\nIn June, US President Joe Biden said Exxon had made \"more money than God this year\".\n\nSaudi Arabia is the largest single producer in Opec, a group representing the world's biggest oil producers.\n\nLast week Opec+ agreed to raise production slightly in an effort to help ease high oil prices. However, the latest production output increase is at a much slower pace than in recent months.\n\nThe decision was a blow to leaders including Mr Biden, who have called for production to be ramped up.", "There was a large police presence at the airport and some flights were rescheduled following the shooting\n\nA 63-year-old man has been charged with firearm offences after firing shots inside Australia's Canberra airport on Sunday afternoon.\n\nPolice said the man, from New South Wales, sat on seats in a check-in area before shooting a number times into the building's windows.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident, which sent passengers running in fear.\n\nGun violence is rare in Australia, which has some of the toughest firearms laws in the world.\n\nThe suspect was quickly detained, and a gun recovered, however police say his motives are still unclear.\n\nThe capital's airport was evacuated as a precaution and several flights were cancelled or rescheduled.\n\nAustralian media reported that the suspect fired approximately five shots. Bullet holes could be seen in the glass windows of the terminal.\n\nFootage has emerged on social media purportedly showing a man being arrested by police officers at the airport.\n\nWitnesses described chaos and confusion, with one woman telling the BBC she hid under a desk in one of the airport lounges.\n\nAlison, another witness, said she had just put her bags onto the security check belt when she heard the gun shots.\n\n\"I turned around and there was a man standing with a pistol, like a small one, facing out towards the car drop-off,\" she was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper.\n\nLily Thomson, a reporter for public broadcaster ABC, said she heard the shots and realised something was wrong when people started screaming \"run\".\n\n\"I saw this grandma with a baby and the fear in her face and I knew it was something serious.\n\n\"So we all ran and I stayed with that grandma and her baby and hid behind an information desk. We stayed there for a couple of minutes until security told us to evacuate out to the car park.\n\n\"Everyone was hiding behind chairs and people were running. It was terrifying,\" Ms Thomson said.\n\nSome passengers were stuck on board planes on the tarmac as police officers swept the terminal. The passengers were later allowed to disembark.", "Researchers have successfully altered the blood type of donor kidneys in a discovery that could increase the supply of the organs for transplant.\n\nThe breakthrough has particular implications for minority groups, who often find it harder to find a match.\n\nA kidney from someone with blood type A cannot be given to someone with type B, and vice versa.\n\nBut changing the blood type of a kidney to the universal type O will mean it can be transplanted into any patient.\n\nPeople from black and other ethnic minority groups often have to wait a year longer for a transplant than white patients because they are more likely to have the rarer B-type blood group.\n\nRates of organ donation among those populations is also lower. In 2020/21, just over 9% of total organ donations came from black and other minority ethnic donors, while people from those communities make up 33% of the kidney transplant waiting list.\n\nScientists at the University of Cambridge were able to use a normothermic perfusion machine - a device used to pass oxygenated blood through a kidney to help preserve it - to flush blood infused with an enzyme through a donor kidney.\n\nThe enzyme removes the blood-type markers that line the blood vessels of the organ, effectively changing its blood type to type O. The process took a matter of hours when it was successfully performed on three donor kidneys.\n\nSerena MacMillan, a PhD student who worked on the study, said it was \"very exciting to think about how this could potentially impact so many lives\".\n\nThe next step is to see how the kidneys react when given a normal supply of blood from their new blood group, something which can again be tested using a machine before the kidney is transplanted into a patient.\n\nThe research, which is funded by charity Kidney Research UK, is due to be published in the British Journal of Surgery in the coming months.\n\nDr Aisling McMahon, executive director of research at the charity, called the work \"potentially game-changing\".\n\nThis is a fascinating and compelling idea, but it's impact on organ transplantation is still unproven.\n\nThere are questions about the science and how much more it can increase the availability of organs for donation.\n\nIt will take further tests to see how these tweaked organs perform when actually dealing with formerly mismatched blood. And to ensure the process does not damage the kidneys in any way.\n\nThis will have to be tested in the laboratory and then in small numbers of patients.\n\nAlso blood group is only one of three ways kidneys are matched before transplant and half the population are already either O positive or O negative (whose kidneys can be donated to anybody).\n\nTissue matching and cross matching (in which the blood of donor and recipient are mixed to see if there's a reaction) will still be a factor, particularly in ethnic groups.\n\nFor now, the best ways of increasing the number of life-saving transplants remains more of us - from every community - becoming donors.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Eilish McColgan took women's 10,000m silver at the European Championships as Turkey's Yasemin Can claimed a superb win in Munich. McColgan, 31, won her first major title as she triumphed in the event at the Commonwealth Games 12 days ago. Having also finished second in the 5,000m at Birmingham 2022, the Scot earned another silver as she ran clear of Israel's Lonah Chemtai Salpeter. Can kicked clear with seven laps to go to win in 30 minutes 32.57 seconds. \"I'm pleased. I'm obviously disappointed, I would have loved to become European champion tonight - but tired, tired legs,\" McColgan told BBC Sport. \"It was probably one of the craziest weeks of my life at the Commonwealth Games. Such a big high of emotion and not a lot of sleep. I found it tough to get myself up for it again today.\" On also contesting the 5,000m in Munich, she added: \"I think it is going to be tough. Two days' recovery to try and do it all again but this would be my last track race this season. \"I'll have a think about it, I'm sure I'll be back. I love racing. It's been a great season and to add another medal to that, I'd be more than proud.\" Fellow Britons Samantha Harrison and Jessica Judd finished sixth and 10th respectively. Germany lead the medal table with 10 golds after five days of competition, ahead of France (nine) and Great Britain (eight) McColgan followed in the footsteps of her mother Liz - Commonwealth 10,000m champion in both 1986 and 1990 - as she recorded the biggest win of her career on 4 August. In a hugely impressive season, McColgan also broke the European 10km, British half-marathon and Scottish 10,000m records earlier this year. Though illness and injury hindered her World Championships medal aspirations in July, the 2018 European 5,000m silver medallist has returned to form emphatically - delivering one of the key moments of Birmingham 2022 as she out-kicked Kenyan Irene Cheptai in front of a packed Alexander Stadium. In Munich's Olympiastadion, McColgan took it upon herself to increase the pace after a relaxed opening kilometre and by halfway only Can, defending champion Salpeter and Germany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen were able to remain in touch. But Can, champion in 2016, made her stunning bid for gold with over a quarter of the race remaining, surging away from the competition to leave McColgan and Salpeter to chase. While they could not close the gap, McColgan was able to move clear of Salpeter on the final lap, finishing in 30:41.05. Earlier on Monday, Briton Scott Lincoln finished 10th in the men's shot put final while compatriot Sophie McKinna placed 12th in the women's event. In the men's marathon, Germany's Richard Ringer produced a remarkable sprint finish in front of his home support to beat Israel's Maru Teferi to gold after 2:10:21. Phil Sesemann was the highest-placed British athlete, finishing 17th in a season-best 2:15:17, with Mohamud Aadan 30th, Andrew Davies 35th and Andrew Hayes 44th. In the women's race, won by Poland's Aleksandra Lisowska in 2:28:36, Alice Wright placed 22nd, Naomi Mitchell 25th, Becky Briggs 31st and Rosie Edwards 35th.\n• None Watch the latest highlights of the new Premier League season\n• None 'I have said 'no' to some winners...!':", "Leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are to pitch for the votes of Scottish Conservative members at a hustings in Perth.\n\nBoth have stated their opposition to a referendum on Scottish independence and want their policies to apply UK-wide.\n\nAnd each has policies to challenge the Scottish government, calling for greater scrutiny of the SNP's record.\n\nThe SNP said neither candidate was offering a solution to the cost of living crisis.\n\nBoth candidates would boost support for independence, they added.\n\nThe two contenders to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister are taking part in a series of events around the UK.\n\nThe event at the Perth Concert Hall will give local Tory members the chance to question the candidates on Scottish issues as well as other topics such as the cost of living.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the hustings on a visit to the Benriach distillery, near Elgin, Ms Truss said she was \"absolutely passionate about Scotland and the United Kingdom\" and committed to delivering jobs, growth and opportunity.\n\nOn the cost of living, Ms Truss said the \"first thing\" she would do would be to reduce people's taxes. She also underlined her opposition to windfall taxes on industries such as oil and gas.\n\nShe promised to work with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross to take on the SNP, which she said had been \"failing the Scottish people, whether that's on education, whether that's on health or whether that's on the transport system.\"\n\nMs Truss - the foreign secretary - also said the case of a man from Dumbarton who was arrested in Punjab nearly five years ago should be \"brought to justice as soon as possible\" by the Indian authorities.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal was arrested in November 2017 but was only formally charged with conspiracy to commit murder and of being a member of a terrorist gang last month.\n\nThe Indian government previously said Mr Johal's detention was based on \"sufficient prosecutable evidence\", but in May human rights investigators at the UN said his detention had no legal basis.\n\nLiz Truss said she was \"absolutely passionate\" about Scotland and the United Kingdom\n\nMs Truss sparked controversy earlier this month when she claimed that it would be best to \"ignore\" First Minister Nicola Sturgeon - who she described as an \"attention seeker\".\n\nThe comments were condemned as \"completely and utterly unacceptable\" by Deputy First Minister John Swinney, with Ms Sturgeon later claiming that Ms Truss had once asked her how she could be featured in Vogue magazine.\n\nMr Sunak - who spent the morning meeting party activists in Aberdeenshire - said he did not believe that ignoring the first minister was the right approach.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Scotland ahead of the debate, he said: \"I don't want to ignore Nicola Sturgeon, I want to take her on and beat her.\n\n\"I think we can make a very strong case for what the UK government does to help people in Scotland, and as Chancellor I started that - to directly support Scottish communities and local areas.\n\n\"I would do more of that as prime minister and I want to hold the SNP government to account for its failings when it comes to delivering public services\".\n\nBoth Mr Sunak and Ms Truss have stated their opposition to an independence referendum, despite the Scottish government's plans to hold a vote in October 2023.\n\nAnd they have set out a series of policies aimed at strengthening the union and increasing the visibility of the UK government north of the border.\n\nMr Sunak has announced proposals to reform a team of advisers within Downing Street known as the \"union unit\".\n\nThe former chancellor said his future reforms would ensure \"every single\" government department operated UK-wide, despite key policy areas such as education and health having been in the control of Holyrood since devolution in 1999.\n\nHe has also called for Scotland's top civil servant to testify before a Westminster committee on an annual basis, while requiring the Scottish government to publish consistent data on the delivery of key services so these can be compared UK-wide.\n\nHe said: \"The future of the United Kingdom is bright but our union must work together, each nation shoulder to shoulder, to get there.\n\n\"We must defeat the collective challenges threatening the health of our public services. Under my plans, the UK government will play its part, but the same must be reciprocated by Holyrood.\"\n\nMs Truss meanwhile has stressed that she would retain the \"minister for the union\" title Boris Johnson took on as prime minister.\n\nShe said she would make changes to the Scotland Act to give MSPs the same full parliamentary privilege as MPs at Westminster.\n\nMPs have legal immunity from prosecution over statements made in the Commons, while MSPs have a narrower set of protections against defamation claims and some court actions.\n\nMs Truss said giving MSPs the same status as MPs \"would allow for more robust questioning for ministers\" and would \"increase the powers of the Scottish parliament to hold the Scottish government to account\".\n\nShe said: \"For too long, people in Scotland have been let down by the SNP focusing on constitutional division instead of their priorities. That won't happen under my watch. I'll make sure that my government does everything to ensure elected representatives hold the devolved administration to account for its failure to deliver the quality public services, particularly health and education, that Scottish people deserve.\"\n\nThe two remaining candidates have taken part in a series of hustings events as well as head-to-head debates\n\nBoth candidates have won the backing of a number of Scottish Conservative MPs and MSPs.\n\nHowever the party's Scottish leader Douglas Ross has said he will not be publicly backing either, saying he will \"work with whoever emerges victorious\".\n\nThe SNP said both candidates should \"apologise for the Tory failings that have pushed so many families to the brink\".\n\nThe party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"During the cost of living crisis, many neighbouring countries have capped energy price increases, cut VAT on bills and offered meaningful financial support to the most vulnerable, the UK Tory government has sat on its hands - and both Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have said nothing.\n\n\"Whoever wins this leadership contest, Scotland loses. That's why we need the full powers of independence to banish Westminster governments Scotland doesn't vote for and to deliver for the people who live here.\"\n\nOn Monday, Welsh former cabinet minister Alun Cairns switched his support from Mr Sunak to Ms Truss, saying she was the best candidate to keep the UK together.\n\nThe ex-Welsh secretary argued the union would be more likely to break up under Mr Sunak, compared to his opponent and praised Liz Truss for her \"positive ambition for our country\".\n\nIt may seem like the Conservative leadership contest has been going on for about five years, but somehow there are still three weeks to go until one of the two contenders enters Downing Street.\n\nThat means there may still be time for them to win over some crucial votes.\n\nScotland has not been a huge focus of the campaign so far - possibly because the contest thrives on where the candidates differ, and they are in broad agreement about affairs north of the border.\n\nBoth are critical of the SNP and the Scottish government; both would refuse to back an independence referendum; and both want to do more to push their policies UK-wide.\n\nBut some Scottish Tories have said they are still waiting to hear more specific discussion before they make up their minds.\n\nThey may also want to look the candidates in the eye and really test their attitude and tone when it comes to those issues where they have a settled position. How serious are they, really, when it comes to the union, and holding their own against the Scottish government?\n\nTo be frank, which of them will be a better prospect with voters north of the border when it comes to a future election?", "Author Sir Salman Rushdie is still in a critical condition but \"his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact\", his son says.\n\nZafar Rushdie said his father had sustained life-changing injuries, but was able to speak to his family.\n\nSir Salman, 75, was left severely injured after being stabbed on stage at an event in New York state.\n\nHe has faced years of death threats for his novel The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims see as blasphemous.\n\nThe man charged over Friday's attack has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.\n\n\"Following the attack on Friday, my father remains in critical condition in hospital receiving extensive ongoing medical treatment,\" Zafar Rushdie tweeted.\n\nThe family were \"extremely relieved\" when Sir Salman was taken off a ventilator on Saturday, he said, adding that his father was able to \"say a few words\".\n\n\"Though his life-changing injuries are severe, his usual feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, the author's agent Andrew Wylie said his \"road to recovery has begun\".\n\n\"It will be long; the injuries are severe, but his condition is headed in the right direction,\" he said.\n\nThe suspect Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of running onto the stage and stabbing Sir Salman at least 10 times in the face, neck and abdomen.\n\nA judge ordered he be held without bail after District Attorney Jason Schmidt said Mr Matar had purposely put himself in a position to harm the author.\n\n\"This was a targeted, unprovoked, pre-planned attack on Mr Rushdie,\" Mr Schmidt said.\n\nMr Wylie has said the celebrated novelist suffered severed nerves in one arm, damage to his liver, and would likely lose an eye.\n\nPresident Joe Biden and the First Lady, Jill Biden, have joined the widespread condemnation of the attack, saying that Mr Rushdie \"stands for essential, universal ideals\".\n\nHadi Matar has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder\n\nThe novelist was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. Many Muslims reacted with fury to it, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nSir Salman faced death threats and the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for Sir Salman's assassination, placing a $3m (£2.5m) bounty on the author's head.\n\nThe fatwa remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Mr Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nMr Matar, from Fairview, New Jersey, was born in the US to parents who had emigrated from Lebanon, a Lebanese official has told the media.\n\nA review of his social media accounts has suggested he is sympathetic to the causes of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), NBC News reported.\n\nHowever, no link has been definitively established with the IRGC - a major military, political and economic force with close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and many other senior figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From the scene where Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Tussles break out in Kenya over allegations of election vote rigging\n\nDeputy President William Ruto has been declared the winner of Kenya's presidential election amid dramatic scenes.\n\nHe narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga, taking 50.5% of the vote, according to the official results.\n\nThe announcement was delayed amid scuffles and allegations of vote-rigging by Mr Odinga's campaign.\n\nFour of the seven members of the electoral commission refused to endorse the result, saying it was \"opaque\".\n\n\"We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be announced because of the opaque nature of this last phase of the general election,\" said Juliana Cherera, the vice-chairperson of Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC).\n\n\"We are going to give a comprehensive statement... and again we urge Kenyans to keep calm,\" she added.\n\nMr Odinga's party agent earlier alleged that there were \"irregularities\" and \"mismanagement\" in the election.\n\nThis was the first time Mr Ruto, 55, had run for president. He has served as deputy president for 10 years, but fell out with President Uhuru Kenyatta, who backed Mr Odinga to succeed him.\n\nThe 77-year-old former prime minister, who got 48.8% of the vote, was running for president for the fifth time.\n\nMr Ruto (r) called Mr Chebukati, the head of the electoral commission, a \"hero\"\n\nElectoral commission chairman Wafula Chebukati said he had done his duty despite receiving threats.\n\n\"We have walked the journey of ensuring that Kenyans get a free, fair and credible election. It has not been an easy journey - right now two of my commissioners and the CEO are injured,\" he said.\n\nIn his speech, President-elect Ruto thanked the electoral commission for overseeing the election.\n\n\"It is a wonderful evening… all sovereign power belongs to the people of Kenya,\" Mr Ruto said, calling Mr Chebukati a \"hero\" and dismissing the other commissioners' dissent of his win as \"a side show\".\n\nMr Ruto said he wanted to be a president of all, and for the country to focus on the future.\n\n\"To those who have done many things against us, I want to tell them there's nothing to fear. There will be no vengeance. We do not have the luxury to look back,\" he added.\n\nCelebrations have broken out in several parts of the country, including in Mr Ruto's strongholds of the Rift Valley, and that of his deputy Rigathi Gachagua, in the Central region.\n\nSupporters of Mr Odinga have staged protests in the western city of Kisumu and some parts of Nairobi.\n\nBut generally there's a sense of relief that the result has finally been declared because the country had ground into a halt since election day on 9 August, economic activities had stalled and schools remain closed.\n\nKenya's history of disputed elections in the past have led to violence or the whole process election being cancelled.\n\nFollowing the 2007 vote, at least 1,200 people were killed and 600,000 fled their homes following claims of a stolen election.\n\nIn a country fond of political metaphors, Mr Ruto's stunning victory is akin to his party's modest symbol, the wheelbarrow, running a seven-tonne tractor off the road. Mr Odinga had the backing of the state machinery. Several opinion polls, which Mr Ruto had dismissed as fake, predicted his rival would win.\n\nAs the deputy president for the last 10 years he was, by default, an establishment candidate but he ran as an outsider, framing the election as between \"hustlers\" - poor Kenyans - and \"dynasties\" - influential families like the Kenyattas and Odingas who have been big players in the country's politics since independence.\n\n\"I may be the son of a nobody but I promise to make Kenya the country of everybody,\" he said in his pitch to voters.\n\nHis political stock rose when he opposed an unpopular and costly year-long push by Mr Kenyatta and Mr Odinga to change the constitution at a time many Kenyans were suffering, including losing jobs, following the protracted impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe Supreme Court eventually ruled the move unconstitutional, buoying Mr Ruto's campaign.\n\nHe also framed the election as a time for generational change, selling his message using pithy and relatable slogans, which lent him credibility and appeal across several communities.\n\nMr Ruto's win is rightly the focus of Kenya's 2022 election, but equal attention should be given to the electoral commission which came into this poll with a terrible track record, but its decision to post results from the more than 46,000 polling stations on its website - accessible to anyone who wanted to do their own tally - allowed the media and the public to be part of the process.\n\nThe leaders of Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Somalia have congratulated Mr Ruto.\n\nAnalysts believe that Mr Odinga is likely to challenge the result.\n\nThe Kenyan Supreme Court annulled the last election - it might have to make another big decision in a few weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Egypt church fire survivor: 'We saved who we could'\n\nDozens of people have died after a fire broke out at a church in Egypt, many of them crushed during a desperate scramble to escape.\n\nOfficials say the number of dead is at least 41, with dozens injured. Children are believed to be among the dead.\n\nAn electrical fire broke out as 5,000 worshippers gathered for Mass at the Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza, security sources told Reuters.\n\nThe fire blocked an entrance, causing a stampede, they said.\n\nCiting hospital records, CNN reported that some 18 children, aged between 3 to 16 years old, were killed.\n\nFire services said the exact cause of the fire remains unclear. However, Father Farid Fahmy, from another nearby church in the Imbaba neighbourhood, told the AFP news agency that it was sparked by a short circuit.\n\n\"The power was out and they were using a generator,\" he said. \"When the power came back, it caused an overload.\"\n\nWorshippers have been explaining their moments since the blaze ignited.\n\n\"People were gathering on the third and fourth floor, and we saw smoke coming from the second floor. People rushed to go down the stairs and started falling on top of each other,\" Yasir Munir told Reuters.\n\n\"Then we heard a bang and sparks and fire coming out of the window,\" he said, adding that he and his daughter were on the ground floor and able to escape.\n\nThe exact cause of the fire is not clear\n\nEgyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi offered his \"sincere condolences to the families of the innocent victims that have passed on to be with their Lord in one of his houses of worship\".\n\nHe has ordered the armed forces to rebuild the church.\n\nThe prosecutor's office said it had sent a team to the scene to investigate the cause of the blaze.\n\nGiza lies just across the Nile from Cairo and is part of the Greater Cairo metropolis.\n\nCoptic Christians make up at least 10 million of Egypt's 103 million people.\n\nCopts claims they face discrimination and play a lesser part in Egyptian public life than their numbers justify.", "PwC, one of the UK's largest graduate employers, has said it will no longer just look for new recruits with a first or 2:1 degree.\n\nThe accountancy firm said accepting applicants with lower second class degrees would help increase the socio-economic diversity of its workforce.\n\n\"Talent and potential is determined by more than academic grades,\" PwC said.\n\nAround 14% of graduates received a lower second class degree, or 2:2, last year.\n\nUK universities award degrees that are classified in four categories: a first, an upper second (2:1), a lower second (2:2), and third class honours.\n\nTypically professional services firms, including large city, accountancy and law firms, have required students to have a 2:1 or above.\n\nWhen Stephanie Ahemor, 32, graduated with a 2:2 she struggled.\n\n\"It was definitely harder to find a job right out of uni, as my grades meant I was automatically excluded from the majority of graduate programmes,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I come from a working class family so… I didn't have a lot of connections.\"\n\nShe took on a lot of unpaid internships and eventually got a job with the Home Office. But she wishes firms had accepted her 2:2 degree a decade ago.\n\n\"If the big four had considered this when I graduated I definitely would have applied to PwC and the others but I wasn't able to at that time.\"\n\nPwC said it was removing the requirement for all its graduate roles, internships and placements in order to open up opportunities for more people and improve social mobility.\n\n\"Whilst academic achievement has its place, for far too many students there are other factors that influence results,\" said Ian Elliott, chief people officer at PwC.\n\n\"This move isn't primarily about attracting more applications but opening our roles to students from a broader range of backgrounds,\" he added.\n\nIn the past decade, universities have awarded a higher proportion of first class degrees and fewer 2:2 degrees, while the proportion of students receiving a 2:1 has remained fairly flat.\n\nThe big four accountancy firms - PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY - began to loosen the criteria for their traditional graduate recruitment programmes more than six years ago. EY and PwC both said then they would move away from the reliance on academic qualifications and put more emphasis on their own assessments.\n\nSince then, disruption to schooling and universities during the Covid pandemic has focused attention on the extra challenges faced by students from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\nA-level grades were inflated in 2020 and 2021 as a result of measures to help combat the disruption, which had a bigger impact in less affluent communities. But this year's A-level results, due out later this week, are expected to move some of the way back towards pre-pandemic standards, resulting in fewer achieving the top grades and fears that disadvantaged students will miss out on university places.\n\nAt degree level, students from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to gain the top grades, said Universities UK, which represents the sector.\n\nRecent research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that what class of degree you have makes a big difference to earning potential five years down the line. It said a 2:2 degree was associated with a 6.9% lower earnings for women and 10.9% lower earnings for men, compared with a 2:1.\n\nBut PwC's motivation may not be purely about diversifying its intake, according to Gary Darlington, associate director at global recruitment firm Robert Walters.\n\nHe said high demand for staff following a recruitment lull in the pandemic, meant many firms were having to adapt their wish lists.\n\n\"We do have clients who are quite particular, they must have a [candidate with a] 2:1 degree. We have other clients where it goes further. It has to be from a redbrick university... It's a snobby thing.\n\n\"[But] I've found in more recent times companies have become more flexible.\"\n\nKPMG last year became one of the first large UK businesses to set a target for the number of employees it has from working class backgrounds.\n\nThe firm said that while it expects student applicants to be \"working toward\" a 2:1 degree, it assessed candidates on a case-by-case basis and would consider those with lower second class degrees.\n\nDeloitte uses contextualised academic data, taking into account he economic and personal background of an applicant.\n\nThis year PwC has recruited around 1,200 graduates and approximately 15% of them are from lower socio-economic backgrounds.\n\nAround 39% of the UK workforce are working class, according to data from the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nDo you have a 2:2 degree? Has it made it harder for you to find work? How much do qualifications matter? We'd like to hear your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The court was told Benjamin Mendy raped three women in the same night following a pool party at his mansion\n\nManchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy is a \"predator\" who \"turned the pursuit of women for sex into a game\", a court has heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old is accused of eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.\n\nOpening the case, Timothy Cray QC said it had \"very little to do with football\" and more about men who \"think they are powerful\".\n\nHe said the women were \"disposable\" to Mr Mendy.\n\nChester Crown Court heard the offences against seven young women are alleged to have taken place at Mr Mendy's \"isolated mansion\" home between October 2018 and August 2021.\n\nSome women said they had their mobile phones taken away, while others said they were attacked in locked rooms.\n\nThe court was told Mr Mendy raped three women in the same night following a pool party at his mansion and a trip to Manchester's China White nightclub.\n\nThe jury heard that one woman was drunk and remembered being in the swimming pool, with her next recollection being face down on a sofa being raped in the living room with her arms held behind her back.\n\nMr Mendy, a French international, of Prestbury, Cheshire, is on trial alongside co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 41.\n\nThe pair, who appeared in court assisted by a French translator, deny all the allegations.\n\nJurors heard how the £52m Premier League star was \"prepared to cross that line\" of consent \"over and over again\" and if \"women got hurt or distressed, too bad\".\n\nMr Cray said: \"It is another chapter in a very old story: men who rape and sexually assault women, because they think they are powerful, and because they think they can get away with it.\"\n\nThe prosecutor said the feelings of the women \"counted for nothing\".\n\nHe continued: \"These women were disposable: things to be used for sex, then thrown to one side.\n\n\"That was the effect of deliberate, planned choices the defendants made, and the desires they let loose many times.\"\n\nLouis Saha Matturie is on trial with Mr Mendy accused of eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault\n\nThe prosecution told the court how the footballer enjoyed a \"privileged and moneyed lifestyle\", and that his \"wealth and status\" meant \"others were prepared to help him to get what he wanted\".\n\n\"The doors of restaurants and nightclubs were open to him, people wanted to be with him,\" Mr Cray said.\n\nMr Cray said Mr Matturie was his friend and fixer, and he would \"find young women and to create the situations where those young women could be raped and sexually assaulted\".\n\nHe said: \"The acts that the defendants did together show callous indifference to the women they went after.\n\n\"In their minds, and this could not be clearer, the stream of women they brought to their homes existed purely to be pursued for sex.\"\n\nThe jury was told there are seven complainants against Mr Mendy, and eight against Mr Matturie, with two complainants alleging both men raped them with the average age of the women concerned being 20 years, nine months.\n\nMr Cray said key features included the pair targeting \"women who were so drunk almost to the extent that they had little or no memory of the incidents, or were asleep, or they were waking from sleep\".\n\nHe said other similar features included Mr Mendy using an \"intro line\" that he just wanted to see the victim naked, and both defendants raping the same woman.\n\nMr Cray continued: \"Our case is that the defendants' pursuit of these 13 women turned them into predators, who were prepared to commit serious sexual offences.\"\n\nHe said \"the fact they would not take 'no' for an answer\" would be something the jurors would \"hear time and time again\".\n\nThe French international was suspended by Manchester City after the allegations emerged\n\nThe court heard how Mr Mendy's home, The Spinney, in Mottram St Andrew in rural Cheshire, was \"part and parcel\" of how he and Mr Matturie were able to abuse the women.\n\nMr Cray said nine young women arrived at the address and afterwards made complaints of rape or sexual assault against the defendants between 2018 and 2021.\n\nThere are also four separate complaints against Mr Matturie involving allegations away from Mr Mendy's house, in Manchester and Sheffield.\n\nThe women involved were vulnerable for a number of reasons once arriving at Mr Mendy's house, which was described as an isolated mansion, the jury was told.\n\nThe court heard how they said they had their mobile phones taken away, while some believed they were in locked rooms.\n\nThe jury was shown drone footage with aerial shots from above Mr Mendy's gated mansion.\n\nTwo of the women said Mr Mendy raped them in locked rooms - an office and the main bedroom - the court heard.\n\nThe jury was shown video footage of a police officer demonstrating the locks on the doors, as Mr Cray explained they were legitimately used by wealthy individuals.\n\nThese had a special locking mechanism which created a \"panic room\" in case of burglary, which can only be opened from the inside.\n\n\"The point is that you have to know how to open them from the inside, and you'll perhaps see how the witnesses might have gotten the impression that they are locked in,\" Mr Cray continued.\n\nMr Cray told the court how the defendants said in \"broad terms\" that all the women consented to sex willingly, with only a couple of allegations where there is a denial that anything sexual happened.\n\n\"Everyone should have that basic choice, that basic dignity, the right to say 'no' to sex,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't lose that right because you've been to a bar or dressed for a nightclub or gone to a footballer's house.\"\n\nThe trial, expected to last over three months, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane's equaliser six minutes into stoppage time earned Tottenham a dramatic draw as a fiery London derby at Stamford Bridge ended in an angry confrontation between Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte that resulted in red cards for both managers.\n\nTempers were running high throughout as Chelsea twice led before Kane's glancing header seconds from the end gave Spurs a point.\n\nChelsea dominated the first half and fully deserved the 19th minute lead they earned when their two summer signings combined, Kalidou Koulibaly flashing home a powerful volley from Marc Cucurella's corner.\n\nSpurs struggled to make any sort of impression, Kane missing their best opportunity, but drew level after 68 minutes when Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's shot beat Edouard Mendy.\n\nChelsea were furious that referee Anthony Taylor had failed to penalise Rodrigo Bentancur for a challenge on Kai Havertz, the ensuing melee leading to face-to-face fury between the two managers which ended with both Chelsea boss Tuchel and Spurs counterpart Conte receiving yellow cards.\n\nOnce order had been restored, Chelsea were back in front as James scored from Raheem Sterling's pass, the fired up Tuchel celebrating by sprinting past Conte along the touch in elation.\n\nChelsea thought they had made it six points from two games until Kane headed in Ivan Perisic's corner - the antipathy not ending there as a handshake between Tuchel and Conte developed into another bust-up between the pair which ended with them both getting their marching orders.\n• None 'Fight, character and depth - how Conte has changed Spurs'\n• None 'New-look Chelsea are a force to be reckoned with'\n\nChelsea will feel this was an opportunity lost as they were the better side for long periods only to lose the lead twice, once in contentious circumstances, and then with the pain of it being virtually the last action of the game.\n\nTuchel, once his very obvious anger subsides, will be satisfied with large parts of Chelsea's performance, which really ought to have brought a win.\n\nChelsea pressed with greater efficiency than they did when Romelu Lukaku was leading the line and were a more composed and compact side than Spurs, who struggled to find any rhythm but still had enough to get a point.\n\nTuchel will question why Anthony Taylor did not award a foul when Bentancur dived in on Havertz, and Chelsea also felt Cucurella was fouled before Perisic's corner that was turned home by Kane.\n\nThe scenes between the two managers were part of the drama and showed how high feelings were running, but both Tuchel and Conte can expect to hear from the authorities.\n\nChelsea's summer signings made their contributions as Koulibaly and Cucurella combined for one goal and Sterling set up James but there was no doubt who was the more satisfied manager at the final whistle.\n• None Go straight to all the best Chelsea content\n\nConte's animation throughout, and especially after the final whistle, showed how much this result meant to him on his return to the club where he won the title.\n\nHe raced towards opposite number Tuchel when Hojbjerg equalised and the pair were involved again when Chelsea's manager seemed reluctant to let go of Conte's hand after the final whistle.\n\nIn the end, Spurs will be happy with a draw because they were disappointing for long spells, although predictably it was Kane who came to their rescue in those dying moments.\n\nSpurs are accompanied by big expectations under Conte this season but will have to show character and resilience at times when they fail to hit their best.\n\nThis was one of those occasions and the way they celebrated with their fans after the melee at the final whistle had broken up was a sign of their satisfaction.\n• None Goal! Chelsea 2, Tottenham Hotspur 2. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Yves Bissouma (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Kai Havertz (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Mount (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Conor Gallagher.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. Conor Gallagher replaces N'Golo Kanté because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Graeme Souness does not regret 'man's game' comment on Sky Sports Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nSouness won 54 caps for Scotland in a 12-year international career and made more than 350 appearances for Liverpool between 1978 and 1984 Sky Sports pundit Graeme Souness says he does not regret describing football as \"a man's game\" after Chelsea's fiery 2-2 draw with Tottenham. His comments drew criticism from Chelsea striker and Euro 2022 winner Beth England and ex-England international Eniola Aluko. Souness was analysing the physical nature of the game and referee Anthony Taylor's approach. \"It's a man's game all of a sudden again,\" Souness said on Sunday. \"I think we've got our football back, as I would enjoy football - men at it, blow for blow, and the referee letting them get on with it.\"\n• None 'Match sucked me in' - why Tuchel and Conte saw red\n• None Tuchel and Conte sent off as Spurs fight back to draw Former Liverpool and Scotland midfielder Souness was sitting beside Karen Carney, who won 144 caps for England. Presenter Dave Jones immediately added: \"It's also a woman's game as well.\" It followed a dramatic London derby at Stamford Bridge which ended in an angry confrontation between managers Thomas Tuchel and Antonio Conte. Both were shown red cards after the final whistle. Aluko responded to Souness' remarks on social media, writing: \"Awkward turtles, Graeme Souness talking about 'it's a man's game again' sat next to an England centurion Karen Carney, two weeks after the Lionesses end a 56-year wait and win European Championships. Come on. It's not OK.\" England, who was in Sarina Wiegman's Euros-winning squad, said: \"What a disgraceful thing to say after the summer this country has just seen.\" Speaking to Talksport on Monday, 69-year-old Souness said he regretted \"not a word\" of what he said in Sunday's broadcast. \"Let me explain,\" he said. \"I've been advocating for years that the referees have such a major part to play in the success of the Premier League. \"We've got to be careful what we say today and I've not been very good at that, but we were becoming like other leagues. \"The refs were blowing the whistle all the time, the game didn't flow and it just wasn't a very good watch. Our game has always been unique, always been more meaty, more in our face, more intense and we've got away from that. \"Yesterday in my comments I said we've got our game back. That's the kind of football I remember playing. Our league will be better for it - we are back.\" Later in a statement released through Sky, Souness said: \"To clarify my comments from yesterday, I was referring to the two Premier League matches I watched live on Sunday afternoon, rather than the sport of football. \"Football is a game for everyone to enjoy.\"\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThunderstorms are hitting the UK and weather warnings are in place as a spell of hot weather draws to a close.\n\nThere is a risk of torrential downpours, causing travel disruption and some flooding, the Met Office says.\n\nThree days of alerts have been issued for most areas, ending on Wednesday.\n\nSome parts of Devon and Cornwall have experienced flooding, after stormy conditions brought heavy rain showers and hail to parts of the South West.\n\nTemperatures topped 34C in parts of the UK at the weekend and experts have said a lengthy period of rain is needed to end the drought declared in parts of England on Friday.\n\nThese areas include Devon and Cornwall, Kent and south London, East Anglia and the East Midlands.\n\nHeavy rain is unlikely to ease the drought because rainwater struggles to permeate dry ground, meaning it will run off the dehydrated surface and lead to flash flooding in some areas, the Met Office said as it issued a number of weather warnings.\n\nThe gnome at the bottom of the garden Lighting in a photo taken from Bo'ness, Falkirk, on Sunday\n\nMuch of Scotland was hit by heavy rain late on Sunday and into Monday.\n\nA Tesco supermarket and Vue cinema in Inverness have been closed after their roofs collapsed following an intense downpour at Inshes Retail Park.\n\nA lightning strike has blown a hole in the roof of a home in the Isle of Man, where emergency services confirmed four homes were hit during a thunderstorm overnight.\n\nThe Met Office also forecast rain to move across the country from the west throughout Monday, with much of Wales and England - other than the south-east of England - expected to see thundery downpours.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn amber warning for thunderstorms, meaning flooding and travel disruption is likely, came into force for south-west England at 14:00 BST on Monday and will remain until 20:00.\n\nHeavy showers caused flooding in areas of Devon and Cornwall on Monday afternoon, including a flash flood on a roundabout near the river in Truro.\n\nA roundabout in Cornwall was flooded but the water quickly drained away\n\nStaff had to clear out floodwater inside The Milky Way Adventure Park in north Devon\n\nMet Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said there have been \"very difficult\" driving conditions and some hail and lightning accompanying the rainfall.\n\nHe said the stormy conditions could lead to some power cuts as well as flash flooding, particularly in towns and more urban areas.\n\nYellow weather warnings for thunderstorms are in place across much of the rest of the UK, excluding the north of Scotland.\n\nA couple on Saltburn pier look out over the sand as a thick sea fret shrouds the beach\n\nWhile parts of the country have been hit by rain, the south-east is experiencing another day of warm temperatures, with highs of 29C (84.2F) forecast for Cambridgeshire.\n\nBut the mercury is set to sink back to more seasonal averages by the middle of the week.\n\nThe Met Office's Grahame Madge warned heavy rain could lead to flash flooding as the ground was \"like concrete\" and water will run off before it can be absorbed and drain away.\n\nHe added it could take months to determine if the UK has recovered from the \"very dry summer\".\n\nStuart Singleton-White, from the Angling Trust, stressed the expected rainfall \"will not mean the end of the drought\".\n\nHe said the damage the dry weather has done to rivers and wildlife was \"so severe\" that the country needs \"a wet autumn and winter\" to move out of drought conditions.\n\nVisitors to the National Waterways Museum in Ellesmere Port during a shower on Monday\n\nProf Hannah Cloke from the University of Reading said \"really heavy rain can overwhelm\" water drainage systems in urban areas as it often \"cannot run away quick enough\".\n\nThe hydrology expert also highlighted the Tube system in London - which was affected by flooding last year - as being at risk, alongside underground car parks.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has told residents of the capital to prepare for flash flooding - urging people to contact Floodline and to check their local authority's website for ways to reduce the chances and \"minimise the consequences\" of being flooded.\n\nWhile the UK waits for rain to replenish dwindling water levels in reservoirs, some hosepipe bans and other water restrictions have been imposed.\n\nSouth West Water are the latest water boards to introduce a ban, coming into effect in Cornwall and parts of Devon on 23 August.\n\nThe extreme heat has led to a string of wildfires erupting across tinder-dry swathes of Ashdown Forest in East Sussex and on the Studland peninsula in Purbeck, Dorset, over the weekend.\n\nFirefighters in Derbyshire have recorded their busiest week since their current incident recording system began 13 years ago, attending 187 fires between Monday and Sunday.\n\nOn Monday, two men were charged with arson after it was claimed a disposable barbecue was thrown into Norfolk woodland.\n\nAleksejs Sokolovs, and Darius Lazausaks, both 45 and from Boston, Lincolnshire, have been accused of arson with intent to damage property over the fire at Bawsey Country Park, near King's Lynn, on Sunday.\n\nAt least three deaths in water have been recorded since the latest heatwave began:\n\nHave you been affected by adverse weather? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "MP Mark Pritchard said the operator had \"lost a huge amount of goodwill\"\n\nAn MP says he will write to a rail operator asking it to reconsider a decision to suspend a direct service from London to Shropshire.\n\nTravellers from Shrewsbury, Wellington and Telford Central were advised to use connecting services from Wolverhampton, ahead of Avanti West Coast introducing a reduced timetable on Sunday.\n\nConservative MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, said the direct London to Wellington service was \"well-used\".\n\nThe firm apologised over the timetable.\n\nIt has stated changes were being brought in because of \"the current industrial relations climate which has resulted in severe staff shortages in some grades through increased sickness levels\".\n\nThe majority of drivers had made themselves \"unavailable for overtime in a co-ordinated fashion\" and at short notice, the company said.\n\nSpeaking about the London to Wellington service, Mr Pritchard stated the operator had, \"in one ill-advised decision, just lost a huge amount of goodwill throughout Shropshire\".\n\nHe said he would write to the managing director \"as a matter of urgency\" asking the firm to reconsider the decision.\n\nMr Pritchard stated he was \"hugely disappointed\" MPs were \"neither informed nor consulted in advance of the decision\".\n\nAvanti West Coast has said the decision over the reduced timetable \"was not taken lightly\"\n\nAlthough there were only two direct trains a day connecting the county with London, they were introduced after intense lobbying by Shropshire businesses and politicians.\n\nAvanti West Coast has said the amended timetable was being introduced \"to ensure a reliable service is delivered so our customers can travel with greater certainty\".\n\nIt plans to run four trains an hour from London Euston, one to each of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, and said the decision over the reduced timetable \"was not taken lightly\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An official drought has been declared as low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions continue across the UK.\n\nEight parts of England, including Devon, Kent, East Anglia and Lincolnshire are affected.\n\nThe move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nMillions are expected to be impacted but the Environment Agency said essential water supplies were safe.\n\nJohn Curtin, director of operations, said the drought would go on for \"a long time\" and warned of possible restrictions on crop growing and further hosepipe bans.\n\nIt comes as the prolonged dry weather - combined with the current heatwave and July's record-breaking temperatures - have depleted rivers, reservoirs and aquifers.\n\nLarge swathes of England are bone-dry, with scenes of parched earth and grass turned yellow.\n\nThe conditions have prompted the Environment Agency to move eight of its 14 areas into drought status:\n\nYorkshire and the West Midlands are also expected to move into a drought later in August.\n\nThe decision to declare a drought was taken after a meeting of the National Drought Group - made up of government and agency officials, water firms and groups including the National Farmers' Union.\n\nAnnouncing a drought means government and water companies will put into action their plans to deal with it, with measures including hosepipe bans and taking more water than usual from rivers.\n\nMembers of the public and businesses in drought-affected areas are also being urged to use water wisely following the driest first seven months of the year since 1976.\n\nElsewhere, Wales Drought Liaison group is also looking at the effect of the dry weather.\n\nFive water companies - Welsh Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, South East Water and, most recently Yorkshire Water - have all announced hosepipe bans, while Yorkshire Water said on Friday that a ban would start on 26 August.\n\nThe latter firm, which has more than five million customers, says parts of the region have seen the lowest rainfall since records began more than 130 years ago.\n\nIt also said rivers and reservoirs in the region were running at 20% lower than expected for the time of year.\n\nSouth East Water, whose ban came into force on Friday, is now asking people to observe restrictions on using hosepipes to water plants, wash the car and fill paddling pools - with rule-breakers facing fines of up to £1,000.\n\nDominic Gardener, a farmer in West Sussex, said the dry weather was posing huge challenges for farmers.\n\n\"Everything is starting to struggle a bit - our grass is not growing at all - and livestock, we're having to feed them extra food,\" he said, adding crop yields had also been reduced by the dryness.\n\nFarmers in parts of Fife are being temporarily banned from using water from the River Eden on their fields.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says the measure will come into effect from midnight on Saturday to tackle critical water shortages.\n\nA four-day amber warning for extreme heat from the Met Office is in place for many parts of England and Wales until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to be lower early next week, however, and the Met Office has issued yellow warnings for thunderstorms on Monday, covering most of England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nAnd its fire severity index - which assesses how severe a blaze could become - is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThe situation facing firefighters across the UK has been described as \"unprecedented\", with increasing numbers of wildfires.\n\nFires have broken out across the nation, including in Leytonstone, east London, Studland Bay, Dorset, Creswell, in Derbyshire, The Dower House in Bristol, and Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.\n\nPolice have evacuated about 50 homes in Creswell after a major incident was declared due to a field fire.\n\nFire crews are also tackling a large blaze which broke out at a Leicestershire recycling centre.\n\nMeanwhile, homeless people struggling with the extreme heat in Bristol said it was \"making us sick,\" and even sitting in the shade was \"tiring and sweaty and uncomfortable\".\n\nBristol Street Outreach Team, operated by charity St Mungo's, has been carrying out additional shifts and giving out water, advice and sun protection to those in need.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK temperatures have been rising day-on-day through the week. According to the Met Office, on Friday the highest temperatures were recorded in:\n\nOver the weekend temperatures could peak at 36C.\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Andy Page said there would be \"increasingly warm nights\" with temperatures not expected to drop below the low 20s in some places in the south.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has accused the government of failing to fully prepare the UK for drought, and also out at the response of water companies.\n\nWater firms have been criticised over leaks, with about three billion litres of water lost each day in the UK - between 20% and 24% of the total water supply.\n\nThe Labour leader said the drought was \"predictable\" but \"as usual we had no plan from the government\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was \"no reason for people to be alarmed\".\n\nHe told BBC News that the UK's water supply \"remains resilient\" and that \"we're in a stronger position than ever\" to withstand droughts, with progress made on leaks and infrastructure to move water between reservoirs.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nResearch institute UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) said it would require \"exceptional\" rainfall over the next one to three months to bring river, reservoir and groundwater levels back up to normal.\n\nIt said analysis showed exceptionally low levels would probably continue until October in southern England and Wales.\n\nBut scientists have warned bouts of heavy rain after a prolonged period of hot weather can cause flash flooding.\n\nRobert Thompson, a professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, said \"the ground has effectively become like urban concrete\" and will not absorb water quickly enough to cope with longer showers.\n\nThe situation in the UK is being mirrored across Europe. Much of the continent is baking in record heat, exposing riverbeds and triggering restrictions on water use in many areas.\n\nA drought has also hit Germany's Rhine River, where the water is already too low to allow some larger vessels through.\n\nRestrictions on usage during hosepipe bans can vary between water providers but generally people are not allowed to use hosepipes or anything that connects to a hosepipe or an outside tap.During a ban, people cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nBut you can use other water sources, like using your mains water supply but with buckets or watering cans instead of hosepipes, or using stored rainwater from a water butt and there are some exceptions when a hosepipe can be used.\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nHave you been affected by the hot weather and restrictions? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has become the first country to approve a dual vaccine which tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant.\n\nMinisters say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign.\n\nModerna thinks 13 million doses of its new vaccine will be available this year, but 26 million people are eligible for some form of booster.\n\nHealth officials say people should take whichever booster they are offered as all jabs provide protection.\n\nThe original vaccines used in the pandemic were designed to train the body to fight the first form of the virus which emerged in Wuhan, in China, at the end of 2019.\n\nThe Covid virus has since mutated substantially, with a stream of new variants emerging that can dodge some of our immune defences. They have caused large surges in cases around the world.\n\nThe original vaccines still provide strong protection against becoming severely ill or dying, but companies are tweaking them to match the virus as it evolves.\n\nCases of coronavirus are currently falling in the UK. In mid-to-late July, around 2.5 million people tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nModerna's latest vaccine - called Spikevax - targets both the original strain and the first Omicron variant (BA.1), which emerged last winter. It is known as a bivalent vaccine as it takes aim at two forms of Covid.\n\nThe UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has considered the evidence and given the vaccine approval for use in adults.\n\nDr June Raine, the regulator's chief executive, said: \"What this bivalent vaccine gives us is a sharpened tool in our armoury to help protect us against this disease as the virus continues to evolve.\"\n\nExperiments on 437 people showed the updated vaccine was safe and gave better immune protection against newer variants.\n\nLevels of antibodies that were able to stick to and disable Omicron (BA.1) were 1.7 times higher in people given the new vaccine. Tests against more recent Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5), which are causing the UK's current wave, also showed higher levels of protection with the updated vaccine.\n\nHowever, it is far from clear what that means in terms of preventing someone from becoming seriously ill.\n\nAdditionally, it is uncertain what variants we will be facing in the coming months and exactly how well the updated vaccine will perform against them.\n\nHealth ministers have officially given the go-ahead for the bivalent vaccines.\n\nIn England, Health Secretary Steve Barclay said it was \"very good news for the UK population\" and those eligible \"will have the comfort of knowing that their immunity has been topped up\". People will be contacted from early September, he said.\n\nWales' health minister Eluned Morgan said vaccines \"have saved countless lives\" and urged everyone who was eligible to come forward.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises governments in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, has confirmed the following groups should be offered some form of booster in the autumn:\n\nStéphane Bancel, the chief executive officer of Moderna, said he was \"delighted\" the vaccine had been approved.\n\n\"This represents the first authorisation of an Omicron-containing bivalent vaccine; this bivalent vaccine has an important role to play in protecting people in the UK from Covid-19 as we enter the winter months,\" he said.\n\nProf Wei Shen Lim, from the JCVI, said: \"It is important that everyone who is eligible takes up a booster this autumn, whichever vaccine is on offer.\"\n\nOriginally those aged 50-65 were not going to be jabbed. However, the immunisation campaign has been expanded because of the rapid spread of variants, uncertainty about how the virus will mutate and the expectation that we will are likely to be more social - and therefore give the virus a helping hand this winter - including at Christmas.\n\nHowever, most people under 50 will not be boosted in the coming months. The focus remains on preventing those most at risk from becoming seriously ill, rather than stopping the young passing the virus on to older relatives.\n\nModerna is not the only company updating its vaccines. Pfizer has also been developing vaccines that can target Omicron. The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, however, is not being updated.\n• None All over 50s to get an autumn Covid booster", "Jerry Sadowitz, 61, is know for his controversial stand-up material\n\nAn Edinburgh Festival show by controversial comedian Jerry Sadowitz was cancelled for \"extreme racism and misogyny\", venue bosses have said.\n\nThe Pleasance axed the second of his two nights at Edinburgh's International Conference Centre on Saturday.\n\nSadowitz, 61, an American-born Scot, is a veteran of the Fringe and known for his provocative stand-up shows.\n\nThe venue said it received an \"unprecedented\" number of complaints from audience members and staff.\n\nSadowitz performed at the 1,300-seat Lennox room at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Friday. It is understood less than half the tickets were sold.\n\nThe Pleasance said a \"large number\" of people walked out as they \"felt uncomfortable and unsafe to remain in the venue\".\n\nIt declined to give any detail about what material by Sadowitz prompted the complaints.\n\nHowever, in a further statement on Sunday, it said: \"We became immediately aware of content that was considered, among other things, extreme in its racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny.\n\n\"We will not associate with content which attacks people's dignity and the language used on stage was, in our view, completely unacceptable.\n\n\"We received an unprecedented number of complaints that could not be ignored and we had a duty to respond.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jerry Sadowitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Pleasance also said that \"unacceptable abuse\" was directed towards some staff on Saturday from people phoning to criticise the cancellation.\n\nOn Saturday, Sadowitz posted on Twitter that he thought his show \"went well\" and he did not see any walkouts the night before.\n\nHe wrote: \"I'm truly sorry for everyone who travelled to see the show tonight.\"\n\nThe Pleasance said refunds were issued to those who bought tickets to the Saturday performance.\n\nIt declined to cover costs for those who had booked travel or accommodation.\n\nSadowitz was booked by The Pleasance for the Edinburgh International Conference Centre\n\nSadowitz, a stand-up and magician, made his name on the UK comedy circuit in the 1980s and 90s with deliberately offensive and aggressive stage routines.\n\nHe has performed at The Pleasance numerous times at the Edinburgh Festival.\n\nThe venue's original listing carried the warning: \"This show contains strong language and themes some may find distressing.\"\n\nHowever, The Pleasance said it did not vet Sadowitz's material in advance and it \"could not have known the specifics\" of his act when he was booked for 2022.\n\nThe Pleasance added: \"In a changing world, stories and language that were once accepted on stage, whether performed in character or not, need to be challenged.\n\n\"There is a line that we will not cross at the Pleasance, and it was our view that this line was crossed on this occasion.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Sadowitz for comment.", "Why are we seeing such brutal temperatures?\n\nClimate scientists say the answer is climate change.\n\nThe Met Office estimates that the extreme heat we are seeing has been made ten times more likely because of it.\n\nWe are being warned it can pose a life-threatening risk to even normally healthy people, and just look at the impact it is having in our hospitals, schools and transport systems.\n\nNow remember, this is happening when average world temperatures have only risen just over 1C beyond levels seen before many parts of the world became industrialised.\n\nOne degree doesn't sound much, does it? But we're living in the hottest period for 125,000 years, according to the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).\n\nWe know what's behind this - the greenhouse gas emissions caused by our burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas, which trap heat in our atmosphere. They have helped push the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the highest levels seen for 2 million years, according to the IPCC.\n\nSo where is our climate headed?\n\nThe target set by the UN is to limit global temperature increases to 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels. It says that should avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.\n\nTo do that, emissions need to have peaked by 2025 - yes, in only two and half years.\n\nCO2 emissions from energy increased by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion tonnes - the highest ever level, the International Energy Agency estimates.\n\nThey need to virtually halve by 2030 - we need a minimum 43% reduction by the end of this decade, according to the IPCC.\n\nThen the world needs to scale back emissions to net zero by 2050. That means cutting greenhouse gases as much as possible and finding ways to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere to make up for any that remain.\n\nIt is a huge challenge - many people believe the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.\n\nRemember that big UN conference in Glasgow last year? If all the promises governments made there were actually implemented, then we'd be looking at temperatures rising by something like 2.4C from pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.\n\nBut the truth is even if we do succeed in reducing emissions to that really ambitious 1.5C target, UK summers will continue to get hotter.\n\n\"In a few decades this might actually be a quite a cool summer,\" says Professor Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.\n\nWe should expect more and longer heatwaves in the future, says Professor Nigel Arnell, a climate scientist at Reading University.\n\nWe will be seeing more heat-health alerts, more heat-stress days - days when it is too hot to work - and damaging heat extremes to increase, he warns.\n\nSo what is the UK doing about it?\n\nNowhere near enough, is the stark conclusion of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the government's advisors on climate change.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson warned the world was at \"one minute to midnight\" on climate change in his speech opening the Glasgow climate conference.\n\nBut in a report on the UK's progress towards net zero the CCC warned that his government's current policies are very unlikely to do the job.\n\nIt said the government has set a lot of targets and put a lot of policies in place but warns there is \"scant evidence\" these goals will be delivered.\n\nAnd the country is not doing enough to prepare itself for the more frequent and intense heatwaves climate change will bring.\n\nHeatwaves caused an additional 2,000 deaths in 2020, according to the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nThat figure is likely to triple in coming decades without government action, according to Baroness Brown, deputy chair of the Climate Change Committee.\n\n\"We've been telling the government for over 10 years that we are nothing like well enough prepared in the UK for the really hot weather we are seeing now,\" she says - particularly the extreme heat many people experience in their homes.\n\nIt is a \"disgrace\" people are dying of heat - or for that matter cold - in the UK, says Professor Hannah Cloke of the University of Reading.\n\nMost UK buildings and infrastructure were not designed to cope with the kind of temperatures we are seeing this week and much more needs to be done to adapt them, she says.\n\n\"We have made great strides in forecasting extreme weather and climate conditions in recent years. Now we need the systems in place so that people and governments act on the warnings we can provide, whether three hours, three days, or three decades in advance.\"", "Russia and North Korea will expand their \"comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations\", President Vladimir Putin has said.\n\nIn a letter sent to his counterpart Kim Jong-un on Pyongyang's liberation day, Mr Putin said the move would be in both countries' interests.\n\nIn turn, Mr Kim said friendship between both nations had been forged in World War Two with victory over Japan.\n\nHe added that their \"comradely friendship\" would grow stronger.\n\nThe Soviet Union was once a major communist ally of North Korea, offering economic co-operation, cultural exchanges and aid.\n\nAccording to North Korean state news agency KCNA, Mr Putin said expanded bilateral relations would \"conform with the interests of the two countries\".\n\nIn his letter, Mr Kim said the Russia-North Korea friendship \"forged in the anti-Japanese war\" had been \"consolidated and developed century after century\".\n\nIt added \"strategic and tactical co-operation, support and solidarity\" between the two countries \"had been put on a new high stage, in the common front for frustrating the hostile forces' military threat and provocation\".\n\nPyongyang did not identify the hostile forces by name, but the term has been used repeatedly by North Korea to refer to the US and its allies.\n\nNorth Korea flies old Russian MiG-29s and has other Russian arms\n\nSpeaking at an arms show near Moscow on Monday, President Putin said: \"We are ready to offer allies and partners the most modern types of weapons - from small arms to armoured vehicles and artillery, combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles.\"\n\nHe boasted that Russian weapons were valued for their \"reliability, quality\" and said \"almost all of them have been used in real combat operations more than once\".\n\nRussia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February has proven costly for the Russian military, however, despite its advanced weapons such as cruise missiles. The smaller Ukrainian forces have less firepower, but that includes various Western weapons, which have inflicted heavy losses.\n\nIn July, North Korea was one of the few countries that officially recognised two Russian-backed separatist \"people's republics\" in eastern Ukraine, after Russia signed a decree declaring them as independent. In retaliation, Ukraine cut off all diplomatic ties with Pyongyang.\n\nRussian forces are still trying to consolidate their grip on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, against fierce Ukrainian resistance.\n\nMany of North Korea's Russian-designed weapons are old, from the Soviet era. But it has missiles similar to Russian ones.\n\nThe Russian ambassador to Pyongyang, Alexander Matsegora, told Russia's Izvestia daily that closer co-operation could mean \"highly skilled, industrious\" North Korean workers helping to rebuild the damaged infrastructure of Russian-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk.\n\nHe also said Pyongyang was keen to get replacement parts for Soviet-era heavy equipment delivered to its factories and power plants from eastern Ukraine. He said Slovyansk and Kramatorsk - cities still held by Ukrainian forces - were major centres for that equipment.\n\nRussian-North Korean relations declined after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, but gradually picked up as Russia's relations with the West soured in recent years.", "Boris Johnson will be kept informed of any \"urgent issues\" while on holiday this week, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe prime minister - who was criticised for taking a holiday earlier this month amid growing economic turmoil - is now on another break.\n\nIt comes as removal vans were spotted in Downing Street earlier on Monday.\n\nThe PM's spokesman confirmed Mr Johnson would return from holiday at the weekend, when he will have two weeks to move out of his No 10 flat.\n\nThe prime minister, who was forced to announce his departure in July after a cabinet mutiny, will officially stand down on 6 September.\n\nIt is not known if he will return to the Downing Street flat before it is handed over to Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak, who are competing to take over as Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nIt was reported over the weekend that Mr Johnson is spending a week in Greece, with locals spotting him shopping alongside wife Carrie in a supermarket in Nea Makri, a town to the east of Athens.\n\nAsked if his holiday could have waited a few weeks, the prime minister's spokesman said: \"I can't get into the decision around timings but he is on leave this week. He will be back this weekend.\"\n\nThe spokesman told reporters Mr Johnson had paid for his own holiday and would be kept informed of any pressing government business while away.\n\nHe added: \"If there were urgent decisions that required the PM's input he will, of course, be involved in that.\n\n\"But the deputy prime minister [Dominic Raab] is able to be deputised for meetings should they come up but as far as I'm aware there are no such meetings currently scheduled.\n\n\"Over recent weeks we've made a number of significant announcements and will continue to do so in the coming days.\"\n\nMr Johnson's spokesman said that the prime minister would remain \"contactable\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I'm not going to apologise for holiday with my wife and kids - Starmer\n\nBut Labour accused Mr Johnson of treating recent months as \"one big party\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"On the evidence of the last few months it seems to make little difference if the prime minister is in the office or on holiday as he has continually failed to meet the challenge of the Tory cost-of-living crisis.\n\n\"It's all just one big party for Boris Johnson while the country struggles to pay their bills.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer recently got back from his own summer holiday, in Mallorca, amid criticism he has also been missing in action during the cost of living crisis.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I've got a very important job as leader of the Labour Party, leader of the Opposition, but I've also got another job that's really important and that is I'm a dad and I'm not going to apologise for going on holiday with my wife and kids.\n\n\"It's the first time we've had a real holiday for about three years.\"\n\nMr Johnson shares his official flat in 11 Downing Street - which is owned by the government - with his wife Carrie, whom he married in spring last year.\n\nAn expensive refurbishment carried out in 2020 attracted controversy after it emerged a Tory peer had initially covered part of the cost, on top of the annual £30,000 public grant Mr Johnson receives to pay for redecorations.\n\nAn inquiry by the UK's elections watchdog later revealed the prime minister had spent £112,000 repaying the peer for the cost of the works.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said that upon leaving office, Mr Johnson would be able to remove any furniture that had been paid for privately, whilst items funded by the taxpayer would remain.\n• None What is the row over Boris Johnson's flat about?", "Zawahiri was al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman and ideologue\n\nAyman al-Zawahiri, who has been killed by a US drone strike in Afghanistan, was often referred to as the chief ideologue of al-Qaeda.\n\nAn eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, he took over the leadership of al-Qaeda following the killing by US forces of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.\n\nBefore that, Zawahiri was considered Bin Laden's right-hand man and believed by some experts to have been the \"operational brains\" behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.\n\nZawahiri was number two - behind only Bin Laden - in the 22 \"most wanted terrorists\" list announced by the US government in 2001 and had a $25m (£16m) bounty on his head.\n\nIn the years after the attacks, Zawahiri emerged as al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman, appearing in 16 videos and audiotapes in 2007 - four times as many as Bin Laden - as the group tried to radicalise and recruit Muslims around the world.\n\nBin Laden and Zawahiri formed the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders in 1998\n\nHis killing in last weekend's attack in Kabul was not the first time the US had sought to target Zawahiri.\n\nIn January 2006, he was the target of a US missile strike near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.\n\nThe attack killed four al-Qaeda members, but Zawahiri survived and appeared on video two weeks later, warning US President George W Bush that neither he nor \"all the powers on earth\" could bring his death \"one second closer\".\n\nBorn in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 19 June 1951, Zawahiri came from a respectable middle-class family of doctors and scholars.\n\nHis grandfather, Rabia al-Zawahiri, was the grand imam of al-Azhar, the centre of Sunni Islamic learning in the Middle East, while one of his uncles was the first secretary-general of the Arab League.\n\nZawahiri became involved in political Islam while still at school and was arrested at the age of 15 for being a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.\n\nHis political activities did not, however, stop him from studying medicine at Cairo University's medical school, from which he graduated in 1974 and obtained a masters degree in surgery four years later.\n\nHis father Mohammed, who died in 1995, was a pharmacology professor at the same school.\n\nZawahiri initially continued the family tradition, building up a medical clinic in a suburb of Cairo, but soon became attracted to radical Islamist groups which were calling for the overthrow of the Egyptian government.\n\nIn recent years, Zawahiri had become a remote and marginal figure, only occasionally issuing messages\n\nWhen Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined.\n\nIn 1981, he was rounded up along with hundreds of other suspected members of the group after several of them, dressed as soldiers, assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade in Cairo. Sadat had angered Islamist activists by signing a peace deal with Israel, and by arresting hundreds of his critics in an earlier security crackdown.\n\nDuring the mass trial, Zawahiri emerged as a leader of the defendants and was filmed telling the court: \"We are Muslims who believe in our religion. We are trying to establish an Islamic state and Islamic society.\"\n\nAlthough he was cleared of involvement in Sadat's assassination, Zawahiri was convicted of the illegal possession of arms, and served a three-year sentence.\n\nAccording to fellow Islamist prisoners, Zawahiri was regularly tortured and beaten by the authorities during his time in jail in Egypt, an experience which is said to have transformed him into a fanatical and violent extremist.\n\nFollowing his release in 1985, Zawahiri left for Saudi Arabia.\n\nSoon afterwards, he headed for Peshawar in Pakistan and later to neighbouring Afghanistan, where he established a faction of Egyptian Islamic Jihad while working as a doctor in the country during the Soviet occupation.\n\nZawahiri took over the leadership of Egyptian Islamic Jihad after it re-emerged in 1993, and was a key figure behind a series of attacks by the group on Egyptian government ministers, including the Prime Minister, Atif Sidqi.\n\nThe group's campaign to topple the government and set up an Islamic state in the country during the mid-1990s led to the deaths of more than 1,200 Egyptians.\n\nIn 1997, the US state department named him as leader of the Vanguards of Conquest group - a faction of Islamic Jihad thought to have been behind the massacre of foreign tourists in Luxor the same year.\n\nTwo years later, he was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court for his role in the group's many attacks.\n\nZawahiri is thought to have travelled around the world during the 1990s in search of sanctuary and sources of funding.\n\nIn the years following the Soviet withdrawal of Afghanistan, he is believed to have lived in Bulgaria, Denmark and Switzerland, and sometimes used a false passport to travel to the Balkans, Austria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and the Philippines.\n\nIn December 1996, he reportedly spent six months in Russian custody after he was caught without a valid visa in Chechnya.\n\nAccording to an account allegedly written by Zawahiri, the Russian authorities failed to have the Arabic texts found on his computer translated and he was able to keep his identity secret.\n\nIn 1997, Zawahiri is believed to have moved to the Afghan city of Jalalabad, where Osama Bin Laden was based.\n\nA year later, Egyptian Islamic Jihad joined five other radical Islamist militant groups, including Bin Laden's al-Qaeda, in forming the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders.\n\nThe front's first proclamation included a fatwa, or religious edict, permitting the killing of US civilians. Six months later, two simultaneous attacks destroyed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 223 people.\n\nZawahiri was one of the figures whose satellite telephone conversations were used as proof that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind the plot.\n\nTwo weeks after the attacks, the US bombed the group's training camps in Afghanistan. The next day, Zawahiri telephoned a Pakistani journalist and said: \"Tell America that its bombings, its threats, and its acts of aggression do not frighten us. The war has only just begun.\"\n\nIn the years following Bin Laden's death, US air strikes killed a succession of Zawahiri's deputies, weakening his ability to coordinate globally.\n\nAnd in recent years, Zawahiri had become a remote and marginal figure, only occasionally issuing messages.\n\nThe US will herald his death as a victory, particularly after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, but Zawahiri held relatively little sway as new groups and movements such as Islamic State have become increasingly influential.\n\nA new al-Qaeda leader will no doubt emerge, but he will likely have even less influence than his predecessor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'", "Many parks and fields in England are parched by the low rainfall\n\nEngland had its driest July since 1935, with parts having the least rainfall on record, the Met Office has said.\n\nFor some parts of the country - south-east and central southern England - last month was the driest July since records began in 1836.\n\nMost of England now has low river levels, with serious impacts on farmland, nature and wildlife.\n\nWater companies are warning that restrictions on household water use may be introduced.\n\nSouth-east and central southern England saw an average of just 5.0mm rainfall. England saw an average of 23.1mm.\n\nThe UK more widely had 46.3mm of rainfall, making it the 19th lowest total in July since 1836. When it did rain, it fell more in northern areas of the country.\n\nThe first hosepipe ban this year will come into effect on 5 August for Southern Water customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nIt will prevent customers from filling paddling pools, and from using hosepipes to water gardens and clean cars.\n\nFarmers are warning of the devastating conditions of the dry weather on crops. Potatoes, sugar beet and maize are suffering with the lack of rain, with some farmers saying they have been forced to harvest earlier than usual.\n\nWildlife in England is often not adapted to warmer, drier conditions, and scientists warn that species including bumblebees and many birds struggle to cope.\n\nThe current dry conditions were preceded by the driest January to June since 1976, putting further pressure on water reserves and the land.\n\nTinder-dry conditions last month sparked wildfires in multiple parts of England and Wales, fuelled by a heatwave that saw record-breaking temperatures above 40C.\n\nLeading climate scientists have concluded that the extreme heat would have been \"virtually impossible\" without human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has warmed by about 1.1C since the Industrial Revolution about 200 years ago when humans started pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.\n\nHeatwaves and drought will become more common in England, scientists say, as the planet further warms.\n\nScientists and environmentalists say the world must rapidly cut greenhouse gases emissions, but warn that progress is much too slow.", "The Secretary General warned the world had been \"lucky\" to avoid global nuclear war\n\nThe world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned.\n\n\"We have been extraordinarily lucky so far,\" Antonio Guterres said.\n\nAmid rising global tensions, \"humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation\", he added.\n\nHis remarks came at the opening of a conference for countries signed up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\n\nThe 1968 deal was introduced after the Cuban missile crisis, an event often portrayed as the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries, and to pursue the ultimate goal of complete nuclear disarmament.\n\nAlmost every nation on Earth is signed up to the NPT, including the five biggest nuclear powers. But among the handful of states never to sign are four known or suspected to have nuclear weapons: India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.\n\nSecretary General Guterres said the \"luck\" the world had enjoyed so far in avoiding a nuclear catastrophe may not last - and urged the world to renew a push towards eliminating all such weapons.\n\n\"Luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,\" he said.\n\nAnd he warned that those international tensions were \"reaching new highs\" - pointing specifically to the invasion of Ukraine, tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East as examples.\n\nRussia was widely accused of escalating tensions when days after his invasion of Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin put Russia's substantial nuclear forces on high alert.\n\nHe also threatened anyone standing in Russia's way with consequences \"you have never seen in your history\". Russia's nuclear strategy includes the use of nuclear weapons if the state's existence is under threat.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Putin wrote to the same non-proliferation conference Mr Guterres opened, declaring that \"there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed\".\n\nBut Russia still found itself criticised at the NPT conference.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called Russia's sabre-rattling - and pointed out that Ukraine had handed over its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, after receiving assurances of its future security from Russia and others.\n\n\"What message does this send to any country around the world that may think that it needs to have nuclear weapons - to protect, to defend, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence?\" he asked. \"The worst possible message\".\n\nToday, some 13,000 nuclear weapons are thought to remain in service in the arsenals of the nine nuclear-armed states - far lower than the estimated 60,000 stockpiled during the peak of the mid-1980s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of nuclear tensions and deals between the US and Russia", "Rishi Sunak has said he will cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% by the end of the next parliament if he becomes prime minister.\n\nThis would amount to a 20% tax reduction, he said - the \"largest cut to income tax in 30 years\".\n\nBut supporters of his Tory rival Liz Truss have accused the ex-chancellor of a U-turn on the issue and said that people cannot wait for tax cuts.\n\nThe winner of the leadership contest will be announced on 5 September, with Mr Sunak and Ms Truss competing for the No 10 job.\n\nMr Sunak said the policy is part of his \"radical\" tax vision, but it builds on his previously-announced 1p cut to income tax in April 2024.\n\nHe said he will take a further 3p off by the end of the next parliament, which could be as late as December 2029.\n\nSupporters of Ms Truss said she would \"cut taxes in seven weeks, not seven years\", as she has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise, cancel a planned corporation tax rise and temporarily suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nIn announcing his latest tax policy, Mr Sunak emphasised the need to control inflation before cutting taxes, adding that doing so now would make the situation worse and \"endanger people's mortgages\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I want to make sure that we can pay for it, I want to make sure that we can do it alongside growing the economy.\"\n\nHe said that his income tax cut pledge was \"entirely consistent\" with his campaign so far and denied that his plan was aimed solely to boost support for his campaign.\n\n\"I don't think embarking on a spree of excessive borrowing at a time when inflation and interest rates are already on the rise would be wise,\" Mr Sunak said.\n\nTaxes have dominated the Tory leadership race, with the candidates clashing during the debates.\n\nLast week, Ms Truss said tax rises brought in by Mr Sunak would lead to a recession - but Mr Sunak told the foreign secretary that her tax cut plan would \"tip millions of people into misery\" and cost the Conservatives the next election.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke, who worked closely with Mr Sunak but is now backing Ms Truss, said: \"We cannot afford to wait to help families, they need support now. Liz will cut taxes in seven weeks, not seven years.\"\n\nA source in Truss' camp said: \"It's welcome that Rishi has performed another U-turn on cutting tax, it's only a shame he didn't do this as chancellor when he repeatedly raised taxes.\n\n\"He has also made it conditional on getting growth first - knowing full well that his corporation tax rises are contractionary.\"\n\nIn addition to taxation, the candidates' records in government have been under scrutiny.\n\nAnswering claims that he was \"backstabber\", a reference to his resignation from Boris Johnson's cabinet, Mr Sunak told the Today programme that there was a risk of fellow MPs looking back at the last few months with \"rose-tinted glasses\".\n\nHe said that the government had \"found itself on the wrong side of a very serious ethical issue\", adding that more than 60 MPs had resigned.\n\n\"After a lot of deliberation and months of standing by the PM, I was one of them,\" he said, also citing a difference of opinions on the economy.\n\nAs ballot papers start dropping through the letterboxes of Conservative members, it's widely accepted that Liz Truss is ahead.\n\nShe had some significant, high-profile endorsements at the weekend to add to her sense of momentum.\n\nBut Rishi Sunak's team are adamant they are still in the race. Tory MPs I've spoken to in recent days highlight that many members are still making their minds up.\n\nMr Sunak has been on the back foot when it comes to tax policy. His pitch for caution has been too pessimistic, his critics say.\n\nHe will be hoping that his pledge today will do something to address that.\n\nHe wants to be seen as an instinctive low tax Tory - who will reduce them when it's safe to do so.\n\nBut he is facing criticism from some who think he is changing plans to reflect the debate.\n\nHe was criticised last week for announcing cuts to VAT on fuel - which he didn't introduce when he was chancellor.\n\nSources close to Liz Truss accuse him of \"flip-flopping\" again today on tax.\n\nMore MPs have revealed who they are supporting in the leadership contest.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi, who replaced Mr Sunak in No 11 when the leadership hopeful resigned from Boris Johnson's cabinet last month, is backing Ms Truss.\n\nMr Zahawi - who put himself forward for the top job before crashing out at an early stage - said \"we need a 'booster' attitude to the economy, not a 'doomster' one\".\n\n\"We are in a national economic emergency, and we need more than words. We need delivery, and Liz will be the delivery prime minister,\" Mr Zahawi wrote in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nIn response, Mr Sunak told the Today programme that he wanted to do something \"radical and different\", adding that he \"ripped up the rule book\" on fiscal policy during the pandemic.\n\nIn other pledges, Ms Truss also promised to tackle the labour shortages in farming, with a short-term expansion to the seasonal workers scheme.\n\nMeanwhile, Damian Green, chair of the One Nation Conservatives group of Tory MPs, has come out in support of Mr Sunak.\n\n\"Rishi can actually conjure up a solution which makes a real difference to the lives of millions of people and that's what I think we need in the next prime minister,\" Mr Green told Radio 4's Westminster Hour programme.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nA last-minute Court of Appeal hearing has ruled the withdrawal of life support for Archie Battersbee should not be postponed beyond Tuesday.\n\nThe government asked judges to urgently consider a request from a UN committee to keep treating the 12-year-old.\n\nThe Court of Appeal refused to postpone the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment beyond 12:00 on Tuesday.\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nHis care had been due to end at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, at 14:00 BST on Monday.\n\nArchie's mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge when he became ill. He has never regained consciousness.\n\nPresident of the family division Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Moylan ordered a short delay in withdrawing life-sustaining treatments until Tuesday for Archie's parents to consider any other applications they wish to make.\n\nDoctors treating him believe he is brain stem dead and have consistently argued it is in his best interest for life support to end.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard that Archie's \"every bodily function is now maintained by artificial means\".\n\nSir Andrew said on Monday: \"Every day he continues to be given life-sustaining treatment is contrary to his best interests, so a stay, even for a short time is against his best interests.\"\n\nThe UN convention which the request for postponement was based on was \"not part of the law of the United Kingdom\", the judge said.\n\nThe judges also refused to grant permission to appeal against their ruling at the Supreme Court.\n\nHowever, Archie's parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, might now ask Supreme Court justices to consider their application for permission to appeal directly.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Dance said she continued to be \"shocked and traumatised\" by what she feels is \"the brutality of the UK courts and the hospital trust\".\n\n\"Our wishes as parents continue to be trampled on and ignored,\" she said. \"We do not understand the urgency and rush to end life-support.\n\n\"The hospital trust has at no point given us time to come to terms with what has happened.\n\n\"This is no way for a compassionate society to treat a family in our situation. We will continue to fight for Archie.\"\n\nMs Dance also appealed to other parents to ensure their children did not take part in dangerous viral challenges.\n\nSpeaking outside court, she said: \"Please, please, parents, have the conversation with your children because I know there's a whole new lot of online challenges.\n\n\"I don't want any parent out there to have what we've been going through and I definitely don't want to see any more children losing their lives.\"\n\nHollie Dance, pictured, and Archie's father Paul Battersbee have raised concerns about a brain-stem test\n\nArchie's condition is so awful that judges were told everyone accepts his death is ultimately a question of timing.\n\nThis raises an ethical question in medicine - how long should one continue treatment that is artificially sustaining life?\n\nIn English law, any case before the courts involving a child must be settled on the basis of what is in the \"best interests\". Their best interests in legal terms are not always the same as what parents may wish.\n\nAnd that simple but evidence-led test lies behind the original High Court judgement, the later Court of Appeal decision - and now today's ruling.\n\n\"Best interests\" does not mean trying to sustain life at all costs. The courts have said that in rare and terrible cases like Archie Battersbee, it can also mean ending treatment where prolonging it would do no good. So the law is clear, even if the medical evidence in individual cases can be complex and disputed.\n\nIn his ruling, Sir Andrew also referred to the medical evidence before Mr Justice Hayden, who ruled on 15 July that Archie's life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn.\n\nHe said: \"In short, his system, his organs and, ultimately, his heart are in the process of closing down. The options before the court have always been stark.\"\n\nSir Andrew said these options were that treatment should be withdrawn immediately, resulting in Archie's death a short time later, or to continue treatment with medical evidence suggesting he would die in the coming weeks but, in the words of his parents, at a time \"chosen by God\".\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our heartfelt sympathies and condolences remain with Archie's family at this difficult time.\n\n\"We are following the direction of the courts, so no changes will be made to Archie's care whilst the family appeal to the Supreme Court, though we will prepare to withdraw treatment after midday tomorrow unless directed otherwise.\"\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEnglish Para-swimmer Alice Tai won Commonwealth gold in Birmingham on Sunday - just months after having her right leg amputated in January.\n\nThe 23-year-old triumphed for England in the S8 100m backstroke at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.\n\nIt was her second Commonwealth title after victory in Gold Coast four years ago, but, she admitted, far more unexpected.\n\n\"I didn't think I would be able to race this season,\" Tai told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm so grateful that Team England let me come here and compete.\"\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams\n\nTai was born with bilateral talipes (club feet) which led to multiple operations as a youngster and increasing pain afterwards and required her to use crutches as a mobility aid.\n\nHowever, the pressure on her arms left her requiring surgery on both elbows last year and as a result, she had to pull out of the Tokyo Paralympics.\n\nWhile undergoing rehabilitation and struggling with her mobility, she asked once again about the possibility of having her right foot amputated.\n\n\"After the operation, I couldn't use crutches or self-propel a wheelchair, so using an electric wheelchair was my only option,\" she told the BBC's Access All podcast on the eve of the Games.\n\n\"I knew if I had the amputation I would have a better quality of life, if it went well. It made sense and it was the right time.\n\n\"It took me a while to realise how dramatic an option it was. I had mulled it over so much in my own head for many years so it was almost normal.\n\n\"As a Paralympian, I see amputees all the time with varying degrees of mobility but I know for everyone else it was a big deal.\"\n\nTai, who won seven golds at the 2019 Para-swimming World Championships in London, underwent surgery to have her leg amputated below the knee and, working with coach Dave Heathcock at Ealing Swimming Club, has had to relearn how to be an elite swimmer.\n\nShe made her international return in June's Para-swimming World Championships in Madeira, winning silver in the S8 100m freestyle to set her up for the Commonwealths.\n\nAnd roared on by the Birmingham crowd, she started slowly and trailed Paralympic champion Tupou Neiufi of New Zealand early on before showing her strength.\n\n\"I've had so much to learn,\" she admitted. \"I had to strip all my strokes back to the basics to make sure I am even in the water, but my stroke efficiency is better than it was.\n\n\"My coach reckons I can go faster because of that, so once we work on the technical stuff, I think my times could be quicker than before.\n\n\"My start can be better, but we don't know how I can balance best on the blocks and also my stroke into the turn keeps changing as I get fitter.\n\n\"I won relay gold in Rio which is awesome but I really want an individual title in Paris in 2024.\"\n\nAlice said coming into this race that she was going to race smart, and she did.\n\nShe kept up with the New Zealander and went for it in the last 50m and just gave it everything\n\nAfter such a difficult year to get that gold medal is just fabulous.\n\nThe backstroke is her best event. She has a beautiful stroke and is naturally talented and even thought she won gold there are still things to improve.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nAdam Peaty says Tuesday's 50m breaststroke final will be his last Commonwealth Games race after \"an incredibly hard time\" recently.\n\nThe Englishman lost a 100m breaststroke race for the first time since 2014 on Sunday and the following day conceded he had lost a bit of \"spark\".\n\nHe later made it clear he should not be written off, saying: \"You back a lion into a corner, they're going to bite.\n\n\"I'm backed into a corner now but I'm OK with that.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old said the 100m defeat, where England's James Wilby took gold and Peaty came fourth, had been \"a devastating night\" and that he had put \"way too much expectation\" on himself considering he had only been back in the water for four weeks after a broken foot.\n\n\"Something has gone missing this last two years,\" Peaty told BBC Sport. \"I just haven't felt the spark and I think sometimes you can get burnout from the sport that you do love.\"\n\nHe explained he would take \"a long break\" after Tuesday's 50m final at 20:21 BST.\n\nHe has never won the Commonwealth title over that distance, but in his post-race interview after Monday's semi-final played down the importance of a gold.\n\n\"I'm not bothered about it,\" he said on BBC TV.\n\nPeaty added that \"in the grand scheme of things, it's about two years' time\", referring to the 2024 Olympics where he will aim to win the 100m breaststroke title for a third time.\n\n\"That's no disrespect,\" he continued. \"I'm still four weeks into my programme [after injury], I can't put too many expectations on myself.\"\n\nPeaty, who will not be competing in the relay events, later clarified his comments on Twitter, writing: \"Sometimes in the heat of the moment, my emotions better me... These championships mean a lot to me, being a home Games.\n\n\"It has been an incredibly hard time the past few months but mostly the last few days.\"\n\nPeaty was only bettered by Australia's Sam Williamson in the 50m breaststroke semi-finals, with Peaty finishing in 27.03 seconds and Williamson winning the other semi-final in 27.01 seconds.\n\nBut that mark is over a second short of the 25.95 seconds world record he set in 2017.\n\nHe said he would \"reset\" after Tuesday's final.\n\n\"I haven't had a strong winter for two years and it is showing, obviously dancing a little bit,\" added Peaty, referring to his performance in last year's Strictly Come Dancing show on the BBC, in which he reached week seven.\n\n\"You have to get back to the drawing board and go back to basics. It has got very complicated in the last two years but I know what I have to do now.\n\n\"It's incredibly difficult to go five years in an Olympic cycle with the pressure of being Olympic champion, and world record holder, while having a baby and moving house.\n\n\"So, it's like how do we find our spark again for the next two years into Paris. If we go beyond that, then we go beyond that, but if we don't - happy days.\"\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams\n\n\"It was interesting to hear Adam Peaty talk about the spark because he is such a racer. What else has he got to achieve - what is next?\n\n\"If I am winning medals and breaking world records what is that spark? I think that is what he is referring to about what he is missing.\n\n\"That comes with not really knowing what the target is. This for him is an opportunity to think: \"OK, I am beatable, setbacks can happen.\"\n\n\"He has never even been injured before, he has never had to deal with anything like that. It is important now to have that break and just have that winter training under his belt.\"\n• None In search of old memories: The legendary coxswain of an RNLI lifeboat returns to sea after 30 years\n• None The art-loving comedian follows artists submitting to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022", "Euro 2022 has been a huge success for England - both on and off the pitch.\n\nThe Lionesses captivated the nation with a swashbuckling run that ended with an extra-time victory over Germany in the final of a tournament which has attracted record crowds, carnival atmospheres and unprecedented media coverage for the sport.\n\nWomen's football has already enjoyed a dramatic increase in popularity and publicity in recent years, but what impact will this tournament have?\n\nIn the build-up to Sunday's final, we asked for your opinions.\n\nLarry Dickens, from Shropshire, is among those who never had any interest in women's football before this summer's Euros.\n\n\"To be honest, I was in danger of misogyny. OK that's extreme, but you see, it is a man's game,\" he quips.\n\n\"I never bothered with women's football before, now I am hooked. It has been a breath of fresh air - tough, resilient and honest, superb footballers with excellent skills.\"\n\nHe says previously he wasn't sure he could support two teams, but now sees he can follow the men's and women's teams for the same club.\n\n\"I haven't noticed much change in male friends as yet, but my wife likes the footy too now. Our team is Newcastle, howay the lasses!\"\n\nHe is not the only recent male convert.\n\nTim Williamson, a 67-year-old Arsenal fan from north London, said that he first got into watching football in 1966, when he, along with the rest of the country, was gripped by England's World Cup-winning journey, and now the same is happening for him and the women's team.\n\n\"I never took women's football seriously until the Euros competition.\"\n\nThe Lionesses' quarter-final with Spain was the first time he had watched a women's game in full. \"To my wife's anger I found myself screaming and swearing at the set just like I do when Arsenal are playing,\" he says.\n\nHe has also noticed \"an extraordinary difference\" among his friends. \"I'd say about half my male mates into football are suddenly talking about the women's game. They even know the names of the players!\"\n\nBefore the tournament there was a debate about the size and profile of some of the grounds chosen to host the Euros, and while Leigh and Rotherham may have seemed unlikely footballing arenas for some of the world's best players, it has opened up the sport to new fans.\n\nCoach driver Barry Critchley, 52, from Leigh, says he has always had a soft spot for the Netherlands so the Euros gave him the perfect chance to watch them in person when they came to town.\n\n\"Whilst watching the games I really only saw football being played, not women's football. I am no activist or anything but to me it was just good quality football and a safe, pleasant atmosphere.\"\n\nHe says he has already booked tickets for England's World Cup qualifier at Stoke in September and intends to get tickets for Manchester United's women. And will he persuade his mates to join him?\n\n\"I was waxing lyrical about Daphne van Domselaar after her performance against France. One driver listened but they are all staunch Everton or Liverpool fans and as far as they are concerned there is only one team.\"\n\n'The best night ever'\n\nHelen, from Sheffield, went to her first women's match when the reigning champions, the Netherlands, took on the highest-ranked team in the competition, Sweden, in her city.\n\n\"I had the best night ever! I just loved my first experience, the atmosphere was incredible, I felt safe at the ground, and travelling to and from.\"\n\nShe says she has signed up to the mailing list to get tickets for Manchester City and United as they are her nearest Women's Super League sides - adding: \"I'm currently deciding which team to follow! After Alessia Russo's backheel wonder goal I think it has to be Man Utd.\"\n\nWSL clubs will be hoping to boost their attendances off the back of the Euros. Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City are among the clubs which have recently announced fixtures for their women's teams at their men's home ground.\n\nAndrew, from Nottingham, says: \"WSL matches must start selling out every game for the game to grow.\"\n\nBut with the start of the men's Premier League season just around the corner, David, from Wigan, says that will mean that even if England win the title, in a few weeks it will all be forgotten about - \"that's the way it is\".\n\nFor some of those enjoying this summer's Euros, it is the impact on their children they are relishing.\n\nMark Reid, from Derby, says the amount of coverage has brought \"an importance to women's football\" which has been really beneficial to his two daughters, who both play for grassroots teams.\n\n\"I love the shift from talking about the players in men's teams, and instead now talking about names from women's teams. It feels like a genuine change of role models that I hope inspires my daughters.\"\n\nIan Baker, a teacher from Brighton, says the Euros have allowed him to share his lifelong passion for football with his daughter Daisy, 24, who has special needs, and wasn't interested until she watched her first women's game at Brighton in the WSL in 2019.\n\n\"The Euros have really deepened her love of women's football. Daisy knows all the players' names - her understanding of the game has increased hugely and it's been a joy to share it with her.\"\n\nWhen it comes to the legacy of the tournament, it will take time to see how much effect it has had on the numbers of girls playing football.\n\nSophie, the club secretary of a grassroots team in Brixton, south London, says more women have been messaging them after the Lionesses' win, wanting to join the team.\n\nMark Grinter, who runs a girls' section of a football club in Bristol, says the number of girls getting involved has grown rapidly since he started offering them coaching in 2018, and he expects the Euros to boost numbers further.\n\n\"We have gone from a few girls to six teams and over 100 girls every week.\" He says they had a boost in numbers after Covid and \"this has gone from strength to strength - we are now getting around three to five girls a week joining\".\n\n\"We are lucky that the facilities we have will allow us to expand and we would like to have a girls team in all age groups in the next three years, with a women's team as well.\n\n\"The only stumbling block is finding enough coaches, and we would love more female coaches.\"\n\nBaz Moffat, from London, says: \"Inspiring moments in sport can be an incredible catalyst for change. But they only do this if backed up by a strategy to support girls and women.\"\n\nThe question of resources is one that concerns Rachel, from Windsor, who asks \"will the infrastructure be in place to cope with the increase in demand?\"\n\nShe says her five-year-old daughter has always enjoyed football and \"having seen the Euros she has certainly had this interest further ignited\".\n\n\"It seems there is such a shift in televised sport towards more equality between the sexes, and it's a really exciting time to be bringing up a little girl.\"\n\nHowever, Rachel says they have struggled to find clubs offering sessions \"exclusively for girls\", which she favours, in their local area.\n\n\"You can tell a lot by club websites, where the main photos are all of boys playing, or where there is no reference to girls' teams. This is what I mean by lack of infrastructure and opportunity. Are the local clubs ready to ride on the coat tails of the Lionesses' success?\"", "Beyoncé's album is expected to top the charts, despite the controversy\n\nBeyoncé is to re-record one of the songs on her new album, after facing criticism from disability campaigners.\n\nThe song Heated, which was released on Friday, contained a derogatory term that has often been used to demean people with spastic cerebral palsy.\n\nThe star's publicist told the BBC the word, which can have different connotations in the US, was \"not used intentionally in a harmful way\".\n\nIt \"will be replaced in the lyrics\", they added, without giving a timescale.\n\nThe backlash came just a couple of weeks after US pop star Lizzo apologised for using the same word in her song GRRRLS.\n\nLizzo found herself the focus of a similar backlash recently\n\nWithin days, she apologised and re-released the song, omitting the offensive lyric.\n\n\"Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language,\" she wrote in a statement posted to social media.\n\n\"As a fat black woman in America, I've had many hurtful words used against me so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally).\"\n\nWhen fans heard Beyoncé's track on Friday, it felt \"like a slap in the face\", disability advocate Hannah Diviney told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm tired and frustrated that we're having this conversation again so soon after we got such a meaningful and progressive response from Lizzo\".\n\nDisability charity Scope had asked Beyoncé to re-record the song, omitting the insult. It welcomed the change of heart.\n\n\"It's good Beyoncé has acted so swiftly after disabled people yet again called out this thoughtless lyric,\" Scope's media manager Warren Kirwan said.\n\n\"There's a feeling of deja vu as it's just a few weeks since Lizzo also had to re-release a song after featuring the same offensive language.\n\n\"We hope this is the last time we see this kind of thing from anyone, let alone musicians with massive global influence.\"\n\nSome fans had defended Beyoncé, pointing out that the term she used can have a different meaning in the US - where it is often used to mean \"freaking out\" or \"going crazy\" (although those terms can themselves be insensitive to people with mental health conditions).\n\nDespite the controversy, Beyoncé's seventh studio album, Renaissance, is expected to top the charts around the world this week.\n\nIn the UK, it is currently outselling the rest of the top five combined. The lead single, Break My Soul, is also expected to top the charts.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'We hope nothing will happen' - Razoni ship crew member\n\nThe first ship carrying grain has left a Ukrainian port under a landmark deal with Russia.\n\nTurkish and Ukrainian officials say the ship left the southern port of Odesa early on Monday morning local time.\n\nRussia has been blockading Ukrainian ports since February, but the two sides made a deal to resume shipments.\n\nIt is hoped the agreement will ease the global food crisis and lower the price of grain.\n\nTurkey said the Sierra Leone-flagged vessel, the Razoni, would dock at the port of Tripoli in Lebanon, adding that further shipments were planned over the coming weeks.\n\nThe Joint Co-ordination Centre, set up in Istanbul under the deal, said the ship was carrying some 26,000 tonnes of corn and was expected to arrive in Turkish waters for inspection on Tuesday.\n\nUkraine's Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov told the BBC the Razoni was an important test to show the deal would work, with Turkey aiding its safe navigation through dangerous waters.\n\n\"There's the question of mines,\" he told BBC Newshour. \"There are a lot of mines - starting from World War Two, in addition to mines which appeared in the Black Sea starting from February - it provides a lot of risks,\" he said.\n\nThere are concerns that while ships may be able to leave Ukraine with tonnes of grain, they might not be able to get affordable insurance to return for another load.\n\nBut Mr Kubrakov said he expected to see between one and three vessels going in both directions in the next few weeks, with empty ships coming to the port of Odessa from Turkey's Bosporus Strait.\n\nWhile the sight of the Razoni, with her stowed white cranes and long blue hull, inching out into the mine-infested Black Sea represents a significant development, the operation will have to last for a sustained period for either Ukraine's damaged economy or tens of millions of people around the world to benefit.\n\nLast month's deal - brokered by the UN and Turkey - took two months to reach and was set to last 120 days. It can be renewed if both parties agree. UN Secretary General António Guterres welcomed the departure of the ship and hailed Turkey for its role in working to implement the agreement.\n\nThe blockade of Ukraine's grain has contributed to a global food crisis with wheat-based products like bread and pasta becoming more expensive, and cooking oils and fertiliser also increasing in price.\n\nRussia and Ukraine jointly produce nearly a third of global wheat supplies. In 2019 Ukraine accounted for 16% of the world's corn supplies and 42% of sunflower oil, according to UN data.\n\nUkraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the shipment a \"relief for the world\" and urged Moscow to \"respect its part of the deal\". Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the ship's departure was a \"very positive\" development.\n\nInternational leaders gave the shipment a cautious welcome, with UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss calling it \"an important first step\". But EU spokesperson Peter Stano said Russia must ensure the \"whole deal\" is met to resume Ukrainian exports around the world.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Russia has agreed not to target ports while shipments are in transit and Ukraine has agreed that its naval vessels will guide cargo ships through waters that have been mined.\n\nOne engineer working on the Razoni told Reuters news agency that he was worried about the danger of sea mines.\n\n\"We hope that nothing will happen and that we will not commit any mistake. This is the only thing that I fear during this trip, as for the other things, we are used to them as sailors,\" Abdullah Jendi said.\n\nTurkey - supported by the United Nations - will inspect ships, to allay Russian fears of weapons smuggling.\n\nTrust remains low between officials in Kyiv and Moscow, and last month the deal was thrown into chaos less than 24 hours after it was announced when Russia launched two missiles at Odesa port.\n\nOdesa MP Oleksiy Goncharenko told the BBC he expected shipments to continue from the other ports on Tuesday but warned Russia might attempt to disrupt them with further military action.\n\n\"We see these awful missile attacks against Odesa in the last days - that is just their attempts to increase the risks for ship owners, for crew, not to come to Odesa,\" he said.", "Ademola Adedeji was one of four boys sentenced to eight years for messages sent in a Telegram chat group\n\nFour teenagers should not have been jailed for eight years for conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm, a Labour MP says.\n\nThe young men were convicted over social media messages discussing revenge attacks, sent three days after the death of a friend.\n\nIn a letter to the justice secretary, Lucy Powell said they were being \"punished for their vague association with others\".\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service responded that their \"legal test was satisfied\" and \"it was right\" to bring the charges.\n\nThe charges centred around the planning and execution of three attacks in the wake of the murder of John Soyoye on 5 November 2020.\n\nThe nine-week trial, at Manchester Crown Court, involved 10 defendants in total, all of whom were young black men. Seven of them were 17-years-old at the time of the offences.\n\nSix of them, Ademola Adedeji, Raymond Savi, Azim Okunola, Omolade Okoya, Martin Thomas and Simon Thorne, were found guilty of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm and given eight years in prison.\n\nA key piece of evidence was a group chat set up on the messaging app Telegram between seven of the boys three days after Mr Soyoye's death.\n\nThey discussed Mr Soyoye's death and carrying out revenge attacks on those they believed responsible. No individual named as a potential target in their chat was ever harmed.\n\nThe majority of the messages were sent in an initial 24-hour period, and after less than a week the chat fell silent.\n\nAdedeji, Savi, Okunola and Okoya had no further involvement in online discussions about attacks and did not participate in any subsequent violence. They had no prior convictions, and all were attending or about to attend university.\n\nThree of the boys convicted based on their participation in the Telegram chat have lodged requests to appeal their sentences.\n\nFour of the 10 defendants - Harry Oni, Jeffrey Ojo, Gideon Kalumda and Brooklyn Jitobah - were found guilty of conspiracy to murder and given sentences of between 20 and 21 years.\n\nIn her letter to Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, and Attorney General Suella Braverman, Ms Powell describes the application of the law around conspiracy charges as \"seriously flawed\".\n\nThe Manchester Central MP said the prosecution's focus on the Telegram chat meant that the boys were \"being prosecuted based on messages sent while they were trying to navigate their grief\".\n\nAdedeji had an unconditional offer from Birmingham University to study law and had previously written a book about empowering his local community. He had sent 11 messages to the Telegram chat.\n\nApologising for the messages, he told trial judge Mr Justice Goose in a letter that they were sent after \"emotions got the better of me… because someone I regarded as a younger brother had been ruthlessly taken away\".\n\n\"I absolutely did not mean a word I said,\" he wrote, \"I feel as if I have ruined my life.\"\n\nIn his sentencing remarks for Savi and Adedeji, Mr Justice Goose acknowledged their participation had been brief but said the Telegram chat was \"an open discussion about obtaining weapons\" and \"targeting a number of victims\".\n\nGarry Green, a criminal barrister with Doughty Street Chambers, told the BBC: \"What is regrettable in the Manchester case, for those who did no more than send messages in a social media group, is their positive and constructive backgrounds appear to have been ignored.\n\n\"The CPS test for charging involves an assessment of the evidence and the public interest.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"a tendency to adultify young black people\", describing it as \"a failure to see or recognise the humanity of young black people, treating them much older than they are and, in this instance, likely seeing criminality as a rite of passage which means their future prospects are ignored or simply not seen\".\n\nLucy Powell criticised the prosecution's use of \"gang narratives\" in the case\n\nThe prosecution's case involved demonstrating to the court that the 10 boys on trial were part of or associating with a gang called M40, named after the postcode of the Moston area in Manchester where they grew up - and drill music and lyrics were included as evidence.\n\nMr Soyoye, who performed drill music under the name \"MD\", had been a friend of many of the 10 defendants since their school days. Drill music is a style of rap music that features violent language and imagery.\n\nMs Powell criticised the prosecution's use of \"gang narratives\", which she said relied on \"racialised assumptions, loose associations and outdated or inaccurate stereotypes of inner-city neighbourhoods like Moston and Moss Side\".\n\nBut the CPS told the BBC that it was \"aware of the complexities of prosecuting cases where there are allegations of gang involvement and prosecutors have clear legal guidance to inform their considerations\". It said the evidence had been \"carefully assessed\" for \"each individual in respect of each charge\".\n\nMr Green, who has worked with law reform charity Justice on tackling racial inequalities in the legal system, told the BBC that \"there is a disproportionate reliance on drill music in cases where young black males are being prosecuted\".\n\n\"Black culture, or black cultural heritage is arguably criminalised in a manner which other genres of music are not,\" he said.\n\nBBC analysis has shown the use of drill music as criminal evidence in court rooms is increasing - but its inclusion as evidence has come under criticism from some academics and legal professionals.\n\nThe CPS has said it is reviewing its guidance on the way drill music is used in prosecutions. But in June 2022, the head of the CPS, Max Hill QC, confirmed that, where a defendant appears in a drill music video with co-defendants, \"prosecutors would consider whether it was vital evidence of association that a jury should hear\".\n\nA demonstration was organised in St Peter's Square in Manchester to show support for the boys, and youth community organisation, Kids of Colour, gathered over 500 offers from the public of tutoring, mentoring and other opportunities, which were presented to the judge before sentencing.\n\nRoxy Legane, head of Kids of Colour, who attended trial throughout, told the BBC the trial showed \"all 10 boys have been failed\" and pointed to the lack of support available to them in the aftermath of losing a friend.\n\n\"It is only with solutions that address root causes that we can start to break cycles of violence and trauma\", she said. \"The tools for positive change are there, but they are being rejected in favour of punitive punishment, which will never make our communities safe.\"", "The momentum in this part of the campaign is still with Liz Truss. That's clear now that she has the backing of Penny Mordaunt.\n\nSo it's not surprising that Rishi Sunak wants to describe himself as a change candidate and brush aside the 'doomster' label.\n\nBut he can't get away from it completely because he also wants to be seen as financially responsible and that might not stir conservative hearts as much as Liz Truss' promises of immediate tax cuts.\n\nWhile Liz Truss' disregard for the SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon might play well to the conservative base, calling the First Minister of Scotland 'an attention seeker' might not be a wise move.\n\nIf Liz Truss were to become Prime Minister their first meeting will likely be very frosty indeed.\n\nWe also learned where the members' doubts lie with these two leaders, through some of the tricky audience questions.\n\nFor Liz Truss it was a question on her tax policy 'where is all the money going to come from' for those tax cuts.\n\nWhile for Rishi Sunak it was again about his loyalty under Boris Johnson.\n\nWe can expect variations of those doubts to come up again and again as the hustings continue.", "Gina Bass, one of The Gambia's top athletes, is among those at risk of missing the Games\n\nTop athletes from The Gambia risk being unable to compete at the Commonwealth Games because a visa hold-up means they are stuck in France.\n\nThe six athletes, including one of its most successful sprinters, Gina Bass, have been training in Paris for a year.\n\nSome of the athletes are due to compete as soon as Tuesday and risk missing the competition as they are not yet allowed to enter the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said the applications are being processed.\n\nAthletes from The Gambia who travelled directly were able to make it to Birmingham\n\n\"They're some of our best athletes,\" said The Gambian minister for sport, Bakary Badjie.\n\nThey had been set to take part in the opening ceremony in Birmingham last week.\n\nMr Badjie said The Gambian government was unclear why the visas had not been approved as the athletes had applied on time and members of the delegation who travelled from The Gambia had made it to Birmingham.\n\n\"We were hoping they would be here for the opening ceremony,\" he said. \"One was meant to be our flag bearer.\n\n\"They've been in a foreign country training for an event that they're not told they may not be at,\" he said. \"We expect them to be stressed.\"\n\nEbrima Camara is The Gambia's best 100m sprinter\n\nAs well as Ms Bass, the other athletes are the nation's top male sprinters Ebrima Camara, Adama Jammeh, Alieu Joof and Sengan Jobe as well as Abdou Rahman Ceesay, who is set to compete in the judo events.\n\nA Home Office spokesperson confirmed the visas were being processed, but it is not yet clear when the athletes will be able to travel.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eight-year-old Tess Dolan made her way to the Euros final at Wembley after being given tickets by the BBC.\n\nThe England fan went viral on social media for enthusiastically singing and dancing to Sweet Caroline when England won 4-0 against Sweden in the semi-finals.\n\nAfter Tess's mum revealed they didn't have tickets to the final, the BBC arranged for them to go.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland forward Beth Mead was named Euro 2022's best player after winning the Golden Boot award given to the tournament's top scorer.\n\nMead edged Germany's Alexandra Popp in the scoring stakes, despite both players finishing on six goals.\n\nArsenal's Mead claimed the prestigious award as she had more assists than Popp, with the England player laying on five goals for her team-mates.\n\nGermany captain Popp pulled out of Sunday's final with England injured.\n\nOn a historic day, Mead's side beat Germany 2-1 after extra time to win Euro 2022.\n• None 'Women's football will never be the same again'\n\nIt was a first major trophy for the Lionesses - and first for a senior England team since the men won the 1966 World Cup.\n\nMead, 27, scored in four of England's six games at the home tournament, including a hat-trick against Norway in the group stage on 11 July.\n\nMeanwhile, Popp, 31, scored in all five of Germany's matches before the final, including both goals in the 2-1 semi-final win over France. But she had no assists in the tournament.\n\nMead's success is all the more remarkable after she was left out of the Team GB squad for the Tokyo Olympics a year ago.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" she told BBC Sport. \"Sometimes football puts you down, but bouncing back is the best way. I'm speechless, I can't take it all in... I'm in shock.\n\n\"I've had a good cry with my mum and dad. I am so proud of this team, I love this team and I love this country!\"\n\nGermany's 20-year-old midfielder Lena Oberdorf was named the tournament's best young player.\n• None Reaction and analysis as Lionesses win Euro 2022 on historic day at Wembley", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's Sarah Davies won gold in a dramatic final in the women's 71kg weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games.\n\nShe beat Nigeria's 18-year-old Joy Ogbonne Eze, who, after a strong snatch round, did not complete any of her clean and jerk attempts.\n\nIt is a first Commonwealth Games appearance for 2021 world silver-medallist Davies.\n\nEarlier, compatriot Chris Murray also won gold in the men's 81kg.\n\nDavies lifted 103kg in the snatch round, a new Commonwealth Games record, and needed just one 126kg lift in the clean and jerk round to win gold, after Eze failed all three of her attempts at 125kg.\n\nDavies missed her first attempt and needed a few minutes to compose herself before confidently shooting the bar above her head on her second go, to finish on 229kg.\n\nCanada's Alexis Ashworth lifted 15kg less than Davies but that was enough for silver and India's Harjinder Kaur took a surprise bronze.\n\nMurray, who is the four-time British champion, posted a combined total of 325kg from his snatch and his clean and jerk attempts, a new Commonwealth record.\n\n\"I can't sum it up,\" he said. \"I'll be in my room tonight still not being able to put it into words. It's incredible.\n\n\"The guys in my weight class are so strong and that was a really close competition. I knew I needed to pull it out and I did. I'm so happy.\"\n\nCanada's Nicolas Vachon dropped the bar behind his head before the final buzzer while trying to lift 187kg and had to settle for a bronze medal.\n\nKyle Bruce of Australia took silver after failing his final lift of 183kg.\n\nThe top four finalists, including India's Ajay Singh, were separated by only 6kg.", "Ekin-Su and Davide, both 27, will share the £50,000 prize money\n\nEkin-Su and Davide have been crowned the winners of Love Island, winning the show's £50,000 prize money.\n\nThe pair, both 27, said they \"couldn't believe\" they'd won, describing their time on the show as a \"dream\".\n\nEkin-Su Culculoglu is an actress and model from Essex, while business owner Davide Sanclimenti is from Rome, Italy.\n\nDuring an ad break, ITV2 played a trailer for Big Brother, confirming rumours that the reality show will be revived on the channel in 2023.\n\nPresenter Laura Whitmore announced Ekin-Su and Davide as the winners of the hugely successful ITV2 dating show during Monday's live final - which had an average of 2.89m viewers.\n\nThe couple will share the £50,000 prize money. A previous show tradition, which gave one member of the couple the chance to \"steal\" the jackpot for themselves, was dropped this year.\n\nSpeaking to Whitmore earlier in the episode, Davide said it was \"100% a dream to be here with her [Ekin-Su]\".\n\nEkin-Su said: \"It feels so surreal, finding the man of your dreams and just growing, I'm lost for words.\"\n\nShe described her relationship with Davide as \"absolutely bonkers, crazy, romantic and fun\".\n\nGemma and Luca were named the runners-up, while the the third-placed couple was Indiyah and Dami.\n\nTasha, the show's first deaf contestant, and her partner Andrew, finished in fourth place.\n\nLaura Whitmore hosted the final live at the villa in Mallorca\n\nReflecting on their journey, Ekin-Su said: \"There was an instant spark, a genuine butterfly feeling, and there was a caring and intelligent side I was really attracted to.\"\n\nDavide, who was originally coupled up with Gemma, added: \"As soon as I saw her [Ekin-Su], my head turned, I was like 'wow'. There was initial attraction.\"\n\nThe couple's win was welcomed by viewers on Twitter, with journalist Monifa Bobb-Simon writing: \"Ekin-Su really carried this show. Her and Davide's mess was a chaotic masterpiece. The right winners.\"\n\nAuthor Toni Toni said: \"Our Turkish Delight and her Italian Stallion are so deserving! TV gold! This season should be renamed Ekin-Su Island because it would have been dry without her!\"\n\nWriter Chanté Joseph described Ekin-Su as the \"people's princess\", while radio presenter Yasmin Evans added: \"This is Ekin-Su's world and we just live in it.\"\n\nBlogger Em Sheldon tweeted: \"Ekin-Su and Davide are proof that we want to see islanders over the age of 25 fall in love too please.\"\n\nAnd in an article published ahead of the final, Lucy Thackray of the Independent described Ekin-Su as \"the greatest Love Island contestant of all time\".\n\nEarlier in Monday's final episode, the islanders were seen taking part in a salsa lesson with professional dancers, who taught them some Latin moves ahead of the Love Island summer ball.\n\nAt the ball, the couples read letters to one another about their journey throughout the series, before showing off their dance routines and finally jumping into the Mallorca villa's swimming pool.\n\nThis series of the ITV2 dating show has been popular with viewers, with most episodes attracting an audience of more than three million.\n\nAlso on Monday, ITV confirmed that reality show Big Brother, which has previously aired on Channel 4 and Channel 5, will be rebooted for a new series in 2023.\n\nThe show's former host, Rylan Clark, tweeted an image of the ITV2 logo in the shape of the Big Brother eye, adding: \"He was always watching… It's coming home #BBUK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, ITV said the \"global television phenomenon\" would make its \"much anticipated return to UK television and moves onto ITV2 and ITVX from 2023\".\n\n\"A new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life, will take up residence in the world's most famous reality TV home for up to six weeks, with cameras capturing their every move, and the nation following every twist and turn.\"", "Nichelle Nichols (far right) on the set of the film Star Trek: The Final Frontier in 1989\n\nAmerican actress Nichelle Nichols, best known for her role in 1960s sci-fi TV series Star Trek, has died aged 89.\n\nNichols broke barriers in her role as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the series, becoming one of the first black actresses in the US to play a figure in authority.\n\nShe was later employed by Nasa in an effort to encourage more women and African-Americans to become astronauts.\n\nShe died of natural causes on Saturday night, her son Kyle Johnson said.\n\nNichelle Nichols at a Comic Con event in Los Angeles, California in 2021\n\nIn a statement posted on Facebook, Mr Johnson wrote: \"I regret to inform you that a great light in the firmament no longer shines for us as it has for so many years.\n\n\"Her light however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration.\"\n\nUS President Joe Biden paid tribute, saying: \"In Nichelle Nichols, our nation has lost a trailblazer of stage and screen who redefined what is possible for Black Americans and women.\"\n\nThe Star Trek TV series broke down stereotypes in the 1960s by casting black and minority actors in high-profile roles.\n\nNicholls was cast in the series as Lt Uhura, who was portrayed as a competent and level-headed communications officer - shattering stereotypes.\n\nIn 1968, she and Star Trek star William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the series, broke new ground when they shared one of television's first interracial kisses - though it was not a romantic one.\n\nDespite her success, however, Nichols had initially considered leaving the show. But she was convinced otherwise by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who described her character as the \"first non-stereotypical role portrayed by a black woman in television history\".\n\nShe wanted to leave because she had been offered a role in a show that was heading to Broadway,saying in an interview that her \"life was theatre\".\n\nNichols was asked by Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry to think about her decision for a couple of days, which she agreed to do.\n\nThat weekend, she went to a fundraiser in Los Angeles where she was introduced to someone who was described by the event organiser as \"her biggest fan, he's desperate to meet you\".\n\nThat man was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who said: \"Yes, Miss Nichols, I am your greatest fan. We admire you greatly.\"\n\nShe told him she was going to leave Star Trek and he said: \"You cannot. You cannot. For the first time on television, we are being seen as we should be seen every day, as intelligent... beautiful, people who can sing, dance and go into space, be lawyers, teachers, and yet you don't see it on television until now.\"\n\nNichols explained: \"I could say nothing, I just stood there realising that everything he said was the truth.\"\n\nNichols did not regret staying at Star Trek\n\nDr. King continued: \"Gene Rodenberry opened a door for the world to see us. If you leave, that door can be closed because your role is not a black role and it's not a female role, he can fill it with anyone, including an alien!\"\n\nNichols later said: \"At that moment, the world tilted for me and I knew then... that I was something else. The world was not the same. And I remember being angry - why me? Why should I have to?\"\n\nBut she went back to Rodenberry the following week and told him what happened and said she would stay.\n\nRodenberry responded: \"Thank god for Martin Luther King, somebody knows where I am coming from.\"\n\nNichols said she never looked back and had never regretted her decision.\n\nShe went on to feature in the first six Star Trek movies following the series' end in 1969.\n\nAs well as working as an actress, Ms Nicholls also became an ambassador for the US space agency Nasa, helping to recruit women and minorities to its Space programme.\n\nFollowing the news of her death, Star Trek co-star George Takei wrote in a tweet: \"My heart is heavy, my eyes shining like the stars you now rest among, my dearest friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Skip twitter post 2 by Adam Nimoy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMarina Sirtis, who portrayed Counsellor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its four feature film adaptations, wrote that Nichols \"opened the door for the rest of us who followed in your wake\".\n\nNasa described Nicholls as a \"trailblazer\" and \"role model\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJ.J. Abrams, who was behind the 2009 Star Trek reboot and its 2013 follow-up Star Trek Into Darkness, called Nichols \"a remarkable woman in a remarkable role.\"\n\nBritish actress Adjoa Andoh wrote: \"We stand on shoulders of groundbreaking greats. Nichelle Nichols you gave so many of us hope. Thank you.\"", "Brazilian twins who were joined at the head have been successfully separated with the help of virtual reality.\n\nThree-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima underwent surgeries in Rio de Janeiro, with direction from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.\n\nThe teams spent months trialling techniques using virtual reality projections of the twins, based on CT and MRI scans.\n\nIt was described by surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani as \"space-age stuff\".\n\nIt was one of the most complex separation processes ever completed, according to the charity which funded it - Gemini Untwined - which Mr Jeelani founded in 2018.\n\nHe said that, for the first time, surgeons in separate countries wore headsets and operated in the same \"virtual reality room\" together.\n\nThe twins had seven surgeries, involving more than 27 hours of operating time in the final operation alone, and almost 100 medical staff.\n\nSpeaking about the VR aspect of the surgery, Mr Jeelani told the PA news agency: \"It's just wonderful. It's really great to see the anatomy and do the surgery before you actually put the children at any risk.\n\n\"You can imagine how reassuring that is for the surgeons.\n\n\"In some ways these operations are considered the hardest of our time, and to do it in virtual reality was just really man-on-Mars stuff.\"\n\nHe said that previously unsuccessful attempts to separate the boys meant their anatomy was complicated by scar tissue, and he was \"really apprehensive\" about the risky procedure.\n\nMr Jeelani said he was \"absolutely shattered\" after the 27-hour operation, where he took only four 15-minute breaks for food and water, but it was \"wonderful\" to see the family feeling \"over the moon\" afterwards.\n\nHe added that, as with all conjoined twins after separation, the boys' blood pressures and heart rates were \"through the roof\" - until they were reunited four days later and touched hands.\n\nThe twins are recovering well in hospital, and will be supported with six months of rehabilitation.\n\nThis was Mr Jeelani's sixth separation procedure with Gemini Untwined, after previously operating on twins from Pakistan, Sudan, Israel and Turkey.\n\nHe led the procedure alongside Dr Gabriel Mufarrej, head of paediatric surgery at Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer in Brazil.\n\nDr Mufarrej said the hospital where he works has been caring for the boys for two-and-a-half years, and their separation will be \"life-changing\".\n\n\"Since the parents of the boys came from their home in the Roraima region to Rio to seek our help two-and-a-half years ago, they have become part of our family here in the hospital. We are delighted that the surgery went so well.\"\n\nBernardo and Arthur, at almost four years of age, are the oldest craniopagus twins - that is twins with a fused brain - to have been separated.\n\nAccording to the charity, one in 60,000 births results in conjoined twins, and only 5% of those are craniopagus.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online. England won four golds, with Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser among the victors, as their stellar Commonwealth Games gymnastics campaign continued. Jarman, the team and all-around champion, scored 14.666 for a routine full of athleticism and precision. Courtney Tulloch and Georgia-Mae Fenton defended their rings and uneven bars titles to round off England's day. Tulloch scored 14.400 to keep Cyprus' silver medallist Sokratis Pilakouris at bay, while Fenton denied Australia's Georgia Godwin, already the all-around and vault champion, another gold. England have won 10 gymnastics medals, including seven golds, so far with Jarman winning three golds, and Fraser, Tulloch and Fenton all claiming two apiece. With another day of competition and five medal events to come, the hosts have already surpassed the six gymnastics gold medals they won at Gold Coast 2018. Jarman head and shoulders above the rest Jarman, could add more medals to his tally in Tuesday's vault final, was the clear class of the floor field. Canada's Felix Dolci was a full half point behind with 14.166, while Jarman's team-mate Giarnni Regini-Moran won bronze. Jarman's high-velocity tumbling skills have never been in doubt. The 20-year-old's training videos, featuring five-twist leaps and flips, have caused a stir online in recent years. However, the British champion's ability to recreate those pyrotechnics on the international stage had been unproven before this week. His power, speed and cork-screwing agility on the floor put his third gold beyond doubt long before the judges' scorecards were returned. \"Jake Jarman pulled it all together and that is what we have been waiting for,\" said six-time Olympic medal-winner Max Whitlock on BBC One. \"He has the difficulty level above everyone else. He has done incredibly to pull it all together when it matters.\" Fraser was denied a chance to vie with Jarman for the all-around title after he suffered a burst appendix and broken foot in the weeks before the Games. However, the Birmingham local, who won 2021 European bronze on the pommel and was the highest-scoring qualifier for this final, was supreme. His polish and dexterity delighted the crowd and was rewarded with a sky-high 14.833 by the judges. On managing his foot injury, Fraser said: \"I'm doing everything I can to manage it as best I can. Training has been good, the competition has been good. I'm really happy with how me and my support team are looking after myself.\" His participation in the Games was put in doubt by an International Gymnastics Federation inquiry into his representing Ireland at major events where Northern Ireland do not appear. He was eventually cleared to compete, but taking to the apparatus immediately after Fraser's stunning routine he found himself under pressure. Performing a more straightforward routine, the 23-year-old needed to be near perfect, but a clip on a pass of the horse drew gasps from the stands and threw him off. McClenaghan shrugged towards his coach after his dismount. An appeal to the judges could not shore up his score and he ended a distant second on 14.133. Fraser's team-mate James Hall, who competed despite an ankle injury suffered en route to all-around silver on Sunday, was fifth. Fenton continued her habit of rising to the big occasion as she delivered a 13.9 routine to nudge Godwin into second place. The 21-year-old, who will also compete in the beam final alongside team-mate Alice Kinsella on Tuesday, revealed the secret of her continued success on the apparatus. \"I listen to quite hardcore hip-hop, that gets me in the zone,\" said Fenton. \"I like to stay within myself and not focus on other things going on.\" Rings specialist Tulloch, 26, duly delivered, his final score of 14.4 lower than in qualification but enough to take top spot. Fraser was just edged out of another medal in fourth place. \"I bring the firepower to the team,\" said Tulloch. \"To come away with gold and be a double Commonwealth champion on the rings is something I'm very proud of.\" Elsewhere, Shannon Archer won Scotland's first ever artistic gymnastics medal in Commonwealth history. The 24-year-old, who finished fifth at Gold Coast 2018, secured the final step on the vault podium by just 0.033, ahead of Canada's Emma Spence. Essex-based Archer dabbed her eyes to stem the tears as the result was announced and she absorbed her landmark medal. \"I can't even describe how I'm feeling right now. That has made everything worthwhile,\" Archer told BBC Sport. \"The hard days in the gym, trying those vaults… it's very much paid off and I can't believe it.\"\n• None In search of old memories: The legendary coxswain of an RNLI lifeboat returns to sea after 30 years\n• None The art-loving comedian follows artists submitting to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022", "The tortoise was spotted on the track heading away from Norwich\n\nA giant tortoise brought trains to a halt when it was found on a railway track.\n\nThe injured animal was spotted near Harling Road, north east of Thetford, Norfolk, on the Cambridge-bound line at about 12:40 BST.\n\nGreater Anglia said three services were affected by the tortoise's presence.\n\nSwallow Aquatics in East Harling said the tortoise, Clyde, had gone missing on Sunday and had now been taken to a vets, as it was hit by a train.\n\nThe pet shop said the 2.5ft (76cm) long tortoise had a hole in its shell after the collision.\n\nDiane Akers, a passenger on the 11:22 train from Ely to Norwich, photographed the tortoise on the opposite track when her train came to a halt.\n\n\"It was very large and filled a substantial area of the track,\" she said.\n\n\"I tried to tweet Greater Anglia, but I'm not sure the message got through.\n\n\"When we got to Norwich station I told staff in the office there, and the chap looked at me as if I was mad - and then a police officer came along and said he'd seen my tweet.\"\n\nStaff from Network Rail rescued the tortoise and took it to a vet\n\nBBC reporter Nic Rigby was a passenger on another train, from Cambridge to Norwich, that ground to a halt.\n\n\"The train's been delayed due a giant African tortoise on the line,\" he said.\n\n\"The train inspector announced that he's having trouble believing it - but it's true.\"\n\nA Greater Anglia spokeswoman said: \"We are sorry for the disruption caused to customers between Norwich and Cambridge this afternoon.\n\n\"This was due to a very large, injured tortoise on the line near Harling Road.\n\n\"Network Rail attended and helped the animal. Services were able to run from 13.25.\"\n\nShe said two trains were terminated early and one service started 20 minutes late.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's Laura Kenny won a stunning track cycling scratch race gold at the Commonwealth Games, a day after thinking it would be her final race amid a \"serious confidence crisis\".\n\nOn the Lee Valley VeloPark track where she made her name at the 2012 Olympics, Kenny timed her attack to perfection under deafening roars from the crowd.\n\nIt is England's first cycling gold of the Birmingham Games, and Kenny's first Commonwealth title since 2014.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, the 30-year-old added: \"I said to Jase [Jason Kenny - her husband]: 'I think this is going to be my last race.'\"\n\nHer victory comes months after she suffered a miscarriage, followed by an ectopic pregnancy, after which she considered quitting the sport.\n\n\"I watched Adam Peaty completely reflect in his interview and I thought, that is me all over,\" Kenny said.\n\n\"I've lost the spark, training doesn't come that easy. Every day I'm like 'here we go again'.\n\n\"I've been through three Olympic cycles now. To keep picking yourself up after this whole year has been a nightmare... I have absolutely just lost motivation.\n\n\"Then last night I was messaging my new coach Len and I was like 'no, I'm not giving up, I have one more roll of the dice - please just help me'. It could not have been better set up if I tried.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Michaela Drummond was second while Canada's Maggie Coles-Lyster won the bronze, with Scotland's Neah Evans finishing an agonising fourth having led at the bell for the final lap.\n\nKenny, Great Britain's most successful female Olympian with five golds, won bronze in the team pursuit earlier in the Games but was off the pace in Sunday's points race, finishing 13th.\n\nThe first two of her Olympic golds came at London 2012, a decade ago.\n\nBut she said she was left with a \"bad taste\" after team-mate Matt Walls was involved in a horrific crash on Sunday, in which he and his bike catapulted into the crowd.\n\n\"To cross the line here in London, I could not ask for anything more,\" Kenny said.\n\n\"Sunday left a pretty bad taste to be honest. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind.\n\n\"You see Matt Walls crash like that and it really makes you think: 'What am I doing?' I have been so lucky; in my whole career I have had one broken shoulder and one broken arm.\n\n\"You see something like that... I was having a serious confidence crisis. I just didn't want to be on the track - and when that happens, I race badly and I don't get a result. And that's what happened.\n\n\"Whereas today, I was so fired up. I kept saying to myself in the toilet, 'I can do this'.\n\n\"Some man on the start line said 'you've got this Laura' and I felt like turning round to him and saying 'yes I have'. I was like a completely different bike rider.\"\n\n'That one's for him' - Capewell dedicates medal to late father\n\nIt wasn't long before the largely English crowd at the velodrome were on their feet again, as Sophie Capewell won silver in the women's keirin, the race immediately after Kenny's.\n\nIt was 23-year-old Capewell's second medal inside 24 hours, having won 500m time trial bronze on Sunday.\n\nShe dedicated the medal to her father, Nigel, who died in October 2021.\n\n\"Most of today has been a bit of a blur. I've been feeling a bit under the weather probably since the sprint day. I took it one race at a time today and I'm so proud of myself,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm just so proud, without getting too emotional, I lost my dad and I just think he's with me a little bit.\n\n\"It's been a really, really hard past few years basically and that one's for him. Everything's for him going forward.\n\n\"I know he'd be screaming in the stands for that one, because I nearly got it right. It means much more than I can put into words.\"\n\nAnother medal was to follow for England, with Ollie Wood winning bronze in the men's points race.\n\nThe 26-year-old finished on 35 points, as New Zealand took gold and silver with Aaron Gate winning on 45 points and Campbell Stewart second on 38.\n\nWood's bronze adds to the silver he won in the team pursuit on Friday.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams", "Last updated on .From the section Basketball\n\nAmerican basketball great Bill Russell has died at the age of 88.\n\nAs a player, centre Russell won a record 11 NBA titles and five NBA Most Valuable Player awards during a 13-year career with the Boston Celtics.\n\nHe captained America to Olympic gold in 1956 and he transcended the court by becoming the league's first black head coach and an equal rights pioneer.\n\n\"Bill Russell was the greatest champion in all of team sports,\" said NBA commissioner Adam Silver.\n\n\"The countless accolades he earned for his storied career with the Boston Celtics only begin to tell the story of Bill's immense impact on our league and broader society.\n\n\"At the height of his athletic career, Bill advocated vigorously for civil rights and social justice - a legacy he passed down to generations of NBA players who followed in his footsteps.\n\n\"I often called him basketball's Babe Ruth for how he transcended time. Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate team-mate and his influence on the NBA will be felt forever.\"\n\nRussell was first inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1975, then again as a coach in 2021 and his No. 6 jersey is retired by the Celtics.", "The aim is to stop overseas criminals from using agents to create companies or buy property for them in the UK\n\nOligarchs using UK property to launder illegal wealth are being targeted by a new register which has come into force.\n\nAny anonymous foreign company seeking to buy UK land or property will need to reveal the true owners.\n\nForeign companies that refuse to disclose their true owner could face fines of up to £2,500 per day or up to five years in prison.\n\nThe register comes amid economic sanctions in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.\n\nForeign organisations who already own land in the UK will have a six month period to register their beneficial owners or managing officers.\n\nBusiness Minister Lord Callanan said: \"We have been clear that the UK is a place for legitimate business only, and to ensure we are free of corrupt elites with suspicious wealth, we need to know who owns what.\n\n\"By getting this first of its kind register up and running at breakneck speed, we are lifting the curtain and cracking down on those criminals attempting to hide their illicitly obtained wealth.\"\n\nThe register was part of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill in February 2022, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe bill proposes that anyone setting up, running, owning or controlling a company in the UK to verify their identity with Companies House, a government agency, as well as giving Companies House the power to challenge suspicious information.\n\nThe register applies to property bought since January 1999 in England and Wales, and since December 2014 in Scotland.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge said the government needed to go further to tackle money laundering.\n\n\"To truly stop the flows of corrupt wealth into our housing market, the government must urgently put in place an open register of the true owners of UK land and property, not just of those owned by companies,\" she said.\n\n\"Anything less would demonstrate once and for all that this government is truly soft on dirty money.\"\n\nAny overseas body that has disposed of property since 28 February 2022 - when the legislation for the register was first announced - will be required to provide a statement to Companies House.\n\nMulti-million pound country manors in the south of England and luxury flats in London's most expensive areas are among the homes which have been linked to Vladimir Putin's regime and associates.", "Speaking to BBC Radio 4, Hollie Dance said decisions about her son Archie should be made by his parents and not a court or hospital\n\nLawyers for the family of Archie Battersbee have told a court that not postponing the withdrawal of life support would breach international law.\n\nThe Court of Appeal is holding a hearing, hours before doctors had been due to withdraw life support at 14:00 BST.\n\nThe government asked judges to consider a request from a United Nations committee to keep treating the 12-year-old while it examines the case.\n\nA decision will be given at 15:30.\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, said she wanted a \"realistic time\" for her child to recover.\n\nHer son was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April. He has never regained consciousness and Ms Dance said she believed he might have been taking part in an online challenge.\n\nArchie, who is at Royal London Hospital in east London, was due to have his life support stopped on Monday afternoon.\n\nHowever, the trust will not take any steps to end Archie's treatment until the Court of Appeal has given its decision on the latest development.\n\nLawyers for the family said failure to postpone withdrawal of treatment would mean the court was \"complicit\" in a \"flagrant breach of international law\".\n\nDoctors have said that he is brain-stem dead and that it is in his best interests to stop treatment.\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nLast week, Appeal Court judges ruled that doctors could lawfully disconnect his ventilator.\n\nIt comes after two High Court judges agreed with doctors and said life-support treatment could end.\n\nArchie's family applied to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (UNRPD) to consider the case, arguing it had a protocol that allowed individuals and families to \"make complaints about violations of disabled people's rights\".\n\nThe committee requested that Archie's life support continued while it considered the application from his family.\n\nA legal \"stay\" to prevent treatment being withdrawn had been put in place until 13:00 on Monday.\n\nIn written submissions to the Court of Appeal, Edward Devereux QC, acting for the family, said the UN committee's request was \"binding\" under international law.\n\nHe asked the court to grant a stay to prevent the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment until after the committee considered the case, but said he did not know how long that would take.\n\nAs an alternative, he asked the court to grant a stay within the next week to give time to ask the committee about a likely timescale for its decision.\n\nMr Devereux also argued that it would be \"wholly inappropriate\" for the court to reach a decision without the government being required to provide its views on the committee's request.\n\nHowever, Lady Justice King, one of the judges hearing the urgent application, said the government had chosen not to intervene in the case.\n\nHollie Dance and Archie's father Paul Battersbee are asking for treatment to continue while the UN considers the case\n\nIn submissions for Barts NHS Health Trust, Fiona Patterson said the UN committee's request may impose an obligation on the UK as the \"state party\" but that this was \"a matter for the United Kingdom's government, not the trust\".\n\nThe trust was, she said, \"obliged\" to cease treatment per the ruling by High Court judge Mr Justice Hayden on 15 July.\n\nShe said: \"This is because the trust is not the state and there is no provision of domestic law that makes a clinician or a trust in a situation like this obliged to act on an interim measures request from the committee to a state party, still less act in breach of a valid domestic court order which mandates it to withdraw treatment.\n\n\"The trust's position remains the same, ie that (Mr Justice Hayden's) order protects Archie's best interests, that the trust is obliged to comply with the order unless and until it is varied by a further order of the court.\"\n\nPrior to the hearing, Ms Dance said the family felt \"relieved\" that the government had taken the UN's intervention seriously.\n\n\"The anxiety of being told that Archie's life-support will be removed... at 2pm has been horrific. We are already broken and the not knowing what was going to happen next is excruciating,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4, Ms Dance was adamant that her son's future \"shouldn't be with the decisions of a court - or the hospital\".\n\n\"I think this sort of decision should be made by the parents - we've got parental responsibility for a reason,\" she said.\n\nShe said based on evidence from cases similar to Archie's: \"I don't think six months was not too much to ask for, before being dragged through a court.\n\n\"I don't think I'm holding on to hope, I'm just asking for a realistic time for my child to recover from a brain injury.\n\n\"They wanted to turn the machine off on day three. What is the rush?\"\n\n\"I just think while Archie's progressing, I think it's important that evidence is actually put before a court. That he's progressing, not deteriorating like the doctor said that he would.\"\n\nArchie's parents are being supported by campaign organisation the Christian Legal Centre.\n\nAs the UK had joined the optional protocol to the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, the UN was able to ask the government to delay the withdrawal of life support while a complaint was investigated, Christian Concern said.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We recognise this is an exceptionally difficult time for Archie Battersbee's family and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"The government asked the High Court to urgently consider the request from the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.\"\n\n7 April: The 12-year-old is found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex. His mother believes he had been taking part in an online challenge\n\n13 May: A judge rules that Archie should undergo a stem test to establish whether he is dead\n\n31 May: Based on MRI scans, Archie died at noon, Mrs Justice Arbuthnot would later rule\n\n29 June: Archie's parents win an appeal for his case to be heard again\n\n11 July: A new hearing, to be presided over by a different judge, begins\n\n15 July: Mr Justice Hayden issues his ruling that it was in Archie's best interests for life-support to end, saying further treatment was \"futile\"\n\n25 July: An application to the Court of Appeal to overturn the ruling is rejected and judges rule that doctors can lawfully disconnect his ventilator\n\n29 July: Archie's parents urge the United Nations to intervene to try to maintain his medical treatment\n\n30 July: Archie's mother Hollie Dance writes to the health secretary urging the government to act \"immediately\"\n\n31 July: The UK government asks an out-of-hours High Court judge to review Archie's case", "England captain Leah Williamson says winning Euro 2022 is the proudest moment of her life and feels the legacy of the victory is just the start of a journey for women's football.\n\nREAD MORE: England beat Germany to win first women's major trophy", "It wasn't quite as big a crowd as you get on a Saturday afternoon, but it was a big one nonetheless.\n\nThe first Conservative leadership hustings for party members took place at Elland Road in Leeds last night.\n\nAbout 1,500 party members turned up to hear from Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss and put their questions.\n\nWe got a smorgasbord of policy questions. Not just the economy and integrity.\n\nRishi Sunak was asked if he was in favour of more grammar schools in England. He said yes, although his team said afterwards he meant the expansion of existing ones.\n\nLiz Truss was asked about single-sex toilets in schools, amid the rows about transgender rights. She strongly defended what she saw as the need for women and girls to be protected.\n\nThe welfare of greyhounds, the future of inheritance tax, the welfare state, the future of the UK union, the questions flowed.\n\nA couple of observations: Liz Truss seemed to energise more of the audience more of the time than Rishi Sunak. Her pitch was more targeted at the West Yorkshire crowd than Rishi Sunak's.\n\nAnd there was definitely a respect for Boris Johnson in the room - with outbreaks of applause for him whenever his time as prime minister was mentioned.\n\nThis matters, because it wounds Rishi Sunak - and Team Truss is trying to harvest that Johnson loyalism and translate it into support for her. One audience member accused Mr Sunak of \"stabbing\" the prime minister \"in the back\" and questioning which \"planet he was on\".\n\nAnd Liz Truss went out of her way to emphasise her loyalty to Mr Johnson and her respect for him. And she's landed a big new endorsement - the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.\n\nSpeaking to Conservative activists, they are well aware of the awesome responsibility on their shoulders, selecting a prime minister on behalf of us all.\n\nAs things stand, Liz Truss is the firm favourite - and both she and her team seem to be growing into the role of being frontrunners and appear to be growing in confidence with every passing day.\n\nBut, but, but remember not a single vote has yet been cast. Ballot papers go out in the post in the next week. And there are 11 more hustings to go.", "The street trader was not one to go looking for trouble, his wife insisted\n\nThe wife of a Nigerian street trader who was killed in Italy has told the BBC she is seeking justice following his \"painful death\".\n\nAlika Ogorchukwu, 39, was reportedly selling handkerchiefs in the seaside town of Civitanova Marche on Friday when he was chased and beaten to death.\n\nA 32-year-old Italian has been arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery.\n\nA video circulating online shows a man on top of Ogorchukwu, punching him with his bare hands.\n\nNone of those who witnessed the broad daylight attack appeared to intervene.\n\n\"This is a form of wickedness I don't know,\" Ogorchukwu's wife, Charity Oriachi, told the BBC's Focus on Africa.\n\nMs Oriachi said she had received help in coming to terms with her husband's death but was tired of \"talk\". Now, she was only interested in justice, she insisted.\n\nHer family had lived in Italy for a long time, she said, stressing that her husband had never sought any trouble.\n\nThe killing has sparked outrage in the local community, including Nigerians, who took to the streets over the weekend and are planning another demonstration soon.\n\nThe Nigerian government has asked Italian authorities to quickly \"bring the perpetrator of the heinous act\" to justice.\n\nThe suspect - a white man named as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo - has been ordered to remain in jail as the investigation continues.\n\nHis defence lawyer told the media the suspect had said he was sorry and that there was \"no racial element\" involved.\n\nA police investigator said Ogorchukwu was attacked after the trader's \"insistent\" requests to the suspect and his partner for spare change.\n\nThe partner, identified as Elena D, told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that Ogorchukwu had touched her arm, but that did not bother her.\n\nMs Oriachi now wants to see the suspect \"face to face\", to understand why he killed her husband, the family's lawyer told the Associated Press.", "The Taliban have in the past clashed with Iranian forces on the border (file picture, February 2022)\n\nAfghanistan's ruling Taliban have clashed with Iranian border guards on the frontier between the two countries.\n\nThe militants say one of their fighters was killed in Sunday's fighting in the border area between Nimroz province in Afghanistan and Hirmand in Iran.\n\nEach country blamed the other for the incident, the latest since the Taliban overran Afghanistan a year ago.\n\nLast month Iran reported the death of one of its guards in an incident in the same area.\n\nThe exact circumstances of the latest skirmish are unclear but one Iranian report says shooting started when Taliban forces tried to raise their flag on non-Afghan territory.\n\nThere were reportedly no casualties on the Iranian side.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland's triumphant Euro 2022 winners celebrated wildly after they defeated Germany at Wembley to win a first major trophy.\n\nBoss Sarina Wiegman said \"it was time to party\" after a historic victory for the Lionesses.\n\nElla Toone gave them the lead only for Lina Magull to force extra time, before substitute Chloe Kelly scored a 110th-minute winner.\n\n\"This is unreal. This is what dreams are made of,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\nKelly, who came on in the 64th minute, celebrated her first international goal by taking off her shirt and whirling it above her head.\n\nAfter the final whistle, the Manchester City player - who missed 11 months of action after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in May 2021 - was asked to sum up her feelings.\n\n\"Oh my God, look at them, it's amazing,\" Kelly added, before singing Sweet Caroline and then running off with the microphone.\n\nShe later returned and said: \"Thank you to every single person. Honestly, it's amazing. This is what dreams are made of.\n\n\"It's unbelievable. To be here and score the winner, these girls are special, this manager is special. This is amazing. i just want to celebrate now.\"\n\nThe Lionesses will celebrate their historic win in front of fans at Trafalgar Square on Monday , an event that will be broadcast live on BBC One from 12:40 BST.\n• None 'Women's football will never be the same again'\n\nWiegman has now won back-to-back European Women's Championships after guiding her home country the Netherlands to the title in 2017.\n\n\"I don't have any secrets,\" said Wiegman, whose side won all six games at Euro 2022, scoring 22 goals and conceding two.\n\n\"I don't think I realise what's going on - I need some time.\n\n\"Now we have won the Euros the expectation will go up again. First we will party.\"\n\nWiegman also hopes England's victory will inspire a new generation of players.\n\n\"During our preparation for the Euros we brought in some players who played in 1971,\" she added.\n\n\"We should always remember the ones who went before us because they made a path for us. This team makes a path for the next generation.\"\n\nEngland's players later gatecrashed Wiegman's post-match news conference at Wembley, while singing the English football anthem 'Three Lions'.\n\n'We have to win the World Cup now'\n\nDefender Lucy Bronze, 30, said England should now target the World Cup, which will be held in Australia and New Zealand next year.\n\n\"This will probably sink in at the end of my career,\" added Bronze, who has played for the Lionesses since 2013.\n\n\"The younger players probably think this [winning trophies] is normal. We have got to go and win the World Cup now.\"\n\n\"I'm buzzing my head off,\" added Toone, who grew up practising playing football in her back garden in Tyldesley, near Wigan.\n\n\"It's the best moment of my career, the best moment of my life. It's come home.\"\n\nLeah Williamson was named England captain for Euro 2022 in April.\n\n\"I can't stop crying. We talk and we talk and we've finally done it,\" the Arsenal player told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It's the proudest moment of my life. I'm taking in every single second because I'll want to relive this for a long time.\n\n\"The legacy of this tournament is a change in society. We have brought people together, brought people to games. We want people at WSL games.\"\n\nFormer England captain Steph Houghton, who missed out on the 23-player squad having not featured competitively since January due to injury, congratulated the team on social media.\n\n\"The girls only went and done it,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"Unbelievable.\"\n\nGermany are the most successful team in the history of the European Women's Championship, having won it eight times and their last success in 2013.\n\n\"At the moment the sadness overrides,\" said boss Martina Voss-Tecklenburg.\n\n\"You also feel just a bit empty, but I think that's completely normal. We wanted to fulfil this dream.\n\n\"In one year there is the World Cup, I think a lot of the players out there today will be there.\"", "Only weeks ago Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss were bitter rivals to make the final two in the leadership race\n\nLiz Truss has received a boost in her bid to become the next prime minister after her candidacy was backed by former leadership rival Penny Mordaunt.\n\nThe trade minister was knocked out of the race after finishing third behind Ms Truss and ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Mordaunt gave Ms Truss her support, calling her the \"hope candidate\", as she appeared at a leadership hustings.\n\nEarlier in the contest some of Ms Mordaunt's allies accused Ms Truss's team of a dirty-tricks campaign.\n\nDuring a second hustings event - held in Exeter - Mr Sunak once again attacked Ms Truss's tax plans and promised he would cut taxes responsibly.\n\nThe pair are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and British prime minister.\n\nThe party's roughly 160,000 members started receiving ballot papers on Monday, with the result due on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.\n\nTax policy has become the main battleground, while both have announced a string of competing policy proposals to woo Conservative members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I could be sipping pina coladas right now, says former leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt\n\nMs Mordaunt is the latest cabinet minister to back Ms Truss, joining Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi in endorsing her candidacy.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak has received the support of senior Tory MPs, including former cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Damian Green.\n\nMs Mordaunt said at the event - along the south coast from her own Portsmouth North constituency - choosing between the two candidates was hard but it was \"too important\" to \"leave this to chance\".\n\nShe said: \"At the start of this final phase of this contest, I didn't know the answer to those questions, but I've seen enough to know who the person I'm going to put my faith in is - and that is Liz Truss.\"\n\nIn her opening speech, Ms Truss said Ms Mordaunt was \"a great patriot and I'm proud to call her my friend\".\n\nThe warm words marked a change in tone, after allies of Ms Mordaunt accused Ms Truss's team of a dirty-tricks campaign to block her from reaching the final stage of the leadership contest.\n\nMr Sunak had his own Tory big hitter to introduce him on stage - in the form of Mr Fox, the former international trade secretary who has himself stood twice to be party leader.\n\nMr Fox said Mr Sunak had the ability to win over swing voters and stop a Labour-SNP coalition \"tearing our nation apart\".\n\n\"We will need a leader and a prime minister, with the right policies, yes, but with character, with courage, with experience and with intellect, and the downright decency to swing those voters behind us and get them to vote Conservative,\" Mr Fox said. \"I believe that leader, that prime minister, will be Rishi Sunak.\"\n\nHe said character was shown by Mr Sunak's performance during the pandemic, making \"difficult but vital decisions\", including the introduction of the furlough scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I ripped up the rule book as chancellor, Rishi Sunak tells audience at second leadership hustings\n\nWhen Mr Sunak spoke, he said he would focus on three priorities if he became PM - \"restore trust\", \"rebuild the economy\" and \"reunite our country\".\n\nHe once again attacked Ms Truss's plans to slash taxes and reiterated his belief that he had not taken the \"easy path\" in setting out his vision for the country.\n\nHe said he would \"cut taxes\", outlining his plan to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% by the end of the next parliament.\n\nBut he added: \"We are going to do that responsibly. We are not going to ask our kids to pay for it. We are going to do it by being tough on public spending, reforming public services, and by growing the economy.\"\n\nFollowing the hustings, Ms Truss announced a \"war on Whitehall waste\" in her campaign's latest policy offering.\n\nShe claimed she would save taxpayers £11bn by cutting civil service time off, ending national pay deals and scrapping jobs aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in the public sector.\n\nHer campaign said most of the savings would come from tailoring pay to living costs where civil servants work.\n\nBut a source close to Mr Sunak's campaign said Ms Truss \"seems to have confused the wage bill of the civil service with front line public sector workers\".\n\n\"This means stretching the NHS to breaking point and fewer police fighting crime as we head into a general election.\"\n\nAlex Thomas, from the Institute for Government think tank, said the £8.8bn proposed savings from regional pay bargaining would not come from Whitehall.\n\n\"The whole Civil Service pay bill is only about £9bn,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You're not going to reduce the Civil Service pay bill to £200m unless you pretty radically reshape the state.\n\n\"I know she wants to be radical but possibly not quite that much, so it's going to come from the wider public sector, it's going to come from nurses and teachers and local authorities.\n\n\"This is not a war on Whitehall, it's more like war on Workington,\" he added.\n\nUnions and Labour also warned Ms Truss that her proposals would face resistance if she were to implement them.\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, said Ms Truss's pledge to cut regional pay for civil servants was \"astounding\", calling her plans \"recycled failed policies\".\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner condemned her plans, saying: \"This wannabe prime minister is stuck in the past, fighting old battles, and promising a race to the bottom on public sector workers' pay and rights.\"\n\nMs Truss has also been endorsed by West Midlands mayor Andy Street, who said she had a \"bold, optimistic vision\" for the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nCaptain Leah Williamson said her England side have \"changed the game in this country\" as she celebrated their historic Euro 2022 victory.\n\nThe Lionesses won their first major trophy as they beat Germany 2-1 in extra time at Wembley on Sunday.\n\nThey lifted the trophy and sang Sweet Caroline in front of thousands of fans at Trafalgar Square on Monday.\n\n\"We said we wanted to make our legacy about winning and that's what we did,\" Williamson said.\n\n\"The legacy of the tournament was already made before that final game - what we've done for women and young girls who can look up and aspire to be us.\n\n\"I think England have hosted an incredible tournament and we've changed the game in this country - and hopefully across Europe and across the world.\"\n• None Women's football will never be the same again\n\nThe Football Association is now set to hold talks with manager Sarina Wiegman about extending her contract with England after Sunday's success.\n\nDutchwoman Wiegman, whose deal with England currently runs until 2025, has now won back-to-back European Women's Championships, after guiding the Netherlands to the title in 2017.\n\n\"She will have a couple of weeks off. When she gets back, we'll have a conversation,\" said Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's head of women's football.\n\n'It will be like rocket fuel'\n\nOn the legacy of England's Euro 2022 triumph, FA chair Debbie Hewitt said: \"We've got to get girls across the country playing football in schools.\n\n\"Once they have that opportunity, all of them, to play in schools and associate them with the clubs, then you will see this just take off. It will be like rocket fuel, the impact of the win.\"\n\nHewitt said the Premier League could play its part in supporting the legacy of Euro 2022 by continuing to invest in the women's game.\n\nShe said: \"We had over 17 million viewers last night watching this game in this country. If you are the Premier League. Why wouldn't you want to capitalise on that?\"\n\nEngland midfielder Fran Kirby said she wanted the success of Euro 2022 to \"become normal\".\n\n\"We want it to be that people come in to watch, and with sellout crowds in this country and all over the world, so hopefully we've played a big part in that and hopefully we can continue to grow it,\" Kirby said.\n\nElla Toone, who scored England's first goal in the final, added: \"That's what we set out to do in this tournament - make the nation proud, fight for women and get young girls involved as well and I think we've done that for every single woman in this world.\"\n\n'There'll be expectation but we have an amazing squad'\n\nWith less than a year until the women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, expectations will be high for the new European champions.\n\n\"I think we should take time to reflect on this one first, enjoy this one before we start thinking about that [World Cup],\" said Kirby.\n\n\"Of course there's going to be a lot of expectation going into that, but we have an amazing squad, we have an amazing manager, so yeah, we're really excited.\"\n\nDefender Lucy Bronze said she was keen for the England team to get a star on their badge, which comes with a World Cup victory.\n\nShe said: \"The Euros is fantastic, especially in our home country, but there's a little star missing from our crest at the minute on the England shirt. That's definitely a mission of ours to get that star there.\"\n\nThousands of fans welcomed beaten finalists Germany at Frankfurt's Romer Square on Monday.\n\nManager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg and her squad addressed supporters from Frankfurt's city hall.\n\nGermany have an incredible record in the European Women's Championship, winning it eight times in total, most recently in 2013.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland cyclist Matt Walls has been released from hospital after he was involved in a crash in which both he and his bike flew into the crowd.\n\nThe 24-year-old Olympic champion has \"stitches in his forehead, scrapes and bruises\" but no major injuries, said Team England.\n\nHe was treated in the stands at Lee Valley VeloPark for 40 minutes.\n\nThe Isle of Man's Matt Bostock and Canada's Derek Gee were also taken to hospital for tests.\n\nSpectators were also injured, with one taken away in a wheelchair.\n\nThe rest of the session was abandoned and spectators were asked to leave while Walls was having treatment.\n\nA Team England statement said: \"Following medical treatment in hospital, Matt Walls has been discharged with stitches in his forehead, scrapes and bruises but thankfully no major injuries.\"\n\nWalls later tweeted to thank people for their messages of support, adding: \"I've somehow come away with no serious injures, just a few stitches and pretty banged up.\n\n\"I really hope everyone else involved is OK, including the spectators that may have been injured.\"\n\nThe crash happened in the final lap of the men's scratch race qualifying as eight riders collided on the track.\n\nWalls had been trying to avoid riders who had fallen in an incident that began on the entrance to the corner. The stricken pair of New Zealander George Jackson and Australia's Josh Duffy were sliding up the banking, forcing Walls up on to the barrier and then over it into the crowd.\n\nFootage from the race showed Walls colliding with several spectators.\n\nGee also surfed the top of the barrier but managed to avoid following Walls into the stands.\n\nA Birmingham 2022 spokesperson said: \"Three cyclists and two spectators have been treated by the on-site medical team.\n\n\"The three cyclists have been taken to hospital. The two spectators did not require hospital treatment.\"\n\nWalls won omnium gold and madison silver for Team GB at last summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo.\n\nCanadian Mathias Guillemette was disqualified from the race for causing the initial crash.\n\nWalls' crash came just a day after England team-mate Joe Truman was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken collarbone in a collision in the keirin.\n\nOn Sunday, England's Laura Kenny said both Walls' and Truman's crashes had had an effect on her.\n\n\"I messaged Jason [Kenny - her husband] and said, 'I'm not sure I want to do this',\" she said. \"It puts everything into perspective when something like that happens.\n\n\"We all know it's a dangerous sport so when you're not feeling physically fit to put yourself at the front of it you can't help but think, 'why am I doing this?'.\"\n\nShe added: \"I think the crashes are getting worse and it's because the speeds are getting higher, the positions [on the bike] are getting more extreme.\n\n\"At some point [cycling governing body] the UCI are going to have to put a cap on these positions. Maybe there should be screens because Matt should not have been able to go over the top and into the crowd, that's pretty damn dangerous.\n\n\"It's the third time now I've been in a velodrome and witnessed someone go over the top.\n\n\"[Matt] was laughing and making jokes with the paramedics, which is brilliant to hear but if he'd [not gone over] he would have done less damage.\"\n\n'It was horrendous to see' - analysis\n\nSir Chris Hoy, former Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion, speaking to BBC Sport\n\nThis was a direct result of not having some form of barrier at the top of the fencing. It might seem strange that there is nothing to stop riders going over the fence. It's very rare for it to happen but it has over the years - maybe half a dozen times over 20 years.\n\nPersonally I think it's preventable if you put a plexiglass screen around like they do in ice hockey. Look at motorsport and its catch fencing and the lengths they go to protect the crowd and also the athletes.\n\nI didn't want to see the video, I have seen a shot of it, and it was horrendous to see but on the whole it's a very safe sport.\n\nAll you can do is learn from mistakes and think: How can we make the velodrome safer for athletes and spectators?\n\nI hope the people in power look at this and think something really has to be done before something genuinely serious happens in the future.", "Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is only for civilians purposes\n\nIran's atomic energy chief says the country has the ability to build a nuclear weapon but has no plan to, an Iranian news agency reports.\n\nSuch public claims by top officials are rare and are likely to intensify concerns over the nature of Iran's nuclear programme.\n\nIt has advanced its nuclear activities since a deal limiting them faltered.\n\nThe 2015 agreement began to unravel when the US pulled out and reinstated crippling economic sanctions.\n\nIran has repeatedly claimed its nuclear programme is for purely peaceful purposes but Western powers and the global nuclear watchdog say they are not convinced.\n\nWestern officials have warned time is running out to restore the deal before Iran's programme reaches such a point where it cannot be reversed.\n\nIn his remarks reported on Monday by the semi-official Fars news agency, Mr Eslami reiterated comments made by the senior adviser, Kamal Kharrazi.\n\n\"As Mr Kharrazi mentioned, Iran has the technical ability to build an atomic bomb, but such a programme is not on the agenda,\" Mr Eslami said.\n\nIn his own remarks made to Al Jazeera news channel on 17 July, Mr Kharrazi said: \"Iran has the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb but there has been no decision by Iran to build one.\"\n\nThere have been growing concerns over the so-called breakout time, or the amount of time it will take Iran to amass enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iran's nuclear programme: What's been happening at its key nuclear sites?\n\nIn June, the head of the global atomic energy agency, Rafael Grossi, said Iran could acquire such a quantity in a matter of weeks. The US put the breakout time at about a year during the period in which the nuclear deal was intact.\n\nHowever Mr Grossi said possessing enough material did not mean Iran could manufacture a nuclear bomb.\n\nIn its latest report in May, the IAEA said Iran had 43.1kg (95lb) of uranium enriched to 60% purity. About 25kg of uranium enriched to 90% is needed for a nuclear weapon.\n\nThe claims from Iran that it has the technical know-how to develop a bomb come at a time when Iran and world powers are at loggerheads over reviving the 2015 deal.\n\nMonths-long on-off-talks in Vienna have stalled, and rare indirect negotiations between the US and Iran on the issue which took place in Qatar in June ended without agreement.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nAn iconic goal followed by an even more iconic celebration.\n\nWhen Chloe Kelly scored the winning goal in extra time for England against Germany, securing a 2-1 win and the country's first ever women's major tournament victory, the 24-year-old celebrated in a way which could now inspire a generation.\n\nIn revealing a sports bra by taking her shirt off and swinging it around her head in delight, the Manchester City winger created a moment which has united and empowered women.\n\nKelly's celebration was a throwback to retired USA footballer Brandi Chastain, who did the same thing when she scored the decisive penalty in the 1999 World Cup final.\n\nChastain says Kelly will reap the benefits for the rest of her life.\n\nWithin minutes of the goal going in, the positive effect the moment could have on young girls and women watching was clear.\n\n'I've been through the worst - I have to enjoy every moment'\n\nAfter suffering a serious knee injury in May 2021, there were doubts over whether Kelly would be fit enough for Euro 2022.\n\nIn damaging her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), it meant she missed out on featuring for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics.\n\n\"I couldn't actually face watching [the Olympics],\" she said. \"It was a very difficult summer last year. Looking back, it seems like so long ago.\"\n\nDespite admitting she faced some tough moments during her recovery, Kelly said the experience changed her outlook on football and helped her appreciate this summer even more.\n\nSpeaking a few weeks ago, she said: \"When something like that happens and you're away from the game for so long. I think nothing really fazes you after.\n\n\"I used to get quite nervous before games. Now I don't really have those nerves because I'm thinking: 'what's the worst that can happen?'\n\n\"I've been through the worst. I have to enjoy every moment.\"\n\nAnd enjoy every moment she did, when the final whistle blew and England were crowned European champions for the first time.\n• None In search of old memories: The legendary coxswain of an RNLI lifeboat returns to sea after 30 years\n• None The art-loving comedian follows artists submitting to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nThe Queen has led the tributes to England's Euro 2022 winners, sending a message of congratulations in which she called them \"an inspiration\".\n\nThe Lionesses beat Germany 2-1 at Wembley thanks to goals from substitutes Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly.\n\nIt is England's first major tournament success since the 1966 men's World Cup.\n\n\"My warmest congratulations, and those of my family, go to you all on winning the European Women's Championships,\" a statement from the UK monarch said.\n\nThere will be a victory celebration in front of fans at Trafalgar Square on Monday between 11:00 and 14:00 BST - an event that will be broadcast live on BBC One from 12:40 BST.\n• None 'Women's football will never be the same again'\n\nThe Queen's message added: \"It is a significant achievement for the entire team, including your support staff.\n\n\"The Championships and your performance in them have rightly won praise. However, your success goes far beyond the trophy you have so deservedly earned.\n\n\"You have all set an example that will be an inspiration for girls and women today, and for future generations.\n\n\"It is my hope that you will be as proud of the impact you have had on your sport as you are of the result today.\"\n\nPrince William, writing on his Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Twitter account, said: \"Sensational. An incredible win. The whole nation couldn't be prouder of you all. Wonderful to see history in the making tonight at Wembley, congratulations!\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised Sarina Wiegman's side on social media, writing: \"Football has come home! A stunning victory by the Lionesses.\n\n\"Huge congratulations to Sarina [Wiegman, manager], Leah [Williamson, captain] and the whole team. Football pitches across the country will be filled as never before by girls and women inspired by your triumph.\"\n\nIt was the women's team first major tournament win. Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham said it was an \"incredible achievement and a historic sporting moment\".\n\n\"This team of Lionesses have been outstanding ambassadors, both on and off the pitch, from the first game to the last. Each and every member of this squad has left an indelible and enduring mark on women's football in England.\n\n\"Not only have they captured the hearts of the nation, but they have also broken down boundaries. They have left a lasting legacy that will positively impact women's and girls' football in this country for generations to come.\"\n\nEngland's men's side lost to Italy on penalties at the same venue in last summer's European Championship final.\n\nTheir captain Harry Kane tweeted: \"Absolutely unreal scenes at Wembley!! Massive congrats to the amazing Lionesses!! Ella Toone, take a bow for that finish too.\"\n\nManchester United and England defender Harry Maguire wrote: \"Brilliant game. History made. The whole country is proud of you. Enjoy the celebrations.\"\n\n'This is the moment' - pundits' reaction\n\nFormer England and Arsenal defender Alex Scott was highly emotional on BBC One after the final whistle.\n\n\"So many people have been involved to get women's football to this point, to see this trophy,\" she said. \"This is what we've all been dreaming of, the amount of investment in the game to get us to this point.\n\n\"This moment reminds me of the 1999 Women's World Cup when USA won that. It changed the face of soccer in America forever. I feel this is a moment in England. This is the moment.\"\n\nThe final was watched by 87,192 people at Wembley - a record for a Euros game in men's or women's football.\n\nThe Women's Euros attendance record had also been broken in the opening game at Old Trafford, with 68,871 watching England beat Austria 1-0.\n\nIn total, 574,875 people watched Euro 2022 - more than twice the previous record.\n\nSeven of the top Women's Euros attendances have been this summer - also at the home grounds of Southampton, Brighton, Sheffield United and MK Dons.\n\n\"Back in 2018 we were begging people to host the Euros games in their stadiums,\" continued Scott. \"So many people said no. I hope they're looking at themselves and thinking they weren't brave enough.\n\n\"I'm not standing up at corporate events begging for them to get involved in the women's game. If you're not involved, you've missed the boat. You've missed the train, it's finally left the station, it's gathering speed.\"\n\n\"It comes to clearness and communication,\" he said in his role as a BBC pundit. \"I spoke to some of my players before the Euros. Sarina had one-to-one talks with each of them - 'I see you as a starter, I see you as an impact player'.\n\n\"They knew before they were coming in what was expected of them. Once I heard that I immediately had a feeling this is going to be a great Euros for England - they won't waste energy on those conversations when they're in the tournament.\"\n\nFormer keeper Rachel Brown-Finnis, who played with Scott in England's last final - a 6-2 defeat to Germany at the 2009 Euros - added: \"I'm tearful with joy. All the years of players promoting the sport, giving a professional persona when you weren't getting paid,\n\n\"Today has made everything worthwhile. Well done England, the world is proud of you.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sailing\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton helped Sir Ben Ainslie's Great Britain team win a special Commonwealth race against New Zealand.\n\nHer Royal Highness was on board the F50 craft for the friendly race prior to the official racing at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix in Plymouth.\n\nUN ocean ambassador and sea swimmer Lewis Pugh was on New Zealand's boat.\n\nThe duchess stayed on after the race to watch the final day of racing in the event.\n\nBefore the race, Ainslie, 45, said: \"She [the Duchess of Cambridge] has sailed with me on foiling boats - so we're expecting a little bit of extra help.\"\n\nGreat Britain missed out on a place in the Sail GP final, which was won by New Zealand.", "Lilia Valutyte died after being stabbed on Thursday\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a nine-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a town centre.\n\nLilia Valutyte was found with a stab wound in Fountain Lane in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.\n\nShe had reportedly been playing hula hoop with her younger sister in the street before being attacked.\n\nLincolnshire Police said Lithuanian national Deividas Skebas, 22, had been charged with her murder and was due to appear before magistrates on Monday.\n\nDozens of flowers and other tributes continue to be left at the corner of Fountain Lane and Fountain Place in memory of the schoolgirl.\n\nA service of reflection and prayer has been held at St Botolph's Church to allow the community to come together.\n\nTributes have been left near to where Lilia was killed\n\nReverend Jane Robertson said it gave people an opportunity to gather and \"pray for the family\".\n\n\"Over the last few days there have been so many people coming into the church and lighting candles and talking to us and expressing a variety of emotions.\"\n\nA toy pram was left at the scene where Lilia had been playing, according to locals.\n\nPolice were earlier searching drains and back gardens near to where she was killed.\n\nTwo people who were arrested on Friday were released without charge.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says.\n\nThe authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming - still on the cards if no action is taken - are \"dangerously underexplored\".\n\nThey argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they term the \"climate endgame\".\n\nThey want UN scientists to investigate the risk of catastrophic change.\n\nAccording to this new analysis, the closest attempts to directly understand or address how climate change could lead to global catastrophe have come from popular science books such as The Uninhabitable Earth and not from mainstream science research.\n\nIn recent years climate scientists have more often studied the impacts of warming of around 1.5C or 2C above the temperatures seen in 1850, before the onset of global industrialisation.\n\nThese studies show that keeping temperatures close to these levels this century will place heavy burdens on global economies, but they do not envisage the end of humanity.\n\nResearchers have focussed on these lower temperature scenarios for good reasons.\n\nThe Paris climate agreement saw almost every nation on Earth sign up to a deal that aims to keep the rise in global temperatures \"well below\" 2C this century, and make efforts to keep it under 1.5C.\n\nSo it's natural that governments would want their scientists to show exactly what this type of change would mean.\n\nBut this new paper says that not enough attention has been given to more extreme outcomes of climate change.\n\n\"I think it's sane risk management to think about the plausible worst-case scenarios and we do it when it comes to every other situation, we should definitely do when it comes to the fate of the planet and species,\" said lead author Dr Luke Kemp from the University of Cambridge.\n\nThe researchers found that estimates of the impacts of a temperature rise of 3C are under-represented compared to their likelihood.\n\nUsing climate models, the report shows that in this type of scenario, by 2070 around 2 billion people living in some of the most politically fragile areas of the world would be enduring annual average temperatures of 29C.\n\n\"Average annual temperatures of 29C currently affect around 30 million people in the Sahara and Gulf Coast,\" said co-author Chi Xu of Nanjing University.\n\n\"By 2070, these temperatures and the social and political consequences will directly affect two nuclear powers, and seven maximum containment laboratories housing the most dangerous pathogens. There is serious potential for disastrous knock-on effects,\" he said.\n\nThe future impacts of extreme climate change have not been fully explored\n\nThe report says that it is not just high temperatures that are the problem, it's the compound and knock-on effects such as food or financial crises, conflicts or disease outbreaks that have the potential for disaster.\n\nThere should also be more focus on identifying potential tipping points, where increasing warmth triggers another natural event that drives temperatures up even more - such as methane emissions from melting permafrost or forests that start emitting carbon rather than soaking it up.\n\nTo properly assess all these risks, the authors are calling on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to carry out a special report on catastrophic climate change.\n\nThe researchers said that seriously studying the consequences of worst-case scenarios was vital, even though it might scare people.\n\nThey said that carrying out this research would allow scientists to consider emergency options such as climate engineering which might involve pumping coolants into the atmosphere. Researchers would be able to carry out a risk analysis for these drastic interventions compared to the worst effects of climate change. Focussing on the worst-case scenarios could also help inform the public - and might actually make the outcomes less likely.\n\n\"Understanding these plausible but grim scenarios is something that could galvanise both political and civil opinion,\" said Dr Kemp.\n\n\"We saw this when it came to the identification of the idea of a nuclear winter that helped compel a lot of the public efforts as well as the disarmament movement throughout the 1970s and '80s.\"\n\n\"And I hope if we can find similar concrete and clear mechanisms when it comes to thinking about climate change, that it also has a similar effect.\"\n\nThe plea for serious study of more extreme scenarios will chime with many younger climate activists, who say they are often not addressed for fear of frightening people into inaction.\n\n\"It is vital that we have research into all areas of climate change, including the scary reality of catastrophic events,\" said Laura Young, a 25-year-old climate activist. \"This is because without the full truth, and all of the potential impacts, we won't make the informed choices we need, and we won't be driving climate action with enough pressure.\n\n\"For years climate change has been hidden, misinformed, and avoided and this has to stop now. Especially for the younger generations who are going to be left to deal with the consequences of years of pushing the Earth to its limits.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nBBC News Climate and Science reporter Ella Hambly contributed to this report.", "Spain's body-positive campaign received coverage from lots of media outlets\n\nA third woman has said she thinks her picture may have been used for a Spanish \"beach body\" advertising campaign without her permission.\n\nCancer survivor Juliet FitzPatrick, who has had a mastectomy, thinks a woman in the advert may have been based on her.\n\nThe advert by Spain's equality ministry aimed to encourage women to go to the beach, regardless of how they look.\n\nBut now three British women have come forward to say their pictures were used without permission.\n\nOne of the complaints came on Friday. On Saturday another woman featured on the poster said her prosthetic leg had been edited out.\n\nThe campaign's creator, Arte Mapache, apologised for using those images without consent.\n\nSixty-year-old Ms FitzPatrick, from southern England, said the face of the woman who had a mastectomy could be based on one of her pictures.\n\nBut she told the BBC on Sunday that the body in the poster was not hers as the woman had one breast while she had a double mastectomy - as the picture below shows.\n\nWhat happened \"seems to be totally against\" the theme of the campaign, she added. \"For me it is about how my body has been used and represented without my permission.\"\n\nJuliet FitzPatrick was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 and is now cancer-free\n\nAmi Barwell, a British photographer who took the above photo, suspects the body in the poster was lifted from her picture of another woman.\n\n\"I think that the person who created the art has gone through my gallery and pieced them together,\" Barwell told the BBC.\n\n\"But without any clarification from the artist I can't say for absolutely certain,\" she added.\n\nBoth Ms FitzPatrick and Barwell only found out about the poster after they received messages on social media on Saturday.\n\nBoth of them have said they have contacted the artist Arte Mapache but are still waiting for a response.\n\nOver the past few days British models Nyome Nicholas-Williams and Sian Green-Lord said their pictures were used in the poster without their permission.\n\n\"Given the - justified - controversy over the image rights in the illustration, I have decided that the best way to make amends for the damages that may have resulted from my actions is to share out the money I received for the work and give equal parts to the people in the poster,\" the artist said.\n\n\"I hope to be able to solve all this as soon as possible, I accept my mistakes and that is why I am now trying to repair the damage caused,\" she added.\n\nThe BBC has reached out to both Arte Mapache and the Spanish government for comment but has received no response so far.\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, Spain's Women's Institute said the campaign was a response to the \"fatphobia, hatred and the questioning of non-normative bodies - particularly those of women, something that's most prevalent in the summertime.\"", "England are to open talks with Euro 2022-winning manager Sarina Wiegman over a new contract.\n\nThe Football Association is keen to extend a deal that runs until 2025.\n\nDutchwoman Wiegman only took on the job last September but led England to their first women's major trophy on Sunday.\n\n\"She will have a couple of weeks off. When she gets back, we'll have a conversation,\" said Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's head of women's football.\n\n\"She needs a holiday. She's done an incredible job. You have to remember she only came in in September.\n\n\"Everybody said to me, 'do you think she can win the Euros?' and I said, 'it's a very short time span that.' But my goodness, she has moulded the team together. Not just the players, the team around her.\n\n\"There's a togetherness. You have to be in it to feel it. When we interviewed her, we knew we were getting the best tactical and technical coach in the world. What we didn't know was that we were getting this exceptional human being.\"\n\nFA chief executive Mark Bullingham said Wiegman was their \"number one target\" last year and he hopes she is with England for \"a long time\".\n\n\"We were delighted to secure her, even though in our wildest dreams, we thought that this tournament might be too early,\" said Bullingham.\n\n\"We weren't sure we'd win this one. We were hoping we would win one in the future, so she achieved brilliant results earlier than we could have ever hoped.\n\n\"She only signed in September but we would love her to be with us for a long time. I think she's a really special person and a really special talent.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Booker gave evidence to MPs about her body dysmorphia\n\nHarmful body expectations mean ads should carry warnings if model photos are digitally altered, say MPs.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Committee wants the government to quickly introduce new laws.\n\nIt also said social media promotion of cosmetic services such as dermal fillers should be tightly regulated.\n\nThose booking a procedure should be given a 48-hour cooling-off period and there should be a full check of their medical and mental health history.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the committee, said: \"We heard of some distressing experiences - a conveyor-belt approach, with procedures carried out with no questions asked.\"\n\nReality TV star Charlie King told the MPs there had been no assessment of his wellbeing when he had a nose job done.\n\nKim Booker, who, like Charlie, has body-dysmorphic disorder - spending lots of time worrying about flaws in appearance that might be unnoticeable to others - told MPs she had become dependent on image-altering apps.\n\n\"I got to the point where I constantly had these filters,\" she said.\n\n\"I was putting filters on my face on my stories and things like that - and it completely altered the way I looked.\n\n\"When the video flipped off to my natural face, I got a bit of a shock.\n\n\"I hated what I saw, because you get used to the filtered version of yourself.\"\n\nGrowing up in the 1990s, Kim, who is from Dorset, says she was bombarded with \"Disney princess\" images of how a woman might look.\n\n\"I felt that I needed to fit the template of the big eyes, the small nose, the flowing hair and the tiny waist,\" she said.\n\n\"That has grown with me through my teenage years, into adulthood.\"\n\nThe committee wants advertisers to feature a wider variety of body aesthetics - and for influencers to stop posting filtered or unrealistic images.\n\nBeauty activist Sasha Pallari led a campaign in 2020 called #filterdrop, which encouraged social media users to post selfies without using a filter\n\n\"We believe the government should introduce legislation that ensures commercial images are labelled with a logo where any part of the body, including its proportions and skin tone, are digitally altered,\" its report says.\n\nMeanwhile, it says dermal fillers should be made prescription-only substances, in line with Botox, and there should be minimum training standards for providers.\n\nThe report also calls for the government to urgently review the growing use of anabolic steroids in the UK - the UK Anti-Doping Agency estimates more than a million users - mostly men wanting bigger muscles.\n\nProlonged use of anabolic steroids has been linked to cardiovascular disease and brain changes\n\nProf James McVeigh, who helped with the report, said: \"One of the key things that we are facing is that many people taking anabolic steroids for a prolonged period of time will not return to normal testosterone production.\n\n\"We know that the longer the period people use, the more damage there is in later life, with cardiovascular disease and brain changes.\n\n\"A point will come when they may want to stop using anabolic steroids - but they will face a severe crash.\n\n\"That dip when you stop using puts you at the point of zero testosterone, with depression and a lot of mental health problems.\"\n\nJames Brittain-McVey told MPs about his struggle to conform when starting out with his band, The Vamps\n\nVamps lead guitarist James Brittain-McVey, who had surgery to remove natural breast tissue from his chest, told the committee: \"Social media encouraged me to fall further down that rabbit hole.\n\n\"The first thoughts I would have when I woke up in the morning was, 'Should I be eating that, am I going to be able to get to the gym?\"'\n\nEating disorders have risen in recent years, the report says, recommending the government introduce annual checks of every child and young person's weight and wellbeing.\n\nIt also calls for more action to tackle child obesity, such as restricting multibuy deals for foods and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar.\n\nThe British Beauty Council said: \"If we want to show the industry as the professional, economy-boosting, equality championing and dynamic sector it is, we must be open, transparent and answerable. We, therefore, hope the Government takes the Committee's recommendations forward.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We will be introducing a national licensing scheme to help prevent exploitation, improve safety and ensure individuals are making informed and safe choices about non-surgical cosmetic procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers have criticised Nadine Dorries for sharing a doctored image of Rishi Sunak wielding a knife behind Boris Johnson's back.\n\nThe culture secretary retweeted an image of the PM depicted as Julius Caesar about to be stabbed in the back by Mr Sunak, in the role of Brutus.\n\nGreg Hands said it was \"dangerous\", while Sir Robert Buckland said it was \"not just incendiary - it's wrong\".\n\nAn ally of Ms Dorries said it was \"obviously a satirical image\".\n\nShortly before sharing the picture that was posted by another account on Twitter, Ms Dorries also wrote that Mr Sunak had \"stabbed Boris Johnson in the back\".\n\nMr Hands said he was sure Foreign Secretary Liz Truss - who is being backed by Ms Dorries - would \"disown this kind of behaviour\".\n\nThe business minister, who is a supporter of Mr Sunak said: \"It's not even a year since the stabbing of Sir David Amess at his Southend constituency surgery. It is very, very bad taste - dangerous even.\n\n\"I do find it distasteful and less than a year after the stabbing.\"\n\nFellow Conservative MP Sir David was stabbed to death by Islamic State fanatic Ali Harbi Ali in Essex in October last year. Ali has since been jailed for life for the murder.\n\nFormer Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, who also backs Ms Truss, said it was \"certainly not the kind of thing I would tweet\".\n\nHe added it was \"not a comment from Liz's team, her campaign or Liz herself, adding: \"Nadine speaks for herself. That is not a position that Liz would take.\"\n\nThe death of Julius Caesar, the iconic general whose murder by fellow politicians paved the way for the establishment of the Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, is sometimes used as a metaphor for betrayal, political or otherwise.\n\nWelsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland, another supporter of Mr Sunak, also criticised Ms Dorries' actions, telling BBC Radio Wales that the use of \"that sort of imagery and narrative is not just incendiary, it's wrong\".\n\nHe also said people engaging in personal attacks \"should wind their neck in and let people talk about the issues rather than the personality\".\n\nSenior Conservative MP Simon Hoare also denounced her actions as \"divisive, disingenuous & disturbing\", describing her actions as \"harmful to the party\".\n\n\"Remembering, with respect, our fallen colleagues David Amess and [murdered Labour MP] Jo Cox. The injured Stephen Timms. I will just leave it there,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nResponding to the criticisms, an ally of Ms Dorries said: \"It's quite obviously a satirical image of Brutus and Caesar which has been clearly photoshopped to provide political commentary.\n\n\"There were similar cartoons involving [Michael] Gove in 2016. Some people of course will want to be wilfully offended…\"\n\nThe sharing of the image comes as Ms Dorries, a consistent and vocal supporter of Boris Johnson, has ramped up her fierce criticism of Mr Sunak in recent weeks.\n\nIn an article in the Mail on Sunday, she accused the former chancellor of \"planning a coup\" that was \"Tudoresque in its degree of brutality\".\n\nMr Sunak was one of the first and most senior members of the cabinet to resign following the controversy over the government's response to allegations that former Tory MP Chris Pincher groped two men, which led to the resignation of Mr Johnson.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Dorries also defended an earlier tweet criticising Mr Sunak's \"£450 Prada shoes\" and comparing them to Ms Truss's \"£4.50 earrings\" purchased from budget jewellery shop Claire's Accessories.\n\nShe denied her comments were \"anti-aspirational\" and said her intention was to \"alert Tory members not to be taken in by appearances\".\n\nMs Dorries wrote: \"The assassin's gleaming smile, his gentle voice and even his diminutive stature had many of us well and truly fooled.\"\n\nShe argued she was criticising his \"lack of self-awareness for wearing such expensive clothes\" during a visit to Teesside last week, which she said was one of the \"most socially deprived towns in the North of England\".\n\nThe culture secretary also accused Mr Sunak of refusing to sign off a review of the BBC licence fee in government but later announcing a review of the BBC licence fee as a candidate.", "Where did the stars in our night sky come from?\n\nScientists have supercharged one of Earth's most powerful telescopes with new technology that will reveal how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.\n\nThe William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Spain will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour until it has catalogued a total of five million.\n\nA super-fast mapping device linked up to WHT will analyse the make-up of each star and the speed at which it travels.\n\nIt will show how our Milky Way galaxy was built up over billions of years.\n\nProf Gavin Dalton of Oxford University has spent more than a decade developing the instrument, known as 'Weave'.\n\nHe told me that he was \"beyond excited\" that it is ready to go.\n\n\"It's a fantastic achievement from a lot of people to make this happen and it's great to have it working,\" he said. \"The next step is the new adventure, it's brilliant!\"\n\nBBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh meets the scientists on a mission to discover where the stars we see in the night sky came from\n\nWeave's nimble robotic fingers position a thousand fibre optics precisely, each one pointed at a star\n\nWeave has been installed on the WHT, which sits high on a mountain top on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma. The name stands for WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer - and that's exactly what it does.\n\nIt has 80,000 separate parts and is a miracle of engineering.\n\nFor each patch of sky the WHT is pointed at, astronomers identify the positions of a thousand stars. Weave's nimble robotic fingers then carefully place a fibre-optic - a light-transmitting tube - precisely on each location on a plate, pointing towards its corresponding star.\n\nThese fibres are in effect tiny telescopes. Each one captures light from a single star and channels it to another instrument. This then splits it into a rainbow spectrum, which contains the secrets of the star's origin and history.\n\nAll this is completed in just one hour. While this is going on, fibre optics for the next thousand stars are positioned on the reverse side of the plate, which flips over to analyse the next set of targets once the previous survey has been completed.\n\nArtwork: The Milky Way is surrounded by \"dwarf\" satellite galaxies\n\nOur galaxy is a dense spiral swirl of up to 400 billion stars. But it started out as a relatively small collection of stars.\n\nIt grew from successive mergers with other small galaxies over billions of years. As well as the addition of stars from the new galaxies joining ours, each merger stirs things up enough to lead to brand new star formation.\n\nWeave is able to calculate the speed, direction, age and composition of each star it observes, essentially creating a motion picture of stars moving in the Milky Way. According to Prof Dalton, by extrapolating backwards, it will be possible to reconstruct the entire formation of the Milky Way in detail never seen before.\n\n\"We'll be able to trace the galaxies that have been absorbed as the Milky Way has been built up over cosmic time - and see how each absorption triggers new star formation,\" he said.\n\nDr Marc Balcells, who is in overall charge of the WHT told BBC News that he believed that Weave would lead to a big shift in our understanding of how galaxies are made.\n\n''We have been hearing for decades that we are in a golden era of astronomy - but what the future awaits is a lot more important.\n\n\"Weave is going to be answering questions that astronomers have been trying to answer for decades such as how many pieces come together to make a big galaxy and how many galaxies were united to make the Milky Way.\"\n\nInstrumentation specialist Dr Cecilia Farina says that Weave might discover completely unexpected phenomena\n\nDr Cecilia Farina, an instrumentation specialist on the project, said she believed that Weave would make astronomical history.\n\n\"There are an enormous amount of things that we are going to discover that we had not expected to find,\" she said. \"Because the Universe is full of surprises.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roads were barricaded with vehicles on Sunday\n\nKosovo's government has postponed the implementation of new rules that would force people in majority ethnic Serb areas to swap their Serbian-issued car number plates for Kosovan-issued ones.\n\nThe rules were due to come into force at midnight on Monday.\n\nBut on Sunday ethnic Serbs in the north barricaded roads and armed men fired shots in protest.\n\nThe rules' implementation has been delayed for a month following consultations with the US and EU.\n\nKosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008, nearly a decade after it broke away following a bloody war which saw Nato bombing Serbia.\n\nRelations between its Serb and mainly Albanian inhabitants had been strained for years.\n\nIt has been recognised by the United States and major European Union countries, but Serbia, backed by its ally Russia, refuses to do so, as do most ethnic Serbs inside Kosovo.\n\nSome 50,000 people living in majority Serb areas of the north use licence plates issued by Serbian authorities and refuse to recognise Kosovan institutions.\n\nThe Kosovan government's decision to introduce new rules, including replacing Serbian license plates with Kosovan ones, led to clashes.\n\nNato described the situation as \"tense\" as hundreds of ethnic Serbs parked trucks, tankers and other vehicles near two key border crossings with Serbia in protest over the new rules, forcing the police to close the two crossings.\n\nThe mission led by the alliance in Kosovo, Kfor, said it was prepared to intervene \"if stability is jeopardised\".\n\nThere were also reports of shots being fired by armed men, though Kosovo's police said they had not received reports of any injuries.\n\nThe rise in tensions led to consultations with US and EU ambassadors.\n\nUS Ambassador Jeffrey Hovenier said he asked Kosovo's government to delay the enforcement of the license plate ruling for 30 days \"because it seems that there was misinformation and misunderstanding about the decision,\" according to the BBC's Guy Delauney.\n\nKosovo then agreed to delay the new rules for 30 days.\n\nThe EU's head of foreign policy, Josep Borrell, welcomed the announcement in a tweet and said he expected all roadblocks to be removed immediately.\n\nSerbian President Alexandar Vucic also said he expected tensions to \"de-escalate\" following the rules' postponement.\n\nSimilar protests took place last year over proposals to change licence plate rules.\n\nTensions between Kosovo and Serbia continue despite the two sides having committed to engage in EU-sponsored dialogue to try to resolve longstanding issues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kosovo PM: \"Europe is our continent and EU is our destiny\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland won the hearts of the nation with their run to Euro 2022 glory this summer as they beat Germany 2-1 in Sunday's final at Wembley.\n\nBeth Mead won the Golden Boot, Chloe Kelly won the tournament - and super sub Alessia Russo won many plaudits.\n\nBut they were just some of the stars.\n\nSo how well do you know the 18 players who featured for the Lionesses this summer?\n\nEarps played every minute of England's campaign, only conceding two goals in the tournament.\n\nA year ago she thought her international career was over - having not played for England in two years - and was on her way to John Lewis to buy curtain poles when she got an email telling her she was in Sarina Wiegman's first squad in September. She is now the undisputed number one.\n\nEarps and fellow Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea message each other about clean sheets.\n\nBronze - who revealed this week she plays through knee pain - was the 2020 Best Fifa Women's Player. She has been a key part of England's triumph from right-back and scored in the semi-final win over Sweden.\n\n\"I've played full-back, but never, ever, ever to that level. She's the best player in the world,\" said her former England manager Phil Neville, who won 59 caps for the men's team.\n\nDespite all her accolades, Bronze remains modest and didn't want to admit in a BBC podcast last year she was the best player in the world.\n\nDefender Greenwood was perhaps the main casualty of Sarina Wiegman having a preferred starting XI, narrowly losing out to Rachel Daly for the opener and therefore every game, although she came on in most matches.\n\nShe has the rare distinction of having played for both Merseyside clubs and both Manchester sides.\n\nHer old PE teacher Clare Murphy-Worrell said: \"We've kept in touch with Alex and she's come back to do presentations at school. When she comes, she lights up the hall. She's so inspirational.\"\n\nA rock at the back, Bright - who has captained England in the past - made more clearances than anybody else at Euro 2022.\n\n\"Horses were my first love,\" she said in 2019. \"I used to work as a groom and fitness instructor. I miss the outside side of it with the horses, but I am so grateful that Chelsea came in for me as I would not be in the position I am in now.\"\n\nBright suffered terribly from asthma and pneumonia as a child and was regularly rushed into hospital in the night by ambulance.\n\nSometimes a midfielder, Williamson is England's captain and a stylish ball-playing centre-back. She made more than 100 passes above the tally of anybody else in the tournament.\n\nWilliamson's former PE teacher Jo Green said: \"It is no surprise that she has gone on to achieve what she has so early in her career. Leah was always a very kind, thoughtful and hard-working person in everything she did.\"\n\nShe is a rising star in the world of fashion too and this year ran her first fashion show for Gucci.\n\nCarter only played once in the tournament as a second-half substitute in the win over Northern Ireland.\n\nShe is in a relationship with her Chelsea team-mate and Germany goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger - although neither played in the final at Wembley.\n\n\"The main thing is about equality. It starts from the bottom. Everybody's got to have access to the same facilities and there's got to be more football opportunities in all areas of the country,\" Carter told BBC Sport this summer about diversity in women's football.\n\nDaly played every game for England at left-back, having edged Greenwood to the starting spot.\n\nA \"die-hard\" Leeds United fan, she has a tattoo with lyrics from the club's song Marching on Together.\n\nThe Harrogate-born player has been based in the United States for a decade, going to university in New York in 2012.\n\nWalsh was the metronome at the heart of England's midfield and set up Ella Toone's goal in the final with a lovely pass.\n\nA Manchester City fan, she once named two of her goldfish after former strikers Shaun Goater and Nicolas Anelka.\n\nWalsh made her 200th appearance for her childhood club earlier this year, but did not realise the fact before the game.\n\nA classy midfielder, Stanway's sensational quarter-final winner against Spain will live long in the memory.\n\nA huge Alan Shearer fan, she says her most valuable possession is a Shearer Match Attax card her grandmother gave her shortly before dying.\n\nStanway left Manchester City in May for German side Bayern Munich and her boyfriend, Olly Ashall-Bott, plays for rugby league side Toulouse in France.\n\nKirby maybe did not hit the same heights as some of her attacking colleagues this summer, but her chip against Sweden was beautiful.\n\nShe was called England's \"mini Messi\" by her then-manager Mark Sampson at the 2015 World Cup.\n\nKirby almost quit football as a child after the death of her mother, who used to predict Fran would play for England.\n\nThis is the highly-experienced Scott's 10th major tournament with England, having started the Euro 2009 final defeat to Germany. She made four appearances in this campaign from the bench, including the final.\n\nScott owns a coffee shop in Manchester with her partner Shelly Unitt, whose sister Rachel was Scott's former England team-mate.\n\nThe midfielder, a free agent after leaving Manchester City this summer, has a BBC podcast called Jill Scott's Coffee Club.\n\nOne of England's super subs, they would not have won the tournament without Toone. Her late equaliser against Spain kept them in it - and her chipped finish in the final will go down in folklore.\n\nToone says she cried in a Starbucks with her father for about an hour after being let go by Manchester City, but a few months later she joined childhood club Manchester United.\n\nShe says she tries to implement part of Bruno Fernandes' game into her own.\n\nRusso was a revelation, coming off the bench in every game and scoring four goals. In fact, she has eight in 13 games for England, despite having only ever started two games.\n\nRusso's former PE teacher Luke Anderson said \"when Alessia joined us in year seven she was so good that we played her in the boys' team and the girls' team\".\n\nMead won the award for the best player at Euro 2022 and also the Golden Boot, scoring six goals in as many games - edging Germany's Alexandra Popp on the number of assists.\n\nThat came just a year after the Arsenal forward, who now has 28 goals for her country, failed to even make the Team GB Olympic squad for the Tokyo Games.\n\nMead has a sport development degree from Teesside University, having juggled a full-time course and playing for Sunderland at the start of her career.\n\nWhite is England's all-time female top scorer with 52 goals. She worked tirelessly, exhausting defenders in games before the Lionesses brought on their subs.\n\nWhite's father Jon tried to bet on his daughter playing for England when she was only 10, although the bookmakers would not take the bet.\n\nShe is a West Ham and Cologne fan, having loved Hammers left-back Julian Dicks and copied the 'goggles' celebration of the German side's forward Anthony Modeste.\n\nHemp has had fans on the edge of her seat with some of her wing play this summer and the Manchester City forward has won a remarkable four consecutive PFA young player of the season awards.\n\nLauren and her sister Amy used to compete in 'The Hemp Olympics' in their back garden.\n\n\"I remember we used to have a small garden and I'd launch this tennis ball at her. She would pluck it out the air as if it was an apple off a tree,\" said her father Kevin.\n\nParris came on in the final minute against Germany, taking her Euro 2022 campaign to a total of five minutes.\n\nThe Toxteth-born forward started her own football team at the age of 11 because she wanted a women's team in the area. \"I gathered all my friends and family and everyone I knew,\" said Parris. \"We won the league.\"\n\nShe has a sport development degree from Liverpool John Moores University.\n\nA national hero, Kelly's winner in the final will see her remembered forever. Another of England's regular forward substitutions, she only started three WSL games last season after 11 months out through injury.\n\nKelly says she could not watch last summer's Olympics after the ACL injury cost her a place in the Team GB squad.\n\nShe used to play cage football with her five older brothers and their friends when she was a child.", "Edinburgh is the first part of Scotland to propose a control area\n\nProposals aimed at limiting the number of Airbnb-style lets in Edinburgh have been approved by Scottish ministers.\n\nThe city council had asked for permission to establish the country's first short-term let control area.\n\nThis means that in most cases, planning permission will be needed to change the use of an entire residential home to short-term letting.\n\nIt follows concern that such lettings have exacerbated housing shortages and fuelled antisocial behaviour.\n\nHowever, others have raised concerns about the impact the new rules could have on the availability of rented accommodation.\n\nThe City of Edinburgh Council has said the move will prevent short-term lets being set up where it is not appropriate.\n\nHousing Secretary Shona Robison said government approval was a major step forward for the council's plans.\n\n\"I recognise the important role which short-term lets play as a source of flexible and responsive accommodation for tourists and workers, which brings many benefits to hosts, visitors and our economy,\" she said.\n\n\"However, we know that in certain areas, particularly tourist hot spots, high numbers of lets can cause problems for neighbours and make it harder for people to find homes to live in.\n\n\"The Scottish government considers that the council has adequately considered and responded to concerns raised before seeking approval of the control area designation. We have concluded that the proposed designation would be reasonable.\"\n\nCouncil leader Cammy Day said the decision paved the way for Edinburgh to become the first short-term let control area in Scotland.\n\n\"For far too long, too many homes have been lost in our city to the holiday market,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact, around a third of all short term lets in Scotland are here in the capital, so their associated issues of safety, anti-social behaviour and noise have a detrimental effect on many of our residents.\n\n\"We will now progress implementing the changes and the next step should be looking at whether we can apply a cap on numbers, too.\"\n\nUnder the new scheme, planning permission will always be required to change the use of a dwelling house to secondary letting, unless the exceptions set out in legislation apply.\n\nWhere this happened before the introduction of the control area, the existing planning rules will apply.\n\nThe Scottish government said this would require planning permission if there has been a material change in the use of the property.\n\nRenting out a room in your own home, or letting your home while on holiday, will still be allowed.\n\nThe proposals were approved by the council's planning committee earlier this year, after 88% of the 5,600 people who responded to a consultation on the proposals supported the introduction of the scheme.\n\nHowever, the plans were described as \"restrictive and anti-business\" by the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers, which said the city's real problem was a lack of house building.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "These is no confirmation yet that Mrs Pelosi - seen here in Malaysia with her counterpart Azhar Azizan Harun - will visit Taiwan\n\nTaiwan is bracing for a potential show of force from China as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to arrive on the island late Tuesday.\n\nHer visit - which is not backed by the White House - would be the first by such a senior US official in decades.\n\nMs Pelosi is the third-highest ranking official in the US government and a long-time critic of Beijing.\n\nChina has repeatedly warned against the visit and on Tuesday said the US would \"pay the price\".\n\nTaiwan is a self-ruled island, but claimed by China, which sees it as a breakaway province.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China had been in communication with the US about sensitivity of the visit.\n\n\"The US side will bear the responsibility and pay the price for undermining China's sovereign security interests,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday China sent warplanes up to the median line, the informal dividing line in the Taiwan Strait between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.\n\nIts forces have also been holding live fire drills and the Chinese military's eastern command posted a video online saying it was \"fully prepared for any eventuality\".\n\nTaiwan's defence ministry said it had a full grasp of military activities near the island and was determined to defend itself against any Chinese threats.\n\nThe US has formal diplomatic relations with China and not Taiwan but maintains what it calls a \"robust, unofficial relationship\" with the island.\n\nEarlier in the week National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters China could respond with military provocations - including firing missiles near Taiwan, launching large-scale air or naval activities or making \"spurious legal claims\" to justify a naval blockade of the Taiwan Strait.\n\nMs Pelosi embarked on her tour of Asia on Sunday without mention of Taiwan on her itinerary. She has so far visited Singapore and Malaysia, and also has stops in South Korea and Japan scheduled.\n\nHowever she is widely reported in Taiwanese and US media to be planning to land in Taipei late on Tuesday evening and hold meetings with Taiwan's leaders on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday Taiwan's premier Su Tseng-chang said the island \"warmly welcomes\" any foreign guests and \"would make the most appropriate arrangements\" for any visitors.\n\nThe visit has created a diplomatic headache for the White House. President Joe Biden last week said the US military believes a Pelosi visit to Taiwan is \"not a good idea right now\".\n\nOn Monday Mr Kirby said Ms Pelosi \"has the right to visit Taiwan\" and \"makes her own decisions\", adding that the White House respects the US Congress's independence.\n\nThere is strong bipartisan support for Taiwan among the American public and in the US Congress.\n\nAnd Ms Pelosi, a senior figure in the Democratic Party, has long been a vocal critic of the Chinese leadership, denouncing its human rights record. She has previously met pro-democracy dissidents and visited Tiananmen Square to commemorate victims of the 1989 massacre.\n\nShe originally planned to visit Taiwan in April, but postponed the trip after she tested positive for Covid-19. Earlier this month she said it was \"important for us to show support for Taiwan\".\n\nMr Kirby pointed out that Republican former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had visited Taiwan in 1997, and that other US lawmakers visited Taiwan earlier this year.\n\n\"Nothing has changed. There is no drama to talk to. It is not without precedent for a Speaker of the House to go to Taiwan,\" he said, adding that Ms Pelosi is travelling on US military planes during her Asian tour.", "There is ambiguity over a pledge of allegiance now Hibatullah Akhundzada (main focus left) leads the Taliban and Ayman al-Zawahiri heads al-Qaeda\n\nA key question arising from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan is their relationship with their long-time ally, al-Qaeda.\n\nAl-Qaeda is bound to the Taliban by a pledge of allegiance - or \"bay'ah\" - which was first offered in the 1990s by Osama Bin Laden to his Taliban counterpart Mullah Omar.\n\nThe pledge has been renewed several times since, although it has not always been publicly acknowledged by the Taliban.\n\nUnder the 2020 peace deal with the US, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control. They reiterated this vow days after the takeover of Kabul on 15 August.\n\nBut they do not appear to have publicly rejected al-Qaeda either.\n\nAnd al-Qaeda has certainly not softened its rhetoric towards the US.\n\nThe Arabic word bay'ah is a term meaning a pledge of loyalty to a Muslim leader and is the foundation of fealty between many jihadist groups and their affiliates.\n\nIt entails obligations for both parties, including obedience by the one offering bay'ah to a leader. Reneging on the pledge is considered a serious offence in Islam.\n\nIn al-Qaeda's case, it effectively subordinates it to the Taliban, by bestowing the honorific title of \"commander of the faithful\" upon the Taliban leader and his successors.\n\nBin Laden continued to deliver threats to the US from Afghanistan after 9/11\n\nIt was probably a factor in Mullah Omar's refusal to hand Bin Laden over to the Americans after the 9/11 attacks, leading to the US-led invasion in 2001.\n\nOne famous example of the flouting of bay'ah came when al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq refused to adhere to its pledge to central command, leading it to break away and later re-emerge as the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nIS-K - Islamic State Khorasan Province - is the IS regional affiliate in Afghanistan.\n\nThe IS attack on Kabul airport was a targeted at the US, the Taliban and ordinary Afghans\n\nAl-Qaeda is not the only jihadist group to offer bay'ah to the Afghan Taliban.\n\nThe Pakistani Taliban have previously pledged loyalty and recently renewed it after the takeover of Afghanistan.\n\nAfter Bin Laden's death in 2011, his successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, offered his pledge of allegiance to Mullah Omar on behalf of al-Qaeda and its regional branches.\n\nThis was renewed in 2014 after IS declared its caliphate in areas of Iraq and Syria.\n\nBut in July 2015, the Taliban announced that Mullah Omar had died two years prior. Embarrassingly, al-Zawahiri had offered allegiance to a dead man.\n\nAl-Zawahiri renewed his pledge to the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, on 13 August 2015, vowing to \"wage jihad to liberate every inch of occupied Muslim land\".\n\nMansour quickly acknowledged the pledge from \"the leader of the international jihadist organisation\", an apparent endorsement of al-Qaeda's global jihadist agenda.\n\nThis is starkly is at odds with the Taliban's own messaging, which restricts the group to the implementation of Islamic rule in Afghanistan and normal relations with neighbouring states.\n\nWhen current leader Hibatullah Akhundzada assumed leadership of the group after Mansour's death in a US air strike in May 2016, the Taliban did not publicly acknowledge the renewed pledge from al-Zawahiri.\n\nThis ambiguity over the current status of the pledge is at the heart of the ongoing uncertainty over the relationship between the two groups.\n\nWith their return to power, the Taliban are now being pulled in two directions.\n\nTheir ties to al-Qaeda lend the Taliban credibility within hardline jihadist circles, and the historic loyalty towards al-Qaeda means they may not be keen to abandon their ally now they hold power.\n\nBut the Taliban also remain bound by their obligations under the US peace deal, and the pragmatic approach to governance they have espoused.\n\nCongratulatory messages from al-Qaeda and the group's regional affiliates have heaped praise on the Afghan group for their \"victory\" and reiterated Akhundzada's status as \"commander of the faithful\".\n\nThe Taliban have not publicly acknowledged these messages, despite doing so for other groups like the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.\n\nBut the reported arrival in Afghanistan of Amin al-Huq - a close associate of Bin Laden - suggests that links between the two groups do remain.\n\nAnd al-Qaeda reportedly maintains strong links with the Haqqani network, which is part of the Taliban.\n\nThe issue is illustrative of the essential dilemma facing the Taliban. On the one hand, they crave recognition on the international stage and the benefits that brings - but this is largely incumbent on their rejection of extremism.\n\nOn the other, they cannot easily disregard their alliance of more than 20 years with al-Qaeda.\n\nTo do so might alienate the more hardline among their militants and other extremist groups who have so fervently celebrated their takeover of Afghanistan.", "Richard Hawkes was one of five people exonerated in July\n\nA public inquiry into the Post Office scandal is putting pressure on the company and the government to speed up compensation payments to victims.\n\nChair Sir Wyn Williams will publish a progress report in the coming weeks.\n\nIf he is unhappy that the Post Office and the government are not acting on its recommendations, he will issue a formal report to Parliament.\n\nThe scandal is described as the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK history.\n\nA public inquiry, led by the retired judge, has been examining the treatment of thousands of sub-postmasters who were made to pay their own money to cover shortfalls in accounts when a faulty IT system made it look like money was missing from their branches.\n\nMore than 700 individuals were given criminal convictions. So far, 81 people have had their convictions quashed.\n\nInterim payments of £100,000 have been made to most, but not all, of those who have been exonerated. No-one has yet received a full and final settlement and thousands more left out of pocket are seeking redress.\n\nFormer sub-postmaster Richard Hawkes was one of five people who were exonerated in July, 18 years after being convicted of false accounting.\n\n\"Now the weight has been lifted, as your character is back as it should be,\" the 75 year-old told the BBC.\n\nBut while the fight to clear his name is over, Mr Hawkes is only just beginning the process of claiming compensation.\n\nAfter completing community service, Mr Hawkes eventually managed to find a job cleaning laboratory equipment, where he worked until he was 71 years old.\n\n\"Somehow we managed to hang onto the house,\" he said, although he still has a mortgage. It was only at the start of this year that he finally paid his brother back for a sum of money lent to cover debts the Post Office claimed he owed them.\n\nSome 15 months ago, the Post Office, and the government as its sole shareholder, apologised to sub-postmasters and promised swift and fair compensation.\n\nHowever, many are still waiting. Sharon Brown, a former sub-postmaster in Sunderland and mother-of- two, was accused of theft by the Post Office in 2012 and is furious that her compensation hasn't arrived yet.\n\nFormer sub-postmaster Sharon Brown is still waiting for compensation\n\nShe told the BBC she has only survived thanks to the financial support of relatives, including her sister-in-law who took out a loan on her behalf. At one stage, she had to rely on credit cards to buy food for her family.\n\n\"I want my life back,\" she said. \"I want to be able to walk about and hold my head up and say finally 'I got compensation because they did me wrong'.\n\n\"They've ruined so many people's lives, it's heart-breaking.\"\n\nA Post Office spokesperson said: \"Our priority is to ensure that there is meaningful compensation for victims and that such events can never happen again.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which began hearing evidence in February 2021, was set up to examine who was to blame for the wrongful prosecutions and why nothing was done to prevent them.\n\nHowever, Sir Wyn became so concerned about the slow progress of compensation for sub-postmasters that he took special evidence at hearings in July.\n\nSir Wyn has now decided to publish a progress update in the coming weeks, and will issue a formal report to Parliament if he's not happy those recommendations are being acted on.\n\nIt seemed as though that pressure was bearing fruit earlier this summer, following good news at the end of June for more than 500 sub-postmasters who had previously been excluded from compensation. The then-Postal Affairs Minister Paul Scully said a scheme worth £19.5m had been arranged to ensure they did not miss out.\n\nBut since then it's been all change in the Cabinet. There's now a new minster for Postal Affairs - and victims are worried it qill be yet another delay on their route to compensation.\n\nJane Hunt, who replaced Paul Scully as minister for postal affairs, declined an interview but she said she looked forward \"to continuing [Scully's] excellent work in delivering compensation for postmasters\".\n\nA former supreme court justice has been asked to give advice to try and break the impasse between victims and the Post Office over how much should be paid.\n\nDuring the inquiry hearings the Post Office admitted that it had anticipated hundreds of applications for compensation, but had ultimately received thousands. The Post Office said it did not have enough staff to process the volume of claims, and had so far dealt with only the more straightforward claims of lower value.", "Heathrow has seen widespread disruption due to staffing shortages, with airlines cancelling thousands of flights\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG has swung back to profit for the first time since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, despite facing a \"challenging\" environment at Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe company said it had seen a significant increase in the number of flights and passengers it handled.\n\nOperating profit for the second quarter hit £245m, compared with a loss of £809m in the same period last year.\n\nBut IAG also issued a warning about the state of the industry.\n\nAirlines and airports have faced significant disruption this year due to widespread worker shortages and industrial action.\n\n\"Our industry continues to face historic challenges due to the unprecedented scaling up in operations, especially in the UK where the operational challenges of Heathrow airport have been acute,\" said Luis Gallego, IAG's chief executive.\n\nThe company - which also owns Iberia and Aer Lingus - said that these issues at Heathrow had forced British Airways to limit its capacity to 69.1% of pre-pandemic levels between April and June.\n\n\"We will continue working with the industry to address these issues as aviation emerges from its biggest crisis ever,\" Mr Gallego said.\n\nBetween July and October, British Airways will ramp up its capacity to about 75%, IAG said.\n\nIt was the company's Iberia and Vueling brands that performed most strongly over the past three months, elevated by a robust demand for domestic flights within Spain, and routes to Latin America.\n\nLast month, both were at higher levels than they were in 2019.\n\nMr Gallego said he hoped the airline would return to annual profitability this year, with demand showing no sign of weakening.\n\n\"In the second quarter we returned to profit for the first time since the start of the pandemic following a strong recovery in demand across all our airlines,\" he said. \"This result supports our outlook for a full year operating profit.\"\n\n\"Our performance reflected a significant increase in capacity, load factor and yield compared to the first quarter.\"\n\nIAG's share price climbed by 3.3% in early trading on Friday morning.\n\nBritish Airways has been forced to cancel nearly 30,000 flights this summer as it struggles with staff shortages and rebounding demand for air travel following the lifting of Covid restrictions.\n\nThis has been compounded by a lack of ground handling crew and ticketing agents at airports, many of whom were laid off during the pandemic and have not yet been replaced.\n\nA row broke out this week between Ryanair and Heathrow Airport, with the airline saying airports had not recruited enough staff to cater for the rebound in travellers, saying they \"had one job to do to\"\n\nBut Heathrow hit back at the criticism, labelling it as \"bizarre\".\n\n\"Airports don't provide ground handling, that's provided by the airlines themselves. So this is like accusing us of not having enough pilots,\" said the airport's chief executive John Holland-Kaye.", "Pat Carroll, the actress who voiced the menacing sea witch Ursula in Disney's The Little Mermaid, has died aged 95.\n\nCarroll, who won an Emmy in 1957 for TV comedy show Caesar's Hour, died on Saturday of pneumonia at her Massachusetts home, her daughter Tara Karsian told The Hollywood Reporter.\n\nHer comic talents saw her work with stars including Mickey Rooney and Mary Tyler Moore, with much of her early TV career was spent on comedy shows.\n\nShe was also in The Love Boat and ER.\n\nCarroll's daughter Kerry Karsian posted news of her mother's death on Instagram, asking followers to \"honour her by having a raucous laugh at absolutely anything today (and everyday forward)\".\n\nUrsula still inspires 2022 Comic-Con fans to dress up as her\n\nBut arguably her most memorable role was as half-woman half-octopus Ursula in 1989's The Little Mermaid, based on the original Hans Christian Andersen story.\n\nShe told author Allan Neuwirth, in his book Makin' Toons: Inside the Most Popular Animated TV Shows and Movies: \"It was a lifelong ambition of mine to do a Disney film. So, I was theirs hook, line and sinker.\"\n\nThe scheming Ursula offers mermaid princess Ariel the temporary chance to become human, to try and win the heart of the man she loves - but she has to give up her voice as payment.\n\nThe Disney character's image was inspired by drag queen Divine, with Carroll \"told to emulate the same low growls that Divine was known for\", Radio Times said in 2020, in an article about a Disney+ documentary based on the film's lyricist Howard Ashman.\n\nUrsula is always a hit on the Disneyland parades\n\nHollywood Reporter said Ashman had made a recording of how he wanted Ursula to sing, and Carroll said in Makin' Toons: \"He gave me that performance! Come on, I'm honest enough to say that.\n\n\"I got the whole attitude from him… his shoulders would twitch in a certain way, and his eyes would go a certain way… I got more about that character from Howard singing that song than from anything else.\"\n\nCarroll also voiced Ursula for several video games, as well as for the 1993 TV series The Little Mermaid.\n\nCarroll said in 2013 how much she learned about comedy working with early US comic stars Howard Morris, Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar, saying: \"They worked together for so long that they had that innate sense of each other's timing. It was impossible for them to fumble.\"\n\nHer other TV acting roles included playing the granny in the English-language version of 1988's My Neighbour Totoro, and a role in Laverne & Shirley in 1976.\n\nJodi Benson and Pat Carroll, who voiced The Little Mermaid's Ariel and Ursula, in 2011\n\nBy the 80s, her voiceover work included US cartoons such as Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Galaxy High School and Superman. Her career also included working on Broadway, where she was nominated for a Tony in 1955 for musical revue Catch a Star!\n\nShe was married to Lee Karsian from 1955 until their divorce in 1976, and they had two daughters and a son. He died 13 years ago, on the same date as his mother, Hollywood Reporter added.", "Euro 2022: England beat Germany to win first major women's trophy in dramatic style Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland created history by winning their first major women's tournament in a dramatic Euro 2022 final against old rivals and eight-time champions Germany at Wembley. Substitute Chloe Kelly poked home a loose ball from a corner to send the raucous record crowd of 87,192 into a frenzy with ten minutes of extra time remaining. She waited for confirmation of the goal before taking off her shirt and waving it around her head, while being lifted by her team-mates in a moment of pure elation. On a monumental day in English football history, Sarina Wiegman's side showed they were equal to anything a strong and physical Germany team threw at them. Ella Toone had earlier come off the bench to score the opener in normal time before Germany's Lina Magull set up a nervous ending when she equalised in the 79th minute. There were scenes of jubilation in the stands and an outpouring of emotion by players on the pitch at full-time as the magnitude of their achievement sank in.\n• None 'Women's football will never be the same again' The final was advertised as a battle between the competition's two best-performing sides, and for large parts they cancelled each other out - but the biggest crowd in the history of a men's or women's Euros was given their money's worth. Striker Ellen White missed a few chances in the first half, Lucy Bronze was denied with a header, Germany's Magull struck wide and England defender Leah Williamson had to scramble a corner off the line before Toone was introduced to break the deadlock. She had given England fans the winning taste before Magull stunned the home crowd, though it would only delay the celebrations that Kelly, who only returned to football in April after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, gave them. England did what no other nation had done before - beat serial winners Germany in a European Women's Championship final, and the feeling was sweet. It comes 56 years after England's men beat West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final, the only previous major trophy won by a men's or women's England senior team. The players fell to the ground at full-time in tears of joy, in scenes which will be remembered and replayed for years to come on one of the greatest nights in English sport. It was a final like no other in every sense - the build-up was on a scale above anything seen in women's football in Great Britain, and it provided the perfect ending. Male fans were sporting England shirts with their female icons' names on the back on the London Underground on the way to the match, while fan parks around the country were filled with supporters watching the final on big screens. Wembley Way was already packed on Sunday morning and there were boos when Germany were announced on the stadium tannoy before kick-off. And it looked like things were going England's way when Germany's lethal striker Alexandra Popp, joint-top scorer in the tournament going into the final, picked up an injury and dropped out of the starting XI just before kick-off.\n• None Reaction from Wembley and how England v Germany unfolded\n• None What will be lasting impact of Euro 2022? The feistiness off the pitch translated on to it too - referee Kateryna Monzul awarded two early yellow cards for innocuous fouls by England, and the crowd were frustrated for much of the first half when decisions didn't go their way. The physical battle between the sides continued and the game swung back and forth. Germany had momentum going into extra time after Magull had hit the post before equalising. But as this England team have shown throughout the tournament, they would not be beaten easily. They continued to threaten and Kelly ran over to the fans to galvanise them when taking a corner, moments before she delivered the winner England fans across the country have dreamed of for 56 years. The familiar sound of England fans singing 'Sweet Caroline' while serenading the players at full-time was even sweeter this time around. The Three Lions lyrics have finally come true as football came home at the national stadium in front of the largest crowd in England women's history. Captain Williamson was sobbing at full-time, while vice-captain Millie Bright wiped tears from her face in an embrace with best friend Rachel Daly. Wiegman, who has now become the first manager in history to win back-to-back Euros with two different nations after also guiding the Netherlands to glory in 2017, also removed her mask of calmness as she ran on to the pitch with her arms in the air and a look of disbelief. England lost in the 2009 Euros final to Germany Midfielder Jill Scott, who had suffered defeat at the hands of the Germans in the final in 2009, came on in extra time to help England get over the line and was overcome with emotion. Young Manchester United star Toone, who has come off the bench to contribute two goals in this tournament, took centre stage when she opened the scoring - but the biggest moment was Kelly's. After being forced to sit out the Olympic Games and miss 11 months of football, she fought her way into selection for the Euros and has delivered the goal which will never be forgotten. Victory in the final was capped by England forward Beth Mead picking up the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer with six goals and five assists. England lifted the trophy to a standing ovation and defender Bronze then slid across the pitch, covered in confetti, before the players embarked on a victory lap draped in flags of Saint George.\n• None Lucy Bronze (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Alessia Russo (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ella Toone.\n• None Chloe Kelly (England) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Lena Oberdorf (Germany) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Linda Dallmann with a cross.\n• None Chloe Kelly (England) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.\n• None Goal! England 2, Germany 1. Chloe Kelly (England) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Chloe Kelly (England) right footed shot from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Keira Walsh. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Why is football shirt collecting on the rise?: Find out what's behind the popularity of these 'bits of polyester'\n• None How do the Lionesses relax between matches?: Pop in for a visit to England's Euro 2022 base camp", "Watch highlights as Chloe Kelly's goal in extra time gives England a 2-1 victory over Germany in the final of European Women's Championship.\n\nREAD MORE: England beat Germany to win first women's major trophy\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "British Airways has suspended ticket sales for short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport for a further week until 15 August.\n\nOn Monday, the airline said it had stopped selling the tickets until 8 August, but now it has gone a step further.\n\nThe move is due to the cap on daily passenger numbers that the UK's biggest airport has imposed over the summer.\n\nThe suspension will affect BA's flights to domestic and European destinations.\n\nThousands of air travellers have been hit by disruption in recent months, including last-minute cancellations, which have been caused largely by staff shortages.\n\nAirports and airlines, which cut jobs during Covid lockdowns, have found it difficult to recruit enough staff as demand for holidays has returned.\n\nHeathrow Airport has struggled to cope with the rebound in air travel and problems with its baggage handling systems have also led to passengers seeing huge delays in reclaiming their luggage.\n\nLast month, Heathrow told airlines to stop selling summer tickets, as it said it would limit the number of passengers departing each day to 100,000 - 4,000 fewer than previously scheduled.\n\nThe cap on numbers is set to remain in place until 11 September.\n\nAs BA is the largest airline at Heathrow it is affected by the limit more than other carriers. It is understood the airline was close to reaching the number of passengers it could carry under the current limit.\n\nIn a statement, BA said it had taken \"pre-emptive action to reduce our schedule this summer to give customers certainty about their travel plans\".\n\n\"When Heathrow introduced its passenger cap, we took a small number of additional flights from our schedule and to continue to comply with the cap, we've been taking responsible action by limiting sales or all the available fares on some of our Heathrow services to ensure more seats are available to rebook customers,\" the company said.\n\nThe company added that it would \"continue to manage bookings to be within the Heathrow imposed cap\".\n\nBA could limit or suspend sales again while Heathrow's cap is in place. The impact will be mainly on short-haul flights, though long-haul routes could sometimes be affected.\n\nAviation consultant John Strickland said BA's short-haul flights over the next week would effectively be full, leaving \"almost no room to manoeuvre to rebook passengers\" in the case of unforeseen problems such as bad weather.\n\n\"It therefore has little choice but to take seats off sale to protect for this eventuality and sacrifice last minute high price ticket sales,\" he said.\n\nMr Strickland added that most last-minute sales go to business travellers, for which volume is lowest in August, \"so the sacrifice is minimal\".\n\nConsumer group Which? said the move by BA would reduce customer choice and lead to \"significant price increases\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening, a direct flight from Heathrow to Frankfurt this coming Saturday cost a minimum of £617, compared with £243 in two weeks time, according to flight comparison website Skyscanner.\n\nStopping selling some tickets from Britain's biggest airport in the lucrative summer peak, when demand is strong, is not something you'd normally expect an airline to be doing.\n\nThe decision follows Heathrow's extraordinary decision to limit traffic to a level the system can cope with, given ongoing resourcing challenges.\n\nIt's understood British Airways was close to reaching the number of passengers it could carry under that cap this week.\n\nThe decision is meant to prevent last-minute bookings. And it should leave some leeway in the system for where rebooking is needed.\n\nBut it will limit passengers' last-minute options at a time when capacity has been squeezed and many prices have risen.\n\nAnd it might not be the end - BA has made it clear that while Heathrow's passenger cap is in place, it may have to pause sales again.\n\nBA has cut nearly 30,000 flights from its April-to-October schedule in response to staffing problems.\n\nOn Friday, BA owner IAG reported its first profit since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, despite facing what it called a \"challenging\" environment at Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe company said the problems at Heathrow had forced British Airways to limit its capacity to 69.1% of pre-pandemic levels between April and June, and this was expected to increase to about 75% between July and October.\n\nA row broke out last week between Ryanair and Heathrow, after the airline said airports had not recruited enough staff to cater for the rebound in travellers, saying they \"had one job to do\".\n\nBut Heathrow hit back at the criticism, describing it as \"bizarre\".\n\n\"Airports don't provide ground handling, that's provided by the airlines themselves. So this is like accusing us of not having enough pilots,\" said Heathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also criticised the airport, claiming it was responsible for failures which were contributing to the chaos.\n\nEmirates Airlines had initially rejected Heathrow's request to cut flight capacity but later agreed to cap sales following talks between the two companies.\n\nLast month the Competition and Markets Authority and Civil Aviation Authority issued a joint letter to carriers raising concerns that some airlines may not be doing everything they could to avoid harmful practices, including selling more tickets for flights than they could reasonably expect to supply.\n\nAirports outside the UK have also faced issues. On Tuesday Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, which has faced staff shortages, said it would continue to limit passengers in September and October to ensure safety and a reliable service.", "The star is yet to comment on the track\n\nBeyoncé is facing criticism for using an ableist slur in some lyrics on her new album, Renaissance.\n\nThe derogatory term, often used to demean people with spastic cerebral palsy, occurs twice in the song Heated, co-written by Canadian star Drake.\n\nIt comes just a couple of weeks after US pop star Lizzo apologised for using the same word in her song GRRRLS.\n\nAfter that incident, Beyoncé's new song \"feels like a slap in the face\", says disability advocate Hannah Diviney.\n\n\"I'm tired and frustrated that we're having this conversation again so soon after we got such a meaningful and progressive response from Lizzo,\" she tells the BBC.\n\nDisability charity Scope are asking Beyoncé to re-record the song, omitting the insult.\n\n\"Words matter because they reinforce the negative attitudes disabled people face every day,\" says media manager Warren Kirwan.\n\n\"Beyoncé has long been a champion of inclusivity and equality, so we'd urge her to remove this offensive lyric.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted Beyoncé's team for a response.\n\n\"It's so annoying because it's so catchy,\" says BBC disability correspondent Nikki Fox. \"But it's a horrible word.\n\n\"It's a word we would never, ever use in the UK - although we recognise it's sometimes used differently in the US.\"\n\nFox notes that the track has 11 writers, and would have been cleared by several people at Beyoncé's record label.\n\n\"If you think of how many people that song will go through and not one of them thought, 'Hang on a minute', and not one person was not aware of the hoo-hah when Lizzo used the same word. It's very disappointing.\"\n\nBeyoncé's album is expected to top the charts, despite the controversy\n\nSimilar comments spread across social media after Renaissance was released last Friday.\n\n\"What was the point of Lizzo changing her lyrics if Beyoncé could just casually drop a song that has the same exact words in it?\" asked epilepsy campaigner @theblackgirlwarrior on TikTok (warning - video contains expletives).\n\nHer video also addressed Beyoncé fans who claimed the insult has different connotations in the US - where it is often used to mean \"freaking out\" or \"going crazy\" (although those terms can themselves be insensitive to people with mental health conditions).\n\n\"The s-word will forever be harmful to people in the disability community... that's not going away,\" she said in her video.\n\n\"After the outcry from Lizzo... I can't believe that nobody in Beyoncé's team was aware of how hurtful the word is to many within the disabled community,\" agreed autism advocate Callum Stephen on Twitter.\n\n\"Language is such a complex thing and words can validly mean different things to different people, but I don't see why any artist would use a word in their song that causes so much upset to millions worldwide.\"\n\nClarinet player Tara Allen recalled how the word had been used against her as a child, in a message directed towards Beyoncé's official Twitter account.\n\n\"As a disabled [person] who grew up being called a sp@z... to diminish my NeuroDivergent experiences, belittle me, and bully me, I am beyond words hurt you have chosen to use this word in your song,\" she wrote.\n\nIn June, Lizzo faced a similar outcry over her song, GRRRLS. Within days, she apologised and re-recorded the song, removing the offensive lyric.\n\n\"Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language,\" she wrote in a statement posted to social media.\n\n\"As a fat black woman in America, I've had many hurtful words used against me so I understand the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally).\"\n\nHannah Diviney acknowledged it might be harder to elicit an apology from Beyoncé, \"because of how much more elevated she is, culturally-speaking.\n\n\"But equally, that makes me more determined for a response.\"\n\nKelis was angry that Beyoncé hadn't sought permission to reference her song Milkshake\n\nHeated is not the only song on Beyonce's seventh studio album to attract criticism.\n\nLast week, R&B star Kelis accused the star of \"theft\" after learning her anthem Milkshake had been interpolated on a song called Energy (interpolation is when one song references another, without directly sampling it).\n\nKelis said she had not been informed in advance, and that her \"mind is blown\" by the \"level of disrespect\".\n\n\"It's not hard. She can contact me, right?\" Kelis said on Instagram. \"It's common decency.\"\n\nHowever, Beyoncé would not have had to seek Kelis's permission to reference Milkshake, as she is not a credited writer on the song and does not own the copyright.\n\nInstead, permission would have been sought from writer/producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo - who duly receive a share of the royalties from Energy.\n\nIt appears that the basis of Kelis's disagreement lies with them. She has previously accused the duo, professionally known as the Neptunes, of \"lying and tricking\" her into a bad deal, which gave them the rights to her music instead of splitting the royalties three ways.\n\nIn an Instagram video about Beyoncé's song, she confirmed that they were the source of her frustration.\n\n\"Publishing was stolen, people were swindled out of rights. It happens all the time, especially back then. So it's not about me being mad about Beyoncé.\n\n\"Pharrell knows better,\" she added. \"This is a direct hit at me [and] he does this stuff all the time. The reason I'm annoyed is because I know it was on purpose.\"\n\nNeither Pharrell Williams nor Chad Hugo could be reached for comment.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Waitrose has become the latest UK supermarket to scrap best before dates on hundreds of products in an attempt to tackle food waste.\n\nIt will remove the dates from nearly 500 items of fresh food - including fruit and vegetables - from September.\n\nTesco and Marks & Spencer have also scrapped best before dates on some of their products.\n\nWaste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) says 4.5 million tonnes of edible food is thrown away each year.\n\nCatherine David, director of collaboration and change at the charity, said: \"Wasting food feeds climate change and it costs people money. Best before dates on fruit and veg are unnecessary and create food waste because they get in the way of people using their judgement when food is still good to eat.\"\n\nUse by labels are the dates until which perishable food can be cooked and consumed safely. Best before guidance, however, is for when the product should be consumed to get the best quality, taste and texture.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency says it is up to manufacturers to decide whether to apply a use by or best before date on their products. It will depend on factors such as how the food is made and how risky it is.\n\nMarija Rompani, director of sustainability and ethics at the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, said: \"By removing best before dates from our products, we want our customers to use their own judgement to decide whether a product is good to eat or not, which in turn, will increase its chances of being eaten and not becoming waste.\"\n\nThe products that Waitrose is dropping best before dates from include root vegetables, fruits such as grapes and apples, and indoor plants.\n\nIn July, Marks & Spencer said it would be taking best before dates off more than 300 fruit and vegetable items, while Tesco scrapped best before dates on more than 100 products in 2018.\n\nIn January this year, Morrisons said it would remove use by dates from 90% of its own-brand milk and encouraged customers to use a \"sniff test\" instead before throwing products away.\n\nAnd in April, the Co-op said it announced plans to ditch use by dates on its own-brand yoghurt in favour of a best before date as guidance.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland fans are finally able to say it: football has come home.\n\nThe Lionesses made history by winning their first major tournament - and they did it all against Germany, at Wembley, in front of a record crowd of 87,192 fans.\n\nDoes it get much better than that? Here are the best comments from both fans and social media.\n\nWill there ever be a better England press conference than this?\n\nCaptain Leah Williamson, who plays for Arsenal, called the victory \"the start of a journey\".\n\nThe 25-year-old defender said: \"The legacy of this tournament is the change in society.\"\n\nBBC presenter Gabby Logan meanwhile, drew on a famous line from England men's 1966 World Cup victory to sum up the magnitude of the Lionesses' achievement\n\nLogan wasn't the only BBC presenter using iconic punditry lines to celebrate the victory.\n\nLove continues to be shown to pundits Ian Wright and Alex Scott, who have campaigned passionately for women's football throughout the tournament.\n\nChloe Kelly, who scored the winner in extra time having come on as a substitute, has had an incredible personal journey.\n\nAnd there were some proud parents in the stadium...\n\nChelsea manager Emma Hayes was all of us after the result had started to sink in.\n\nWhile there was a poignant, personal touch to England manager Sarina Wiegman's kissing of her bracelet.\n\nIt didn't take Twitter long to poke fun at the note which was passed from the Germany management team to the players.\n\nThe Lionesses' triumph impressed Canadian pop star Shania Twain, who tweeted: \"You know these women will have had to fight for respect from the first moment they picked up the ball - Let's go girls!\"\n\nWhile fans have been sharing what the win means to them.\n\nWriting on the Match of the Day Facebook page, Nikki Plaw wrote: \"Very impressed with all the ladies throughout the whole tournament. You are a truly inspirational bunch. A massive congratulations to you all. I can't wait to see the effect this has on the young girls of our country!\"\n\nAngela Denton wrote: \"Well done Lionesses. You have made us proud and we can finally say for real: IT'S COMING HOME.\"\n\nOne of the top-rated comments on the BBC Sport website was from poster Mr Carlton, who wrote: \"After decades of supporting the England men's team and being let down by impudence from players, bad luck and negative tactics - this tournament has been beautiful. Thank you, ladies, superb and well deserved.\"\n\nAnother poster added: \"Well done Lionesses, you have made England proud and given women's football in this country a mega shot in the arm. Beating the eight-time champions is a thing of beauty and a massive, massive triumph.\"\n\nOne fan on the BBC Sport website shared a personal story: \"10 years of taking my daughter to training and matches, watching in rain and snow, consoling her when they lost, totally worth it when I saw her face when England won, and they lifted the trophy!\"\n\nAnother wrote: \"This is the beginning of women's football. They are trailblazers and I am hoping it continues to grow. Go to games. Get involved. See the big picture.\"\n\nOne male football fan on Facebook shared his experience of how the tournament had changed his own outlook, saying: \"I've gone from, 'women's football is a joke' to 'I can't wait for the Women's World Cup' this evening. I stand well and truly corrected, not because they won, because of how much it meant for them to win and watching them comfort the German ladies - what football is about.\"\n\nThere were stories all over Twitter of young girls enjoying the match.\n\nAnd, of course, no-one enjoyed it more than young Tess, the eight-year-old who became famous after her own stomping rendition of Sweet Caroline at the semi-final against Sweden. She was invited to the Wembley final and given 23-year-old forward Alessia Russo's match-worn shirt.\n\nIt looked like she enjoyed herself.\n\nThe future looks good for women's football!", "Three British men accused of being mercenaries are to stand trial in a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.\n\nJohn Harding, Dylan Healy, and Andrew Hill will be tried in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, a breakaway region of Ukraine, Russian media said.\n\nThe court, which is not internationally recognised, sentenced two British men to death recently.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it condemned the exploitation of civilian detainees for political purposes.\n\nEx-serviceman Mr Harding, originally from Sunderland, had been fighting alongside Ukrainian forces since moving to the country in 2018. In July he appeared in a video appealing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson for help.\n\nMr Hill has been fighting with Ukraine's International Legion.\n\nMr Healy, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, had been volunteering in Ukraine as an aid worker when he was captured at a checkpoint in April, alongside Paul Urey who died in July while being held by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nRussia's state news agency Tass reported that the three British men had refused to co-operate with investigators and testify.\n\nThey are being tried alongside two other men from Sweden and Croatia.\n\nJohn Harding, who is in his fifties and originally from Sunderland, moved to Ukraine in 2018\n\nThe same court in June sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. The Britons were captured while fighting for Ukraine were accused of being mercenaries.\n\nTheir families insisted they were long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not mercenaries.\n\nThe UK and Ukraine have condemned the sentences for violating international laws protecting prisoners of war.\n\nAfter this latest development, the Foreign Office said it was in constant contact with Ukraine to support its efforts to get all the Britons released.\n\nIt added: \"We condemn the exploitation of prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political purposes and have raised this with Russia.\"\n\nThe news came on the same day that Russia banned BBC newsreader Huw Edwards, along with a number of other journalists, as part of its latest wave of sanctions.\n\nMr Edwards follows several of his BBC colleagues who were blacklisted by Russia in June, including fellow newsreader Clive Myrie and BBC Radio 4's Today programme presenter Nick Robinson.\n\nEdwards tweeted he had \"made the Kremlin cut\", adding Wales and Ukraine flag emojis next to his name on the list.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMoscow's foreign ministry issued a list of 39 newly-sanctioned individuals who are now barred from entering the country, in response to UK sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt follows a decision last month by the UK to sanction Russian ministers and members of influential families linked to the President Vladimir Putin.\n\nOther journalists banned include ITV's political editor Robert Peston, the Sunday Times' political editor Caroline Wheeler, the Times' columnist David Aaronovich, the Guardian's war news editor Dan Sabbagh, and TalkTV's Piers Morgan.\n\nIn response, Morgan tweeted visiting Russia \"wasn't on my immediate vacation to-do list\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTravel bans have also been placed on David Cameron, former prime minister, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and Labour MPs Lisa Nandy and David Lammy.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford featured on the list as well.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said in a statement: \"As has been noted more than once, the pernicious actions of the UK in planting Russophobia, spreading false information about our country and supporting the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime will receive an adequate and decisive response from the Russian side.\"\n\nDespite repeated claims by Russia to the contrary, Ukraine's far-right remains a relatively small minority in the country.", "The Scottish government has urged Westminster to provide additional funding for public sector pay deals.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said failure to do so would risk an inability to fund equivalent offers without cuts to public services.\n\nMr Swinney, who has taken on the finance and economy portfolio, issued the warning in a letter to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nThe UK government said it had provided Holyrood with a record settlement.\n\nBut Mr Swinney outlined concerns that last year's UK Spending Review did not take into account the level of pay increases recently proposed by independent pay review bodies.\n\nMr Swinney, who is covering Kate Forbes' brief while she is on maternity leave, also said the Spending Review did not consider the wider effects of rising inflation.\n\nAnd he added that without further funding, the Scottish government may only be able to issue similar pay rises by reducing budgets elsewhere.\n\nHe wrote: \"Further to the joint letter from devolved administration finance ministers to you on July 15, and in light of the UK government's subsequent announcements regarding public sector pay, I am concerned that no associated funding is being provided to meet these additional costs.\n\n\"Last year's UK Spending Review, which as you know determines the majority of the Scottish Budget, did not take account of the levels of pay uplift now proposed or indeed the wider effects of inflation.\n\n\"The associated reduction in spending power across public sector budgets is deeply worrying for our public services and our capacity to respond to the cost of living crisis, which will undoubtedly bring renewed challenges through the coming autumn and winter period.\"\n\nThe call for more funding comes as pay offers to a range of public sector workers in Scotland have been rejected by unions, raising the prospect of frontline services being impacted by industrial action. This includes:\n\nMr Swinney warned that Holyrood's fixed budgets, restricted borrowing powers, the inability to change tax policy and the lack of additional funding for public sector pay deals via the Barnett Formula meant the Scottish government could only replicate these pay deals for public workers in Scotland with \"deep cuts to public services\".\n\nHe added: \"I would urge you to consider appropriate funding for public sector pay, and would welcome early discussions with you on this matter.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We have provided the Scottish government with a record £41bn per year for the next three years, the highest spending review settlement since devolution.\n\n\"As a result, the Scottish government is receiving around £126 per person for every £100 per person of equivalent UK government spending in England over the next three years.\n\n\"We're also helping to tackle the rising cost of living, protecting eight million of the most vulnerable families with direct payments of £1,200 this year, and providing additional payments to pensioners and disabled people.\"\n\nScottish Labour's finance spokesman Daniel Johnson said it was not acceptable for both governments to blame one another for their \"collective failures\".\n\nHe added: \"It is the SNP who have, for almost 15 years, failed to value public sector workers or prioritise fair pay deals for them, all while the Tories have presided over a massive transfer of wealth to top earners.\n\n\"To fix this we need an economy that is growing and relentlessly focused on giving everyone a chance to succeed.\n\n\"Neither the SNP or the Tories are willing or able to use the powers at Holyrood or Westminster to do that.\"", "Bin Laden (left) and Zawahiri together declared war on the US and organised the 9/11 attacks\n\nThe US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed.\n\nHe was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.\n\nHe and Osama Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together, and he was one of America's most wanted terrorists.\n\nMr Biden said al-Zawahiri had \"carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens\".\n\n\"From hiding, he co-ordinated al-Qaeda's branches and all around the world, including setting priorities for providing operational guidance and calling for and inspired attacks against US targets,\" the president said in a live television address from the White House.\n\n\"Now justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more,\" he added.\n\nThe FBI updated its Most Wanted Terrorist poster on Monday with Zawahiri's status: \"Deceased.\"\n\nThe 71-year-old Egyptian doctor took over al-Qaeda after the death of Bin Laden in 2011.\n\nMr Biden said he had given the final approval for the \"precision strike\" after months of planning.\n\nOfficials said Zawahiri was on the balcony of a safe house when the drone fired two missiles at him.\n\nOther family members were present, but they were unharmed and only Zawahiri was killed in the attack, they added.\n\nMr Biden said Zawahiri's killing will bring closure to families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 attacks in which hijackers crashed passenger jets into landmark buildings in New York and Washington - including two skyscrapers in Manhattan.\n\nSome 344 firefighters were also killed. Andrew Ansbro, president of the New York Firefighters Association thanked Mr Biden for \"helping to bring another level of closure to all impacted by these attacks\".\n\nMr Biden said that Zawahiri had also masterminded other acts of violence, including the suicide bombing of the USS Cole naval destroyer in Aden in October 2000 which killed 17 US sailors, and the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 223 people died.\n\nDouglas Sidialo lost his sight in the Kenyan attack, and told BBC Newsday that while he never condones violence, news of Zawahiri's death is welcome.\n\n\"It's good that it has happened - that they're bringing down those who were behind these heinous and barbaric acts of cowardice around the world,\" Mr Sidialo said.\n\nThis is the suspected location of the strike in Kabul\n\nThe attack in Kabul early Sunday morning rocked the centre of the capital - we heard it on our street nearby.\n\nSince then, speculation has swirled about who or what hit this \"empty house\" in the Sherpur neighbourhood known for its gaudy multi-storied villas.\n\nHours after President Biden announced news of Zawahiri's death, workers in buildings nearby told us no one lived in the villa whose balconies are now covered with plastic sheeting. Adjacent shops were told by the Taliban to close their rooftops.\n\nTaliban guards pushed journalists, sometimes forcefully, away from the scene.\n\nThe streets are quiet - this news is explosive. It again highlights the weaknesses of the 2020 US-Taliban deal.\n\nThe Taliban say they agreed Afghanistan would never again be a base to launch attacks against the United States. But they never agreed to sever all links to groups like al-Qaeda including their long-time brother-in-arms, Ayman al-Zawahiri.\n\nA Taliban spokesman described the US operation as a clear violation of international principles - but did not mention Zawahiri. US officials maintained that the operation had had a legal basis.\n\nUnder a peace deal struck in 2020, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control.\n\nHowever, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are long-time allies and US officials said the Taliban were aware of Zawahiri's presence in Kabul, and he lived freely and in the open in the Afghan capital.\n\nZawahiri's killing comes nearly a year after Mr Biden withdrew US troops from Afghanistan, bringing an end to a 20-year military presence there, and allowing the Taliban to retake control of the country by force.\n\nIn background briefings, US intelligence officers accused Taliban affiliates of going to the safe house after the strike to try to cover up evidence of Zawahiri's presence there.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that by hosting and sheltering Zawahiri in Kabul, the Taliban had \"grossly violated\" the peace agreement.\n\nThe drone strike is the first known US intervention inside Afghanistan since the military pullout last August and, despite the withdrawal, the decades-old \"war on terror\" grinds on, the BBC's North America Correspondent John Sudworth observes.\n\nDays before the withdrawal, a miscalculated US drone strike killed 10 innocent people in Kabul, including an aid worker and seven children. The US said it had been a \"tragic mistake\" and had been aiming to target a local branch of the so-called Islamic State jihadist group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'\n• None Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the binding pledge", "Trafalgar Square roared with celebrations as England's Lionesses became European champions.\n\nChants of \"it's coming home\" blared out across the central London landmark which showed the match on big screens.\n\nSamantha Isaac, 38, who lives in Essex, said it was \"a historic moment\".\n\n\"It's really important for women and girls to get this level of success and this many people here.\n\n\"I'm over the moon, they have worked so hard.\"\n\nHer daughter Evie, nine, who plays football, said it was exciting.\n\nThe win meant the first major tournament title for an England team since 1966.\n\nBefore the final, they had won only two of their 27 matches against Germany but triumphed in their most recent meeting, claiming a 3-1 victory in February.\n\nEmma Hayes, Chelsea women manager, told BBC Radio 5 Live the fans would have a huge impact on the players.\n\n\"Imagine being Georgia Stanway and thinking 'where am I going to get my energy from?'\n\n\"Well, there's 90,000 people to hep you with that. That's the biggest single difference.\"\n\nAlthough these fans celebrated with a pint at Boxpark in Wembley, the main road up to the stadium was a no-drinking zone due to the chaos that overshadowed last year's men's final.\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.", "Watch the Lionesses celebrate their 2-1 victory against Germany in Trafalgar Square after becoming European Champions.\n\nAvailable to UK users only.", "Euro 2022 final: Women's football will never be the same again Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nDutchwoman Sarina Wiegman led England to victory five years after doing the same for her home country England have been singing the lament about football coming home for an age - but after the barren years of misery, it finally came through the door into the welcoming arms of an exultant Wembley as the Lionesses were crowned European champions. The bare statistics state they beat old rivals and eight-time European champions Germany 2-1 after extra time. Sounds straightforward enough, except the wider context makes their triumph a seismic moment for women's football and the sport in general. It was 7.51pm in the evening Wembley sunshine when the outstanding captain, Leah Williamson, lifted that precious piece of silverware above her head and it all actually felt, looked and sounded real. England's magnificent Lionesses were Euro 2022 champions and had secured their place in history. England's women had won their first major trophy. An England senior football team had won its first major trophy in 56 years. On a day when 87,192 packed Wembley, an all-time Uefa tournament record, coach Sarina Wiegman and her players made themselves legends. England's women were centre stage. Winners. No-one can ever take this away from them. The years of disappointment were over. England's football had a success story - a winning story - to tell at last, and no-one deserved it more than a coach and squad that have quite simply changed the face of women's football in this country throughout a flawless, superbly managed Euro 2022 campaign over the past month. For those of us used to witnessing the years of hurt following England men's team, five European Championships and five World Cups in this particular case - a journey that has taken in Japan, Portugal, Germany, South Africa, Poland and Ukraine, Brazil, France, Russia and last summer's Euro 2020 - the misery was ended by the Lionesses on their own doorstep at Wembley. This was what watching an England team winning a trophy felt like and how the Lionesses deserved it, how they had the right to milk every second of Wembley's ecstasy, Wiegman's squad and support team taking a lap of honour, staring out at a sea of thousands of smiling, celebrating faces. 'Couldn't be further from last year's final' It was a little more than a year ago when the England men's team came closest to ending the curse, only to lose on penalties to Italy in the Euro 2020 final, another hard-luck story to follow on from losing the World Cup semi-final to Croatia in Moscow three years earlier. The occasion was one of abject misery and shame from first to last, a day defaced by disgraceful crowd behaviour, a lack of organisation and racial abuse of the England players who missed penalties in the shootout that left the crushing loss as simply another item on a thoroughly grim agenda. This day could not have been further away as an experience - joyful, peaceful, but still containing all the requisite jeopardy and tension that accompanies a major final. This was wonderfully civilised and friendly, but the atmosphere lost nothing for that. This still felt like a big occasion, but devoid of the slightest hint of toxicity. It could catch on. The game was not a classic when measured in quality but it was fiercely fought, at times brutal, and came up with the storyline England football fans have craved for so long. England found a way to prevail, as they have before in this tournament when times have been tough, and 31 July 2022 will now be marked down as the game-changer for women's football. The sky is the limit now with this team capturing the hearts and minds of a nation, surely ushering in a new era. Victory also brought more iconic moments to add to Alessia Russo's brilliant backheel in the semi-final against Sweden, with match-winner Chloe Kelly the central figure. Chloe Kelly's goal ensured the Lionesses ended their wait for a first major trophy England led though Ella Toone's superb lofted finish from Keira Walsh's perfect pass just after the hour, but the dangerous Germans, cruelly robbed of top scorer and talisman Alexandra Popp after she was injured in the warm-up, deservedly struck back when the dangerous Lina Magull clipped in the equaliser at the near post with 11 minutes left. Into extra time they went, and with the prospect of penalties looming - and we all know how painfully that usually ends for England - Kelly emerged from a scramble at a corner to bundle home the winner. What followed will be etched on the memory forever. It was England's Brandi Chastain moment. Chastain famously celebrated scoring the winning penalty for the United States in the 1999 World Cup by ripping off her shirt. Kelly followed suit as she raced around Wembley almost in disbelief. Her shirt-swirling jubilation will provide an image for the ages. Kelly had been introduced in one of those masterful changes Wiegman has implemented throughout Euro 2022, usually impeccably timed and having maximum impact. England were ten minutes from history, Wembley was knee-deep in chewed fingernails, but they survived with barely an anxious moment thanks to a masterpiece of game management that kept the ball in the corner and consequently Germany at arm's length. Wembley erupted when Ukrainian referee Kateryna Monzul sounded the final whistle, Kelly breaking off from her post-match interview by running away singing Sweet Caroline into the microphone. Lucy Bronze launched herself head first into layers of silver tickertape that exploded behind England as they lifted the trophy. The smiling figure of Wiegman, reserved and calculating in the technical area, joined in the celebrations with gusto after delivering what the Football Association hired her for after winning the trophy with the Netherlands in a home tournament five years ago. Wiegman was brought in to make England winners after losing three semi-finals. Job done. She has given off a cool air of calm and authority throughout. Wiegman stuck with the same team for six games, and for all the arguments about whether Alessia Russo should have started ahead of Ellen White, Wiegman can point towards a large silver trophy as her answer to that. As for England's Lionesses, this was the crowning glory of an unforgettable Euro 2022. Women's football - in the very best of ways - will never be the same again. In the words of Wiegman as she left the scene of England's triumph: \"We changed society.\"\n• None Why is football shirt collecting on the rise? Find out what's behind the popularity of these 'bits of polyester'\n• None How do the Lionesses relax between matches? Pop in for a visit to England's Euro 2022 base camp", "The Prince of Wales accepted a payment of £1m from the family of Osama Bin Laden, the Sunday Times reports.\n\nPrince Charles accepted the money from two of Osama Bin Laden's half-brothers in 2013, two years after the al-Qaeda leader was killed, it adds.\n\nThe Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund (PWCF) received the donation.\n\nClarence House said it had been assured by PWCF that \"thorough due diligence\" had been conducted, and the decision to accept the money lay with the trustees.\n\n\"Any attempt to characterise it otherwise is false,\" it told the BBC.\n\nClarence House also said it disputed a number of points made in the newspaper's article.\n\nBin Laden was disowned by his family in 1994 and there is no suggestion that his half-brothers had links to his activities.\n\nAccording to the report, Prince Charles accepted the money from Bakr Bin Laden, who heads the wealthy Saudi family, and Bakr's brother Shafiq, following a meeting with Bakr at Clarence House.\n\nThe heir to the throne took the money despite objections from advisers at Clarence House and PWCF, the Sunday Times reports, citing multiple sources.\n\nHowever, Sir Ian Cheshire, chairman of PWCF, told the newspaper that the 2013 donation was agreed \"carefully considered\" by the five trustees at the time.\n\n\"Due diligence was conducted, with information sought from a wide range of sources, including government,\" Sir Ian added.\n\n\"The decision to accept the donation was taken wholly by the trustees. Any attempt to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate.\"\n\nThe PWCF awards grants to UK-registered non-profit organisations to deliver projects in the UK, Commonwealth and overseas.\n\nNo rule has been broken, no law has been broken. All appropriate checks were carried out and even the Foreign Office was called upon to give its opinion - it cleared the donation.\n\nSo how is this front page news?\n\nA source at the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund told the BBC that \"the sins of the father\" - that's Osama Bin Laden - should not disqualify other members of the family from making a donation. Which makes sense.\n\nBut equally, did Prince Charles or his inner circle really think it was a good idea to take money from the Bin Ladens? Or did they think it was fine so long as it was never made public?\n\nBecause once it was public - however many checks were made and rules were followed - it was always going to look horrible.\n\nJust like the enormous cash donation from a former Qatari Prime Minister or the letter from Prince Charles's close friend and aide promising a knighthood to a Saudi citizen who had promised and made substantial donations.\n\nMinisters and members of parliament are, in the end, governed by the ballot box. The Royal Family derives its position and authority from a different place, from a settled acceptance by the public that overall they bring credit to the country.\n\nDoes a donation from the Bin Ladens - however remote from the evildoing of a disowned son - fit into this model of monarchy?\n\nOsama Bin Laden was top of the US' \"most wanted\" list. He is believed to have ordered the terror attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001 - which killed almost 3,000 people - including 67 Britons.\n\nHe was killed by US forces in 2011.\n\nA PWCF source told the BBC that \"though the name [Bin Laden] has very unhappy history, the sins of the father should not be visited on the rest of the family, which is an eminent one in the region.\"\n\nThe source added that the donation had been cleared by the Foreign Office.\n\nOsama Bin Laden was disowned by his family nearly 20 years before the reported donation\n\nThis is not the first time that Prince Charles or his charity have been scrutinised over its donations.\n\nIt was reported last month that Prince Charles accepted a suitcase containing a million euros in cash from a former Qatari prime minister - one of three cash donations totalling around £2.5m.\n\nClarence House said at the time that donations from the sheikh were passed immediately to one of the prince's charities and all the correct processes were followed.\n\nThe Charity Commission later decided against launching an investigation into the donation.\n\nIn February, the Metropolitan Police began an investigation into claims the charity offered honours help to a Saudi citizen.\n\nClarence House said the prince had \"no knowledge of the alleged offer of honours or British citizenship on the basis of donation to his charities\".\n\nTo millions of Saudis, the name Bin Laden is totally innocuous. In the West and much of the rest of the world, it will forever be associated with the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001.\n\nBut in Saudi Arabia, it is a byword for the Jeddah-based construction firm that used newfound oil wealth to fund mosques, palaces and other buildings by royal decree.\n\nThe family were not originally Saudi: they came from a part of southern Yemen, the Hadhramaut, that has produced many of Jeddah's most successful and wealthy entrepreneurial families.\n\nOsama, one of the many sons of the company's founder, who emigrated from Yemen in the early 20th century, was long known as the \"black sheep of the family\".\n\nHe spent much of the 1980s in Afghanistan helping the mujahideen fight the invading Soviet army, so essentially he was on the same side then as the CIA and Pakistan.\n\nBut by the 1990s, he had become a radical Islamic extremist and the family disowned him in 1994. Osama Bin Laden then moved first to Sudan, and soon after to Afghanistan. The rest is history.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nBBC Sport has launched a women's sport campaign to showcase the phenomenal female talent that will be on show at major events in the summer.\n\nWe Know Our Place celebrates how far women's sport has come since the 2019 Change the Game campaign, which challenged out-dated perceptions.\n\nThat summer, more than 45 million people consumed women's sport content across BBC platforms, with 28 million watching the Fifa Women's World Cup.\n\nThis year will see even more coverage.\n\nWith the Women's Euros, Wimbledon, World and European Athletics Championships, Commonwealth Games and The Hundred, there will be more coverage of female athletes than ever before across BBC Sport.\n\nBarbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: \"The BBC is the home of big sporting events and has led from the front in showcasing women's sport to the widest possible audience.\n\n\"In 2019 we 'changed the game' with over 45 million people watching women's sport. This summer is another huge moment for women's sport deserving of our unrivalled coverage, delivering great stories and many memorable moments.\"\n\nBBC Sport has a long-standing commitment to women's sport that has powered inclusion, growth, and normalisation.\n\nWe Know Our Place takes a phrase that is so often used to suppress women. It has been repurposed and given a new confident new meaning. Women in sport do know their place, it's selling out Wembley; it's on centre court; it's on podiums; it's breaking records; it's on billboards and bedroom walls.\n\nThe campaign launched with a video during both the men's and women's FA Cup finals and will run throughout the summer.", "A man has made his first appearance at crown court charged with murdering a nine-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a town centre.\n\nLilia Valutyte was found with a stab wound in Fountain Lane in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.\n\nDeividas Skebas, 22, appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday afternoon, having earlier appeared at the city's magistrates' court.\n\nMr Skebas, of Thorold Street, Boston, was remanded in custody.\n\nA plea and trial preparation hearing has been set for 19 September.\n\nLilia had reportedly been playing hula hoop with her younger sister in the street before her death.\n\nA toy pram was also left at the scene where the pair had been playing, according to locals.\n\nDozens of flowers and other tributes were left at the corner of Fountain Lane and Fountain Place in memory of the schoolgirl.\n\nA service of reflection and prayer was held at St Botolph's Church.\n\nTributes have been left near to where Lilia was killed\n\nReverend Jane Robertson said the service gave people an opportunity to gather and \"pray for the family\".\n\n\"Over the last few days there have been so many people coming into the church and lighting candles and talking to us and expressing a variety of emotions,\" she added.\n\nLincolnshire Police said two people who were arrested on Friday had since been released with no further action.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Lionesses have inspired the next generation of girls, including Jaya and Beau Dulay-Bowskill\n\nDonned in football kits and draped in St George's flags, fans from all over the country packed out Trafalgar Square in celebration of their England heroes.\n\nOne day on from an historic victory over Germany hundreds of people, including many girls and women, made the trip to the capital to pay tribute to the team which ended 56 years of hurt and inspired the nation.\n\nFor nine-year-old Beau Dulay-Bowskill who was standing at Trafalgar Square's fountain, \"this team is everything\".\n\n\"I cannot believe that England actually won it,\" she said.\n\nBeau, her dad Kieron Bowskill, and older sister Jaya Dulay-Bowskill, were jumping around in their local pub in Barnet when England scored the winning goal.\n\nShe now says she will consider joining a local football team like her older sister, Jaya, who plays for the Barnet Nightingales.\n\nJaya, 14, said watching the England team will give her more motivation to progress through the sport: \"The way it is moving, it is so good, it is inspiring for the whole world.\"\n\n\"I will see how I go but I want to progress,\" she added.\n\nTheir father, Kieron, has been taking his daughters to the Women's FA Cup final for years - but said nothing compared to this moment.\n\nThe 45-year-old helped Jaya become interested in football by getting her involved in her primary school team when she was younger.\n\nEmily Nickson stopped playing when she was a child, but says she might give it another go\n\nWhile Jaya is at the start of what she hopes could be a promising football career, 33-year-old Emily Nickson from Chester has been inspired by England's performance to get back on the pitch - for the first time since she was 11.\n\nShe said her younger self would not have been able to believe how far the game had come.\n\n\"It was not really heard of then,\" she said. \"This has inspired a lot of youngsters.\"\n\n\"It is probably easier to get back into it now, there should be more teams.\"\n\nJess Donkin with her dad, Nick Larke, at Trafalgar Square\n\nJess Donkin, who started playing football in childhood at the age of seven, had to drop the game at university because there was not enough uptake among other students.\n\nNow aged 21, Jess, like Jaya, has her father to thank for getting her involved in football. She said: \"I watched football with my dad when I was younger.\"\n\nShe hopes the current crop of England players will inspire the next generation of girls to take up the sport.\n\n\"Seeing lots of young girls here is really good,\" she added.\n\nJess, who picked up an injury which required surgery when she was younger, said she would now consider playing for fun.\n\n\"I would play now for leisure but I like the management side of it now. I prefer the coaching side of it, especially with girls teams.\"\n\nGrace and Ava Gregory have been soaking in the atmosphere at Trafalgar Square\n\nAttending Sunday's match was significant for Zara Gregory too: \"As a mum of two girls, it was a pretty special moment.\"\n\nShe believes this England team represents many of the values parents hope to pass on to their children.\n\n\"The leadership, the teamwork - it is everything you want to teach them about.\"\n\nAll of this has been done despite years of underfunding for the women's game, she added.\n\n\"The men get paid 50-times more than the women,\" she said.\n\nAccording to BBC analysis, the average Women's Super League player earns £47,000 a year, compared to the millions earned by Premier League male players.\n\nZara's 12-year-old daughter, Grace, hopes to follow in the footsteps of her idols.\n\n\"I've been playing since I was five, I want to play for Nottingham Forest when I'm older,\" she said.\n\nAnd her dad, Will, believes this will be an \"I was there moment\" for Grace and her nine-year-old sister Ava in years to come.", "Watch full-time scenes as England beat Germany 2-1 in extra time at Wembley to become Euro 2022 champions and win their first major competition.\n\nWatch England v Germany live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's James Wilby shattered team-mate Adam Peaty's hold on the 100m breaststroke title with a superb swim at Birmingham's Commonwealth Games.\n\nWilby, so long in the shadow of Peaty, screamed with delight as his finish overhauled the fading Olympic champion and brought him home in 59.25 seconds.\n\nPeaty, who broke his foot in May, ended up fourth, behind Australian duo Zac Stubblety-Cook and Sam Williamson.\n\n\"Sometimes it doesn't go to plan,\" Peaty told BBC Sport afterwards.\n\n\"That's a lack of training, lack of racing… it is what it is.\n\n\"I'm a fighter and sometimes you have got to have these moments to keep fighting.\"\n\nPeaty, 27 insisted that he still intends to defend his Olympic title in Paris in two years' time despite his first 100m breaststroke defeat since 2014 and described Wilby's performance as \"great\".\n\nPeaty had raised his friend's fist into the air, in the style of a boxing referee crowning a winner, while they were still in the water.\n\n\"At the end of the day we're both incredible racers,\" Wilby told BBC Sport. \"We all know what Adam is capable of.\n\n\"We'll both be back to race again and race each other and It's always going to be an exciting one. But that one was really fun.\"\n\nPeaty had led by 0.13 seconds at halfway and an expectant crowd, including his partner and young son, anticipated victory.\n\nInstead they got a crowd-scene finish. Peaty's stroke shortened and by the time he had glided to the wall, he had been passed by his rivals. His time of 59.86 was well short of his own world record of 56.88.\n\nPeaty is due to return for the 50m breaststroke heats on Monday morning, less than 14 hours after his defeat.\n\nEarlier in the evening, England's Alice Tai put clear water between herself and the competition to take 100m S8 backstroke gold by more than four seconds. Victory continues the 23-year-old's impressive comeback from major surgery.\n\nAfter years of pain, Tai, who was born with bilateral talipes, or clubfoot, opted to amputate her right leg below the knee in January.\n\n\"I realised I was wasting time, if a better quality life was possible what was I waiting for?\" she said at the time.\n\nMajor medals certainly are still part of her life.\n\nThe change initially made turns challenging, but Tai showed she has adapted quickly as she left silver-winning New Zealander Tupou Neiufi in her wake with Wales' Lily Rice taking bronze.\n\nWales' 19-year-old Medi Harris showed her potential with bronze in a high-class 100m backstroke won by Australian Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown.\n\n\"I'm so happy with that swim, it was a really good race,\" she told BBC Sport\n\n\"Hopefully as time goes on I'll be able to work on that back end and keep up with them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, England's James Guy won bronze - his first medal of these Games - in the men's 200m butterfly and England's team of Freya Colbert, Tamryn van Selm, Abbie Wood and Freya Anderson took bronze in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay.\n\nAustralia's Emma McKeon shrugged off speculation over her relationship with team-mates Kyle Chalmers and Cody Simpson, her partners past and present, to win a record 11th Commonwealth gold.\n\nThe 28-year's collection of Commonwealth golds now surpasses fellow Australian swimmers Ian Thorpe, Susie O'Neill and Leisel Jones, who previously shared the mark with 10.\n\nMcKeon led home a green-and-gold clean sweep in the 50m freestyle with team-mates Meg Harris and Shayna Jack following her home for silver and bronze. McKeon's winning time was 23.99 seconds, 0.21 off compatriot Cate Campbell's Games record.\n\nSouth Africa's Chad le Clos won a record-equalling 18th Commonwealth Games medal, but had to settle for silver as Lewis Clareburt took his 200m butterfly title.\n\nLe Clos' haul matches that of two shooters - England's Mick Gault and Australian Phillip Adams.\n\nThe 30-year-old led by a third of a second at halfway, but could not resist New Zealander Clareburt's late surge.\n\nSouth Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker won 200m breaststroke gold with England's Molly Renshaw just outside the medals in fourth.\n\nThe evening concluded with the Australian quartet of Madison Wilson, Kiah Melverton, Mollie O'Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus beating the world record on their way to 4x200m freestyle relay gold.\n\nAustralia's time of seven minutes 39.29 seconds was an improvement of more than a second on the 7:40.33 set by surprise gold-medal winners China at the Olympics last summer.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nEngland's Euro 2022 final win over Germany was watched by a peak BBC One television audience of 17.4 million, making it the most-watched women's football game on UK television.\n\nThe 2-1 extra-time win is also the most-watched programme in the UK so far in 2022.\n\nThere were a further 5.9 million streams of the game on the BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nA record crowd of 87,192 watched the game at Wembley Stadium.\n\nElla Toone and Chloe Kelly got the goals as the Lionesses gave England a first victory in a major international tournament since the men's World Cup triumph of 1966.\n\n\"We are incredibly proud to have championed women's football and are thrilled we were able to bring such a special sporting moment to the public,\" said BBC director-general Tim Davie.\n\n\"This was the most-watched women's football game on UK television of all-time and the most-watched programme in 2022 so far - and deservedly so. Everyone at the BBC is delighted at the win and being able to share that with the public.\"\n\nThe previous most-watched programme of the year had been the Party at the Palace event, part of June's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, which had a peak audience of 13.4 million.\n\nThe previous highest peak TV audience for women's football in the UK was 11.7 million for England's World Cup semi-final defeat by the United States in 2019.\n\nAn audience of 27.4m watched BBC coverage of Euro 2022 across the tournament. All of the most watched matches were England games: England v Germany by an audience of 17.4m, England v Sweden by 9.3m, England v Spain by 7.6m, England v Norway by 4m and England v Austria by 3.6m.\n\nLast year's Euro 2020 final between England and Italy at Wembley, which was broadcast on both the BBC and ITV, peaked at 30.95 million viewers with an average of 29.85 million watching.\n\nThat was the highest TV audience since the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app\n\nThe Commonwealth Games are a rare opportunity for athletes to swap the red, white and blue of Great Britain for the colours of their home nation.\n\nSo as teams England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland gear up for the 2022 Games in Birmingham, who can we expect to see among the medals?\n\nHere are the ones to watch from across the home nations.\n\nThe build-up to the Commonwealth Games has been far from the norm for three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty.\n\nA broken foot - the first major injury of his career - saw him ruled out of the World Championships in Budapest last month, before which his coach Mel Marshall said it was \"pretty tight\" as to whether Peaty would make the Games.\n\nThe 27-year-old is aiming to defend his 100m breaststroke Commonwealth title for a second time, as well as looking to turn his 50m silver from 2018 into gold.\n\nPeaty first made his name at the Glasgow Commonwealths in 2014, winning two gold medals for Team England. He's since gone on to win 16 European titles and eight world titles, in addition to those Olympic golds.\n• None I'd swim at Commonwealths with one foot - Peaty\n\nGreat Britain's most successful female Olympic athlete Laura Kenny didn't compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, having given birth to her son Albie just eight months before.\n\nBut she is back for Birmingham, eight years after winning points race gold in Glasgow with her sights set on adding to her Commonwealth haul.\n\nSince winning her fifth and sixth Olympic medals in Tokyo last summer, Kenny had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy, but returned to cycling in April.\n\nShe had been due to go up against GB team-mate Katie Archibald on the track at London's Lee Valley VeloPark, but the Scot was forced to withdraw from the Games as she recovers from a series of injuries.\n\nThe 1500m races at the recent athletics World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, saw two medals hung around British - and Scottish - necks, with gold for Jake Wightman in the men's race and bronze for Laura Muir in the women's.\n\nIn winning, Wightman, 28, became first British man to win the world 1500m title since Steve Cram in 1983. He won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealths but will be looking to upgrade the colour at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium.\n\nBefore Wightman's success at Hayward Field, Muir got the medal ball rolling with her hard-fought bronze, her second global outdoor medal after winning Olympic silver last year.\n\nMuir hasn't competed at a Commonwealth Games since Glasgow 2014, when she finished 11th, but now aged 29, she is one of the favourites to land a podium finish this time around.\n\nWatch out too for Scotland's Olympic medallist Josh Kerr, who became the first British man to win a medal in the Olympic 1500m since 1988 when he won bronze in Tokyo last summer.\n\nHe finished fifth at the World Championships ahead of making his Commonwealth Games debut.\n\nWheelchair basketball will make its Commonwealth Games debut in Birmingham, with the fast paced 3×3 format taking place at Smithfield in the heart of the city.\n\nThree-time Paralympian Conroy is one of four athletes selected for the English women's team, alongside Jade Atkin, Joy Haizelden and Charlotte Moore. She said it will be an \"absolute honour\" to represent Team England.\n\nThe 29-year-old - who lost her left leg through cancer as a teenager - is a key member of the Great Britain team that won world championship silver in 2018, and European silver the following year.\n\nThe 3x3 version of the sport is played on a half-court, with teams having just 12 seconds to shoot during each phase of play. Games are played over a single 10-minute period.\n\nRhys McClenaghan rose to prominence four years ago when he beat England's then-two-time Olympic champion Max Whitlock to pommel horse gold on the Gold Coast.\n\nAt one point, it looked like he wouldn't be allowed to compete in Birmingham, after the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) banned him because he has represented Ireland in international competition.\n\nHowever, in June, FIG changed its ruling after considerable anger from Commonwealth Games NI and a host of athletes and politicians, including Northern Ireland's Secretary of State Brandon Lewis and Tánaiste (Irish deputy PM) Leo Varadkar.\n\nSince his 2018 victory, 23-year-old McClenaghan has also won European gold and World Championship bronze, and with Whitlock opting to miss the 2022 Commonwealths, he has a good chance of defending his title.\n\nWelsh Para-cyclist James Ball already has two silver medals from the Commonwealth Games, but he will be hoping to stand on the top step four years on.\n\nThe visually impaired 31-year-old will re-ignite his on-track rivalry with Scotland's Neil Fachie, who beat him to gold in both the tandem B sprint and kilo at the 2018 Commonwealths, as well as in the 1,000m time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics.\n\nBut the gold medals at World Championship level have yo-yoed between the pair, with Ball taking sprint gold and Fachie kilo gold at the last edition in 2020.\n\nBall will be piloted by Matt Rotherham in Birmingham, who was Fachie's pilot in Tokyo and on the Gold Coast in 2018.\n\nDuncan Scott wrote his names in the history books last summer when he became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympic Games with his gold and three silvers.\n\nMultiple medals are the Scottish swimmer's speciality - he brought home six from the 2018 Commonwealths in Australia - but his build-up to this year's Games hasn't been smooth sailing after he was forced to pull out of June's World Championships with issues in his Covid-19 recovery.\n\nHe faces tough competition in Birmingham from England's Tom Dean, who became the new name on everyone's lips in 2021 when he won double gold at the Olympics, just a couple of months after winning six medals at the European Championships.\n\nThe pair are expected to go head-to-head in six events at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, but is there actually a rivalry between them?\n\n\"We're just good mates - there's nothing else to it really,\" said Scott.\n\nSuch is Bethany Firth's desire to win Commonwealth Games gold, she has delayed her honeymoon in order to put her everything into winning the one major title missing from her collection.\n\nBirmingham will be the first time Firth's main event - the S14 200m freestyle - has been included in the Commonwealth Games.\n\nThe 26-year-old already has six Paralympic golds and three European titles, and won five golds at June's World Para-swimming Championships in Madeira.\n\n\"This is definitely the one that is missing,\" Firth said of a Commonwealth gold medal. \"I cannot lie, it is in my head pretty much every day.\"\n\nEngland's Jessica-Jane Applegate won five medals in Madeira, and will compete against Firth in the S14 200m freestyle - the event in which she was crowned Paralympic champion at London 2012.\n\nFresh from finishing third at the Tour de France, Geraint Thomas will swap his Ineos Grenadiers jersey for that of Team Wales as he prepares to compete in both the road race and time trial at his first Commonwealth Games since 2014.\n\nOn that occasion, he won time trial bronze and road race gold - becoming the first Welshman to win a Commonwealth Games cycling title.\n\nEight years on, Thomas knows the men's 160km road race course isn't ideal for his chances. But he said: \"So much can happen in a Commonwealth Games\".\n\nAs for two-time Olympic medallist Elinor Barker, the Commonwealths mark her return to major championships cycling after giving birth to her son, Nico, in March.\n\nBarker won points race gold four years ago but will focus on the women's 112km road race in Warwick.\n\n\"It feels like a win to be selected this time around,\" she said.\n\nNot ones to watch, but a date - and teams - to watch. Sunday 7 August, which could be a massive day for women's sport in England.\n\nEngland have a good chance of reaching the finals of the hockey, cricket and netball, all of which take place on the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams\n• None 'I thought one day I'd be in that band': Ronnie Wood talks candidly about his life as a Rolling Stone\n• None Could it be the first to detect signs of life on a distant planet?", "Oleksiy Vadatursky was worth $450m (£369m), according to a 2020 estimate by Forbes\n\nOne of Ukraine's richest businessmen has been killed with his wife in \"massive\" Russian shelling of the southern city of Mykolaiv.\n\nOleksiy Vadatursky, 74, and his wife Raisa died when a missile hit their home overnight, local officials said.\n\nMr Vadatursky owned Nibulon, a company involved in grain exports. He had also received the \"Hero of Ukraine\" award.\n\nMykolaiv mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said it was probably the heaviest Russian bombardment of the city so far.\n\nThere was damage to a hotel, a sports complex, two schools and a service station, as well as homes.\n\nMykolaiv is on the main route to Odesa, Ukraine's biggest port on the Black Sea, and has been hit repeatedly since Russia launched its invasion on 24 February.\n\nA number of houses in Mykolaiv were destroyed in the latest Russian shelling, local officials say\n\nThe region's leader, Vitaliy Kim, said Mr Vadatursky's \"contribution to the development of the agricultural and shipbuilding industry, the development of the region is invaluable\".\n\nAn adviser to President Zelensky's office said he believed Russia had deliberately targeted the businessman.\n\nMykhailo Podolyak said one of the missiles had hit the businessman's bedroom, adding that this left \"no doubt\" it had been guided.\n\nNibulon has built many storage facilities and other infrastructure for exporting grain.\n\nUkraine and Russia are major exporters of wheat and other grains, and the disruption of exports caused by the war has sent food prices soaring worldwide.\n\nThe two countries signed a UN-brokered agreement in Turkey last week, aimed at easing the food crisis. The deal was almost derailed by a Russian attack on the Odesa port the following day.\n\nThe resumption of Ukrainian exports has been further delayed by security checks. But on Sunday Turkey said the first ship carrying grain was expected to leave Odesa on Monday morning.\n\nUkraine accuses Russian forces of stealing grain from farms on occupied land and exporting it via Crimea - Ukraine's southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Russia denies Ukrainian claims.\n\nThe reason given by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev was an alleged Ukrainian drone strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters. The fleet has long been based in Sevastopol.\n\nA senator in Crimea later said a drone had been launched from within Sevastopol, and the perpetrators would be found by the evening.\n\n\"The liberation of our Crimea will take place differently and much more efficiently,\" he said.\n\nA photo posted by Governor Razvozhayev showed him in a courtyard littered with leaves, but with no obvious structural damage. He said the Navy Day celebrations had been cancelled for security reasons.\n\nThe scene after an alleged drone hit on the Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol\n\nNavy Day is an annual Russian holiday, and celebrations are taking place across Russia. President Vladimir Putin is overseeing events in St Petersburg, his home city.\n\nHe signed a new naval doctrine naming the US as Moscow's main rival, and also setting out the Kremlin's global maritime ambitions for key areas such as the Arctic and in the Black Sea.\n\nIn a blow to the Black Sea Fleet, in April, its flagship Moskva sank after what Ukraine described as a strike with two Neptune missiles.\n\nRussia admitted there had been a big fire on board caused by exploding ammunition, without attributing it to a Ukrainian attack, and said the missile cruiser had sunk in a storm while being towed.\n\nIt remains unclear how many Russian sailors were killed or injured in the ship's demise.\n\nIn the north, Ukraine's second city Kharkiv was hit by Russian missiles again, mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Three Russian S-300 missiles reportedly struck a school there, destroying the main building, he said.\n\nThe BBC was unable to verify the latest reports.\n\nIn a late-night address on Saturday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky told all civilians still living in parts of eastern Donetsk region under Ukrainian control to evacuate.\n\nThe region has seen heavy clashes amid a slow advance by Russian forces, who already control large parts of it.\n\n\"The more people leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will have time to kill,\" Mr Zelensky said. \"We will use all available opportunities to save as many lives as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: President Zelensky's message to civilians in Donetsk region: \"We will help you, we are not Russia\"", "Hertfordshire Police was contacted just before 17:00 BST after the teenager had not resurfaced\n\nPolice searching for a 14-year-old boy who got into difficulties in a lake have recovered a body.\n\nHertfordshire Police received reports of a teenager failing to resurface in North Met Lake in Cheshunt just before 17:00 BST on Monday.\n\nA police helicopter and divers were joined by fire and ambulance crews.\n\nA body was recovered just before 23:00. Formal identification has not yet taken place but the boy's next of kin have been informed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The blast ripped through the terraced house on Monday morning\n\nNeighbours of a young girl who was killed in an explosion say they want answers from their gas supplier.\n\nThree other people were taken to hospital after the blast at a house in Thornton Heath, south London.\n\nResidents say they reported a strong smell of gas two weeks ago and recently saw engineers working in the area.\n\nTheir MP, Siobhain McDonagh, said Southern Gas Networks (SGN) had \"very serious questions to answer\". It says it is trying to find out what happened.\n\nThe Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden added: \"There is a lot of anger around SGN and delays in resolving the gas leak.\"\n\nAbout 100 people have been evacuated from their homes since Monday morning's explosion, which happened days after workers were seen digging holes nearby.\n\nAmarjit Kaur photographed gas engineers working in the area last week\n\nA police cordon was extended on Tuesday lunchtime at the request of the Health and Safety Executive which is seeing elevated gas readings, according to London Fire Brigade (LFB).\n\nPolice confirmed the body of a girl, believed to be aged four, was recovered from a house in Galpin's Road.\n\nMerton Council said the blast was caused by gas, describing it as a \"major incident\", while LFB is investigating the cause.\n\nSGN said its \"deepest sympathies are with the family of the child who has tragically died as well as those who have been injured\".\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"We'd like to reassure everyone that our engineers are working closely with the emergency services to establish the cause of the explosion.\"\n\nShe added that SGN would continue to have a presence in the area in the coming days and weeks and that given the ongoing police investigation, it was unable to comment any further at this stage.\n\nOne neighbour described cutting his arm after being knocked out of bed by a \"massive boom\" on Monday at about 07:10 BST.\n\nNeil Novis was knocked out of bed\n\nNeil Novis told the BBC one of those rescued was \"really badly burnt\" and \"in a bad way\".\n\nHe said: \"I just can't emphasise enough how badly I feel for the family and how well the emergency services have done.\"\n\nResidents were briefed on the situation by Merton Council officers, the Metropolitan Police and LFB at the nearby New Horizon Centre on Monday evening.\n\nSome grew agitated and raised their voices as they were told they would not be able to return to their homes and that workers had been unable to turn off the gas.\n\nTributes have been placed beside the police cordon\n\nThe Reverend Deji Ayorinde, of the nearby Pollards Hill Baptist Church, said there was \"anger in the room\".\n\n\"There is anger in the community surrounding unanswered questions,\" he added.\n\nMr Ayorinde said there was also anger that no representatives of gas companies were at the briefing to answer questions.\n\nHe added: \"This thing was reported and it still wasn't resolved days or weeks later.\n\n\"Who takes ownership for that? The anger has built up because it has now cost a life and that's a catalyst for the strength of emotion around this.\"\n\nNeighbours are not yet allowed to return to their homes\n\nThe electricity was switched off in Galpin's Road as a precaution, which also affected households that were not in the cordoned-off exclusion zone.\n\nResidents were being housed in nearby accommodation by the council, with one suggesting that authorities said it could take up to 10 days before they could return home.\n\nChildren have written touching tributes in chalk on the ground near the scene.\n\nOne said \"spread your wings\" alongside drawings of hearts and rainbows beside the police cordon at the junction of Berkshire Way and Galpin's Road.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Issey Miyake at a catwalk show in Paris in 1997\n\nRevolutionary Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has died aged 84, his company has announced.\n\nKnown for his innovative styles and perfume, Miyake built a global fashion brand, which included designing Steve Jobs' famous black turtle neck jumpers.\n\nMiyake was known to work with traditional and modern fashion techniques during his long career.\n\nHe died of liver cancer on Friday, and a private funeral has already taken place, Japanese media report.\n\nBorn in Hiroshima in 1938, Miyake was just seven years old when the city was devastated by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States. His mother died of radiation exposure three years later.\n\n\"When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience,\" he wrote in a New York Times opinion piece in 2009 - adding that he prefers to think of things \"that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy\".\n\nMiyake reportedly wanted to be a dancer or athlete when he was young - but that changed after he read his sister's fashion magazines.\n\nHe studied graphic design at a Tokyo art university and then moved to Paris in the 1960s, where he worked with lauded fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy.\n\nHe moved to New York for a short time, before heading back to Tokyo in 1970 to open the Miyake Design Studio.\n\nBy the 1980s he was celebrated as one of the world's most pioneering designers as he worked with materials from plastic to metal - and also traditional Japanese material and paper.\n\nThe Pleats, Please line on the catwalk in Paris in 1995\n\nMiyake developed a new way of pleating fabric by wrapping it between layers of paper in a heat press.\n\nIt was a phenomenal success - various tests proved the pleats stayed in place and didn't wrinkle, and it lead to his signature line called Pleats, Please.\n\nMiyake's distinctive Bao Bao line of bags, recognisable for their small resin triangles, was celebrated for its engineering and was so popular that knock-offs flooded the fake designer market.\n\nHe became known for creating a style that was high-tech yet practical and comfortable, and was a household name in not only Japan's fashion industry - but on the global catwalk.\n\nHis fashion house developed highly sought-after clothes for men and women, as well as bags, watches and perfumes - a bottle of L'Eau d'Issey, launched in 1992, was rumoured to sell every 14 seconds.\n\nHis A-POC (A Piece of Clothing) line, which can now be seen in museums, used a special weaving machine that made outfits out of one continuous tube of fabric.\n\nMiyake was asked by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to design his iconic turtle neck jumpers and reportedly made 100 of them, at $175 each.\n\nHe was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for his dedication to the arts in 2006, and received the Order of Culture in 2010 for \"remarkable accomplishments\" in Japan's culture and arts.\n\n\"Design needs to express hope,\" Issey Miyake famously said, as he believed in the role of fashion in questioning how humans should exist - instead of making money.\n\nFor people here, he is one of a few Japanese names which get recognised around the world, along with Yoko Ono.\n\nNot many will know about his traumatic childhood, as Miyake himself didn't talk about it until his later years.\n\nIt was because, he wrote in 2009, he didn't want to be known as \"the designer who survived the atomic bomb\".\n\nMiyake may have chosen not to talk about it for a long time, but Japan's revolutionary designer left us one day before the 77th anniversary of his hometown's bombing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the Russia-appointed regional administration there said.\n\nSergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula's western coast.\n\nFootage circulating on social media appeared to show several explosions.\n\nRussia's defence ministry later said ammunition was detonated, but this has not been independently verified.\n\nThe ministry said there was no \"fire impact\" on the ammunition storage area, Russia's state-run Ria news agency reports.\n\nThe Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014 is a popular destination with Russian tourists, and one video appeared to show visitors fleeing from a beach as smoke rose in the background.\n\nLocal witnesses told the Reuters agency that they heard at least 12 blasts, beginning at about 15:20 local time (12:20 GMT).\n\nAfter arriving in the area, Mr Aksyonov said a 5km (3 mile) no-go zone around the blast site had been established.\n\nSpeaking to Dozhd TV channel, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Kyiv was not responsible for the explosions.\n\nEarlier, Ukraine's military posted a sarcastic statement on Facebook which hinted at the sinking of the Moskva warship and other military setbacks, reminding Russia of its \"fire safety rules and the ban of smoking in unsettled places\".\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devoted his nightly video address to Crimea, but did not directly mention the explosions.\n\n\"Crimea is Ukrainian, and we will never give it up,\" Mr Zelensky said in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe war \"began with Crimea and must end with Crimea - with its liberation\", he added - suggesting that he believes Ukraine must retake the peninsula before the war can end.\n\nRussia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, after a referendum which was seen as illegitimate by the international community. The vote was hastily organised after unmarked Russian troops took control of several strategic locations around the peninsula.\n\nEarlier that year, months of pro-European protests had culminated in the ousting of Ukraine's Russian-backed president.\n\nOn 24 February this year, Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, using Crimea as a springboard to move Russian troops deeper inside Ukraine.\n\nNovofedorivka and Saky are about 50km (30 miles) north of the port of Sevastopol, home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which has been leading a blockade of the Ukrainian coastline.\n\nIf it emerges Ukraine was responsible for this attack, that would be a significant escalation. It would be the first major attack on a target inside Crimea proper.\n\nThe Ukrainians have come close: in June 2022, the Russia-appointed \"leader\" of Crimea said that Ukrainian forces had fired on Black Sea oil drilling platforms in Crimean waters, resulting in several casualties. And at the end of July, Russian authorities said a drone had struck a Russian naval facility in the city of Sevastopol, injuring six.\n\nCrimea is internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory, but Russia has ruled the peninsula for eight years and Russian state structures and military facilities are very well established.\n\nFor the Kremlin, Crimea has a quasi-sacred status, seen as \"historically\" Russian land that Moscow \"re-acquired\" triumphantly in 2014. An attack so deep inside Crimean territory would be a major embarrassment for President Putin.\n\nAnd there are fears that if the Ukrainians begin systematically attacking Russian targets inside Crimea, then the Russian response could be very serious indeed. Last month, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the powerful Security Council, said that if Crimea were attacked, then \"Judgement Day will instantly await all those [involved]. It will be very fast and very hard.\"", "A soft toy is visible in a room exposed by the explosion\n\nA child, believed to be a four-year-old girl, has died and three other people are in hospital after a terraced home collapsed following a gas explosion and fire in south London.\n\nThe explosion, on Galpin's Road in Thornton Heath, happened at about 07:10 BST, and also damaged other houses.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the girl's next of kin have been informed and an investigation is under way.\n\nResidents say they had reported a strong gas smell two weeks ago.\n\nMerton Council said the blast was caused by gas, describing it as a \"major incident\".\n\nRichard Welch, London Fire Brigade (LFB) deputy assistant commissioner, told journalists during a press conference that affected residents were being looked after by Merton Council.\n\n\"They are currently in a rest centre and they will be provided with accommodation until they can get back in their homes.\n\n\"We are working with the local authority to make sure any medication or whatever else is being provided.\"\n\nUrban search-and-rescue teams, including dogs, at the scene in Galpin's Road\n\nTwo neighbours, Kutoya Kukanda, 50, and Delroy Simms, 62, said they helped rescue three children from the rubble.\n\nResidents described the children who lived in the house as \"lively\" and \"happy\".\n\n\"They were always mischievous, happy and bouncing around.\"\n\nKutoya Kukanda and Delroy Simms said they helped to find the surviving children in the rubble\n\nGas specialists are also at the scene\n\nAbout 40 properties have been evacuated as a precaution. A 50m cordon is in place.\n\nPeople who were evacuated from Galpin's Road in their pyjamas after the blast said their windows were shattered in the explosion.\n\nIn a statement, Merton Council said: \"Firefighters are currently carrying out systematic searches and working to make the scene safe.\"\n\nNeighbouring properties were also damaged in the blast\n\nAn evacuation centre has been established at the New Horizons Centre.\n\nA spokeswoman from gas distribution company SGN, which is the gas emergency service in the area, said: \"Following the explosion in Galpin's Road, Thornton Heath, earlier today, our deepest sympathies are with the family of the child who has tragically died as well as those who have been injured.\n\n\"We'd like to reassure everyone that our engineers are working closely with the emergency services to establish the cause of the explosion. Given the ongoing police investigation, it is inappropriate to comment any further at this stage.\"\n\nFirefighters have been working to make the scene safe\n\nLFB has said the cause of the explosion is unknown, and confirmed that crews would continue to work at the scene for the rest of the day and overnight.\n\nMr Welch added that the fire brigade was not searching for anyone else following the explosion.\n\nResponding to a question over residents stating they could smell gas over the last two weeks, Mr Welch said: \"Unfortunately we can't say if it's gas that's caused it.\n\n\"It will become a police investigation now.\n\n\"We dealt with the emergency phase of the incident and we will be handing it over to local authorities and local police.\"\n\nLFB's Richard Welch said crews would remain on site overnight\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nWarning: This article contains descriptions of distressing incidents\n\nToni Minichiello will \"never\" be allowed to coach again by UK Athletics after being found to have committed \"gross breaches of trust\" with sexually inappropriate conduct.\n\nThe 56-year-old, who had been subject of multiple complaints from women in athletics, was found to have committed 11 serious charges by an independent case-management group.\n\nVarious other charges were not proven.\n\nAn independent panel found Minichiello's actions to \"have had severe consequences for the mental health and mental wellbeing of the athletes under his charge\".\n\nThe findings relate to anonymous athletes over a 15-year period.\n\nHis coaching licence has expired and therefore cannot be subject to a sanction, however UKA says it has decided that it will not entertain any future application made by Minichiello.\n\n\"UKA is firmly of the view that there will never be a time in the future at which it would be appropriate to grant that assurance and issue such a licence,\" it said.\n\nMinichiello said he was \"disappointed\" with the decision and the process and strongly denies the charges.\n• None failed to respect the athletes' right to a private life by making intrusive enquiries and personal comments about their personal lives.\n• None engaged in sexually physical behaviour, namely inappropriate and unwanted touching of athletes to whom he owed a duty of care.\n• None engaged in inappropriate and sometimes aggressive behaviour, bullying and emotional abuse.\n\nThe panel added that Minichiello had mimicked sexual activity with athletes and inappropriately and unwantedly touched some, while also making intrusive enquiries and derogatory comments about their personal lives.\n\nThis included making inappropriate comments about some of his athletes' relationships and boyfriends, telling one she would \"never get married\" and \"never have kids\".\n\nMinichiello was also found to have made one athlete sit in a corner with a cone on their head as a dunce's hat.\n\nUKA said it \"wishes to recognise those who came forward to give evidence in this case. We thank them and strongly encourage anyone with a concern to come forward\".\n\nIt is understood UKA is liaising with the complainants over whether they wish for the matter to be passed on to the police.\n\nMinichiello guided Jessica Ennis-Hill to Olympic glory at London 2012. He has also commentated on athletics for BBC TV.\n\nEnnis-Hill said she had found the news \"shocking and upsetting\".\n\nPosting on Instagram she added: \"The allegations are awful and although I was never on the receiving end of any sexual physical behaviour, any such inappropriate behaviour or language has no place in any coaching or work environment.\n\n\"Everyone should feel safe from any form of physical or mental abuse.\"\n\nIn a response to the findings, Minichiello said: \"I have not behaved inappropriately towards any of my athletes as very many of them would confirm.\"\n\nHe also said the investigation was \"one-sided\" and that \"the tribunal failed to engage properly with the available evidence\", citing an example in which he said he was in a different country to a complainant at the time of one allegation.\n\n\"It is very important that UK Athletics respond quickly and seriously to serious allegations of misconduct, especially when those allegations are made by young people,\" he continued.\n\n\"However, those investigations and tribunals need to be conducted carefully, with due process and fairly. I do not believe that I have been treated fairly in this instance.\"\n• None How can you save money on meat? Here are some helpful tips on reducing your spend\n• None Why are some people still unvaccinated? Hannah Fry meets some of them to find out the reasons", "Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have turned the site into a military base to launch attacks against Ukrainian positions, the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company says.\n\nPetro Kotin told the BBC the threat to the plant was \"great\", but that it remained safe.\n\nFor days, Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for attacks on the site, Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising concerns of a major accident.\n\nThe complex has been under Russian occupation since early March, although Ukrainian technicians still operate it.\n\nOver the weekend, Ukraine accused Russian forces of attacking the Soviet-era site, saying two workers were taken to hospital with shrapnel injuries and that three radiation sensors had been damaged.\n\nMr Kotin, who heads Enerhoatom, said 500 Russian soldiers were at the plant, and that they had positioned rocket launchers in the area, claims that cannot be independently verified.\n\n\"They [Russian forces] use it [the power plant] like a shield against the Ukrainian forces, because nobody from Ukraine is going to do something,\" Mr Kotin said.\n\n\"The Ukrainian Armed Forces know that these are Ukrainian personnel and this is a Ukrainian plant and there are Ukrainian people [there] so we aren't going to kill our people, our staff and damage our infrastructure.\"\n\nZaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest in Europe\n\nThe plant's staff, Mr Kotin said, were working under pressure and in danger, and some had been captured, beaten and tortured.\n\nHe said Russia's plans were to disconnect the plant from Ukraine's grid and eventually connect it to Russia's system.\n\nOleksandr Sayuk, the mayor of Nikopol, which sits on the opposite side of the Dnipro river, told the BBC last week that his city was under Russian shelling \"almost every night\", and that the attacks were being carried out by forces at the nuclear plant.\n\nThe tensions have led to growing calls for international inspectors to be allowed to visit the site.\n\nThe UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, said \"any attack [on] a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing\", while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described Russia's actions as \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\n\"There is no such nation in the world that could feel safe when a terrorist state fires at a nuclear plant,\" Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address on Sunday.\n\nRussia, however, denied the accusations, and blamed the Ukrainian forces for the attacks. The country's defence ministry said a high-voltage power line had been damaged as a result of the shelling.\n\nThe Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank, said last week that Russia was using the plant to play on Western fears of a nuclear disaster, \"likely in an effort to degrade Western will to provide military support\" to Ukraine.", "The PM has defended leaving decisions on the cost-of-living crisis to his successor who takes over in September.\n\nBoris Johnson said he was \"absolutely certain\" his successor would do more to help people with rising fuel bills.\n\nBut Labour accused him of leaving a \"political vacuum\" and called on the government not to wait but to act now.\n\nTory leadership candidate Liz Truss has promised tax cuts, while her rival Rishi Sunak vowed to provide more money to vulnerable households.\n\nThe outgoing PM has ruled out spending commitments during his remaining time in office, despite pressure from opposition parties.\n\nSpeaking during an event at Downing Street, Mr Johnson said he was confident the government had the economic tools to \"look after people\".\n\nOn his successor, he said: \"Whoever he or she may be, they, I'm absolutely certain, will be wanting to make some more announcements in September, October about what we're going to do further in the next period, in December, January.\n\n\"I just want you to know that I'm absolutely confident we will have the fiscal firepower and the headroom to look after people as we've done throughout.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted inflation - how fast prices are rising - will hit 13% and the UK will plunge into a recession later this year.\n\nAnd consultancy Cornwall Insight has warned that energy bills for a typical household could hit £4,266 next year.\n\nMs Truss said her policies will focus on cutting taxes to let people \"keep more of their own money\"\n\nShadow foreign secretary David Lammy criticised the government for not acting on the rise in the energy price cap.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he added: \"There is a lot that we need to do, but at the moment what we have got is bickering in the Conservative party, a race to the bottom amongst the candidates, an absent prime minister nowhere to be seen.\n\n\"We have got this political vacuum as people worry, fret, and struggle their into dealing with this crisis.\"\n\n\"This needs a rapid response from government and it needs a response now - why are we waiting? We had a debate about having the prime minister in office. He's in office. He can act.\"\n\nBusiness lobby group the CBI has also called for more action now, whilst the Liberal Democrats called for October's expected energy price cap rise to be scrapped, with the cost covered by a wider windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nWhat to do about rising energy prices has become a central theme of the contest between Ms Truss and Mr Sunak to replace Mr Johnson.\n\nMr Sunak, who is trailing Ms Truss in the polls, has vowed to provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he wins.\n\nIn an interview with ITV, the former chancellor said he could not yet put a figure on this level of support because \"we don't know exactly what energy bills are going to go up by\" - but agreed it would amount to \"hundreds of pounds more\".\n\nHe has said the extra help can be funded whilst keeping additional public borrowing to an \"absolute minimum\" by making \"efficiency savings\" in government. However, he has not set out details.\n\nPressed on how this would be funded, Mr Sunak told ITV the total bill would be \"much smaller\" than the £15bn cost of the package of measures he announced in May, and his plan to fund it through savings was \"manageable\".\n\nMs Truss, the foreign secretary, has instead focused on her pledge to lower taxes, which she argues will help households by putting more money in their pockets and boosting economic growth.\n\nBut in recent days, she has come under fire after she indicated there would be no more \"handouts\" if she became prime minister, despite the energy bills forecast.\n\nRepeatedly pressed on whether she would provide direct support to households, Ms Truss told reporters: \"What I don't believe in is taxing people to the highest level in 70 years, and then giving them their own money back.\n\n\"My fundamental principle is that people keep more of their own money.\"\n\nMs Truss said she would not comment on what was going to be in an emergency budget she has proposed, insisting she would wait to \"see what the situation is like in the future\".\n\nMr Sunak has argued Ms Truss's tax cuts - worth an estimated £30bn - would stoke inflation and saddle the UK with debt.\n\nHis campaign said Ms Truss's latest commitment to tax cuts rather than direct support showed she was \"divorced from reality\".\n\n\"Liz Truss has doubled down, refusing five times to say she will provide direct support for British families and pensioners this winter,\" a Sunak campaign source said.\n\n\"Under her plans Liz will get £1,800 of support whilst hard working families will get as little as £60, while facing the same rises in bills.\n\n\"Liz's plan will not touch the sides for the majority of British families this winter and pensioners will get no help whatsoever.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFounder of Money Saving Expert, Martin Lewis, has called on both Ms Truss and Mr Sunak to come up with \"an action plan\" to tackle rising energy costs \"today\".\n\nReferring to the expected rise to the energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge their customers in England, Scotland and Wales - \"the January figure equates to 45% of the full new state pension\", Mr Lewis said.\n\n\"These amounts are unaffordable for millions,\" he said.\n\nMr Lewis said the leadership race \"must not ignore this portentous national cataclysm any more\".\n\nMs Truss and Mr Sunak are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and prime minister.\n\nThe party's roughly 160,000 members started receiving ballot papers on Monday, with the result due on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.", "The search at Donald Trump's home is highly unusual and marks a major step by prosecutors investigating his actions\n\nDonald Trump has said his Florida home was raided by the FBI, in a dramatic escalation of the legal investigations into the former US president.\n\nIn a lengthy statement on Monday evening, Mr Trump said a \"large group\" of FBI agents were at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and had broken open a safe.\n\nThe search is reportedly linked to an investigation into his handling of classified and sensitive material.\n\nThe FBI and the Department of Justice have not yet commented.\n\nAn unnamed law enforcement official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that the Secret Service was notified shortly before the warrant was served at about 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) and that agents protecting Mr Trump helped the FBI investigators.\n\nSeveral boxes were taken away, the source said, adding that no doors were kicked down and the search had concluded by late afternoon.\n\nSome reports suggest the FBI activity - which Mr Trump described as an \"unannounced raid\" - was connected to an investigation into whether the former president removed classified records and sensitive material from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.\n\nEric Trump, the president's second-oldest son, told Fox News that it was related to an investigation into the handling of National Archives (NA) records that were taken to the Florida residence after his father left office.\n\nUS presidents are required by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) to transfer all of their documents and emails to the NA.\n\nThe government agency said in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of papers from Mar-a-Lago, which Mr Trump should have turned over when he left the White House. It later told Congress the boxes included items marked as classified national security information and asked the Justice Department to investigate.\n\nMr Trump at the time rejected reports that he had mishandled official records as \"fake news\".\n\nA federal search warrant must be signed by a judge and legal experts suggest this warrant was probably approved at the top levels of the Justice Department.\n\nAlthough such a warrant does not suggest that criminal charges are expected, law enforcement agencies must first demonstrate the possibility that evidence of illegality will be found.\n\nThe FBI and the Justice Department rarely comment on active investigations and neither has issued a statement.\n\nThe search marks a major escalation in the months-long investigation into the handling of classified documents and comes as Mr Trump - who was in New York at the time - prepares for a possible further presidential run in 2024.\n\nIn his statement, he said he had co-operated with all relevant government agencies and so the \"unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate\".\n\n\"Such an assault could only take place in broken, Third-World countries,\" he said. \"Sadly, America has now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mar-a-Lago is a private members' club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway\n\nNews of the search has mobilised some of Donald Trump's supporters. A group gathered outside Mar-a-Lago to wave flags and express their anger while others have travelled to Trump Tower in New York.\n\nMeanwhile, in Congress, many Republicans expressed their anger. House of Representatives Republican minority leader Kevin McCarthy said: \"The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponised politicisation.\"\n\nA senior White House official told CBS that President Joe Biden's administration was given no notice of the FBI search in Florida on Monday. The White House has said it is limiting its interactions with Justice Department officials to avoid any hint of political pressure or impropriety.\n\nWe don't know what the FBI were looking for, but the judiciary don't issue search warrants on a whim or so that agents can go on a fishing exercise.\n\nThere has to be credible evidence of a crime - and the judge has to be satisfied a search of that specific property could turn it up.\n\nAs to which crime the search involves, that's a question we don't know the answer to, as the justice department is yet to comment.\n\nOne possibility is the mishandling of classified documents, which a grand jury is already looking into. That can carry a three-year jail term.\n\nLegal jeopardy is of course bad news for the former president, but don't believe for a minute this isn't also an enormous political opportunity - a shot in the arm Donald Trump relishes as he contemplates another run at the White House.\n\nOne look at his statement demonstrates the point: it is vintage Trump.\n\nAll the familiar buttons get pressed - witch hunts, hoaxes, political persecution - steeped in the familiar, superlative-laden language of the outsider pursued by a corrupt state.\n\nIt's already galvanised senior Republicans to threaten investigations into the Justice Department if they take back Congress in November's mid-term elections.\n\nStrap yourself in: the Trump show is back on the road.", "The price of olive oil is set to rise as heatwaves hit production in Spain, a leading exporter has warned.\n\nAcesur, which supplies the UK's biggest supermarkets, told the BBC this would feed through into prices in shops in the next three to four months when companies renew their contracts.\n\nThe company's export manager, Miguel Colmenero, said customers could see prices rise by 20-25%.\n\nSpain produces nearly half of the world's olive oil.\n\nBut the country, along with other parts of Western Europe which produce olive oil, including Italy and Portugal, has been experiencing extreme temperatures and a lack of rain in recent weeks.\n\nAcesur is involved in the production of more than 200,000 tonnes of olive oil a year, out of the roughly 1.4 million tonnes produced in Spain annually, and sells its products in more than 100 countries.\n\nIt sells around 20,000 tonnes a year in the UK and packs own-label brands for Sainsbury's, Tesco, Waitrose, Morrisons and Asda. The supermarkets also stock its La Espanola brand, which is the third biggest in the UK.\n\nMost of the olives in its products are grown in Andalucia, southern Spain, which has had very little rainfall in recent weeks.\n\nMr Colmenero said the impact of the heatwave on production was \"drastic\".\n\nLast year, Spain produced around 1.4 million tonnes of olive oil but he said officials were now forecasting as little as one million tonnes for this season.\n\nHe added that the dry weather could also impact next season's crop, if olive trees could not grow new branches due to lack of water.\n\nThis is having an impact on global prices. In July the Mintec benchmark price for extra virgin olive oil rose to its highest level so far this year, up by 7.3% on the previous month and 14.2% on the previous year, according to the market research group.\n\nMr Colmenero said this would eventually feed through into prices for customers, although there would be a three to four month lag because many companies would already have signed 12-month contracts with retailers.\n\nHowever, he added companies would eventually have to raise their prices when they renewed contracts and customers could see increases of 20-25%.\n\nThe BBC contacted the UK's other biggest olive oil brands, including Filippo Berio and Napolina, but did not get a response.\n\nItaly's olive crop has also been reduced by heatwaves and drought\n\nThe average price of own-label olive oil in the four biggest UK supermarket chains was up 50.2% on last year at the beginning of August, according to retail research firm Assosia. From June to July, average prices increased 28.5%.\n\nIf the dry weather continues, Roxanne Nikoro, a market analyst for Mintec, said prices could rise further.\n\nHowever, she added that if the grain corridor agreed from Ukraine led to more supplies of sunflower oil coming out of the country, this \"could bring some relief\".\n\nMr Colmenero said disruption to the supply of sunflower oil from Ukraine was also contributing to \"dramatic\" price increases, as people turned to olive oil as an alternative, increasing demand.\n\nUkraine was previously the world's top exporter of sunflower oil.\n\nOther parts of Western Europe which produce olive oil have also experienced record high temperatures and Mr Colmenero said this would reduce production in other countries too.\n\nIn July, Italy declared a state of emergency in five northern regions surrounding the Po River, as it experienced the worst drought in 70 years.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nLegendary Birmingham rocker Ozzy Osbourne made a surprise appearance to bring the curtain down on a hugely successful Commonwealth Games in fabulous fashion.\n\nOsbourne and his band Black Sabbath received a rapturous ovation from the 30,000 capacity crowd at the Alexander Stadium as they provided a fitting climax to a star-studded closing ceremony.\n\nThe 73-year-old 'Prince of Darkness' has not performed for several years due to ill health.\n\n\"I love you, Birmingham - it's good to be back!\" he shouted as he rose through the stage to round off the show with classic hit Paranoid.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, officially declared the Games closed after the flag handover to Victoria, the Australian state that will host the 2026 edition.\n\n\"Thanks to the manner, style and enthusiasm with which you have competed, officiated, supported organised and volunteered, you have once again brought the spirit and values of the Commonwealth Games to life,\" he said.\n\n\"You have inspired us and hopefully future generations - you have also demonstrated what unites us. Thank you Birmingham and the West Midlands.\"\n\nEarlier, other famed Brummie acts including Dexys Midnight Runners, Apache Indian, Musical Youth, UB40 and Panjabi MC entertained the crowd with classic hits amid a parade featuring hundreds of athletes who competed during the 11-day Games.\n\nTeam England, who collected a record 176 medals during the Games, were the last to enter the stadium to a euphoric reception from the home supporters.\n• None Relive the closing ceremony as it happened\n\nMore than 1.3 million tickets were sold during the Games across 24 sports - with organisers estimating that more than 500,000 of those were snapped up by West Midlands residents who took the event to their hearts.\n\nThat extended not only to those who attended the sports themselves but also hundreds of thousands more who packed festival sites at event venues and other city landmarks to enjoy the action on big screens, meet the Perry the Bull mascot and soak up the atmosphere.\n\nMore than 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories competed in 280 medal events across 11 days, yielding a host of fantastic feats, stirring stories and memorable moments.\n\nWith the sun shining virtually throughout the week and a half in the West Midlands, the weather played its part too and that continued with a closing ceremony bathed in warm evening temperatures.\n\nOne of the ceremony's loudest ovations was reserved for Games organising committee chair John Crabtree's heartfelt speech, thanking the 14,000 volunteers for their efforts and the crowds for their support.\n\nHe also praised the seamless way disability sports had been integrated into Birmingham 2022, which featured the largest Para-sports programme in Commonwealth Games history.\n\n\"I think Birmingham should be so, so proud, they have put on an incredible Games,\" five-time Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds, from nearby Walsall, told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Sport has the power to change the world and you can see it in Birmingham.\"\n\nThe closing ceremony began with a huge chimney soaring up from the stage, signifying Birmingham's industrial history and post-war rebuild, before cult 1980s band Dexys Midnight Runners got the crowd rocking with a rendition of their iconic hit Come On Eileen.\n\nBirmingham's multi-cultural heritage, beginning with the arrival of Caribbean and Asian communities into the city in the 1950s and 1960s, was celebrated through performances of Apache Indian's Boom Shack-A-Lak and Musical Youth's Pass The Dutchie.\n\nThat theme of the Second City's diverse communities continued as reggae legends UB40's Red, Red Wine was followed by model Neelam Gill making an appearance during Panjabi MC's Bhangra hit Mundian To Bach Ke.\n\nMusicians from the wider West Midlands including Goldie, Beverley Knight - the soul singer wearing a Wolverhampton Wanderers kit - and Jorja Smith also performed during a glittering ceremony.\n\nOf course, Birmingham would not be Birmingham without a nod to the ever-popular Peaky Blinders TV drama via a dance routine, which preceded a powerful segment featuring some of the area's young spoken word and musical talents foreshadowing the city's - hopefully bright - future.\n\nThe handover to Victoria for the 2026 Games, where the host nation promises to deliver the \"first true multi-city Commonwealth Games\" across several cities, was followed by Australian songs and choreography, before Osbourne produced the surprise of the night with his unexpected finale.\n\nA fortnight ago, Jake Jarman was a virtually unknown young gymnast preparing for his first major senior championship - four gold medals later, he's almost a household name at the age of 20.\n\nJarman's nomination as England's flagbearer for the closing ceremony reflected not only his leap from obscurity to stardom, but also the host nation's unparalleled gymnastics success at the Games.\n\nThe 11 gold medals England's gymnasts won was unsurpassed by any other sport, with triumphs for hometown favourites Joe Fraser and Alice Kinsella adding to the Arena Birmingham crowd's fervour.\n\nFrom Alex Yee's scene-setting triathlon gold on the Games' opening morning, through emotional comebacks from cyclist Laura Kenny and swimmer Adam Peaty, there were individual stories aplenty.\n\nBut the team events provided just as much drama, not least England men's thrilling overtime 3x3 basketball final triumph against Canada and the women's hockey final victory over Australia.\n\nIn a Games that, for the first time, featured more medals for women than men, double medallist Eilish McColgan was chosen as Scotland's flagbearer after the women's 10,000m champion and Laura Muir provided the golden highlights of their nation's athletics efforts.\n\nAnd success in the boxing ring - always a strong suit for the home nations - was reflected by Rosie Eccles and Dylan Eagleson carrying the Wales and Northern Ireland flags respectively.\n\nAway from the action, the Games captured the imagination of a region and a nation - but they were just as successful from a sporting point of view for the host country.\n\nEngland enjoyed their best ever Commonwealth Games medal tally of 176, beating the haul gained at Glasgow 2014 by two, although the 57 golds won were one shy of the 58 claimed eight years ago.\n\nEven that terrific total was not enough for England to repeat their 2014 feat of topping the medals table as Australia took that honour by virtue of 10 more golds and two more medals overall.\n\nIt was a Games to remember for the other home nations too, with Northern Ireland recording their largest Commonwealth medal return and Scotland registering their second highest.\n\nScotland finished sixth in the medal table with their 51 medals and 13 golds, second only to their home Games tallies of 53 and 19 respectively at Glasgow 2014.\n\nNorthern Ireland's 18 medals and seven golds were both new records, beating marks set last century, while Wales enjoyed their fourth-best Commonwealth Games with 28 medals.\n\nThere was joy too for Guernsey as the Channel Island claimed its first Commonwealth medals in 28 years with Lucy Beere's lawn bowls silver and Alastair Chalmers' men's 400m hurdles bronze.", "Ryan Holmes of the catering group Compass (centre) has used the Oxford method to reduce the environmental impact of its workplace meals\n\nSupermarket shoppers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food before putting it in their trolleys, thanks to new research.\n\nReliable information of this kind hasn't been available.\n\nThat's because UK manufacturers only have to list their main ingredients, and that's by percentage, not amount.\n\nScientists have overcome the problem by using public databases to estimate the composition of thousands of food products and their impact.\n\nMany consumers want to know how their weekly food shop affects the planet, even though rising prices will likely be a more immediate concern for most.\n\nProf Peter Scarborough from Oxford University told BBC News he hopes that the research leads to an eco-labelling system for customers, but he believes that the bigger impact would come if the food industry uses it to cut its environmental footprint.\n\nHe said the food industry has also been \"crying out\" for the new tool and that the algorithm is already being used by some manufacturers and caterers to make their meals more sustainable.\n\n\"It fills a huge gap. Manufacturers, caterers and retailers have targets for reaching net zero [emissions] and they don't have the tools they need to get there.\"\n\n\"Now they have this data, and some of them are talking to us about things they can do to help people move towards more sustainable food purchasing. The data could help manufacturers adjust their formulations.\"\n\nThe analysis has limits. Ingredient lists don't tend to show sourcing information such as country of origin or agricultural production method. But Dr Mike Clark, who led the research at Oxford University, called the tool \"a significant step towards providing information that could enable informed decision-making\".\n\nThe Oxford team estimated the composition of 57,000 foods and drinks in supermarkets in the UK and Ireland. It then assessed the impact of growing methods, processing and transport, against key environmental measures including greenhouse gas emissions and impacts on nature.\n\nThe team developed an algorithm to calculate an eco-score for the environmental impact of individual food and drink products.\n\nCatering firm Compass Group began working with the researchers in January.\n\nIts Culinary Director for Business and Industry Ryan Holmes, told BBC News that use of the algorithm \"made us think about how we approach sustainability within the workplace\" as the company sought to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.\n\nHe said the company took out some meat, increased proteins from other sources such as lentils and used more whole grains and vegetables and obtained a better score for many of its meal options for staff canteens.\n\nUnder the algorithm, the higher the score, the higher the environmental impact. As expected, foods containing more meat and dairy score much higher than those with more plant-based ingredients. By contrast, many meat alternatives such as plant-based sausages or burgers, had between a fifth and less than a tenth of the environmental impact of meat-based equivalents.\n\nBut there was also wide variation within specific categories.\n\nFor example, the highest-impact pork sausage scored about a third higher than the least impactful. And the impact of biscuits rose the more chocolate they contained, showing that small recipe changes could make big differences, according to Prof Scarborough.\n\n\"If you look at the government strategy on achieving net zero [emissions by 2050] around food systems, they are not measuring the actual greenhouse gas emissions, instead the recommendation is to reduce meat consumption.\n\n\"That's OK, because meat has the biggest greenhouse gas emissions, but you miss a massive amount in multi-ingredient foods which had previously had no reduction targets based on them whatsoever.\"\n\nThe food firm COOK is assessing whether eco-labelling would help its customers move to a more sustainable diet\n\nCOOK, a Kent-based frozen food producer looking to diversify away from meat, has also worked with the researchers. It wants to explore whether measures like putting eco-labels on its products would help customers embrace a more sustainable diet.\n\n\"The tool could help us by ensuring that as we are developing new recipes there is a delicious option for someone who is actively looking to reduce their environmental impact through what they eat,\" said Andy Stephens, COOK's head of sustainable food.\n\nThe researchers don't foresee eco-labelling becoming compulsory in the near future. They want firms to adopt it voluntarily, something they believe would lead them to compete over the sustainability of their food and drink products.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs welcomed the initiative.\n\n\"We want to give everyone the information to make healthier, greener or more sustainable choices with the food they buy, if they want to. Voluntary industry schemes are really positive and through our Food Strategy we're also looking at how we can better support them in future.\"\n\nThe research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "Motown hitmaker Lamont Dozier, who penned songs for The Supremes, The Four Tops and The Isley Brothers, as well as Marvin Gaye and Martha and the Vandellas, has died aged 81.\n\nThe news was confirmed by his son Lamont Dozier Jr on Instagram.\n\nAs part of the Holland, Dozier, Holland songwriting team, he had many number one records and also won Grammy awards.\n\nTheir hits include Baby Love, Nowhere to Run, How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You) and You Can't Hurry Love.\n\n\"Rest in Heavenly Peace, Dad!\" wrote his son online, alongside a picture of the two of them together.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by lamontdozierjr_fa_real This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDozier, along with Brian Holland, served as the musical arranger and producer, while their friend and colleague Eddie Holland focused on the lyrics and vocal production.\n\nThey shaped the famous Detroit label's influential sound, with tracks such as This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You), Reach Out I'll Be There and Heat Wave.\n\nOn Tuesday, guitar hero Nile Rodgers led the tributes, labelling Dozier - who later moved in to musical theatre - as a \"music composing genius\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nile Rodgers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMick Hucknall's Simply Red, who worked with Dozier, described him as \"one of the greatest songwriters of all time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Simply Red This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Ah - God Bless Lamont,\" offered Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. \"His music will live on.\"\n\nWhile DJ Tony Blackburn posted: \"To me he was Mr Motown... thanks for writing so many brilliant songs which will be played forever.\"\n\nGrammy-nominated producer Brandon Williams thanked the late songwriter for \"all you did for me and for the world at large... you definitely made this place better,\" he wrote.\n\nBorn in Detroit in 1941, Dozier recorded a few unsuccessful records for different local labels before teaming up with the Holland brothers as the main songwriting and production team for Berry Gordy's Motown Records in 1962.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian in 2015, Dozier explained their successful but often arduous songwriting process.\n\n\"We'd get there at 9am and we would sometimes work until 3am,\" he said. \"It was blood, sweat and tears. We pounded on the piano and put our ideas down on a little recorder and just worked and worked them out until we came up with things.\"\n\n(Left to right) Diana Ross, Lamont Dozier (at the piano), Mary Wilson, Eddie Holland, Florence Ballard (seated) and Brian Holland in the Motown studio in Detroit in around 1965\n\nWhen asked what would come first, he added: \"Sometimes a basic melody, or a title.\n\n\"I was considered the ideas man. Like, I had a bassline for [the Four Tops'] I Can't Help Myself. That phrase. 'Sugar pie, honey bunch' was something my grandfather used to say when I was a kid, and it just stayed with me and went in the song.\n\n\"Lots of childhood memories came back to me and I started using them as song titles.\"\n\nDozier flanked by the Holland brothers as they received their star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in 2015\n\nAfter finishing working with Motown Records in 1967, Holland-Dozier-Holland founded Invictus Records and Hot Wax Records, producing further hits for the likes of Freda Payne, Honey Cone and Chairmen of the Board, as well as 100 Proof Aged in Soul.\n\nDozier, who left the songwriting trio in 1973, went on to record a number of albums as a performer himself, containing songs like Going Back to My Roots, later covered by Odyssey, and Trying to Hold on to My Woman.\n\nHe collaborated with Phil Collins on the song Two Hearts, for the movie soundtrack for Buster, which won a Grammy and a Golden Globe Award as well as an Oscar nomination.\n\nAnother English singer, Alison Moyet, had another hit with the Dozier-penned track Invisible.\n\nDozier and the Holland brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and later received their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.", "Morhib's family are trying to find out what happened during his boxing match\n\nThe brother of a Cardiff man who died days after taking part in an amateur boxing match said his family were devastated.\n\nMorhib Mohamed Miah's body was found in his flat on Wednesday, 3 August.\n\nThe 32-year-old took part in a fight on the previous Saturday, arranged by the club he trained with in Milton Keynes.\n\nBanks' Martial Arts Academy said there was \"no reason to suspect anything was wrong\" as boxers were checked by paramedics before and after bouts.\n\nHis older brother, Mobasir Miah, said nobody had heard from his brother since Sunday, the day after his boxing match.\n\nHis family were alerted after his work's manager told them he had not been seen all week.\n\n\"His manager phoned my sister and then we started to try and contact Morhib,\" he said.\n\n\"My other brother who lives in London travelled up to Milton Keynes, and Morhib was found in his flat. He was dead.\"\n\nFamily members are trying to find out what happened during his boxing match, and have questioned whether the bout should have been stopped sooner.\n\nIn a statement issued on Tuesday, Thomas Banks from the club said Mr Miah had been in contact with club members and a coach on Saturday and Sunday, saying he was \"very positive and looking forward to getting back to his training\" following the bout.\n\n\"We had no reason to suspect that anything was wrong until his sister contacted us on Wednesday looking for him,\" he said.\n\nMobasir thinks his brother may have been playing down his injuries\n\nMr Miah said: \"All our concerns were that something has happened on that Saturday night.\n\n\"He [Morhib] spoke with my brother and sister on the Sunday and said he had a black eye, but didn't complain of any headaches.\n\n\"Now I can't believe he isn't here, he's just 32, he was as fit as a fiddle.\"\n\nMr Miah was allowed to see his brother's body on 5 August, and said he was shocked by the extent of the injuries.\n\n\"When I saw his body there were bruises, substantial bruises to his forehead, eyes and nose,\" he said.\n\n\"The sides to both his eyes were inflamed, you could see there was a cut to his tooth, there was blood on the inside of his lips, and he had injuries to his neck area and torso - whatever happened it was full on,\" he said.\n\nThe family suspect he might have played down the severity of his injuries to stop them worrying.\n\n\"Why didn't they stop it?\" said Mr Miah about the fight.\n\n\"There was a doctor at the boxing, and they checked him, and we were told by his gym that the doctor was happy for Morhib to go home, and there were two phone calls to chase up on him on the Sunday.\n\n\"I hope to have answers to our questions, and that we have a result, even if it takes a month, but I want answers to what happened.\"\n\nMohib Miah had lived and worked in Milton Keynes for the past four years and joined the club in 2019\n\nMr Banks said the club was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" by Mr Miah's death.\n\n\"The judges and referee were all experienced and we had four paramedics on site in an official capacity throughout, two ringside and two checking the fighters before and after their fights.\n\n\"All fighters were matched according to weight and previous experience both within and outside the club.\"\n\nHe said the fight was \"particularly evenly matched\" and that \"there were no knockdowns and both boxers shook hands at the end\".\n\n\"He lost the match by just one point and was the first to admit to his coach and friends that he felt he had the upper hand but his stamina let him down,\" he said.\n\nThames Valley Police said an investigation has been launched into Mr Miah's \"unexplained death\".\n\n\"The force was contacted on 3 August with a report of a missing man, and sadly the body was located the same day,\" it said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFurious allies of former President Donald Trump are demanding an explanation for the FBI's raid on his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe FBI and Department of Justice have yet to comment on the search, which Mr Trump disclosed on Monday evening.\n\nIt is reportedly linked to an investigation into his handling of classified and sensitive material.\n\nIt was the first time a former US president's home has ever been searched by law enforcement.\n\nReports suggest the FBI activity is connected to an investigation into whether Mr Trump, a Republican, removed classified records from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe search was approved at the highest levels of the Department of Justice (DoJ), an unnamed US official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.\n\nRepublicans have depicted the investigation as politically motivated, with leading figures demanding a briefing from Attorney General Merrick Garland, head of the DoJ.\n\nMr Trump's former Vice-President, Mike Pence, who has subtly distanced himself amid speculation they may both launch 2024 White House runs, called on the attorney general to give \"a full accounting\" of why the search warrant was carried out.\n\n\"No former President of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nMr Trump's allies in Congress, meanwhile, vowed to launch an investigation if they win back control of the House of Representatives and Senate in November's mid-term elections, when the balance of power in Washington will be decided.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday that President Joe Biden was given no advance notice by the FBI of the raid, and that he \"learned about this from public reports\".\n\n\"The president was not briefed and was not aware of it. No-one at the White House was given a heads-up,\" she said.\n\nShe told reporters that Mr Biden had gone to great lengths to preserve the independence of the justice department, adding: \"President Biden believes in the rule of law.\"\n\nAn anti-Trump protester outside Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday\n\nThe raid was first announced on Monday evening in a statement by the former president, who was at Trump Tower in New York City.\n\nLindsey Halligan, a lawyer for Mr Trump, said she had received a call around 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) that the FBI had a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago and that she should come to the property.\n\nShe said she saw 30 to 40 gloved FBI agents, some in suits and others dressed casually, and around 10 to 15 FBI vehicles, including a rental truck.\n\nMs Halligan told CBS she and another lawyer for Mr Trump were barred from entering the complex, and that the search was divided into three sections: a bedroom, office and storage area.\n\n\"Complete overkill,\" she said. \"If they needed documents, they could have asked.\"\n\nThe Secret Service agents protecting Mr Trump were notified shortly before the warrant was served, an unnamed law enforcement official told CBS.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mar-a-Lago is a private members' club as well as the Trump family's winter getaway\n\nIn a fundraising email to supporters on Tuesday, Mr Trump - who is currently at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club - said he and other Republicans were being targeted because of his political influence and \"my dominance in all polls\".\n\n\"They are trying to stop the Republican Party and me once more,\" he said, adding: \"The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt, must be exposed and stopped.\"\n\nRepublican Senate leader Mitch McConnell released a statement on Tuesday saying the justice department \"should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately\".\n\nWhile many Democrats welcomed the raid, several urged the DoJ to provide more information. Some aired concerns that it could boost support for the former president.\n\n\"This could be very useful to him as many people rally around him during this time,\" Dave Aronberg, the state attorney for Palm Beach, where Mar-a-Lago is based, told the BBC. \"Trump will use this to regain his martyr status.\"\n\nDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she first learned of the \"visit\" by FBI agents through public reports on her phone.\n\n\"To have a warrant, you need justification,\" she told NBC News. \"And that says that no-one is above the law, not even a president or former president of the United States.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSerena Williams has suggested she is set to retire from tennis, saying she will be \"evolving away\" from the sport after the US Open.\n\nWriting for Vogue, the American 23-time Grand Slam singles champion said she is moving towards \"other things that are important to me\", adding she does not like the word \"retirement\".\n\nIn an accompanying Instagram post, she wrote that \"the countdown has begun\".\n\n\"I'm gonna relish these next few weeks,\" the 40-year-old said.\n\nWilliams made her singles return at Wimbledon in June after a lengthy injury lay-off that had led to speculation about her retirement.\n\nShe says she will play at the US Open, where she has won six of her major singles titles, later in August.\n• None A look back at Williams' iconic moments as she prepares to say goodbye\n\nWilliams has won more major singles title than any female player in the Open era and the second most of all time, behind Margaret Court's 24.\n\n\"Unfortunately I wasn't ready to win Wimbledon this year. And I don't know if I will be ready to win New York. But I'm going to try,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I know there's a fan fantasy that I might have tied Margaret that day in London, then maybe beat her record in New York, and then at the trophy ceremony say, \"See ya!\"\n\n\"I get that. It's a good fantasy. But I'm not looking for some ceremonial, final on-court moment.\n\n\"I'm terrible at goodbyes, the world's worst. But please know that I am more grateful for you than I can ever express in words.\"\n\nOn Monday, she had her first singles win in 14 months, beating Spain's Nuria Parrizas Diaz to reach the second round of the National Bank Open in Toronto.\n\n'It is the hardest thing I could ever imagine'\n\nIn the lengthy essay, Williams says she has been \"reluctant to admit to myself or anyone else that I have to move on from playing tennis\".\n\n\"Alexis, my husband, and I have hardly talked about it; it's like a taboo topic,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I can't even have this conversation with my mom and dad. It's like it's not real until you say it out loud. It comes up, I get an uncomfortable lump in my throat, and I start to cry.\n\n\"I know that a lot of people are excited about and look forward to retiring, and I really wish I felt that way. \"\n\nIn singles, Williams has won the Wimbledon and Australian Open seven times, along with six US Open trophies and three French Open titles.\n\nHer first major title was the 1999 US Open, when she was 17.\n\nShe won her last Slam title at the 2017 Australian Open when she was eight weeks' pregnant with daughter Olympia.\n\nShe says there is \"no happiness\" in the possibility of no longer playing tennis.\n\n\"I know it's not the usual thing to say, but I feel a great deal of pain. It's the hardest thing that I could ever imagine,\" she wrote.\n\n\"I hate it. I hate that I have to be at this crossroads. I keep saying to myself, I wish it could be easy for me, but it's not.\n\n\"I'm torn: I don't want it to be over, but at the same time I'm ready for what's next.\"\n\nWilliams nearly died in childbirth with Olympia but returned to the sport, reaching four major finals after coming back from maternity leave. She lost them all, leaving her, tantalisingly, one short of Court's record.\n\nShe discusses having more children in her essay, stating: \"I definitely don't want to be pregnant again as an athlete.\n\n\"I need to be two feet into tennis or two feet out.\"\n\nThe numbers behind an all-time great\n• 23 Grand Slam singles titles - the most of any woman in the Open Era\n• 73 WTA titles overall, including all four Slams at least three times\n• 319 weeks at the top of the world rankings\n• 186 consecutive weeks at number one - a joint-record with Chris Evert\n• 71.3% winning record against players ranked in the top 10\n\n'I did it - and so can you'\n\nWilliams is one of sport's most iconic stars, attracting full stadiums and devoted fans throughout her career.\n\nShe and older sister Venus have been widely regarded as changing the face of tennis and inspiring future players, as well as pushing for gender equality.\n\nWilliams describes the \"essence of being Serena\" as \"expecting the best from myself and proving people wrong\".\n\n\"There were so many matches I won because something made me angry or someone counted me out. That drove me,\" she said.\n\n\"My sister Venus once said that when someone out there says you can't do something, it is because they can't do it. But I did do it. And so can you.\"\n\nWilliams also won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles alongside Venus, two mixed doubles Slam titles and four Olympic gold medals in singles and doubles.\n\nAs well as her many highs she had several near-misses when it came to adding to her major tally, including emotional exits at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2021.\n\nShe also had some controversial moments at the US Open, including the 2018 final in New York where she accused umpire Carlos Ramos of being a thief.\n\nRanked by Forbes as the highest-earning female athlete of all time, Williams has moved into business in recent years, starting a venture capital firm.\n\nShe is also part of a group that funded a new Los Angeles-based women's team in the National Women's Soccer League season.\n\n\"I don't particularly like to think about my legacy. I get asked about it a lot, and I never know exactly what to say,\" Williams added.\n\n\"But I'd like to think that thanks to opportunities afforded to me, women athletes feel that they can be themselves on the court.\n\n\"They can play with aggression and pump their fists. They can be strong yet beautiful. They can wear what they want and say what they want and kick butt and be proud of it all.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to be able to look at this magazine when it comes out, knowing that this is it, the end of a story that started in Compton, California, with a little Black girl who just wanted to play tennis.\"\n\n'One of the all-time greatest athletes' - reaction\n\nAmerica's world number 11 Coco Gauff: \"I grew up watching her. I mean, that's the reason why I play tennis.\n\n\"Tennis being a predominantly white sport, it definitely helped a lot. Because I saw somebody who looked like me dominating the game. It made me believe that I could dominate too.\"\n\nFormer world number one Billie Jean King: \"When Serena steps away from tennis, she will leave as the sport's greatest player.\n\n\"After a career that has inspired a new generation of players and fans, she will forever be known as a champion who won on the court and raised the global profile of the sport off of it.\"\n\nBritain's US Open champion Emma Raducanu: \"She definitely changed the game. There's not really been someone who has dominated like her in the women's game.\"\n\nFormer world number one John McEnroe: \"She's an icon. Her place in American society has gone to a place where she deserves it after everything she's accomplished, everything she's done.\n\n\"She's one of the all-time greatest athletes in the history of any sport - male or female.\"\n\nAmerican player Taylor Townsend: \"Thank you for the road you and Venus have paved to allow me to be here and make a life for myself and my son! You will be missed, but so excited to see what comes next.\"\n• None How can you save money on meat? Here are some helpful tips on reducing your spend\n• None Why are some people still unvaccinated? Hannah Fry meets some of them to find out the reasons", "Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has vowed to provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister.\n\nThe former chancellor said he would seek government \"efficiency savings\" to fund the support, to limit borrowing.\n\nThe amount of support is yet to be determined and would depend on the extent to which energy bills rise later this month.\n\nAllies of his rival Liz Truss accused Mr Sunak of \"another big U-turn\".\n\n\"Three weeks ago he was saying more borrowing was irresponsible and inflationary - has he changed his mind? How can Rishi's borrowing not be inflationary, but Liz's tax cuts are? Intellectually it's as watertight as a sieve,\" a source in the Truss camp said.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sunak said he wanted to keep \"any one-off borrowing to an absolute minimum\" and would \"first seek efficiency savings across Whitehall to provide direct support for families to help with the unprecedented situation we face\".\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem is due to announce a rise to the cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers per unit - on 26 August.\n\nIn a new forecast, industry analysts Cornwall Insight estimated the typical household annual energy bill will be £3,582 in October and £4,266 in January.\n\nMr Sunak said \"there is no doubt in my mind that more support will be needed\", adding \"as soon as we know how much bills will go up by, I will act\".\n\nThe former chancellor is competing with Ms Truss to be leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister.\n\nBoth Tory leadership candidates, as well as the outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson, are facing questions about how they will tackle rising costs.\n\nDowning Street has said Mr Johnson has no plans to introduce big tax and spending measures to ease the cost of living crisis before he leaves office in early September.\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted inflation - how fast prices are rising - will hit 13% and the UK will plunge into a recession later this year.\n\nBusiness group leader Tony Danker has urged the prime minister and the Tory leadership candidates to \"agree on the principles\" of support for energy bills.\n\nThe director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - which represents British businesses - said civil servants should be \"working with the candidates now\" to draw up options for helping vulnerable people as soon as one of them takes office.\n\n\"I just don't think it's responsible government for a prime minister, or future prime ministers, not to give the country reassurance,\" Mr Danker said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nIn a campaign dominated by the worsening state of the UK economy, Ms Truss has focused on her pledge to lower taxes, which she argues will help households and boost growth.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has argued her tax cuts - worth an estimated £30bn - would stoke inflation and saddle the UK with debt.\n\nWriting in support of Mr Sunak, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said Ms Truss's emergency tax-cutting budget risked becoming an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Raab said the foreign secretary's tax cuts would \"do little for the most vulnerable\" and did not represent \"Conservative politics\". \"It's bad politics,\" Mr Raab wrote in the Times.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sajid Javid told the i newspaper that Ms Truss - whom he backs for the leadership - had the best plan for boosting living standards.\n\nBut, he said, \"more needs to be done\" to support people on lower incomes, suggesting an uplift in benefits payments as one option.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has written to Mr Johnson to request an emergency meeting, telling him only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\" to provide the required support.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has also been calling for immediate action, saying a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee should be convened to address a crisis which, he said, would leave \"millions standing on the edge of a financial precipice\".\n\nLabour MP and shadow employment minister Alison McGovern said \"every day counts\" in working on emergency measures to deal with the cost of living crisis.\n\nShe said the party wanted VAT removed from fuel bills and suggested more targeted help could be introduced too.\n\nMs McGovern told the BBC: \"We do have government ministers who could take responsibility for bringing forward some of these things and making it clear to everyone in the country that we are going to start taking action today. Not waiting.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for the October energy price cap rise to be scrapped. The party argues that this could be paid for by expanding the windfall tax imposed on energy company profits.\n\nLeader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Sunak's plans for more support were \"too timid\", and accused the Conservatives of living in a \"parallel universe\".\n\nSupport that has already been announced by the government includes a £650 payment for the eight million lowest-income households, an additional £300 for pensioner households, and £400 for all households.\n\nWith the current government ruling out emergency action until next week - there are growing calls for reassurance that ministers will act when the price cap goes up.\n\nRishi Sunak today sets out principles - but not figures.\n\nHe says he would use the same template as earlier this year, when the government pledged universal support for every household and extra for those on lower incomes.\n\nExactly how much Mr Sunak is promising won't be confirmed until later this month, when the new energy price cap is confirmed.\n\nLiz Truss has not yet clarified what she meant when she said she wanted tax cuts, not handouts.\n\nHer allies insist nothing has been ruled out.\n\nBut Dominic Raab - who is backing Mr Sunak - this morning warns Ms Truss that failing to live up to the challenge would be an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.", "Some 115,000 Royal Mail workers are set to strike on four days in August and September in a dispute over pay.\n\nThe Communication Workers Union (CWU) said workers would walk out on 26 and 31 August and 8 and 9 September.\n\nThe move comes as Royal Mail said the union had rejected a pay rise offer \"worth up to 5.5%\" after three months of talks.\n\nUnion bosses the action was \"for a proper pay rise\" and said the strikes would be the biggest this summer.\n\nThe union has demanded that Royal Mail increases wages to an amount that \"covers the current cost of living\".\n\nInflation, which is the rate at which prices rise, is at a 40-year high of 9.4% and is expected to peak at 13% later this year.\n\nDave Ward, CWU general secretary, said: \"Nobody takes the decision to strike lightly, but postal workers are being pushed to the brink.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that postal workers are completely united in their determination to secure the dignified, proper pay rise they deserve,\" he said.\n\nPeople \"can't keep on living in a country where bosses rake in billions in profit while their employees are forced to use food banks\", he added.\n\n\"The CWU's message to Royal Mail's leadership is simple - there will be serious disruption until you get real on pay,\" he added.\n\nRoyal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m the year before.\n\nThe CWU is the latest of several unions to ballot for strikes in recent weeks, as the cost of living soars.\n\nRoyal Mail apologised to customers in advance of the industrial action, but said it had plans in place to minimise the disruption.\n\nThe company also called for further talks with the union to avert the strikes, but said they \"must be about both change and pay\".\n\nWorkers on the railways and at airports are also in pay disputes with employers, with train drivers set to strike on Saturday.\n\nBut while there have been calls for pay rises, there are concerns that higher wages to cope with the current cost of living could fuel further inflation.\n\nRicky McAulay, operations director at Royal Mail accused the union of failing to engage in \"any meaningful discussion\" after more than three months of talks on changes to modernise the company.\n\n\"The CWU rejected our offer worth up to 5.5% for CWU grade colleagues, the biggest increase we have offered for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"In a business that is currently losing £1m a day, we can only fund this offer by agreeing the changes that will pay for it.\"\n\nIt is understood that after talks ended between the CWU and Royal Mail, the company announced it would give members a non-conditional 2% pay increase backdated to 1 April.\n\nThe union had been told an additional 3.5% rise is available, subject to further talks and agreements - which would total a 5.5% rise.\n\nMr McAulay said the company needed to modernise to \"offer more of what our customers want, at a price they are willing to pay - all whilst protecting jobs on the best terms and conditions in our industry\".\n\n\"Royal Mail can have a bright future, but we can't achieve that by living in the past,\" he said.\n\n\"The CWU's failure to engage on the changes we need is an abdication of responsibility for the long-term job security of their members.\"", "Ofsted has ordered Barton's Day Nursery in Liverpool to improve after rating it \"inadequate\"\n\nA nursery which gave babies lotion to explore during messy play, which they subsequently ate, has been ordered to improve following an Ofsted inspection.\n\nInspectors found learning at Barton's Day Nursery, on Liverpool's Lower Lane, was \"inconsistent\" and \"not focused\" and rated it inadequate.\n\nThe June inspection also highlighted a need to improve risk assessments and staff training.\n\nOwner Christine Barton said changes had been made following the inspection.\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that she was \"confident that our next inspection will paint a truer picture of our setting as a whole\".\n\nThe Ofsted report said the centre, which cares for children under the age of four, did not \"properly risk assess or consider the age of children when choosing the materials used during messy play activities\".\n\nIt said that led to children under one year old being given baby lotion to explore, which was \"subsequently eaten\".\n\nThe report also said that while staff received \"supervision meetings and some feedback on their performance\", what they were told was \"not specific enough to improve their knowledge and skills further\".\n\n\"This means there are inconsistencies in the quality of care and education that children receive,\" it said.\n\nThey said that while toddlers and two-year-old children had \"a lovely experience\" and accessed \"interesting activities\" that were tailored to meet their individual needs\", for babies and pre-school children, learning was \"much more inconsistent\".\n\n\"Not all activities are tailored to support their existing skills,\" the report said.\n\n\"Learning is not focused and does not help children to extend their knowledge further.\n\n\"Consequently, some babies wander around not engaged in play or learning.\"\n\nRating all areas of the nursery as either inadequate or requiring improvement, the report said it needed to \"implement thorough risk assessments... with particular regard to messy play materials\" and \"implement effective coaching, mentoring and training\".\n\nMs Barton said the report was \"most unexpected\", but the nursery had \"reviewed our processes and put robust procedures in place to ensure that baby lotion or any substance deemed inappropriate is not used in messy play and sensory activities\".\n\nShe added that the nursery has traded for almost 30 years and had \"worked hard to support parents and carers by creating a safe, stimulating and happy place for their children to learn and thrive\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the full story: What a young jogger's murder exposes about America\n\nThree white men convicted of killing a black jogger have been sentenced for federal hate crimes.\n\nTravis McMichael, 36, his father, Gregory, 66, and their neighbour, William Bryan, are already serving life sentences over the murder.\n\nOn Monday, the father and son were sentenced to life in prison while Bryan was handed a 35-year jail term.\n\nThey will serve their additional sentences concurrently with their state prison sentences.\n\nAhmaud Arbery, 25, was shot and killed during a confrontation with the three men in Georgia in February 2020.\n\nThe case became a rallying cry for racial justice protesters around the US.\n\nIn February, all three men were found guilty of federal hate crimes charges. These included interfering with Mr Arbery's right to use a public street because of his race and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels were also found guilty of a weapons charge.\n\nIn court, prosecutors sought to portray the defendants as having a long-standing contempt towards black people demonstrated by the use of derogatory and racist language in public and private.\n\n\"These three devils have broken my heart into pieces,\" Mr Arbery's father, Marcus, said in court during Travis McMichael's sentencing. \"You hate black people''.\n\nTravis McMichael did not speak at the sentencing. His father spoke directly to Mr Arbery's family, telling them he understood \"the loss that you've endured is beyond description\".\n\nMr Arbery was out for an afternoon jog in a suburban area of Brunswick, Georgia in February 2020 when he was killed.\n\nThe elder McMichael, a neighbourhood resident, told police he believed Mr Arbery resembled the suspect in a series of local break-ins. Police have said no reports were filed regarding these alleged break-ins.\n\nThe McMichaels armed themselves with a pistol and a shotgun and pursued Mr Arbery in a pickup truck through the neighbourhood. Bryan later joined the pursuit.\n\nThe younger McMichael testified during the state trial that he tried to talk to Mr Arbery while the two were still in their truck and that Mr Arbery never threatened the trio, brandished a weapon, reached into his pockets or yelled after being confronted.\n\nAfter getting out of his truck, McMichael fired his shotgun at Mr Arbery during a struggle. A post-mortem examination showed Mr Arbery had two gunshot wounds in his chest, and a gunshot graze wound on the inside of one of his wrists.\n\nA candlelight vigil for Ahmaud Arbery on the one-year anniversary of his death in 2021.\n\nOn Monday, Judge Lisa Wood declined a request from Travis McMichael's attorney that he serve his time in federal - rather than state - prison. His lawyer had argued that life in a state prison amounted to a \"backdoor death penalty\" and put him at the risk of being attacked by other inmates.\n\nThe judge had previously rejected a plea deal that would allow the McMichaels to serve 30 years in federal prison before returning to state custody, after Mr Arbery's mother vehemently objected. Federal prisons are generally perceived as less brutal environments than typical state prisons.\n\nIn January, Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting. At the time, the judge said that neither men had shown remorse or empathy for Mr Arbery.\n\nWhile Bryan also received the maximum sentence of life, he was offered the possibility of parole in 30 years.\n\nThey have appealed their state convictions.", "Similar restrictions on water use are already in place in parts of England\n\nThames Water has announced it is planning to introduce a hosepipe ban.\n\nThe firm supplies 10 million people across parts of southern England, including London.\n\nThe company said it was planning to announce the temporary ban \"in the coming weeks\" but the timing is yet to be confirmed.\n\nIt comes as a new heatwave nears and the Met Office has issued an amber extreme heat warning for much of England.\n\nIn a statement Thames Water said: \"Given the long term forecast of dry weather and another forecast of very hot temperatures coming this week we are planning to announce a temporary use ban in the coming weeks.\"\n\nThe ban would be the third implemented in England this year, following Southern Water's ban which began last Friday in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.\n\nSouth East Water will introduce similar restrictions across Kent and Sussex from 12 August. The Isle of Man has also had a ban in place since July.\n\nThames Water added: \"Our aim is always to ensure that we will have enough water to supply our customers, regardless of the weather.\"\n\nThe statement explained the firm is not able to give an exact date for the start of the ban, due to \"a number of operational and legal procedural requirements\" and added that in the meantime customers were being urged to \"only use what they need for their essential use.\"\n\nThames Water provides water to 10 million people in an area that covers parts of London, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Kent.\n\nTemperatures are set to reach up to 35°C (95°F) in some areas this week.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning which applies to southern and central England and parts of Wales from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nIt follows the first-ever red warning issued in July, when temperatures exceeded 40°C for the first time.\n\nHow are you going to be affected by the hosepipe ban? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Eilish McColgan emulated her mother Liz by winning gold for Scotland in the 10,000m\n\nIn the city of the bull, they boasted these would be the biggest and best Commonwealth Games ever.\n\nA claim that most host cities make to attract athletes and crowds alike.\n\nIn fairness, save a few exceptions, most cities can usually back it up after the bandwagon has packed up and rolled out of town.\n\nIn the build up to these Games, Team Scotland decided against bold predictions of their own.\n\nGold Coast in 2018 was the country's most successful Games on non Scottish soil. A total of 44 medals were won - nine of those were gold.\n\nBehind the scenes, in the build up to Birmingham, few were talking about that being bettered in the West Midlands.\n\nIt's fair to assume then that even those who picked the team, would have been more than pleasantly surprised to see a final medal tally of 51, which included 13 golds.\n\nThe counting of medals mid Games is part of the Commonwealth experience.\n\nOrganisers, fans, journalists and athletes look for the medal table come close of play on any given day.\n\nRoss Murdoch won three bronze medals in the pool\n\nIf it's going well, the spectators get the feel-good factor, the journalists get their copy and those competing lap up the bragging rights and pride.\n\nBut the final medal table can also be looked upon as a snapshot of a nation's sporting competence.\n\nIt can be used to take the temperature of a country's relationship with certain sports.\n\nThe results suspended in time and used as a tool in the fight for more funding or to show why investment is working and should continue.\n\nThese are the battles that will now play out away from the field of play in the coming months.\n\nConversations will take place between governing bodies, Sportscotland and the Scottish government to see how best to build on what has been achieved.\n\nTo make sure, for the right reasons, that success can breed success.\n\nDumfries pensioner Rosemary Lenton became the Commonwealth Games' oldest gold medallist with her triumph in Para women's pairs bowls.\n\nMinisters will be reminded of the commitment to double the budget for sport during this parliament.\n\nAt a time when money has rarely been tighter, it can seem like a big sell.\n\nWhy then should sport ask for more during such troubled financial times?\n\nWhat can't be measured in the way sporting achievements can, is the impact on the psyche of a nation.\n\nGames like Birmingham 2022 provide people with sporting memories that will live on.\n\nScotland won't quickly forget Eilish McColgan storming home to take gold in the 10,000 metres and stepping out from the shadow of her mother, Liz, who did the same over three decades ago.\n\nThe words of swimmer Ross Murdoch after his last race will resonate with those who have struggled with sport and beyond.\n\nAnd athletes like 49-year-old cyclist Aileen McGlynn and 72-year-old bowler Rosemary Lenton reminded us all that if you work hard enough, for long enough, the rewards can be there.\n\nScotland's Samantha Kinghorn celebrates after winning bronze in the women's T53/54 1500m\n\nThe integrated nature of the para sports is also one of the selling points of the Commonwealth Games.\n\nA reminder that those who cheer on able-bodied athletes are just as willing to do the same for those with disabilities.\n\nSometimes sport struggles to be heard, or even taken seriously, in the wider context of what we are told is happening in the world around us.\n\nBut, despite concerns over the future relevance of an event that was born of Britain's colonial past, Birmingham 2022 once again showed the power of sport to bring people together, to celebrate life and to inspire.\n\nFew things have the ability to unite just when unity is needed.\n\nOrganisers will use what was witnessed in the West Midlands to argue this event has a future.\n\nTeam Scotland will use what they achieved to build a more successful one.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nTributes have been paid from around the world to Olivia Newton-John, who has died from cancer aged 73.\n\nThe British-born Australian singer and actress was best known for playing Sandy in Grease, one of the most successful film musicals ever made.\n\nHer Grease co-star John Travolta said she \"made all of our lives so much better\" while its director said: \"What you see is what you get with her.\"\n\nShe died peacefully at her California ranch surrounded by family and friends.\n\nAn actress and musician, Newton-John achieved commercial success as a country singer and sold millions of records globally.\n\nBut it was her role as high school student Sandy in the film Grease that catapulted her to worldwide fame.\n\nThe musical was the biggest box-office hit of 1978, and gave Newton-John three huge hit singles, including You're The One That I Want and Summer Nights, both performed with co-star John Travolta.\n\nAnd it was a catalyst for change in both her image and her musical direction - shedding her innocent, country-pop image.\n\nFollowing the news of her death, scores of fans, as well as famous figures from the world of entertainment, shared heartfelt messages and memories.\n\nActress Stockard Channing - who played Rizzo in Grease - said: \"I don't know if I've known a lovelier human being.\n\n\"Olivia was the essence of summer - her sunniness, her warmth and her grace are what always come to mind when I think of her. I will miss her enormously.\"\n\nSinger Rod Stewart called her \"the perfect lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication\".\n\n\"Her spandex trousers in Grease were my inspiration for my 'Da ya think I'm Sexy' era,\" he added, referencing the iconic tight black outfit that she wore at the film's finale.\n\nUS television host Oprah Winfrey said her \"positivity was just infectious\". \"You'll be missed, Olivia,\" she wrote. \"Here's to the good times.\"\n\nTravolta wrote on Instagram: \"Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again.\"\n\n\"Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever!\" he added, signing off: \"Your Danny, your John!\"\n\nThe film's director Randal Kleiser said he had been friends with Newton-John for 40 years and \"she never changed, she was always exactly the way everyone imagines her\".\n\n\"She was charming, lovely, warm... There are so many clichés you can say about her, but in her case it was all true.\"\n\nAsked what his everlasting memory of her will be, he told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Hanging out with her at her ranch. Seeing the real Olivia which was exactly like the Olivia she projected. No cameras around, no people around... she was exactly the same and as loving as ever.\"\n\nDidi Conn, who played Frenchy in Grease, told BBC's Newsnight: \"She was such a humungous, big, big pop star and her persona was of this beauty... pure and sweet. In the movie we would call her Miss Goody Two Shoes, you know, but simmering under that façade of innocence was a hot mama ready to come out.\"\n\nOther tributes came from singers Kylie Minogue, who called her an inspiration, and Dionne Warwick, who called Newton-John \"one of the nicest people I had the pleasure of recording and performing with\".\n\nAustralian rock legend John Farnham, a long-time friend and with whom Newton-John released her final studio album, said she would be \"greatly missed\" and \"behind that iconic smile was a tenacious fighter\".\n\nOlivia Moore, who is currently playing Sandy in Grease in London's West End, broke the news to a shocked audience at the end of Monday evening's performance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by isabella This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewton-John was first diagnosed with cancer in 1992 and went on to become a leading advocate of cancer research. Her charity, the Olivia Newton-John Foundation, has raised millions of pounds to support research.\n\nIn a statement, the hospital that runs the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne - which was opened after the star's campaigning - said she \"encouraged, inspired and supported\" staff and patients every day.\n\n\"We are incredibly grateful for the special relationship we had with Olivia for many years. Her generous support and gift provided hope and changed the lives of thousands of cancer patients... She was the light at the end of the tunnel for many, many people.\"\n\nHer efforts in the field were recognised by the Queen, who honoured her with a damehood in the 2020 New Year's Honours list.\n\nIn a statement posted to her social media channels, Newton-John's husband John Easterling said she had died on Monday, hailing her \"a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years, sharing her journey with breast cancer\".\n\n\"Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer.\"\n\nIn later years, Newton-John became a cancer campaigner which led to the opening of an institute named after her in Melbourne\n\nNewton-John was born in Cambridge on 26 September 1948.\n\nHer father had been a British spy during World War Two. Her mother was the daughter of the German Nobel laureate, Max Born, and had fled with her family when the Nazis came to power in 1933.\n\nThe family moved to Australia in 1954, where she was raised.\n\nHer breakthrough came in 1971 when she released a Bob Dylan-penned track, If Not For You, which reached number seven in the UK charts and featured on an album of the same name.\n\nShe won four Grammy awards and scored seven US number one hits between 1974 and 1977.\n\nWhile critics never warmed to her audience-friendly style of music, the star forthrightly dismissed the reviews.\n\n\"It annoys me when people think because it's commercial, it's bad,\" she told Rolling Stone. \"It's completely opposite. If people like it, that's what it's supposed to be.\"\n\nIn 1978 she became a global star with the release of Grease. The film, set in the 1950s, told the story of Sandy's summer fling with John Travolta's Danny and the difficulties the relationship encounters. In the end the pair reconcile, with Sandy having transformed her appearance.\n\nIn 2019, after being diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time, she was asked by CBS News how she coped.\n\n\"It was consuming my day and after a time I went 'you know what', I need to enjoy my life so I'm going to eat a cookie if I want it,\" she said.\n\n\"Because the joy of life and everyday living has to be a part of that healing process as well. So I've chosen that path to be grateful and to feel good about things because the other side's not so good.\"", "Mick Mulvaney acted as Donald Trump's chief of staff from January 2019 until March 2020 Image caption: Mick Mulvaney acted as Donald Trump's chief of staff from January 2019 until March 2020\n\nMick Mulvaney, Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff, says the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home - where he reportedly took government documents when he left office - is either \"the most egregious political hit job in history or part of the most significant criminal investigation in our history\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mulvaney says that during his time at the White House, he was in charge of running the West Wing where he ensured documents were preserved.\n\n\"When the law says you have to preserve everything, that's everything - a scratch pad, a newspaper the president had seen, it could be something very serious or something trivial, such as a menu with Boris Johnson, for example,\" he says.\n\n\"If that's all they're looking for, technical violations of the law, then this is a tremendous overreach by the department of justice (DoJ).\n\n\"If on the other hand, it's somehow tied to a very serious charge of trying to interfere with the transition of authority to the Biden administration, and if the DoJ thinks there might be documents the president retained at Mar-a-Lago that speak to say, conversations with the right wing extremists and the rioters, then that's very serious.\"\n\nHe said \"complete incompetence\" could explain why Donald Trump reportedly took so many documents from the White House when his presidency ended.\n\n\"Is it possible there's something in that stack that is very damning to the president? Yes there is. And if there is, I hope that's what the DoJ was looking for.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSuspected people smugglers are using TikTok to advertise illegal entry into the UK via the English Channel.\n\nThe BBC has found a number of people claiming they can guarantee safe passage and calm waters for £5,000.\n\nThe Home Office said posts which \"promote lethal crossings\" were unacceptable, but there are calls for more to be done to stop people-smuggling being advertised online.\n\nTikTok said the content \"has no place\" on the social media platform.\n\nDozens of posts appear from a number of accounts which show people carrying boats to the water, crossing the Channel, and making their way to the UK.\n\nThe videos - which could not be verified for authenticity by the BBC - appear to show fierce competition between rival people-smuggling gangs, with each boasting they are the \"best\" operator for successful crossings.\n\nThey advertise upcoming crossing dates and boast about the dinghies set to be launched.\n\nPosts also appear to mock the government's policy to deport some migrants to Africa, stating \"Rwanda has been cancelled\".\n\nMore than 50 people arrived in Dungeness in one dinghy last year\n\nMore than 18,000 migrants have made the journey across the Channel in dinghies and small boats so far this year. Almost 700 arrived on a single day last week.\n\nOn Tuesday 386 migrants in eight boats were detected in the Channel.\n\nA number of migrants have been killed attempting the crossing, including a group of at least 27 in November.\n\nTikTok's terms of service forbids content which \"constitutes, encourages or provides instructions for a criminal offence, or dangerous activities that may lead to serious injury or death or self-harm\".\n\nA spokesman for TikTok said: \"This content has no place on TikTok. We do not allow content that depicts or promotes people smuggling...and have permanently banned these accounts.\n\n\"We work closely with UK law enforcement and industry partners to find and remove content of this nature, and participate in the joint action plan with the National Crime Agency to help combat organised immigration crime online.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen fresh videos posted on a weekly basis, suggesting that suspected gangs could be setting up new accounts immediately after receiving a ban.\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke said the Home Office must do more.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Posts used by people smugglers to promote lethal crossings are totally unacceptable and requires social media companies to engage in dialogue to prevent their platforms being exploited.\n\n\"The Government is tackling this online disinformation, recently launching our own social media campaign to warn people of the risks of these deadly journeys and expose the lies sold to vulnerable people by inhumane smugglers.\"\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke said the Home Office can do more.\n\nShe said: \"These Tiktok videos glamorise the Channel crossings and advertise the services of these people smugglers.\n\n\"They shouldn't be on these platforms. The Home Office needs to work with the social media giants to take them down and pursue the people behind them.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has no plans to introduce big tax and spending measures before he leaves office to ease the cost-of-living crisis, Downing Street has said.\n\nBusiness group leader Tony Danker has urged ministers to \"grip the emerging crisis\", arguing it \"made no sense to wait\" for the next PM to arrive.\n\nAnd Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, has called for an urgent meeting with the devolved governments.\n\nDowning Street said it recognised the public were facing \"challenging times\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson's spokesman argued it would be up to his successor to make any decisions on further help.\n\nMr Johnson is due to leave office in early September, and No 10 said \"by convention it is not for this prime minister to make major fiscal interventions during this period\".\n\nCabinet Office minister Kit Malthouse said the government had already and was continuing to do work on cost-of-living problems.\n\n\"My job is to make sure that when the new prime minister arrives, the plan is in place for them to put their foot on the accelerator,\" he told the BBC's PM programme.\n\nHe also dismissed calls from ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the government to hold a meeting of the government's emergency response committee Cobra, arguing that would be \"a performative political act\".\n\nEarlier this year, the government announced a £15bn package of support to ease the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThis included giving households a £400 discount on energy bills and £650 for the poorest households to help with wider living costs.\n\nHowever, the government has come under pressure to do more, following worsening economic warnings.\n\nLast week, the Bank of England forecast that the UK was heading into a recession, with inflation set to hit 13%.\n\nMeanwhile, the energy price cap will go up in October, with industry analysts estimating average domestic energy bills could hit more than £3,600 a year.\n\nMr Danker, head of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said the prime minister and the candidates for the Tory leadership, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, \"should come together to agree a common pledge to support people and help quell fears\".\n\n\"The economic situation people and businesses are facing requires all hands to the pump this summer,\" he said.\n\n\"We simply cannot afford a summer of government inactivity while the leadership contest plays out followed by a slow start from a new prime minister and cabinet.\"\n\nAnd on Tuesday morning he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the prime minister and the Tory leadership candidates should \"agree on the principles\" of support for energy bills.\n\nHe said civil servants should be \"working with the candidates now\" to draw up options for helping vulnerable people as soon as one of them took office.\n\n\"I just don't think it's responsible government for a prime minister or future prime ministers not to give the country reassurance,\" Mr Danker said.\n\nThe CBI - which represents British businesses - said the prime minister should direct the civil service to draw up options on helping the most vulnerable people - and that these options should be made available to both leadership candidates.\n\nThe organisation also said Mr Johnson, Mr Sunak and Ms Truss should agree \"a way forward to support people and businesses with energy bills\" ahead of 26 August, when Ofgem is due to announce the next energy price cap.\n\nElsewhere, Ms Sturgeon has called for an emergency meeting with Mr Johnson and the leaders of devolved governments, to agree steps to help people.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister, she said the SNP-led government was \"committed to doing all we can\" but added: \"We cannot respond on the scale required without action by your government.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Record, Mr Brown - who was the Labour prime minister between 2007 and 2010 - said the UK faced \"a financial timebomb\" and urged Mr Johnson, Mr Sunak and Ms Truss to agree \"an immediate Budget to prevent a winter heating catastrophe\".\n\nHe also said the emergency committee Cobra should be in \"permanent session to deal with the coming fuel and energy crisis\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's World This Weekend programme on Sunday, Mr Brown said there was \"a vacuum\" in government because \"the prime minister is on holiday, the chancellor is on holiday, the two leadership candidates for prime minister are on the campaign trail.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is due to leave Downing Street in early September\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson - who has returned from a holiday in Slovenia - would summon a meeting of Cobra, No 10 said it would be up to Mr Johnson's successor to make any decisions on further support for households.\n\nThe spokesman also said there were no plans to recall Parliament, but that Mr Johnson and his Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are meeting this week to discuss progress on the support measures already announced.\n\nResponding to No 10's comments, Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said \"people are worried sick about how they'll pay their bills... and all this Tory prime minister does is shrug his shoulders\".\n\nShe said the two leadership candidates could only \"offer more of the same\", adding: \"Labour would start by scrapping tax breaks on oil and gas producers and providing more help to people who are struggling to pay their energy bills.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the two MPs hoping to take over the leadership have been criticising each other's plans to address mounting living costs.\n\nMr Sunak has warned that the plans of his rival Ms Truss \"won't touch the sides\".\n\nSupporters of Ms Truss say her proposed tax cuts would help people, but did not rule out offering further support.", "Energy bills for a typical household could hit £4,266 next year, consultancy Cornwall Insight has warned.\n\nThe higher estimate means the average household would be paying £355 a month, instead of £164 a month currently.\n\nCornwall cited regulator Ofgem's decision to change the price cap every three months instead of six and higher wholesale prices for its high forecast.\n\nBut Ofgem said no forecast for next year could be \"robust\" at this stage and had \"limited value\".\n\nThe latest price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for average energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales for October - is due to be announced at the end of this month.\n\nCornwall expects this to rise to £3,582 a year, compared to the regulator's prediction of £2,800 a year.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall, said its price cap forecasts had been steadily rising but the big jump was \"a fresh shock\".\n\nThe energy bill warning comes as the government rejected calls for further help on energy bills until a new prime minister was in place.\n\nThe CBI business lobby group said it \"made no sense to wait\" for a new Conservative party leader.\n\nRegulator Ofgem warned wholesale prices were moving so quickly that future forecasts were not reliable.\n\n\"We cannot stop others from making predictions, but we would ask that extreme caution is applied to any predictions for the price cap in January or beyond.\"\n\nEarlier this month, the government announced how households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn, with the money paid in six instalments.\n\nBut Dr Lowrey called on the government to use the latest predictions of higher bills to review the support package.\n\n\"If the £400 was not enough to make a dent in the impact of our previous forecast, it most certainly is not enough now.\n\n\"The government must make introducing more support over the first two quarters of 2023 a number-one priority.\"\n\nHannah Absalom has been stocking up on thermal clothing ahead of winter.\n\nHannah Absalom, a PHD student in Birmingham, lives on £850 per month in a one-bed flat and has spent £80 already on thermal clothing and a heated blanket so she can avoid heating her home in winter.\n\n\"I'm doing everything I can but there's not enough support. I'll more than likely end up in debt, or eat into my buffer savings - saved for getting a job,\" she says.\n\nSupermarket head office worker Stuart Lane, 47, who lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and their three children, currently pays £100 a month for a fixed price deal. but that ends in September.\n\n\"When I looked at getting a new deal, the only fixed prices was pushing up to £420. We will be having to look at our outgoings,\" he says.\n\nSylvia Simpson, chief executive at debt help charity Money Buddies in Leeds, told the BBC there were limited options for helping people with soaring energy bills: \"The tools that we used to have before, for example, for switching utility providers to get the best deal - that has gone now. There is no switching to get the best deal anymore.\n\n\"People are really, really struggling.\"\n\nConservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has said he would provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister.\n\nHis rival for the leadership, Liz Truss, has pledged tax cuts to help people hit by cost of living increases.\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has suggested that the government should scrap the energy price cap rise in October, which he said would save the typical household £1,400 this year.\n\nMr Davey said the cost of the plan - which the party puts at nearly £36bn - could be funded through backdating the windfall tax on oil and gas companies' profits.\n\nDr Lowry said that without the more frequent changes to the price cap, more energy suppliers might be in danger of collapse - though he questioned whether it should exist at all.\n\n\"If it is not controlling consumer prices, and is damaging suppliers' business models, we must wonder if it is fit for purpose - especially in these times of unprecedented energy market conditions,\" he said.\n\nHowever, if wholesale prices remain at current rates, it expects lower bills in the second half of next year than it had previously forecast.\n\nThe energy price cap sets a limit on the amount that can be paid for each unit of energy. It is based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nThis has risen sharply, fuelled by the war in Ukraine which has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nMany families are already facing soaring costs, with UK inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - at the highest in 40 years.\n\nThe Don't Pay group, which is demanding bills be reduced to to an affordable level, says tens of thousands of people have pledged to cancel their direct debit payments from 1 October.\n\nHowever, charities have said not paying energy bills has very serious consequences for consumers, including being threatened with disconnection and damage to their credit rating.\n\nHouseholders who are struggling to meet their bill payments are advised to contact their suppliers to come up with a payment plan.\n\nThe warning comes as the government dismissed reports of disruption to energy supplies, following reports that plans for a \"reasonable worst case scenario\" included organised blackouts for firms and households.\n\nA source told the BBC that such scenarios are \"made up\" and \"extreme\" so that the government's response can be tested.\n\nPredictions of January energy bills were already sending shivers down spines, as the wholesale prices suppliers have to pay spiked due a fear of Russia withholding gas supplies.\n\nBut it's partly a technical tweak that's caused those estimates to jump by another 10% in just a few days.\n\nAt present, suppliers are often having to buy energy at a higher price to meet the needs of customers. But those customers, under the cap, may be paying a lower tariff.\n\nThe regulator, under new plans, is allowing suppliers to recoup those extra costs from customers over the space of six months, a shorter period than previously thought.\n\nIt's not just about protecting profits; 28 suppliers have already folded in the last couple of years, leaving customers to pick up a tab £2.7bn, nearly £100 per household, due to their failures. On top of that, over £1bn of taxpayer funds are expected to be needed to deal with the largest collapse, that of Bulb.\n\nThe idea is to protect customers from the cost of future failures. But in the short term, it could mean devastating choices in the depths of winter.\n\nAnd the extra help currently on offer from both Tory leadership hopefuls is unlikely to offset even the increase in the estimate unveiled today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least eight people have died and 14 others have been injured as flooding caused by torrential rain hit parts of South Korea's capital Seoul.\n\nHeavy downpours on Monday night submerged roads, flooded metro stations and caused blackouts across the city and neighbouring provinces.\n\nSome areas received the highest rate of rainfall in 80 years, Korea's meteorological agency said.\n\nWeather officials said the rain was likely to continue over several days.\n\nImages showed floodwater gushing down the steps of metro staircases, parked cars submerged up to their windows and people making their way across streets in knee-high water.\n\nLocal reports said three victims were living in a semi-basement apartment known as a banjiha.\n\nRescue officials said they were unable to access the apartment as floodwaters had risen to waist-high levels on the street.\n\nDestruction is scattered all around Seoul this morning. But the scene of real tragedy is one pink house, where tiny smashed-out windows peek out from just above the pavement.\n\nThe windows belong to a basement apartment where three people, trapped by the water, drowned last night - two sisters in their 40s and one of their 13-year-old daughters. This morning it is still surrounded by floodwater and debris.\n\nSun-woo has lived in the flat above the family for 10 years. By the time he arrived home at 8pm, their home was submerged.\n\n\"I feel devastated about this tragedy,\" he said. \"If I'd come home earlier perhaps, I could have saved them. I have a lot of regrets.\"\n\nHe said the family who had died had lived there for 10 years, and that their older sister had learning difficulties.\n\nThe home is almost identical to the apartment featured in the Oscar-winning film Parasite. The real life events here evoke the opening scene, in which the leading family tries desperately to funnel the water out of their home during a torrential downpour - only this outcome is far worse.\n\nThat South Korea's President Yoon visited the apartment earlier shows these deaths are significant.\n\nThey are a reminder that away from the glitzy towers of upmarket Gangnam, where much much of the damage was done, live hundreds of Koreans in these subterranean apartments that are not fit for purpose.\n\nThree people were killed when floodwater submerged their semi-basement flat\n\nParts of Seoul, the western port city of Incheon and Gyeonggi province surrounding Seoul charted rainfall of over 10cm per hour on Monday night, according to Yonhap news agency.\n\nMeanwhile, Seoul's Dongjak district recorded more than 141.5 mm of rain per hour - the highest rate since 1942, according to Korea's Meteorological Administration (KMA).\n\nThe other victims included a person who was electrocuted, one person was found under the wreckage of a bus stop and another died in a landslide. At least 14 were injured and six others reported missing.\n\nAt least 163 people in Seoul have been made homeless and have taken shelter in schools and public facilities, according to Yonhap.\n\nThe downpour also affected public transportation, as flooded railroads forced suspension of railway services in Seoul and Incheon.\n\nSouth Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol ordered government officials to evacuate residents from high-risk areas, and urged businesses to grant employees flexible commuting hours on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe KMA continued to issue heavy rain warnings across Seoul and surrounding metropolitan areas, and said it expected rainfall for the central part of the country to continue at least until Wednesday.", "The Jan 6 special committee has completed its first five public hearings\n\nTwo weeks ago, there was considerable speculation about how the congressional committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol would be received by the American public.\n\nWould there be an audience? Could the Democrat-led committee shed any new light on the attack and the actions by then-President Donald Trump and his associates?\n\nIt turns out the American public did tune in, with a viewership that topped 20 million for the first prime time hearing. In addition, the five public hearings have proven able to generate a steady stream of new revelations and headlines over the course of the past two weeks.\n\nWhat's more, the proceedings have generated sufficient new leads and evidence that a number of additional hearings will be necessary once the process resumes in mid-July after recess.\n\nIn the meantime, here are some key takeaways from more than 12 hours of hearings held by the committee so far.\n\nA minor dispute erupted last week when the committee chairman, Democrat Bennie Thompson, said his committee was not going to make any criminal referrals to the US Justice Department based on the investigation.\n\nThat prompted a quick response from the senior Republican, Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, that no such conclusion had been reached - sentiment echoed by several other members of the committee.\n\nBack in April, Ms Cheney had gone even farther, saying that the committee had already gathered enough material to build a criminal case against the former president.\n\n\"It's absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing - what a number of people around him were doing - that they knew it was unlawful,\" she said. \"They did it anyway.\"\n\nOne thing that has become clear is that, whether or not the committee actually makes a \"formal\" criminal referral involving Mr Trump - an act that would not have concrete legal implications - the entire structure of the proceedings has been to build a de facto case against the former president.\n\nThe hearings have been structured in the mould of a prosecution in a court trial presenting its case.\n\nIn his opening statement, Mr Thompson outlined the \"charges\", saying Mr Trump was at the centre of a \"sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election,\" and that he \"spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down to the Capitol and subvert American democracy\".\n\nThe committee then outlined the classic elements of a criminal case - that the president had the means, motive and opportunity to commit unlawful acts.\n\nIt presented testimony from Mr Trump's own aides and advisers that he knew the claims he was making of election fraud were untrue and that steps he was taking to overturn the results were illegal.\n\nOf course, there is one key difference between these hearings and a criminal trial. Mr Trump and his supporters have had no opportunity to offer their defence.\n\nThe president's allies in Congress, by their own choice, have side-lined themselves for the past two weeks, choosing not to participate in the hearings. And despite making plans to offer a counter-narrative on cable television and through social media, Republicans have found it difficult to compete with the committee's massive platform - reportedly much to the former president's dismay.\n\nThroughout the two weeks of hearings, some of the most powerful moments have come from the handful of witnesses who have appeared in person to discuss the personal toll Mr Trump's attempts to overturn his electoral defeat has taken on them.\n\nIn the first hearing, police officer Caroline Edwards spoke of the injuries she sustained as protesters stormed the Capitol on 6 January. She said she witnessed \"carnage\" and \"chaos\" reminiscent of a war movie, as her fellow officers bled and vomited on the grounds of the Capitol.\n\nRepublican officeholders who refused to go along with the president's plans described threats to themselves and their families. Rusty Bowers, the Arizona Senate Majority Leader, said protesters gathered outside his house and used loudspeakers to call him a paedophile and a pervert.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo Atlanta election workers, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, spoke of facing death threats and being forced to leave their home after Mr Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani mentioned them by name, claiming they were \"trying to steal the election\".\n\n\"There is nowhere I feel safe,\" Ms Freeman said. \"The president of the United States is supposed to represent every American, not to target one\".\n\nThe committee used these moments to drive home its contention that these hearings weren't just an academic debate over election procedures.\n\nThe words of the president and his associates had real consequences.\n\nThroughout the five days of hearings, the committee presented evidence that Mr Trump was directly involved in attempts to reverse the 2020 presidential results - and not a mere bystander as allies took actions in his name.\n\nRonna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, testified that the president called her to discuss plans to organise \"alternate\" presidential electors who would claim that Mr Trump actually won their states.\n\nRepublican officeholders in Georgia and Arizona appeared to discuss Mr Trump's efforts to pressure them to take steps to reverse Mr Biden's victory in their states. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger spoke in detail about a nearly hour-long phone call during which the president urged him to \"find\" the votes necessary to put him ahead in the state's vote tally.\n\nAccording to the committee, Donald Trump was at the centre of efforts to dispute the 2020 election results\n\nTrump Justice Department officials testified that the president personally put pressure on them to issue findings of possible election fraud and encourage state legislatures to overturn their results showing Mr Biden won.\n\nThey were told by Mr Trump to \"just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,\" acting deputy attorney general Richard Donoghue testified.\n\nWhen Mr Donoghue and his fellow Justice employees refused, the president considered naming a new attorney general, Jeffrey Clark, who would take action. But the senior Justice Department team threated to resign en masse.\n\nWhile the live testimony has provided some of the most powerful moments of the first five hearings, the committee has also made use of the hundreds of hours of recorded testimony from more than a thousand interviews it has conducted.\n\nAt the end of Thursday's hearing, the committee aired tape of senior White House staff recounting how members of Congress had requested presidential pardons for their involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential results. The list included Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia.\n\n\"The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you committed a crime,\" said committee member Adam Kinzinger, a Republican.\n\nThroughout the hearings, former Attorney General Bill Barr proved to be one of the most effective witnesses in absentia, as he debunked - and at times ridiculed - many of Trump's claims of voting fraud.\n\nIvanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, also made attention-grabbing appearances - the former, in particular, when she said she believed Mr Barr's conclusions about a lack of fraud evidence.", "The US pop singer was recently freed from a conservatorship\n\nBritney Spears is to return to the music scene with a collaboration with Sir Elton John, it has been confirmed.\n\nFew details are known about the new track - called Hold Me Closer.\n\nThere had been speculation that the pair were working on a new version of Sir Elton's hit Tiny Dancer.\n\nIt is the first new music from Spears since she was freed from a 13-year conservatorship, during which aspects of her finances and personal life were controlled by her father and others.\n\nMore information is expected in the coming week, a spokesperson has told PA news agency.\n\nTeasing the collaboration, Sir Elton shared a picture of a rose and rocket emoji on Instagram on Monday, alongside the words \"hold me closer\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by eltonjohn This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRumours about the collaboration were reported by US media outlets last month, although there had been no official confirmation until now.\n\nThe announcement comes as the legal battle between the singer and her father Jamie Spears continues.\n\nA US judge denied a motion by Mr Spears last month that the singer should return to court to face further questioning over the legal agreement.\n\nBritney Spears and Elton John at the 21st annual Elton John Aids Foundation Academy awards in 2013\n\nSpears' conservatorship was set up in 2008 after the US pop star, known for hits like Oops I Did It Again! and Toxic, faced a public mental health crisis.\n\nThe legal agreement, which she was freed from in November, had power over the singer's finances and career decisions, as well as personal decisions.\n\nThe singer recently married Sam Asghari in an intimate ceremony in California in June.", "Ian Baum has accused the former Wales rugby captain of \"deceptively\" transmitting HIV to him\n\nFormer Wales and British and Irish Lions captain Gareth Thomas has been accused of \"deceptively\" transmitting HIV to a previous partner, according to High Court legal papers.\n\nIan Baum has alleged Mr Thomas hid his HIV status, \"failing to take reasonable care\" to ensure he did not pass it on.\n\nMr Baum is suing the TV personality for £150,000.\n\nMr Thomas' legal team has been asked to comment, but it is understood that he is strongly contesting the claim.\n\nIn court papers, Mr Baum claimed he had a relationship with him between 2013 and 2016 and that he was HIV negative when the relationship began.\n\nIt is alleged he found out Mr Thomas had HIV when he saw a tablet marked GSK1.\n\n\"On googling the GSK1 pill, the claimant discovered that the defendant was taking antiviral HIV medication,\" the documents said.\n\nMr Baum then \"immediately\" made an appointment for a HIV test. The court papers state that when he found out he was positive for the virus, he was left \"devastated\".\n\nGareth Thomas disclosed he was HIV positive in 2019\n\nIt is claimed he called Mr Thomas for an explanation and according to the documents, Mr Thomas was \"very repentant and apologetic\".\n\n\"The defendant pleaded with him to keep his HIV status secret, the claimant agreed and the relationship continued,\" it added.\n\nMr Baum claims for the remainder of the relationship Mr Thomas used coercive and controlling behaviour towards him in order to prevent his HIV status becoming known.\n\nIn the documents, he said the defendant caused him \"serious physical and psychological injury\".\n\nHe also claimed Mr Thomas lied to him about his HIV status.\n\nIt is alleged Mr Thomas, also know as Alfie, \"portrayed himself as a spokesperson for HIV without ever disclosing that he deceptively transmitted HIV to the claimant in 2014\".\n\nIn 2020, Thomas was given a special prize at Wales' St David Awards for campaigning against HIV stigma, one year after publicly revealing he had the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The whale was trapped for several days before the failed rescue mission\n\nA beluga whale that became stranded in France's Seine river had to be put down, ending a dramatic rescue mission that captivated world audiences.\n\nOfficials say vets took the decision as the four-metre (13ft) mammal was being moved in a refrigerated truck.\n\nOvernight, rescuers spent nearly six hours lifting the 800kg (1,763lb) whale from the river using a crane and nets.\n\nThey had planned to release the animal in the sea but its health deteriorated after failing to eat.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts we announce that the beluga did not survive,\" Sea Shepherd France conservation group wrote in a Twitter post on Wednesday.\n\n\"We are devastated by this tragic outcome that we knew was very likely,\" it added.\n\nMeanwhile, Florence Ollivet-Courtois, a vet for the local emergency services, was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that \"the animal was not getting enough air and [was] suffering visibly.\"\n\n\"We therefore decided that it made no sense to set it free and proceeded to euthanasia,\" the vet added.\n\nExperts are still puzzled as to how the whale - who had been trapped more than 100km (62 miles) inland - managed to stray so far south, away from its natural habitat.\n\nOn Wednesday, crowds were seen gathering on the banks of the river in the northern town of Saint-Pierre-La-Garenne to watch the rescue.\n\nBut interest in the whale's survival spread far beyond France, and conservation groups and a number of individuals have made financial donations to help the rescue operation.\n\nBelugas occasionally venture south in the autumn to feed as ice forms, but it is rare for them to travel so far from their native home.\n\nAccording to France's Pelagis Observatory which specialises in sea mammals, the nearest beluga population is off the Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway, 3,000km (1,870 miles) from the Seine.", "Melting glaciers in the Alps are on track for their highest mass losses in at least 60 years, according to data seen by Reuters.\n\nThe area saw two early summer heatwaves and little snowfall last winter.\n\nZermatt, a Swiss mountain village which usually sees July temperatures in the twenties, has had recent highs of 30C (86F).", "The star and her husband John Easterling in 2018 during the annual walk to raise funds for the cancer institute Image caption: The star and her husband John Easterling in 2018 during the annual walk to raise funds for the cancer institute\n\nFlags are flying at half-mast outside the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Institute in Melbourne – to which the star gave her name and high profile support.\n\nThe facility helps patients live with cancer, focusing on treatment and wellness programmes as well as doing research and clinical trials in the search for cures.\n\nFoundation director Debbie Shiell told ABC Breakfast how proud Newton-John was of the work done there.\n\n\"She drove around the corner and saw her name up on the building. She said it was better than any billboard she's ever seen.”\n\nThe star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 – on the same weekend her father died of cancer.\n\n\"She was always positive, and she was always hopeful and she gave so much hope to so many people,” Shiell said.\n\n“And it was really important to her that the cancer centre here offer wellness programmes, because she found those wellness programmes like yoga and meditation so helpful to her in her journey, that she wanted to make sure that she could provide those to everybody.\n\n\"I think anybody who knows Olivia just knew what a beautiful soul she was and what genuine happiness she exuded. Her visits here in the centre were just so special to the staff here who worked so hard, but also to the patients who are going through so much.\n\n\"And just watching her walk into the room, watching her, the faces light up, the joy that she brings to so many people just by being there.\n\n\"She was the light at the end of the tunnel for so many people.\n\n\"Olivia would sign off a lot of her emails: 'love and light, Olivia'. And she was love and light.\n\n\"It was always her dream to see an end of cancer in her lifetime, and she hasn't quite seen that. But certainly that is something we plan to continue on in her name here, and we plan to continue her legacy and to keep her dreams alive.\n\n\"We will have memorials, and we will find a way to remember Olivia, but not this morning. This morning, we're just remembering what a wonderful woman she was.\"", "The plans for an asylum centre in North Yorkshire were opposed by villagers and Hambleton District Council\n\nPlans to turn a former RAF base into an asylum seeker centre have been withdrawn, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.\n\nIn April, the Home Office announced plans to turn the site at Linton-on-Ouse, in North Yorkshire, into an asylum centre for up to 1,500 men.\n\nBut villagers and Hambleton District Council opposed the decision and said they would mount a legal challenge.\n\nMr Wallace said he had withdrawn the offer of the site to the Home Office.\n\nThe minister was asked about the plans during a visit to West Yorkshire on Tuesday.\n\nHe said: \"I have withdrawn the offer to the Home Office for that site. It's been with them for a number of months.\n\n\"I have obligations to do something else with that site, and you know there are other sites we made available to the Home Office if they wish to take it up.\"\n\nOlga Matthias, of the Linton-on-Ouse Action Group which was set up to oppose the plans, said she was \"over the moon\" at the news.\n\n\"The government had effectively put the sword of Damocles over the whole village for the past four months, so the sense of relief that I have got has to be echoed by everybody else now the uncertainty has gone,\" she said.\n\n\"We have said all along that this was 'wrong plan, wrong place' and if the Home Office had done even a tiny bit of research before the announcement they would have seen this was the wrong place.\"\n\nVirginia Sharpe, who lives in the village, said she wanted to \"see it in writing and get confirmation for sure\".\n\n\"Then we'll cross fingers and hope that it is the end of this ridiculous plan,\" she added.\n\nThe Home Office previously said the centre at the former RAF station would be as self-sufficient as possible\n\nAnnouncing the plans in April, the Home Office said the facility would provide \"safe and cost-effective\" accommodation for single adult men who are claiming asylum in the UK, and meet suitability criteria.\n\nKevin Hollinrake, Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton, who has campaigned against the plans, tweeted: \"Delighted Linton-on-Ouse plans now scrapped. Wonderful team effort.\"\n\nConservative party leadership contender and North Yorkshire MP Rishi Sunak was \"delighted\" the plans had been withdrawn, a spokesperson for his campaign said.\n\nThe government said it remained committed to \"tackling illegal migration and stopping dangerous small boat crossings\".\n\nA spokesperson said: \"The government will continue to identify appropriate sites for Greek-style asylum reception centres which will play a key role in reducing the number of asylum seekers in hotels, which cost the taxpayer more than £5m each day.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The price cap is expected to go up again in October\n\nTypical domestic energy bills could hit more than £3,600 a year this winter, according to a new forecast.\n\nConsultancy Cornwall Insight said the typical gas and electricity bill in England, Wales and Scotland could reach £3,615 in the new year - hundreds of pounds more than previous predictions.\n\nThe government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living.\n\nHowever, some have called for more support for families.\n\nThe average energy bill was £1,400 a year in October 2021. The last energy price cap increase, in April 2022, saw that rise to around £2,000.\n\nThe price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for average energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales - is expected to go up again in October.\n\nCornwall Insight told BBC Breakfast that the typical domestic customer was likely to pay £3,358 a year from October, then £3,615 a year from January.\n\nThat is much higher than earlier predictions.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight, said rising wholesale gas prices and concerns over Russian supply were behind the big leap, and warned the government help announced \"will only scratch the surface of this problem.\"\n\n\"However, while the rise in forecasts for October and January is a pressing concern, it is not only the level - but the duration - of the rises that makes these new forecasts so devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Given the current level of the wholesale price, this level of household energy bills currently shows little sign of abating into 2024.\n\nIn May, energy regulator Ofgem said the typical household should expect to see an £800 increase in October, to £2,800 a year.\n\nHowever, it subsequently admitted that \"prices are looking higher than they did when we made that estimate\".\n\nLast month, BFY, a management consultancy, predicted a typical energy bill could hit £3,850 a year by January.\n\nThe energy price cap sets a limit on the amount that can be paid for each unit of energy.\n\nIt is based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nThis has risen sharply, fuelled by the war in Ukraine which has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nMany families are already facing soaring costs, with UK inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - at the highest in 40 years.\n\nLast week, personal finance expert Martin Lewis said people would be \"panicking\" over their energy bills, and warned it would \"be desperate\" when bills rise this winter.\n\n\"It's going to throw many households into a terribly difficult financial situation,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Lewis said that more needed to be done now to help the poorest households.\n\nA spokesperson from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"While no government can control global gas prices, we are providing £37bn of help for households including the £400 discount on energy bills, and £1,200 of direct support for the most vulnerable households to help with the cost of living.\"\n\nLast week, the government announced how households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive that £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn with the money paid in six instalments.\n\nThe energy bill discount is part of a wider package of measures to tackle soaring prices.\n\nOther measures include a £650 payment to more than eight million low-income households.\n\nThe first instalment of payments to those on benefits started being made from 14 July.", "An aerial view of the parched lawns of Leeds Castle in Kent\n\nThe UK is set for another heatwave this week with highs of up to 35C (95F) in some parts, forecasters have said.\n\nThe Met Office said while conditions would be below the 40.3C recorded last month, the hot weather could last for a longer period.\n\nMore parts of England are also facing hosepipe bans amid very dry conditions, as fire crews warn of wildfires.\n\nHeat health-alerts have been put in place across England by the UK Health Security Agency.\n\nA level three warning will cover southern and central England from midday on Tuesday until 18:00 BST on Saturday, with a level two alert in place for northern England for the same period.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Tom Morgan said a \"fairly widespread heatwave\" was developing across the UK this week with the peak of the temperatures likely to be on Friday or Saturday.\n\n\"It does look like a prolonged period of dry weather and obviously that's bad news for southern England where some rain would really be useful now,\" he said.\n\nTemperatures will build from 28C or 29C on Tuesday and reach the low to mid-30s from Thursday, Mr Morgan said.\n\nHe said the West Midlands and West Country could see the highest temperatures with a maximum of around 35C, but this is uncertain.\n\nA heatwave is defined as above average temperatures seen for three days or more.\n\nEngland had its driest July since 1935, said the Met Office. For some parts - south-east and central southern England - last month was the driest since records began in 1836.\n\nThere have also been calls for more hosepipe bans to be brought in ,including from Environment Secretary George Eustice.\n\nSouthern Water already has in place a hosepipe ban for customers in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, and from Friday South East Water will do the same in Kent and Sussex.\n\nA ban has also been in place in the Isle of Man since 29 July, where customers could face a £2,000 fine if they break the rules.\n\nWelsh Water will bring in a ban for Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire later this month.\n\nIn France, the government has set up a crisis team to tackle a drought that has left more than 100 municipalities short of drinking water.\n\nLast month's record temperatures saw a series of wildfires across the country and Riccardo la Torre, from the Fire Brigades Union, described them as \"brutal\".\n\n\"They burn at extremely high temperatures, they spread faster than firefighters can move and they are very labour intensive,\" he said.\n\nHe said fire services were under strain and claimed the reason blazes \"spread with regularity is because we do not have resources to get there quickly enough\".\n\nThe government said spending for fire services had been increased by around £141m to £1.37bn over the last six years, \"demonstrating our commitment to ensuring fire services have the resources they need\".\n\nEssex County Fire and Rescue Service has urged people not to light bonfires or barbecues, or let off fireworks or sky lanterns, after a large blaze which damaged gardens, sheds and trees was started by a chiminea.\n\nMark Hardingham, chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council said: \"I have not seen a distinction between the two heatwaves - it has remained hot between then and now and equally there's been no rainfall.\"\n\nHe said crews were expecting the busiest time of day to be between 13:00 and 19:00 BST every day and said fire chiefs would aim to maximise on-call firefighters in rural areas to help cope with demand.\n\nA combine harvester and the surrounding field caught fire in Gloucestershire on Monday, following a weekend of fires in the West which saw thousands of square metres of farmland destroyed.\n\nSir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) said water companies who have not called for a hosepipe ban \"will be keeping it under constant review\".\n\n\"The advantage of doing it [a hosepipe ban] right now would be that it relieves pressure on their rivers,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's The World at One programme he said there were simple steps people could take to help such as \"reducing the number of minutes we spend in the shower\".\n\nHe said there was no doubt climate change was affecting our infrastructure and said water was something we took for granted.\n\nThe National Farmers Union warned the heatwave was compounding problems already caused by months of dry weather - grass not growing and irrigation water running out are two.\n\nDeputy president Tom Bradshaw told the BBC: \"The biggest concern is always animal health and welfare and trying to make sure the animals are well looked after.\n\n\"There's also an impact on crops, particularly some vegetable crops - once they get over the mid-20s in temperature they stop growing\".\n\nKeith Stones, who farms in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, has been struggling to find grass to feed his livestock.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The ewes producing the milk for the lambs are thin because they're not picking up enough nutrition from the forage.\n\n\"The lambs are becoming pot-bellied and thin because they're not getting nutrition from the grass or from the milk because the mums aren't supplying.\"\n\nThe dry weather has also caused staff at Kew Gardens, in south-west London, to prioritise which plants that have high conservation value, historic importance or which are extinct in the wild.\n\nDirector of gardens Richard Barley said this included not irrigating wider lawns and natural habitats.\n\nThe heat-health alerts, which are designed to help healthcare professionals manage periods of extreme temperatures, mean care homes will be monitoring residents closely.\n\nDavid Lewis, manager of Cwmbran House Care Home in Cwmbran, Wales, said they were encouraging drinking as \"much as possible\" and offering ice creams and lollies if residents get warm.\n\n\"We're ventilating the rooms and have got fans in the lounges\", he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Lewis: Rising prices are a crisis on a scale with the pandemic\n\nThe situation with energy bills is \"a national crisis\" on the scale of the Covid pandemic, Martin Lewis has said.\n\nThe consumer expert told the BBC support needed to double to make up for the huge expected rise in bills.\n\nThe government said it had \"continually taken action to help households\".\n\nIt comes as a survey by comparison site Uswitch suggested many people are already behind on energy bill payments with total debt owed three times higher than in September last year.\n\nAlmost a quarter of households owe £206 on average, according to the survey of 2,000 people.\n\nUswitch advised people falling into debt to speak to their provider to work out a more affordable payment plan.\n\nThe figures come a day after consultancy Cornwall Insight warned energy bills could rise much higher than previously thought in October.\n\nCornwall also expects bills to increase much more sharply in January, with the average household paying £355 a month, instead of the current £164 a month.\n\nMr Lewis said according to forecasts, the price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers in England, Scotland and Wales for each unit of energy - would effectively double between May of this year and October.\n\nThe latest price cap is due to be announced at the end of this month by the energy regulator Ofgem.\n\nIn May the government announced a package of support, including a £400 discount on energy bills for all UK households and an additional £650 for more than eight million low-income households.\n\nBut Mr Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"If [the chancellor] is going to be consistent, he will need to double every number in that package.\"\n\nMinisters are set to hold talks with energy giants on Thursday to discuss measures to ease the cost of living.\n\nHowever, Mr Lewis said ultimately it was \"government alone\" which could help by putting \"more money into people's pockets\".\n\nThe boss of Octopus Energy also said he thought the government needed to improve its offer of £400 for households to help with rising energy bills.\n\nGreg Jackson told the BBC that while the initial package of support may have been \"right\" at the time, \"clearly it's not sufficient now and we need to look at a similarly significant assistance from the government for this winter\".\n\nDerek Lickorish, chairman of energy supplier Utilita, called for a social tariff, which offers discounted rates for lower income households, to be introduced.\n\nHe also said the government needed to \"dramatically\" increase support by £800 - £1,000 per household.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi said the Treasury had been preparing \"options\" for the next prime minister on what further support could be offered.\n\nHowever, Treasury officials have stressed that any decisions on major fiscal issues will be decided after the new PM takes office.\n\nLeadership frontrunner Liz Truss rejected the idea of holding talks with Boris Johnson and her rival Rishi Sunak before the end of the contest, saying \"now is not the time to pre-empt those decisions\".\n\nShe denied she was ruling out payments to help with energy bills. However, stressing her support for tax cuts, Ms Truss said her priority was \"making sure we're not taking money off people and then giving it back to them later on\".\n\nJames has had to take out a loan to cover his family's energy bill\n\nJames Gilmour, who lives with his partner and three children in Essex, has taken out a £5,000 loan to help cover his energy bills when they go up in October.\n\nHis gas and electricity bill has already doubled from £145 per month to £320 a month and from October he said he will be paying more than £600 per month, according to the latest forecasts.\n\n\"As a family of five we simply cannot afford to pay this monthly as we are already getting half way into the month with no money left for food and essentials,\" he told the BBC.\n\nJames, who works in the automotive industry, said the loan was \"the only way to survive through this crisis\".\n\nThere are two main reasons households end up in debt to their supplier: the first reason, their direct debit payments may be set too low to cover the amount of energy being used.\n\nAnyone who finds themselves in that position should contact their supplier as quickly as possible to avoid a sudden bill shock, and give it their correct meter readings.\n\nThe second reason is because people are just not keeping up with their payments.\n\nThe Uswitch survey revealed that in addition to the group in debt, eight million households have no credit balances, meaning they have no cushion against the bill rises this winter.\n\n\"This is an alarming situation, as summer is traditionally a time when households are using less power for heating, which helps bill payers to build up energy credit ahead of the winter,\" said Justina Miltienyte, head of policy at Uswitch.com.\n\nAn Ofgem spokesperson said its \"priority\" is to \"protect consumers\" and make sure suppliers treat their customers in a \"fair and reasonable manner\".\n\nA spokesperson from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"We know the pressures people are facing with rising costs, which is why we have continually taken action to help households by phasing in £37bn worth of support throughout the year.\"\n\nSeparately on Wednesday, E.On reported first-half profits of just under €4.1bn (£3.5bn), which was about €700m below the previous year.\n\nThe company, which is one of the UK's biggest energy suppliers, described the energy crisis as \"extraordinary\", and said it highlighted the need for Europe \"to transform its energy system. To be independent of Russian gas. To ensure supply security\".\n\nIt is worth saying again that the old advice to shop around to find a better energy deal just does not apply anymore. The default price cap, although super high, is the best rate available at the moment, so don't be pushed into signing up for a new fixed deal unless you want to, as you may end up paying more in the long-run.\n\nIf you are falling behind on your energy payments, or are unable to keep-up with the increases in direct debits being suggested by your supplier, then the first thing to do is let them know you're struggling.\n\nMaking that call might be tough, as it's never easy to admit you're finding things difficult, however it's likely to be the best protection for your household this winter.\n\nTaking action is important because there is an extra layer of legal help available for people who are unable to pay, which forces suppliers to work through lots of different options with their customers. That includes agreeing a payment plan, giving temporary credit for prepayment customers, and arranging for payment directly through benefits.\n\nCrucially, making that call to explain that you're struggling means they can't just cut you off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Lewis: Rising prices are a crisis on a scale with the pandemic\n\nMinisters will hold talks with energy giants on Thursday to discuss measures to ease the cost of living.\n\nThe government says talks will focus on how energy companies can alleviate pressure on consumers.\n\nBut Treasury officials have stressed that any big decisions will be decided by the next prime minister, when they take office in early September.\n\nChancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he would make sure options and ideas were in place for the new PM.\n\nConcerns over what will happen this winter come as figures suggest many households are already in energy debt.\n\nConservative leadership candidate Rishi Sunak said he would be \"happy\" to meet his rival Liz Truss to agree emergency support ahead of the winter.\n\nMs Truss has dismissed the proposal telling reporters \"now is not the time to pre-empt those decisions\".\n\nYet new figures from comparison service Uswitch laid bare the challenge facing Mr Johnson's successor.\n\nAlmost a quarter of households owe £206 to energy firms, on average, with the total debt owed by the public triple that of September last year, according to a survey of 2,000 households.\n\nForecasts predict average annual energy bills could rise to over £4,200 by January - while the state pension is typically worth between £7,376 and £9,628.\n\nMr Johnson has faced growing criticism for not announcing further support beyond the £15bn package set out in May, while the government is under pressure to do more to help with bills.\n\nMr Zahawi said he was focused on ensuring that the money the government had already promised was getting \"into people's bank accounts\".\n\nHe added that he would make sure \"we have the ideas and the options available to whoever becomes prime minister on the 5 September\".\n\nBut consumer expert Martin Lewis has called on what he described as the \"zombie\" government to \"wake up\" and put together a plan immediately.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he compared the current situation to the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. \"We are currently in that position of watching the beds in European hospitals and doing nothing about it,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, Ms Truss did not rule out making cash payments to help people with energy bills but said her priority would be to reverse April's National Insurance rise and temporarily drop green levies on energy bills arguing that low taxes were \"vitally important\" for growing the economy.\n\nShe also said she would boost energy supply by \"getting more gas out of the North Sea\" and allowing more fracking to take place.\n\nLiz Truss is trying to appeal to two different electorates at the same time.\n\nThe first and arguably most important (right now) is the Conservative membership. Her message of tax cuts seems to be going down well with the people who will decide the next prime minister.\n\nBut she'll also have one eye on the future electorate she might one day face - the general public and those voters who gave the Conservatives a chance last time and might not give them a second one if they are struggling with day-to-day costs. That might explain why Liz Truss's language has been very careful in recent days.\n\nBecause while she is convinced tax cuts are the way to help the economy grow, she isn't categorically ruling out direct support to those who are vulnerable.\n\nShe's left herself enough room to change her mind in the future if she does become prime minister and the growing calls for financial help become deafening.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have argued that the energy profits levy - or windfall tax - should be backdated to October 2021 and the extra money raised should be used to help people with energy bills.\n\nA windfall tax is a one-off charge imposed by a government on a company, designed to target firms that have benefited from circumstances they were not responsible for.\n\nCompanies supplying energy are getting much more money for their oil and gas than they were last year, partly because demand has increased as the world emerges from the pandemic, but more recently because of supply constraints following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe levy - which the Treasury previously said could raise up to £5bn - came into effect on 26 May. Energy firms like BP have reported recorded quarterly profits this year that will not be impacted by the levy.\n\nAsked about backdating the windfall tax, Ms Truss replied: \"The answer to our problems is not more taxes.\"\n\nSpeaking at a leadership hustings, former Chancellor Mr Sunak warned that the Conservative Party would be \"hammered\" at the next election without offering further direct support to households.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Bridget Philipson says the party has been \"consistently ahead of the government\" on energy bills\n\nHe has not set out in detail what further payments he would make to households, saying the exact scale of the rise is still unclear, and any payments would come on top of existing support.\n\nLabour's shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told BBC Breakfast the situation was \"deeply worrying\" and said Labour would cut VAT on gas and electricity bills.\n\nShe also said her party would set out further proposals \"very soon\" but added that they \"wouldn't have let things get to this point in the first place\".", "People waiting longer than two years were offered treatment further from home to speed up their care\n\nThe number of people waiting longer than two years for routine operations in England has fallen from 22,500 at the start of the year, to fewer than 200, according to NHS figures.\n\nThis excludes more than 2,500 who are complex cases or chose not to travel for speedier treatment.\n\nNHS England said it had achieved the first milestone in its plan to eliminate backlogs caused by Covid.\n\nBut a record 6.6 million people are still waiting for hospital treatment.\n\nHealth experts say there is still a mountain to climb to reduce the number - currently about 400,000 - waiting more than a year. And winter will probably bring more delays and pressure.\n\nEliminating 18-month waits - currently affecting about 50,000 - by April 2023 is next on the government's agenda.\n\nThe numbers of people waiting a long time for routine hospital treatment have soared during the past two years throughout the UK, as operations were cancelled to free up beds for Covid patients.\n\nThe situation pushed people into borrowing thousands of pounds for private treatment.\n\nTo reduce the backlog, patients have been offered travel and accommodation costs to be treated in an alternative part of the country.\n\nIn England, large numbers have been sent to private hospitals for surgical procedures, while community diagnostic centres have been set up to deliver thousands of checks and scans.\n\nNHS England promised to \"virtually eradicate\" the list of people waiting more than two years for treatment, by the end of July.\n\nIt has now shrunk to 168 patients, who mostly live in the South West - the area worst affected by Covid staff absences and pressure on the health service.\n\nConsultant Gavin Jennings says his hospital has been innovative in the way it has treated extra patients to bring down waiting lists\n\nSulis Hospital Bath has been treating patients from seven local hospitals in the region - more than 1,100 extra patients since September.\n\nExtended theatre times, an temporary operating theatre and close relationships with the local trust have all helped to increase the numbers.\n\nAnd the private hospital, now owned by a local NHS trust, plans to take more people from greater distances, for a wide variety of orthopaedic surgery and eye procedures.\n\n\"It's been a lot of hard work,\" clinical director and consultant Gavin Jennings said.\n\nThe Omicron Covid variant, first identified in South Africa, had hit the hospital quite hard, he said, affecting staffing levels and causing operations to be cancelled.\n\n\"As a result of people waiting longer than usual, some of those cases are now more complex and symptoms may have become worse,\" Mr Jennings said.\n\n\"That's why there's a need to recover from Covid quickly.\"\n\nIn addition to the 22,500 people waiting two years or more at the start of the year, a further 43,500 who would have waited more than two years by the end of July had also been treated, NHS England said.\n\nMore than 6.6 million people are still waiting for scans, procedures or operations\n\nNHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said the health service had continued to reform the way it delivered care, \"using innovate techniques and adopting pioneering technology, like robot surgery\".\n\nBut there are now warnings of high demand on other services.\n\nSaffron Cordery, the interim chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts, told the BBC: \"There is a long way to go with mental health, community and hospital care backlogs, and to relieve pressure on ambulance services.\"\n\nCutting cancer diagnosis waiting times and eliminating 78-week waits was now a priority, she said, adding that progress could be \"put at risk\" if the government did not increase investment in the NHS.\n\nRegarding potential strikes by nurses over pay, Ms Cordery said: \"Nobody wants to see industrial action, but what we have to remember is that we have a workforce that has been working flat-out for the past two-and-a-half years, and is now being asked to go the extra mile again to get these waiting lists down.\"\n\nNigel Edwards, chief executive of The Nuffield Trust independent health think tank, said: \"This is a good achievement - but like getting to base camp, there's quite a mountain to climb in terms of people waiting over a year... and over 78 weeks, which are much bigger numbers than the figure for two-year waits.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"We are working hard with the NHS to get our health system back to peak performance, by growing the healthcare workforce, opening new community diagnostic centres and surgical hubs across the country, and investing in innovative technology to ensure patients can access the treatment they need while saving staff time.\"\n\nElsewhere in the UK, work continues to try to reduce the longest waiting times.\n\nIn Wales, the number of patients waiting the longest has been reducing for the past two months, due to more staff and equipment and new facilities, the Welsh government said.\n\nIn Scotland, more than 10,000 people were waiting more than two years in June, compared with 648 the year before.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said they had introduced new targets to address the backlog and \"increased the flexibility health boards and clinicians have to manage waiting lists, with a focus on eliminating long waits, as well as continuing to treat the most clinically urgent patients\".", "China’s massive economy is being threatened by a real estate debt crisis the likes of which has never been seen.\n\nJust months before Xi Jinping is to be ushered into a historic third term in office, banks are failing, and protesting property investors are withholding mortgage repayments because developers have not finished building their homes.\n\nIn some cities, homeowners, who bought their apartments off-plan, have decided to just move their families into unfinished towers, ignoring warnings to stay away.\n\nThe BBC's China Correspondent Stephen McDonell travelled to Xi'an to meet some of them.", "For the first time since he broke with tradition and left town before Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in January 2021, Donald Trump has returned to Washington DC.\n\nIn an address before Republican members of Congress and former administration officials at the America First Policy Institute summit, the former president set out what he believes should be the focus of the Republican party if they gain control of Congress in November and the presidency in 2024.\n\nMr Trump led with a seven-part plan for cracking down on what he said was rampant crime in cities across the US.\n\nSome of the proposals were familiar, such as increasing liability protection for police officers, more funding for law enforcement and a return to stop-and-frisk policies that allow impromptu warrantless searches of suspects.\n\nOthers were somewhat new. He again called for the death penalty for drug dealers, but added praise for the \"quick trials\" that authoritarian countries like China use to combat the narcotics trade.\n\nHe suggested construction of government-run tent compounds outside of urban areas to rehabilitate homeless people so that American cities could again be \"clean, safe and beautiful\".\n\nHe also called for the presidential authority to deploy National Guard soldiers to fight crime in cities without a local governor's permission - harkening back to the clashes between the president and Democratic governors over whether to use US military forces during the sometimes violent Black Lives Matters protests in 2020.\n\nThe former president has always leaned into tough-on-crime rhetoric, but it's ironic that perhaps the biggest bipartisan policy achievement of his term in office was criminal justice reform, which granted thousands of prison inmates early release and revised federal sentencing guidelines.\n\nThe first half of the former president's speech focused on crime, and as he ticked through his seven-part policy outline his delivery was monotone, almost as though he were bored by his own words. This was set-piece Trump, not the unscripted Trump from his raucous rallies.\n\nThen he complained about how transgender athletes were allowed to compete in women's sports, and the audience gave him one of the largest cheers of the afternoon.\n\n\"Sir, don't say that, it's very controversial,\" he said his advisers had told him about that line. \"It's not written down anywhere, I just said it.\"\n\nAnd it was off to the races. Mr Trump said he wanted to start a women's basketball team with NBA star LeBron James on it. He railed against Biden's immigration policies. He complained about the \"China virus\" and claimed that as president he had done the opposite of whatever federal infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had recommended.\n\nThis was Mr Trump in his natural habitat, free to go wherever his mind took him.\n\nAfter listing a number of other policy prescriptions - stopping inflation, protecting parents' rights, making it easier to fire high-level federal employees, restoring free speech, bringing back manufacturing jobs and welfare reform - Mr Trump ventured back to a favourite pastime: complaining about the 2020 election results.\n\n\"I won a second time, did much better the second time,\" he said of his 2020 re-election effort. \"Did a lot better. Very corrupt. We got millions, millions more votes. That's going to be a story for a long time, what a disgrace it was.\"\n\nHe groused that he was the \"most persecuted president ever\". He complained about his twin impeachments and the ongoing 6 January committee hearings. He defended his supporters who marched to the Capitol before its attack, saying many were being unfairly prosecuted and \"tortured and handled so horribly\".\n\n\"Something is going to have to happen,\" he said. \"People are not going to take it much longer.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Mike Pence - Mr Trump's 2020 running mate - also gave a speech in Washington. When asked about whether there was a division within the Republican party, and whether he was attempting to draw distinctions between himself and his former boss, the former vice-president demurred.\n\n\"I don't know that our movement is that divided,\" he said. \"I don't know that the president and I differ on issues. But we may differ on focus. I truly do believe that elections are about the future. And it is absolutely essential at a time when so many Americans are hurting, so many families are struggling, that we don't give way to the temptation to look back.\"\n\nClearly Mr Pence, who has 2024 ambitions of his own, sees Mr Trump's continued fixation with his election defeat as an opportunity. \"Let's focus on the future\" is a line he has repeated multiple times and in multiple ways as he has travelled the country, laying the groundwork for a potential presidential bid.\n\nBut if the former vice-president wants the White House in 2024, his path may have to go through his former boss, who once again hinted on Tuesday that his career in politics may not be over.\n\n\"We may just have to do it again,\" Mr Trump said of running for president. \"We have to straighten out our country.\"\n\nAt one point, the crowd chanted \"four more years\".\n\nThe former president thanked them, adding that if he quit politics his enemies would leave him alone.\n\n\"But that's not what I do,\" he said. \"I can't do that because I love our country, and I can't do that because I love the people of our country.\"", "People are going back to cash to keep tighter control on their spending as living costs soar, according to new research by the Post Office.\n\nPost offices handled £801m in personal cash withdrawals in July, the most since records began five years ago.\n\nThat's up more than 20% from a year earlier.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, chair of the Cash Action Group, said it showed people are \"literally counting the pennies\" as they grapple with rising prices.\n\n\"It's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" said Ms Ceeney, who chaired the government's independent Access to Cash review.\n\n\"People will be taking out cash and physically putting it into pots, saying 'this is what I have for bills, this is what I have for food, and this is what's left'.\"\n\nPrices are currently rising faster than they have for 40 years.\n\nThe increase in the cost of living is putting a squeeze on people's finances, as incomes fail to keep up.\n\nIn total, £3.32bn in cash was deposited and withdrawn at Post Office counters in July, £100m higher than in June.\n\nPersonal cash withdrawals, at £801m, were up almost 8% month-on-month and up more than 20% year-on-year.\n\nIt is the highest amount since records began five years ago, and only the second time that personal cash withdrawals have exceeded £800m. The last time was December 2021, and there's always an increase in withdrawals around that time of year, the Post Office said.\n\nThe Post Office put the extra volume of withdrawals at its 11,500 branches down to more people turning to cash to help manage their budgets on a week-by-week and often a day-by-day basis.\n\nIt also said it was partly due to more people choosing to have staycations, with recent research by the Post Office finding that 71% of Brits planning on going on holiday in the UK this year intended to take out cash before leaving.\n\nMartin Kearsley, banking director at the Post Office, said: \"We're seeing more and more people increasingly reliant on cash as the tried and tested way to manage a budget.\n\n\"Whether that's for a staycation in the UK or if it's to help prepare for financial pressures expected in the autumn, cash access in every community is critical.\"\n\nCash deposits also rose, according to the research.\n\nIndividuals deposited £1.35bn in cash in July, up 2% month-on-month, while cash deposits for businesses totalled £1.13bn, up 1.9% from a month earlier.\n\nMr Kearsley said the figures showed Britain is \"anything but a cashless society\".\n\nMs Ceeney told the BBC that it was easy to see why cash use was going up, given the rising cost of living.\n\n\"Cash has been in decline for well over a decade, the pandemic accelerated this, but now it's going back up, and that's absolutely because of the cost of living crisis,\" she said.\n\n\"It helps people budget, as using cash means you literally can count the pennies. We all know that if you pay with a card, it's so easy to spend money you don't have and then go overdrawn.\n\n\"If you've only got £30 to last you the week, holding that in notes and coins is still the most effective way of budgeting and controlling how much you spend.\"\n\nSalford University student Kira Hayward turned to social media for inspiration to help her cope with rising costs by taking cash out of her bank account.\n\nStudent Kira Hayward limits her spending by using \"budget binders\" for cash\n\nShe puts it in different labelled envelopes to ensure she has money for food and bills.\n\n\"I went on Instagram and YouTube and I saw these physical budget binders,\" she told the BBC in May. \"I take the money out of the bank and I budget for things like my shopping. If I know I have £80 in my personal shopping for the month I know I can't go over that.\"\n\nWith more high street banks closing branches, Ms Ceeley said there's a need for post offices and shared banking services to allow people to get the cash that they need, especially for vulnerable or elderly people or those who don't have access to digital banking.\n\n\"The reality is digital doesn't work for everyone,\" she said.\n\n\"Millions of people don't have access to computers or smartphones, and so we need to keep cash viable.\"", "The Met Office has issued a four-day amber extreme heat warning, meaning vulnerable people's health could be impacted and travel could be disrupted.\n\nThe warning applies to southern and central England and parts of Wales from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are set to reach up to 35C (95F) in some areas and Thames Water has become the latest water firm to announce hosepipe ban plans.\n\nMeanwhile, a 14-year-old boy has died in a lake in Hertfordshire.\n\nEmergency services were called to North Met Lake, off Cadmore Lane in Cheshunt, just after 17:00 BST on Monday, with his body recovered six hours later, Hertfordshire Constabulary said.\n\nA second search is under way for a man in his early 20s who has gone missing in a lake in Hounslow, west London, the Metropolitan Police confirmed.\n\nThe amber alert is the longest the Met Office has issued since it introduced the warning system in 2021 and is lower than the first-ever red warning in July, when temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time.\n\nBut the Met Office said while temperatures this week would remain below last month's record highs, this heatwave could last longer.\n\nThe Met Office warning is one of several alerts aimed at preparing the country for the heat:\n\nWhile the warnings remain lower than those issued during last month's record temperatures, the UKHSA's Dr Agostinho Sousa emphasised it was important vulnerable people, like the elderly who live alone or anyone with underlying health conditions, were \"prepared for coping during the hot weather\".\n\n\"The most important advice is to ensure they stay hydrated, keep cool and take steps to prevent their homes from overheating,\" he added.\n\nDisabled people could be particularly affected by heat, and may suffer fatigue, difficulty regulating their body temperatures, or problems moving to cooler spots in the home, Fazilet Hadi, from Disability Rights UK, said.\n\nMeanwhile, a dairy farmer in Shropshire has said he might have to send some of his cows to slaughter if there is no rain in August as a result of the reduced amount of grass available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe amber warning for extreme heat comes as Thames Water has had to provide bottled water to residents in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire.\n\nThe water company said supplies were disrupted due to a technical issue, later adding that customers should now have water, but the pressure could be lower than normal.\n\nOne farmer told the BBC the situation had become \"dire\" - explaining that he had almost considered filling up cattle troughs with bottled water.\n\nAnother Northend resident said they had not been able to shower, flush the toilet or prepare food - apart from when using bottled water.\n\nThames Water supplied bottled water to a village in Oxfordshire when supplies ran out\n\nEngland had its driest July this year since 1935, according to the Met Office, while south-east and central southern England had the driest month since records began in 1836.\n\nBetween the start of this year and 6 August, the south-east recorded 144 days with average rainfall of less than 0.5mm. Of those, 57 saw no rain at all.\n\nCathryn Ross from Thames Water said the water company was \"seeing unprecedentedly low storage\" and this summer saw \"less than 65% of rainfall\" than expected.\n\n\"We're looking at less than 75% of our storage at the moment as to where we would expect it to be.\n\nShe said Thames Water was planning ahead for hotter, drier summers by becoming more water efficient, increasing storage and \"potentially\" new reservoirs.\n\nMeanwhile, a disabled man from Llandysul, Wales says he has been struggling in the heat with no water or low water pressure for three weeks.\n\nData from the Environment Agency has shown River Wye levels are now as low as 2cm and water temperatures are expected to rise in coming days.\n\nWarnings of the threat posed by wildfires have been issued, with fire services urging people not to light bonfires or barbecues, or let off fireworks or sky lanterns.\n\nOn Tuesday, around 70 firefighters battled a blaze over five hectares (12.36 acres) of grass and shrubland in Enfield, north London, while there were also fires on the outskirts of Ipswich, in Northamptonshire and near Reading.\n\nAn aerial view of a fire on Rushmore Heath on the outskirts of Ipswich\n\nThe heatwave combined with months of dry weather have also led to increasing problems for farmers, with grass not growing and irrigation water running low cited as two key concerns.\n\nThames Water said it would be announcing restrictions on water use in response to forecasts of more hot and dry weather, with the exact timings to be confirmed later.\n\nHosepipe bans are already in force in Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, and others are due to come into force in Kent, Sussex, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire.\n\nThe UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology has warned river flows are set to remain exceptionally low in central, southern and eastern England until October.\n\nRiver Action founder Charles Watson called for the government to act to prevent an \"ecological emergency\", warning that if river flows slowed down the ecology of rivers could be killed and the concentration of pollution in them would increase.\n\nChristine Farnish, a former board member of water regulator Ofwat, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme water companies \"need to get their houses in order\" over leakage and said they had been \"very slow\" to wake up to the realities of climate change.\n\nBut Water UK's director of policy Stuart Colville said Ofwat figures showed companies were at the lowest ever levels of leakage on record and said the industry was doing \"everything we can\" to avoid restrictions on water use.\n\nThe National Trust has warned that bats, lichen and stately gardens have been hit hard by the hot summer weather, with its climate change adviser describing the impact as \"stark\".\n\nConcerns have also been raised by the River Tweed Commission about the impact of low water levels and high temperatures on Atlantic salmon, sea and brown trout.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Before and after pictures of Norfolk show hot weather's impact\n\nMet Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Rudman said temperatures would be \"rising day-on-day through this week\" and were expected to peak at 35C on Friday and Saturday in some areas.\n\nAny showers would be to the far north-west of the UK and would be short-lived in nature, he said, adding there would be \"no relief for parched land\" in the south.\n\nA heatwave is defined as above average temperatures being reached for three days or more. Heatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nWe are living in the hottest period for 125,000 years, according to the UN's climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.\n\nHow is the hot weather affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "John Watt QC was a former prosecutor in Scotland\n\nA former Scottish prosecutor has been jailed for 10 years for sexually abusing four young children more than four decades ago.\n\nJohn Watt QC, who was also a criminal defence lawyer, preyed on three young girls and a boy over a 14-year period.\n\nThe 72-year-old had been extradited from the United States to stand trial in July.\n\nJudge Lord Braid told Watt he had committed \"vile\" crimes of the \"utmost seriousness and depravity.\"\n\nWatt was also put on the sex offenders register for an indeterminate period.\n\nLast month, Watt was found guilty of one charge of rape, one of indecent assault and three of indecent conduct committed at houses in the Edinburgh area between September 1973 and August 1987.\n\nAt the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Braid said: \"In each case the offences have had a profound and life-changing effect on the victims.\"\n\nThe judge said that Watt continued to maintain his innocence over the abuse and added that perhaps explained why he had not demonstrated any remorse or empathy for his victims.\n\nLord Braid said: \"In your role as advocate depute (Crown Office prosecutor) you prosecuted the very type of offence of which you have now been convicted.\"\n\nWatt raped a girl under the age of 12 at an address in the west end of Edinburgh.\n\nTwo other girls were later molested by him in their beds at a house in Edinburgh and a 10-year-old boy was subjected to sexual abuse at an address in Leith in 1987.\n\nThe court previously heard that a number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time.\n\nDuring his trial, Watt pinned the blame on a now dead lawyer for attacks on one of the girls.\n\nThe female rape victim told the trial that her father, who was also a lawyer, took her to see Watt at a house in Edinburgh. The woman, now aged 55, said: \"I did things to the man which he made me do.\"\n\nThe court heard that a number of the victims had relatives who were also legal figures at the time\n\nTwo sisters told the trial how their lawyer father often hosted gatherings at their home where Watt and others would be present.\n\nOne described waking up to find Watt at her bedside before he got in beside her and began touching her inappropriately.\n\nHer sister saw him in the bed and recalled being \"frightened\", but the advocate then turned on her and subjected her to abuse.\n\nThe court heard that their father had subsequently reported Watt to a senior lawyer, who later became a judge, instead of going to police.\n\nThe male victim told the court: \"I was raped by John Watt. I remember him coming in the room and I remember him telling me to turn over.\" Watt was meant to be looking after the boy while his parents were away.\n\nDefence counsel Donald Findlay QC told the court Watt would be lodging an appeal.\n\nHe said that Watt \"in common with any decent individual deplores the type of conduct that is referred to in these charges\".\n\nMr Findlay said: \"He is a first offender. He is still one of Her Majesty's counsel in Scotland.\"\n\nWatt gave up law in Scotland and moved to Oklahoma in 1995 where he did some work for his wife's real estate agency before armed police detained him ahead of extradition proceedings.\n\nMr Findlay said Watt did not keep good health and had diabetes but hoped to return home to America and his wife.\n\nFollowing the sentencing, the two sisters said in a statement addressed to Watt: \"You thought you'd picked the right kid.\n\n\"The kid of a dad who idolised you and was too weak to stand up to you properly. The kid of a mum who knew it was wrong, but was told that she wouldn't be believed.\n\n\"The kid who cowered behind the locked door of a freezing cold bathroom in case you came back for her. The kid who kept her secret for 37 years.\n\n\"Having been found guilty, I think you should know that you picked the wrong kid. Because there are no wrong kids. Only kids who are too young to have the power to do anything about it.\n\n\"Only kids who people don't listen hard enough to. Only kids who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye. Only kids who know right from wrong. Just kids.\"\n\nWhen John Watt was sentenced in the courts where he used to practise as a senior lawyer, prosecuting people accused of sex crimes, two of his victims were watching from the public gallery.\n\nThe sisters were young girls when the Queen's Counsel abused them at their home in Edinburgh 40 years ago. Watt was convicted of raping two other children, a girl aged under 12 and a 10-year-old boy.\n\nThey listened to Watt's defence counsel Donald Findlay QC complain that the ex-lawyer had been \"treated like some kind of serial killer\" when he was arrested by armed American police officers on behalf of the Scottish authorities.\n\nThey heard Mr Findlay say Watt was sympathetic to \"any victim of this type of behaviour\" but still maintained his innocence.\n\nThey watched the judge Lord Braid jail the ex-lawyer for 10 years, having noted that his behaviour had had a \"profound and lifelong\" effect on his victims.\n\nAfterwards, the sisters gave the handful of reporters covering the case a typed statement addressed \"to the accused.\" It was defiant and heartbreaking.\n\nThe sisters said their father had idolised Watt but was too weak to stand up to him properly. They said their mother was told she wouldn't be believed. They talked of a secret kept for 37 years and of kids \"who don't have friends in high places who'll turn a blind eye\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about whether these allegations could have been dealt with long ago.\n\nCases involving so-called historic abuse allegations are now commonplace within Scotland's courts, as justice finally catches up with the evil done by men like John Watt. They're not historic for the victims still living with the consequences.\n\nThe former defence lawyer and prosecutor is lodging an appeal, but if his convictions and the 10-year sentence stands, he'll be in his late 70s before he's considered for parole.\n• None Former Scots QC guilty of abusing four children", "Meta has announced new privacy features for WhatsApp users.\n\nUsers will be able to leave group chats silently, control who can see their online status and block screenshots on View Once messages.\n\nMeta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said this would help keep WhatsApp messaging \"as private and secure as face-to-face conversations\".\n\nIt will begin rolling out the features this month, highlighting them in a global campaign, starting in the UK.\n\nThe popular messaging app currently alerts all members of a group chat to someone leaving or being removed by default.\n\nAnd while there are ways to disable this for individual group chats, the option to leave silently is not presented to users when they choose to \"exit group\" - sometimes causing awkwardness, embarrassment or drama for those trying to leave unnoticed.\n\nWith the recent changes, users will be able to leave without notifying the other group chat users, only alerting group administrators.\n\nProduct head Ami Vora said it was part of the platform's focus on \"building product features that empower people to have more control and privacy over their messages\".\n\n\"We believe WhatsApp is the most secure place to have a private conversation,\" she said.\n\n\"No other global messaging service at this scale provides this level of security for their users' messages, media, voice messages, video calls, and chat back-ups.\"\n\nThe update will also see users given the option to allow only certain contacts - or no-one - to see when they are active on the platform, bringing online status options into alignment with \"last seen\" settings.\n\nJanis Wong, research associate at The Alan Turing Institute, told BBC News: \"It's always nice to give users more control - users like, and need to have, more control.\"\n\nBut unless users were prompted to use the features, or made fully aware of them in the app, their impact could be limited, she noted.\n\n\"If it's not default, or if users aren't prompted to reconsider their options, then it's not necessarily very useful - if users aren't aware this is something that they can do,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Snap also announced new app features for instant image-sharing, as well as updates to the messaging app Snapchat.\n\nThe company has launched a Family Centre, which builds on child safety measures by allowing parents to have more oversight of their child's experience on the app.\n\nHowever, this will only be implemented once parents and Snapchat users have both accepted invites to the supervisory hub.\n\nFamily Centre tools include letting parents see who their child is friends with and chatting to, but parents will not be able to view message content.\n\nSnapchat's Family Centre will let parents view their child's friends list and see who they are chatting to\n\nJacqueline Beauchere, global head of platform safety at Snapchat, said the Family Centre aims to provide parents with \"a window into their teen's online life\".\n\n\"For parents, we know understanding how their teens are interacting online is important,\" she said. \"We hope these tools will empower both parents and teens, and boost online safety and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe in-app Family Centre will also let parents independently report users interacting with their child or engaging in concerning behaviour on Snapchat.\n\nFrom autumn, teen users will be able to notify parents of any accounts or content which they have reported.", "The pilots fell asleep while the plane was on autopilot mode (file photo)\n\nTwo pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says.\n\nAir traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia's Addis Ababa airport.\n\nThe pilots eventually woke up and landed the plane on its second approach, the Aviation Herald said.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crew have been put on leave pending investigation, state-run news outlet Fana reported.\n\nMonday's passenger flight took off from Sudan's Khartoum airport.\n\nThe Boeing 737, with a 154-seat capacity, normally takes less than two hours on its route between the neighbouring countries.\n\nReactions to sleeping on the job ranged from sympathy with the pilots' work schedule to shock that they fell asleep on the job.\n\n\"I wouldn't cast blame on the Ethiopian crew specifically here - this is something that could happen to ANY crew in the world and it probably DID happen... The blame lies on the corporation and the regulators,\" read one comment on the Aviation Herald website.\n\nAnother user suggested that there was only one solution: \"Termination. End of story. Full stop.\"\n\nOthers saw the funny side of the story, comment on Twitter, \"Sleeping on the job taken to new heights!\"\n\nAn aviation analyst called the incident \"deeply concerning\" on Twitter.\n\n\"Pilot fatigue is nothing new, and continues to pose one of the most significant threats to air safety - internationally,\" tweeted aviation analyst, Alex Macheras.\n\nIn a press release, Ethiopian Airlines confirmed that the the crew had been removed from future flights pending further investigation.\n\n\"Appropriate corrective action will be taken based on the outcome of the investigation\" the statement read.\n\n\"Safety has always been and will continue to be our first priority.\"", "Apple has released an update to fix security flaws on its iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, which it says hackers may have \"actively exploited\".\n\nThe tech company said the new software \"provides important security updates and is recommended for all users\".\n\nThe flaw could allow hackers to take complete control of affected devices, industry experts have suggested.\n\nThe update has been made available to iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2 and later and iPad 5th gen and later.\n\nIt is also available to the iPad mini 4 and later versions and the iPod touch (7th generation). Mac users running macOS Monterey are also being encouraged to update.\n\nApple said hackers used the flaw to infiltrate WebKit, the engine that powers Apple web browser Safari. The technology company said the exploit could be used by hackers if the user accessed \"maliciously-crafted web content\".\n\nThere have so far been no confirmed reports of specific cases where the security flaw has been used against people or devices.\n\nSoftware updates are an everyday (and sometimes irritating) part of our modern tech lives, but this is one update not to ignore.\n\nThe cyber-security world is rightly concerned about the potential power hackers could wield if they target a device that is vulnerable to this attack.\n\nSo it's sensible to check the settings on your Apple gear and install the patch.\n\nEven better - turn on automatic updates.\n\nFor the vast majority of users there is nothing to panic about as there is no suggestion that hackers have exploited the security loophole to launch mass attacks against the general public.\n\nIt also has to be said that the outcry on social media about the security update is possibly overblown.\n\nApple has released similar emergency security updates throughout the year - most recently in March - without much fanfare or panic.\n\nAccording to its security update page: \"Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available\".", "A US judge ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven workers in Tennessee who say they were sacked in retaliation for pro-union activity.\n\nIt is a victory for labour regulators, who sued Starbucks over the sackings, arguing that restoring the jobs was key to prevent future labour violations.\n\nStarbucks denies retaliation and said it would appeal against the decision.\n\nJudge Sheryl Lipman said regulators had presented enough evidence to suggest labour law violations had occurred.\n\nShe said reinstatement was \"just and proper\" whilst the claims worked their way through the judicial process, which can take years.\n\nStarbucks dismissed the seven staff members in Memphis in February.\n\nIn the months since, organisers for the union Starbucks Workers United have accused Starbucks of firing more than 75 pro-union staff across the country, which they allege is part of a wider crackdown intended to stop their movement.\n\nThe National Labor Relations Board, the federal labour watchdog, sued Starbucks over the Memphis sackings in May after investigating the incident.\n\nStarbucks has said it fired the workers for breaking company rules, including letting non-staff into the store after closing. In this case, it was said that staff had allowed reporters into the cafe for a television interview about the union effort.\n\nThe company said it planned to appeal Judge Lipman's decision, which could postpone any rehiring.\n\n\"We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling,\" Starbucks said in a statement.\n\n\"These individuals violated numerous policies and failed to maintain a secure work environment and safety standards. Interest in a union does not exempt partners from following policies that are in place to protect partners, our customers and the communities we serve.\"\n\nSince the union campaign launched last year, staff at roughly 220 Starbucks stores across the US have voted to join a union, giving them the power to negotiate pay, benefits and other work conditions collectively.\n\nStarbucks, which owns nearly 9,000 stores in the US and licenses hundreds more, says it prefers to handle complaints directly with staff, without involving a \"third party\".", "A soldier with a Russian flag stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site\n\nRussian leader Vladimir Putin has said UN officials will be granted permission to visit and inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex.\n\nThe Kremlin made the announcement after a call between Mr Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nIt came as claims of fighting near the plant continued, with four civilians reportedly injured by Russian shelling.\n\nSeparately, the US pledged on Friday to send more arms and ammunitions to assist in Ukraine's war effort.\n\nIn a read-out following the call between the French and Russian leaders, the Kremlin said, Mr Putin had agreed to provide UN investigators with \"the necessary assistance\" to access the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site.\n\nThe plant has been under Russian occupation since early March but Ukrainian technicians still operate it under Russian direction.\n\n\"Both leaders noted the importance\" of sending the IAEA experts to the plant for an assessment of \"the situation on the ground\", the Kremlin said.\n\nThe director-general of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), welcomed Mr Putin's statement and said he was willing to lead a visit to the plant himself.\n\n\"In this highly volatile and fragile situation, it is of vital importance that no new action is taken that could further endanger the safety and security of one of the world's largest nuclear power plants,\" Rafael Grossi said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the prospect of an inspection in his nightly address, but said specific details were still being worked out.\n\n\"If Russian blackmail with radiation continues, this summer may go down in the history of various European countries as one of the most tragic of all time,\" he said.\n\nKyiv says Russia has turned the complex into an army base - deploying military equipment, weapons and about 500 troops who are using the site as a shield to attack towns across the Dnieper River.\n\nAnd in recent weeks, the area around the facility has come under heavy artillery fire, with Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.\n\nUkrainian officials claimed that Russian shelling of the area surrounding the plant had continued on Friday, accusing Moscow's forces of wounding four civilians in the city of Marhanets, which is across the river from the plant.\n\nFive houses were also damaged in the area, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko claimed on Telegram.\n\nDespite displaying some willingness to grant access to inspectors, Russian officials have flatly refused international demands to demilitarise the site.\n\nIvan Nechayev, deputy director of the Russian foreign ministry's information and press department, said on Friday that such moves would leave the plant \"even more vulnerable\".\n\nMeanwhile, Russia submitted a letter to the UN Security Council detailing the \"provocations\" that it accuses Ukraine of plotting at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.\n\nThe Russian mission to the UN alleged that the Ukrainians want to cause \"what they believe to be a minor accident\", consisting of a radiation leak, which could see Russia accused of \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\nThe letter denied that Russian troops are storing weapons on site. It repeated an allegation that the Ukrainians had been shelling the plant.\n\nSeparately, Washington has unveiled a new $775m (£655m) package of defence equipment for Ukraine.\n\nThe funding will pay for Himars long-range rocket launchers, ammunition for artillery, surveillance drones and anti-tank missiles.\n\nAccording to a senior US Defence official quoted by Reuters news agency, the package will also contain mine-resistant vehicles for the first time.\n\nUkraine has been heavily dependent on weapon supplies from its Western allies to assist its resistance against the Russian invasion.", "PFAS are used in makeup and pharmaceutical products because of their water-resistant properties\n\nChemists have identified how to destroy \"forever chemicals\" in a low-cost way for the first time, new research says.\n\nScientists have linked exposure to the substances, known as PFAS, at certain levels to serious health risks, including cancer and birth defects.\n\nTheir resistance to water, oil and stains make them highly useful. PFAS are used in hundreds of everyday objects from frying pans to make-up.\n\nBut it is these properties that make them so difficult to destroy.\n\nPFAS stands for poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances. There are around 4,500 of these fluorine-based compounds and they are found in almost every dwelling on Earth in products including food packaging, non-stick cookware, rain gear, adhesives, paper and paints.\n\nThey have been identified in low levels in rainwater globally - but if they infiltrate water or soil in high level, they can become a serious concern.\n\nResearch remains ongoing to determine how different levels of exposure can lead to various health effects.\n\n\"There is an association between exposure and adverse outcomes in every major organ system in the human body,\" Elsie Sunderland, professor of environmental chemistry at Harvard University, tells BBC News.\n\nExisting methods to destroy PFAS, such as incineration, have not been very successful - they can be prohibitively expensive or have been associated with local contamination.\n\nNew research, from scientists at Northwestern University, US claims to have done the \"seemingly impossible\" and destroyed PFAS using low temperature and cheap products.\n\nThis could be very useful in helping communities suffering from high-level contamination, according to Prof Sunderland, who is not part of the research team.\n\nThe reason PFAS have historically been so difficult to destroy is because they contain many carbon and fluorine bonds - the strongest bonds in organic chemistry.\n\nBut it is these bonds which means they can repel liquids - known as omniphobic - and makes them very useful for the pharmaceutical and food industries.\n\nThe research team, led by Brittany Trang, identified a new mechanism to break down the PFAS by using a common chemical called sodium hydroxide - which is used to make household products like soap or painkillers.\n\nThey targeted a group of weaker charged oxygen atoms which sit at the end of the long tail of carbon-fluorine bonds.\n\nThe process effectively \"decapitated the head group from the tail\" and the PFAS began to fall apart, leaving only harmless products.\n\nMs Trang says the results are \"exciting because of how simple — yet unrecognized — our solution is\".\n\n\"This could be a breakthrough if it is low cost,\" chemicals policy lead and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Camilla Alexander-White, tells BBC News.\n\nPFAS are in hundreds of household items\n\nThe team of scientists hope that with further research PFAS could be filtered from drinking water and this new method applied to destroy the contaminants.\n\nHowever, treatment of high concentrations of PFAS is only one part of the solution.\n\nWith PFAS remaining in production it can continue to build up at low levels in fish and other wildlife as it cannot be broken down naturally very easily.\n\nDr Alexander-White says that PFAS should only be used in products and processes that are vital for society and for which there is no alternative.\n\nThis new method was applied to the 10 most prominent types of PFAS, but the US Environment Protection Agency has identified more than 12,000.\n\nWilliam Dichtel, one of the co-authors and professor of chemistry at Northwestern remains hopeful: \"There are other classes that don't have the same Achilles' heel, but each one will have its own weakness.\"\n\nThe research has been published in the journal Science.", "Mr O'Halloran was a much-loved member of the community\n\nThe family of a grandfather who was fatally stabbed while riding a mobility scooter in west London have described his death as \"horrendous\".\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died at the scene in Cayton Road, Greenford, after being attacked on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nLee Byer, 44, of Southall, west London, has since appeared in court charged with his murder.\n\nHis nephew, also called Thomas O'Halloran, said his family felt \"complete numbness\" at their loss.\n\nSpeaking to Irish broadcaster RTE, from his home in Ennistymon, County Clare, in Ireland, Mr O'Halloran said his family were in shock over the grandfather's death.\n\n\"Just complete numbness with the loss of our uncle,\" he said.\n\n\"It's been horrendous, absolutely terrifying that something like this could happen to such a gentle, kind person.\"\n\nThomas O'Halloran described his uncle as gentle and kind\n\nMr O'Halloran described his late uncle, also originally from County Clare, as \"always caring, always giving\" and possessing great musical talents.\n\nHe added: \"He was just an all-round good person that always did his best to give back to everybody around him, with his family.\n\n\"He's the type of guy that would give the shirt off his back.\"\n\nMr Byer made his first court appearance at Willesden Magistrates' Court earlier.\n\nProsecutor Louise Ahmad outlined the case, describing the alleged murder as a vicious attack.\n\nMr O'Halloran who was known \"throughout the local community\" collapsed from his mobility scooter outside Runnymede Gardens having been stabbed in the chest.\n\nHe was found by a member of the public, who telephoned for assistance, she added.\n\nMr Byer was remanded in custody and is expected to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.\n\nMr O'Halloran was attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n• None Man charged with murder of man on mobility scooter", "The Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest in Europe and has been under Russian control since March\n\nRussia has rejected appeals for a complete demilitarisation of the area around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.\n\nThe move would make the plant more vulnerable, a Russian official said.\n\nThe calls come amid growing concern over safety at the site - Europe's largest nuclear plant - as both sides accuse each other of shelling the area.\n\nUkrainian workers operate the plant, which has been under Russian control since March.\n\nIt was one of the first sites seized by Russian troops following the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres sounded the alarm after meeting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv on Thursday.\n\n\"Any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide,\" Mr Guterres warned.\n\nThe Ukrainian president urged the UN to ensure demilitarisation of the nuclear plant - Europe's biggest. Mr Guterres added that \"the facility must not be used as part of any military operation\".\n\nMr Erdogan echoed the UN chief's concerns, telling reporters that he was worried about the danger of \"another Chernobyl\" disaster erupting at the plant.\n\nMr Zelensky has criticised \"deliberate\" Russian attacks on the power plant.\n\nMoscow is accused of turning the facility into an army base, with all three leaders urging the Russians to demilitarise the zone as soon as possible.\n\nBut Ivan Nechayev, deputy director of the Russian foreign ministry's Information and Press Department, rejected the call.\n\n\"Their implementation will make the plant even more vulnerable,\" Mr Nechayev told reporters.\n\nThe appeals come as Ukrainian staff, who are working at the plant under Russian direction, warned of a potential nuclear catastrophe at the facility, saying in the past two weeks it has become \"the target of continuous military attacks\".\n\n\"What is happening is horrific and beyond common sense and morality,\" staff wrote in a Telegram post (in Ukrainian).\n\nThree of the four power supply lines linking the plant to the Ukrainian national grid have been damaged by shelling and Ukraine's nuclear regulator has warned that a complete loss of power supply would mean that \"nuclear fuel will begin melting, resulting in a release of radioactive substances to the environment\".\n\nLater on Thursday, an official Twitter channel used by the Ukrainian government said that members of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, had \"urgently\" left the facility, and an \"unexpected day off\" had been announced.\n\n\"Ukrainian intelligence officers believe that the Russians are preparing a provocation at the [facility],\" Ukraine's Centre for Information security tweeted.\n\n\"Following their extensive shelling... [Russian forces] could 'raise the stakes' and stage a real terrorist attack on Europe's largest nuclear facility,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify the claims.\n\nDespite concerns, though, the site is said to be far more secure than the Chernobyl plant - the site of the worst nuclear incident in history.\n\nThe reactor is in a steel-reinforced concrete building that can \"withstand extreme external events, both natural and man-made, such as an aircraft crash or explosions,\" experts told the BBC in March.\n\nMr Erdogan (L) met Mr Zelensky (C) and Mr Guterres (R) in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv", "Comedy actress Josephine Tewson, who appeared in TV sitcoms including Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine, has died at the age of 91.\n\nTewson was best known for playing Elizabeth, the nervous next-door neighbour of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances between 1990-95.\n\nHer other sitcoms included Shelley with Hywel Bennett and No Appointment Necessary with Roy Kinnear.\n\nShe also worked extensively with Ronnie Barker, Charlie Drake and Dick Emery.\n\nPatricia Routledge and Josephine Tewson in Keeping Up Appearances\n\nIn a statement, her agent Jean Diamond said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Josephine Tewson.\"\n\nThe actress died on Thursday at Denville Hall, a care home for actors and other members of the entertainment industry in north London, Diamond added.\n\nTewson played Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine\n\nTewson was born in Hampstead, London, in 1931, and started her career in the theatre. Her productions included the West End musical Free As Air, whose cast also included Leonard Rossiter.\n\nThey got married in 1958 but divorced three years later. He went on to find fame in the sitcom Rising Damp.\n\nTewson later became a regular on TV on The Charlie Drake Show and The Dick Emery Show in the late 1960s. On radio, she was in the casts of The Ronnie Corbett Thing, The Secret Life of Kenneth Williams and Bob Monkhouse's Mostly Monkhouse.\n\nTewson with Ronnie Barker in the sitcom Clarence\n\nShe had a long association with Barker, from ITV's Frost on Sunday and Hark at Barker to the BBC's His Lordship Entertains and then the 1930s-set Clarence.\n\nShe also made frequent appearances in The Two Ronnies with Barker and Corbett, and in a string of TV comedies with Terry Scott - Son of the Bride, Happy Ever After and Terry and June.\n\nAfter starring in Keeping Up Appearances, the show's writer Roy Clarke provided Tewson with the role of Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine between 2003 and 2010.", "Evangelista said she had been left \"so depressed that you hate yourself\"\n\nModel Linda Evangelista has appeared on the cover of Vogue for the first time since saying she had been \"deformed\" by a cosmetic procedure which went wrong.\n\nIn the photos, tape and elastic were used to pull back her face, jaw and neck, hiding the problems caused when a fat-freezing treatment \"backfired\".\n\nShe said: \"That's not my jaw and neck in real life - and I can't walk around with tape and elastics everywhere.\"\n\nShe told the magazine she was \"trying to love myself as I am\".\n\n\"But for the photos,\" she added. \"Look, for photos I always think we're here to create fantasies. We're creating dreams. I think it's allowed. Also, all my insecurities are taken care of in these pictures, so I got to do what I love to do.\"\n\nIt's almost a year since the Canadian supermodel, one of the best-known faces on catwalks and magazine covers in the 1990s and 2000s, said she had disappeared from the spotlight because she had been \"brutally disfigured\" by the non-surgical fat reduction procedure.\n\nShe said the CoolSculpting treatment - a brand name for cryolipolysis, which uses cold temperatures to reduce fat deposits - went wrong when a rare side-effect increased, instead of decreasing, fat cells.\n\nNow, she has told British Vogue: \"If I had known side-effects may include losing your livelihood and you'll end up so depressed that you hate yourself... I wouldn't have taken that risk.\"\n\nAll the photos in the magazine only show the front of her face, with her neck, ears and hair covered.\n\nShe said she had been attracted to the procedure by its advertising and her own vanity.\n\n\"Those CoolSculpting commercials were on all the time, on CNN, on MSNBC, over and over, and they would ask, 'Do you like what you see in the mirror?' They were speaking to me.\n\n\"It was about stubborn fat in areas that wouldn't budge. It said no downtime, no surgery and... I drank the magic potion, and I would because I'm a little vain. So I went for it - and it backfired.\"\n\nShe sued Zeltiq Aesthetics, the company behind the treatment, and said in July that the lawsuit had been settled.\n\nIn a statement to Vogue, Zeltiq said: \"We are pleased to have resolved this matter with Ms Evangelista. Our focus continues to be on empowering confidence by providing safe, reliable aesthetics products and services backed by science. CoolSculpting is an FDA-cleared, non-invasive treatment for visible fat bulges in nine areas of the body.\"\n\nElsewhere in the Vogue interview, Evangelista recalled her early modelling days and her rise to fame in the 1980s.\n\nAsked if she was aware of her beauty, and if boys wanted to date her, she replied: \"No! I had tons of friends, but no. You know what it was? I was tall, and people used to tell my mum, 'Oh, she's tall. She should be a model.' That, and I was obsessed with fashion.\"\n\nShe also discussed campaigning to get higher pay for models. \"I had the power of being able to hold out,\" she explained.\n\n\"That's all it came down to. But also, I was thinking about different industries. Athletes aren't all paid the same - some are paid more for what they bring to the game. It wasn't a matter of thinking I was better… but I knew my worth.\"", "Ukrainian officials previously staged an exercise in case of possible nuclear disaster\n\nUN nuclear inspectors have made an appeal for fighting to stop at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant - close to the front line in Ukraine - to help prevent a nuclear accident.\n\nRafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. He has led a team to the plant where Ukrainian staff have worked in highly challenging conditions for months.\n\nRussia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant on the left bank of the River Dnipro at the start of its war and the two sides have since accused each other of repeatedly shelling it.\n\nWhen the plant was temporarily cut off from Ukraine's power grid for the first time in its history in late August, Ukraine's president said the world had narrowly avoided a radiation accident. Russian officials have even produced a map of how a radioactive cloud might spread to neighbouring countries.\n\nWhat, then, is the risk to this nuclear plant which houses six reactors - and is Europe facing a Fukushima-type meltdown?\n\nMuch of the anxiety has been about the plant coming under fire from artillery shells or rockets. Ukraine has accused Russian forces of using it as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities. Russia denies that is the case, but satellite photos have shown their military stationed near some of the buildings.\n\n\"Zaporizhzhia was built in the 1980s, which is relatively modern,\" says Mark Wenman, head of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy Futures. \"It has a solid containment building. It's 1.75m [5.75ft] thick, of heavily reinforced concrete on a seismic bed [to withstand earthquakes]... and it takes a hell of a lot to breach that.\"\n\nHe rejects comparisons with either Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima in 2011. Chernobyl had serious design flaws, he explains, while at Fukushima the diesel generators were flooded, which he believes would not happen in Ukraine as the generators are inside the containment building.\n\nAfter 9/11, nuclear plants were tested for potential attacks involving large airliners and found to be largely safe, so damage to a reactor's containment building may not be the biggest hazard.\n\nMore worrying is loss of power supply to the nuclear reactors. If that happens and the diesel back-up generators fail, that would lead to a loss of coolant. With no electricity to power the pumps around the hot reactor core, the fuel would start to melt.\n\nThe plant was temporarily disconnected from Ukraine's grid on 25 August, when fires twice brought down its last remaining 750 kilovolt power line. The other three were put out of action during the war.\n\nIn the event, electricity was sourced to a less powerful line from a coal-fired thermal power station near by and officials said the diesel generators were also used.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's nuclear agency says the generators do not provide a long-term solution and if that last power line from the national grid is broken then nuclear fuel could begin melting, \"resulting in a release of radioactive substances to the environment\".\n\nLt Gen Igor Kirillov of Russia's nuclear protection corps says shelling has already damaged the plant's support systems, so a pump and generator failure could lead to the reactor core overheating and the plant's facilities being destroyed.\n\n\"That wouldn't be as serious as Chernobyl, but it could still lead to a release of radioactivity and that depends which way the wind's blowing,\" says Claire Corkhill, professor of nuclear material degradation at the University of Sheffield.\n\nFor her, the risk of something going wrong is genuine - and Russia would be just as much at risk as Central Europe.\n\nBut Prof Iztok Tiselj, chair of nuclear engineering at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, believes the risk of a major radioactive incident is minimal as only two of the six reactors are now operating.\n\n\"From the standpoint of European citizens there's no reason to worry,\" he says. The other four are in a state of cold shutdown, so the amount of power needed to cool the reactors is smaller.\n\nMark Wenman is full of praise for the Ukrainian staff at the plant for reducing the number of reactors in operation.\n\nThat means that even though the radioactive products continue to be radioactive, the so-called \"decay heat\" after a shutdown decays exponentially with time. \"Provided the diesel generators are in good shape, even if they lost electricity from the grid they should be able to cool the reactor,\" he says.\n\nAnother major safety risk could come from the spent fuel at Zaporizhzhia. Once the fuel is finished the waste is cooled in spent fuel pools and then moved to dry cask storage.\n\n\"If these were to be damaged there would be a release of radioactivity but it wouldn't be anywhere near as serious as the loss of coolant,\" says Prof Corkhill. And Iztok Tiselj believes any release would be so small as to be negligible.\n\nAt the heart of this crisis are the plant's original staff, working under Russian occupation and under a great deal of stress. Two workers have told the BBC of the daily risk of being kidnapped.\n\nIn August, the UN secretary general called on Russia to pull its troops out and demilitarise the area with a \"safe perimeter\". Russia has refused, arguing that would make the plant more vulnerable.\n\nEmployees have warned of disaster if Russia tries to shut the whole plant down, in order to disconnect the supply from Ukraine and reconnect it instead to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nDr Wenman believes it is the human factor that represents the biggest risk of a nuclear accident, whether because of chronic fatigue or stress: \"And that violates all the safety principles.\"\n\nIf something were to go wrong, they would need to be on top form, and one can imagine they are not, says Claire Corkhill.\n\nA letter signed by dozens of employees has called on the international community to stop and think: \"We can professionally control nuclear fission,\" it said, \"but we are helpless in the face of people's irresponsibility and madness.\"", "Rishi Sunak has insisted he still has a \"shot\" at Downing Street despite polls suggesting Liz Truss has a strong lead in the Conservative leadership contest.\n\nHe told ITV's This Morning he \"definitely\" had a chance of victory, while warning his rival's tax-cutting plans risked fuelling inflation.\n\nThe former chancellor said his economic approach was \"honest\" and deliverable.\n\nThe latest poll of Tory members pointed to 66% backing Ms Truss and 34% supporting Mr Sunak.\n\nThe YouGov survey of 1,089 people for Sky News was conducted from 12-17 August. The percentages were calculated by excluding undecided members and non-voters.\n\nThe next UK prime minister will be announced on 5 September. The postal ballot closes on 2 September, but thousands of party members are thought to have already voted.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said: \"I'm really excited to keep going, I think my ideas are the right ones.\"\n\nAsked about Labour's proposal to freeze energy bills, partly by backdating the windfall tax on oil and gas companies' profits, he argued this would be a \"very blunt instrument\", providing \"a lot of support for people who don't need it\".\n\nIn an apparent attack on Ms Truss's campaign pledges, he warned that increasing borrowing during a time of high inflation would be \"really risky\".\n\n\"It's like putting fuel on the fire and that's the mistake we made in the 70s, I don't want to repeat that mistake,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, it emerged the inflation rate in July had soared to 10.1%, a 40-year high.\n\nMs Truss has argued that taxes are too high and risk \"choking off growth\". She says businesses are less likely to invest, and people are less likely to set up businesses or get jobs.\n\nReducing taxation, the foreign secretary has said, is the best way of staving off a recession.\n\nMr Sunak said restoring trust in government and politics was about \"under-promising and over-delivering\".\n\n\"That's why in this leadership race I've not been making lots of easy promises that I think are false, I'd rather lose than say things I don't think can be delivered, I'd rather be honest with people.\"\n\nElsewhere in his ITV interview, Mr Sunak described Boris Johnson's battle to cling to power in July as \"a bit odd\".\n\nHis own resignation as chancellor helped to prompt more than 50 other members of the government to follow suit.\n\nAsked if the prime minister still talks to him, Mr Sunak said: \"No, no. I've reached out to him but understandably he's not replied.\n\n\"That's fair but it wasn't just me, at the end of the day, 60 other members of the government all resigned as well.\"\n\nMs Truss has continued to praise Mr Johnson's record as prime minister.\n\nShe has now agreed to be interviewed by the BBC's Nick Robinson. The interview will be broadcast live on BBC1 on 30 August.\n\nMr Robinson questioned her rival earlier in the month.\n\nMr Sunak was quizzed about his fast food favourites\n\nIn his ITV interview, the former chancellor was also asked about a photograph he recently posted on Instagram of himself paying at a McDonald's self-service machine.\n\nAfter his spring statement in March, he was filmed struggling to use his bank card to buy petrol.\n\nPressed on what he ordered at McDonald's, Mr Sunak said he bought breakfast.\n\n\"I get bacon roll with ketchup and the pancakes.\n\n\"If I'm with my daughters then we get the wrap. My eldest daughter, we get the wraps.\n\n\"If I'm with her they're wrapped with a hash brown and everything in it.\"\n\nOn social media, some people have pointed out that the fast food chain has not served breakfast wraps since March 2020, when it reduced its menu in response to the Covid pandemic.\n\nA source on Mr Sunak's campaign later said: \"Rishi has barely seen his kids in the last two-and-a-half years since he became chancellor so there has been almost no opportunity to share a McDonald's with them.\n\n\"He's hoping they might consider bringing the breakfast wrap back on the menu.\"", "Italian band Måneskin announced earlier this month they were pulling out due to \"scheduling conflicts\"\n\nMusic fans angry at acts pulling out of Reading and Leeds festivals say they've received refunds, after initially being told they wouldn't.\n\nEarlier this week, fans like Harriet Langsbury were told Ticketmaster was not issuing a refund, with no resale or transfer of tickets possible either.\n\nBut the 28-year-old has now received her money back for six £120 tickets.\n\nIt's after acts like Måneskin, Jack Harlow and Rage Against The Machine pulled out of the festivals.\n\nHarriet wanted a refund as soon as Rage Against The Machine and Eurovision 2021 winners Måneskin pulled out and says she emailed Ticketmaster \"straight away\".\n\n\"It took them nearly a week to actually reply to me,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nBut after \"some back and forth\", Harriet found out they had sent her a refund.\n\nOther fans have also said on social media they received refunds from Ticketmaster, with one person saying it was \"worth persevering with them and telling them about others being refunded\".\n\nInitially, in tweets responding to people asking about refunds Ticketmaster said \"changes to the line-up of a multi-performer event such as a festival don't make a booking eligible for a refund\".\n\nSome ticketholders say the company has since said refunds were being provide as \"a gesture of goodwill\".\n\nNewsbeat has seen emails from Ticketmaster to Harriet in which the company writes about processing the refund.\n\nBut they have not responded to a request for comment on the issue of refunds.\n\nHarriet (left) says Ticketmaster are \"so hard to get hold off\"\n\nDaniel, from Durham, has also been having issues with Ticketmaster, but unlike Harriet, he has not received a refund - which he calls \"really unfair\".\n\nThe 30-year-old has two tickets worth £260 each, which he did consider selling but he was not getting the sale price for them, meaning he'd lose money.\n\nHe says he was told by Ticketmaster they would offer a refund, but was then sent another email - seen by Newsbeat - saying he would not be getting a refund because he bought the tickets through a payment plan.\n\n\"I tried to press them more, asking questions about it. And they've now just stopped responding to me,\" he says.\n\n\"They have not done their part in terms of the event and actually providing customer service to deal with these problems. So it's just really frustrating overall.\"\n\nHarriet, though, is now satisfied having received her money.\n\n\"The issue is that we've had problems with them before. They're so hard to get hold of, they have these generic responses. It's unfair,\" she says.\n\nLeeds and Reading organisers said they were \"saddened to hear that Jack Harlow and Måneskin have decided to perform at an award show the same weekend they were confirmed to play Reading and Leeds\".\n\nThe 1975 were previously announced as replacements for Rage Against The Machine.\n\nAnd on Thursday, festival bosses said Charli XCX and AJ Tracey were replacing Måneskin and Jack Harlow on the line-up.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ukrainian emergency rescuers attend an exercise in case of a possible nuclear incident at Zaporizhzhia's nuclear plant.\n\nIt is relatively unusual in Ukraine for a government official to invite you on a short-notice trip.\n\nIt turns out it is more common for that invitation to come with very little detail.\n\nThe main reason for that is security - it is not exactly wise to publicise when a minister is going to be somewhere, especially when you are being invaded by another country.\n\nWe decided to accept, and soon found ourselves at an airfield near Kyiv, where we and other journalists were led onto a helicopter.\n\nBy this point we knew our destination was the city of Zaporizhzhia, and the subject was the growing danger from the region's nuclear power plant further south.\n\nWithin 30 seconds of the journey starting, I realised why we were offered anti-nausea tablets before taking off.\n\nTo stay undetected, the pilot keeps the helicopter around 10 metres off the ground, occasionally hurdling over electric powerlines.\n\nThere are endless fields of sunflowers. Some are in full bloom, some are wilting, past their best. Regardless, the harvest is fast approaching.\n\nThen there is the dense woodland - thousands upon thousands of towering trees which come so close to touching the skids of the chopper.\n\nYou are left under no illusion of Ukraine's vast and rich landscape.\n\nAfter landing in Zaporizhzhia, you are struck by two things: the more industrial skyline in comparison to Kyiv, as well as the humidity.\n\nWe end up at a supermarket car park where emergency workers are dressed in yellow hazmat suits. They are practising cleaning drills in the event of a radioactive contamination.\n\nUkraine's last nuclear crisis was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear incident, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded.\n\nThey are watched by senior officials, who are keen to see how ready the region would be in the event of a worst-case scenario.\n\n\"Of course we are concerned,\" Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko tells me. \"The situation changed dramatically when the Russians started shelling the area on 5 August.\"\n\nUkraine says the situation at the plant is \"approaching critical\".\n\nRussian forces have occupied the site, Europe's biggest, since early March.\n\nThey have been urged to hand control back because of the dangers, and some staff there have told the BBC they're \"being kept at gunpoint\".\n\nFor the past two weeks there's been heavy shelling on and around the plant, with the sides blaming each other.\n\nNato is the latest international organisation to call for United Nations inspectors to be let into the Zaporizhzhia power plant, claiming its seizure posed a serious threat to Ukraine and neighbouring countries.\n\nOfficials say the plant could be cut off from power as Moscow tries to redirect electricity to Crimea, which it annexed eight years ago.\n\n\"It is impossible to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant while the Russian occupying forces are there,\" says Denys Monastyrskyy, Ukraine's interior minister.\n\n\"It is the key concern that we all should understand,\" he adds.\n\nUkraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy says the situation at the plant is “approaching critical”\n\nThe car park is also a place where Ukrainians who manage to make it out of Russian-occupied territories first arrive.\n\nThere are queues of cars with people and full suitcases.\n\nSitting in the shade we meet Olena, who has just made it out of the city of Enerhodar, where the nuclear plant is located.\n\n\"It's scary, very scary, there is shelling all the time,\" she says while bouncing her toddler on her knee.\n\n\"There have been many more explosions and it became too dangerous to stay there.\n\n\"I didn't want to leave home, but I had no choice.\"\n\nThis car park represents Ukraine controlling what it can.\n\nUnable to force the Russians from Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, the country is instead trying to prepare for the worst, if it happens.", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United have reached an agreement with Real Madrid to sign Brazil midfielder Casemiro in a deal worth up to £70m.\n\nThe 30-year-old has been with Real since 2013, winning three La Liga titles and five Champions Leagues.\n\nThe fee is an initial £60m plus £10m in add-ons and Casemiro will sign a four-year deal with the option of one more.\n\nUnited are bottom of the Premier League and host Liverpool at Old Trafford on Monday.\n\nCasemiro is set to become one of the United's top earners once he completes his move, and will be United's fourth signing after midfielder Christian Eriksen, full-back Tyrell Malacia from Feyenoord and defender Lisandro Martinez.\n\nAfter talks to sign Juventus' Adrien Rabiot collapsed over the player's demands, United have turned their attention to Casemiro as they look to address weaknesses in Erik ten Hag's midfield.\n\nThis deal almost certainly spells the end of Manchester United's pursuit of Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong.\n\nWhilst the club are not completely ruling out signing the Dutchman at some point in the future, they admit it is highly unlikely they would get De Jong and Casemiro in the same window.\n\nThe transfer will come too late for Casemiro to be involved in Monday's game against Liverpool.\n\nCasemiro's impact can be seen by looking at Opta statistics to compare his figures against those of other central midfielders in La Liga last season.\n\nThe Brazil international ranked first for successful blocks, second for tackles made behind Barcelona's Sergio Busquets, and also came third overall for possession won. Real Sociedad's Mikel Merino was first and Busquets runner-up in the latter category.\n\nHe also contributed to Real's attacks, ranking fifth for forward passes and joint-sixth for shots among the league's central midfielders.\n\nCasemiro spent a season away from the Bernabeu on loan at Portuguese side Porto in 2014-15 but returned to Spain the following season after Real activated his buy-back clause.\n\nHe has made 222 appearances for the Spanish giants and scored 24 goals.\n\n\"I lived the most wonderful story I ever thought of,\" Casemiro wrote on social media on Saturday morning.\n\n\"I hope to return someday to where it will always be my home. Not even in a thousand lifetimes I will be able to return to Real Madrid and to Madridismo all that you have given me.\"\n• None You can now get Man Utd news notifications in the BBC Sport app - find out more\n\nCasemiro's four-year contract is heavily performance related, specifically around Champions League qualification, and will put him amongst Manchester United's highest earners but the club are denying reports in Spain that the Brazilian is doubling his salary.\n\nUnited sources say they have admired the player for some considerable time and that he was high on their list of targets. They moved for him once it became clear he was available and he wanted to move to Old Trafford.\n\nThe club feel it strengthens an area new manager Erik ten Hag identified as a priority. United feel his professionalism, intelligence and strength of character are key attributes which will bring immediate benefits.\n• None Our coverage of Manchester United is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment\n• None Everything United - go straight to all the best content", "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks.\n\nSince the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US.\n\nSo what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making?\n\nThe UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month.\n\nThe Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.\n\nBy contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).\n\nCurrently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces.\n\nRussia claims the system has already been used against its forces.\n\nThe UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv.\n\nThe UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine.\n\nIn January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns.\n\nThe Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine.\n\nFollowing the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model.\n\nMany military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive.\n\nOn Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles.\n\nThe statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km).\n\nIt is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines.\n\nIn 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces.\n\nAnalysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement.\n\n\"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\"\n\nThe donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022.\n\nThe UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers.\n\nJack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\"\n\nThe UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.\n\nNlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot.\n\nCrucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMany analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion.\n\n\"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk.\n\nThe weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says.\n\nMaritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022.\n\nBrimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy.\n\nThe missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks.\n\nLaunching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson.\n\nWhen used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage.\n\n\"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\"\n\nBritain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles.\n\nMastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices.\n\nAnalysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful.\n\nIt is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively.\n\nBritain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles.\n\nStarstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range.\n\nIt ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\"\n\nHe says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground.\n\nThe UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles.\n\nOther equipment supplied by the UK includes:", "Mr Kaweesi jumped in to help when his son got into trouble in the River Nile\n\nA newly-wed father is missing in Uganda after trying to save his son who got into difficulty in the River Nile.\n\nRobert Kaweesi, 48, from Birmingham, was with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their four children and staying in a lodge on the banks of the river in Pakwach.\n\nHis 12-year-old son went swimming in the river but when he got into trouble, his father jumped in to help.\n\nThe boy was rescued by bystanders but Mr Kaweesi was missing, police said.\n\nMs Katantazi confirmed to the BBC her husband, a UK citizen of Ugandan origin who works as a refrigeration contractor, had been trying to save their son when he disappeared on Wednesday.\n\nShe also confirmed they had married in Uganda in early August.\n\nA spokesperson for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said it was supporting the family and was in contact with local authorities in Uganda.\n\nIt is understood tourist lodges normally advise visitors to be cautious about swimming in the river.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs are not due to return from summer recess until 5 September\n\nLabour has called for MPs to return to Parliament early to deal with the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nThangam Debbonaire, the shadow leader of the House of Commons, has written to the prime minister asking him to recall MPs two weeks early on 22 August.\n\nShe said new policies were needed before a rise in the energy price cap in October.\n\nBut the government said it was already supporting people now - and new fiscal decisions would be for the next PM.\n\nA spokesperson said the government was focused on \"delivering for the public\" and was continuing to provide financial support, including a £400 discount on energy bills.\n\nExperts expect the energy price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge their customers in England, Scotland and Wales - to hit £3,582 in October.\n\nThe average bill was £1,400 a year in October 2021.\n\nAnd by January 2023, the next time the cap is due to be changed, energy industry analysts Cornwall Insight predict it will go up again to £4,266.\n\nIn her letter, Ms Debbonaire told Mr Johnson the country faced an \"urgent choice\".\n\nShe said: \"Across Britain, people are having to make unthinkable choices about how to pay their bills, causing endless worry for households and businesses.\n\n\"That is why I am writing to you today to urge you to bring Parliament back early on Monday 22 August so that we can freeze the energy price cap now ahead of winter.\n\n\"Families deserve a government that is on their side, and is ready to take the action needed now to meet the scale of this national emergency.\"\n\nLabour is calling for the energy price cap to be frozen for six months, funded partly by an increased windfall tax - and has claimed the proposals would save the average household £1,000. But economists have said it would be a very expensive plan.\n\nThe two contenders for Conservative Party leader, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have indicated they are not keen on extending the windfall tax on oil and gas companies - or freezing the price cap - meaning it is unlikely to happen unless they have a change of heart.\n\nMs Truss says she will tackle the crisis by reversing the National Insurance rise, suspending the green levy part of energy bills and cancelling a planned rise in corporation tax.\n\nMr Sunak says getting control of inflation is the most pressing issue. He has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero and to cut 3p off income tax by 2029.\n\nConservative leadership contenders Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have different approaches to tackling the cost of living crisis\n\nThe increase in the cost of living is putting a squeeze on people's finances, as wages fail to keep up.\n\nThis week figures showed UK inflation rose above 10% in July for the first time in 40 years.\n\nThe Bank of England's governor Andrew Bailey has said \"the Russia shock is now the largest contributor to UK inflation\".\n\nBut pay increases for many are not keeping up with rising prices, sparking the fastest fall in real pay on record.\n\nThis comes as consumer confidence has hit a record low, according to market research company GfK.\n\nIts long-running Consumer Confidence Index fell three points in August to -44, its lowest figure since records began in 1974.\n\nThe index provides a snapshot of how UK consumers view their finance and the economy.", "The Augustinian friars of Cambridge were twice as likely to suffer from worms than the townsfolk\n\nMedieval monks \"appear to have been riddled with parasites\" despite having access to hand-washing facilities and latrine blocks, a study has found.\n\nThe discovery was made during an analysis of adult skeletons found in excavations in Cambridge.\n\nIt revealed the friars were twice as likely to suffer from parasitic worms than the townsfolk.\n\nThe difference may be due to monks manuring crops in friary gardens with their own faeces, the study suggests.\n\nMost Augustinian monasteries of the period had access to latrine blocks and hand-washing facilities, unlike the houses of ordinary working people\n\nCambridge University researcher Tianyi Wang said roundworm was the most common infection, but whipworm infection was also found.\n\n\"These are both spread by poor sanitation,\" she added.\n\nSanitation in medieval towns relied on cesspits - holes in the ground used for faeces and household waste.\n\nIn contrast, monasteries commonly had running water systems, including to rinse out latrine blocks, and hand-washing facilities.\n\nThe researchers tested samples of soil around the pelvises of remains of 19 monks and 25 locals.\n\nThis showed 58% of the friars tested were infected, compared to 32% of the general townspeople.\n\nThe latter finding is in line with other studies of medieval burials - suggesting infection rates in the monastery were remarkably high.\n\nDr Piers Mitchell, from the university's Department of Archaeology, said: \"One possibility is that the friars manured their vegetable gardens with human faeces - not unusual in the medieval period, and this may have led to repeated infection with the worms.\"\n\nResearchers believe the infection rate could be even higher than these findings, as some traces of worm eggs would have been destroyed over time by fungi and insects\n\nThe monks were interred in the Augustinian Friary from the 1280s, while the locals were buried in the former cemetery at All Saints by the Castle church between the 12th and 14th centuries.\n\nThe town's medical practitioners were aware of the parasites.\n\nA manuscript left to Peterhouse College by local doctor John Stockton, who died in 1361, believed the worms were generated by various forms of mucus and prescribed \"bitter medicinal plants\" such as aloe and wormwood to sufferers.\n\nDr Mitchell said this was the first time anyone had attempted to work out how common parasites were in people following different lifestyles in the same medieval town.\n\n\"The friars of medieval Cambridge appear to have been riddled with parasites,\" he said.\n\nAn earlier study revealed many town monks also suffered from bunions.\n\nThe research is published in the International Journal of Paleopathology.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tenants whose bills are included in their rent could miss out on the government's £400 energy rebate because it is paid to their landlord, charities have warned.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said this group were \"at the mercy of their landlord passing on this much-needed support\".\n\nAn estimated 585,000 households - 13% of private renters - have energy bills included in their rent.\n\nThe government said it expected landlords to pass on the discount.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) also said that where tenants incurred the cost of increased energy bills, the discount should be passed on to them by their landlord.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson pointed out there would be cases where all-inclusive rents had been set without reflecting the recent surge in energy costs.\n\n\"The government needs to ensure that its scheme recognises such cases where it is the landlord who is ultimately paying the cost of increased bills, rather than the tenant,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe typical household energy bill could hit £3,615 a year in January, up from £1,400 a year in October 2021, according to a forecast from consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nThe government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living, including a £400 discount on energy bills.\n\nLast week the government revealed details of how people in England, Scotland and Wales would receive the payment.\n\nThe Treasury is still in discussion with Stormont ministers about how to make the payment to households in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe money will be paid in six instalments, with a discount of £66 applied to energy bills in October and November, and £67 a month from December to March 2023.\n\nHow the money is received will depend on how you pay your bill.\n\nHowever, for tenants whose energy bills are included in their rent, their landlord would receive the discount as they are the bill payer.\n\nHelen, 25, rents a room in a four-bed house in Leicester with bills included.\n\nShe is worried that if she asks her landlord to pass the £400 payment on to her he will increase her rent when her contract is up for renewal later this year.\n\n\"I'm leaning towards not rocking the boat because I'm dreading that conversation about renewing and what my new rent will be for the next six months,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHelen, who did not want to give her surname, is a PhD student and her stipend will increase by just 2% in September - well below the rate prices are rising, with UK inflation hitting 9.4% in June.\n\nIf her rent increased she said it would be \"a real stretch\" to cover her other living costs.\n\nAs she shares a house with strangers, Helen said it was also difficult to discuss the situation with her housemates, who she would have to share the payment with. She did not know if they would feel the same as her.\n\nWhen it comes to utility bills, government guidance states that landlords who have a domestic electricity contract with a licensed supplier and then resell the electricity to their tenant, based on usage, must comply with maximum resale price rules.\n\nThis means landlords are not allowed to make a profit on energy they are reselling.\n\nLandlords with a domestic electricity connection where a fixed cost for energy is included in the rent \"should also be passing on the discounted payments to tenants\", the government said.\n\nBut charities have raised concerns that landlords will not pass on the saving to their tenants.\n\nAre you a renter worried about missing out on the £400 energy rebate? Please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch via WhatsApp: +44 7756 165803 and Twitter: @BBC_HaveYourSay\n\n\"There's no specific legal obligation for landlords to pass on this support but they aren't allowed to overcharge tenants for the energy they've used or make a profit on it,\" Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said.\n\n\"This could be the case if they pocket the government support and continue to charge the same rate for utilities.\"\n\n\"Landlords can only charge for energy used, the standing charge and VAT. So, it's worth making a note of how much energy you're using to make sure you're not paying more than you should,\" she added.\n\nMs Neate said it was \"unfair that those at the sharp end of this crisis could miss out on this much-needed support\" and urged the government to make sure it went \"to the people who need it the most\".\n\nGillian Cooper, head of energy policy at Citizens Advice, said there was no clear guidance on how landlords should pass on the discount \"or any law to make sure they do\".\n\n\"We're worried that renters could fall through the cracks and miss out on extra cash,\" she added.\n\nDan Wilson Craw, deputy director of campaign group Generation Rent, said: \"A lot of landlords have already raised the rent to take account of higher energy bills and there's no easy way for tenants to ask them to pass on the £400 grant if they don't want to - threatening to move out is one approach but that is difficult when rent on a new property could be much higher.\"\n\nHe suggested tenants could ask their landlord to take into account the £400 rebate the next time they tried to increase their rent.\n\nBut he added that until Parliament passed the Renters Reform Bill, tenants could still be evicted without reason if they complained.\n\nLandlord Annette Munro hasn't increased the rent on her flat, despite soaring energy costs\n\nHowever, some landlords who have not increased their tenants' rent said they did not think they should have to pass on the £400 discount.\n\nAnnette Munro, 59, rents out a flat in London with bills included and believes landlords should only have to pass on the rebate if they have hiked rents due to rising energy costs.\n\nShe said the monthly energy bill for her property had increased from £90 to £267 but she has not put up the rent for several years because her tenants are \"already struggling\".\n\n\"If landlords haven't put [the rent] up and have absorbed that cost because they like their tenants and they want to keep them, then I think that they should be able to take the £400,\" she told the BBC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Explosions seen at an arms depot in Maiske in Crimea on Tuesday 16 August\n\nA week after an apparent Ukrainian attack on a Russian military base in occupied Crimea, an arms store at another military facility has been hit by a series of explosions.\n\nBlaming \"sabotage\", Russian officials said a fire triggered the blasts in the Dzhankoi area, another fire hit a power station and a railway was damaged.\n\nA string of blasts last week destroyed Russian warplanes at a Black Sea base on the Crimean coast.\n\nUkraine has not admitted that attack.\n\nHowever, presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has described the latest incident as \"demilitarisation in action\", indicating that the explosions were not accidental.\n\nCrimea was seized from Ukraine and then annexed by Russia in early 2014.\n\nRussia gave no indication of the kind of sabotage involved in Tuesday's attack.\n\nThe FSB security service said Ukrainian saboteurs had also blown up six electricity pylons this month inside Russia itself.\n\nThe attacks in the Kurchatov area, about 100km (60 miles) from Ukraine's north-east border, had affected the \"technological process of functioning\" of the Kursk nuclear plant, it added.\n\nHowever, Rosenergoatom, the operator of the plant, has disputed the FSB account and attributed the lowered output \"to a fault at a sub-station outside the territory of the nuclear power plant\".\n\nRussia's defence ministry said Tuesday's explosions in northern Crimea took place at a temporary ammunition storage site on a base near the village of Maiske at about 06:15 Moscow time (03:15 GMT). A Crimean Tatar leader, Refat Chubarov, called the explosions a \"hit\" that could be heard \"far across the steppe\".\n\nThe defence ministry in Moscow said there had been no \"serious\" casualties, but Russian-appointed regional head Sergei Aksyonov visited the site and said 2,000 people had been moved from a nearby village and two people had been wounded.\n\n\"One man has a shrapnel wound and one was crushed by a wall. Their lives are not in danger, fortunately,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesman for Ukraine's Air Force Command, Yuriy Ignat, said the explosions were caused by Russia \"not observing fire precautions\".\n\n\"We are of course satisfied by the fact, because Dzhankoi [where the explosions took place] was one of the locations where the enemy kept their helicopters and other equipment,\" Mr Ignat told a news conference.\n\nWhen Russian forces unleashed the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, they used their bases on the annexed Crimean peninsula to capture large swathes of southern Ukraine.\n\nRussian occupation has stretched across two southern regions in particular, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, and Ukraine has vowed to launch a counter-offensive to recapture areas under Russian control.\n\nAfter the Russian air base at Saky was hit last Tuesday, satellite images revealed significant damage, with at least eight warplanes destroyed. Although Russia said that incident was also accidental, there was little doubt the base had come under Ukrainian attack, because of the precise nature of the destruction.\n\nThe UK ministry of defence said the blasts had \"significantly degraded\" the aviation capability of the Russian navy's Black Sea fleet.\n\nSaboteurs were also blamed for damage to a rail route in the Dzhankoi area\n\nThe latest blasts in northern Crimea are reminiscent of a string of recent attacks behind Russian lines in eastern Ukraine.\n\nSince June, Ukrainian forces have used US Himars multiple rocket launchers to hit as many as 50 arms stores, according to the defence minister. Bridges in the south have also been hit, jeopardising vital supply lines from Crimea to Kherson.\n\nHowever, Russian media have suggested that drones are more likely to have been used in Crimea than missiles. The Kommersant website reported that a Russian military airbase also came under attack further south in Crimea on Tuesday, at Hvardiiske near Simferopol, possibly from a small drone.\n\nThe apparent ability of Ukraine's military to reach so far behind enemy lines is of significant embarrassment to the Russians. The explosions at Saky were visible from nearby beaches, while videos posted afterwards on social media showed streams of tourists leaving Crimea, across a bridge built across the Kerch Strait after the Russian annexation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ms Davies had worked in A&E during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nA nurse who vanished in south London six weeks ago could be travelling regularly by train, appearing dazed or confused, police have said.\n\nThe last confirmed sighting of Owami Davies, 24, was in West Croydon on 7 July, three days after she left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July.\n\nPolice have trawled through 50,000 hours of CCTV in order to find her.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police has said the case remains a missing persons investigation.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Owami has been depressed and in the absence of her medication may use alcohol to relieve her depression.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) has also issued its own appeal on Twitter saying Ms Davies may be taking trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt tweeted: \"We know Owami Davies, 24, regularly uses the rail and Tube network to travel from Grays, Essex to the Croydon area.\n\n\"Often via West Ham and West Croydon stations.\n\n\"Owami may still be regularly travelling by rail in a vulnerable state, appearing dazed or confused and possibly seeking to engage with other lone female travellers.\n\n\"If you know where Owami is, ring the police.\"\n\nMs Davies was seen in a shop in west Croydon before she went missing, police say\n\nAfter numerous police appeals, members of the public have reported a number of potential sightings of Ms Davies in the Croydon area.\n\nThe Met's Det Ch Insp Nigel Penney said on Tuesday: \"The search to find Owami Davies continues and we are conducting searches, appeals and extensive CCTV inquiries in order to trace and find her.\n\n\"I would remind people that even though detectives from specialist crime are investigating, this remains a missing person inquiry.\"\n\nHe stressed Ms Davies or anyone who may be helping her is not in trouble.\n\nThe Met's Specialist Crime Command is leading the investigation into her disappearance, and has brought in support from the National Crime Agency.\n\nFive people arrested so far in relation to the inquiry have been released on bail.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shares in Cineworld have fallen more than 60% as concerns mount that the world's second largest cinema chain is about to file for bankruptcy.\n\nThe company, which also owns the Picturehouse chain in the UK, is struggling under $5bn worth of debt.\n\nLike other cinema chains, Cineworld was hit hard by the pandemic.\n\nCineworld recently said post-Covid customers levels were lower than expected and blamed \"limited\" film releases.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal reported that Cineworld is preparing to file for bankruptcy, sending its share price tumbling.\n\nCineworld has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe firm had hoped blockbusters such as the latest Bond film, Top Gun: Maverick and Thor: Love And Thunder would draw audiences back after Covid restrictions.\n\nBut it said earlier this week: \"Despite a gradual recovery of demand since reopening in April 2021, recent admission levels have been below expectations.\n\n\"These lower levels of admissions are due to a limited film slate that is anticipated to continue until November 2022 and are expected to negatively impact trading and the group's liquidity position in the near term.\"\n\nCineworld has 9,189 screens across more than 750 sites.\n\nIt operates in 10 countries, including the UK, the US, Poland and Israel, and employs more than 28,000 people.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Cineworld had \"failed to lure back enough movie goers to help pay back its enormous debts\".\n\n\"Hopes had been raised that first spies, then superheroes, then fighter pilots would prove to be the magic bullets for the company but there simply haven't been enough blockbusters coming through to to break the spell of misfortune,\" she said.\n\nBut Peter Williams, a former non-executive director at Cineworld, told the BBC he thought cinema ticket prices were \"too low\".\n\n\"I've always felt that the ticket price or headline ticket price is almost too low really. I mean, it is still a very cheap night out,\" he said.\n\nHe added that while Cineworld is likely to face a major restructure, he believed that it would emerge as \"a viable business\".\n\n\"This is a big business and people still want to go out and go to the cinema.\"\n\nThe cinema industry was one of the worst hit sectors during the height of the pandemic with many theatres closed for extended periods or operating at reduced capacity.\n\nCineworld reported a huge loss for the first six months of 2020 after it was forced to temporarily close some cinemas, and movie studios delayed the release of some blockbusters.\n\nThe cinema giant warned in September 2020 that it might need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions or film delays due to Covid-19.\n\nJurassic World Dominion, Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange, Elvis and Minions: The Rise of Gru are among the major releases that have kept audiences coming through the doors at a time when cinemas are desperate to bounce back from their Covid losses.\n\nJurassic World Dominion is one of the biggest box office hits of the year so far\n\nBut Cineworld's owner argues there still haven't been enough to keep them afloat. They say their admissions are down because Hollywood has released fewer major films than would have been typical in a pre-pandemic summer. Total box office takings this year are down a third, or 32%, compared with the equivalent period in 2019.\n\nThe number of releases isn't the only factor. Streaming services have posed a threat to cinemas for many years, and the battle for content has become even more aggressive recently.\n\nNetflix has spent hundreds of millions of pounds making films like The Gray Man and Red Notice, and releasing them straight into subscribers' homes.\n\nAs a result, cinemas have had to fight harder to convince customers that leaving their couch to see a movie is worthwhile.\n\nThe autumn and winter release schedule provides some hope - sequels to the hugely successful Black Panther and the even more successful Avatar will be released between now Christmas.\n\nBut it's telling that many other big releases are going straight to streaming services. In 2019, Disney released two successful live action remakes: The Lion King and Aladdin. But their next big one, Pinocchio, is going straight to Disney+", "Rail workers aren't the only group joining the picket line as the cost of living soars.\n\nUnions members from several industries are set to go on strike in the coming months, as Alan Jones, Industrial Relations Correspondent at the Press Association, explains.\n\nAmong those who could potentially strike are refuse workers in Windsor, members of the Royal College of Nursing, barristers and workers at the Port of Felixstowe.\n\nQuote Message: A lot of these people worked through the pandemic: post office workers, Royal Mail workers, train workers, delivery drivers, refuse collectors - many of them hailed at the time as being the kind of heroes of the pandemic.\" A lot of these people worked through the pandemic: post office workers, Royal Mail workers, train workers, delivery drivers, refuse collectors - many of them hailed at the time as being the kind of heroes of the pandemic.\"\n\nInflation is \"definitely what is driving a lot of these disputes\", he tells BBC Radio 4's World at One, with autumn expected to bring even more industrial unrest.\n\n\"It's possible that teachers and nurses and even doctors and other health workers will be taking some form of industrial action,\" Jones says.\n\n\"People were talking about a summer of discontent... but the autumn and the winter could be much bigger in terms of industrial action than what we've seen in recent weeks.\n\n\"We're as near now to a general strike as we've been for decades.\"", "UK consumer confidence in the future hit a record low in August due to the soaring cost-of-living and bleak economic prospects.\n\nA \"sense of exasperation\" about the economy was the biggest driver behind the fall, according to GfK's Consumer Confidence index.\n\nRecent data showed that prices rose at the fastest pace 40 years in July and the UK is heading for recession.\n\nMeanwhile, retail sales volumes fell by 1.2% in the three months to July.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said people were continuing to cut back on non-essential spending, in particular clothing and household goods.\n\nRachel Barber, legal partner and retail specialist at accountancy firm Deloitte said that because people are pessimistic about the state of the economy, many people \"are now postponing major purchases such as electricals and furniture\".\n\nFuel sales also declined in July as people cut down on travel, deterred by petrol and diesel prices as well as the recent hot weather.\n\nSales volumes nudged up slightly in July, by 0.3%, after a small fall in June, but overall figures show sales have been on a downward trend since summer 2021.\n\nHowever, overall retail sales were still above pre-Covid levels, the ONS said.\n\nThe GfK consumer confidence barometer, which surveys the public about their opinion of the economy, was at its the lowest level this month since records began in 1974.\n\n\"These findings point to a sense of capitulation, of financial events moving far beyond the control of ordinary people\", said Joe Staton, GfK's client strategy director.\n\n\"With headline after headline revealing record inflation eroding household buying power, the strain on the personal finances of many in the UK is alarming,\" he added.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said that the summer sunshine was responsible for the slight uplift in sales in July: \"But most retailers will still be seeing falling volumes in the face of rising inflation.\"\n\nInflation - which measures the rate of price rises - hit 10.1% in July and is expected to soar to more than 13% later this year when the latest energy price cap on household bills comes into force in October.\n\nThe Bank of England now expects the UK economy to fall into recession later this year and forecasts the downturn will last for 15 months.\n\nClothing stores sales volumes declined by 1.2% in July and household goods stores sales volumes were down by 0.4%, mainly because of falls in furniture and lighting stores.\n\nThe ONS said that feedback from retailers suggested that consumers were cutting back on spending because of \"increased prices and affordability concerns\".\n\nDeloitte's Rachel Barber said: \"Consumer confidence in the state of the economy has plummeted so you're finding that one in five people are now postponing major purchases such as electricals and furniture and you can see that in the statistics today, that they're down about 1.5%.\n\n\"You're also seeing one in three consumers buying their main food shop at a discounter which is up from 28% a year ago, so there are definite changes happening in the consumer's mind in everything they are spending,\" Ms Barber told the BBC.\n\nOne retailer which has been on the receiving end of the downturn in sales, is Joules the clothing and homeware retailer with a rural vibe.\n\nThe brand, which has its roots in country and equestrian shows, issued a profits warning on Friday.\n\nIn a statement it said trading in the five weeks to 14 August had \"softened materially\" because of the extremely warm and dry weather, which hit sales of outerwear, rainwear, knitwear and wellies.\n\nThis had \"compounded the ongoing subdued consumer demand due to the well-documented cost-of living crisis\".\n\nAt the same time it confirmed \"positive discussions\" were continuing with rival retailer Next about the latter taking a stake worth about £15m in it.\n\nHowever, Joules said there could be \"no certainty that these discussions will lead to any agreement\".\n\nThe cost-of-living crisis is being driven by higher fuel, energy and food prices. These increases are putting a squeeze on people's finances, as wages fail to keep up.\n\nEnergy and fuel prices had been rising even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine as economies started to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, and the conflict has pushed up prices further.", "Kate Greville wrote a \"final goodbye\" letter to ex-football star Ryan Giggs three days before he allegedly assaulted her, a jury has heard.\n\nThe letter details his alleged infidelities with at least eight women.\n\nMr Giggs' defence team read out the letter, which began: \"I know pretty much everything you have been doing with other women behind my back since the day I met you.\"\n\nMr Giggs, 48, also denies assaulting Ms Greville's younger sister Emma, 26, at his home in Worsley, Greater Manchester, on 1 November 2020.\n\nIn the letter, titled, The Final Goodbye, read out at Manchester Crown Court, Ms Greville described Mr Giggs, the former Wales manager, as a \"compulsive liar and serial cheat\", telling him: \"My gut always told me you couldn't be trusted\".\n\nShe added: \"I now know you say the same things you say to me to multiple women. I'm nothing special, I was just the one you didn't let have a happy life.\"\n\nThe letter claimed the \"other women\" have \"husbands and kids\".\n\nRyan Giggs' football career ended with him as the most decorated player in the Premier League era, with 34 trophies\n\nKate Greville's \"goodbye\" letter to Ryan Giggs continued: \"I know you and Helen had a full-on relationship while you were sleeping with me.\n\n\"You told her you loved her and wanted to have a family.\"\n\nThe letter read to the court said \"Helen\" had \"met the kids\" and that she and Giggs were \"in constant contact, even now\".\n\nIt went on to say: \"You and Zara were also in a full-on relationship for nearly a year,\" adding that Giggs \"got your Harrods guy to send her a pair of shoes and a dress\".\n\n\"I know about Natalie and Suzie, not to mention Kelly,\" Ms Greville continued.\n\n\"I know about the women you meet at the Stafford.\"\n\nMs Greville also accused Mr Giggs of \"sending dirty messages about threesomes with Charlotte from Hotel Football\".\n\nThe letter also detailed an alleged incident of Giggs \"shagging someone else\" when he was supposed to be picking Ms Greville up.\n\nMs Greville accused the former footballer and a woman called Steph of having a \"full blown affair in 2014\" which \"carried on the whole time you were seeing me\".\n\nShe added: \"Let's not forget about (name redacted)\" - another woman he was accused of being unfaithful with.\n\nRyan Giggs says he and Kate Greville's relationship progressed after they were both unhappy in their marriages\n\nKate Greville's letter to Ryan Giggs continued: \"You will never lie to me or cheat on me again.\"\n\nThe former footballer's ex-partner said she intended to keep the puppy they had bought, saying: \"I think after everything you have put me through I deserve to have something good from this relationship.\"\n\nShe said she had \"finally found out I fell in love with a person who doesn't even exist,\" adding, \"I'm sad you could never be honest with me about anything.\"\n\nThe letter said: \"You were constantly telling me you want to be happy but us girls can always tell when a man is lying and cheating.\n\n\"A little bit of advice: If you want to be happy with someone, be honest. Don't cheat.\n\n\"I believe you loved and still love Helen but you cheated on her with me.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Dina Asher-Smith had to settle for silver after Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji proved too strong in the European Championships 200m final.\n\nKambundji edged into a slight lead with 80m to go and, although Asher-Smith seemed poised to counter, the defending champion could not reel in her rival.\n\nThe Swiss athlete finished in 22.32 seconds, 0.11secs ahead of Asher-Smith.\n\n\"I came here to win, so I am not super happy,\" said Asher-Smith, whose 100m title defence was wrecked by cramp.\n\n\"This year has been up and down. I am happy to be here, but not so happy with a silver, but you have to take it.\n\n\"I am in a better shape than that but at the same time I came second and it is what it is.\"\n\nThe defeat marks another twist in a season that has fluctuated between career high points and deflating lows.\n\nA little over a month ago, Asher-Smith matched her 100m personal best and claimed bronze in one of the strongest 200m finals in history at the World Championships in Eugene.\n\nHowever, she has also had to overcome a hamstring injury, which cost her any involvement in the Commonwealth Games, and the loss of her grandmother Sislyn earlier in the summer.\n\nCramping calves, brought on by her menstrual cycle, ruined her chances of a shot of defending her 100m crown on Tuesday.\n\nAfterwards, Asher-Smith called for more research into the effect of periods on performance.\n\nOf the three titles she arrived in Germany to defend, only the 4x100m relay remains a possibility.\n\n\"It has been a good year for me definitely,\" insisted Asher-Smith.\n\n\"I am still running, I am still running PBs. My next target is to run 10.7, so I look forward to chasing that into September.\"\n\nKambundji, who came eighth and a half a second behind Asher-Smith in Eugene, was also followed home by Ida Karstoft.\n\nThe Dane beat Britain's Jodie Williams to bronze, who consoled herself with a season's best 22.85 seconds.\n\nMore from the European Championships Munich 2022", "An escaped bull has caused havoc in a shop in Peru's capital, Lima.\n\nThe animal had escaped from a truck transporting it to an abattoir before running amok and injuring a woman.", "Vanessa Bryant arrives at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Friday\n\nKobe Bryant's widow has testified that she had panic attacks after learning that photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter were taken and shared.\n\nVanessa Bryant is suing Los Angeles County after first responders allegedly circulated pictures from the accident.\n\n\"I expected them to have more compassion,\" she told jurors at her invasion of privacy trial.\n\nMrs Bryant, 40, is seeking unspecified millions for her emotional distress.\n\nHer husband, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna, 13, and six family friends died when their helicopter crashed in California in January 2020.\n\nA report by the Los Angeles Times claiming county employees took photos at the crash site and shared them with others has enraged the victims' families.\n\nLast November, the county agreed to pay $2.5m (£2.1m) over the emotional distress caused to two families who lost relatives in the crash - but Mrs Bryant refused to settle.\n\nHer federal lawsuit was made alongside Chris Chester, who lost his wife Sarah and daughter Payton in the crash.\n\nSobbing on the witness stand on Friday, Mrs Bryant recalled being at home with her other children when she read the LA Times story.\n\n\"I bolted out of the house and I ran to the side of the house so the girls couldn't see me. I wanted to run… down the block and just scream,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bryant said she had felt \"blindsided, devastated, hurt and betrayed\" by news of the leak and \"[lives] in fear every day of... having these images pop up\" on social media.\n\n\"I don't ever want to see these photographs,\" she said. \"I want to remember my husband and my daughter the way they were.\"\n\nJurors at the trial have heard how sheriff's deputies and firefighters took gruesome cell phone photos at the accident site and showed them to others, including at a bar and a gala event.\n\nThese employees \"poured salt in an open wound and rubbed it in\" with their actions, Mrs Bryant's lawyer Luis Li said during opening statements last week.\n\nBut a lawyer for the county pushed back, saying \"site photography is essential\" and that the photos had not been posted anywhere publicly.\n\n\"They're not online, they're not in the media, they've never even been seen by the plaintiffs themselves,\" J Mira Hashmall said.\n\nMrs Bryant was the final witness for the prosecution and the defence will argue its case next.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys", "El Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\nAn Islamic State group militant from the UK has been sentenced to life in prison by a US court for his involvement with a terror cell.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh, 34, was convicted in April of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organisation.\n\nAddressing the Sudanese-born Londoner, the judge called his actions \"horrific, barbaric, brutal and criminal\".\n\nElsheikh was the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.\n\nHis actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four US hostages.\n\nJournalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig were all kidnapped and killed at the hands of the cell.\n\nElsheikh has been sentenced to eight life sentences, served concurrently, with no option for parole.\n\nHe declined the judge's offer to make a comment before sentencing was handed down - his silence has been consistent.\n\nHe did make a request - which was to not be sent to ADX in Colorado, a supermax prison that provides a higher, more controlled level of custody than a maximum security prison. Inmates there are kept largely in solitary confinement.\n\nHostage families expressed a mixture of gratitude and disappointment for the outcome. Standing outside the courthouse on Friday, James Foley's mother, Diane, called the sentencing a \"hollow victory,\" but said that it did show that \"US justice will find you wherever you are\".\n\n\"Our country has lost four of its very best citizens. We families lost loved ones forever,\" she said.\n\nThe sentencing came on the eight-year anniversary of Foley's death. Mrs Foley told the BBC that when she first heard of her son's death she thought it was \"some cruel joke\".\n\nHostages said Elsheikh was part of a notorious cell nicknamed \"the Beatles\" - after the band - because of their British accents.\n\nThe three members - Elsheikh, Alexanda Kotey and Mohammed Emwazi - who are said to be part of the group all grew up in west London and volunteered to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. They ended up guarding Western hostages.\n\nUS authorities say the group beheaded 27 hostages.\n\nElsheikh was the only one of the three militants to go on trial in the US, after Kotey pleaded guilty to charges last September and Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria.\n\nIn April, the 12-person jury deliberated for less than six hours over two days before finding Elsheikh guilty.\n\nThe gruelling 11-day trial involved testimony from former hostages and their family members. On the stand, they described the Beatles as a cohesive unit that revelled in brutality.\n\nWitnesses recounted receiving random beatings, being given dog names and being forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song \"Hotel California\" retitled \"Hotel Osama\".\n\nElsheikh has appealed and has disqualified his lawyers, meaning he is claiming he did not get a fair trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Liverpool has seen a series of council failures over its finances\n\nThe government has said it will expand its role in running Liverpool City Council to cover financial decisions, governance and recruitment, after expensive errors by the authority.\n\nThe council's past failure to renew some contracts could lead to losses of millions of pounds, a report revealed.\n\nIn 2021, the government appointed four commissioners to oversee some functions after a local governance \"breakdown\".\n\nIt will now appoint a fifth to deal with finance.\n\nIt comes after a report suggested the council had not made enough progress and there were serious concerns about financial decision-making.\n\nThe city council has also announced that Theresa Grant will start work as its new interim chief executive in September, following the resignation of Tony Reeves.\n\nShe was previously chief executive of Northamptonshire County Council while it was subject to government intervention.\n\nThe government said Liverpool City Council was \"failing in its best value duty\".\n\nEarlier this year, it was revealed that the council's errors in renewing their energy supply contract could cost the city an extra £10m.\n\nAn investigation then found the authority failed to act on 12 contracts across various services - which had expired or were close to doing so - and therefore best value had been \"compromised\".\n\nSteve Rotheram will chair a new panel focused on the city's long-term future\n\nIn a letter, Communities Secretary Greg Clark said there was \"evidence of failure\" in the council's financial management and a \"lack of urgency to implement change\".\n\nHe added the team of commissioners would also be \"given executive powers on recruitment\" and \"functions associated with governance and financial decision-making\".\n\nMr Clark said he was also establishing a \"strategic futures\" advisory panel to \"plan for Liverpool's revival as a city\", which will be chaired by regional mayor Steve Rotheram. It is believed to be the first time such a panel has been created to advise a council.\n\nThe panel will also include former Leeds City Council leader Baroness Judith Blake and Sir Howard Bernstein, the former chief executive of Manchester City Council.\n\nMr Rotheram denied claims the panel would run the council, saying it would \"advise and offer support in setting strategic longer-term plans and priorities\".\n\nLiverpool city mayor Joanne Anderson says the council had been affected by \"years of government cuts\"\n\nJoanne Anderson, mayor of the city of Liverpool, said in a social media thread that further intervention would will not solve the issues\" at the council, as they were \"being experienced right across local government\".\n\n\"The UK is facing stark skills' shortages, and it is widely known that local councils are struggling to improve capacity in key areas, which is making us dependent on interim staff that cost more in the short term.\"\n\nShe added the council had \"lost £465m in funding since this government came to power in 2010, so it is not surprising that there are areas where we can improve performance\".\n\nToday's report reveals the council's failings are not just limited to a few departments - but include the overall way in which public money is managed.\n\nIt highlights \"systematic and whole-council weaknesses\", and argues \"immediate further intervention is required to tackle this continued failure.\"\n\nThat intervention means a Whitehall-appointed official will effectively be making decisions over where public money in Liverpool is spent.\n\nMayor Joanne Anderson says she accepts the problems outlined in the report, but questions the solution.\n\nShe claims, by next March, the commissioners' intervention will have cost the council £6.7m and has questioned whether that money could be better spent on transforming services.\n\nBut lead commissioner Mike Cunningham says these powers are used \"only in extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nRichard Kemp, the leader of Liverpool's Liberal Democrat group, said the appointment of commissioners meant unelected government officials were effectively taking control of the city's council.\n\nHe called for \"a totally new lot of people\" to oversee the authority, adding that \"at the moment democracy is largely suspended in the city of Liverpool\".\n\nMike Cunningham, who leads the team of commissioners, said the intervention's duration was not expected to continue beyond 2024.\n\n\"The commissioners believe that it will be possible for Liverpool City Council to make the required improvements within the next two years, as initially envisaged.\n\n\"By then, we are sure that the council will be in a stable place, where it can attract and nurture investment in the city, and it can deliver high-quality frontline services for the people of Liverpool.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fighting continues at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, 24 hours after it was stormed by an Islamist militant group.\n\nAt least 12 people have been killed in the attack by al-Shabab, though some local media reported that the death toll could be higher.\n\nAttackers detonated at least two explosives outside the hotel before entering it on Friday evening.\n\nAn unknown number of gunmen are still inside holding hostages.\n\nDozens of guests and staff members have been rescued.\n\n\"So far we have confirmed 12 people, mostly civilians, died,\" Mohammed, an intelligence officer who only gave one name, told Reuters new agency earlier.\n\nAfter the initial attack a website affiliated to al-Shabab said a group of militants were \"carrying out random shootings\" after having \"forcibly entered\" the hotel - described as a popular location for employees of the federal government to meet.\n\nThe director of Mogadishu's main trauma hospital, Dr Mohamed Abdirahman Jama, told news agency AFP on Saturday that the facility was treating at least 40 people wounded in the hotel attack and a separate mortar strike on another area of the capital.\n\nMeanwhile, loved ones of people still trapped or unaccounted for gathered outside the hotel, local journalist Abdalle Mumin told the BBC.\n\n\"There are a lot of efforts going, the ambulance, the firefighters, the police, everyone on standby trying to save what they can form the scene, but the scene is very difficult to be accessed because civilians, relatives to whom we have been talking are saying that their loved ones are still trapped,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also reports of dead bodies lying inside the hotel, but no one can manage to get in.\"\n\nIn a statement a police officer told Reuters the initial attack on the hotel had been two car bombs.\n\n\"One hit a barrier near the hotel, and then the other hit the gate of the hotel,\" he said.\n\nMr Mumin, who was near the hotel at the time of the attack, said he heard a \"huge explosion\" and went to report on the incident.\n\n\"We could see huge smoke coming out from the hotel, the Hayat hotel. There were an estimated five big explosions and then there was gunfire,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smoke rises from hotel targeted by explosives and gunfire\n\nAn affiliate of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has engaged in a long-running conflict with the federal government.\n\nThe group controls much of southern and central Somalia but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in Mogadishu.\n\nIn recent weeks fighters affiliated with the group have also attacked targets along the Somalia-Ethiopia border, which has raised concerns about a possible new strategy by al-Shabab.\n\nThe attack on Friday marks the first in the capital by the group since Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was elected in May.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nDina Asher-Smith has called for more research into the effect of periods on performance after her cycle caused her to pull up with cramp at Munich 2022.\n\nDefending champion Asher-Smith initially thought her recovery strategy or hydration may be to blame after she limped out of Tuesday's 100m final.\n\nBut, after qualifying fastest for Friday's 200m final, Asher-Smith said \"girls' stuff\" caused her calf cramp.\n\n\"It is a huge topic for women in sport,\" the Briton told BBC Sport.\n• None Eilish McColgan column: 'Why is menstruation still a taboo subject?'\n\n\"It is something I think more people need to research from a sports science perspective.\n\n\"Sometimes you see girls who have been so consistent have a random dip, and behind the scenes they have been really struggling.\n\n\"It could do with more funding because if it was a men's issue we would have a million different ways to combat things.\"\n\nThe end of Asher-Smith's 100m title defence was the latest in a run of bad luck.\n\nHer Tokyo Olympics campaign was badly hampered by a hamstring injury, and she was forced out of this year's Commonwealth Games with a muscle strain sustained while competing in the relay at July's World Championships.\n\nHowever, the world bronze medallist looked in impressive form as she powered to a comfortable 22.53-second victory in her 200m semi-final in Germany.\n\nSwitzerland's Mujinga Kambundji, the only other European to make the final in Oregon, won her heat in 22.76secs. Britain's Jodie Williams also made the final, qualifying fifth fastest.\n\n\"I just want to retain my European title, so the aim was to come out here and qualify and run fast tomorrow,\" Asher-Smith added.\n\nSpeaking on BBC TV, Britain's former world and European medallist Jenny Meadows said she agreed with Asher-Smith's comments.\n\n\"It's something most parents ask me about - menstrual cycles and how do you manage that as a young girl, and then as a woman?\" Meadows said.\n\n\"We have never seen Dina affected by that before but she shared with us that it was just the wrong time of the month for her.\n\n\"It's important to see a global superstar like Dina saying 'this is normal, it affects me too'.\n\n\"It affects every single female and having people at the top of the sport like Dina. It's an important reminder for us all to be kind. Every woman is different.\"\n• None Can England's Euro 2022 win provide real change for the women's game?\n• None The Fab Four's story in their own words: Listen to deeply personal interviews with members of The Beatles spanning 48 years", "Six water companies have announced hosepipe bans this summer\n\nPeople have been urged not to call the police to report hosepipe ban breaches.\n\nSome forces said they had received 999 calls on the matter before restrictions were put in place.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said any reports should be directed to South West Water and not emergency services.\n\nCornwall and north Devon will see a ban from Tuesday, with Thames Water on Wednesday, joining Welsh Water, Southern Water, South East Water and Yorkshire Water.\n\nSouth West Water advised that \"if you feel someone is breaking the ban, you can report it to us and we will investigate further\".\n\nThose using hosepipes during bans could face fines of up to £1,000 if taken to court, although water companies say they preferred \"education over enforcement\".\n\nPeople have been encouraged to report neighbours if they spotted them repeatedly breaching bans.\n\nSouthern Water, which imposed a ban on 5 August, said: \"We believe peer pressure is influencing behaviour as no-one wants to be the person on the street with a green lawn and shiny car.\n\n\"Our approach is to engage and educate customers when we are approached about people failing to follow the rules.\"\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said they have already seen \"unprecedented demand\" on their phone lines this summer, receiving more than 1,000 calls a day.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nikki Leaper said: \"We are also already getting calls from people reporting breaches of the hosepipe ban due to come in next week - which should be directed to the water company.\"\n\nA National Police Chiefs' Council spokesman said: \"Breaches of hosepipe bans are a civil matter and should not be reported to the police.\n\n\"Any member of the public who has concerns about a potential breach should consider the advice from their water provider.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "Diane Foley (right) met with Alexanda Kotey (left), one of the members of the Islamic State responsible for her son's death\n\nTwo men who helped murder American journalist James Foley as part of the Islamic State group's campaign of terror are facing justice in the US. One of them was sentenced for terror crimes on 19 August. James's mother sat face-to-face with the other.\n\nIt was a cold morning in Virginia last year when Diane Foley sat opposite the man who kidnapped and helped murder her son, looking him fully in the face as they sat in a nondescript room in the courthouse where he would later be sentenced to life in prison.\n\nWhen she entered the room, Alexanda Kotey was already there, seated amid a flurry of activity and noise from FBI agents and defence lawyers and minders.\n\nBut when she sat down, \"it felt like it was just me and him. We looked at each other and said 'hello'\".\n\nThoughtful and measured, the weight of emotions from her experience lent a weariness to her voice as she recounted the moment and all that it encapsulated.\n\n\"It was not an easy thing to do, but it was important,\" she said. \"Jim would've wanted me to do this.\"\n\n\"Jim\" was her son, the American journalist James Foley.\n\nHis murder in 2014 at the hands of a terror cell known as the 'Isis Beatles' reverberated around the world, announcing the barbarity of the group known as Islamic State.\n\nThe group terrorised large swathes of Iraq and Syria, forcing millions to live under its brutal rule. At the height of its dominance between 2014-2017 it became the most feared terror group in the world.\n\nJames' death, broadcast on Twitter on 19 August, 2014, has become one of the most enduring and recognisable images in modern times: A young man kneeling in an orange jumpsuit in the desert. A man in a full black mask standing menacingly beside him holding a knife. A beheading carried out on camera.\n\nThe video was titled \"Message to America.\"\n\nSeven years on, two ex-Britons - Elshafee El Sheikh, 33, and Kotey, 38 - have been convicted in a US court for their involvement in his murder as part of the Isis terror cell.\n\nEl Sheikh was sentenced in Virginia on Friday. In April, Kotey was jailed for life, and Diane met him.\n\nThe four hours she spent with him were, for her, an affirmation of faith, forgiveness and a commitment to what has now become her life's work after the trauma of her son's death - freeing hostages around the world.\n\nIt is not a life Diane, now 72, envisioned for herself.\n\nBefore James went missing in Syria in 2012, she had been working as a nurse, but in the weeks after his disappearance, she quit her job.\n\nIt was not the first time he had been kidnapped while reporting.\n\nIn March 2011 James and other colleagues were kidnapped in Libya by Colonel Muammar Gadaffi's regime, but would be released 44 days later. This time, it would end differently.\n\nJames left for Syria in October 2012 to report on the growing conflict. Aware of the potential dangers, he kept in regular touch with his family.\n\nBut by November, Thanksgiving had passed and Diane hadn't heard from her son. It wasn't until later that month that an email appeared in her inbox. It was from James' captors.\n\nThe terror group said that if the family wanted James back, they had to get the US government to release prominent Muslim prisoners or deliver 100 million Euros.\n\nSimilar demands were also made to the families of other American hostages the terror cell would kidnap - human rights activists Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalist Steven Sotloff.\n\nWeeks and months followed but the family were still hopeful James would \"come home by Christmas\", Diane said.\n\nThe Foleys were told by the US government not to negotiate. According to Diane, they were even threatened with prosecution if they attempted to raise the ransom themselves, though the US State department denied this.\n\nMonths went by before the Foleys received another message threatening them with James's death in the wake of US airstrikes. \"He will be executed as a direct result of your country's transgressions towards us,\" it said.\n\nShe would learn of James's murder from a journalist.\n\n\"I thought it was some cruel joke,\" she recalled.\n\nIn the weeks after James' killing, the terror cell would go on to torture, beat, starve and murder Peter and Steven. Kayla died in 2015 - her murder was never filmed.\n\nThat year, a US drone strike killed Mohammed Emwazi, the militant seen as the group's ringleader. But it took until 2018 for the two others, Elsheikh and Kotey, to be captured by an American backed Kurdish militia in Syria, and later taken into US custody.\n\nFamilies of those kidnapped pushed for the pair to be extradited to the US and tried in a federal court instead of being sent to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.\n\n\"It was very important to us that these men were tried in America and for them to have a fair trial,\" Diane said.\n\nThe road to justice has been fraught and difficult, she said. \"It's [taken] nearly 10 years to get to this moment.\"\n\n\"I wish our countries had worked together and brought our sons and daughters home instead of having to spend so much time on bringing accountability after their murders... [but] it's better than nothing,\" she said.\n\nKotey's case, unlike El Sheikh's, did not go to trial. Instead, he pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to the abduction, torture and beheading of IS hostages in Syria, and agreed to meet the victims' families as part of the deal.\n\nIn that small room as she stared at him, she felt more \"even\", with the man convicted of helping to kill her son, Diane said.\n\n\"He was still rather frightening to me, but of course, since I knew I was safe, and he could harm me no longer, I had some power,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd already done the worst and taken away my loved one.\"\n\nIt was during their four hours together, she said, that she came to pity the terrorist who now faces spending his life in jail.\n\n\"I wanted Kotey to be confronted with the horror of what he did,\" she said, telling him about the man he murdered, the eldest of her five children.\n\n\"For him to understand the goodness he destroyed and why people like James were in Syria. It's because they cared and wanted to report the truth to the world.\n\nKotey listened quietly and then also talked about his own family.\n\n\"He said had been praying to his God for forgiveness. He shared a picture of his family, he has some young children whom he will probably never see again. It made me realise how much he's lost by following hatred and propaganda. It made me pity him.\"\n\nBut he never told Diane where the bodies of the hostages he and his conspirators murdered are buried.\n\nEven today, they have never been found.\n\n\"And he never said sorry. He was sombre and respectful towards me and talked about remorse\", but never apologised, she said.\n\nWhen she turned to leave for the last time, she made a parting comment.\n\n\"I said to him that I hope at some point we could both forgive one another,\" she recalled.\n\nShe remembers he looked at her confused and said: \"I don't have to forgive you for anything.\"\n\nHer plea, she explained, is grounded in her Catholic faith - the foundation of her strength and what has kept her going.\n\n\"I know he doesn't have to forgive me anything, but in that moment…I don't know.\"\n\nShe paused, searching for the words.\n\n\"I just feel like, as people, none of us are perfect. We all do things we regret.\"\n\n\"If I hate them, they have won. They will continue to hold me captive because I am not willing to be different to the way they were to my loved one. We have to pray for the courage to be the opposite.\"\n\n\"It's a hard journey to forgiveness, and it's not a done deal but it's what I aspire to.\"\n\nIn the three weeks after James' murder, Diane set up something which, she says now gives her life purpose: The James W Foley Legacy Foundation. It advocates for the government to do more to help Americans held hostage abroad.\n\nHer work has made her a political force - other hostage families have described Diane as \"unstoppable\".\n\n\"Governments should have the backs of our citizens when they travel internationally,\" she said.\n\n\"They need to be shrewd and have many tools to use: sanctions, humanitarian aid, vaccines or visas, anything to open up humanitarian channels so that we can stop the horror of international hostage taking.\"\n\nBut for all that, the suffering has not stopped for her or her family, she admitted.\n\n\"It's been very hard on Jim's brothers and sister, and my husband. We will probably forever pay the toll for all that we went through. All of us families have a lot of post-traumatic stress.\"\n\nOther victims' family members have said they will not take Diane's approach.\n\n\"I will never forgive them and I have made my peace with that,\" Bethany Haines, the daughter of David, told BBC in April as El Sheikh was tried in court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Daughter of ISIS 'Beatles' victim: 'I will never forgive'\n\nAs part of the condition of their extraditions from British authority, neither Kotey nor Elsheikh will face the death penalty.\n\n\"I'm glad about that,\" Diane said. \"They have the rest of their lives to think about what they've done.\n\n\"They've lost their freedom, their citizenship, their families. Their hatred did not win.\"", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 12 and 19 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPuppy power: Blue sky, golden fields and our 10-month-old golden lab pup Doodle enjoying the straw bales,\" says Hannah Cobban in Perthshire.\n\nBright and early: \"Sunrise over the Solway Firth from the summit of Criffel, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Vicky Armstrong.\n\nTwo deer, or just priceless: \"Early morning on Pitroddie Hill in Tayside and these roe deer appeared in the golden sunrise, leaping to start the day,\" says Peter Wilkinson.\n\nRoom with a v-ewe: \"Whilst watching the shoreline in the morning from our beautiful holiday rental near Lochinver, in the hope of glimpsing an otter, this curious mother and lamb appeared,\" says Rachel Field.\n\nHaar-bour master: \"A very low tide at Granton Harbour near Edinburgh with the sea mist rolling in,\" says Aidan Robinson.\n\nBlue planet: A rather captivating tidal shot at Auchenlarie Beach, near Castle Douglas, from Gosia Tyma McCallum.\n\nWinging it: Osprey over Fife, from Gerry Priest.\n\nHot shot: The aftermath of a large fire at Harburn, West Lothian, which burned for several days, courtesy of Tom Harnwell.\n\nFlower power: \"I took this at Gordon Castle Walled Garden by Fochabers,\" says David McCubbin.\n\nMonumental moment: \"Lightning as the storm passes over the Ochil Hills and Wallace Monument,\" says David Meikle.\n\nAlso fortunate enough to capture this photo of lightning above the Wallace Monument while enjoying the thunder storm was Nicola Rae. \"Despite appearances, the house over the road was unaffected,\" she says.\n\nRock'n'roll (of thunder): \"Lightning over Ailsa Craig - where my name comes from,\" says Craig Bradshaw.\n\nStrike action: \"It was the busiest lightning storm I've seen in years,\" says Stewart Venters in Methil, Fife.\n\nCross purpose: \"Spotted a deer crossing the River Findhorn into Culbin Forest,\" says Danny McCafferty.\n\nTall order: \"The tall ship Belem coming up the Upper Clyde past Erskine,\" says Paul Russell. \"We don't often see them this far up, so this was a bit of a novelty.\"\n\nAll look at the camera please: \"These little swallow chicks were sheltering in our garage from the downpour,\" says Carol Raeburn.\n\nDown time: A diving gannet, taken at Elie in Fife by Stewart Beattie with a fast shutter speed.\n\nSow me a sign: These bright directions were spotted at Cononsyth Farms in Angus by Elly Monteforte.\n\nTom thumb: \"A fantastic night at the Tom Jones concert at Princes Street Gardens,\" says Bob Rettie.\n\nBlooming cute: \"Baby Moorhen (gallinula chloropus) with yellow water lily taken at Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway,\" says Hogan.\n\nInching forward: \"I found this pre-decimalisation map at my parents' house,\" says Ed Norris at Ben Nevis. \"This was the catalyst for my first climb of the 'malicious mountain' - although on the day it was at its most benign.\"\n\nLight on its feet: \"I saw this young sparrowhawk scanning the area from the top of a streetlight in Liberton, Edinburgh,\" says Glenys Norquay.\n\nFamily tree: \"My son Angus climbing a hill to our favourite tree near Cauldhame Farm, Falkirk,\" says Jessica Stafford Cameron.\n\nGot this shot by a whisker: Luke Saddler made a friend on a trip to the Isle of Coll.\n\nUmbrella organisation: \"Colour in the sky supporting neurodiversity,\" says Sarah Sivers in Aberdeen.\n\nSmall wonder: This friendly little creature was spotted during a woodland walk near Duff House, Banff, by Daisy Banks.\n\nSling shot: \"Foxlake in Dunbar celebrating their 10th birthday with a competition like no other,\" says Tony Marsh.\n\nApple of his eye: \"My 12-year-old son Oliver took this photograph of Fettercairn church with his new camera on a walk through the village in Aberdeenshire,\" says proud dad Chris Wicks. \"Parents all happy to take phone snaps of the picturesque location while the budding photographer took himself off to the nearby orchard and framed the photo in what we thought was a clever and unusual way.\"\n\nMeal deal? \"I think it wanted some of my tuna sandwiches,\" says Louise Dyce. \"I took this shot of a seal swimming in Fraserburgh harbour whilst I was on a coach holiday around the Aberdeenshire coast.\"\n\nCloudy with a chance of... planes?: \"Concorde takes to the skies one more time,\" says Catriona Wilkinson in the Scottish Borders at Blainslie. \"I thought this cloud formation looked a lot like Concorde in flight.\n\nRed alert: \"A friendly little Robin who seemed to want to remind me that no matter the weather, it’s just 135 days (at time of writing) to Christmas,\" says Gordy Macdonald at Glencoe.\n\nSummit special: \"James, five, and Ciara, seven, made it all the way up Goatfell,\" says dad Ray Kirk in Arran.\n\nMane attraction: \"This is Prince, we were riding towards Minch Moor in the Scottish Borders,\" says Anne Wilson. \"The purple heather looked beautiful.\"\n\nLight aircraft: \"Arriving into Glasgow Airport, sun through the clouds,\" says Colin McVey.\n\nHaving a ball: \"Our 11-month-old lab, Munchie, giving a new lease of life to an old discarded football she found in a field,\" says Daniel Leadbetter.\n\n... also having a ball: \"Lilly the cocker spaniel chasing the sunset at Milarrochy Bay, Loch Lomond,\" says Chloe Grace.\n\nA fleeting moment: \"Big red ball makes a rare appearance at Port Seton Harbour,\" says Ian Mulvey, whose catch was the sunset over the fishing fleet.\n\nPier in: This Portencross sunset scene was captured by Carol Forsyth.\n\nSunning up that hill: Bennachie, courtesy of Kimberley Stephen.\n\nLucky dip: \"The kids rushed off for one final swim before sunset at the beautiful Belhaven Bay next to Dunbar,\" says Lyndsey Fairnie.\n\nSet list: \"My neighbour Charlie marked his 88th birthday by playing as the sun lit up the bay and set behind Islay,\" says Robert Westerman at Machrihanish. \"I was lucky to be invited along to capture the occasion. Happy birthday Charlie.\"\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinland's prime minister has said she has taken a drug test, after new footage emerged showing the leader dancing with a Finnish popstar.\n\nSanna Marin, 36, came under fire this week after a leaked video showed her partying, with some politicians saying she should be tested for narcotics.\n\nAt a news conference on Friday, Ms Marin said she had taken the test and expects the results next week.\n\nThe prime minister repeated her denials that she has ever taken drugs.\n\n\"I did nothing illegal,\" she told reporters in Helsinki.\n\n\"Even in my teenage years I have not used any kind of drugs,\" Ms Marin said, adding that she took the drug test as an added measure to allay any concerns.\n\nThe prime minister also insisted that she is entitled to the presumption of innocence.\n\nReporters questioned whether Ms Marin, who has been in power since December 2019, would have been able to make snap governmental decisions if necessary.\n\n\"I don't remember a single time that there was a sudden situation in the middle of the night to go to the State Council Palace,\" she insisted.\n\n\"I think my ability to function was really good. There were no known meetings on the days I was partying.\"\n\nMs Marin said she knew she was being filmed, but said she was upset that the footage had become public.\n\n\"I trust that people understand that leisure time and work time can be separated,\" she added.\n\nOne of the world's youngest leaders, Ms Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.\n\nJust last week, she was dubbed the \"coolest prime minister in the world\" by German news outlet Bild.\n\nFinland's PM said she was only \"the same as many people my age\"\n\nThis week, two separate videos emerged where the Finnish leader can be seen partying.\n\nThe first video, which surfaced on Thursday, sparked the initial criticism.\n\nIn the footage - thought to be taken from social media - she and Finnish celebrities are seen dancing and singing at a house party.\n\nThe second video, which appeared on Friday, shows Ms Marin dancing with Finnish popstar Olavi Uusivirta.\n\nAt Friday's news conference, a reporter claimed he seemed to kiss the prime minister on the neck - but she denied that, and said he was talking to her, and possibly kissed her cheek.\n\n\"If someone has kissed me on the cheek, there's nothing inappropriate or something I can't handle or tell my husband,\" she said.\n\nThere has been widespread reporting on the videos in Finnish media - which justified the use of the footage as being in the public interest.\n\nBut other opposition party politicians have criticised both the prime minister and the media for talking about partying - instead of more important domestic problems.\n\nThe footage has sparked fierce debate in Finland about the way politicians handle themselves and the amount of privacy afforded to them.\n\nLast year Ms Marin apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.", "Rishi Sunak is trailing behind Liz Truss in the polls\n\nMichael Gove has said he will back Rishi Sunak to be the next Conservative Party leader, saying he has what the job requires.\n\nThe ex-levelling up secretary wrote in The Times rival Liz Truss's tax policies would put business executives before the poorest in society, calling the plans a \"holiday from reality\".\n\nHe also said he himself did not expect to return to frontbench politics.\n\nIt comes as Mr Sunak unveils plans he says will help British motorists.\n\nThe former chancellor is battling it out with Foreign Secretary Ms Truss to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the leader of the Tories. The result will be announced on 5 September.\n\nA number of cabinet members have publicly backed Ms Truss, who is also the bookmakers' favourite.\n\nMr Gove backed Kemi Badenoch earlier in the contest, but writing on Saturday he said he was now in favour of Mr Sunak, raising doubts over Ms Truss's plans to deal with soaring prices and living costs.\n\nHe said: \"Proposed cuts to national insurance would favour the wealthy, and changes to corporation tax apply to big businesses, not small entrepreneurs. I cannot see how safeguarding the stock options of FTSE 100 executives should ever take precedence over supporting the poorest in our society, but at a time of want it cannot be the right priority.\"\n\nHe went on: \"And here I am deeply concerned that the framing of the leadership debate by many has been a holiday from reality. The answer to the cost-of-living crisis cannot be simply to reject further 'handouts' and cut tax.\"\n\nMr Gove said the tax hikes brought in by Mr Sunak as chancellor had been \"a consequence of Covid, not Rishi's inner preferences\".\n\n\"I know what the job requires. And Rishi has it,\" he said.\n\nMr Gove added he did not plan to return to frontbench politics himself, writing: \"I do not expect to be in government again. But it was the privilege of my life to spend 11 years in the cabinet under three prime ministers.\"\n\nMr Gove missed out in his own leadership bids in 2016 and 2019 and was most recently sacked as Levelling Up Secretary after publicly telling Mr Johnson to quit as prime minister ahead of his ultimate resignation.\n\nThe Sunak campaign welcomed Mr Gove's backing, with a spokeswoman saying: \"Delighted to have the support of a party and Cabinet veteran who has intellectual heft and shown the radical reforming zeal in every job he has had, that we now so desperately need.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak promised to tackle the \"war on motorists\" if he became prime minister - describing smart motorways as \"unsafe\" and pledging to stop any new ones being built.\n\nHe also said he would clamp down on rogue parking fines and review some of the neighbourhoods that have been designated as \"low traffic areas\" in recent years.\n\nMr Sunak pledged to introduce a transition to electric vehicles without punishing drivers, while also delivering a \"rural rollout action plan\" to ensure countryside communities were not left behind.\n\nLiz Truss received criticism from Mr Gove over her plans to cut tax\n\nMs Truss appears to be the frontrunner in the polls and has been backed by senior Conservatives colleagues including Nadhim Zahawi, Thérèse Coffey, Sajid Javid, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries, along with former leadership candidates Suella Braverman and Tom Tugendhat.\n\nMr Sunak was recently questioned during a recent Sky interview as to why he was unable to win the public support of close colleagues, other than his main backer, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nThe two leadership candidates appeared at a hustings in Manchester on Friday evening - answering questions in front of party members.\n\nMs Truss spoke about her plan to lift the ban on new grammar schools, saying she wanted everyone \"right across the country\" to have the choice to enlist their children at one.\n\nShe went on to criticise the Mayor of Greater Manchester, calling Andy Burnham the \"miserabilist mayor... who doesn't want opportunities\" for people in the city.\n\nMr Sunak used the event to share his plans on rolling out private-sector style \"surgical hubs\" across the country in the NHS and he also criticised the UK's foreign policy.", "The car landed in the laundrette area of the tower block\n\nA 26-year-old man has been arrested and charged with road traffic offences after a car crashed into a block of flats in Paisley.\n\nResidents of the Hamilton Court tower block in the Calside area said it \"shook\" after the car smashed into it on Thursday night.\n\nThe impact left a large hole in the wall, with the car coming to a halt in the building's laundrette.\n\nTwo men were taken to the nearby Royal Alexandra Hospital for treatment.\n\nNo-one else was injured in the crash, which happened at about 22:45.\n\nThe car was removed from the building on Friday afternoon\n\nIan Bryson, who lives on the eighth floor of the building, told BBC Scotland that the impact had been \"like a bomb\" and that the building had been shaking.\n\nHe said he did not know how the occupants of the car had survived the crash, adding: \"I thought somebody had been killed because my neighbour was out screaming.\n\n\"I thought somebody was trapped in the car, maybe another passenger. So that's how we came down, to see if we could maybe help.\n\n\"The laundrette is open 24/7. Anyone could have been in there.\"\n\nPhil McNally, a resident on the 14th floor, added: \"It sounded like an explosion - how they got out I don't know. It's terrible.\"\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: \"Operations Control mobilised five appliances to the scene to assist emergency service partners in making the area safe.\"", "Scientists have made a breakthrough in a genetic approach that improves food crops' ability to harness the Sun.\n\nResearchers developed a way to make photosynthesis - the natural process that all plants use to convert sunlight energy into food - more efficient.\n\nThe research team, which is spread across UK and US, genetically altered soybean plants, and achieved a 20% greater crop yield.\n\nThey hope this breakthrough will help alleviate food scarcity.\n\nLead researcher Prof Stephen Long, an agricultural scientist based at both the University of Illinois and the University of Lancaster, said that this was \"the most important breakthrough\" he had been involved in during his long career.\n\n\"We've been looking at photosynthesis and why it might be inefficient for 30 years,\" he told BBC News. \"There was huge scepticism that we could improve it, so showing that we can do this completely changes the ground and contributes hugely to our ability to increase global food supply.\"\n\nDirectly or indirectly, all of our food comes from photosynthesis. It is a multistage chemical process, which uses energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide and water into sugars that fuel a plant's growth.\n\nThese scientists tackled one small but critical part of that process: In very bright sunlight, plants switch into a protective mode and release excess energy as heat, to avoid damage to their cells. But it takes several minutes for a plant to switch out of \"protective mode\" and back into \"fully productive growth mode\".\n\nIn their genetic approach, these Illinois and Lancaster University scientists tweaked the genes responsible for this protective function and made their experimental soy plants \"switch back\" more swiftly. The leaves of these genetically modified plants gained more photosynthesis time, which increased the total crop yield by 20%.\n\nPrevious studies, involving tobacco plants, were carried out in lab conditions. This is the first to be successfully replicated in the field.\n\n\"It's so important, with any new technology, that you trial it in a real agricultural situation to see if there is good chance that this will work for farmers,\" said Prof Long.\n\n\"This jump in the yield is huge by comparison to the improvements we get through plant breeding,\" he added. \"And the process we've tackled is universal, so the fact we have it working in a food crop gives us a lot of confidence that this should work in wheat, maize and rice.\"\n\nProf Long said that those crops could be growing in the field within 10 years.\n\nThe rules on growing genetically modified crops vary from country to country. The UK government announced last year that it would relax the regulation of \"gene-edited\" crops - to enable them to be grown commercially in England.\n\nBut these scientists hope their breakthrough will help some of the world's the poorest farmers. Dr Amanda De Souza, also at the University of Illinois and lead author on the study, said: \"The number of people affected by food insufficiency continues to grow, and projections clearly show that there needs to be a change at the food supply level to change the trajectory.\"\n\nAccording to UNICEF, by 2030, more than 660 million people are expected to face food scarcity and malnutrition. The main causes of this are harsher growing conditions caused by climate change and inefficiency in food supply chains.\n\nDr De Souza said: \"Improving photosynthesis is a major opportunity to gain the needed jump in yields.\"\n• None Brexit paves the way for gene-edited crops", "A YouTuber who filmed himself hurling insults at Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday almost lost his phone to the Brazilian president, who tried to grab it off him.\n\nSocial media influencer Wilker Leão approached Bolsonaro outside the president's official residence in the capital Brasilia, calling him a \"coward\" among other taunts.\n\nFootage broadcast by local channel TV Globo showed Bolsonaro grabbing Leão's shirt and arm. The president's bodyguards then pulled the YouTuber aside.\n\nMoments later, the influencer was allowed to return and speak to Bolsonaro.\n\nBolsonaro kicked off his campaign on Tuesday for Brazil's presidential election in October.", "Gerald Butler has paid tribute to his late friend Darius calling him \"an incredible talent\"\n\nHollywood star Gerard Butler says he has been left \"devastated\" by the death of his \"brother in arms\" Darius Campbell Danesh.\n\nIn an Instagram tribute, he shared a photo of them smiling together, writing that Darius had \"the heart of a lion\" and was \"the perfect friend\".\n\nThe Scottish singer, who was 41, was found dead at his Minnesota apartment on 11 August.\n\nHis fellow Pop Idol contestant Will Young has also paid tribute.\n\nOn Twitter, he shared a picture taken while they were on the TV talent show in 2002 and said his thoughts were with Darius' family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Young This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Young\n\nYoung added: \"If there was ever an example of not giving up on your dreams then Darius is top of the pile. Driven, courageous and gentle. My love goes to his family at this time x\"\n\nCampbell Danesh first rose to fame on ITV show Popstars in 2001, then the following year he finished third on Pop Idol behind Will Young and Gareth Gates.\n\nHe reached number one in the UK with his single Colourblind, then went on to become a West End star, appearing in musicals like Chicago and the Olivier Award-winning Guys and Dolls.\n\nColourblind has re-entered the music charts since his death, and was number two on the iTunes download chart on Friday morning.\n\nFellow Scot Butler paid his tribute on Instagram, writing: \"I am devastated by the sudden passing of my dear friend Darius, a true brother in arms.\n\n\"My thoughts and love go to his wonderful mum and dad Avril and Booth and his two brilliant brothers Aria and Cyrus.\n\n\"To those lucky enough to have met Darius for more than a few minutes, they were deeply moved by his infectious laugh and barely containable zest for life.\"\n\nDarius appeared in a promotional photoshoot ahead to the launch of Colourblind in July 2002\n\nHe said Campbell Danesh was always \"armed with a smile\".\n\nThe Paisley-born actor added: \"He was an incredible talent, a singer whose voice touched your soul and an actor with great presence.\n\n\"But, most importantly, he had the heart of a lion. It was bigger and brighter than the sun and an energy so contagious he could light up a room in seconds.\"\n\nButler said his friend was \"always constant and unwavering in his passion for life\".\n\n\"But a bigger constant was his dream to inspire others to better themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"He talked the talk but boy, did he walk the walk.\n\n\"He had such purity of thought, a deep wisdom and constant gratitude for people, for life, a compassion towards all.\"\n\nButler added that Campbell Danesh's commitment to his family, friends and the world made him \"the perfect friend\".\n\nAriel Vroman, director of The Iceman, replied to the post, saying: \"Amazing words my brother - we will miss Darius a lot.\"", "Footage has emerged which shows the interior of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after Russian troops moved in with their vehicles.\n\nIt’s not clear who filmed the video, or exactly when.\n\nThe BBC and other journalists have verified the location in which it was taken, with the help of another video from 2019 , shot in 3D, which provides a tour of the facility. The older video is available on a YouTube account connected to the power plant.\n\nNPR journalist Geoff Brumfiel shared a string of images which show features seen in both videos, and can be used to confirm the location.\n\nBrumfiel says certain details appear in the new footage… Image caption: Brumfiel says certain details appear in the new footage…\n\n… Which also appeared in the 2019 video giving a tour of the plant. Image caption: … Which also appeared in the 2019 video giving a tour of the plant.\n\nThe Russian presence is signalled in the footage with vehicles marked with the letter Z – a symbol of the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nMoscow insists it's working to protect the facility.\n\nRussian military vehicles bearing the Z invasion symbol are seen parked at the left Image caption: Russian military vehicles bearing the Z invasion symbol are seen parked at the left", "The jury was told the woman repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with Mr Mendy\n\nA woman who said she was raped by footballer Benjamin Mendy has told a court he boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women after attacking her.\n\nMr Mendy, 28, has denied eight counts of rape, one of attempted rape and one of sexual assault.\n\nThe woman told Chester Crown Court the attack, which jurors heard had left her bleeding, lasted about 15 minutes but \"felt like the longest day of my life\".\n\nShe added the \"hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no\".\n\nThe jury was told the woman was invited back to the Manchester City player's home for a party with her three friends in October 2020, after they met at a bar in Alderley Edge.\n\nShe said the French international, of Prestbury, Cheshire, took her phone and found private messages on her Snapchat account, before going upstairs.\n\nThe 20-year-old woman told the court she had followed him, asking for her phone back, but he went through a double door, which she said had a secure lock like a hotel bedroom.\n\nMr Mendy's co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie has denied eight counts of rape and four of sexual assault\n\nThe woman told the court that she said to the footballer: \"Listen, I want my phone, I don't know what you think is going on. I don't want sex with you.\"\n\nTo which she said he replied: \"The door is locked anyway.\"\n\nThe jury was told the footballer asked her to undress, stating that he just wanted to see her body.\n\nShe said she had felt that was \"the lesser of two evils\" and that she had been scared because she did not know what he could do.\n\nShe said he threw her phone on the bed and when she reached for it, he began forcing himself on her.\n\nThe jury was told she repeatedly said she did not want to have sex with him.\n\nShe said he raped her three times, which lasted about 15 minutes, but \"felt like the longest day of my life\", adding that the \"hardest thing that makes me upset is how many times I said no\".\n\nShe told the court: \"My body was so tense. It was just this pain.\"\n\nBoth Mr Mendy and Mr Matturie deny all the charges against them\n\nShe said after being attacked, Mr Mendy boasted about having had sex with 10,000 women and told her not to tell anyone about what had happened.\n\nThe court was told Mr Mendy left the woman bleeding, then said to her: \"Don't tell anyone and you can come over here every night,\" like it was a \"privilege\" to have sex with him.\n\nMr Mendy, who denies all of the charges against him, is on trial alongside co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 41.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, has denied eight counts of rape and four of sexual assault.\n\nThe day after the alleged incident, the woman said she got a Snapchat message from Mr Mendy with lots of question marks, and one from Mr Matturie saying: \"Are you OK? Please can you call me so we can discuss?\"\n\nShe took screenshots and blocked both their numbers.\n\nBoth men said if any sex had taken place with women or girls it was consensual.\n\nThe French international was suspended by Manchester City after the allegations emerged\n\nIn cross-examination, Eleanor Laws QC, defending Mr Mendy, put it to the woman that her phone contained \"very explicit\" photos that she was \"happy\" for him to look at before she gave him oral sex.\n\nThe woman said: \"No, absolutely not.\"\n\nMs Laws suggested the footballer had not talked about having sex with 10,000 women, or that it was a \"privilege\" to have sex with him.\n\nThe woman replied: \"I'm absolutely certain, in high definition in my mind, it's the most traumatising thing that has ever happened to me.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The RAF dispatched a Poseidon P8 aircraft - the first time one has been used for a UK search and rescue\n\nTwo rowers whose boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean have been found and rescued by a merchant ship and the RAF.\n\nThe pair survived at sea for more than five hours by using a life raft, before being saved 800 nautical miles (1,482km) off Lands End on Thursday.\n\nThe closest ship to them was diverted to their location.\n\nThe two crew members, from Denmark's Faroe Islands, were reported to be in \"good health\" following the rescue, the UK's Coastguard said.\n\nThe Coastguard launched a rescue effort after receiving a distress alert from the transatlantic rowing vessel at just after 06:10 BST.\n\nThe closest merchant vessel was contacted and asked to change course to the life raft - and an RAF Poseidon P8 aircraft, from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray in north-east Scotland, also headed to find them at about 11:30.\n\nIt is the first time a Poseidon P8 - a maritime patrol aircraft equipped with sensors and weapon systems for anti-submarine warfare and surveillance - has been used for search and rescue in the UK, the Coastguard said.\n\nThe Poseidon P8 supported the rescue efforts by providing an overview of the rescue and communicating back to the UK.\n\n\"We are very grateful to the merchant vessel that stopped its busy schedule to rescue these survivors in very challenging weather conditions, and thankful to our friends at the RAF who provided such good support for this incident,\" said Rob Priestley for HM Coastguard.\n\nRAF Wing Cdr Adam Smolak, commanding officer of 201 Squadron, said: \"This operation showcases the world-leading capability of the Poseidon aircraft and coupled with the highly skilled crews, we were able to bring to bear the capability at short notice and help rescue the rowers\".\n\nThe rowers were rescued 800 nautical miles off Lands End, Cornwall", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missed your grades? The BBC's Hazel Shearing explains - in a minute - what you can do\n\nThe proportion of top A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen since 2021, but remains higher than in 2019.\n\nAbout 36.4% of A-levels were marked at A* and A this year, while last year, 44.8% of exams were graded A or above.\n\nIt is the first time since 2019 that A-level grades have been based on public exams, after two years of cancellations because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nStudents also received T-level, BTec and other results on Thursday.\n\nThe university admissions service, Ucas, said 65.3% of students in the UK who applied to university were offered their first choice.\n\nThis year's A-level marking system has been adjusted, so that grades reflect \"a midway point\" between 2019 - when 25.4% were A* and A grades - and 2021, when teacher-assessed grades led to a boom in top marks.\n\nEngland's exam watchdog Ofqual has said the approach was intended to bring grades closer to pre-pandemic levels, while reflecting \"that we are in a pandemic recovery period and students' education has been disrupted\".\n\nSimilar plans were put in place for Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nIn Scotland, where pupils received their exam results on 9 August, the pass rate at Higher level fell to 78.9% - down from 87.3% in 2021.\n\nUcas said on Thursday morning that 425,830 students had been accepted into university or college - the second highest number on record - but 20,360 students had not.\n\nThey are being advised to search for vacancies through clearing, which is where Ucas highlights courses with available spaces.\n\nUcas also said more students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds were awarded a place at university than in 2019, and that 71% of university applicants who took T-levels were accepted.\n\nThe A-level results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland also show:\n\nThere were regional disparities in England, according to Ofqual. In London, 39% of A-level grades were A* and A, compared with 30.8% of grades in the north-east of England.\n\nResults for AS-levels also came out on Thursday. In Wales and Northern Ireland, these will count towards a student's final A-level result next summer.\n\nAnd it is the first year of results for new vocational T-level qualifications in England, this year taken by a cohort of 1,029 students.\n\nThe pass rate for T-levels, designed to be equivalent to three A-levels, was 92.2%\n\nTo achieve the technical qualification, time is split between classroom learning and industry placements - with students awarded a pass, merit, distinction or distinction* after two years of work and study.\n\nPraise, who is 18 and studied at Central Saint Michael's Sixth Form in West Bromwich, felt relieved after getting her results.\n\nShe achieved B grades in her A-levels in history and English literature, and a D* in her Level 3 BTec in health and social care.\n\nShe is among about 200,000 students who received Level 3 BTec results on Thursday.\n\n\"It was emotional. I had a cry,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPraise is preparing for an interview at Birmingham City University, where she hopes to start training as an RAF student nurse in February.\n\nReceiving her results has made it all sink in that Praise will be leaving home.\n\n\"After I've done three years of uni, I'll spend a minimum of 12 years with the RAF,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't spent much time away from home, so it's a bit scary. But it'll be something entirely different - I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nAfter missing out on GCSE exams because of Covid, Praise was glad there was a return to exams this year.\n\n\"I wanted to write my own exams, get my own grades and see that it was my hard work that got me to that moment,\" she said.\n\n\"These students have experienced unprecedented disruption over the last couple of years, and such excellent results are a testament to their resilience and hard work,\" he said.\n\nSpecial measures were introduced for this year's A-levels to counteract the disruption to education caused by Covid, such as advanced information about topics.\n\nAnd the grade boundaries - the number of marks needed for each grade - were more lenient this year than they were before the start of the pandemic.\n\nA-level grades are lower than last year because of the system being adjusted to counteract the sharp rise in top grades over the past two years, rather than being purely a reflection of individual student work. But grades are still higher than in 2019.\n\nIt is likely to be a competitive year for some students looking to start university. There are more 18-year-olds in the population this year and a slightly higher percentage of them are applying for places, according to Ucas.\n\nThe toughest competition is for places at the most academically selective universities. This year, those institutions have been more cautious with the number of offers they have made, after a couple of bulge years - when top grades proliferated - in 2020 and 2021.\n\nCompetition for places is also high for certain courses - including some heavily subsidised degrees, such as medicine, which are reintroducing caps on student numbers this year.\n\nAre you having to rethink your plans after getting your results? Do you have questions you'd like answered? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Wayne Couzens is serving a whole-life sentence for the murder, kidnap and rape of Sarah Everard\n\nSarah Everard's killer Wayne Couzens has been charged with two further counts of indecent exposure.\n\nThe alleged offences are said to have taken place on 9 June 2015 and 13 November 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Couzens, 49, was a police officer at the time.\n\nCouzens has already denied four separate counts of indecent exposure after being charged earlier this year.\n\nHe will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 2 September.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the latest alleged offences took place in Kent - in Dover in June 2015 and in Deal in November 2020.\n\nCouzens is serving a whole-life tariff for the abduction, rape and murder of 33-year-old London marketing executive Ms Everard, crimes he committed in March 2021 while he was a PC with the Metropolitan Police.\n\nRosemary Ainslie, head of the CPS Special Crime Division, said: \"The function of the CPS is not to decide whether a person is guilty of a criminal offence, but to make fair, independent and objective assessments about whether it is appropriate to present charges to a court to consider.\n\n\"The CPS reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against Wayne Couzens are active and that he has the right to a fair trial.\"\n\nIn May, Couzens pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to four counts of indecent exposure in relation to crimes allegedly committed in Swanley, Kent, in January and February 2021.\n\nHe stands accused of \"intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm and distress\".\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "Andrew Tate appeared in the 2016 series of Big Brother\n\nYouTube has banned influencer Andrew Tate for violating its policies.\n\nThe Google-owned social media site took action following Meta's decision to ban Mr Tate from Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe former kickboxer rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to depict him attacking a woman.\n\nHe went on to gain notoriety online - with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted.\n\nAt the time of his removal from Big Brother, in 2016, Mr Tate said the controversial video had been edited, calling it \"a total lie trying to make me look bad\".\n\nGoogle, which owns YouTube, told the BBC: \"We terminated channels associated with Andrew Tate for multiple violations of our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service, including our hate speech policy.\n\n\"If a channel is terminated, the uploader is unable to use, own or create any other YouTube channels.\"\n\nMr Tate's YouTube channels had more than a million followers between them.\n\nTikTok has also banned an account belonging to Mr Tate as part of an ongoing investigation to remove content that violates its policies.\n\nA TikTok spokesperson told the BBC: \"Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok.\n\n\"We've been removing violative videos and accounts for weeks, and we welcome the news that other platforms are also taking action against this individual.\"\n\nOn Instagram, Tate had 4.7 million followers at the time his account was removed. That number had grown rapidly from around one million followers in June.\n\nMeta said it had removed the kickboxing star from its platforms for violating its policies on dangerous organisations and individuals, but did not provide further details.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Tate for comment.\n\nAndrew Tate's videos - promoting misogyny and targeting women - have come to prominence this summer, with many teens commenting on just how much he's appearing on their social media feeds.\n\nHis content has raised concerns about the real-world effect it could have, especially on the younger users exposed to it during their school holidays when they have time on their hands.\n\nThe focus has been primarily on TikTok, where users say they've been readily served up his videos - sparking a new wave of videos commenting on and criticising Mr Tate's content.\n\nYouTube has also found itself under pressure, since it's where he has racked up millions of views.\n\nI revealed how social media sites promote anti-women hate for BBC Panorama. The investigations exposed how some platforms' algorithms were recommending more and more misogyny to a troll account.\n\nSince then, several sites have made commitments to better protect female users. But, once again, questions are being raised about the role social media sites play in pushing anti-women content.\n\nMr Tate has drawn criticism online for his comments, particularly from UK advocacy group Hope Not Hate, which welcomed Meta's ban last week.\n\nJoe Mulhall, director of research at the group, said Mr Tate \"poses a genuine threat to young men, radicalising them towards extremism misogyny, racism and homophobia\".\n\nHe added: \"We've provided significant evidence to the major social media platforms, including Meta, about his activity and why he must be removed.\"\n\nVideos about Mr Tate have proved popular across social media platforms, particularly on TikTok where videos using the #AndrewTate hashtag have been viewed more than 12.7 billion times.\n\nBut this number represents not just videos of Tate and his supporters - it also includes videos made by people criticising the influencer.\n\nOn YouTube, some of his most popular videos have had millions of views.\n\nIn one video, during which he was interviewed by another YouTuber, he said he was \"absolutely a misogynist\", adding: \"I'm a realist and when you're a realist you're sexist. There's no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.\"\n\nLater in the same video he called women \"intrinsically lazy\" and said there was \"no such thing as an independent female\".\n\nIn a different video, Mr Tate said: \"If I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority.\"\n\nHe added: \"You can't be responsible for a dog if it doesn't obey you.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Explosions seen at an arms depot in Maiske in Crimea on Tuesday 16 August\n\nUkrainian strikes on Crimea are having major psychological and operational effects on Moscow's forces, Western officials have told journalists.\n\nExplosions at the Saki airbase on 9 August and other assaults have put more than half of the Black Sea fleet's naval jets out of action, they said.\n\nThe fleet has a revered history, but it has suffered a series of humiliations since the invasion began in February.\n\nOfficials said the setbacks have forced it to adopt a defensive posture.\n\nIn April, the fleet's flagship, the cruiser Moskva, was sunk by Ukraine. The 510-crew missile cruiser had led Russia's naval assault on Ukraine, and its sinking was a major symbolic and military blow.\n\nAt the time, the Russian defence ministry said ammunition on board the Moskva exploded in an unexplained fire, and the ship tipped over while being towed back to port.\n\nIn June, the fleet suffered another embarrassment when it was forced to abandon Snake Island, a tiny outpost in the north-west of the Black Sea seized by Russia on the first day of its invasion, after coming under sustained Ukrainian bombardment.\n\nAnd in recent weeks, the fleet's home in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, has come under attack from Ukrainian forces.\n\nAt least eight fighter jets were destroyed in the bombardment of Saki airbase on 9 August.\n\nFollowing the attacks, scores of holidaymakers were seen fleeing the peninsula, which was previously untouched by fighting. Images acquired by the BBC showed queues of traffic on roads leading out of Crimea three days after the attack.\n\nThe 9 August strikes were not the only apparent Ukrainian strikes in Crimea.\n\nIn July, Russian officials alleged that a Ukrainian drone attack forced an end to Navy Day celebrations in Sevastopol, and on 16 August there were explosions at an arms depot on the peninsula.\n\nThe fact that explosions in Crimea - a place previously considered to be well beyond the reach of any Ukrainian attack - were watched by thousands of Russian tourists, many of whom have since fled Crimea back into Russia, has had a psychological effect in Moscow, officials told the media.\n\nThe Western officials, who spoke unattributably on background, meaning they cannot be named, said that Russia's Black Sea fleet has been reduced to little more than a coastal flotilla that is now having to adopt a cautious attitude due to Ukrainian attacks.\n\nThey added that Russia's ability to launch an assault on the port of Odesa in western Ukraine is highly unlikely in the short term.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russian state media reported that the fleet's commander, Igor Osipov, had been replaced in light of the attacks. The RIA news agency said the fleet's new chief, Viktor Sokolov, has been introduced to military leaders at the port of Sevastopol.\n\nMoscow also seems to be trying to re-arm its beleaguered fleet. State media reported that Admiral Sokolov told a group of young officers that they will receive 12 new vessels, alongside additional aviation and land-based vehicles later this year.\n\nHe insisted that the fleet has been \"successfully completing all the tasks set for it\" during the invasion, Russia's Tass news agency reported.\n\nBut on Wednesday, UK defence officials said that the Kremlin's plans have been \"undermined\" by the navy's failure to assume full control over the Black Sea.\n\nThe Black Sea fleet has generally pursued an \"extremely defensive\" position and remained near the Crimean coast, they said.", "There is no easy answer as to how safe self-driving cars should be, an adviser to a new government-backed report has told the BBC.\n\nThe report, from the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, warns that it might not be enough for self-driving cars to be safer than normal cars.\n\nIt says the public may have little tolerance for driverless car crashes - even if they are safer on average.\n\nIt comes as the government sets out its plans for self-driving cars.\n\nNo self-driving cars are currently allowed on UK roads, but the government has now said the first such vehicles could be on UK roads by 2025.\n\nSome cars, coaches and lorries with self-driving features could even be operating on motorways in the next year, the Department for Transport said.\n\nThe government's plans include a \"safety ambition\" for vehicles: that they should be as safe as a competent human driver.\n\nIt says this will inform standards that need to be reached in order to be allowed to self-drive on the roads - and manufacturers could face sanctions if they are not met.\n\nBut the CDEI, a government expert body that leads its work on trustworthy innovation using data and AI, says the question of how safe autonomous vehicles should be is not one science alone can answer.\n\nIt says the public may have little tolerance for crashes that are seen as the fault of \"faceless technology companies or lax regulation\" even if, it adds, on average driverless cars are safer than humans.\n\nAnd if the public expect self-driving cars to be as safe as trains or planes, it would require a 100-fold increase in average safety over manually driven cars, it warns.\n\n\"What we wanted to do was say there's not an easy answer to this question\" said Professor Jack Stilgoe of University College London who advised the CDEI. He suggested that establishing how safe they should be was a democratic decision.\n\nThe CDEI says it is also important to consider how risk is distributed between different groups. Even if there are improvements in overall safety, \"some groups may see substantial safety improvements while others see none or even face new hazards\".\n\nThe report advises that other risks will need scrutiny as the technology is rolled out.\n\nOne is the potential for bias in algorithms controlling the cars.\n\nIt warns that some groups, such as wheelchair users, may be underrepresented in data used to train the software algorithms which control the cars - potentially causing bias.\n\nThe report also says that self-driving cars should be clearly identified, and that \"people have a right to know what sort of agents they are sharing the road with\".\n\nAn academic survey quoted by the CDEI in the report suggested that 86% of the public agreed with this.\n\nProfessor Stilgoe said there were also serious moral questions about how the testing of self-driving vehicles is conducted on public roads, as other road users could in effect become participants in these trials whether they liked it or not.\n\n\"There is something quite important about the ethical principle of informed consent,\" he said.\n\nThe technology might result in pressure to alter roads and the rules of the road to suit self-driving cars.\n\nProfessor Stilgoe said these needed to be debated and discussed transparently.\n\n\"The danger is sort of sleepwalking in to a world in which these changes happen in order to suit one mode of transport - and the benefits then don't get spread very widely,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the government is publishing a policy paper setting out planned laws ready for the introduction of self-driving vehicles on British roads.\n\nThe new laws will be brought forward when parliamentary time allows, the government has said.\n\nThe legislation is expected to state that manufacturers are responsible for the vehicle's actions when self-driving - something the Law Commission recommended earlier this year.\n\nIn April, proposed updates to the Highway Code were announced that would allow drivers to watch entertainment on a car's screen while the vehicle was self-driving.\n\nInitially this would likely be whilst the vehicle was driving at slow speed on a motorway, such as in congested traffic.\n\nVehicles that can drive themselves on motorways could be available to purchase within the next year, the government reiterated.\n\nThe government has also repeated its goal of a wider rollout of self-driving technologies by 2025 and £100m of funding for industry and research.\n\nThatcham Research, the motor insurers' automotive research centre, welcomed the government's ambition but warned \"complete clarity around the driver's legal responsibilities\" was needed, along with transparency on how the technology is marketed, \"how the dealer describes systems when handing over the keys and how the self-driving system itself communicates with the driver\".", "Some countries still require travellers to show they have been vaccinated before allowing them to enter\n\nThe NHS has apologised after the digital Covid pass was inaccessible for more than six hours and left some travellers struggling to board flights.\n\nThe pass provides a digital record of a person's vaccination status.\n\nIt is needed to board flights to certain countries, and some passengers were left struggling to check in.\n\n\"The Covid-19 Pass is now working as normal and we will continue to monitor overnight,\" NHS Digital tweeted.\n\n\"Thank you for your patience and apologies for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nUsers trying to access it via the NHS app and website on Thursday evening were shown a message saying it was unavailable.\n\nNumerous holidaymakers had described being unable to check in at airports because they could not prove their vaccination status - and others grew worried in case the problems continued.\n\nJon May, 32, was due to fly from Bristol to Valencia on Friday morning for a work conference, and earlier expressed concern after finding that the app was down.\n\n\"I've had all three jabs, and I went to the NHS App, and it said 'Service unavailable'. I was like 'What do you mean, service unavailable?',\" he said.\n\n\"If it doesn't work, I'm hoping they just go with it. I might get to Spain and be deported from Spain, and that would be really embarrassing.\"\n\nFi Bartlett, 24, from Bournemouth, is travelling to Malaga on Saturday but was earlier unable to complete the online check-in for her flight without proof of vaccination.\n\n\"There's been no update from the NHS apart from to say they know it's down,\" she said.\n\nLate on Thursday afternoon, NHS Digital tweeted to say it was \"aware of issues with availability of the NHS Covid Pass\" and was investigating \"urgently\".\n\nThe requirement to show a pass to enter certain venues and events in the UK was scrapped earlier this year.\n\nHowever, some countries still require travellers to show they have been vaccinated before allowing them to enter.", "Denzel, 18, said the students felt like the pioneers of their course\n\nThe first students to take T-levels have been receiving their results.\n\nThe new technical qualification started in 2020 with courses in education and childcare; design, surveying and planning; and digital production, taken by 1,029 students in England.\n\nThis year 92% of students achieved a pass or above and 370, or 71%, of those students who applied for a university course have so far been successful.\n\nMany others have already secured an apprenticeship or a job.\n\nThis is according to the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.\n\nThere will be 16 T-level subjects available from September and more will be introduced over the next few years including accounting, agriculture and engineering.\n\nHowever, there are some concerns that more BTecs will be cut to prevent overlapping.\n\nDenzel, 18, who took T-levels in digital production, said he felt like his group were \"the pioneers of this course\".\n\nHe told the BBC it was very different to secondary school where you follow a curriculum and \"there were no textbooks\".\n\nAlthough he says the course was a bit \"hit and miss\" at the beginning because it was new, by the end he and his classmates had enjoyed it and have now \"mastered\" it for the next batch of new students.\n\nDenzel said a placement with the coding company Vector Ltd gave him a real feel for what the working world will be like.\n\nHe was awarded a merit and is going to the University of Hull to study software engineering.\n\nT-levels, or Technical Levels, have been developed alongside employers and are accepted by 120 universities.\n\nDarren Hankey, principal of Hartlepool College, says it looks as though the first cohort has had success in terms of achievement and progression to higher education.\n\nMr Hankey supports these new qualifications but worries about the programme's 45-day industry placement element .\n\n\"I don't think many parts of the country will have the economy to support these and, as a result, young people in these areas will miss out.\n\n\"For example, in the Tees Valley I reckon there are around 1,000 young people taking level 3 vocational qualifications in various engineering disciplines. I don't think we have the firms to support placements for this amount of students, as well as support apprentices.\"\n\nThere are concerns that funding for some BTec qualifications will be removed in favour of the new T-levels.\n\nBTecs - Business and Technology Education Council qualifications - are largely assessed through practical learning.\n\nThe ProtectStudentChoice campaign, which involves 30 organisations including the National Union of Students and the Association of School and College Leaders, says many young people will continue to be better served studying a BTec rather than an A-level or T-level-only study programme.\n\nA Department of Education spokesperson said: \"Students will continue to be able to study BTecs and other applied general qualifications where they meet new quality criteria and support progression to good outcomes.\"", "South Western Ambulance Service said it was \"sorry and upset\" it did not provide a \"timely response\"\n\nA 90-year-old woman waited 40 hours for an ambulance after a serious fall.\n\nStephen Syms said his mother, from Cornwall, fell on Sunday evening and an ambulance arrived on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nShe was then in the vehicle for 20 hours at the Royal Cornwall Hospital. It comes as an ambulance trust warns lives are at risk because of delays in patient handovers.\n\nIt was also reported a man, 87, who fell, was left under a makeshift shelter waiting for an ambulance.\n\nA makeshift shelter was made to cover a man as he waited 15 hours for an ambulance\n\nSouth Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said it was \"sorry\" for its response to both incidents.\n\nMr Syms, from St Stephen, told BBC Radio Cornwall: \"We are literally heartbroken to see a 90-year-old woman in such distress, waiting and not knowing if she had broken anything.\n\nHe said it took nine minutes before his 999 call was answered.\n\n\"If that was a cardiac arrest, nine minutes is much too long, it's the end of somebody's life,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"The system is not deteriorating, it's totally broken and needs to be urgently reviewed.\"\n\nThe average time it took an ambulance to reach a 999 call for something like a heart attack or stroke was nearly one hour in July in England.\n\nThat's more than three times longer than the 18-minute target.\n\nThe problem has been getting steadily worse over the past year, but the delays aren't confined to ambulance waits.\n\nMany people across the UK have also spent hours waiting outside emergency departments after arriving in ambulances, because there is no room for them to be treated in the hospital itself.\n\nThat's linked to patients staying in hospital much longer than usual after they've recovered because of issues providing the social care they need at home.\n\nDelays at every stage are causing harm to patients, experts say.\n\nThe NHS is under intense pressure but health chiefs say plans are in place to create thousands of extra beds and recruit more 999 call handlers ahead of this winter.\n\nThe government says it has invested millions into ambulance services and is setting up a taskforce to look at ways of making sure patients are only in hospital for as long as they need to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust said: \"We are sorry and upset that we were unable to provide Ms Syms with the timely response and care that she needed.\n\n\"Our ambulance clinicians strive every day to give their best to patients.\n\n\"Health and social care services are under enormous pressure.\n\n\"We are working with our partners in the NHS and social care in Cornwall, to do all we can to improve the service that patients receive.\"\n\nMs Syms was in an ambulance at the Royal Cornwall Hospital for a further 20 hours before being admitted\n\nConservative MP for Truro and Falmouth Cherilyn Mackrory said she had written to the health secretary to urge him to visit and address the issue.\n\nShe said NHS managers, the local authority and government needed to work together to fix it.\n\nShe also said a lack of ongoing home care was the \"crux\" of the problem.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Cornwall, Ms Mackrory said: \"We don't have proper staffing of domiciliary care or safe places for people to be discharged to.\n\n\"Now, it's much more complex than that, but that is the crux of it, and we need to make sure that we do this so that we can safely discharge patients out of the hospital.\"\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives and current Cornwall councillor Andrew George disagreed with Ms Mackrory.\n\nHe said he thought it was wrong for MPs to be \"attempting to shift the blame to local managers and providers of service\".\n\n\"This is a policy failure which starts at the top,\" Mr George said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We absolutely recognise the pressures ambulance services are facing - with call handlers answering nearly one million calls nationwide in July alone - and we are taking action to support them.\n\n\"This includes the NHS investing £150m to help ambulance services meet pressures and £20m this year to upgrade the ambulance fleet, while we have also grown the ambulance and support staff workforce by almost 40% since April 2010.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the NHS to improve care for patients, tackle delayed discharge and speed up handovers to get ambulances back on the road.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman at the heart of R. Kelly's second federal trial has testified that the R&B singer had sex with her \"hundreds\" of times before she turned 18.\n\nThe 37-year-old woman, known as \"Jane\", said that improper contact with Kelly began when she was just 13.\n\nThe singer is on trial in Chicago for child pornography, obstruction of justice and other charges.\n\nHis lawyers have insisted he is not \"a monster\" and deserves a fair trial.\n\nKelly, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is facing 13 criminal charges including creating and receiving child pornography, obstruction of justice and enticing minors into sexual activity.\n\nHe is already serving a 30-year prison sentence after being convicted of sex trafficking and racketing in a separate trial held in New York last year.\n\nThe current case rests in large part on the testimony of \"Jane\", one of his accusers. Prosecutors allege that Kelly made at least four videos with Jane, parts of which will be shown to jurors.\n\nIn court on Thursday, Jane testified that Kelly had sex with her \"uncountable times\" starting when she was 15. Jurors were shown photographs of her in high school to illustrate how young she appeared at the time.\n\nOver the course of her two-hour testimony, Jane described a number of sexual encounters that Kelly allegedly recorded. In one video, Kelly appeared to hand her money.\n\nWhen asked why, Jane alleged that Kelly believed that \"if it was released for some reason, he [Kelly] would say I was a prostitute\", according to the Chicago Tribune.\n\nOne of the videos was also at the centre of a separate 2008 trial in which Kelly and Jane both denied it was them in the tape. Kelly was ultimately acquitted on all charges.\n\nAsked about that earlier denial on Thursday, she told jurors that she \" was afraid something bad would happen to Robert\", according to the Associated Press.\n\nSome analysts have characterised the current trial as a do-over of the 2008 trial, in which the singer faced 14 charges of child pornography.\n\nTwo of Kelly's former employees are also facing charges in this trial. Derrel McDavid, his former business manager, is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, and Milton Brown is charged with receiving child pornography.\n\nBoth men have pleaded not guilty.\n\nDuring opening statements earlier this week, attorneys for Kelly and the two former employees dismissed the charges and called on jurors to give Kelly a fair trial despite widespread public attention, and decried a \"mob-justice\" climate surrounding the case.\n\nAdditionally, they alleged that some of those expected to testify were \"criminals\" who have previously \"extorted him\" and secured immunity deals from prosecutors.", "Mr O'Halloran was a much-loved member of the community\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a grandfather stabbed while riding a mobility scooter in west London.\n\nThomas O'Halloran, 87, died at the scene on Cayton Road, Greenford, after being attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nLee Byer, 44, of Southall, west London, was remanded in custody at Willesden Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe is expected to appear at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Byer spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and that he was of no fixed abode.\n\nMr Byer was not asked to enter pleas to charges of murder and possession of an offensive weapon, a knife.\n\nHe was remanded in custody by deputy district judge Ross Cohen. A plea and direction hearing was also set for 16 September at the Old Bailey.\n\nOutlining the case against Mr Byer, prosecutor Louise Ahmad described the alleged murder as a \"vicious attack\".\n\nShe said Mr O'Halloran, a grandfather originally from Co Clare in the west of Ireland who was known \"throughout the local community\", collapsed from his mobility scooter outside Runnymede Gardens having been stabbed in the chest.\n\nHe was found by a member of the public, who telephoned for assistance, she added.\n\nOn Thursday night, about 100 residents packed into Greenford Community Centre for a meeting with police about local safety.\n\nCh Supt Sean Wilson told residents extra police patrols in the area would be in place for a week, after which time he would review if they needed to be extended.\n\nHowever, he was questioned by a number of residents who raised concerns about drug dealing and anti-social behaviour.\n\nSabah Razak said parents felt \"frightened\" as their children walked home from school and would ring their child to check they were OK.\n\nPaying tribute to Mr O'Halloran, she said: \"What threat was he posing? What was he doing to anyone? It's just disgusting.\"\n\nAsked what she made of the police reassurances over extra patrols she said she'd heard \"a lot of promises\" but didn't know \"how much will come out of it\".\n\nShe added: \"In the last six to seven years, I don't ring the police anymore.\n\n\"If I have to go and confront someone myself, I go and do it because I've been told on several occasions, 'what do you want us to do?'\"\n\nMr O'Halloran was attacked just after 16:00 BST on Tuesday\n\nAnother resident, Naqib Yahya, asked: \"Why's it take someone to be stabbed to have extra patrols?\"\n\nHe was among several residents who claimed when they contacted police they had not been taken seriously.\n\nSpeaking to BBC London after the meeting, he said: \"The police ask the community for help but they're quite slow to act on the information passed on.\"\n\nAsked what the Metropolitan Police were doing to tackle knife crime, Ch Supt Wilson said the Violent Suppression Unit had dedicated teams who carried out weapons searches and urged residents who find knives on the street to report them.\n\nHe promised there would be more officers coming due to the current recruitment drive under the government's Police Uplift Programme and that new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley, who is due to take up his role next month, had a plan to address concerns.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police would like to speak with a man seen on CCTV, described as white, in his 20s, wearing dark clothing and shoes with a white rim\n\nParents have been warned to be \"extra vigilant with their children\" after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester, with police appealing for help to find a man seen on CCTV images.\n\nOfficers believe the girl, who they previously said was seven, was abducted by a man in Warne Avenue, Droylsden at about 16:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe child was led down a path towards a football field and assaulted.\n\nShe then found her own way to a park.\n\nThe girl was reunited with her family a short time later, police said, and was receiving support from specialist officers.\n\nSpeaking at a special press conference, Det Supt Richard Hunt said the offender had \"obviously grabbed a child and, what I would say to members of the public, is that they need to be extra vigilant\".\n\n\"A child was playing in this area and a chap who was hanging around has taken a child and thankfully within a few minutes we've got her back.\n\n\"Parents need to consider the circumstances of what I have mentioned and I would suggest they need to be extra vigilant with their children whilst we progress this as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHe said the offender appeared to \"have been hanging around the area prior to the offence and, afterwards, he made his way through the paths and streets of the Snipe Estate possibly in the direction of Openshaw\".\n\nDet Supt Hunt said CCTV footage had already been released by officers of a man they would like to speak with: \"You will have seen footage in the press and if you haven't, can I please ask you to look at these images to try and identify the person, who we are keen to speak to.\"\n\nHe urged members of the public to check their CCTV, dashcam and doorbell footage for video that might assist the investigation, and asked them not to speculate on social media.\n\nA 35-year-old man previously arrested in connection with the incident has been released with no further investigation.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James \"Whitey\" Bulger was killed while in prison\n\nThree men have been charged over the prison killing of infamous Boston gangster James \"Whitey\" Bulger.\n\nThe 89-year-old Bulger was discovered unresponsive in October 2018 at a maximum-security facility in West Virginia.\n\nFotios Geas, 55, Paul J DeCologero, 48 and Sean McKinnon, 36, were all charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, the Justice Department said.\n\nBulger was captured in California in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.\n\nHe was serving two life sentences for 11 murders when he was beaten to death, on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates.\n\nThe US justice department announced the charges against the three men on Thursday.\n\nFederal prosecutors accuse Geas and DeCologero of striking Bulger in the head multiple times, causing his death.\n\nThey have also both been charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, along with assault resulting in serious bodily injury.\n\nGeas, believed to have been a Mafia hitman, faces an additional charge for murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence, while McKinnon has been charged with making false statements to a federal agent.\n\nAll three were held at the Hazelton penitentiary at the time of the killing, though only Geas remains there.\n\nMcKinnon was on federal supervised release at the time of the indictment and was arrested in Florida.\n\nBulger, the former leader of South Boston's Winter Hill gang, inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2007.\n\nRaised in Boston's Irish-Catholic South Boston neighbourhood, he became involved with The Shamrocks gang as a young man, starting off by stealing cars and soon escalating to robbing banks.\n\nWhile heading the Irish-American Winter Hill mob from the early 1970s until the mid-1980s he lived a double life as a prized FBI informant, feeding the bureau information about rival criminals.\n\nThe US government eventually paid more than $20m (£16.8m) in damages to his victims on the grounds he had committed his murders while under government supervision.\n\nDuring his criminal career, he also attempted to provide weapons to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Northern Ireland.", "Manchester university student Jess had to check everyday to secure a house as many were snapped up\n\nWhat's it like being young and facing higher rent while your pay stays the same?\n\nFigures seen by the BBC show people under 30 face a growing cost-of-renting crisis, with worrying numbers spending more than 30% of their pay on rent.\n\nExperts say spending this level of income on rental costs is unaffordable.\n\nWe've been speaking to people experiencing this, as well as hearing what it is like for landlords.\n\nFor Manchester University student Jess Walmsley, the scarcity of housing has been a major challenge.\n\nThe 21-year-old said she and her friends began looking for a house for their third year of study back in January and February but \"there were hardly any places left this year\".\n\n\"You really have to be on it and look every day,\" she said. \"We were left with expensive or bad quality houses but luckily a student dropped out so we got a good deal.\"\n\nMs Walmsley pays £87 a week per person for a four-bedroom house, excluding bills. She said it was now common for people to start looking for houses for the next academic year as early as October - just a month into term.\n\nHer housemates have also been cutting down on using the tumble dryer and shopping a lot more at Iceland to reduce costs.\n\n\"It's a tough process, I've been working all of the summer but I feel lucky to be eligible for the maximum loan because otherwise, it would be so hard to manage,\" Ms Walmsley added.\n\nData seen by the BBC, supplied by property market consultancy Dataloft, suggests that people under 30 are spending more of their earnings on rent than other working-age groups.\n\nLondon has the highest rents, according to the data. However, many of the places where affordability has worsened since the pandemic are in locations such as Rotherham, Bolton and Dudley.\n\nShannon Waine, 31, and Oliver Kimber, 28, have had to move 45 minutes outside of Cheltenham with their 10-month-old baby Mhairi, to find affordable rental accommodation.\n\nAlthough Ms Waine is a little older than the people examined in our data, her experience shows life isn't getting any easier for this cohort.\n\nShannon Waine and her family are now paying £175 more each month\n\nAfter applying for 20 different houses in their price range in Cheltenham, Ms Waine said she had to look further afield. After six weeks, she found a house in Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire for £825 a month - £175 higher than their previous house.\n\n\"We used to pay £650 a month but there was no longer anything in that price bracket as there is just so much demand for two beds in Cheltenham now,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe family have moved in with relatives twice during their search.\n\n\"It's been incredibly stressful, not knowing where we'll be and with a 10-month-old daughter has not been easy through no fault of our own,\" she said.\n\n\"Unless you have family support I don't know how people can cope - there's nowhere near enough council houses and it feels like it's all backwards.\"\n\nThe family has also had to borrow money to afford the cost of moving house in six trips from Cheltenham to Warwickshire.\n\nColin Hayman, a private landlord from Norwich, says he does have sympathy for tenants facing spiralling rents.\n\nBut Mr Hayman, who's 61, says he's also frustrated at how landlords are \"always painted as the bad guy\".\n\nColin Hayman says landlords have good reasons for increasing rents.\n\n\"Of course I have sympathy for renters, don't get me wrong,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But from a landlord's perspective there are good reasons for increasing rents which are being ignored, including changes in tax laws in respect of buy-to-let mortgage payments.\"\n\nMr Hayman, who has a small portfolio of properties in north-east England, says there are also changes coming in which make it increasingly difficult to make an income from being a landlord.\n\nThese include new regulations to make properties more energy efficient.\n\n\"It's expensive to achieve the new standards,\" he says. \"For many landlords, it's simply not viable to keep their properties as it's costing too much.\"\n\nMr Hayman says many landlords are being forced out of the market.\n\n\"They are selling up now whilst property prices are high, thus reducing supply of rental stock and pushing prices up further,\"\n\n\"The government likes to show it is pro-tenant but everything they are doing is anti-landlord.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPowerful storms have battered areas of central and southern Europe, killing at least 12 people including three children.\n\nThe deaths, most from falling trees, were reported in Italy and Austria, and on the French island of Corsica.\n\nHeavy rain and winds wrecked campsites on the island, while in Venice, Italy, masonry was blown off the belltower of St Mark's Basilica.\n\nThe storms follow weeks of heatwave and drought across much of the continent.\n\nIn Corsica, winds gusting up to 224 km/h (140mph) uprooted trees and damaged mobile homes.\n\nAuthorities there said a 13-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree on a campsite.\n\nA 46-year-old man died in a similar incident and a woman in her 70s was killed when her car was hit by the detached roof of a beach hut.\n\nTwo other people, a fisherman, 62, and a female kayaker, 60, died out at sea.\n\nBoats were thrown onto the beach of Sagone in Coggia, Corsica\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who arrived in Corsica on Thursday, said 20 people had been injured - four of them seriously.\n\nAlmost 13,000 people were evacuated from several campsites on Thursday evening and sheltered in public buildings, ahead of more expected damage. But authorities said on Friday morning that the night had passed without any major incidents.\n\nHolidaymakers pack what is left of their destroyed tents and other items at the Sagone camping site in Corsica\n\nExtreme storms have become more frequent recently because of climate change.\n\nWitnesses to the storms said they had been completely unexpected and no warning was given.\n\n\"We have never seen such huge storms as this, you would think it was a tropical storm,\" restaurant owner Cedric Boell told Reuters news agency.\n\nOn the French mainland, some southern areas were hit by power cuts and streets were flooded in the country's second city, Marseille.\n\nHeavy rain and mudslides have devastated parts of Carinthia, Austria\n\nIn Austria two girls aged four and eight were killed by a falling tree near a lake in Carinthia.\n\nLater, three women were reported to have died in Lower Austria province, also as a result of a falling tree.\n\nOfficials said 13 people had been injured, including five children.\n\nHannes Primus, mayor of the Wolfsberg district where the two girls were killed, said the area has been left looking \"like a battlefield\".\n\nMeanwhile in Italy, a man and a woman were killed by falling trees in separate incidents in the region of Tuscany.\n\nHigh winds swept through Venice, blowing café umbrellas across St Mark's Square and dislodging brickwork from the cathedral belltower.\n\nParts of Venice's St Mark's Square were cordoned off after the storm\n\nSeaside resorts in Tuscany and further north in Liguria were damaged by the storms.\n\nTuscan regional leader Eugenio Giani posted a video of a ferris wheel spinning out of control in high winds at Piombino.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut in southern Italy, the heatwave continued, with temperatures of up to 40C recorded in Sicily.\n\nAnd across the Mediterranean Sea in Algeria, at least 38 people have died in forest fires.\n\nMany parts of Europe have seen weeks of exceptionally hot and dry weather.\n\nExtreme weather events, including both heatwaves and storms, have become more intense and more frequent in recent years because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "The number of people infected with coronavirus in the UK is continuing to fall, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show.\n\nIts latest data estimates 1.7 million people - about one in 40 of us - would have tested positive two weeks ago.\n\nThat is down significantly from 3.5 million in early July and school holidays may be part of the reason.\n\nThe number of people dying with Covid or being admitted to hospital with the virus is also falling.\n\nThe ONS infection survey tests a random bunch of homes to track the virus, so their figures are not affected by the fact most of us are not testing any more.\n\nIts analysis shows the virus is on the slide in nearly all age groups and corners of the UK. Only in north-east England and in older teenagers/young adults are there signs the fall may have levelled off.\n\nThe cases are nearly all one of the newer forms of the Omicron variant known as BA.4 and BA.5 - together they make up 19 out of every 20 cases.\n\nThe fall in infections will be widely welcomed, however, attention is already turning to this winter and how the NHS will cope if there is a surge in Covid alongside other infections such as flu.\n\nThe UK has just become the first country to approve a dual-strain Covid vaccine which will be rolled out next month.\n\nSarah Crofts, head of analytical outputs for the ONS's Covid-19 infection survey, said: \"Infections have continued to fall across much of the UK to levels last seen in mid-June.\n\n\"Our latest data show these decreases are among nearly all ages in England with the lowest levels seen among children.\n\n\"We will continue to monitor the data closely to understand the impact of the summer holidays.\"\n\nAcross the UK, the ONS estimates Covid rates were:", "A new coffee chain is taking over Starbucks outlets in Russia after the US company pulled out over the invasion of Ukraine.\n\nStars Coffee, which opened its first Moscow café on Thursday, is owned by a pro-Putin rapper and a restaurateur.\n\nThe cafés were closed by Starbucks in March and the company completely withdrew from Russia in May.\n\nStarbucks had almost 2,000 employees in Russia and 130 stores. Staff members remain on full pay through the autumn.\n\nStars co-owner, the restaurateur Anton Pinsky, said the outlets would be reopened gradually.\n\nThe logo of Stars Coffee is similar to that of Starbucks, featuring a woman in the centre of a circle but wearing traditional Russian headgear.\n\nMr Pinsky said there was nothing in common between the two images apart from their circular shape.\n\nStarbucks has not commented on the similarities between the names and logos.\n\nAs Starbucks had its own production base, the new owners of Stars Coffee have had to find new suppliers.\n\n\"We just found other suppliers, found the right roasters, and because the baristas mixed it all correctly, we have a product that we think will be competitive,\" rapper Timati, the firm's other co-owner, said.\n\nThe move comes after another chain took over the more than 800 stores owned by McDonald's in Russia in June.\n\nOwned by Russian oil magnate Alexander Govor, it is called Vkusno i Tochka, which translates as \"Tasty and that's it\".\n\nThe new company said the make-up of the burgers and the equipment used had stayed the same.\n\nMcDonald's first opened in Russia in 1990, in a symbol of the country embracing Western food and culture.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The BBC's Steve Rosenberg had a taste of Russia's McDonald's replacement", "Rising numbers of people will fall sick and see their health worsen unless the government takes further action to limit energy price rises, the NHS says.\n\nThe NHS Confederation said the UK was facing a \"humanitarian crisis\".\n\nThe group, which represents health bosses, said many people would face the awful choice between skipping meals to heat their homes or having to live in cold and damp conditions.\n\nBut ministers said action was already being taken and the NHS supported.\n\nThis includes £400 payments to every household this autumn to help pay energy bills.\n\nHowever, in a letter to ministers, NHS leaders said that rapidly rising energy prices, along with other cost-of-living pressures, will still leave individuals and families facing impossible choices.\n\nThey warn that if people are forced to live in cold homes and cannot afford nutritious food, then their health will quickly deteriorate and the NHS will be left to pick up the pieces.\n\nCold conditions can lead to a rise in respiratory conditions, and in older people can also increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and falls.\n\nCold homes are already linked to 10,000 deaths a year, the NHS Confederation said.\n\nThe group warned the risk of ill-health linked to the energy crisis would come on top of what many expect to be one of the toughest winters on record because of the combination of flu, norovirus and Covid outbreaks.\n\nAs well as leading to more sickness and illness, the NHS Confederation said it would also have a major impact on mental health and well-being.\n\nChief executive Matthew Taylor, a former Labour Party adviser, said: \"Many people could face the awful choice between skipping meals to heat their homes and having to live in cold, damp and very unpleasant conditions.\n\n\"This in turn could lead to outbreaks of illness and sickness around the country and widen health inequalities, worsen children's life chances and leave an indelible scar on local communities.\"\n\nHe also told the BBC's Today Programme the situation presented a \"major public health issue\" because it would increase demand on a health service already \"finding it very difficult\" to cope.\n\nMore than a third of people across England, Wales and Scotland are already cutting back on food and essentials in order to help with the cost of living, a new survey this month showed.\n\nThe government has promised that households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn, with the money paid in six instalments.\n\nAbout eight million of the poorest households will each receive £1,200.\n\nBut since that policy was announced, the predictions for how high energy costs could go have risen.\n\nLatest estimates from consultancy Cornwall Insight suggest the average household could be paying more than £4,200 a year.\n\nThat works out at £355 a month, instead of £164 currently.\n\nThe government has said it will not take any more action until a new prime minister is appointed next month.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss, who is the favourite to win the race, has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise to help households, cancel a planned rise in corporation tax and temporarily suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nMeanwhile, former Chancellor Mr Sunak has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero, and to cut 3p off income tax by late 2029.\n\nA government spokesperson added ministers were continuing to work closely with the NHS to ensure the service was ready for winter pressures, including making provision for increasing the number of hospital beds available.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has also confirmed that it is looking at how it could recruit staff from overseas more easily because of winter staff shortage concerns.\n\nIt comes after the Times reported the UK was planning an overseas hiring spree for UK care homes - and NHS managers could be sent to countries such as India and the Philippines to hire thousands of nurses.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"Our new international recruitment taskforce is considering innovative ways to boost staffing numbers within health and adult social care.\n\n\"As part of this, we will work with the sector and recruitment experts to examine how to recruit staff from overseas more effectively into adult social care.\"\n\nLast November, the UK government launched a campaign to recruit carers in England, with more than 100,000 roles currently empty in the sector.\n\nAccording to NHS Employers earlier this month, there are 105,000 vacancies in the NHS and 165,000 vacancies in social care.\n\nBBC analysis of figures earlier this month found the NHS in England is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the UK and EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Living as a family of 14 coping with rising costs", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were arrested at a demonstration in London in 2011\n\nHostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police.\n\nThe hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier.\n\nOfficers identified the protest and recovered video of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey being arrested.\n\nAnalysis of their phones showed the pair's links to the cell's executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, or \"Jihadi John\".\n\nThe details were disclosed by Scotland Yard ahead of Elsheikh's sentencing in the United States on Friday.\n\nElsheikh was convicted in April of lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nCo-defendant Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and was jailed for life.\n\n\"This was an investigation into some truly horrific crimes,\" said Commander Richard Smith, head of Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe described it as a \"truly colossal investigation\", lasting eight years.\n\nThe group's actions resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - Mr Foley and fellow journalist Steven Sotloff plus aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nIt is also blamed for the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\n\"These were some of the most shocking and barbaric acts that we've seen and they were carried out with chilling callousness and brutality,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nHis officers were part of an international hunt to identify and bring to justice Jihadi John and his associates.\n\nCdr Smith described how their first breakthrough came from conversations with those hostages released by IS after ransoms were paid.\n\nThey disclosed how their masked captors, who were \"at great pains to hide their identities\", spoke of having been arrested at a demonstration against far-right group, the English Defence League, in 2011.\n\n\"Based on that snippet of conversation, our investigation team was able to go back and identify a particular EDL march in London on 11 September 2011,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nVideo of Elsheikh being arrested at the September 2011 demonstration was a crucial piece of evidence\n\nPolice records and video showed Kotey and Elsheikh were part of a group that was arrested after reports of a stabbing at the march, but later released without charge.\n\n\"The information was invaluable in helping us zero in on them as being the men the hostages had described to us,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nIt proved the two men had been associates before they went to Syria in 2012.\n\nData from their phones, which were seized when they were arrested, also revealed their contacts with Emwazi, who was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015.\n\nThe police also held on their records vital evidence against Emwazi.\n\nHe was questioned about a series of thefts in London in 2012 and his interviews with police were still on tape, Cdr Smith revealed.\n\nForensic voice analysis of these police interviews showed \"a very strong likelihood\" the recordings were of the same person as the masked executioner in the IS videos.\n\nA further breakthrough came in an unrelated case when in 2014 Elsheikh's brother, Khalid, was arrested in an Operation Trident investigation into UK gun crime.\n\nDigital interrogation analysis of Khalid's mobile phone revealed messages sent by Elsheikh from Syria on the encrypted Telegram platform.\n\nThey included an image of Elsheikh holding a firearm, which was used as evidence against him during his trial.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\n\"These men thought they were beyond the reach of law\" but were brought to justice following \"a remarkable investigation\" and thanks to the \"fortitude and courage of the hostages who gave evidence against them,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nThe pair were arrested and detained by Kurdish militia in Syria in January 2018 and were eventually sent for trial in the United States.\n\nUK ministers had argued their best chance of conviction lay in them being tried in the US.\n\nKotey pictured inside the police station in London on 11 September 2011\n\nIn August 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that a stay preventing the Home Office from supplying intelligence against the men must be lifted after the US said it would drop death-penalty charges against them.\n\nHowever, Cdr Smith disclosed that a file had been sent by his officers to the Crown Prosecution Service, after which the UK attorney general authorised 139 charges, including hostage-taking and kidnapping, against Elsheikh and Kotey.\n\nAsked why these British men were not tried in the UK, he said: \"Our job was to gather the evidence,\" adding that British detectives had been \"delighted to support\" the US prosecution.", "Mr Erdogan (L) met Mr Zelensky (C) and Mr Guterres (R) in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv\n\nUN Secretary General António Guterres has said he is \"gravely concerned\" about fighting near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.\n\nHe made the comments during a summit with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv.\n\n\"Any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia is suicide,\" Mr Guterres warned.\n\nIt was Mr Zelensky and Mr Guterres' first meeting since April, when Kyiv was hit by rockets during the visit.\n\nMr Erdogan echoed the UN chief's concerns, telling reporters that he was worried about the danger of \"another Chernobyl\" disaster erupting at the plant.\n\nIn recent weeks the area around the facility, which Russia seized in March, has come under heavy artillery fire, with both Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.\n\nAhead of Thursday's meeting Mr Zelensky criticised \"deliberate\" Russian attacks on the power plant.\n\nMoscow is accused of turning the facility into an army base, with all three leaders urging the Russians to demilitarise the zone as soon as possible.\n\nMeanwhile, local sources in the Russian occupied Crimean Peninsula reported a number of large explosions near the Belbek military airport.\n\nMikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian installed governor of Sevastopol, denied that anyone had been injured in the blasts and said no damage was done, despite videos circulating on social media appearing to show huge explosions lighting up the night sky.\n\nThe appeals come as Ukrainian staff, who are working at the plant under Russian direction, warned of a potential nuclear catastrophe at the facility, saying in the past two weeks it has become \"the target of continuous military attacks\".\n\n\"What is happening is horrific and beyond common sense and morality,\" staff wrote in a Telegram post (in Ukrainian).\n\nLater on Thursday, an official Twitter channel used by the Ukrainian government said that members of Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear corporation, had \"urgently\" left the facility, and an \"unexpected day off\" had been announced.\n\n\"Ukrainian intelligence officers believe that the Russians are preparing a provocation at the [facility],\" Ukraine's Centre for Information security tweeted.\n\n\"Following their extensive shelling... [Russian forces] could 'raise the stakes' and stage a real terrorist attack on Europe's largest nuclear facility,\" it said.\n\nThe BBC has been unable to verify the claims.\n\nShortly before these tweets, Mr Zelensky warned that \"the world is on a verge of nuclear disaster\" and condemned what he called \"Russia's irresponsible actions and nuclear blackmailing\".\n\nDespite the concern, the site is said to be far more secure than the Chernobyl plant - the site of the worst nuclear incident in history.\n\nThe reactor is in a steel-reinforced concrete building that can \"withstand extreme external events, both natural and man-made, such as an aircraft crash or explosions,\" experts told the BBC in March.\n\nThe Zaporizhzhia plant is the largest in Europe and has been under Russian control since March\n\nThere were reports ahead of the summit that Mr Erdogan would offer to arrange a summit between Mr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe Turkish leader maintains a close working relationship with Mr Putin, and speaking to reporters after the meeting, Mr Erdogan said he believed the war would \"come to the end at the negotiating table\".\n\nWhile Mr Zelensky welcomed the leader's visit and Turkey's \"powerful message of support\", he flatly rejected suggestions that it could be in a position to broker peace talks.\n\nMr Zelensky told reporters that he was \"very surprised\" to hear from Mr Erdogan that Moscow was \"ready for some kind of peace\".\n\n\"There is no trust towards the Russian Federation,\" Mr Zelensky said, saying that Russia must withdraw its troops, first and foremost.\n\nThe leaders were expected to discuss expanding the Turkey-UN sponsored grain deal between Russia and Ukraine - the only diplomatic breakthrough of the conflict so far.\n\nOn Thursday, Kyiv said a 25th cargo ship had left Ukraine under the deal which saw Russia agree to end its blockade of Black Sea ports.\n\nMr Guterres hailed the agreement and urged Russia and Ukraine to adopt the \"spirit of compromise\" that brought it about.\n\n\"From day one, the parties have worked professionally and in good faith to keep the food flowing,\" Mr Guterres said. \"I appeal for this to continue and for them to overcome all obstacles in a spirit of compromise and permanently settle all difficulties.\"\n\nElsewhere, in eastern Ukraine Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synehubov said that 17 people had died after Russian shelling hit several residential buildings in the city.\n\nAnd in Moscow, Russia's foreign ministry said that while a clash with the collective West is possible, a direct nuclear conflict with the US and Nato would not be in Russia's interests.\n\n\"Russian military doctrine allows a nuclear response only in response to aggression using weapons of mass destruction, or when the very existence of the state is threatened,\" Ivan Nechayev said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: 'I couldn't get in there to save them' - Firefighter loses family members in fire\n\nThree children and seven adults have died in a house fire in the US state of Pennsylvania, and a firefighter called to the scene was horrified to find the victims were his own family.\n\nPennsylvania State Police confirmed the names of six of the victims, but have yet to identify the youngest children, ages five, six and seven.\n\nA criminal investigation has been launched into the fire's cause.\n\nThe blaze is thought to have begun on the porch early on Friday morning.\n\nHarold Baker, a Nescopeck Volunteer Fire Company firefighter, told the Associated Press news agency that the dead were his son, daughter, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, three grandchildren and two other relatives.\n\nHe said the three children who died - two boys and a girl - did not live in the home, and were visiting for summer activities.\n\nState police have so far identified the victims as Dale Baker, 19, Star Baker, 22, David Daubert Sr, 79, Shannon Daubert, 42, Laura Daubert, 47 and Marian Slusser, 54.\n\nHarold Baker said his son, Dale, had followed his footsteps by joining the fire service.\n\nPolice say the bodies were recovered from the destroyed building with the help of police sniffer dogs. Three adults managed to escape to safety, according to a police report.\n\nThe fire broke out in the rural community of Nescopeck, 95 miles (150km) north-west of Philadelphia, at around 02:30 local time (07:30 BST).\n\n\"Firefighters attempted courageous efforts to make entry into the house in the rear, but were pushed back from extensive flames and heat,\" Pennsylvania State Police Lt Derek Felsman told reporters on Friday.\n\nMr Baker told the Citizens' Voice newspaper in the city Wilkes-Barre: \"When we turned the corner up here on Dewey [Street] I knew right away what house it was just by looking down the street.\n\n\"I was on the first engine, and when we pulled up, the whole place was fully involved. We tried to get in to them.\"\n\nSpeaking to WNEP-TV, he said: \"The kids that were there and my two kids were just visiting their aunt and uncle.\n\n\"Those were the ones who own the house. They were there visiting and going into the pool and all that.\"\n\nPennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf wrote on Twitter that he was \"heartbroken\" by the tragedy.\n\nThe American Red Cross told CNN that they were responding, and helping those who have been displaced.", "A group of protesters have interrupted a speech made by foreign secretary Liz Truss at a Tory leadership hustings event in Eastbourne.\n\nIn footage filmed by the BBC's Ben Weisz, the protesters can be seen standing up and delivering speeches of their own.\n\nMs Truss can be heard responding with a promise to clamp down on disruptive protest.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nTory leadership contender Liz Truss has defended her plans to lower taxes, describing them as the best way to avoid a recession.\n\nShe was speaking after she had told a paper she favoured lowering taxes over \"giving out handouts\" to help households hit by higher fuel bills.\n\nOn a visit to Solihull, she said lowering taxes would help ease the cost of living crisis.\n\nHer rival Rishi Sunak wants to tackle inflation before cutting taxes.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise, cancel a planned corporation tax rise and temporarily suspend green levies on energy bills.\n\nAsked by the Financial Times about how she would help households faced with fuel bills due to rise again in October, she said: \"Of course I will look at what more can be done.\n\n\"But the way I would do things is in a Conservative way of lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts.\"\n\nQuestioned later about these comments, she said: \"What I will do from day one is reduce taxes, reverse the National Insurance rise and also have a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy so people are spending less of their money on fuel bills.\n\n\"But what I'm about as a Conservative is people keeping more of their own money, growing the economy so we avoid a recession and the best way to do that is lower taxes, but also unleashing investment into our economy.\"\n\nMs Truss also took aim at Mr Sunak's economic legacy as chancellor after the Bank of England warned this week that the UK would fall into recession as it raised interest rates by the highest amount in 27 years.\n\nShe added: \"Under the plans at present, what we know is Britain is headed for a recession.\n\n\"That is not inevitable, but we need to avoid that by making sure our economy is competitive, that we're encouraging businesses to grow and that we are keeping taxes low.\"\n\nHer rival Mr Sunak has said he would focus on getting a grip on inflation.\n\nResponding to Ms Truss's comments, the former chancellor said it is \"simply wrong to rule out further direct support at this time\".\n\n\"Her tax proposals are not going to help very significantly, people like pensioners or those on low incomes who are exactly the kind of families that are going to need help\", said Mr Sunak.\n\nHe said he wants to ensure \"that the people who really need our help do get the support that they need to get through the winter\".\n\nSpeaking at a leadership hustings in Eastbourne on Friday, he said the Tories can \"kiss goodbye\" to winning the next election if inflation is not brought under control quickly.\n\nHe highlighted a warning by the Bank of England that inflation could become embedded.\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation - currently 9.4% - could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to its 2% target in 2024.\n\nHe said there would be \"no hope that we're going to win that next election\" amid continuing rising prices.", "\"Sometimes you just need a hug from your mum,\" says Molly Leonard who has spent months apart from her family to be treated for anorexia\n\nA woman with anorexia said being treated for up to six months, while hundreds of miles from her family has been \"awful\".\n\nMolly Leonard, 24, from Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, has spent time in units in London, Bristol and Glasgow.\n\nThere is currently no specialist residential unit for people with eating disorders in Wales.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was looking at the feasibility of an eating disorder unit in Wales.\n\nMolly estimates she has spent about a quarter of the past 10 years in specialist residential units.\n\nShe said there were times when the only contact she could have with loved ones was through video calls and text messages.\n\n\"They ship you off miles away,\" she said.\n\nMolly lives at home with her parents in Rhoose\n\n\"You just need to be close to home, especially when you're in such a fragile state.\n\n\"You're just taken away to a place you may never have been, with people you don't know, and it is very scary.\"\n\nShe said being able to see loved ones affected her recovery: \"Sometimes you just need a hug from your mum and your mum to just tell you that everything will be okay and you just can't get that.\n\n\"It's ridiculous, because part of recovering is getting back to normality and part of that is being able to spend time with your family and friends.\"\n\nEating disorder charity Beat's National Lead for Wales Jo Whitfield said: \"There are no adult inpatient eating disorder services within Wales.\"\n\n\"If somebody aged 18 or over needs to be hospitalised with an eating disorder, this will happen outside of the country.\"\n\nShe said having eating disorder treatment far away from home could be \"very distressing and isolating\".\n\nShe added: \"Families are often unable to visit regularly, which can be very difficult for both the person who is unwell and their loved ones.\"\n\nShe said patients are less likely to need hospital treatment if they can access eating disorder treatment in their local area.\n\n\"If many people in Wales are needing hospital treatment for an eating disorder, this suggests they are not getting the support they need quickly enough,\" she said.\n\nMolly Leonard's most recent hospital stay was in March 2022\n\nMolly, who is one of an estimated 58,000 people in Wales with an eating disorder, said she first began obsessing over calories and exercise when she was 15 years old.\n\nIt coincided with her grandfather being unwell and having a tough time at school.\n\n\"It completely engulfs you, everything you do, everything you think is about food or how to lose weight, or about just shaming yourself for the way that you look,\" she said.\n\nShe began not eating and lying when asked about it.\n\nBut when she was 18 and moved away from home to study at Oxford Brookes University, she said that things got \"really bad\".\n\nWhen she was 19 she sought help from a GP for the first time and was immediately sent to A&E because her potassium levels were dangerously low.\n\nWithin months she was sectioned and spent about six months at an eating disorder unit in Oxford.\n\nShe said she was not ready to engage with treatment at that time but being hospitalised near where she lived was a help: \"I had my friends around me, which was really good\".\n\nIt was to be her first hospital stay of many.\n\nWithin a year of being discharged, she was sectioned again and was sent to an eating disorder unit in London.\n\n\"The eating disorder had full control of me and I wasn't at a point where I wanted to accept help for it.\n\n\"The only thing on my mind was I wanted to lose weight,\" she said.\n\nHer illness led her to quit university and move home to Wales, just before the Covid pandemic hit.\n\nMolly said she was sharing her story to try and help others\n\nShe busied herself making facemasks, raising over £600 for eating disorder charity Beat.\n\nBut it wasn't long before she started losing weight again.\n\nShe briefly moved out of the family home to St Albans, Hertfordshire and ended up back in hospital - this time a general hospital in London.\n\nWhile there she said she was told she was being moved to Glasgow because it was the only bed available at an eating disorder unit in the UK.\n\n\"I honestly thought they were joking when they told me that but I was under section so I didn't have a choice,\" she said.\n\nCovid restrictions meant she could not have any visitors.\n\nWhile at the Glasgow unit she met other patients from Wales who were \"struggling just as much as I was\".\n\nMolly ran away from the hospital several times.\n\nShe was told she was a Covid risk, so her father drove from south Wales to collect her and bring her home, she said.\n\nSince returning from Glasgow has been sectioned several times, initially spending six months at another specialist unit in London.\n\nMolly is one of an estimated 58,000 people in Wales with an eating disorder\n\nLast summer Molly hit rock bottom. She was sent to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.\n\n\"There's a week of my life that I have no recollection of.\n\n\"I honestly don't remember what happened. Apparently I was refusing treatment, I wasn't eating or drinking, I was refusing everything, pulling cannulas out,\" she said.\n\nShe was sectioned and sent to the Hafan y Coed mental health unit at University Hospital Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nThis photo was taken after Molly came out of hospital in Bristol in April\n\nHer most recent residential treatment was a few months at an eating disorder unit in Bristol at the start of this year.\n\n\"I was honestly at the point of being put into palliative care because things had got so bad.\n\n\"It was honestly the lowest point,\" she said.\n\n\"My mum was telling me she was scared to wake up every morning, just in case she found me having not woken up.\"\n\nMolly said since then she has turned a corner. She attributes the change to her love of crafting.\n\nShe has always enjoyed crafts, everything from making candles or earrings to flower arranging - and while in hospital in Bristol, she began doing craft sessions for other patients.\n\nMolly said making crafts and teaching others is helping her get better\n\nSince returning home from hospital in April she has been running taster craft sessions at her local library and hopes to build it into a business, with the help of The Prince's Trust and Big Ideas Wales.\n\n\"I really think that, from my experience, I can help people to get over their mental health through craft because it's helped me so much. It's changed my life,\" she said.\n\nMolly is determined to get better.\n\n\"I've been struggling with this since I was 15 and next year I'll be 25. I just don't want the eating disorder to been ruling my life for 10 years, it's too long,\" she said.\n\n\"'I've got ambitions and I've got things that I want to be doing and that is stopping me.\"\n\nMolly has been running taster craft sessions at her local library\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"We are increasing investment in eating disorders services.\n\n\"Most people who need to access services, including in-patient care, will receive this care in Wales and we are also working with NHS Wales to scope the feasibility of a specialist eating disorder unit in Wales.\n\n\"We expect all health boards to provide specialist, multi-disciplinary support for people with eating disorders.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online. Matty Lee and Noah Williams won synchronised 10m platform gold after England team-mate Jack Laugher had clinched his second Commonwealth Games title in 24 hours. It marked Olympic champion Lee's first Commonwealth medal of any colour, as he and Williams - silver medallist in 2018 - scored a total of 429.78 points. Earlier, Laugher and partner Anthony Harding won the synchronised 3m springboard title, the third successive Games at which 27-year-old Laugher has won the event. There was also a bronze for England's Commonwealth Games debutant Amy Rollinson in the women's 1m springboard final.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams \"In the Commonwealth Games I have never done exactly what I wanted to do,\" Lee told BBC Sport. \"I missed out in 2014, had a rubbish Games in 2018 but I am so happy me and Noah have just smashed the synchro and got gold.\" Lee, 24, won Olympic gold in Tokyo with Tom Daley in this event, but with Daley taking a break from the sport he teamed up with 22-year-old Williams earlier this year. Together they won silver at the World Championships in June, with gold coming in their second major competition as a pair in Birmingham. They finished 15.93 points ahead of Canada's Rylan Wiens and Nathan Zsombor-Murray in silver medal position, while Australia's Domonic Bedggood and Cassiel Rousseau took the bronze. \"This is what I do diving for. This is why I have achieved what I have. It is just competing. Especially in front of a home crowd. You don't get better than this,\" Lee added. \"You don't get a chance to do this very often. We are so lucky to be able to do it - I mean that wasn't luck out there, that was pure skill - but we are lucky to get a gold in front of a home crowd. I'm ecstatic.\" In Friday's first diving final, Laugher and 22-year-old Harding scored a total of 438.33 points to win gold, as Scotland's Ross Beattie and James Heatly finished fourth. \"Obviously two golds is amazing,\" Laugher, who won 1m springboard gold on Thursday, told BBC Sport. \"I think what me and Tony wanted to take from this was that we wanted to get another good performance under our belt. Certainly Tony achieved that. I've still got some things to improve on.\" Laugher and Harding topped the standings from their very first dive, but it wasn't until their third dive - a 3.4 difficulty forward two-and-a-half somersaults with two twists in pike - that their dominance began to show. Their highest score of 88.92 points came on their penultimate dive, the same point at which the Malaysian pair of Chew Yiwei and Ooi Tze Liang - who had been on their heels in second - slipped up, eventually finishing last. Another Malaysian pair, Gabriel Gilbert Daim and Muhammad Puteh, won silver, 61.56 points behind England, while bronze went to Australia's Samuel Fricker and Li Shixin. \"This is my second international in like two or three years,\" Harding said. \"The 3m men's in Great Britain is so hard, it's so tough to get on the big stage and I've worked so hard. I've had to be patient, I've had to wait for it. It's thanks to Jack for seeing me in training, seeing how good I can be and trusting in me and believing in me.\" Laugher and Harding only made their debut as a partnership at the World Championships in June, taking silver on that occasion. Their total in Birmingham was higher than Laugher's gold medal-winning totals with Mears at the previous two Commonwealth Games. Of his partnership with Harding, Laugher said: \"We're really good friends and we've got a lot in common. I think our diving styles are very similar. \"He deserves this. He's a great athlete and he's finally got his chance and he's really grabbed a hold of it, and that's something I need in my career - someone with motivation and drive to want to be the best and keep my fire ignited. \"I've been doing this for a long time and having someone new on the scene, raring to go, I think it's really good and I think the synchro partnership is obviously great and we've done some amazing performances this year and I just can't wait for the future.\"\n• None Is there really a pill that can help you burn fat? Sliced Bread goes in search of answers...\n• None How many friends do you need?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIsrael has killed a second top militant from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, as the death toll continues to rise from air strikes in Gaza.\n\nSix children and several PIJ fighters - including leaders Khaled Mansour and Tayseer Jabari - are among the 31 Palestinians reported to have died.\n\nNearly 600 Palestinian rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel since Friday, an Israeli official said.\n\nIsrael says it launched the operations due to \"immediate threat\" from PIJ.\n\nThe latest violence is the most serious flare-up between Israel and Gaza since an 11-day conflict in May 2021 left more than 200 Palestinians and a dozen Israelis dead.\n\nThe Israeli military is warning this latest operation - codenamed Breaking Dawn - could last for a week.\n\nOn Sunday, Palestinian rockets fired from the Gaza Strip reached Jerusalem for the first time since the 2021 conflict.\n\nThe attacks came after Israel killed senior PIJ leader Khaled Mansour in an air strike on a house in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza.\n\nThe commander had previously survived five assassination attempts by the Israeli military, who accused him of planning militant operations out of Gaza.\n\nAs well as air strikes on Gaza, where Israel said its targets included a PIJ tunnel network, there have been continued arrest raids in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of members of PIJ have been detained, according to Israel\n\nGaza's health ministry blamed \"Israeli aggression\" for the deaths of Palestinians, and for the more than 200 people wounded.\n\nIsrael accused PIJ militants of accidentally causing at least some of those deaths - claiming on Saturday that the group fired a stray rocket killing multiple children in Jabalia, in the Gaza Strip. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.\n\nSo far Hamas, the biggest militant group in the area - which has similar ideology to Islamic Jihad and often coordinates its actions with it - does not seem to be firing from its large rocket arsenal.\n\nAs a result, there are no reports of Israeli air strikes targeting Hamas, which would mark an escalation in the violence.\n\nHamas has issued strong statements saying that \"resistance groups\" are united. But because it governs Gaza it has its own practical considerations which may stop it from getting more involved.\n\nThe calculations of Hamas could change, if for example the civilian death toll in Gaza rises rapidly.\n\nIf it does decide to join the fighting then it would quickly get much more intense.\n\nThere is growing concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory. Israel closed its crossing with Gaza last week amid fears that Islamic Jihad would retaliate for the arrest of one of its leaders in the northern West Bank.\n\nOn Saturday, Gaza's only power station closed down because it had not received any fuel deliveries, an electricity company spokesman said.\n\nThe US State Department urged all sides to avoid further escalation - confirming its support for Israel's right to self-defence while noting the US's concern over reports of civilian casualties, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nHoping to prevent further violence, Egypt has also stepped in as a mediator between the two sides and reportedly sent a delegation of officials to Israel on Saturday to act as a go-between.\n\nSmoke rises above the southern Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike\n\nThe latest conflict closely follows Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank, on Monday night.\n\nHe was held in the Jenin area as part of an ongoing series of arrest operations after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nPIJ, which is one of the strongest militant groups operating in Gaza, is backed by Iran and has its headquarters in the Syrian capital Damascus.\n\nIt has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket-fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIn November 2019, Israel and PIJ fought a five-day conflict following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said had been planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit preparing to launch rockets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Dozens of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza Strip", "John Swinney has announced an extra £140m of funding in a bid to end the council pay dispute\n\nThe Scottish government has warned that allocating an extra £140m to settle a council pay dispute will mean sacrificing other spending plans.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney announced the new funding on Friday after talks with local authorities.\n\nHe said the government was keen to make sure council employees, who have been offered a 2% rise, get a fair salary.\n\nBut with the budget fully allocated, he said very difficult decisions would have to be be made to find the money.\n\nUnions have said that until the extra funding translates into a formal, \"significantly improved\" offer, plans for strikes are still on.\n\nStaff at schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres voted to strike after rejecting the 2% pay offer in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister told BBC Scotland there were \"massive pressures\" due to the cost of living crisis but he hoped progress could be made \"at the earliest opportunity\".\n\n\"The Scottish government's budget is fully allocated and we will have to take very difficult decisions to provide £140m of new resources to local government to assist them in making an improved offer to council employees,\" he added.\n\n\"That will involve us making financial sacrifices.\n\n\"It involves us changing programmes and changing timetables for programmes, but we recognise that we've got to work with local authorities to put forward an improved settlement offer for council staff.\"\n\nLeaders of the local authority body Cosla met on Friday to discuss the prospect of industrial action by members of the Unite, Unison and GMB unions.\n\nThe strike action could result in rubbish piling up\n\nThe council leaders decided they needed more information and said they would reconvene next week.\n\nMr Swinney later said that the Scottish government would contribute £140m of recurring funding to help Cosla make a revised pay offer.\n\nGMB Scotland organiser Keir Greenaway accused government and council leaders of \"squabbling\" over where to find the money to settle the dispute.\n\nHe said the current cost of living crisis meant workers were already struggling to pay bills and feed their families.\n\n\"Unless a significantly improved offer is found, then tens of thousands of local government workers will fall into working poverty and that will turn the cost of living crisis for them into a catastrophe,\" Mr Greenaway said.\n\n\"Whatever money has been found by the Scottish government, that hasn't found its way into a formal offer to our members yet. And until that happens, we'll still be looking at industrial action.\"\n\nHe added: \"It should lay heavy on the political leadership who have let this situation get to where it is.\n\n\"We've been waiting for a decent and improved offer since March. They have sat on their hands and done nothing.\n\n\"If industrial action takes place, it's on the Scottish government and council leaders.\"", "A 58-year-old man died following an altercation at a resort in Camber Sands\n\nSix people have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man at a holiday park.\n\nEmergency services were called to the Parkdean Resort, in Camber Sands, East Sussex, on Friday to reports of an altercation involving a group of people.\n\nSussex Police said a 53-year-old man had died in the early hours of Saturday following the incident.\n\nThe force said all six people arrested are being held in custody.\n\nDet Supt Jon Hull said: \"Our investigation is at a very early stage, but I would like to reassure the public that this appears to be an isolated incident with no wider risk of harm.\n\n\"Officers are now working to establish the full circumstances while the victim's next of kin are supported by specialist officers.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the holiday park said: \"On the evening of Friday 5 August a serious incident occurred within our complex area.\n\n\"As this is a live police investigation we cannot comment further, but our team is doing everything they can to assist inquiries.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations\n\nA retired teacher fighting extradition from South Africa has admitted abusing schoolboys in Edinburgh, according to court documents seen by the BBC.\n\nBroadcaster Nicky Campbell is one of a number of former pupils who have made allegations about the 83-year-old.\n\nThe man - who the BBC is not naming for legal reasons - is wanted by authorities in Edinburgh, where he taught in the 1970s.\n\nThe teacher lodged an appeal which is due to be heard in October.\n\nThe man taught at Fettes College and Edinburgh Academy, where Campbell says he witnessed the sexual abuse of a fellow pupil.\n\nIn documents related to extradition proceedings, the man said that while teaching at Edinburgh Academy he had \"urges to touch the students inappropriately and on occasion I did so\".\n\nThe man, who previously taught at two primary schools in Cape Town in the 1960s, also admitted he had urges to touch his pupils in South Africa.\n\nThe court documents, understood to have been signed by the man in September 2019, reveal that he decided to travel to the UK in 1967 for psychiatric treatment for his \"problem\".\n\nHe spent three months at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital before being discharged and obtaining a diploma in education at Moray House College the following year.\n\nNicky Campbell has spoken about his experience of abuse at school in the 1970s\n\nHe then took up a post at the private Edinburgh Academy and was married in 1970.\n\nIn 1973 he was appointed as a primary school teacher at Fettes Junior College where he said his inappropriate behaviour continued.\n\nHe said that he returned to hospital for further treatment \"for my drinking and inappropriate behaviour.\"\n\nIn 1979, when a pupil complained about him, he said he admitted the behaviour and agreed to leave the college.\n\nThe man goes on to describe how he returned to South Africa with his wife: \"I knew then that I could not continue with my inappropriate behaviour and that it must stop.\"\n\nHe then taught at a primary school in South Africa for 27 years where he claims that there was no further inappropriate behaviour.\n\nHe said: \"After leaving Scotland I have managed to contain myself and I never committed any further offences.\"\n\nHe admitted that the charges against him were serious but said: \"I feel absolute remorse for what I have done to the boys.\"\n\nThe man said it would be \"unjust, unreasonable and too severe a punishment\" to be extradited to Scotland.\n\nThe South African court documents also reveal the original warrant for his extradition related to seven Scottish charges - six of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour and one of indecent assault.\n\nNicky Campbell said he was sexually assaulted at Edinburgh Academy by another teacher, who is now dead\n\nHe is alleged to have sexually assaulted four boys at Edinburgh Academy between 1969 and 1973 and to have sexually assaulted three boys at Fettes College between 1974 and 1976.\n\nAges of the boys mentioned range from seven to 14.\n\nThe former teacher is now living in a gated retirement community in Cape Town. His extradition appeal is due to be heard by judges in the Western Cape High Court in October.\n\nLast week Nicky Campbell told listeners to his podcast and BBC Radio 5 Live show that he witnessed the man sexually assault a pupil at Edinburgh Academy.\n\nThe broadcaster also said he was sexually assaulted at the school by a second teacher, who is now dead, and physically assaulted by a third.\n\nSince he spoke out many more alleged victims of abuse in Scottish schools have contacted the BBC.\n\nEdinburgh Academy has previously apologised to anyone who suffered abuse and insists it now has robust safeguarding measures in place.\n\nFettes said it would be inappropriate to comment on a live case. It has previously offered a \"full and unreserved apology\" to those who suffered abuse while at the school.\n\nInformation and support for those affected by abuse is available at BBC Action Line.", "To sit or not to sit? The Eisteddfod sign has had letters taken from it\n\nFestival-goers at the National Eisteddfod were surprised to see letters from its sign missing on Saturday morning.\n\nThe E, F, O and D were taken overnight from the display that overlooks the Gorsedd stone circle on The Maes.\n\nThose remaining read \"ISTEDD\", which also means \"to sit\".\n\nOrganisers of the Welsh-language cultural festival, in Tregaron, Ceredigion this year, said they had no idea where the letters went.\n\nChief executive Betsan Moses said the disappearance of the letters was being looked into.\n\nIt emerged on Monday that the letters had not been stolen after all but the Eisteddfod admitted \"hiding them drew a lot of attention in Wales and beyond.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said \"a brand new set of iconic red letters\" would be ready in time for the 2023 event.\n\nMeanwhile, at the festival on Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards were inducted into the Gorsedd of the Bards.\n\nIt is an association of poets, writers, musicians, artists and other people who have made a distinguished contribution to the Welsh nation, the language, and its culture.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Drakeford said it was an \"incredible privilege to receive this honour on behalf of all the key workers in Wales\".\n\n\"They did so much to help us all during the pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"It is very important that we thank them for their heroic work during a very hard time for everyone.\"\n\nBBC newsreader Edwards said it was \"emotional\" to be inducted.\n\nHe said he was proud his mother was there but \"a little sad\" his dad was not, especially as it was in his home county of Ceredigion.\n\nHywel Teifi Edwards was a historian and author who was at the forefront of a number of campaigns to safeguard the future of the Welsh language and specialised in 19th Century history and the National Eisteddfod.\n\nBorn in Llanddewi Aberarth, Ceredigion, he died in 2010, aged 75.", "Russia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant - the biggest in Europe - in March but kept its Ukrainian employees\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to any military action near Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, warning of a \"very real risk of a nuclear disaster\".\n\nIAEA chief Rafael Grossi said he was \"extremely concerned\" by reports of shelling at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.\n\nIt comes as Ukraine said parts of the facility were \"seriously damaged\" by Russian military strikes.\n\nRussia has kept on its Ukrainian employees, but Kyiv accuses Russian forces of firing rockets at civilian areas from the site, employing \"terror tactics\".\n\nFriday's strikes underline \"the very real risk of a nuclear disaster that could threaten public health and the environment in Ukraine and beyond\", Mr Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said, in a statement.\n\n\"Any military firepower directed at, or from, the facility would amount to playing with fire, with potentially catastrophic consequences,\" he added.\n\nUkrainian staff must be able to carry out their important duties \"without threats or pressure\", he said, adding that the IAEA should be allowed to provide technical support.\n\n\"For the sake of protecting people in Ukraine and elsewhere from a potential nuclear accident, we must all set aside our differences and act, now. The IAEA is ready,\" said Mr Grossi, days after stating the plant was \"completely out of control\".\n\nThe operator of the Zaporizhzhia plant said the Russian missile strikes had forced the closure of one \"power unit\", adding that there was a risk of radioactive leaks.\n\nThe strikes \"caused a serious risk for the safe operation of the plant\", operator Enerhoatom wrote on Telegram.\n\nMoscow said Ukraine carried out the attack.\n\nThe BBC was unable to verify the reported damage at the nuclear plant.\n\nHowever, the EU has hit out at Moscow over the latest shelling - with the bloc's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, saying it \"condemns Russia's military activities\" around the plant.\n\n\"This is a serious and irresponsible breach of nuclear safety rules and another example of Russia's disregard for international norms,\" he said, and called for the IAEA to be granted access to the plant.\n\nRussian forces hold the plant and surrounding areas, close to Ukrainian-held territory. It consists of six pressurised water reactors and stores radioactive waste.\n\nCivilians in nearby Nikopol, which lies across the river and is still under Ukrainian control, told the BBC that the Russians were firing rockets from the area around the plant and moving military hardware into the compound.\n\nUkraine's President Zelensky said, on Friday, that \"any bombing of this site is a shameless crime, an act of terror\".\n\nThe plant is in the city of Enerhodar, in the south-east of Ukraine, along the left bank of the River Dnieper (Dnipro in Ukrainian).\n\nThe UK defence ministry says Russia is using the area to launch attacks - taking advantage of the \"protected status\" of the nuclear power plant to reduce the risk of overnight attacks from Ukrainian forces.", "The bus ended up in a ditch by the roadside\n\nTwelve people have been killed after a bus carrying Polish pilgrims veered off a road in Croatia on Saturday and ended up in a ditch.\n\nAll 32 surviving passengers are said to be injured, 19 of them seriously.\n\nThe trip, organised by the Brotherhood of St Joseph Catholic group, included three priests and six nuns. They were travelling to Medjugorje, a Catholic shrine in Bosnia-Herzegovina.\n\nThe passengers were all Polish adults, said the Polish Foreign Ministry.\n\nThe bus left from the Polish city of Czestochowa on Friday night following a prayer service. The passengers were from various regions of Poland, the foreign ministry said.\n\nThe accident happened at around 05:40 local time (04:40 BST) when the bus they were travelling in veered off the A4 road between Jarek Bisaski and Podvorec, north-east of Zagreb.\n\nPoland's justice minister and prosecutor general have ordered the Warsaw Prosecutors Office to launch an investigation into the cause of the tragedy, and two Polish ministers are heading to Croatia in the wake of the incident.\n\nIt was initially reported that 11 people had been killed, but one more person died later in hospital.\n\n\"Some of the injured passengers are fighting for their lives,\" Croatian Interior Minister Davor Bozinovic said.\n\nCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, adding in a post on Twitter that emergency services were doing all they could to help.\n\nPilgrimages to the small town of Medjugorje are very popular in Poland following reports that local children saw a vision of the Virgin Mary there in the 1980s.", "The Tories can \"kiss goodbye\" to winning the next election if inflation is not brought under control quickly, Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nSpeaking at a leadership hustings in Eastbourne, the ex-chancellor, who wants to prioritise tackling rising prices before cutting taxes, seized on a warning by the Bank of England.\n\nRival Liz Truss said keeping taxes low was the best way to avoid a downturn.\n\nShe said the UK should not be \"talking itself into a recession\".\n\nThe Bank of England has warned inflation - currently 9.4% - could peak at more than 13% and stay at \"very elevated levels\" throughout much of next year, before eventually returning to its 2% target in 2024.\n\nMs Truss, who has promised to reverse some of Mr Sunak's tax rises, challenged the Bank's gloomy economic prognosis, at the hustings.\n\nBut Mr Sunak highlighted its warning that inflation could become embedded, saying there would be \"no hope that we're going to win that next election\" amid continuing rising prices.\n\nMr Sunak and Ms Truss are vying for support from Conservative party members to be elected the next party leader, and prime minister.\n\nVoting has started and the result is due to be announced on 5 September.\n\nThere was a brief disturbance at the hustings when Ms Truss's opening remarks were interrupted by a small group of climate activists, who were believed to be from the Green New Deal Rising group.\n\nAfter the group was ejected from the event, Ms Truss took aim at what she called \"unfair protests\" that disrupted people's lives.\n\nShe pledged to clamp down on \"militant people who try and disrupt our country\" - mentioning both trade unions and environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion.\n\nAnother protester was later removed from the event after interrupting Ms Truss.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters interrupt Liz Truss speech by delivering speeches of their own.\n\nMs Truss, who will be attending the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Saturday, is also due to set out her proposals for boosting economic growth and levelling up the UK.\n\nHer plans include reviewing the Treasury formula which determines which regional projects receive funding and creating \"low-tax and low-regulation zones\" across the country to create hubs for enterprise.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with the Financial Times, Ms Truss said people should be helped with the cost-of-living crisis by lower taxes, not giving \"handouts\".\n\nShe told the paper she would \"look at what more can be done\" but in a \"Conservative way\".\n\nPaul Drechsler, chair of the International Chamber of Commerce UK, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the poorest in the UK are heading for a \"financial crisis of epic proportions\".\n\n\"I'd say to anyone who's running for role of prime minister, thinking about a policy or a tax change is just not going to be good enough in September when people are already being hit by these escalating energy costs,\" said Mr Drechsler, former president of the Confederation of British Industry.\n\nHe added that \"anybody talking about taxation is not going to deliver a quick solution\" to those who were unable to afford food or heating bills.\n\nLiz Truss is competing with Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister\n\nElsewhere, Mr Sunak is vowing not to let \"political correctness\" stop him tackling \"horrific\" child grooming gangs if he becomes leader.\n\nIn an interview with GB News, Mr Sunak said grooming gang members should face life sentences and that the police should record the ethnicity of those involved.\n\nMr Sunak said that, as the father of two young girls, he believed there needed to be greater focus on tackling the crime.\n\nA report published by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse earlier this year recommended collecting ethnicity data of the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.\n\nIt said: \"Poor or non-existent data collection makes it impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child sexual exploitation by networks.\"\n\nMr Sunak told GB News \"a particular group of people\" were \"perpetuating\" child grooming and it was \"far more pervasive across the country than actually we all realise\".\n\nHe added: \"And we all know the reason that people don't focus on it. It's because of political correctness and they're scared of calling out the fact.\"\n\nSeparately, Mr Sunak is focusing on his opposition to another referendum on Scottish independence, warning in a statement issued by his leadership campaign that ignoring the SNP would be \"dangerously complacent\".\n\nHe said: \"We can't just bury our heads in the sand and pretend they aren't there - we need to stop them in their tracks.\"\n\nHis comment will be seen as a criticism of Ms Truss who earlier this week, said: \"I think the best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her. \"She's an attention seeker, that's what she is.\"", "Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Anton Du Beke will all return to the judging panel this year\n\nThe Strictly Come Dancing line-up is complete, with Kym Marsh, Fleur East, Ellie Simonds and Matt Goss among this year's contestants.\n\nHelen Skelton, Will Mellor and Kaye Adams will also appear when the dancing competition returns next month.\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse and head judge Shirley Ballas will all be back on the Strictly judging panel.\n\nThey will be joined once again by Anton Du Beke, who has now permanently taken over from Bruno Tonioli.\n\nThe show is set to return to BBC One in September. Here are all 15 of this year's Strictly stars:\n\n\"I'm equally nervous and thrilled to be part of this year's Strictly line up,\" said East, a former X Factor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.\n\n\"I'm excited to learn new skills and I want to soak up every moment of this magical experience,\" she added.\n\nShe went on to say it was \"such an honour to be on the show\" after years of watching it with her late father, who was also a huge fan.\n\n\"Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but I know he will be watching over the ballroom in spirit,\" she said. \"I'm doing this to make him and my family proud and can't wait to get my dancing shoes on.\"\n\nEast was the runner-up on The X Factor in 2014 and went on to have a hit single with Sax and release two albums. After appearing on I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here in 2018, she became host of the Hits Radio breakfast show.\n\nThe former England and Arsenal men's football captain's said: \"To say I'm excited is an understatement.\n\n\"The lure of the sequins and the call of the salsa has me swapping my battered old football boots for a set of Strictly soft shoes.\n\n\"I'm absolutely thrilled to be giving it my all on this year's 20th anniversary of Strictly Come Dancing. I can't wait to meet my partner - god help her - and start the dancing.\"\n\nAside from winning titles with the Gunners and representing his country at Euro 96 and the World Cup in 1998, Adams was made an MBE after founding a charity to help sportspeople with mental health and addiction issues.\n\nCBBC star Molly Rainford said she was \"so excited\" to be part of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"I've watched it for years and can't wait to meet the pros and the others taking part! I can't wait to learn the moves and get dancing!\"\n\nThe star rose to fame aged 11 as one of the youngest ever finalists of Britain's Got Talent.\n\nShe went on to do a scholarship at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and is currently the star of the CBBC show Nova Jones, where she plays the titular intergalactic pop superstar.\n\nIn real life she has released two EPs and her biggest single, Commitment, has racked up millions of streams.\n\nSinger Matt Goss said he was \"extremely nervous and excited, but I'm optimistic because I'm very supple from the knees down\".\n\nGoss enjoyed huge success in the band Bros alongside his brother Luke and Craig Logan, with their debut album Push going platinum seven times following its release in 1988.\n\nHe's enjoyed solo success since with a longstanding residency in Las Vegas and the 2018 Bros documentary, After the Screaming Stops, won a Bafta and a National Television award.\n\nEllie Simmonds said she was excited to be taking part in the long-running dancing show\n\nParalympic swimming gold medallist Ellie Simmonds was the youngest British athlete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing at the age of 13 - and was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year the same year.\n\nSimmonds said she was \"bursting with excitement\" about joining the show but also admitted she was \"petrified\".\n\nSpeaking to Radio 5 Live's Sunday Breakfast, Simmonds said: \"I'm so excited, I just want to enjoy every second and try out the sequins and costumes.\n\n\"I'll be the first dwarf doing this show and I just want to show how positive it is - being different is okay.\"\n\nShe said while it would be \"tough\" - admitting she would be living off coffee once training begins - it was a \"once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\".\n\nDuring the 2008 competition, she won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events. Simmonds won two golds at London 2012 and another at Rio 2016.\n\nShe went on to present for BBC Sport after retiring from competitive swimming in 2020 and has also made documentaries, including Ellie Simmonds: A World without Dwarfism?\n\nMarsh appeared in Coronation Street and was previously a member of pop group Hear'Say\n\nActress and TV presenter Marsh currently hosts BBC One's Morning Live and has appeared in Coronation Street and The Syndicate.\n\n\"I'm nervous but I'm really looking forward to it,\" she told BBC Breakfast about joining Strictly.\n\nIn the early noughties, Marsh was a member of pop group Hear'Say, who were created on talent show Popstars.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I've been on stage, performing in that kind of way, so it's going to be really tricky, but I'm up for the challenge,\" she said about joining Strictly.\n\nAsked how she would deal with criticism from the judges, she joked: \"Listen, I was judged by Nasty Nigel in Popstars, he was the villain back in the day, so I think I'll be fine with it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: \"Excited is one word for it, terrified is another\" - Mellor on being in Strictly line-up\n\nMellor, known for appearing in Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, Casualty and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, said he was \"honestly so chuffed to be taking part\" in Strictly.\n\n\"It's getting a bit frightening now,\" Mellor told BBC Breakfast.\n\nAsked if he could dance well, he replied: \"It depends what you call well. I dance in the kitchen or at parties like anybody does, but nothing at all like I'm doing here, I'm way out of my comfort zone.\"\n\nHe explained: \"My mindset completely changed a while back, and I just thought, I've got to start doing things that frighten me.\n\n\"I lost my dad in 2020 and from then I just thought, I've just got to grab life. I've got to create new memories.\"\n\nMellor reached number five in the UK singles chart with When I Need You in 1998.\n\nHe recently toured the UK with a live version of the popular podcast he co-hosts with Ralf Little, Two Pints with Will and Ralf.\n\nWest, who hosts afternoon shows on radio station Kiss, said he was \"so gassed to be joining the Strictly family\".\n\n\"It's going to be one crazy incredible journey which will no doubt be so far outside my comfort zone,\" West said.\n\n\"It's a show that means so much to me and my family and I can't wait to seriously shake a leg on that shiny dance floor… with a side of sequins.\"\n\nWest was nominated for best new presenter at the 2020 Arias, an awards ceremony which recognises talent in the radio industry.\n\nHe began his broadcasting career in children's television, presenting various programming across CBBC, and has hosted MTV News, HQ Trivia and the red carpet live show at the 2020 Bafta Awards.\n\nLast year, he launched his first BBC Three series, co-hosting Flat Out Fabulous as well as becoming the host of The MTV Movie Show.\n\nRadio and TV presenter Kaye Adams is one of the main anchors of ITV's Loose Women\n\nKaye Adams, 59, is a broadcaster known for presenting ITV's Loose Women.\n\nShe said: \"I said I wanted to make the last year of my fifties memorable and I can't think of a better way of doing it than showing the world my two left feet. Pray for me!\"\n\nAs well as presenting on the ITV topical discussion show, she also hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nShe started her career as a news journalist presenting programmes for various TV channels, including STV, the BBC and Channel 5.\n\nThis year she also started her popular podcast, How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams.\n\nEastEnders star James Bye, who plays Martin Fowler in the soap, said it was \"an honour\" to be taking part in the series.\n\nBye said: \"I'm not known for my shimmy or my twinkle toes - in fact my kids regularly laugh at my dad dancing but it's an honour to be asked and I'm going to give it my best shot.\n\n\"There are some huge dance shoes to fill and it's truly exciting to follow in the footsteps of some amazing EastEnders talent. I'd love to do everyone proud.\"\n\nBye has previously had roles in the BBC One mini-series The Great Train Robbery and films including Hummingbird, The Hooligan Factory and Cemetery Junction.\n\nComedian, actress and author Ellie Taylor said she and her mum had watched the show for years and she was \"over the moon\" to be now appearing on it.\n\nTaylor, who is known as a guest star on award-winning Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso and was a regular on outgoing BBC panel show Mock The Week, was announced as the latest contestant on Tuesday morning on ITV's Lorraine show.\n\n\"Well, cover me in fake tan and roll me in sequins!\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"I'm absolutely over the moon to be a part of Strictly 2022! I've watched the show for years so to be able to take to the dance floor is a dream come true, for both me and mum who is a Strictly super fan!\"\n\n\"At the moment I'm focusing on the excitement and glitter and choosing to ignore the fact that I have the dancing ability of a newly born giraffe,\" added the star, who last year had a bestselling debut book titled My Child and Other Mistakes. \"Bring it on!\"\n\nWildlife presenter and cameraman Hamza Yassin, who hosts the BBC's Animal Park and is a guest presenter on Countryfile, said in a statement he was \"over the moon\" to be taking part in Strictly.\n\nAnnouncing his participation, Yassin said: \"Never in a million years did I think I'd be on such a cool show.\n\n\"I've been watching it for years and I can't believe I'll actually be there dancing live in front of the British public,\" he said.\n\n\"My dance skills are currently at the level of 1970s disco vibe but I'm ready to work hard and will be shaking it every time I get the chance - shake it 'til you make it!\"\n\nYassin is also well known to younger viewers as Ranger Hamza from the CBeebies show Let's Go For A Walk, and recently fronted a Channel 4 documentary titled Scotland: Escape to the Wilderness.\n\nJayde Adams is best known as a comedian\n\nJayde Adams, who is currently performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, has won several comedy awards and is also an actor.\n\nThe comedian said: \"I cannot begin to express the emotions I am feeling... This means so much to me and my family.\"\n\nShe said she had been a \"massive fan\" of the show for years. \"I've always watched it, apart from a brief hiatus in 2011 as I was relentlessly gigging every weekend (to try and get on Strictly),\" she said.\n\n\"I feel like I'm watching myself in a dream and I can't believe I've manifested this. Holding this in has been torture for me!\"\n\nTV and radio presenter Helen Skelton previously appeared in the 2012 Strictly Christmas special.\n\nSkelton, who recently took over from Laura Whitmore on her 5 Live Sunday morning show, said she was \"really excited to get stuck into a fun adventure\".\n\nShe has also presented on Countryfile and Blue Peter, told Radio 2 she only finally agreed to take part a few days before the line-up was announced.\n\n\"I did the Christmas one the other year,\" she said. \"The hair is the best, the makeup is incredible, the costumes are incredible. Who gets to go to work and be made to look a bit like Beyonce and have a fun time?'.\n\n\"I thought this is madness to not do it, of course I should do it, it will be so much fun.\"\n\nSkelton also revealed she once competed in a tap dancing competition backed by comedian Ken Dodd.\n\nAnderson, who reads the travel on Radio 2, described Strictly as the \"ultimate feel-good show\"\n\nRichie Anderson reads the travel on several shows across BBC Radio 2, and has previously helped cover the Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the station. He also covers stories for The One Show.\n\nThe presenter said joining Strictly was a \"dream come true\", adding that he \"cannot wait to get in those sparkles and sequins\".\n\n\"Strictly is the ultimate feel-good show, as soon as I hear that iconic theme tune it's just pure escapism,\" Anderson said.\n\n\"I'm going to have to cancel my legendary Strictly launch night kitchen party that I throw every year,\" he added, joking: \"I'm sure my friends and family will understand.\"\n\nAnderson will become the third celebrity contestant to compete as part of a same-sex couple, following Nicola Adams and John Whaite.\n\nHe said: \"I remember watching Nicola Adams do it a couple years ago and John Whaite last year, and I remember just thinking - me growing up when I was coming to terms with what I am or what I'm not - it would have been amazing for me to see something like John and Johannes and Nicola and Katya on such a big show.\"", "Sadiqul Islam and Husnara Begum are the only family members to survive the suspected carbon monoxide poisoning\n\nA woman, 20, has become the third member of a British family to die from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Bangladesh.\n\nSamira Islam, from Cardiff, died at about 08:30 BST on Friday, after being found unconscious on 26 July.\n\nHer father, Rafiqul, 51, and brother, Mahiqul, 16, also died after being found in a flat in the region of Sylhet.\n\nSamira's funeral took place on Saturday afternoon in Bangladesh.\n\nHer uncle Shabul Mian said the death of Samira and her brother and father was \"indescribably sad\".\n\n\"First it was the father and son who died, then today the daughter also died. I pray for them to be granted paradise (in the afterlife),\" he said.\n\nShabul Mian said the death of Samira and her brother and father was \"indescribably sad\"\n\nPolice in the area are continuing to investigate the deaths.\n\nSamira's brother Sadiqul, 24, and her mother Husnara Begum were also in the flat but have since been released from hospital, sources have confirmed.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul had told them there was a faulty electricity generator in the property they were staying at, which was to be used in emergencies.\n\nThey reportedly told officers it was used the night of the incident due to a power cut.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said police visited the property with Husnara and Sadiqul, and said that when the generator was running it pumped out smoke.\n\nHe added this could have caused the family to be suffocated and samples had been sent to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nThe family, from Cardiff, were on a two month visit to Bangladesh when they were found unconscious by a relative.\n\nThe relative said that when there was no answer at the flat on 26 July, they peered through a window and saw the family sprawled across two beds.\n\nPolice officers broke into the building on Tuesday morning after the alarm was raised.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said there was a faulty generator in the property the family were staying at\n\nSadiqul had previously told officers he was not aware of what had happened, and woke up in hospital after going to bed at about 23:00 local time.\n\nGeneral secretary of the Bangladesh Association Cardiff, Mohammed Haroon, said the three deaths were \"very, very sad\", adding \"we cannot explain it\".\n\n\"The family were very well known in the community. They were very friendly, everybody knows them here. A very, very nice family,\" he said.\n\nMr Haroon said Samira had worked in a shop in Cardiff and the community had been praying for her and the rest of the family.\n\n\"For the last week we have prayed for them, and we are arranging another big prayer,\" he said.\n\nOn 28 July hundreds of people lined the streets of Sylhet for the funeral of Rafiqul and Mahiqul.", "The couple were celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary\n\nAn elderly couple from Wisconsin are among three dead after they were struck by lightning near the White House in Washington DC, police say.\n\nJames Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, were visiting the US capital to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary, their niece said.\n\nOn Friday, an unnamed 29-year-old man injured in the strike also died. A fourth person was critically injured.\n\nThe victims were in Lafayette Park in a storm on Thursday when they were hit.\n\nThe park's proximity to the seat of the US presidency meant members of the US Secret Service were among the first people to tend to the victims.\n\nThe Muellers are survived by five children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, a relative, Michelle McNett, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.\n\nThe White House offered condolences to the families of those who died. \"We are praying for those still fighting for their lives,\" said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.\n\nThe lightning struck the four people near a tree by the fence that surrounds the White House complex.\n\nIn the wake of the incident, part of the park remained closed with emergency services at the scene.\n\nThe National Weather Service had issued a thunderstorm warning for the area on Thursday.\n\nLafayette Square is a seven-acre public park directly north of the White House. It is often crowded with visitors, especially during the summer.\n\nAccording to US health data, about 40m lightning strikes hit the ground in the US each year, but the odds of someone being struck are less than one in a million, and almost 90% of all such victims survive.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene near the White House on Thursday", "Beijing is currently holding military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan\n\nChina is halting co-operation with the US in several key areas including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime.\n\nThe new measures follow a trip to Taiwan by a US congressional delegation led by senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi.\n\nChina, which also announced it was sanctioning Ms Pelosi and her family, views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over Taiwan.\n\nThe self-ruled island sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nThe measures were announced by China's foreign ministry on Friday. It said dialogue between US and Chinese defence officials would be cancelled, while co-operation on returning illegal immigrants, climate change, and investigating international crime would be suspended.\n\nThe two major powers have maintained cordial diplomatic ties on the need to combat climate change in recent years. At last year's climate summit in Glasgow, China vowed to work \"with urgency\" with the US to cut emissions.\n\nThe countries have also found rare common cause on efforts to fight the trade of illegal drugs such as fentanyl.\n\nThe decision to halt co-operation was taken because Ms Pelosi visited Taiwan \"in disregard of China's strong opposition and serious representations,\" the Chinese ministry said in a statement.\n\nIt also accused the US delegation and Ms Pelosi - who is the highest-ranking US politician to travel to the island in 25 years - of \"egregious provocations\".\n\nIn a message posted on Twitter on Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying criticised US foreign policy by comparing it to the police killing of George Floyd, the unarmed black American whose death in 2020 sparked global anti-racism protests.\n\n\"We cannot allow the US to take itself as 'world policeman' and treat other countries as George Floyd whom it can bully and strangle at will,\" she wrote.\n\nAt a news conference later on Friday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Ms Pelosi \"had every right\" to go to Taiwan and said China's new measures were \"fundamentally irresponsible\".\n\n\"We'll continue our efforts to keep open lines of communications with Beijing, while defending our interests and values,\" she said.\n\nAnalysis by John Sudworth, former Beijing correspondent in Washington\n\nThere can be few clearer examples of just how far, and how fast, the international political landscape is shifting. The statement from Beijing marks a new low point in the defining strategic relationship of our time.\n\nThe consensus, just a few years ago, was that an established superpower should build strong trade and investment ties with a newly emerging one. The ideological differences would then fade away.\n\nInstead, while China has indeed become the factory of the world, deeply integrated into global supply chains, it has grown more authoritarian at home and more assertive abroad.\n\nA 1997 trip to Taiwan by then US House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, was met with little opposition.\n\nThe Nancy Pelosi visit has been met with missiles - flown directly over a democracy and the heads of its 24 million people - whose appetite, by the way, for China's vision for unification dwindles ever further the more authoritarian it becomes.\n\nAnd now, any American citizen worried about the impact of Chinese precursor chemicals - sold into Mexico and then turned into the fentanyl that is fuelling thousands of US deaths - will also feel the impact of these shifting geopolitical plates.\n\nChina's \"shared future for mankind\" messaging on climate change is similarly put on ice, now seemingly held hostage to the precondition that its claims to Taiwan be recognised.\n\nNancy Pelosi may have given China the pretext. But this is a shift that was already well under way. The battle over values is front and centre stage once again, and the profound challenges it presents for the existing global order are likely only to increase.\n\nAlthough the US does not officially recognise Taiwan, it maintains strong relations with the island - which includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nMs Pelosi is currently in Japan on the final leg of an Asia tour, and said on Friday that China \"will not isolate Taiwan by preventing us to travel there\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu defended the visit which he said would \"raise the profile of Taiwan and... allow the international community to understand that Taiwan is a democracy\".\n\nHe also condemned the large-scale military exercises that China began around the island on Thursday in response to Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBeijing is currently holding military drills in the air and seas around the island and these are expected to continue until Sunday.\n\nMore than 100 warplanes and 10 warships have taken part in the live-fire exercises, with many apparently crossing the unofficial buffer zone between China and Taiwan.\n\nAt least one ballistic missile has flown directly over the island, according to Chinese state media.\n\nTaiwan's foreign ministry has not confirmed or denied whether that is true, but it condemned the ongoing drills as \"highly provocative acts\".\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken added on Friday that there was \"no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escalatory military response\".\n\nThe White House summoned China's ambassador to Washington, condemning China's escalation as \"irresponsible\".\n\nIn a statement, National Security Council strategic communications co-ordinator John Kirby said the White House had made it clear that the US \"is prepared for what Beijing chooses to do. We will not seek and do not want a crisis.\"", "Flowers were laid outside Liquid Leisure Windsor on Sunday morning\n\nAn 11-year-old girl has died after going missing at a water sports and activity park.\n\nPolice were called to the lake at Liquid Leisure Windsor in Datchet, Berkshire, about 15.55 BST on Saturday after the child got into difficulty.\n\nShe was found more than an hour later by emergency services and was rushed to hospital, but later died.\n\nMembers of the public who went into the water to look for her have been praised for their bravery.\n\nThames Valley Police said her death is being treated as unexplained and an investigation has been launched.\n\nThe water park, in Datchet, Berkshire, has an obstacle course\n\nSupt Michael Greenwood said: \"This has been an extremely traumatic and upsetting incident for all involved.\"\n\nSeveral members of the public got into the lake shortly after she got into difficulty \"but were unable to locate her\", he said.\n\n\"I would like to commend them for their courage and bravery,\" he added.\n\nA mother-of-two, who did not want to be named, was at the water park when the girl went missing.\n\nShe said lifeguards and friends of the girl's family ran along the lake shouting her name at about 15:45.\n\n\"I later learnt that they were hoping she'd somehow managed to make it back to the shoreline and was in shock or passed out,\" the woman said.\n\n\"They were asking all of us to shout her name, describing her as shoulder height on an adult, with shoulder-length brown hair.\"\n\nShe said between 30 and 40 people - lifeguards and other swimmers - jumped into the water to look for the girl before emergency services arrived.\n\n\"As the situation unfolded, with every minute that passed by you could see the rising panic amongst the onlookers,\" the woman added.\n\nThe Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service and South Central Ambulance Service joined police officers at the site.\n\nThe National Police Air Service was also involved in the search, although it is not clear exactly where the girl was found.\n\nThe girl's family have been informed and they are being supported by officers.\n\nThe water park is closed on Sunday following the girl's death\n\nSupt Greenwood, the local policing area commander for Windsor and Maidenhead, offered his \"sincere condolences\" and requested that the privacy of the girl's family be \"respected\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the early stages of investigating this incident to understand the full circumstances.\"\n\nLiquid Leisure Windsor describes itself as home to \"Europe's largest aqua park\", with a floating obstacle course on the lake.\n\nIt also has outdoor activities including wakeboarding, open water swimming and boat rides.\n\nIn a statement on its Facebook page, the company said it would be closed on Sunday.\n\nIt said its thoughts were with all those affected \"by this desperately tragic and upsetting incident\".\n\nLiquid Leisure Windsor added it would not be right to comment further while police are in the early stages of an investigation, but it would \"continue to fully support and assist them throughout the process\".\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A clip has emerged of ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak saying he diverted public money from \"deprived urban areas\".\n\nIn a video obtained by the New Statesman, Mr Sunak tells an audience in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, he wanted to ensure \"areas like this\" got the funding they deserved.\n\nDefending his remarks, Mr Sunak said he was arguing that towns and rural areas needed help not just \"big urban areas\".\n\nLabour said the leadership race was revealing the Tories' \"true colours\".\n\nThe party's shadow levelling up secretary Lisa Nandy said: \"It's scandalous that Rishi Sunak is openly boasting that he fixed the rules to funnel taxpayers' money to prosperous Tory shires.\"\n\nMs Nandy has written to Levelling Up Secretary Greg Clark asking him to \"urgently investigate\" the changes made by Mr Sunak to funding formulas.\n\nIn the clip - filmed on 29 July - Mr Sunak says: \"I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure areas like this are getting the funding they deserve.\n\n\"We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone.\n\n\"I started the work of undoing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak's team have said his comments were in reference to the introduction of the levelling up fund and changes made to Treasury formulas on investment.\n\nThe government has changed the way it assesses projects by altering the Treasury's \"green book\", which guides ministers in making investment decisions.\n\nSome submissions to a review of the \"green book\" in 2020 suggested that the old system relied too much on cost-benefit analysis (how much monetary value can be created for how many people) and that this skewed the system towards building more infrastructure in London and the South East of England.\n\nBut as Tunbridge Wells is in the South East of England, changing that would not necessarily help it. It is also the least deprived local authority in Kent, according to the index of multiple deprivation.\n\nThe system was changed to require projects to explain how they would promote government priorities such as levelling up or achieving net zero emissions, before considering their costs and benefits.\n\nThis means funding will not necessarily go to the \"deprived urban areas\" where the largest number of people might benefit, but can instead go to more sparsely populated ones that have not received much investment in the past.\n\nDuring a hustings event in Eastbourne on Friday night, Mr Sunak defended his comments by suggesting that deprivation existed across the country.\n\nAcknowledging the video clip, he explained that he wanted to \"level up everywhere\", saying that was not just about helping \"very large urban cities\".\n\nHe added: \"I believe it's about investing in levelling up in small towns, in rural communities, in coastal communities like those here in the South East.\"\n\nEarlier, Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen - a Sunak supporter - told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme the clip had been taken out of context, adding: \"What he was getting across was why is it that poor urban areas receive significantly higher funding than poor rural or town areas.\"\n\nHe said places such as Devon, Teesside and parts of Tunbridge Wells needed fairer funding.\n\nBut Conservative MP and Truss ally Jake Berry tweeted: \"In public Rishi Sunak claims he wants to level up the North, but here, he boasts about trying to funnel vital investment away from deprived areas? He says one thing and does another.\"\n\nA source in the rival Liz Truss campaign said: \"Levelling up isn't about pitting one area of the country against another, or laying dividing lines between urban v rural, towns v cities.\n\n\"It is about unleashing growth and making sure every individual has the chance to thrive. Liz has a plan to create an aspiration nation based on equality of opportunity, and will deliver it in a conservative way.\"\n\nRishi Sunak's comments appear to fly in the face of recent Conservative rhetoric about levelling up and securing Labour's former \"red wall\".\n\nWhy would the former chancellor be boasting about diverting funding away from deprived urban areas?\n\nIn short, because he was in Royal Tunbridge Wells at the time, one of his party's traditional heartlands, speaking to grassroots members.\n\nAnd while the Conservative party doesn't publish data on its membership, research shows most of them live in the South East of England, and are generally older and relatively wealthy.\n\nMr Sunak's team insist he was talking about changes to ensure pockets of deprivation in towns and rural areas got the funding they deserved.\n\nHis opponents will seize on his comments as not just clumsy, but another example of him appearing to be out of touch.\n\nThe comments were made as part of Mr Sunak's campaign bid to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and prime minister.\n\nHe is competing against Ms Truss, who polls suggest is more popular among Conservative members.\n\nFriday night's hustings saw a brief disturbance when Ms Truss's opening remarks were interrupted by a small group of climate activists, who were believed to be from the Green New Deal Rising group.\n\nThe protesters heckled Ms Truss over climate change and energy bills, shouting \"shame on you\".\n\nAfter the group was ejected from the event, Ms Truss took aim at what she called \"unfair protests\" that disrupted people's lives.\n\nShe pledged to clamp down on \"militant people who try and disrupt our country\" - whether from trade unions or environmental groups such as Extinction Rebellion.\n\nAnother protester was later removed from the event after interrupting Ms Truss.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Protesters interrupt Liz Truss speech by delivering speeches of their own.", "Thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate Pride in Brighton, as the celebration returned after being cancelled for the last two years due to Covid.\n\nA Brighton Pride spokesperson said: \"2022 will be a joyous commemoration of the brave trailblazers, campaigners and supporters who shaped the Pride movement in the city and helped us achieve the LGBT+ equality we all enjoy today.\"", "Cyclists who kill pedestrians could face tougher sentences under a planned new law for England.\n\nThe move proposed by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps would close a loophole which means they can only currently be jailed for two years.\n\nHe said it would \"impress on cyclists the real harm they can cause when speed is combined with lack of care\".\n\nA man whose wife was killed by a cyclist said a new law could \"bring a degree of comfort to relatives\".\n\nBoth causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving carry a maximum sentence of life when under the influence of drink or drugs since the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act was introduced earlier this year.\n\nThe government launched a review into whether an equivalent offence to causing death by dangerous driving was needed for cyclists in 2017. It followed a case where a cyclist was convicted of the 19th Century offence of \"wanton or furious driving\".\n\nMr Shapps will also push for the law to be introduced in Scotland and Wales, but transport legislation is a devolved matter.\n\nMatthew Briggs has been campaigning for a law recognising death and serious injury cycling offences since his wife Kim was killed by a cyclist in central London in 2016.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"It would greatly simplify the legal system... and would bring a degree of comfort to relatives who are grieving and also to victims who are seriously injured, because the law does not apply to those people either.\"\n\nHe hopes Mr Shapps - if he stays in post under a new prime minister, or his successor - \"will be true to their word\".\n\nMr Briggs added: \"It is rare but it keeps happening, and it needs to be sorted.\"\n\nLast month a cyclist was jailed for 12 months after causing the death of 79-year-old pedestrian Elizabeth Stone by hitting her as she walked on a pavement.\n\nKim Briggs died after being injured while crossing Old Street in Shoreditch in 2016\n\nMr Shapps said a \"selfish minority\" of cyclists believe they are \"immune\" to red lights.\n\n\"We need to crack down on this disregard for road safety,\" he wrote in the Daily Mail. \"Relatives of victims have waited too long for this straightforward measure.\"\n\nMinisters are said to be seeking a \"balance\" to \"encourage cycling... but at the same time ensure that pedestrians are protected from irresponsible cycling behaviour\".\n\nUnder the proposal, a new law of causing death by dangerous cycling would be added to the Transport Bill due before Parliament in the autumn.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it was \"exploring changes to allow dangerous cyclists to be prosecuted more easily and delivering more continuous and direct cycling routes in towns and cities which are physically separated from pedestrians and motor traffic\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Any death on our roads is a tragedy.\"\n\nCorrection 9 August 2022: An earlier version of this story stated that causing death by dangerous driving carries a maximum sentence of 14 years, while there is a maximum sentence of five years for death by careless driving. This was changed in light of information from the Ministry of Justice.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Archie Battersbee's mother Hollie Dance: \"I'm the proudest mum in the world\"\n\nArchie Battersbee, the 12-year-old who had been at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, has died.\n\nHis mother, Hollie Dance, said: \"Such a beautiful little boy, and he fought right until the very end.\"\n\nShe said she was \"the proudest mum in the world\" as she spoke outside the Royal London Hospital in east London, where he died.\n\nHer son's life support was withdrawn earlier on Saturday.\n\nHe died at 12.15 BST, Ms Dance said, adding: \"I'm so proud to be his mum.\"\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and did not regain consciousness\n\nArchie had been in hospital since being found unconscious at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.\n\nHe suffered severe brain injuries and needed life-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatment. He never regained consciousness.\n\nMs Dance earlier said she had done everything she promised Archie she would do, but that the hospital had made it clear there were no more options for her son.\n\nShe and Paul Battersbee, Archie's father, had asked the European Court of Human Rights to intervene in the case last week as they fought for life support to be continued, but were told it fell outside its scope.\n\nThey then wanted him to be moved to a hospice but the High Court, taking medical evidence into account, ruled he was too unstable to be transported by ambulance.\n\nMs Dance said: \"It's with my deepest sympathy and sadness to tell you Archie passed at 12.15 today.\n\n\"And can I just tell you, I'm the proudest mum in the whole world.\n\n\"Such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and I'm so proud to be his mum.\"\n\nHollie Dance said Archie was \"such a beautiful little boy\"\n\nThe High Court ruled Archie should remain at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.\n\nThe family sought permission to appeal against the decision, but that bid was rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThey then asked the ECHR to intervene, but late on Friday, the court said the request could not be dealt with.\n\nHollie Dance (left) with family friend Ella Carter outside the Royal London hospital\n\nIn a statement after Archie's death, Barts Health NHS Trust said: \"Members of his family were present at the bedside and our thoughts and heartfelt condolences remain with them at this difficult time.\n\n\"The trust would like to thank the medical, nursing and support staff in the paediatric intensive care department who looked after Archie.\"\n\nThe trust said staff had provided \"high quality care with extraordinary compassion\" in often \"trying and distressing circumstances\".\n\n\"This tragic case not only affected the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country\" the trust added.\n\nAndrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the family's case, said: \"Our thoughts, prayers and support are with Archie's family at this tragic moment.\"\n\nFlowers, candles and cards have been left outside the hospital\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nKenya's Mary Moraa gatecrashed Keely Hodgkinson and Laura Muir's Anglo-Scottish duel to take 800m gold at the Commonwealth Games.\n\nThe 22-year-old world bronze medallist showed devastating speed down the home straight to outlast Hodgkinson, winning in one minute 57.07 seconds.\n\nScotland's Muir took bronze by one hundredth of a second ahead of Jamaica's Natoya Goule.\n\nMuir will have another shot at glory in Sunday's 1500m final.\n\nHodgkinson however said she was \"fuming\" to have missed her chance to claim a first international title in front of a home crowd.\n\n\"I am not quite sure what happened, it went so quick,\" the world and Olympic silver medallist told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The first lap I went a bit hard, maybe I could have been a bit more patient.\n\n\"There are positives but I want gold so I am fuming. I wanted to stand on top of that podium in front of my home crowd.\n\n\"Unfortunately I came away with a silver, again. But I have got one more chance.\"\n\nHodgkinson, like Muir, is part of a large British team travelling to Munich for the European Championships next week.\n\nThey, like the winner, will doubtless review this action-packed race before they arrive in Germany.\n\nMoraa initially appeared to have misjudged her pace, cantering clear of the pack in the opening 300 metres, before slowing around the bell.\n\nBut there was still plenty of sting left in her legs and, as Hodgkinson and Muir attempted to crank up the pressure 200 metres from home, Moraa tracked them and found a gear beyond either.\n\nAs Hodgkinson and Muir flopped to the track after the line, Moraa gleefully broke out a celebratory jig for the television cameras.\n\nOther than American Olympic and world champion Athing Mu, Moraa is the only athlete to have beaten Hodgkinson over 800m this year.\n\nShe triumphed in Stockholm in June with a similarly ferocious kick from home and the former 400m specialist, who only changed up to two laps last year, looks set to make Mu and Hodgkinson's rivalry into a three-hander drama.\n\n\"Oh my goodness, these girls are fast,\" Muir told BBC Sport after finishing in 1:57.87, 0.47 seconds behind Hodgkinson.\n\n\"I was in fourth with 100 metres to go and I was just like 'no way'.\n\n\"Kids, that's why if your coach says run all the way to the line, you run all the way to the line.\"\n\nThree-time British champion Alastair Chalmers claimed Guernsey's first Commonwealth medal ever outside shooting and lawn bowls with a superb bronze in the 400m hurdles.\n\nThe 22-year-old, running in lane two, followed home British Virgin Islands' Kyron McMaster, who successfully defended his title, and Jamaica's Jaheel Hyde in 49.97 seconds.\n\n\"You are absolutely amazing, all of you,\" Chalmers told the crowd after they had roared him home over the final 100 metres.\n\nUganda's Jacob Kiplimo surged past Kenyan rivals Nicholas Kimeli and Jacob Krop to seize 5,000m gold and complete a distance double following his 10,000m triumph four days before.\n\nEngland's Marc Scott finished fourth in a season's best 13:19.84, but was more than 10 seconds off the leading trio.\n\nIn the first track final of the evening, Jamaica's Janieve Russell kept her composure to defend her 400m hurdles title as compatriot Rushell Clayton went out fast and faded even faster. Clayton finished in fourth, one place ahead of England's Jessie Knight", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nElizabeth Bird clinched a thrilling 3,000m steeplechase silver as England won five athletics medals on day eight of the Commonwealth Games.\n\nIn the night's final event, Bird overhauled shattered Ugandan Peruth Chemutai on the last bend and, urged on by the crowd, powered over the line.\n\nNathan Maguire and Daniel Sidbury secured gold and silver in the men's T53/54 1500m title.\n\nBird, 27, seemed to be competing for bronze but when Chemutai clattered into a hurdle she sensed her chance and started gaining ground.\n\n\"This crowd was amazing,\" said Bird. \"Those last two laps, when I was trying to close the gap, I was using their energy so thank you to everyone who came here.\n\n\"I wish I had started moving sooner because I was so close to the gold, but I will take a silver.\"\n\nKenya's Jackline Chepkoech claimed the gold in a new Commonwealth best of nine minutes 15.680 seconds, while England's Aimee Pratt finished fourth.\n\nMaguire joined his fiancee Hannah Cockroft in winning gold - she claimed the women's 100m T33/34 title on Wednesday - and then revealed what the occasion meant to him.\n\n\"The fact we are here on the same stage as the able-bodied guys is massive,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"When I was growing up there was no representation or TV coverage of any Para-sport so the fact we are on primetime TV, showing the kids what they could be in the future, that's so important.\"\n\nMetzger, 24, twice broke her personal best to secure a medal, leaping 14.32 with her first jump and then 14.39 with her third.\n\n\"It feels like I'm dreaming. It's basically been the perfect day,\" she said. \"I've jumped a few PBs and come away with a medal at my home Games. It has been fabulous.\"\n\nJamaica's Shanieka Ricketts set a new Commonwealth record of 14.94m to take the gold.\n\nLincoln, a 29-year-old bricklayer, powered his fifth throw 20.57m to claim bronze in a shot put competition dominated by New Zealand's Tom Walsh.\n\n\"It's not quite sunk in yet but it's absolutely incredible to get the job done in the end,\" said Lincoln.\n\n\"It was a tricky first four throws, I was just getting a bit overexcited with the crowd noise. I've never had anything like that before, it was absolutely incredible.\"\n\nEngland's Zharnel Hughes won his 200m semi-final in style to book his place in Saturday's final as the fastest qualifier, but Adam Gemili missed out.\n\nHughes was roared around the bend by the home fans and was able to ease up before crossing the line in 20.32 seconds.\n\nHe said: \"I was wondering where is everyone else? Because I thought they were pretty close to me. I executed a good race.\"\n\nHughes will go head to head with 2018 champion Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago, who won his semi-final in 20.40.\n\nGemili started well but dropped back to fourth place, with his time of 20.97 not quick enough to qualify from a semi-final won by Nigerian Udodi Onwuzurike.\n\nIt is the latest disappointment for Gemili, having been knocked out of the heats at the World Championships in Eugene last month.\n\nThen, he initially blamed the media spotlight on his controversial ex-coach Rana Reider for impacting his form and mindset.\n\nThe 28-year-old, who has been based in Florida, split from Reider just days before the Games.\n\n\"I know there have been issues with me this year - it has affected me,\" said Gemili. \"Physically I'm OK, but there has been a lot which has affected my training and the mental side for me.\"\n\nOlympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah cruised to victory in her 200m semi-final, timing 22.63 seconds despite powering down in the final 20m.\n\nNamibia's Christine Mboma, the Olympic silver medallist, and Nigerian teenager Favour Ofili won the other two semi-finals, while Scotland's Beth Dobbin booked her place in the final as a fastest loser.\n\nHudson-Smith 'gets the job done'\n\nLocal boy Matthew Hudson-Smith, who won world bronze last month, maintained his impressive form by winning his 400m semi-final.\n\n\"It was cold and a messy run but the job was to get through to the final and I have done that,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The first 50m was not that good, my legs were all over the place. I am still a bit tired from Eugene but the crowd lifted me and I can't complain.\"\n\nEngland's Victoria Ohuruogu, who is coached by sister Christine, won her 400m semi-final in 51.34 seconds. Team-mates Ama Pipi and Jodie Williams also qualified directly while Scotland's Zoey Clark went through as the fastest loser but Nicole Yeargin missed out.\n\nMuir on course for Commonwealth double\n\nIn the morning session, Scotland's Laura Muir finished fifth in her 1500m heat to reach Sunday's final.\n\nShe ran four minutes 14.11 seconds as she paced herself carefully having also reached Saturday's 800m final.\n\nA Commonwealth Games medal is the only one missing from Muir's collection after she finished 11th in the 1500m - having been clipped - in 2014 and skipped the Gold Coast four years ago to focus on her veterinary exams.\n\n\"This is the last one. If I can get not just one but two it would be very special,\" she said.\n\n\"It's going to be hard. The Commonwealth in these distances is really strong, but it's an amazing opportunity to give it my best. I would hate to be sitting at home watching the final thinking I could be part of it.\"\n\nScotland team-mate Jemma Reekie also qualified along with England's Katie Snowden and Melissa Courtney-Bryant.\n\nEngland's Cindy Sember ran 12.67 seconds to win her 100m hurdles heat on her 28th birthday, while in the long jump team-mates Jazmin Sawyers (6.80m), Lorraine Ugen (6.79m) and Abigail Irozuru (6.59m) all reached the final.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams\n• None Is there really a pill that can help you burn fat? Sliced Bread goes in search of answers...\n• None How many friends do you need?", "Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay tribute to the father and son who died\n\nThe funeral has taken place for a man and his son from Cardiff who died after a suspected poisoning in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and 16-year-old Mahiqul, died on their way to hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Sylhet for the funeral, which took place at 13:30 local time on Thursday.\n\nRafiqul Islam's mother, Zarina Jobbar, along with two of his brothers and sister were among those in attendance.\n\nHis wife, Husnara, along with their two other children, 20-year-old Samira and 24-year-old Sadiqul, remain in hospital.\n\nSamira is understood to be in a critical condition.\n\nPolice in Bangladesh believe Rafiqul Islam and his family were poisoned\n\nMr Islam was a taxi driver who lived in Riverside, Cardiff and was a member of local badminton and football teams.\n\nHe was described by a relative in the city as \"very friendly, a very nice guy\".\n\nA local community leader called him a \"very helpful person who was at the mosque all the time and constantly working with the community\".\n\nHis teenage son Mahiqul, who had been a pupil at Fitzalan High School, was described by a relative as \"very sweet and friendly.\"\n\nSpecial prayers are due to take place at the local mosque in Riverside on Friday.\n\nOriginally from Bangladesh, Mr Islam moved to the UK in the mid-1980s on the basis of his father's British citizenship.\n\nThe family had been staying in a flat in Osmaninagar near the north-eastern city of Sylhet since earlier in the month.\n\nPolice are investigating their deaths, which were at first believed to be due to food poisoning and are being treated as \"wrongful\".\n\nIt is understood Husnara and Sadiqul have now both given statements to police.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have been carried out and been sent to Dhaka but it could be a few days before the results are known.\n\nA relative of the family told BBC Bangla that when family members got no answer at the flat on Tuesday morning, they saw through a window that the family were lying haphazardly on two beds and they called police.\n\n\"The police came and broke down the door,\" said Cebul Mia. \"We also helped them. We went inside and saw that everyone was unconscious. I saw that they were struggling to breathe,\" he said.\n\nThe family were staying in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford, whose constituency includes Riverside, where the family live, said: \"My thoughts are with the Islam family and their friends today.\n\n\"We are all thinking of Husnara, Samira and Sadiqul as they are treated in hospital.\n\n\"This is a terrible incident which will have affected the wider Bangladeshi community here in Riverside.\n\n\"The Cardiff West constituency office and my Parliamentary colleague Kevin Brennan are on hand to offer support to all those who need it.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Biden seen leaving White House for first time since contracting Covid-19\n\nUS President Joe Biden has tested negative for Covid-19 days after getting a second bout of the virus, his doctor says.\n\nMr Biden, 79, first tested positive for the virus more than two weeks ago.\n\nHe had been in isolation for a second time after getting what White House doctor Kevin O'Connor described as a \"rebound\" case.\n\nThe president will now return to public life, after he tested negative on both Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The White House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The White House\n\nDr O'Connor said on Saturday that \"the president continues to feel very well\".\n\nMr Biden - who is fully-vaccinated and has twice received booster jabs - first tested positive for Covid-19 on 21 July. He tested negative six days later, only to then test positive again on 30 July.\n\nIn a previous statement, Dr O'Connor said the president was taking the antiviral medicine Paxlovid, which can lead to rebounds of the virus in a small percentage of the people who take it.\n\nThe president experienced mild symptoms while he had the virus, including a runny nose and fatigue, and continued working while in isolation, the White House said.\n\nHe is scheduled to visit the southern state of Kentucky - which has been devastated by floods - on Monday, according to his official schedule.\n\nMr Biden is now the second US president to contract Covid-19 while in office. His predecessor, Donald Trump, was admitted to hospital for three days in October 2020 after falling ill with the virus.\n\nTo date, there have been 91.8 million Covid cases in the US and more than one million deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).", "Many disabled people report inconsistencies in the prices and policies for concessionary tickets\n\nThere are huge inconsistencies in the availability and price of concessionary and companion tickets for people who need a personal assistant or carer to support them, many disabled people say.\n\nIt comes after news a free national Arts Access Card for disabled people to use at theatres, concerts and festivals is being delayed by two years.\n\nArts Council England (ACE), which is responsible for creating the card together with the BFI, told BBC Radio 4's Front Row that pilots will not be up and running until early 2024.\n\nAndrew Miller, until recently the government's first disability champion for arts and culture, championed the idea of the card after seeing how a similar scheme, Hynt, worked in Wales.\n\nHe told Front Row: \"One of the principle reasons for my advocating a national arts access scheme was the lack of any consistency in venues' approach to companion tickets and disabled access.\n\n\"As I've experienced, through a lifetime of event attendance as a wheelchair user, buying tickets for 40 years, it's the Wild West out there for disabled consumers.\n\n\"There's no consistency between how companion tickets are priced. Some make them half price and the disabled person goes full price, others you get a free companion and the disabled person pays a reduced rate.\"\n\nThe national Arts Access Card had been due to launch in March 2022, according to the government's previously-published National Disability Strategy. The High Court later ruled that strategy unlawful due to inadequate consultation with disabled people - the government has applied for permission to appeal - but the card is still being rolled out independently.\n\nDuring the course of the research, a number of theatres agreed their websites were confusing\n\nTherese Heath, an arts lover and university arts lecturer, agrees that policies and prices vary from venue to venue. She says it's not fair if a disabled person who needs a companion to attend, ends up paying more.\n\n\"It's discriminatory to expect someone to pay double to do something that a non-disabled person does not have to pay double for,\" she said.\n\n\"Sometimes events I've been to will say that there is a PA [personal assistant] scheme, but it can be very difficult to get hold of anyone. At one event I went to, the so-called access helpline was also their ticketing helpline so it was completely rammed and you couldn't get through to anybody.\"\n\nRecently she wanted to buy tickets for a festival, but said she was surprised to find there was no information at all.\n\n\"They didn't have a shred of access information on their website,\" she recalled. \"I was looking for whether they offered PA tickets. I was looking for information as to whether I could get my wheelchair onto the site, whether there were disabled toilets. And unfortunately at that point there was absolutely nothing on their website whatsoever.\"\n\nThe Equality Act applies to any business that provides goods, facilities or services to members of the public including theatres, cinemas, music venues, comedy clubs and festivals.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published guidance on responsibilities that entertainment venues have towards their customers,\n\n\"Reasonable adjustments are not just about changes to physical features or the addition of auxiliary aids such as a hearing loop, although these can be important to some disabled people,\" it says.\n\n\"Consider providing information (such as programmes and publicity material) in alternative formats and offering an additional ticket for free to a disabled person who needs to bring an assistant.\"\n\nAndrew Miller described the market as a \"Wild West for disabled consumers\"\n\nBut research by Front Row revealed that doesn't always happen.\n\nStephanie Sirr CEO of the Nottingham Playhouse and co-president of UK Theatre confirmed the \"big 12\" subsidised theatres all offer free companion tickets, as do many other UK Theatre members.\n\nHackney Empire and Belgrade Coventry offer disabled concessions plus a free carer ticket for those who need one.\n\nThe Tron in Glasgow no longer does concessions, instead offering three price options to choose from. No-one has to prove eligibility for any concession. A companion ticket is free.\n\nBut the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton confirmed they charge half price for a companion ticket.\n\nDuring the course of the research, a number of theatres agreed their websites were confusing.\n\nThe Bristol Old Vic has now updated its site making clear free companion tickets are not only available for people with \"restricted mobility\", but also those who are hearing or visually impaired or neuro-divergent.\n\nThe Mercury in Colchester, the Birmingham Rep and the Leeds Playhouse all said if people join their free access schemes to book tickets it overrides links which wrongly appear to charge for companion seats. The Mercury added that barriers to the arts aren't always to do with price, and not everyone wants the free seat.\n\nThe Birmingham Rep said being on the access list means they can be sure customers get the right seat for them, for example the end of a row, near the loos, or the best position to read the subtitled captions.\n\nThe Leeds Playhouse said they are currently updating their website but that disabled people can book tickets online, in person or over the phone.\n\nAll venues stress they work hard to make sure the companion seats are protected for those who really need them, and say abuse won't be tolerated.\n\nSome require proof of eligibility, like the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne, where recipients must be in receipt of disability benefits PIP, DLA, or Attendance Allowance, or a Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI ).\n\nAs well as the Hynt card in Wales, Nimbus Disability (previously known as CredAbility) operate the Access Card, which is already accepted by companies including Ticketmaster, Merlin theme parks, the O2 Academies, SSE arenas, Delfont Mackintosh and Ambassador Group Theatres (ATG).\n\nNimbus Disability operate the Access Card, which is accepted by many events companies (mock-up pictured)\n\nTrained experts have assessed 60,000 members so far, deciding what reasonable adjustments an individual needs. It is noted on the card and then universally accepted.\n\nFrom this week, ATG is rolling out online booking for all access tickets. Its access and safeguarding lead, Cate Gordon, says all 37 venues will be included.\n\n\"By registering with Nimbus's Access Card, customers will be able to log on to our website and book their own accessible seats, and also an essential companion ticket if required… at the time of day that you want to, just in the same way that any non-disabled person could,\" she said.\n\nMiller, who is now a trustee at Bafta and the Royal Shakespeare Company, is confident the government-backed national Arts Access Card will happen eventually.\n\n\"It could be well be that it builds on what Hynt has established in Wales, what CredAbility Nimbus have done, and also what the UK cinema card (CEA) does. But the essential element for me is that the card is made free to disabled users. That for me is a red line.\n\n\"When this scheme gets rolled out, it will transform the lives of disabled audiences, making the arts and the venue sector far more accessible and radically change the access approach to all the venues who sign up to it.\"\n\nFront Row airs at 19:15 BST from Mon-Thurs on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nThe mother of Archie Battersbee says she has done everything she promised her son she would do as the family prepare for his life support to be withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nThey had asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to intervene, but were told it \"fell outside\" its scope.\n\nThe 12-year-old must spend his final days in hospital after the High Court ruled he could not move to a hospice.\n\nHer son has not regained consciousness since being found at his home in Southend, Essex, in April.\n\nIn an interview with Sky News, Ms Dance said: \"The last however many weeks since 7 April, I don't think there's been a day that hasn't been awful really.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's been really hard. Despite the hard strong face and appearance obviously in front of the cameras up until now, I've been pretty broken.\"\n\nShe said the hospital had made it clear there were no more options and that life support would be withdrawn on Saturday.\n\nAsked if there was anything more she could do, Ms Dance, of Southend, Essex, said: \"No. I've done everything that I promised my little boy I'd do. And I've done it.\"\n\nArchie's mother, Hollie Dance, had said she wanted him \"in a peaceful hospice to say goodbye\"\n\nThe family's long legal battle to continue his life-sustaining treatment ended when the ECHR said it \"would not interfere\" with the UK courts' rulings, paving the way for support to be stopped.\n\nThey hoped to move him to a hospice but doctors warned he was too unstable to move by ambulance and it would \"hasten premature deterioration\".\n\nThe High Court ruled Archie should remain at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London.\n\nThe family sought permission to appeal against the decision, but that bid was rejected by three justices at the Court of Appeal.\n\nThey then asked the ECHR to intervene, but late on Friday, the court said the request could not be dealt with.\n\nA spokesman for campaign group Christian Concern, which is supporting Archie's family, said: \"All legal routes have been exhausted.\n\n\"The family are devastated and are spending precious time with Archie.\"\n\nArchie's family said a breakdown in trust meant Archie would not die with peace and dignity in hospital\n\nArchie was found unconscious at home and his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge.\n\nHe suffered \"catastrophic\" brain injuries and doctors think it is \"highly likely\" he is brain-stem dead.\n\nLife-sustaining support, including mechanical ventilation and drug treatments, has been in place since April.\n\nIn her ruling earlier on Friday, taking into account medical evidence, Mrs Justice Theis concluded it was not in Archie's best interests to be moved.\n\nShe said: \"Archie's best interests must remain at the core of any conclusions reached by this court.\n\n\"When considering the wishes of the family, why those wishes are held, the facilities at the hospice, what Archie is likely to have wanted... the risks involved in a transfer... and the increasing fragility of his medical condition, I am satisfied... he should remain at the hospital when treatment is withdrawn.\"\n\nMrs Justice Theis also noted Archie's family's \"unconditional love and dedication\", which she said had been a \"golden thread that runs through this case\".\n\n\"I hope now Archie can be afforded the opportunity for him to die in peaceful circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him as he clearly does to them.\"\n\nArchie is found unconscious by his mother after an incident at their home in Essex. He is taken to Southend Hospital. Archie is transferred to The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where he has been treated ever since. The NHS trust that runs the Royal London starts High Court proceedings by asking for Archie to undergo brain stem testing. Mrs Justice Arbuthnot rules that brain stem testing should be carried out. Two specialists try to administer brain stem function tests, but they are unable to as Archie did not respond to a peripheral nerve stimulation test, a precursor to the brain stem test. A hearing is held to decide if further MRI scans should be conducted. Archie's parents did not consent on the basis that moving Archie could harm him. The court approves further MRI scans, which are carried out on 31 May. A final hearing is held to hear evidence on whether Archie's life-support treatment should continue. The High Court judge rules that Archie is \"dead\" based on MRI scan results and that treatment could be withdrawn. The family ask the Court of Appeal to reconsider the case. The Court of Appeal says that a new hearing to determine Archie's best interests should take place. A new hearing is held in the High Court with evidence given before Mr Justice Hayden. Mr Justice Hayden rules that life-support treatment should end, saying continuing it is \"futile\". Three Court of Appeal judges support the High Court ruling that treatment can end. The Supreme Court rules out intervening in the case and supports the Court of Appeal ruling. The family make an application to the United Nations. Archie’s mother and father, Paul Battersbee, outside the Royal London Hospital A UN Committee writes to the UK government asking for a delay in withdrawing treatment while they consider the case. The government asks for an urgent hearing to review the case. The Court of Appeal refuses to postpone withdrawal of treatment until the UN can hear the case. The Supreme Court refuse the family's application for permission to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling. European Court of Human Rights refuses an application from the family to postpone the withdrawal of Archie’s life support. Archie's parents make a legal application to move their son to a hospice for end of life care. A High Court judge rules that Archie cannot be moved to a hospice for withdrawal of treatment. Archie passes away at the Royal London Hospital after treatment is withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests. Members of his family are at his bedside.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Australian musician Judith Durham, best known as the lead singer of folk music group The Seekers, has died aged 79.\n\nHer band sold more than 50 million records and had hits including I'll Never Find Another You, I Am Australian and Georgy Girl.\n\nShe left the group to go solo in 1968 and went on to release a number of studio albums.\n\n\"Judith Durham gave voice to a new strand of our identity and helped blaze a trail for a new generation of Aussie artists,\" he wrote on social media. \"Her kindness will be missed by many, the anthems she gave to our nation will never be forgotten.\"\n\nDurham was honoured multiple times during her lengthy career, including being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to music in 1995 and the Centenary Medal in 2003.\n\nShe was also named the Victorian of the Year in 2015.\n\nBorn in Melbourne, Durham rose to international fame after joining The Seekers in 1962 alongside Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley. She became the band's lead singer the following year, aged 20.\n\nA year after becoming joint recipients of the Australian of the Year award in 1967, the group officially disbanded, but reunited to perform on multiple occasions - the last time being 2014.\n\nDurham married the British pianist and musical director Ron Edgeworth in 1969, who died in 1994 of motor neurone disease.", "Archie's mum Hollie says it has been a battle over every decision around her son's care\n\nCases like Archie Battersbee's are extremely rare. But when disagreements occur over whether a child's life support should end, they present terrible anguish for those involved, as well as lengthy court battles.\n\nTragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits, says Prof Dominic Wilkinson, an expert in medical ethics, and Consultant Neonatologist at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"For children like Archie, doctors cannot make them better, and advanced medical techniques and technologies may end up doing more harm than good. Sometimes, all medicine can do is to prolong the inevitable.\"\n\nProf Wilkinson says that in the vast majority of cases, parents and doctors are able to come together to agree on what would be best for a seriously ill child. Sometimes medical teams may need external help to reach an agreement.\n\n\"For example, they may draw on a clinical ethics committee, or independent mediation, or may seek second opinions from specialists in other hospitals.\n\n\"In a tiny proportion of cases, if parents and doctors cannot agree what would be best for a child who is stuck on life support in an intensive care unit, the right thing to do is to ask the court to help.\"\n\nThe court does not side with either doctors or parents. It focuses exclusively on what would be best for the child.\n\nArchie's case had been heard in several top courts. His doctors had said it would be in his best interests for treatment to be withdrawn.\n\nThe 12-year-old had spent months in hospital on life support, since being discovered unconscious at his home in April. The medics who treated him at The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel said he had suffered such devastating brain injury at the time of the incident that there was no way he would recover.\n\nArchie, pictured with his mother Hollie Dance, who asked for more time to allow her son to recover\n\nArchie's parents said they did not understand the rush to end his life-support.\n\nSo who should decide that medical care should stop, and how?\n\nPalliative care professor Baroness Finlay of Llandaff hopes independent mediators can be used in future as \"adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody\".\n\nSpeaking to Times Radio, she said: \"I'm hoping that by the end of the summer we'll have an inquiry into different ways of handling these very, very difficult cases so that there is independent mediation.\n\n\"And I say independent because, if it's supplied by the hospital, or it's supplied by the parents, one side may feel mistrustful of the other.\n\n\"But to be in the situation of adversarial conflict doesn't help anybody. The parents don't want to go to court. The doctors don't want to go to court. The managers don't want to go to court.\n\n\"My worry is that these cases are going forward to court too quickly and too early, and that we need an alternative way of managing the communication between the doctors and the parents, and sometimes others in the family as well.\"\n\nWhat that independent mediation might look like is unclear.\n\nDr Daniel Sokol, medical ethicist and barrister, said sometimes the courts must be the independent adjudicator. But that doesn't stop society drawing judgements.\n\n\"When these cases reach the press and social media, a distorted, sometimes one-sided picture of what is really happening is painted,\" said Dr Sokol.\n\n\"Without reading the court judgments or knowing the full details, people suddenly become experts in medical ethics, commenting aggressively on the rights and wrongs of the case, blaming the clinicians, the hospital, the relatives or whoever holds a different position to their own.\n\n\"This can cause real harm to the targets of their abuse and may dissuade clinicians from challenging parents in the future, even though the latter may be making decisions contrary to the interests of vulnerable patients.\n\n\"I have been told by paediatric doctors that they are reluctant to go against the views of parents, given the torrent of abuse they received in previous high-profile cases.\"", "Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital after being found unconscious in a flat\n\nPolice probing the deaths of a father and son in Bangladesh believe they may have been poisoned by carbon monoxide.\n\nCardiff taxi driver Rafiqul Islam, 51, and Mahiqul Islam, 16, died on en route to hospital on 26 July after being found unconscious in a flat in Osmaninagar, near the city of Sylhet.\n\nBeside them were Rafiqul's wife Husnara Begum and their other children Samira, 20, and Sadiqul, 24.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul were released from hospital on Wednesday.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said Samira remained in an \"alarming\" condition in intensive care.\n\nPolice said Husnara and Sadiqul had told them there was a faulty electricity generator in the property they were staying at, to be used in emergencies.\n\nThey told officers it was used the night of the tragedy due to a power cut.\n\nSupt Uddin said police visited the property with Husnara and Sadiqul, adding that when the generator was running it pumped out smoke that could have been behind the suffocation and samples had been sent to a laboratory for analysis.\n\nRafiqul Islam's son, Sadiqul, said he woke in hospital unaware of what had happened\n\nSupt Uddin said: \"We collected a smoke sample from the generator and we sent it to fire service to see if chemicals were also found in the bodies of the deceased and of the survivors.\n\n\"We have to wait for some days to get the chemical analysis report.\"\n\nSadiqul said he did not know what happened and woke up in hospital after going to bed at about 23:00 local time.\n\nA relative previously said when there was no answer at the flat on July 26, they peered through a window and saw the family sprawled on two beds.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said there was a faulty generator in the property the family were staying at\n\nRafiqul lived in Riverside, Cardiff, and played badminton and football. Fitzalan High School pupil Mahiqul has been described as \"sweet and friendly\".\n\nOn Tuesday, a doctor said there was no concrete evidence Rafiqul Islam, who was 51, and Mahiqul had been poisoned.", "A software outage affecting the NHS 111 service was caused by a cyber-attack, it has been confirmed.\n\nAdvanced, a firm providing digital services for NHS 111, said the attack was spotted at 07:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe attack targeted the system used to refer patients for care, including ambulances being dispatched, out-of-hours appointment bookings and emergency prescriptions.\n\nBut the NHS said disruption was minimal.\n\nThe National Crime Agency said it was \"aware of a cyber incident\" and was working with Advanced.\n\n\"A security issue was identified yesterday, which resulted in loss of service,\" said Advanced boss Simon Short.\n\n\"We can confirm that the incident is related to a cyber-attack and as a precaution, we immediately isolated all our health and care environments.\"\n\nHe said the issue had been contained \"to a small number of servers\".\n\nAdvanced has indicated the issue might not be fully resolved until next week.\n\nFamily doctors in London were warned by NHS England they could see an increased number of patients sent to them by NHS 111 due to the \"significant technical issue\", industry magazine Pulse reported.\n\nIt said a letter to GPs in the capital stated the problem was affecting the electronic referral process for patients.\n\nCyber security expert Robert Pritchard told the BBC the attack was likely to have been ransomware. Ransomware gangs - who encrypt vital data and demand a ransom in order to get the information decrypted - have been routinely targeting schools and hospitals.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service has warned it may take longer for calls to be answered over the weekend.\n\nIt said: \"There is a major outage of a computer system that is used to refer patients from NHS 111 Wales to out-of-hours GP providers. The ongoing outage is significant and has been far-reaching, impacting each of the four nations in the UK.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson said there was currently minimal disruption and it was monitoring the situation.\n\n\"NHS 111 services are still available for patients who are unwell, but as ever if it is an emergency please call 999,\" they said.\n\nA Scottish Government spokesperson said it was aware of reported disruption to one of NHS Scotland's IT suppliers' systems and is \"working with all health boards collaboratively on a four nations basis with the National Cyber Security Centre and the supplier to fully understand potential impact\".\n\nIt said \"continuity plans\" are in place.\n\nA spokesperson for Northern Ireland's Department of Health said they are working to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"As a precaution, to avoid risk to other critical systems and services, access to the company's services from the HSC (Health and Social Care system) has been disabled, while the incident is contained,\" they said.", "The French government has set up a crisis team to tackle a historic drought that has left more than 100 municipalities short of drinking water.\n\nTrucks are taking water to those areas, as \"there is nothing left in the pipes\", Minister for Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu said.\n\nThe prime minister's office said it was France's worst recorded drought. Water use is being restricted in 93 regions.\n\nDry conditions are expected to continue for at least the next two weeks.\n\nThe state energy company EDF has had to reduce output at some nuclear power plants, as river temperatures are too high to provide sufficient cooling, AFP news agency reports.\n\nThere are fears that the drought - hitting nearly all of mainland France - will reduce crop yields, exacerbating the food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.\n\nEuropeans are already struggling with higher food prices as grain exports from Russia and Ukraine - among the world's top producers - are much lower than normal.\n\nThe heatwave that has baked France since June has prompted trees and bushes to shed their leaves early, creating scenes that look autumnal.\n\nIn July France had just 9.7mm (0.38 inches) of rain, making it the driest month since March 1961, the national weather service Meteo-France said.\n\nIrrigation has been banned in much of the north-west and south-east of France to conserve water.\n\nA squirrel was among animals rescued in Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne, south-east France\n\nThe corn harvest, used mainly for animal feed, is expected to be 18.5% lower this year compared with 2021, the agriculture ministry said. The main corn-growing areas are Alsace in the east and western regions, and the harvest is already under way.\n\nCorn exports from France, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria are all expected to be lower this year because of the heatwave, and those lower volumes will push prices up, French BFMTV reported.\n\nLivestock farmers in the Alps are having to descend into the valleys by truck every day to collect water for their animals, which adds several hundred euros to their weekly fuel bills, Broadcaster TF1 reported.\n\nHow have you been affected by the drought? Share your experiences haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nMikel Arteta said his Arsenal side look \"hungry\" after getting their campaign off to the perfect start with victory over Crystal Palace in an entertaining 2022-23 Premier League curtain-raiser at Selhurst Park.\n\nThe Gunners maintained their impressive pre-season form with an energetic performance that was rewarded when Gabriel Martinelli nodded in a 20th-minute opener from new signing Oleksandr Zinchenko's headed assist.\n\nIt took Palace most of the first half to adapt to the visitors' tempo, but once they did Odsonne Edouard forced Aaron Ramsdale into a save after Joachim Andersen's header found him in the six-yard box.\n\nBuoyed by a vibrant home crowd, the Eagles poured forward in search of a leveller but it was Arsenal who found the net again, Marc Guehi inadvertently heading Bukayo Saka's fierce cross into his own goal late on.\n\n\"I have had this feeling for the first few weeks since the boys started pre-season. They are ready, they look hungry, with that mentality that they really want to win,\" Arteta told Match of the Day.\n\n\"The team came here to play the way we wanted to play - we were dominant, we were a threat, we were really lively and sharp from the beginning. Then when we felt under pressure we coped with that with resilience.\"\n• None Enjoy the best Arsenal content here\n\nBetween Arsenal's savvy transfer business, free-scoring pre-season form and being the focus of Amazon's latest All or Nothing series, there has been plenty to whet their fans' appetites this summer.\n\nWe may have to wait until the second series to learn whether Arteta piped Palace anthem 'Glad All Over' out during training before this one - as he did with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' before visiting Anfield last season - or whether it was the Spaniard's artwork that set the tone, but his side arrived with a relentless intensity that made Martinelli's opening goal feel inevitable.\n\nThe 21-year-old Brazilian had earlier missed a glorious chance after Gabriel Jesus waltzed through the Palace defence, skewing wide of the far post after his compatriot's effort was blocked, but he stooped to head in from a clever corner routine.\n\nThe Gunners lost their opening three league games last season, including another Friday night opener at Brentford, and ultimately narrowly missed out on a return to Champions League football.\n\nBut they have strengthened with the acquisitions of Jesus and Zinchenko from Manchester City and both already look set to have a big impact on Arteta's young squad.\n\nJesus, who scored seven goals in five pre-season games, caused Palace's back four problems with his relentless work-rate as well as his talent on the ball, and he laid on a chance for Martin Odegaard that the Gunners captain might have done better with.\n\nIt was another Arsenal debutant who really impressed, with 21-year-old centre back William Saliba - who has spent most of his three years at the club out on loan, producing a fine defensive display.\n\nThe Frenchman was part of a back four that had to show resilience amid the hosts' growing threat, before Guehi's own goal following a snappy Saka break made things more comfortable.\n\nIt was a result and performance that will have pleased Arteta, who recorded his 50th league win as Gunners boss, while simultaneously giving Arsenal's top-four rivals a glimpse of what they are up against this term.\n\nPalace boss Patrick Vieira was concerned this game had arrived too early after a disrupted pre-season that saw some of his squad not being able to travel to Singapore and Australia, some players remaining on the treatment table, and the Frenchman still hoping to make more transfer additions.\n\nHe also said he was happy with the business the Eagles have done so far this window, although only Cheick Doucoure started after arriving from Lens, and Palace struggled to deal with an irrepressible Arsenal early on.\n\nThe hosts, who took four points off Arsenal last season, did improve and Ramsdale's save from Edouard's header before the break was followed after half-time when the goalkeeper also denied Eberechi Eze following Wilfried Zaha's pass in what kick-started a dominant spell for the Eagles.\n\nPalace, who are looking to improve on their 12th-placed finish last season, were unable to capitalise on that pressure and were instead caught out on the break, but Vieira will want to wait until the end of the transfer window before giving a real assessment of where his side are.\n• None Albert Sambi Lokonga (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah.\n• None Attempt missed. Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Thomas Partey.\n• None Attempt missed. Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Wilfried Zaha with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Jeffrey Schlupp (Crystal Palace) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jean-Philippe Mateta.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Beijing is expected to continue military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan until Sunday\n\nThe United States has accused Beijing of \"provocative\" and \"irresponsible\" actions after Taiwan said China rehearsed an attack on the island.\n\nTaiwan said it responded to the Chinese drills, now in their fourth day, by deploying aircraft and ships on Sunday.\n\nThe heightened tensions follow a trip to Taiwan by a US delegation led by senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi.\n\nChina views the visit as a challenge to its claims of sovereignty over Taiwan, which sees itself as distinct.\n\nTaiwan's defence ministry said Chinese ships and planes carried out missions in the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, with some crossing the median line - an unofficial buffer separating the two sides.\n\nThe Taiwan military said it responded \"appropriately\" to the live-fire exercises, which it described as a simulated attack on the island, by dispatching multiple aircraft and ships on Sunday morning, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Taipei, premier Su Tseng-chang accused China of \"arrogantly\" using the exercises to disrupt regional stability and appealed for restraint from the Chinese side.\n\nBeijing has not commented on the latest exercises, but its four-day long series of military drills in the air and seas around Taiwan are expected to finish on Sunday.\n\n\"These activities are a significant escalation in China's efforts to change the status quo. They are provocative, irresponsible and raise the risk of miscalculation,\" a White House spokesperson said.\n\n\"They are also at odds with our long-standing goal of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait, which is what the world expects.\"\n\nChina said Ms Pelosi's visit \"seriously threatened\" peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.\n\nChina sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing's control. However, Taiwan is a self-ruled island that sees itself as distinct from the mainland.\n\nBut any hint of recognition of this by world leaders enrages China. It announced on Friday that sanctions have been placed on Ms Pelosi and her family over the visit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBeijing also announced it was halting co-operation with the US in several key areas including climate change, military talks and efforts to combat international crime.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of taking \"irresponsible steps\" by blocking key communication channels with Washington.\n\nMs Pelosi - a long-time China critic and the highest-ranking US politician to travel to the island in 25 years - arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, despite Beijing's warnings.\n\nDuring her visit, Ms Pelosi said that \"the world faces a choice between autocracy and democracy\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Firefighters and ambulance crews have rushed to the site of a deadly air strike in Gaza.\n\nAt least 10 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, including a top commander of a Palestinian militant group.\n\nLocal health officials said a young girl was among the dead with dozens of others wounded.\n\nIsrael's PM said the operation followed \"an immediate threat\" by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) after the arrest of one of its members early this week.\n\nThe PIJ fired more than 100 rockets into Israel \"in an initial response\".\n\nMost were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence shield. Sirens were heard in a number of Israeli cities.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it then resumed strikes late on Friday, targeting militant positions.\n\nIn a televised address earlier in the day, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said \"Israel carried out a precise counter-terror operation against an immediate threat\".\n\nThe IDF said it struck sites linked to the PIJ. They include the high-rise Palestine Tower in Gaza City, hit in a loud explosion which left smoke pouring from the building.\n\nFour PIJ militants - including Tayseer Jabari - and a five-year-old girl were among those killed since the strikes started, local health officials say.\n\nThey say another 55 people were injured.\n\nAn Israeli military spokesman said the IDF was \"assuming about 15\" militants had been killed.\n\nIsrael's Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked told Channel 12 News: \"We don't know how this will play out… but this could take time… This could be a lengthy round [of conflict] and a hard one.\"\n\nSpeaking while on a visit to the Iranian capital, Tehran, PIJ secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhala said \"we will respond forcefully to this aggression, and there will be a fight in which our people will win\".\n\n\"There are no red lines for this battle... and Tel Aviv will be under the rockets of the resistance.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, said that armed groups were \"united\" in battle and would not keep silent.\n\nOn Monday night, Israel arrested Bassem Saadi, reported to be the head of PIJ in the West Bank. He was held in the Jenin area as part of an ongoing series of arrest operations after a wave of attacks by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians that left 17 Israelis and two Ukrainians dead. Two of the attackers came from the Jenin district.\n\nAfter Bassem Saadi's arrest, Israel heightened security measures for communities near its border with Gaza, warning that PIJ intended to attack civilians and soldiers. Road closures brought towns and villages in southern Israel to a grinding halt.\n\nPIJ, which is backed by Iran, has its headquarters in Damascus, Syria, and is one of the strongest militant groups in Gaza. It has been responsible for many attacks, including rocket-fire and shootings against Israel.\n\nIsrael and PIJ fought a five-day conflict in November 2019 after fighting erupted following the killing by Israel of a PIJ commander who Israel said was planning an imminent attack. The violence left 34 Palestinians dead and 111 injured, while 63 Israelis needed medical treatment.\n\nIsrael said 25 of the Palestinians killed were militants, including those hit preparing to launch rockets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch as Alex Jones is told his text messages were sent to opposing lawyers by mistake\n\nUS conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.\n\nA jury in Texas ruled the radio host must pay $45.2m in punitive damages, in addition to $4.1m in compensatory damages they awarded a day earlier.\n\nThe two-week defamation trial was brought by the parents of a child killed in the attack.\n\nTwenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook in Connecticut.\n\nThe lawsuit was filed by Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the separated parents of six-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the primary school shooting.\n\nThe plaintiffs - who said they had endured harassment and emotional distress because of the Infowars founder's misinformation - had sought $150m.\n\nThe compensatory damages issued on Thursday were meant to cover the actual costs to the family incurred by Jones' defamation, such as the private security they hired during the trial out of fear of an attack from a Jones supporter.\n\nThe punitive damages are meant to act as a deterrent, and to stop Jones from repeating his offence.\n\n\"We ask that you send a very, very simple message and that is: Stop Alex Jones,\" a lawyer for the parents said in court on Friday.\n\n\"Stop the monetisation of misinformation and lies. Please.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, an economist hired by the parents testified that Jones, his media brand Infowars and parent company Free Speech Systems are worth up to $270m.\n\nJesse Lewis, six, was killed at Sandy Hook\n\nBernard Pettingill told the court that records indicate Jones withdrew $62m for himself from his company in 2021 as his legal troubles grew.\n\n\"That number represents, in my opinion, a value of a net worth,\" Mr Pettingill said. \"He's got money put in a bank account somewhere.\"\n\nFree Speech Systems filed for bankruptcy protections in the first week of the two-week trial.\n\nThe trial heard that Jones' business had earned about $800,000 in a single day selling diet supplements, gun paraphernalia and survivalist equipment.\n\nLawyers for the parents accused Jones of trying to hide evidence, and argued that he had committed perjury when he denied having sent any messages about the Sandy Hook attack.\n\nEarlier this week, an attorney for the plaintiffs revealed that Jones' legal representative had accidentally sent them two years of the radio host's telephone texts.\n\nThe parents said Jones had made their lives \"hell\"\n\nHe said that the congressional committee investigating last year's US Capitol riot had requested access to the messages as they look into Jones' alleged role.\n\nThis is the first of three trials against Jones being brought by family members of Sandy Hook victims.\n\nHe has already lost a series of defamation cases filed by parents of the victims by default after failing to produce documents and testimony.\n\nBut this was the first trial in which financial damages were agreed by a jury.\n\nJones appeared briefly in the court on Friday, but was not present for the final verdict.\n\nDespite retracting his claims about Sandy Hook, Jones has continued to use his media platform to argue the case was rigged against him and claimed that members of the jury pool \"don't know what planet they're on\". His Infowars website depicted the judge being consumed by flames.\n\nHis behaviour triggered several rebukes from the judge, who at one point told him: \"This is not your show.\"\n\nAfter the verdict on Friday, he posted a video where he claimed his net worth to be a fraction of what was said in court, and condemned the trial as \"beyond any kangaroo-rigged court ever\".\n\nJones - a popular figure in US fringe conservative commentary - has repeatedly argued that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax orchestrated by the government to strip Americans of gun rights, and that the parents of the dead children were \"crisis actors\".\n\nHis lawyer had cited US constitutional free speech protections and asked for leniency in the trial, saying the jury had already sent a message to all radio hosts \"that their standard of care has changed\".", "British Gas is to donate 10% of its profits to help customers cope with soaring bills for the \"duration of the energy crisis\".\n\nIts owner Centrica says the money will go into an existing support fund - trebling help available this winter for the poorest customers.\n\nThe firm, which has seen huge profits this year, said thousands of households would get grants of £250-£750.\n\nBut this is a fraction of the support needed to tackle the crisis nationally.\n\nEarlier this week, one energy company boss put that cost closer to £100bn.\n\nBritish Gas' offer of support will be based on the company's retail supply profits, which were £98m before tax in the first-half of 2022. It said the initial donation would be £12m.\n\nHowever, Centrica, which is the parent company of British Gas, reported adjusted operating profits of £1.3bn in the six months to June - up from £262m a year earlier - most of which came from oil and gas drilling.\n\nAnd Paul de Leeuw, director of the RGU Energy Transition Institute at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and a former executive at Centrica, British Gas's initial donation would only benefit 0.5% of its 7.5 million customers.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while it was a helpful gesture, the initial £12m donation amounted to just 1% of Centrica's profits.\n\n\"They've got 7.5 million [residential] energy customers in the UK, so if you look at the money that is available, it's probably going to benefit around 40,000 people max so that's 0.5% of their customer base.\n\n\"So 99.5% of Centrica and British Gas customers are probably not going to see any benefit from this.\"\n\nIt comes as the next energy price cap - which limits what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in England, Scotland and Wales - is set to be announced on Friday.\n\nThe typical home energy bill is forecast to reach £3,600 a year in October - up from £1,971 currently - with further rises expected for January.\n\nThe government has promised a package of help but there have been warnings many people will face hardship without further support.\n\nEnergy firms are also under pressure to help after posting soaring profits this year, amid record high energy prices driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nInsiders at British gas parent company Centrica say this offer is a call to arms for other companies - from all sectors - to do the same at a time of national need.\n\nSceptics say that it is a token gesture that represents a tiny fraction of the overall cost to households, made possible by having a parent company that is making huge profits on its gas production business which other energy retailers don't have.\n\nScottish Power have estimated the cost of shielding customers from increasing wholesale energy costs at £100bn. British Gas is saying they are the first to volunteer to put their hand in their own pocket to help struggling customers.\n\nOthers say it is a drop in a very deep ocean of looming financial distress.\n\nCustomers in fuel poverty and more than £250 in arrears on their energy bills to apply for a grant from British Gas.\n\nA household is considered to be in fuel poverty if it has to spend 10% or more of its income on energy. British Gas told the BBC it would take into account customers' income and household expenditure to determine whether they are eligible.\n\nIt said it would continue to donate around 10% of its supply profits every six months \"for the duration of the energy crisis, backdated to the start of 2022\".\n\nMr de Leeuw said that Centrica had made a \"smart move\" which \"pre-empts a conversation around a possible windfall tax on the energy providers\" and other companies might announce similar measures.\n\nBut he said: \"This requires billions to fix not millions so we are in the wrong conversation if you want to sort out the energy crisis which is just around the corner.\"\n\nCentrica boss Chris O'Shea said the support package was worth £25m. \"As a responsible business we want to do more to support our customers during this difficult time,\" he said.\n\nThis week rival power company Scottish Power' proposed an industry wide scheme to freeze energy bills for two years.\n\nBoss Keith Anderson said the £100bn plan would see the price cap frozen at the current level, with the government covering the difference between what people pay for energy and how much it costs to supply their homes.\n\nThe cost could then be repaid over the next 15 to 20 years and would be underwritten by the UK government.\n\nMr Anderson said he had submitted the idea to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng who was \"seriously considering\" it.\n\nSo far the government has promised a £15bn package of support for UK households. This includes a £650 one-off payment for eight million low income households and a £400 grant for all homes.\n\nPlans to offer households discounts on electricity bills if they cut use at peak times are also set to be announced by National Grid in the next few weeks.\n\nAverage energy bills in the UK are predicted to reach £3,600 a year in October\n\nNo 10 previously said there would be no new support offered before a new prime minister is appointed on 5 September.\n\nThe current favourite to replace Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, has promised tax cuts and recently hinted at direct financial help for hard-pressed households.\n\nHer rival, Rishi Sunak, has said he would introduce more targeted support for households, and has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero.\n\nBut Resolution Foundation, the think tank, warned that the UK would face a \"catastrophe\" this winter unless the government stepped in to support the most vulnerable.\n\nIt is calling for a 30% bill cut for those on benefits, and for households where all individuals are earning less than £25,000 a year. It also said energy bill freezes, social tariffs and a \"solidarity tax\" of 1% on all income tax rates would ease the situation.\n\nMeanwhile, the British Chambers of Commerce wants more help for small businesses to cope with rising energy costs.\n\nIt wants a grant for businesses and a temporary reversal of National Insurance contributions to \"put money back into the pockets of businesses and workers\".\n\nWhat do you want to understand better on the cost of living crisis? What advice and tips would help you? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Engineers conduct the \"pop and catch\" test, to ensure the antenna mechanism will be released safely in orbit\n\nIt looks for all the world like a giant brolly, but there's no rain where it's going.\n\nThis immense reflector-antenna is heading into space, to \"weigh\" Earth's forests.\n\nIt's a key component on the European Space Agency's Biomass mission, now under construction in the UK at aerospace manufacturer Airbus.\n\nWhen unfurled, the space brolly's 12m by 15m wire-mesh membrane will be part of a very special P-band radar system.\n\nIt's special because of its long wavelength.\n\nAt 70cm, it can look past the leaf canopy of forests to map the woody parts below - all those trunks and branches.\n\nEurope has bought in American expertise in large reflector-antennas\n\nUsing an approach akin to tomography, like that used in a CT scan, the 1.2-tonne satellite will analyse slices through the trees on repeat passes to build up a picture of how much woody material is present.\n\nGlobal maps should be produced every six months.\n\nThe plan is for Biomass to gather at least five years' worth of data, to be able to spot trends.\n\nTrees are a two-way valve in the climate system. They absorb copious amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2), but they also release it when they die or are burnt.\n\nPrecise numbers for the flows in either direction through this valve are elusive, however.\n\n\"This mission is about getting a much better handle on the role of forests, in either emitting carbon dioxide through destruction, or taking up carbon dioxide through growth,\" said Prof Shaun Quegan, the mission's principal scientist from the University of Sheffield.\n\n\"At the moment, the amount that's being emitted from forests - the uncertainty on that number is 50% or a bit bigger, and I actually think 50% might be optimistic,\" the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) researcher told BBC News.\n\nArtwork: The 1.2-tonne Biomass satellite will operate at an altitude of just over 660km\n\nEngineers from the American company L3Harris Technologies have been at Airbus in Stevenage to oversee the attachment of the antenna-reflector to the satellite's main body, or bus.\n\nL3Harris are experts in these large, unfurlable systems - knowhow which we don't currently possess in Europe.\n\nThe engineers executed a \"pop and catch\" test on Monday, to check the performance of the mechanism that will release the antenna and its 7m boom when the satellite arrives in orbit.\n\n\"In space, pyrotechnics release a pin, and a motor then drives the system. The objective of this test is to ensure the antenna clears the side of the spacecraft safely,\" explained Airbus chief engineer Carl Warren.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A section of the Amazon forest is systematically removed over a three-year period\n\nIt's been a long journey for Biomass to get to this point.\n\nThe science goes back to the late 1980s when an experimental P-band radar was flown over a forest in Eastern England to prove its credentials.\n\nBut at that stage there was no prospect of such a system ever getting into space because the particular radar frequencies were reserved for military use.\n\nThe US exploits the same band to watch for missiles approaching North America and Northern Europe.\n\nA case had to be made to the International Telecommunications Union to open up a small window in this sensitive part of the electromagnetic spectrum to enable a science application.\n\nEven now, Biomass will not be permitted to operate over Western northern latitudes.\n\nThe radar electronics cover one wall of the satellite structure, or bus\n\nProf Quegan is not unduly concerned about this restriction, though, because forest statistics in those regions of the globe are already reasonably robust.\n\nThe major zones of uncertainty are in the tropics and in Asia, where Biomass can wield its instrument without restriction.\n\nThe electronics for the radar instrument are currently sitting apart from the spacecraft in the Stevenage cleanroom. They're hanging off a panel that is waiting to be attached to one side of the bus.\n\n\"Once that's done, Biomass will go to Airbus in Toulouse for testing,\" said Vicki Lonnon, the Airbus quality assurance manager on the project.\n\n\"The satellite will be shaken to simulate launch vibrations, and it will also go in a thermal vacuum chamber to simulate the conditions in space.\"\n\nLift-off aboard a Vega rocket is expected towards the end of 2023.\n\nBiomass will map the Earth from an altitude of just over 660km.", "Charlie Crist is a former Republican before he switched parties in 2012\n\nDemocratic voters have picked congressman Charlie Crist to take on Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in the midterm elections.\n\nMr Crist beat the state's agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried, in the last big election day before November's vote.\n\nDemocrats are eager to eclipse rising star Mr DeSantis amid expectations he will run for the White House in 2024.\n\nVoters in New York and Oklahoma also picked candidates on Tuesday.\n\nThe midterms will determine control of Congress for the final two years of Democratic President Joe Biden's term.\n\nIn New York state, Democrat Pat Ryan defeated Republican Marc Molinaro in a special election for an open US House seat. That race could prove a bellwether for the midterms.\n\nAccording to opinion polls Mr Crist is currently trailing Mr DeSantis by a few percentage points in Florida, a crucial swing state in presidential elections that has grown steadily more Republican during the governor's tenure.\n\nMr Crist was formerly a Republican who served a single term as the state's governor before switching parties in 2012.\n\nRon DeSantis has been hailed as a conservative rockstar\n\n\"Tonight, the people of Florida clearly sent a message: they want a governor who cares about them and solves real problems, preserves our freedom, not a bully who divides us and takes our freedom away,\" Mr Crist declared in reference to Mr DeSantis.\n\nAt his victory party in a Miami-area ballroom, Mr DeSantis hit back: \"We will never ever surrender to the woke agenda. Florida is a state where woke goes to die.\"\n\nThe Republican won his first election in 2018 by less than half a percentage point, and has since become one of the most admired governors in the country among the party faithful.\n\nWith his fierce opposition to mask and vaccine mandates during the coronavirus pandemic and his refusal to back down on culture war flashpoints from abortion to education, he is widely seen by Republicans as a natural successor to former President Donald Trump.\n\nThe party is kicking off at Ron DeSantis' headquarters in Hialeah, Florida.\n\nThat it would be a victory party was preordained - the incumbent governor was running unopposed for the Republican nomination in November. Instead, the event is giving his fellow politicians a chance to make their pitch to conservative donors and supporters.\n\n\"The battle starts tonight,\" said congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, pledging that Republicans would send Democrats in the House and Senate \"packing\" in the midterms.\n\nWhile the demographics of the Republican coalition in recent elections have been overwhelmingly white, the crowd of supporters at an art centre here in Hialeah - a predominantly Cuban community near Miami - is diverse. Many fled from communist dictatorships, and have taken their distrust of \"socialism\" and the political left with them to their new home.\n\nBrian Tam and Liem Bui emigrated from Vietnam. They say they're dedicated DeSantis supporters who would love to see him run for president one day, although Mr Tam adds that he'd prefer that Mr Trump run again - with Mr DeSantis as his vice-president.\n\nMr DeSantis and Mr Trump have been circling each other warily ahead of the looming battle to see who will be crowned as the Republican nominee for the White House race of 2024.\n\nOn Tuesday, Florida Democratic voters also chose Val Demings, a congresswoman and former Orlando police chief, to take on Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a former presidential hopeful, in November.\n\nMost opinion polls show Mr Rubio with a firm lead so far. Like Mr DeSantis, he ran unopposed in his primary.\n\nFlorida Republican congressman and Trump loyalist Matt Gaetz also cruised to victory on Tuesday, despite facing a federal sex-trafficking investigation.\n\nDemocrats have been on the defensive up until now in this election season, with their party's prospects complicated by President Biden's low approval ratings, inflation and historical political gravity.\n\nRepublicans still sound optimistic that they can wrest control of the US House of Representatives this autumn.\n\nBut their hopes of winning the Senate have been tempered as Trump-endorsed candidates fight to gain traction in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Ohio.\n\nAnger over the Supreme Court's decision in June to roll back abortion rights may also drive voters to back Democrats. The party has seen a boost in donations since the court's conservative majority opened the door for individual states to ban or severely restrict the procedure.\n\nRepublican attacks, meanwhile, have largely focused on the economy with inflation high and the cost of living at the forefront of many voters' minds.\n\nOn Tuesday, New York saw several other high-profile primary contests, including a cut-throat fight between two of the Democratic party's most powerful congressional committee chiefs: Jerry Nadler beat Carolyn Maloney in a newly merged district in Manhattan.\n\nIncumbent congressman Sean Patrick Maloney comfortably fended off left-wing challenger Alessandra Biaggi in suburban New York.\n\nIn Oklahoma, meanwhile, Trump-endorsed congressman Markwayne Mullin defeated the former speaker of the state legislature in a Republican primary to fill the seat of the state's retiring US senator.", "The BBC has obtained CCTV footage showing the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.\n\nFour gunshots can be heard in the video which the BBC understands police have already seen.", "Our live coverage of the war in Ukraine is due to end soon, but first here's a roundup of the key events from today.\n\nRailway station attack: At least 22 people were killed and 50 others injured, after a Russian strike on a railway station in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine has said. President Volodymyr Zelensky told the UN Security Council train carriages were hit at Chaplyne station, around 70 miles (110km) west of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.\n\nIndependence Day: Monday saw Ukraine mark its 31st Independence Day from the Soviet Union. Public events for the holiday were banned in Kyiv over concerns they could become a target for renewed Russian attacks.\n\nJohnson in Kyiv: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv, his third since the war began, to mark Independence Day. While there, he said Ukraine \"can and will\" win against Russia.\n\nSix months of war a 'tragic milestone': Wednesday also marked six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. UN chief Antonio Guterres described it as a \"sad and tragic milestone\", adding that the consequences of the \"sad and senseless war\" were being felt far beyond Ukraine\".\n\nUS aid: President Joe Biden earlier announced $3bn (£2.5bn) of fresh US military support for Ukraine - the biggest American package yet - which will help Ukraine to acquire weaponry and equipment.\n\nChange in pace: Kyrylo Budanov, one of Ukraine's top military intelligence officials, suggested Russia's offensive is slowing because of \"moral and physical fatigue\". But Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed Moscow had deliberately slowed down its campaign in a bid to to reduce civilian casualties.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rolands Kazoks had his pay and bank cards withheld and denied showers and clean clothes\n\nThree people have been found guilty of exploiting a vulnerable man by forcing him to work and withholding his pay and passport from him.\n\nLatvian Rolands Kazoks, 31, was also stripped of his bank cards and denied showers and clean clothes, Newport Crown Court was told.\n\nTwo men and a woman, all from Newport, were found guilty of requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour.\n\nSentencing is due to take place at a later date.\n\nJokubas Stankevicius, 59, and Ruta Stankeviciene, 57, both of Capel Close, and Normunds Freibergs 41, of Morley Close, were all found guilty of requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour.\n\nFreibergs was also found guilty of arranging or facilitating the travel of another person with a view to exploitation contrary to the Modern Slavery Act 2015.\n\nHe was found not guilty of a charge of acting as an unlicensed gangmaster.\n\nRuta Stankeviciene (left), Jokubas Stankevicius (middle) and Normunds Freibergs (right) denied the modern slavery charges\n\nThe court heard Mr Kazoks had been living in Germany and wanted a better life in the UK.\n\nHe went looking for jobs on Latvian social media site Draugiem, where he was introduced to Freibergs whose profile picture showed him at a desk in an office with the logo for a firm named Thomas Recruitment behind him.\n\nThat and other pictures on his account were aimed to give the impression he worked for the recruitment firm, the prosecution said, which he did not.\n\nAfter being told he would be able to work in a bakery for £8.20 an hour and only pay £85 a week living costs, Mr Kazoks travelled to Wales.\n\nOn arrival he was told he would be living in a small room in the house of Stankeviciene and Stankevicius.\n\nDespite getting jobs in various factories, the court heard his debt to the three defendants spiralled as they erroneously charged him for things such as £50 for a National Insurance number, and £300 for getting a job in a chicken factory.\n\nJokubas Stankevicius and his wife Ruta were seen on CCTV using a cashpoint in Pill, Newport, taking money out of Mr Kazoks' account\n\nWhile unemployed, Mr Kazoks' debt soared and the defendants added interest.\n\nThe court heard they increased his living costs to £95 to pay for internet and to £150 because of Brexit.\n\nStankevicius was said to keep a chart of Mr Kazoks' supposed debt on the fridge, which ran into thousands of pounds.\n\nIn early 2018, Mr Kazoks started work at Abergavenny's Avara meat plant, where colleagues clubbed together to buy him trainers after seeing the flimsy footwear he was wearing in the snow.\n\nHe told them about the debts he owed and how much he paid to stay at the house in Pillgwenlly area of Newport before they raised the alarm.\n\nGangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) investigator Laura Thomas said it took two months before Mr Kazoks left the property in Newport.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Owami Davies worked as an A&E nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nStudent nurse Owami Davies has been found alive and well in Hampshire, the Met Police has confirmed.\n\nA member of the public came forward after a police appeal, which saw a huge public response and 117 possible sightings.\n\nMs Davies, who was studying nursing at King's College London, left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July, and was last seen on CCTV in Croydon on 7 July.\n\nThe Met said it would now review its investigation along with Essex Police.\n\nPolice have been working to retrace the 24-year-old's steps, with some 50 officers trawling through 50,000 hours of CCTV footage.\n\nThe Met said she had been discovered after the 118th reported sighting, which it had received at 10:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nMs Davies left her home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was reported missing to Essex Police two days later\n\nThe force added Ms Davies's family had spoken to her and she appeared to be fit and well cared for.\n\nOfficers will speak to Ms Davies more fully in due course about her welfare.\n\nDet Ch Insp Nigel Penney, who led the investigation, said it was \"the outcome we were all hoping and praying for\".\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to say she has been found safe and well outside the London area in the county of Hampshire and she's currently with specialist officers from my team.\n\n\"She looks in good health, she's in a place of safety, and not currently in the vulnerable state that we were led to believe she was in at the start of her disappearance.\"\n\nA service was previously held by the chaplaincies of King’s College London and Guys and St Thomas' Hospital\n\nBoth Commander Paul Brogden and DCI Penney said they were \"ecstatic\" at the outcome of the case, with the Met commander adding: \"More importantly I'm pleased for Owami's mother and her brother.\"\n\nMr Brogden also said \"all aspects\" of the investigation would be reviewed to assess whether there is \"any learning that we need to take\" from how it was handled.\n\nThe pair added officers would try to \"compassionately\" establish how and why Ms Davies disappeared, and said she \"probably was\" aware of the scale of the search for her, given the publicity.\n\nBefore she went missing Ms Davies was nearing the end of her studies at King's College London and had an interest in doing research on diseases.\n\nShe had secured a job with Guys St Thomas Trust (GSTT) after working as an A&E nurse during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHer colleagues at GSTT welcomed the news she was safe, tweeting: \"We are delighted that our colleague Owami has been found and is safe. Thank you to everyone who helped to find her.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Guy's and St Thomas' This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Guy's and St Thomas'\n\nMs Davies had left her family home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July, having told her mother she was going to the gym.\n\nShe was found asleep in a doorway in Clarendon Road, Croydon, on 6 July while waiting for a friend, but told Met Police officers that she did not need help and left.\n\nHer family had reported her disappearance before then but Ms Davies had not been marked as a missing person on the police database at that time.\n\nDetectives said on Monday that Ms Davies could be sleeping rough as she had no money on her Oyster card and no access to her phone or bank cards, but added they were keeping an open mind on all possibilities.\n\nMs Davies was found asleep in a doorway in Clarendon Road on 6 July\n\nFive people were arrested and bailed in connection with her disappearance - two on suspicion of murder and three on suspicion of kidnap - but the Met later said there was no evidence that she had come to harm.\n\nOfficers confirmed on Tuesday that all five were still on police bail and a decision on what happens next to them would follow a \"full debrief\".\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct said it was \"assessing the available information to determine what further action may be required\", with regards to the police investigation.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC has verified that the images match the interior of the Mariupol concert hall\n\nThe UN Human Rights Office says it is concerned by reports that Russia plans to try Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Russian-occupied Mariupol.\n\nA UN spokeswoman said there was evidence that metal cages were being built in the Ukrainian city's concert hall, \"apparently to restrain prisoners of war during proceedings.\"\n\nThe UN said prosecuting POWs for taking part in hostilities is a war crime.\n\nPhotos posted on social media in recent days - including by Ukrainian authorities - appear to show metal cages being built on the stage of the city's philharmonic hall.\n\nThe BBC has verified that the photos match the interior of the venue and were taken within the last four to five days.\n\nUkraine's intelligence service has alleged that Russia is planning to hold show trials of Ukrainian POWs captured while defending the city before it fell to Russian forces in May.\n\nSpeaking at a press briefing, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said \"apparently the idea is to restrain the prisoners of war during proceedings in these cages,\" adding that such plans were \"not acceptable\" and \"humiliating\".\n\n\"We recall that international humanitarian law prohibits the establishment of courts solely to judge prisoners of war and that wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial amounts to a war crime,\" Ms Shamdasani said in a UN statement released on Tuesday.\n\nMore on the Ukraine conflict:\n\nShe added that the UN is concerned that if POWs are charged with crimes, they will not receive a fair trial.\n\nMs Shamdasani also expressed concern over Russia denying Ukrainian POWs access to independent monitors such as the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which she said could expose them to the risk of being tortured to extract a confession.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUkrainian officials have ridiculed Russia's accusation that its special services were behind the killing of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist, in a car-bomb attack.\n\n\"We don't work in this way,\" said National Security and Defence Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov.\n\nA memorial service for Ms Dugina, 29, took place in Moscow on Tuesday.\n\nMs Dugina, a commentator on a Russian nationalist TV channel, died when her car blew up on the outskirts of Moscow.\n\nHer influential father, Alexander Dugin, may have been the intended target of the attack. His expansionist ideas of a New Russia or \"Novorossiya\" on Ukrainian territory are said to have influenced President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014.\n\nPresident Putin condemned the \"vile, cruel crime\" and posthumously awarded Ms Dugina the Order of Courage.\n\nHer 60-year-old father paid tribute to her as a \"rising star at the start of her journey\". She was brutally murdered in front of him by Russia's enemies, he said, and he went on to call for victory over Ukraine.\n\nIn Kyiv, the security and defence council secretary said Ukraine had nothing to do with the bombing: \"We have more important tasks for our boys and girls... The FSB did this and is now suggesting that one of our people did it,\" he told Ukrainian TV.\n\nMr Danilov also claimed Russia was planning a series of attacks inside Russia in an attempt to mobilise a population whose support for the war was waning.\n\nUkrainian presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, said Russian \"propaganda lives in a fictional world\", adding that the car bombing was part of a struggle within Russia's special services.\n\nRussia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had solved the case and blamed Ukraine directly. Its claims were widely reported by state TV, and pro-Kremlin commentators called for immediate revenge.\n\nDarya Dugin's father said on Tuesday that she had died for Russia\n\nRussian state TV broadcast live pictures of the memorial service at Ostankino TV centre in Moscow. Ultra-nationalist thinker Alexander Dugin paid tribute to his daughter, saying \"she died for Russia, for the people\".\n\nRussian MPs called her a \"warrior for the sovereignty of Russia\". One controversial MP, Leonid Slutsky, called for a square in Kyiv to be renamed in Darya's honour once \"denazification\" - code for Russia annexing Ukraine - had been \"completed\".\n\nThe killing remains a top story for Russian state-controlled television. All the TV channels have been reporting as fact the FSB Security Service's claims that the culprit was a Ukrainian secret agent in a Mini Cooper.\n\nBut some are questioning how the Russian authorities allegedly cracked this case, and the speed with which they did so. It took the FSB less than two days to \"solve\" the murder - releasing a detailed statement as well as video materials.\n\nMany opposition politicians, most of whom are now living abroad due to persecution in Russia, have been asking why other political assassinations in Russia remain unsolved - often for many years. There are other concerns, too - that Darya's murder may become a pretext for increased repression in Russia or for further attacks against Ukraine.\n\nWe still don't really know who was behind the killing, why Daria Dugina was killed and whether she was the intended target.\n\nRussian demands for retribution came as Ukraine prepared to mark 31 years of independence on Wednesday, which coincides with six months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began.\n\nThe US state department has warned that Russia is stepping up efforts to attack Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and government facilities. Fears of an escalated Russian attack have prompted Kyiv to ban public events while the city of Kharkiv has brought forward an overnight curfew to start at 16:00 local time (13:00 GMT).\n\nAccording to the FSB's account of Darya Dugina's death, a Ukrainian woman linked to security services in Kyiv had moved to Russia in July alongside her young daughter.\n\nThe woman had rented an apartment in the same building as Ms Dugina for a month, preparing for the attack, it alleged. In that time, she allegedly followed her target through Moscow in a Mini Cooper - for which she used three different licence plates.\n\nThe FSB later released video purporting to show the suspect's car entering Russia, then of her entering Ms Dugina's building and finally leaving Russia for Estonia.\n\nRussian investigators released this photo of teams inspecting the site of the explosion\n\nMs Dugina and her father were attending a festival near Moscow on Saturday evening where he was giving a lecture. They had reportedly intended to leave in the same car, but changed their plans at the last minute.\n\nInvestigators said explosives had been planted underneath the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving. Video appeared to show him looking on in shock as her car burned.\n\nMs Dugina was a vocal supporter of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a political commentator for her father's International Eurasian Movement organisation. She wrote regularly for pro-Kremlin media outlets and had been placed under sanctions by the UK in July as \"a frequent and high-profile contributor of disinformation in relation to Ukraine\".\n\n\"My daughter Darya Dugina was brutally murdered in front of me,\" his statement on Telegram read. \"She was a beautiful Orthodox woman, patriot, war reporter, an expert for central TV and philosopher.\"\n\nRussian media linked the suspect identified by the FSB to Ukraine's Azov regiment, which Moscow says is a terrorist group. The Azov regiment flatly denied the allegation.\n\nEstonia rejected the Russian claim that Ms Dugina's alleged killer had fled across the border as a \"provocation in a very long line of provocations by the Russian Federation\".\n\nIndependent Russian outlet Agentstvo raised several questions about the FSB version of events, surrounding the woman identified as the killer and the Mini Cooper car. It wondered why she would take a child with her on such a dangerous mission and said video of the car had been posted in the Kyiv region three days before the blast.\n\nExiled former Russian MP Ilya Ponomarev argued it was the work of a little-known Russian resistance group called the National Republican Army. The former MP who moved to Ukraine said the group had carried out several actions already, although there was no public reference to the group before Sunday.", "Some BTec level 2 students will not get their results as expected on Thursday, an exam board has suggested.\n\nAbout 235,000 BTec Firsts, Technicals and Tech Award grades were scheduled to be sent to students on Thursday.\n\nBut exam board Pearson said that, as of Wednesday morning, 7,000 students were \"ineligible to receive their grade\".\n\nPearson said it had \"a dedicated team\" working to obtain any outstanding information and would provide any results \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nResults for GCSEs, as well as other vocational and technical qualifications, are also due to be released on Thursday.\n\nPearson's announcement does not affect results for GCSEs.\n\nThe affected BTec students could be deemed \"ineligible\" because some of their marks are not logged in the system, the BBC understands.\n\nThis may be because of processing issues, or, in some instances, because the pupil has decided not to continue with their BTec studies.\n\nJacqueline Williamson is worried that BTec delays could affect her son, as well as her daughter\n\nJacqueline Williamson, 48, a nurse in a fertility unit from Washington, in Tyne and Wear, was worried when her daughter, Sian Wright, 18, was affected by delays to BTec Level 3 results last week.\n\nNow she fears her son, Owen Wright, 16, may be affected by the recently announced delays to BTec Level 2 results.\n\n\"He did two BTecs... so there is the potential for delays,\" she told the BBC.\n\nShe says she is \"absolutely devastated\" for \"all the kids - who deserve better\".\n\n\"They've had two years of disrupted education - through no-one's fault - during the pandemic,\" she says.\n\n\"I feel they've been massively let down and disrespected. These exam boards know results' day is coming - it's like Christmas, you know when it's coming.\n\n\"It's just so frustrating.\"\n\nPearson cannot currently confirm how many students who are expecting grades on Thursday will not receive them.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, the exam board said: \"As of 09:00 BST today, there are 7,000 students that are currently ineligible to receive their grade as they do not meet the qualification criteria at this time.\n\n\"We have a dedicated team in place to work with schools and colleges to obtain and validate any outstanding information.\"\n\nPearson said it was focused on \"running those eligibility checks and providing any results as quickly as possible to students\". It thanked schools and colleges for \"tirelessly supporting us in this work\".\n\nSchool leaders' union NAHT said: \"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and stress as young people seek to confirm their places with sixth forms, colleges and training providers.\"\n\nSarah Hannafin, its senior policy adviser, added: \"And with no result, how can they celebrate their achievements with family and friends?\"\n\nThe Department for Education in England said it was working with exams regulator Ofqual to make sure grades are awarded \"as quickly as possible\", and that it expected schools and colleges \"to hold places offered to students who are awaiting results, to ensure they can still progress\".\n\nLast week, Pearson apologised after some BTec level 3 students did not receive their results on the day they were expected, in some cases putting the chance of securing a university place in doubt.\n\nPearson said a \"very small percentage\" of its BTec students were affected.\n\nAnother exam board, OCR, has also experienced delays issuing Cambridge Technicals results to some students.\n\nBridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow education secretary, said \"chaos\" around BTec results was \"unacceptable\", adding: \"It's appalling that students are still waiting on results from last week.\"\n\nThe Department for Education has been contacted for comment.\n\nOverall grades for GCSEs on Thursday are expected to be lower than 2020 and 2021, when grades based on teachers' assessments led to a rise in top marks.\n\nBut - as with last week's A-level results - they are projected to be higher than grades in 2019.\n\nAre you expecting BTEC Level 2 results tomorrow, and are worried you may not receive your results? You can share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wrexham owners McElhenney and Reynolds on their first season\n\nA documentary about Wrexham FC puts its \"underdog story\" in the spotlight, according to its celebrity owners.\n\nWelcome to Wrexham charts its takeover by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney since 2021.\n\nFormer club director Spencer Harris said Wrexham was a community that \"battles against odds constantly\". Fans saved it from collapse in 2011.\n\nLast season the club lost in the play-offs for a sixth time, delaying hopes of a return to the Football League.\n\nBut Wrexham's fanbase continues to grow at home and abroad with the actors helping to write a new storyline for the club.\n\nSeason ticket sales are almost three times higher since before they took over.\n\nThere have been near capacity crowds at Wrexham's first two home games of this season.\n\nAnd data shows growing engagement with fans in US logging on to the club's social media accounts such as Instagram.\n\n\"The thing that we love more than anything is the football,\" said Harris who helped to seal the deal with Reynolds and McElhenney last year.\n\nHe was among an army of fans who set up Wrexham Supporters' Trust after voting to save the club from collapse at a meeting on 24 August 2011.\n\nHarris said the \"great story\" was that the people of Wrexham had put it in a \"viable\" position before the new owners \"saw its potential and fell in love its charm\".\n\nHe believes the club could go a \"very, very long way to realise its potential\", although a return to top flight football would not be easy, even with celebrity backers.\n\nThis season marks Wrexham's 15th out of the Football League, with fans hoping it will be their last.\n\n\"The town is absolutely buzzing,\" said Wrexham supporter Tom Evans, prior to watching his team thrash newly promoted Maidstone United 5-0 on Saturday.\n\nDragons co-chairmen Reynolds and McElhenney were also at the stadium to watch the victory.\n\n\"They have been awesome - raised our profile immensely,\" added Tom, who was sporting a cap saying \"Make Wrexham great again\".\n\nPrior to kick-off, fellow supporter Jamie Dyson said the new owners had lifted spirits on and off the field.\n\n\"After so many years in the doldrums, they've changed the belief, I think, more than anything in the community,\" he said.\n\nHe has his \"fingers crossed\" the team can lift themselves out of the National League.\n\n\"We have gone from being a little bit embarrassed to be from Wrexham and support Wrexham to having a real belief to where we are going in the future,\" he said.\n\nThe plan is to build a 5,500-capacity seated stand in the Kop, extending the stadium's capacity to 15,000\n\nFan Karen Meredith, enjoying a pre-match drink with fellow supporters at Wrexham's Turf pub, said she felt Reynolds and McElhenney \"very genuine\".\n\n\"And I think they have been very good for the club,\" she said.\n\n\"But, most importantly, they have been good for the community of Wrexham.\"\n\nReynolds and Rob McElhenney have donated cash to help locals, including £20,000 for four-year-old Aria Hodgkiss, who has a brain tumour.\n\nThe club also plans to redevelop part of the Racecourse stadium with a 5,500-capacity seated stand in the Kop, to boost capacity to more than 15,000.\n\nFootball fans are hoping the development could lead to the return of international football to north Wales, as Cardiff has become its only national home.\n\nDeveloping the Kop is part of a wider plan to improve one of the main gateways into Wrexham city centre, along Mold Road\n\nIn 1877, the Racecourse was one of the first places international football was played, with its last Welsh football match against Trinidad & Tobago in 2019.\n\nThe plans for the Kop are part of the Wrexham Gateway Project - supported by the local authority and other partners - to improve one of the main routes into Wrexham city centre as Mold Road includes the stadium and railway station.\n\n\"Over the last couple of years it's really making some strides forward,\" said Harris, referring to Wrexham becoming a city to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee in May and reaching the finals of the UK's City of Culture which could have brought in £200m to the wider area.\n\nReynolds said that Welcome to Wrexham, which starts this week, highlighted the \"inter connectivity between the club and the community\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by On The Red Carpet This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by On The Red Carpet\n\nThat 'community' is growing globally as well as locally, according to club figures.\n\nAt home, season ticket sales are up 20%, standing at 7,118 this season, compared with 5,892 for 2021-2022 - and that doubled from 2,609 season tickets sold for 2019/20.\n\nSo far, the club's first two home games have been at near capacity with attendances of 9,897 and 9,863, according to officials.\n\nAnd away from home, the club has seen its social media profile \"explode\" since the names of Reynolds and McElhenney were first linked to the club in September 2020.\n\nIt has more than 130,000 followers on its Instagram account. More than 16% of the audience came from the US last season, data shows.\n\nThe documentary makers began promoting its release to an American audience last week, with a bus tour in Los Angeles.\n\nFormer Wrexham employee Andrew Higgins, who now lives in California, said it was \"surreal\" to see his club being publicised locally with a \"Welcome to Wrexham\" billboard outside Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the double deck bus and promotional films being shown locally.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nAnd Andy Gilpin, who runs the Fearless in Devotion Podcast with other Wrexham fans, said the documentary could \"really put us on the map\" with a global audience.\n\n\"Once I saw it I knew how big this could really be, not just for Wrexham but for north Wales and Wales as a whole,\" he said.\n\nAndrew Higgins says it's \"surreal\" to see his home town club being promoted in California where he now lives", "Olivia's head teacher said she had a \"beautiful smile, a lovely sense of humour, and a bubbly personality\"\n\nPolice hunting the gunman who shot dead a nine-year-old girl at her home in Liverpool have been given the name of a suspect by two different sources.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was killed by a masked attacker who had chased a man into her house in the Dovecot area of the city on Monday night.\n\nNews that detectives had been given a lead was welcomed by Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell.\n\n\"I'm really pleased to hear information is coming forward,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"It was the plea that was put out yesterday - we know somebody out there will know what happened and who is involved.\"\n\nOfficers are also reviewing CCTV footage and conducting house-to-house inquiries.\n\nPolice said the gunman \"fired indiscriminately\", hitting Olivia in the chest as she stood behind her mother Cheryl Korbel, who was shot in the wrist.\n\nThe man being chased was also shot and remains in hospital in a serious, but not life-threatening, condition.\n\nDetectives have not yet spoken to him and he has not been arrested.\n\nMrs Korbel is recovering at another hospital.\n\nThe family had no connection to either of the men, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt a press conference on Tuesday, Merseyside Police said:\n\nMerseyside's criminal fraternity are being asked to help in the hunt for the gunman\n\nMerseyside Police Chief Constable Serena Kennedy described the attack, which happened in Kingsheath Avenue at about 22:00 BST, as \"shocking and appalling\".\n\nShe said: \"I want to take this opportunity again to appeal to anybody who knows who is responsible for this attack to please come forward and give us those names.\n\n\"We need to find all who are responsible for this - not just the gunman. We need to find out who supplied the weapon and who arranged this terrible incident.\"\n\nShe said Olivia's death was \"an absolute tragedy and crosses every single boundary\".\n\nMs Kennedy added: \"If people are frightened to come forward, we can have those conversations in confidence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liverpool police say gunman had no connection to killed 9-year-old girl\n\nBoris Johnson described the shooting as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\".\n\nOn Twitter, the prime minister promised Merseyside Police would get \"whatever they need to catch those responsible and secure justice for Olivia\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson \"someone out there knows who did this... abhorrent act of evil\".\n\nLocal councillor Barbara Murray told BBC Breakfast: \"Coming forward, you don't have to go to the police. Liverpool has got 90 councillors, I think any one of them would liaise with police on behalf of anybody who wants to give information.\n\n\"Really strongly, I would say people can use Crimestoppers. It's an anonymous phone call. You don't have to give information about yourself.\"\n\nAssistant mayor Harry Doyle told the Radio 4 Today programme: \"It was just, and still is, a complete and utter shock. As the news progressed yesterday it just became more horrific.\n\n\"Just speaking to people on their doorsteps, they're mortified. Lots of children in the area who have played with Olivia on the street, they're really upset.\n\n\"The confusion as well when these things happen, when it's in your street, it's very real. It's heartbreaking, it really is.\"\n\nFloral tributes to Olivia have been left close to the scene of the shooting\n\nMr Doyle said the police's understanding of crime in the city had changed since the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in 2007, and he was \"very confident we will get justice\".\n\nBut the former chief constable of Greater Manchester Police has downplayed the likelihood of criminals turning in the killer.\n\nQuestioned on Sky News about whether criminal gangs would respond to an appeal from Merseyside Police, Sir Peter Fahy said: \"It's very rare, really.\n\n\"This, at the end of the day, will be down to either a lucky piece of information from the public, really good analysis of mobile phone data.\n\n\"Often when criminal members suffer the most horrendous injuries they refuse to co-operate with the police or tell the police what's happened.\n\n\"Because they want to exact their own revenge or just out of fear.\"\n\nOlivia's death comes after a spate of killings involving guns and knives on Merseyside in recent weeks.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If you feel able to do so please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "Researchers have declared a mammal related to the manatee - said to have inspired ancient tales of mermaids and sirens - extinct in China.\n\nOnly three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the past five years.\n\nKnown as the ocean's most gentle giant, the dugong's slow, relaxed behaviour is likely to have made it vulnerable to overfishing and shipping accidents.\n\nIt still exists elsewhere in the world but is facing similar threats.\n\nProf Samuel Turvey, from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who co-authored the research study, said: \"The likely disappearance of the dugong in China is a devastating loss.\"\n\nScientists at ZSL and the Chinese Academy of Science reviewed all historical data on where dugongs had previously been found in China.\n\nThey found there had been no verified sightings by scientists since 2000.\n\nIn addition, the researchers turned to citizen science to interview 788 community members living in those coastal regions identified, to determine when local people had last seen one.\n\nOn average, residents reported not having seen a dugong for 23 years. Only three people had seen one in the past five years.\n\nThis has led the researchers to declare the dugong functionally extinct - meaning \"it is no longer viable... to sustain itself\", Heidi Ma, postdoctoral researcher at ZSL, told the BBC.\n\nThe dugong is a unique character of the sea. Weighing in at almost half a tonne, it is the only vegetarian marine mammal.\n\nSimilar in appearance and behaviour to the manatee, but distinguished by its whale-like tail, its gentle - seemingly benign - disposition has led some to believe that it inspired ancient seafaring tales of mermaids.\n\nDugongs use sensitive bristles on the end of their snout to feed on seagrass\n\nSadly, its habitat close to shore in China left it vulnerable to hunters in the 20th Century who sought the animal for its skin, bones and meat.\n\nAfter a notable decline in population, dugongs were classified as a grade-one national key protected animal by the Chinese State Council in 1988.\n\nBut researchers believe that the continuing destruction of its habitat - including a lack of seagrass beds for feed - has caused a \"rapid population collapse\".\n\nThe UN Environment Programme estimates that 7% of seagrass habitat is being lost globally every year because of industrial and agricultural pollution, coastal development, unregulated fishing and climate change.\n\nProf Turvey said its extinction in China should act as a warning to other regions that house dugongs - including Australia and East Africa - calling it \"a sobering reminder that extinctions can occur before effective conservation actions are developed\".\n\nThe species is found in 37 other tropical regions in the world - in particular the shallow coastal waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans - but is classified as \"vulnerable\" on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list of threatened species.\n\nCountries are currently meeting in New York to sign a new UN marine treaty which would put 30% of the world's oceans in protected areas.\n\nKristina Gjerde, high-seas policy adviser for the IUCN, told the BBC: \"The dugong is a sad example of what is happening to the marine environment where there is increasing encroachment of human activities.\"", "There are fears fish and chip shops could struggle to survive as costs rise\n\nFish and chip shops are facing \"extinction\" amid rising costs, an industry body has warned.\n\nSome shops in the West of England say the soaring price of cod, sunflower oil and energy has left them struggling.\n\nThe National Federation of Fish Friers is urging the government to cut VAT and help shops with energy bills.\n\nA government spokesman said it is supporting businesses \"of all sizes by slashing fuel duty\" and introducing a 50% business rates relief.\n\nThe federation has secured a meeting with ministers on Thursday to push its message that the industry needs help.\n\nOne manager said they feared some families were cutting out regular fish and chip nights due to the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nCraig Williams, from Sand Bay Fish and Chip Shop near Weston-super-Mare, said the current situation was \"worse\" than during the pandemic.\n\n\"People were coming in to spend their money [when] they were furloughed,\" he said.\n\nCraig Williams of Sand Bay Fish and Chip Shop said some families were abandoning their regular treat\n\n\"People had money in their pockets, people are penny-pinching now. So fish and chips might not be top of their priority list on a Friday night.\"\n\nSome shops are putting their prices up to stay afloat.\n\nBishopston Fish Bar on Gloucester Road in Bristol has already raised its prices three times this year, but staff hope they will not have to do it again.\n\nJason Ford, from the shop, said during the same period \"business had dropped by about 30% per cent - but we're still going\".\n\nJason Ford from Bishopston Fish Bar hope they won't have to raise their prices again\n\nNational Federation of Fish Friers President Andrew Crook revealed about 66% of shops had reduced opening hours to save money - equating to a fall in staffing levels of four people per shop.\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately this is potentially an extinction event for small businesses.\n\n\"It's like nothing we've ever seen before.\"\n\nA government spokesman said: \"We are working closely with industry to mitigate the impact our sanctions against Russia may have on British businesses, including through the creation of the £100m UK Seafood Fund.\n\n\"We're already supporting businesses of all sizes by slashing fuel duty, introducing a 50% business rates relief for eligible high street businesses and put the brakes on bill increases by freezing the business rates multiplier - worth £4.6 billion over the next five years.\"\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "Outgoing UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said households across Europe have to endure the cost-of-living crisis to counter Russian aggression during a visit to Ukraine.\n\nMr Johnson said the West must \"stay the course\" on Ukraine despite rising living costs, driven by the war.\n\nHe said while energy bills were high \"the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood\" for Russia's \"evils\".\n\nA close ally of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr Johnson was making his third visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded six months ago.\n\nHe claimed Western unity on Ukraine was \"growing\" despite reports of waning support among European countries as rising energy prices cripple the global economy.\n\nIn the UK, the inflation rate is forecast to hit a 42-year high of 13.3% this year, while the economy is expected to shrink for more than a year.\n\nThe Bank of England said the main reason for high inflation and low growth was rising energy bills, fuelled by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nEuropean countries have accused Russia - a major global supplier of energy - of using gas as a weapon by limiting supplies in response to sanctions.\n\nMr Johnson acknowledged Western countries had paid a heavy price, including the UK, where Russian President Vladimir Putin's \"ruinous war\" had sent energy bills skyrocketing.\n\n\"We know the coming winter will be tough and Putin will manipulate Russian energy supplies to try to torment households across Europe,\" Mr Johnson said. \"Our first test as friends of Ukraine will be to face down and endure that pressure.\"\n\nDuring the trip, he vowed that Ukraine \"can and will win this war\" against a \"barbaric and illegal invader\".\n\nA plaque with Mr Johnson's name on it was unveiled on the Alley of Bravery\n\nThe prime minister also announced a further £54m military support package for Ukraine.\n\nThis includes 2,000 drones and loitering munitions which Downing Street said would help Ukraine \"to better track and target invading Russian forces\".\n\nThe UK is one of the leading donors of military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian targets prosecuting or linked to the war.\n\nIt is likely to be Mr Johnson's final visit to the country as UK prime minister, as he is due to leave office on 6 September.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK military aid would \"give the brave and resilient Ukrainian Armed Forces another boost in capability, allowing them to continue to push back Russian forces and fight for their freedom\".\n\nHe was presented with the Order of Liberty - Ukraine's highest award that can be given to foreign nationals.\n\nAnd, appearing with Mr Johnson in Ukraine's capital, Mr Zelensky unveiled a plaque for the UK prime minister on the \"alley of bravery\" outside the Ukrainian parliament.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Zelensky said he was \"glad to welcome\" Mr Johnson who he described as \"a great friend of Ukraine\".\n\nHe thanked the UK prime minister for \"the uncompromising support of our country from the first days of full-scale Russian aggression, for the steadfast defence of Ukraine's interests in the international arena!\n\n\"Our country is lucky to have such a friend!\"\n\nBoris Johnson referenced how President Putin is effectively using the energy crisis as an indirect weapon of war - to \"torment households.\"\n\nHis message to the public that they must \"endure\" that pressure is striking.\n\nIt sounds like an admission that we are vulnerable to such indirect \"weapons of war\" because we have not yet secured our own energy independence through homegrown supplies.\n\nIf we had done that, we would not be as exposed to international price shocks.\n\nHe may not have meant it as such, but his words serve as a challenge to whoever succeeds him as prime minister.\n\nThey are under pressure to help households with their winter fuel bills, ahead of the energy price cap announcement on Friday.\n\nBut they will also need to show how they can rapidly fix the fundamental problem, of domestic supplies not meeting demand.\n\nOther world leaders have also paid tribute to Ukraine as the country marks 31 years since it gained independence from Russia.\n\nUS President Joe Biden said Ukrainians have \"inspired the world with their extraordinary courage and dedication to freedom\".\n\nMr Biden also confirmed $3bn (£2.5bn) of fresh US military support for Ukraine - the biggest American package yet - which will help Ukraine to acquire weaponry and equipment.\n\nMr Zelensky said he was grateful to the US for their \"unwavering support\".\n\nThe Ukrainian president has vowed to \"liberate\" all of his country's territories occupied by Russia without \"any concession or compromise\".\n\nElsewhere, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer met Ukrainian soldiers being trained by British Army officials at Salisbury Plain.\n\nHe said: \"The UK remains totally united in the face of Russian aggression. Our commitment to the Ukrainian people will never waver.\"", "A boat trapped in the dried-out shore where the French-Swiss Lac des Brenets lake should be\n\nTwo-thirds of Europe is under some sort of drought warning, in what is likely the worst such event in 500 years.\n\nThe latest report from the Global Drought Observatory says 47% of the continent is in \"warning\" conditions, meaning soil has dried up.\n\nAnother 17% is on alert - meaning vegetation \"shows signs of stress\".\n\nThe report warns that the dry spell will hit crop yields, spark wildfires, and may last several months more in some of Europe's southern regions.\n\nCompared with the average of the previous five years, EU forecasts for harvest are down 16% for grain maize, 15% for soybeans and 12% for sunflowers.\n\nThe drought observatory is part of the European Commission's research wing. Responding to it, the Commission warned that preliminary data suggests \"the current drought still appears to be the worst since at least 500 years\".\n\nThe ongoing heatwave and water shortages have \"created an unprecedented stress on water levels in the entire EU\", Research Commissioner Mariya Gabriel said.\n\n\"We are currently noticing a wildfire season sensibly above the average and an important impact on crops production. Climate change is undoubtedly more noticeable every year,\" she added.\n\nThe report warned that nearly all of Europe's rivers have dried up to some extent.\n\nApart from the obvious impact on boats, dry rivers are also hitting the energy sector, which is already in crisis. Hydroelectric power has dropped by a significant 20%, according to the report.\n\nA \"severe drought\" has been present in many places all year, but \"has been further expanding and worsening as of early August\" it says. The conditions are likely to last until at least November this year along the European Mediterranean.\n\nThe report warns that the situation is worsening in countries including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Hungary, northern Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Ireland and the UK.\n\nThe researchers' stark warning follows rapidly-sinking river levels across Europe which have exposed relics of the past - including so-called \"hunger stones\" warning of potential famine and the sunken remains of World War Two Nazi ships.\n\nAnd in the UK, which had an official drought declared in several regions, some trees have turned an autumnal shade of auburn - in what's considered a \"false autumn\" due to the heat.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "A man in Spain who was paralysed in a police shootout after opening fire on workmates has been euthanised in prison before he could face trial.\n\nMarin Eugen Sabau, 46, shot and injured three former colleagues and a police officer in the north-eastern city of Tarragona in December.\n\nAfter being shot in the spine and left partially paralysed, he had begged to be euthanised rather than face trial.\n\nCourts approved the request despite appeals from victims.\n\nSabau, who was originally from Romania, carried out the attack at the security services company he used to work for in December.\n\nHe escaped the scene, and barricaded himself in a house filled with an arsenal of weapons. After shooting and wounding a police officer, security forces cornered him and shot him several times, Observator news said.\n\nHe had one leg amputated after the shoot out, and was also left paralysed and unable to move. He said his injuries left him in chronic pain and it was ruled that he met the requirements to request an assisted death.\n\nA law - passed in Spain last year - states that adults with serious and incurable conditions that cause \"unbearable suffering\" can choose to end their lives.\n\nBut victims of the shooting opposed the request, arguing that Sabau should be brought to justice.\n\nA court in Tarragona, however, ruled that it was Sabau's fundamental right to request euthanasia considering his circumstances and stated that in line with the law, the judicial system had no right to interfere.\n\nReacting to the ruling, the lawyer of the police officer who was injured by Sabau said the court had squandered the opportunity to rule on a unique case.\n\n\"It was not about preventing euthanasia, but we did want the victims to have a fair trial,\" lawyer José Natonio Bitos was quoted in El País as saying.", "Mr Rolfe conducted a sobriety test on Mr Brooks in the car park\n\nThe 2020 police killing of a motorist in the car park of a Georgia fast-food restaurant was legally justified, a special prosecutor has ruled.\n\nRayshard Brooks, 27, was fatally shot about three weeks after the killing of George Floyd sparked international racial justice protests.\n\nBrooks, who was black, was gunned down after fighting with two white officers who were trying to arrest him.\n\nCivil rights groups said a grand jury should have reviewed the case.\n\nBrooks was detained during a traffic stop outside a Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta on 12 June 2020.\n\nBodycam footage shows that he was asleep at the wheel and blocking a drive-through lane when officers approached.\n\nFor around 41 minutes of questioning, Brooks complied with the officers' requests. After he failed a breath test the officers moved to arrest him on suspicion of drink driving, and he began fighting them.\n\nCCTV shows he grabbed a Taser from an officer, then turned and fired it at them as he ran away.\n\nOfficer Garrett Rolfe opened fire on Brooks, hitting him twice in the back. He had initially faced 11 charges related to the death, including murder. If convicted, he could have faced the death penalty.\n\nOfficer Devin Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and violation of oath.\n\nPeter Skandalakis, the prosecutor assigned to the case, said on Tuesday that the shooting was justified because the Taser would be considered a deadly weapon.\n\nHe added that race was not believed to be a factor.\n\nThe leader of the local chapter of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights group, criticised the ruling, saying: \"Race is absolutely a part of it.\"\n\nA lawyer for the two officers said they were relieved that the state had \"finally made the right decision\".\n\nAfter the shooting, the Wendy's restaurant was burned down and the site was briefly taken over by protesters.\n\nAmid the disturbances a month later, an eight-year-old girl, Secoriea Turner, was fatally shot while being driven near a barricade erected by gang members.", "The minimum wage in the UK should rise to £15 an hour \"as soon as possible\", the Trades Union Congress (TUC) says.\n\nThis rate should apply to workers of all ages, instead of the current lower rate for under-23s, it said.\n\nMinimum wage is £9.50 an hour for workers over the age of 23 and £9.18 for 21 and 22 year olds. Inflation - the rate at which prices rise - is at 10.1% - so wages do not go as far.\n\nThe government said raising the minimum wage could push unemployment up.\n\nPrices are rising at their fastest rate in 40 years, driven by higher food, fuel and energy costs.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said: \"Every worker should be able to afford a decent standard of living.\n\n\"But millions of low-paid workers live wage packet to wage packet, struggling to get by - and they are now being pushed to the brink by eye-watering bills and soaring prices.\"\n\nThe government said it was \"determined to make work pay\" and that this year's increase in the minimum wage, in April, was the largest ever rise. However, it said setting the minimum wage too high or increasing it too quickly could lead to higher unemployment.\n\nThe TUC argues that at a time when companies are paying increased dividends to shareholders, the government should ensure workers get \"their fair share\" by increasing minimum wage rates now, rather than waiting for the next expected uprating in April.\n\nIt should start with low-paid workers who are \"absolutely terrified about what those hikes in energy bills will mean for their budgets, having to fork out for school uniforms and put food on the table\", Ms O'Grady told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said a higher minimum wage would mean workers were less likely to be claiming in-work benefits, and more likely to be paying taxes as well as buying goods and services on the High Street.\n\nKelly, 31, works front of house in a well-known London restaurant and despite eight years of experience in the sector is paid the minimum wage. Her income is topped up with tips and her partner has a salary, but she has still seen a decline in her quality of life over the past decade.\n\n\"We are constantly in a precarious position, living hand-to-mouth,\" she said. \"[We're] being squeezed further and further.\"\n\nBut Mark Hodges, 66, who runs a clubhouse restaurant on a holiday park in Norfolk, said raising the minimum wage to £15 an hour would mean restaurants would have to raise prices.\n\n\"Although it would be fantastic to see us all move to £15 an hour, I cannot see how such a large rise - across all ages - would do our sector many favours,\" he said.\n\n\"If somebody said let's move to £15 an hour by 2027 so the industry had plenty of time to plan and adjust, then maybe it's achievable,\" he told the BBC, but he wouldn't like to see the minimum wage go up immediately at a time when everything else is rocketing in price.\n\nAnd giving the same minimum wage across the board, would mean older workers applying for jobs that are currently given to younger, less experienced workers.\n\n\"The people who would suffer would be young ones,\" he added.\n\nBefore the minimum wage was first introduced in 1999 some economists warned it could lead to job losses because firms would hire fewer people. But there has been no evidence of overall job losses linked to the minimum wage.\n\nThe TUC said the evidence from around the world suggested higher minimum wages led to higher wages overall, rather than job losses.\n\nThere was no justification for paying lower rates to younger workers, Ms O'Grady added. Workers aged 18 to 20 are paid a minimum of £6.83 an hour.\n\n\"It's clear to me, and I think to many people, that people ought to be paid the rate for the job, regardless of the age they are,\" Ms O'Grady said.\n\n\"If they're working as hard doing the same job, why should they be discriminated against simply because they're under 23?\"\n\nHowever, Matthew Percival, director of skills and inclusion at the CBI, which represents businesses, said there should not be a new target for the minimum wage and that any rise in its rate should be rooted in growth and higher productivity across the economy.\n\n\"Firms are increasing wages where they can, but energy price rises are pushing some to the brink. High energy prices require urgent government action to support households and businesses, not relying on the minimum wage alone,\" he said.\n\nThe minimum wage is set in relation to the median wage - an average calculated by taking every pay packet in the UK and identifying the mid-point. The current target is for the minimum wage to reach 66% of median wages by 2024. The TUC argues wages should rise for all workers to an average of £20 an hour and that the minimum wage target should be 75% of that.", "Rico Burton died in hospital after he was stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of Tyson Fury's cousin Rico Burton.\n\nMr Burton, 31, was stabbed outside a bar in the Goose Green area of Altrincham, in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.\n\nLiam O'Prey, 21, of no fixed address, has been remanded in custody and is due before Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nHe is also accused of assaulting a 17-year-old boy who was critically injured following the alleged incident.\n\nHe remains in hospital in a stable condition, but suffered \"some significant life-changing injuries\", Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nA 20-year-old man who was also arrested on suspicion of murder has been released on bail pending further inquiries.\n\nMr Burton was the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury, who has spoken out about knife crime on social media.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Benjamin Mendy, 28, denies eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, and one count of sexual assault\n\nFootballer Benjamin Mendy tried to \"debate\" a woman into having sex after getting her alone at a gathering at his mansion, a court has heard.\n\nIn a police interview played to Chester Crown Court, the woman alleged she was raped by the 28-year-old for about \"20 seconds\" in July 2021.\n\nShe said her protests \"didn't faze\" the Manchester City player and it was \"like arguing with a brick wall\".\n\nMr Mendy denies eight counts of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault.\n\nThe woman alleged he took her into the cinema room of his home in Mottram St Andrew, Cheshire.\n\nShe said she had been invited to a gathering where people were drinking and playing games.\n\nIn the police interview she said that they had talked and began kissing before Mr Mendy pulled down his underwear.\n\nShe said: \"I was just like, 'I don't want to do anything, I don't know you'.\n\n\"He said, 'It's small, don't worry' and all this.\n\n\"I was sat on a bean bag and he was standing in front of me holding himself. I felt like I had given him every excuse to get out of the situation.\n\n\"It didn't faze him, it's like nothing I said got through to him and it's like arguing with a brick wall.\"\n\nThe woman explained to the court that she did not know the other guests at the party well and did not feel she could just walk away.\n\nShe added: \"When I sat on that bean bag and I ended up having to like give in. There was nothing more I could do.\n\n\"Within 20 seconds it was over.\"\n\nThe woman said she \"felt dirty\" and used most of a pack of baby wipes to try to clean herself after the incident, the jury heard.\n\nShe said she \"didn't know how to process what had just happened\" and \"felt so by myself\".\n\nThe woman told the trial she did not report the alleged rape to police until being contacted by officers after other allegations surfaced because \"it was like one word against another\" and she was \"really scared\".\n\nShe added: \"These people have power whether you like it or not.\"\n\nCCTV footage from inside a club later on the day of the alleged rape was played to the jury, showing the woman dancing against Mr Mendy.\n\nAnother clip showed her putting her hand on his neck as they appeared to exchange words on the dance floor.\n\nEleanor Laws QC, representing Mr Mendy, questioned the woman over the footage and suggested she was \"physically comfortable\" with him despite the alleged attack.\n\nShe responded: \"I would not say that I was physically comfortable in his company, I had just not processed everything that had happened.\n\n\"I was very drunk and I was just doing what everyone else was doing - I was acting like nothing had happened.\"\n\nJurors were told the woman went back to the footballer's home two days later after being invited by another man - though Mr Mendy was not there.\n\nMs Laws QC said: \"You would not want to go anywhere near there after what happened.\"\n\nThe woman replied: \"Not on my own, no.\"\n\nMr Mendy denies eight counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, and one count of sexual assault against seven young women.\n\nHe is on trial with co-defendant Louis Saha Matturie, 41, who is alleged to have had the job of finding women for sex.\n\nMr Matturie, of Eccles, Salford, denies eight counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault relating to eight young women.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many UK households and businesses are struggling with rising prices, but that's not the story for everyone.\n\nThe fastest rise in the cost of living for four decades means people are typically having to spend £110 to get what £100 bought them last year.\n\nBut some industries are benefiting from higher inflation and posting bumper profits. There are huge sums to be made if you're in the business of drilling for oil, trading wheat, transporting toys or selling fine wines.\n\nSo who's gaining from the extra spend?\n\nBusinesses which extract and refine fossil fuels have grabbed the headlines in recent months due to their record profits. Wholesale gas prices have soared on international markets and oil prices have hovered around $100 per barrel due to demand increasing and supply fears following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nSaudi Arabia's Aramco posted record profits between April to June, while BP cleared £6.9bn in that period and Shell topped that with its profits of £9bn worldwide.\n\nCentrica, the parent company of British Gas, has seen profits rise five-fold due to its oil, gas and nuclear assets.\n\nBut there are many firms operating in the UK which get less attention. Among the biggest of the North Sea producers is Harbour Energy. The company has grown by acquiring oil and gas operations and returned to profit this year.\n\nMeanwhile, private-equity backed Neptune Energy, which produces around 12% of UK's gas saw profits double last year, allowing for $1bn in dividends to be returned to its owners. Israeli-owned Ithaca and Norway's Equinor are other big producers.\n\nAll of these companies will be faced with the government's 25% windfall tax on the profits they make from extracting UK oil and gas - this is intended to go towards helping households with rising bills. Yet for most of the energy giants, domestic extraction is a small part of their operations.\n\nFor example, the UK accounts for just a tenth of BP's overall oil and gas production.\n\nBut there are some firms who are yet to benefit from high oil and gas prices due to the way they buy wholesale energy.\n\nThese companies set prices in advance to insure against big swings in the market price - a process known as hedging.\n\nAs countries look for alternatives to Russian gas, coal is unexpectedly back in fashion.\n\nThat's paying off for mining firms who've specialised in the dirtiest of fossil fuels.\n\nGlencore's thermal coal business benefited from record prices, helping profits double to over £15bn in the first half of 2022.\n\nMany of its rivals have backed away from coal, but Glencore has argued it will be an important fuel in the process of the transition to greener forms of producing energy in some countries, and that it will look to wind down production across the next few decades.\n\nWith fears of gas supply disruption this winter from Russia to Europe, energy firms have been asked to delay the closure of UK coal-fired power plants by the government.\n\nGerman utility Uniper said on Monday it will start producing electricity for the market at its reserve coal-fired power station Heyden 4 due to Russia halting pipeline flows.\n\nArcher Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus, aren't household names but their products feature heavily on dinner plates globally. The \"ABCDs\" are the dominant traders of food commodities, and grain in particular.\n\nAt times of global disruption, these supply chain middlemen can play a key role in helping food supplies flow to where it's needed - helping countries find alternative sources of wheat in the face of disruption to supplies from Ukraine and Russia, for example.\n\nBut that disruption means wheat prices are now 25% higher than a year ago. Many other staples have become more expensive.\n\nADM reported a 60% rise in their latest quarterly profits. Bunge fared less well - but is optimistic about the rest of the year. Privately-owned Cargill's revenues were up by 23% to a record $165bn (£140bn) in the latest financial year. It says it gave $163m to humanitarian relief and other good causes, which equates to 0.1% of sales.\n\nPandemic shutdowns may have disrupted economies and supply chains, but they boosted the fortunes of shipping companies.\n\nFreight rates surged and have remained high since demand for consumer goods increased during Covid lockdowns. Restrictions meant ports were congested and new shipbuilding projects were halted.\n\nThe container-shipping industry will have notched up profits of half a trillion dollars over the last two years by the end of 2022, according to consultancy Drewry.\n\nThe world's second-largest container shipping group, AP Møller-Maersk, hiked its annual profit forecast for a third time this year because of the prolonged disruption at ports, saying \"normalisation\" of rates may now not happen until the end of the year.\n\nFor people with cash to burn, a combination of surging inflation, relatively low interest rates and weak economic growth means decent returns on conventional investments can be difficult to find.\n\nThey are turning elsewhere. Brokers at Knight Frank reported that the value of investments in fine wines and luxury watches shot up by 16% last year, art by 13% and whiskies and coins by 19%.\n\nInvestors were taking a punt on collectibles, bettering their worth would outpace inflation, and that has continued into this year. The world's largest fine wine trader, Bordeaux Index, reported a 37% increase in sales in the year to June.\n\nFor the rest of us, however, inflation may leave a sourer taste.", "Six months ago thousands of Ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight invading Russian forces.\n\nAmong those who signed up were members of one of Ukraine’s top rock bands, Antytila. They became Army medics in Kharkiv - helping to treat wounded soldiers.\n\nThe BBC joined them as they headed to the front line.\n\nFilmed and produced by Christian Parkinson and Alexandra Ostasiewicz", "Charlotte wanted to use an Applied Psychology BTec for a place on a child nursing course\n\nStudents still waiting for their BTec results say they are losing out on university places as the race to snap up spots through clearing heats up.\n\nNew figures show that record numbers of school leavers are looking for a course after missing their target grades.\n\nBTec students, who were due to get their results last Thursday, say the delays threaten their future plans.\n\nExam board Pearson says it is \"working around the clock\" to get results out to those still waiting.\n\nCharlotte Howard, 19, says she was left feeling \"completely disheartened\" when she failed to get a place through clearing.\n\nNormally, the process gives students who don't get their required grades an opportunity to get on to a different course.\n\nMany taking a BTec - a vocational alternative to A-Levels - were due to get their results from the Pearson exam board last Thursday.\n\nCharlotte had to wait until Monday afternoon for hers - but she didn't get the grades for her first choice university.\n\nWith her results arriving so late, she then found out she'd missed out on a space to get on to the child nursing course she wanted.\n\n\"I feel as if we're almost being punished because our results were released later,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm going to have to think about a career change.\n\n\"Or I'm going to have to see if I'm going to take a gap year to try and get the grades I need,\" she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\nNew figures show the number of UK-based students in clearing remains at a record high, five days since results were published.\n\nBy Tuesday, a total of 43,590 were marked as \"free to be placed in clearing\" on the UCAS website.\n\nCharlotte feels Pearson should have done more to ensure results came on time.\n\n\"Or at least made a point to universities that it isn't our fault,\" she added.\n\nExam regulator Ofqual has confirmed it will review the cause of the delays.\n\nA spokesman told Newsbeat awarding organisations such as Pearson were \"making good progress\" as they worked through remaining results.\n\n\"While our first priority is students expecting results this year, it is clearly important that we review what has happened to make sure that students in future years receive results when they expect them, so they can progress in their education, apprenticeship or employment,\" they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missed your grades? The BBC's Hazel Shearing explains - in a minute - what you can do\n\nUCAS chief executive, Clare Marchant said there were \"still thousands of courses available in clearing\".\n\n\"Many unis and colleges hold open days giving you the opportunity to explore them. You can find out more by visiting their websites.\"\n\nIn an update on their website, Pearson said they would \"continue to work around the clock\" to get results to students.\n\nIt stated they had issued around 200,000 results by results day last week, and 1,950 BTec results since Thursday had been sent to UCAS.\n\nBut there has been no information given around the number of results still not provided to students.\n\nAddressing the delays this year, the exam board said \"Covid certainly complicated things\", and it cited a need for \"different information\" being needed as another reason for delay.\n\n\"Without all the data we need, we are unable to award an overall result.\"\n\nFor Charlotte, everything that's happened around results is \"the worst feeling in the world\".\n\n\"All my friends were getting ready to go out and celebrate, and I had nothing to celebrate.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A severe drought has exposed 113 million-year-old dinosaur tracks on a riverbed in central Texas.\n\nThe massive tracks, which belonged to a single acrocanthosaurus, had not been seen since 2000, as they sat under water and several layers of sediment.\n\nThe tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas are some of the best preserved in the world, said park superintendent Jeff Davis.\n\nAlmost all of Texas is facing a drought according to the US Drought Monitor.\n\nLast week, more than 87% of the state was experiencing one of the three most serious drought categories - severe, extreme and exceptional.\n\nThe summer's excessively dry, hot conditions caused a river in the central Texas park to dry out almost entirely, revealing the dinosaur tracks.\n\nSuperintendent Davis told the BBC that the recently exposed tracks are called the \"Lone Ranger trackway\", belonging to one Acrocanthosaurus, who walked that trail for about 100ft. There are an estimated 140 tracks in total from this one dinosaur, with about 60 visible now.\n\nAcrocanthosaurus were therapods, a \"typical three-toed dinosaur\", Mr Davis said. Standing at about 15ft tall, they would have weighed about seven tonnes.\n\nThese dinosaurs likely preyed upon the Sauroposeidon. the other species whose tracks are also found in the state park.\n\nThe Sauroposeidon stood at 60ft tall, with a long neck, and weighed about 44 tonnes when fully grown.\n\nExtreme weather has also led to other surprises.\n\nHuman remains have been discovered in Lake Mead - the largest US reservoir - as water levels decline.\n\nAnd in Europe, receding water levels have revealed \"hunger stones\" engraved at the waterline of rivers during previous droughts as a warning to future generations that when the stones are above water, suffering lies ahead.\n\nNot all droughts are due to climate change, but excess heat in the atmosphere is drawing more moisture out of the earth and making droughts worse.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Kameen has given a detailed breakdown of how a 9-year-old was shot in Liverpool on Monday night.\n\nSpeaking to the press, he said a gunman shot through the door and hit Olivia Pratt-Korbel and her mother.\n\nMore on this story here.", "The German government has approved a set of energy-saving measures for the winter which will limit the use of lighting and heating in public buildings.\n\nThe government aims to reduce gas usage by 2% through the new rules.\n\nGermany's economy minster said the rules could save private households, companies and the public sector around €10.8bn (£9.1bn) over two years.\n\nIt is part of efforts to reduce the country's dependency on Russian gas.\n\nBefore Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany got 55% of its gas from Russia but it has reduced this to 35% and vowed to end imports completely.\n\nHowever, it remains a huge market for Moscow and paid almost €9bn (£7.7bn; $9.6bn) for Russian oil and gas in the first two months of the war.\n\nRussia has also cut flows of gas through the key Nordstream 1 pipeline to Germany to 20% of capacity, raising fears it may turn off the taps this winter.\n\nGermany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck told reporters that his country wanted to free itself \"as quickly as possible from the grip of Russian energy imports\".\n\nBut he added: \"Overall the [new] measures save energy. However, not to the extent that we can sit back and say, 'That'll do now.'\"\n\nBrandenburg Gate in Berlin had its lights turned off in July\n\nStarting from September, public buildings apart from institutions like hospitals, are to be heated to a maximum of 19C and the heating may be turned off completely in entrances, corridors and foyers.\n\nPublic monuments and buildings will also not be lit up for aesthetic reasons and businesses could be banned from keeping their shops illuminated at night.\n\nPrivate swimming pool heating could also be banned. And the country will give coal and oil cargo priority over passenger travel on railways meaning passengers will have to wait.\n\n\"We have a shortage situation on the rails right now,\" Transport Minister Volker Wissing said. \"That means that if additional fuel transports are temporarily necessary we would have to prioritise them.\"\n\nGermany also plans to run publicity campaigns to tell locals how they can cut down on their own consumption.\n\nAnd amid concerns about winter shortages, the country is setting up two liquefied natural gas terminals on the North Sea coast to improve storage.\n\nMost European Union member states have committed to voluntarily reduce gas use by 15% this winter - although this will become mandatory if there are serious shortages. Meanwhile, Spain has already brought in rules limiting use of air conditioning and heating temperatures in public and large commercial buildings, as it seeks to save energy.\n\nOn Wednesday, Switzerland's energy minister said it would \"certainly make sense\" for the country to align with the EU's plan in order to prevent an energy crisis.\n\nSwitzerland's electricity commission has also recommended that households stock up on candles in case of blackouts caused by changes in Russian supplies.\n\nEarlier this month Swiss energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said she would try to enact a plan to have the heating turned down in public buildings.", "Thames Water is the last of several water companies to have introduced the restrictions\n\nA hosepipe ban affecting millions of people has come into force in parts of southern England.\n\nThe ban was imposed by Thames Water from 00:01 BST on Wednesday and applies to 10 million customers across the Thames Valley and London.\n\nPeople will not be able to use hosepipes to water gardens, wash cars and windows, or fill paddling pools.\n\nThe decision was announced earlier this month after reports of the River Thames reaching its lowest level since 2005.\n\nThose found to have breached the rules could be fined up to £1,000.\n\nSimilar measures have been implemented by other water companies across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Kent and Sussex, following the driest July since 1935.\n\nThames Water CEO Sarah Bentley previously said implementing the ban had been a \"very difficult decision\" but, she added, reservoir storage levels in London and Farmoor in Oxfordshire had \"reduced significantly\".\n\nIt is not yet known how long the ban will last. Thames Water said it would depend on the weather and promised customers would be kept informed.\n\n\"We need prolonged and significant rainfall. We'll be monitoring our water levels carefully,\" the company said.\n\nThe ban is the next phase in the water firm's drought plan, having already announced it was currently fixing 1,100 leaks across its 20,000-mile network every week.\n\nThe firm previously admitted it \"must do better\" after coming under fire for having the worst record on leaks out of all nine water companies in England.\n\nThe temporary use ban restricts the use of hosepipes but it only cuts demand for water by about 5%.\n\nIt is seen as a very blunt instrument with lots of exemptions - for example Thames Water say you can use your hosepipe in an allotment but not a garden.\n\nYou can also water new trees with a hosepipe for 28 days and sports pitches if it'll affect their \"commercial viability\".\n\nAnd while Thames Water has introduced a ban across the Thames Valley and the parts of London it covers, the capital's other operators Affinity and SES Water say a ban is \"unlikely\".\n\nThey use aquifers - underwater rocks that store water - more than Thames Water and levels there have held up a bit better.\n\nAll water companies say customers should use water wisely.\n\nAnd this problem isn't going away. Experts say due to climate change, the industry will have to improve its leakage rates considerably, build new reservoirs and persuade us all to use much less water.\n\nResident Hannah Nicholson, who lives in Cranleigh, near Guildford, claimed the hosepipe ban came as several water leaks in the village were reported to Thames Water.\n\nShe said she wanted the company to \"take water leaks seriously and deal with it\".\n\n\"The water is running down the road and they are going to limit the water through hosepipes... I am angry, I am upset,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, Thames Water said it was \"not acceptable to be losing so much precious water\" but added that rectifying the problem \"would not be quick\".\n\nThe company said 60,000 leaks were fixed last year, adding: \"We are repairing over 1,100 leaks per week, whether they are visible or hidden below ground.\"\n\nThe GMB said Thames Water loses the same amount of water as having a hosepipe on for 73 years\n\nThe GMB union said Thames Water's daily waste was the equivalent of one person having a hosepipe on every day for 73 years.\n\n\"You could have had a hosepipe on constantly since before the Queen was on the throne and you still wouldn't have used as much as Thames Water wastes in 24 hours,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe union said last year Thames Water handed its directors more than £4m, with the highest paid director receiving £1.5m - up 67% from the year before.\n\nHosepipe bans have recently come into effect in several parts of England as temperatures topped 40C in the UK for the first time on record this summer.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The incident was reported at Thornyford Bridge in Dromore on Tuesday evening\n\nAnglers in County Down have described a fish kill on the River Lagan as \"major\".\n\nStaff from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) are on the river counting the number of dead fish.\n\nThe stretch of river at Thornyford Bridge, Dromore, is known for its wild brown trout fishing.\n\nThe bodies of well-grown trout are floating on the surface of the water, while stickleback can be seen in the silt on the riverbed.\n\nWater samples have been taken for analysis\n\nGudgeon and stone loach are also thought to have been killed.\n\nThe incident was reported to NIEA at about 19:27 BST on Tuesday.\n\nOfficers from the agency have taken samples of the water for analysis.\n\nGary Houston, from Iveagh Angling Club, said the river was still recovering from a pollution incident in 2016\n\nA spokesperson said: \"NIEA are currently working with inland fisheries colleagues to assess the extent of the environmental impact on the waterway.\"\n\nIveagh Angling Club, which manages this stretch of the water, said the area was still recovering from a pollution incident in 2006.\n\nMembers had been working to aid the recovery of fish after the previous incident, introducing tonnes of gravel to help them spawn in the water.\n\nGary Houston, from the club, said members were devastated.\n\n\"It's a terrible loss for the club,\" he said.\n\n\"This fish kill is very devastating for the club - it's most of the club's fishery, so there's really nothing left.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Kyiv residents reflect on six months of war with Russia\n\nFew know the cost of challenging Russian influence better than Viktor Yushchenko.\n\nThe former Ukrainian president was poisoned with a toxic chemical while campaigning in 2004 against a Moscow-preferred candidate. He then led protests against a rigged election before taking office the following year.\n\nSitting in his timber-framed home on the outskirts of Kyiv, Mr Yushchenko praises the \"power of national spirit\" as the key to Ukraine's independence.\n\n\"Today I can say with confidence that 42 million Ukrainians speak in one voice. And that allows us to face any enemy, including Russia.\"\n\nYou can still see the scarring on the former president's face from when he was poisoned.\n\nFormer Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko: \"The benchmark of independence is the strength of spirit\"\n\nUkraine's day of independence falls six months to the day since Vladimir Putin launched an invasion from the north, east and south. In that time, the Ukrainian military says almost 9,000 members have been killed. Some 5,500 civilian deaths have been confirmed by the UN.\n\nWhile few here predicted the war, Mr Yushchenko largely blames what he sees as the West's historic inability to combat Russian aggression: notably the 2008 conflict in Georgia and the annexation of Crimea six years later.\n\nHowever, he thinks Ukraine's ultimate test has changed its standing in the world.\n\n\"Today, when more than 50 countries have expressed solidarity with the ideas of our fight. They're providing all kinds of support - military, financial and humanitarian.\"\n\nCarpentry now occupies most of the former statesman's time. We are surrounded by dozens of sculptures, and the former president tells me of his absolute belief that Ukraine can carve out a victory in this war.\n\nThousands of Ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight Russia at the start of the war including members of rock band Antytila. Watch their story, Frontline Frontmen on iPlayer (UK only).\n\nThe more Russia tries to pull Ukraine into its orbit, the stronger its people's sense of national identity becomes.\n\nAt a small factory on the left bank of Kyiv's Dnieper river, Nataliia's business used to make hotel uniforms, but now produces Ukrainian flags.\n\nOrders for Ukrainian flags have surged since Russia's invasion six months ago\n\nShe started getting requests from military checkpoints early on in the invasion, now she gets more than 2,500 orders a month - not just from the army, but businesses too.\n\n\"These are very dear colours to us,\" she tells me over the whirring sound of sewing machines.\n\n\"Every Ukrainian feels these colours and we see them in everything - in the sky, in wheat. This gives us pleasure, joy and positive emotions, because our work is useful.\"\n\nSix months into the war, Ukraine is presented with some uncomfortable realities.\n\nAfter weeks of talking about it, Ukraine's planned counter-offensive in the south, on the occupied city of Kherson, has yet to materialise.\n\nYes, there have been longer range missile strikes deeper into Russian-held territory, but this war is now dominated by artillery along an almost static front line.\n\nSo far Western weapons are helping Ukraine to hold the line and frustrate Russian supply lines, but it will take something seismic for the momentum to shift and for Kyiv to force Russia out completely.\n\nTherefore, this military status quo looks set to continue, at a growing, unimaginable cost for tens of thousands of families.\n\nAlso - while widely viewed as the country's war hero, President Volodymyr Zelensky is now facing criticism for how he prepared for Russia's attack. Notably over his decision not to act on warnings from the US, saying it would cause panic and damage Ukraine's economy.\n\nAnother symbol of Ukrainian defiance is in the newsroom of the Kyiv Independent.\n\nThis English language news site was set up weeks before the invasion. Within days their online following went from tens of thousands to millions.\n\n\"It's the Independence Day we didn't know was going to happen,\" says editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko.\n\nOlga Rudenko, editor-in-chief at the Kyiv Independent, a news website established just weeks before Russia's invasion\n\nShe describes the publication as the voice of Ukraine, and the world's window into it.\n\n\"Back in February, when things were so uncertain, we didn't know whether most of the country would be invaded or whether we'd be killed,\" she says. \"To still be here, to be able to celebrate, is so meaningful.\"\n\nA recent deal, which has allowed Ukraine once again to export grain through the Black Sea, remains the only diplomatic breakthrough in this war.\n\nSome see it as the basis for an eventual peace treaty.\n\nThat is a long way off, and Ukraine has already lost control of a fifth of its territory.\n\nTo maintain its independence, this country will be dependent on the outside world for help for some time yet.", "The UK imported no fuel from Russia in June for the first time on record, according to official figures.\n\nImports of goods from Russia also fell to £33m in June, the lowest level since records began in January 1997, the Office for National Statics (ONS) said.\n\nWestern nations have imposed strict sanctions on Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February.\n\nThe UK has pledged to phase out Russian oil imports by the end of the year and gas imports as soon as possible.\n\nFuel imports from Russia fell by £499m - or 100% - compared with the average for the previous 12 months to February.\n\nIn 2021, the UK imported around 4% of its gas from Russia, and 11% of its oil, according to the International Energy Agency.\n\nExports of most goods to Russia had also decreased substantially by June, with machinery and transport equipment sales slashed by 91.3% to £118m.\n\nOverall, exports to Russia dropped by almost 70%, to £168m, compared with the monthly average in the 12 months to February.\n\nThe only products to see a slight rise were chemicals, driven by an increase in exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products, which are exempt from sanctions.\n\nThe ONS said that apart from government-stipulated sanctions, trade between Russia and the UK was lessened as businesses voluntarily sought alternatives to Russian goods.\n\nThe figures were released as Ukraine marked its day of independence, exactly six months since the Russian invasion began.\n\nAs a result of Russia's invasion, the EU has said it will cut gas imports from Russia by two-thirds within a year and has also agreed to ban all Russian oil imports which come in by sea by the end of the year.\n\nMeanwhile, the US has imposed a total ban on Russian oil and gas imports.\n\nThis data doesn't include services, where the UK has in the past made large sums through consultants, accountants and lawyers in London advising Russian companies and wealthy individuals.\n\nBut insofar as we're talking about imported goods, it looks like sanctions have been highly effective.\n\nAccording to the ONS we imported no fuel whatsoever from Russia in June, whereas normally we'd import on average about half a billion pounds of it.\n\nPrior to the war, gas imported from Russia was about 4.9% of total UK gas imports; now it's dropped to zero.\n\nThe UK hasn't cut the overall amount of gas it's importing; Russian gas has largely been replaced with gas from elsewhere.\n\nThat shows clearly the mismatch between the effect of war on the supply to the UK of wholesale gas (modest) and the change to the prices we're paying (huge).\n\nA lot of the fear built into the price of wholesale gas relates to market speculation on the potential disruptions to supply to Germany, Italy and other Russian-gas-addicted countries.\n\nOur own gas supply is much more secure.\n\nYet because the energy price cap is linked to international wholesale gas prices, the danger is that when the price cap re-sets in October, millions of households will end up paying unnecessarily large bills which have a whole lot of irrelevant fear built into them.", "Asda is scrapping best before dates on hundreds of fruit and vegetable products to help reduce food waste.\n\nThe supermarket will make the change to more than 200 products across its UK stores from September.\n\nThey will be replaced by a code that Asda staff will use to check quality and freshness.\n\nWaste & Resources Action Programme (Wrap) said the average family throws away £60 worth of food and drink each month.\n\nProducts including citrus fruits, potatoes, cauliflowers, and carrots will all have the labels removed.\n\nCatherine David, director of collaboration and change at Wrap, said: \"We are delighted by this development from Asda to help tackle food waste in our homes.\n\n\"Our research has shown that date labels on fruit and veg are unnecessary - getting rid of them can prevent the equivalent of seven million shopping baskets' worth from our household bins.\"\n\nBest before labels are used to indicate when the product is at its best quality, taste and texture. But foods can be safe to eat beyond this.\n\nThey are different to use by dates, which show when food can be cooked and consumed safely.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said use by dates should be on \"food like meat products and ready to eat salads which could be unsafe if left for too long\".\n\nAsda's Andy Cockshaw said: \"Reducing food waste in our business and in customers' homes is a priority and we are always looking at different ways to achieve this.\n\n\"We know for customers this has become more important than ever in the current climate as many families are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and are looking to make savings wherever they can.\"\n\nIn July, Marks & Spencer announced it would remove best before dates on more than 300 fruit and vegetable products, while Tesco took best before dates off more than 100 fruit and vegetable products in 2018. Waitrose will remove the labels from nearly 500 food items from September.\n\nAsda said removing best before dates will help to achieve its aim of becoming a zero waste business and reaching its target of a 20% reduction in waste by 2025.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Gething says people are becoming more unpleasant and vocal about race\n\nWales has gone backwards on racial equality over the past decade, it has been claimed.\n\nThe warning has come from Vaughan Gething, who was the first black person to become a cabinet minister in any of the UK's devolved governments.\n\nWhile he acknowledges progress has been made, he thinks some of it has been eroded by Brexit divisions and Donald Trump's US presidency.\n\n\"We're in better place than we were in the 70s and 80s undoubtedly\" Mr Gething told BBC Walescast podcast, as part of a series of interviews with politicians from different parties.\n\nBut he warned against complacency, adding: \"We are going to have to re-fight some of the battles for people's perception.\"\n\nMr Gething arrived in the UK when he was two with his Welsh father and Zambian mother.\n\nThe family had intended to settle in Monmouth in 1976, but his father had the job offer withdrawn \"when he turned up with my mum and a crowd of brown children\".\n\nSo he grew up in Dorset instead, becoming interested in politics from reading about the injustices of apartheid-era South Africa on the front pages during his newspaper round.\n\nHe finally got to Wales for university, studying at Aberystwyth and Cardiff while becoming the first black president of NUS Wales.\n\n\"I think sometimes we tell a bit of a myth to ourselves that Wales has always been this proud, progressive place,\" he said.\n\n\"But if you talk to people about their own experiences… some of them put up with stuff that they should never have had to put up with.\"\n\nWhile he acknowledges progress has been made, he thinks some of that has been eroded by the divisions over Brexit and Donald Trump's US presidency.\n\n\"I do think that in the last decade or so we have gone backwards,\" Mr Gething said.\n\nVaughan Gething was two when he arrived in the UK with his parents\n\n\"It's emboldened some people on the more extreme and unpleasant end of opinion and that gets back into the mainstream.\n\n\"So challenging that is important. It's one of the reasons I'm really proud of the fact that we've got a curriculum where black history is being taught as part of Welsh history, because there are people who look like me that have been here for quite a long time.\n\n\"And our history is part of the history and the story of Wales and I regularly say it's part of the future of Wales as well.\"\n\nMr Gething was elected to what was then the Welsh Assembly in 2011.\n\nA steady climb up the ministerial ladder saw him get the health portfolio, putting him in the hot seat when the pandemic struck and raising his public profile considerably.\n\nBecoming better known meant \"Some people said, 'You were lucky',\" he said with disbelief. \"I never felt lucky at the time.\"\n\nHe described a relentless workload and difficult choices where evidence sometimes pointed in more than one direction\n\nNow the Welsh government is resisting pressure to hold a Wales specific inquiry into its handling of Covid.\n\nMr Gething insists a UK wide inquiry is the best way to examine Welsh ministers' decision-making because they were always made \"in a UK context\".\n\nBut can he really expect a country with only five per cent of UK's population to get sufficient attention in a UK-wide inquiry?\n\n\"I really do think there will be proper scrutiny, and there should be,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nVaughan Gething used to enjoy playing cricket when he first moved to Cardiff\n\nAs economy minister, he is facing the next big crisis - the rapidly rising prices of everyday essentials like food and energy.\n\nWith some public servants angry with the Welsh government's pay offer, would he support strike action?\n\n\"If I were a trade union steward at the moment, I can well understand why I'd be going to members and saying 'we need to do something',\" he said.\n\n\"The challenge is that the Welsh government doesn't have the resources to give people a 13% pay rise.\"\n\n\"Any negotiation is not just understanding what you want, but understanding what you can get and the other side can give.\"\n\nMr Gething also stands by his decision to spend £4.25m of taxpayers' money on buying Gilestone Farm in Powys for the Green Man festival.\n\nHe accepts communication over why the purchase was being made could have been better but he insisted it was \"a reasonable choice to have made\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got a festival with a really significant economic impact.\n\n\"I want to see that business to continue to be anchored in Wales, with the benefits that come from it.\n\n\"When the detailed business plan comes back with advice for me about what to do, I'll then need to make a decision and to explain what decision I've made and why.\"\n\nLooking to the future, there will be vacancy for the leadership of Welsh Labour in a few years as the present leader and First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced his intention to step down.\n\nMr Gething was beaten into second place by Mr Drakeford at the last contest in 2018 but he said they work well together.\n\n\"Mark is very pragmatic, he wants to know all the evidence but he then makes choices,\" said Mr Gething.\n\n\"And that's about understanding that you can't always make your perfect choice.\"\n\nThe pair do share a love of cricket.\n\n\"When I moved to Cardiff, the cricket club that was here at the time was Cardiff YMCA, and they were the first cricket club that I played for.\"\n\n\"I watch cricket now, that's because I can't play anymore.\"\n\nBut the vocal cords still work and Mr Gething also loves singing.\n\n\"I always enjoy singing. If there's a karaoke and I'm allowed the opportunity to sing lots of songs in a row then I will do.\"\n\nWatch the interview on Walescast on BBC One Wales at 22:40 on Wednesday, or on iPlayer after broadcast, or listen to it on BBC Sounds.", "The way Google calculates the climate impact of your flights has changed, the BBC has discovered.\n\nFlights now appear to have much less impact on the environment than before.\n\nThat's because the world's biggest search engine has taken a key driver of global warming out of its online carbon flight calculator.\n\n\"Google has airbrushed a huge chunk of the aviation industry's climate impacts from its pages\" says Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist of Greenpeace.\n\nWith Google hosting nine out of every 10 online searches, this could have wide repercussions for people's travel decisions.\n\nThe company said it made the change following consultations with its \"industry partners\".\n\nIt affects the carbon calculator embedded in the company's \"Google Flights\" search tool.\n\nIf you have ever tried to find a flight on Google, you will have come across Google Flights.\n\nIt appears towards the top of search results and allows you to scour the web for flights and fares.\n\nIt also offers to calculate the emissions generated by your journey.\n\nGoogle says this feature is designed \"to help you make more sustainable travel choices\".\n\nYet in July, Google decided to exclude all the global warming impacts of flying except CO2.\n\nSome experts say Google's calculations now represent just over half of the real impact on the climate of flights.\n\n\"It now significantly understates the global impact of aviation on the climate\", says Professor David Lee of Manchester Metropolitan University, the author of the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the contribution of air travel to global warming.\n\nFlying affects the climate in lots of ways in addition to the CO2 produced by burning aviation fuel.\n\nThese include the creation of long thin clouds high up in the atmosphere - known as contrails - which trap heat radiated by the Earth, leading to a net warming effect on our planet.\n\nThese additional warming impacts mean that although aviation is only responsible for around 2% of global CO2 emissions, the sector is actually responsible for around 3.5% of the warming caused by human activity.\n\nAnd it is a sector that is only going to get bigger.\n\nSince 2000 emissions have risen by 50%, and the industry is expected to grow by more than 4% every year for the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).\n\nContrails are produced by some planes as its exhaust fumes - mostly water vapour - mix with cold air and form ice crystals\n\nGoogle is open about its calculations for the tool - posting the methodology on a US software website called GitHub.\n\nThe BBC was alerted to the fact that it had posted a note saying it was changing how it assesses the impact of aviation.\n\nGoogle announced the change to the way it calculates carbon emissions on platform GitHub\n\nGoogle begins saying it has made the change following \"recent discussions with academic and industry partners\".\n\nIt acknowledges these factors are \"critical to include in the model\" and cites the emphasis given to them in the latest report by the UN's climate science body, the IPCC.\n\nGoogle reiterated this point when approached by the BBC, saying it \"strongly believes\" that non-CO2 effects of aviation should be included in its calculations.\n\nYet on Github Google says: \"the details of how and when to include these factors requires more input from our stakeholders\".\n\nThe reason for this, Google said in reply to a request for comment, was that the company's priority was the \"accuracy of the individual flight estimates\" it provides to its consumers.\n\nIt says it is working with academics to better understand how contrails and other warming impacts affect specific flights.\n\nIt recommends companies reflect the additional impacts of flying by multiplying the CO2 emissions a flight generates by a factor of 1.9 - effectively doubling their impact.\n\nIn its guidance to companies, the UK's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy warns the value of this multiplier is \"subject to significant uncertainty\", but says \"there is currently no better way of taking these effects into account\".\n\nTransport and Environment, a group campaigning to reduce the environmental impact of travel, agrees.\n\n\"Current scientific knowledge is sufficient to state that non-CO2 effects represent two thirds of the total climate impact of aviation\", it says.\n\n\"The industry has hidden this problem for decades... Google should show customers the non-CO2 effects for each flight, as the European Parliament has proposed to do.\"\n\nGoogle's changes are likely to have far-reaching effects.\n\nThe company's carbon calculation methodology is widely recognised as the industry standard in aviation.\n\nIt is used by Skyscanner, one of the biggest online travel agencies in the world with more than 100 million visitors a month.\n\nA number of other major online travel businesses including Booking.com, Expedia, Tripadvisor and Visa have said they intend to use it too.\n\nGoogle's chief sustainability officer, Kate Brandt, has said the company aims to \"build tools that enable travellers and business around the world to prioritise sustainability\".\n\nIndustry experts say the decision to change its methodology will have the opposite effect.\n\n\"I worry the impact of the equivalent of hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 will be ignored because it has become invisible to customers,\" says Kit Brennan, a founder of Thrust Carbon, a UK company specialising in helping businesses reduce the effect their travel has on the climate.\n\nHe fears consumers could come to believe that non-CO2 impacts on the climate are not relevant in the longer-term, despite the science that contradicts this view.\n\nThat would mean up to 1.5% of the warming caused by human activity would be being ignored and the pressure on airlines to reduce their emissions would be cut accordingly.\n\nUpdate 26 September 2022: The graphic \"How Google's calculations have changed\" was updated after Google provided the BBC with more information as to how it calculated emissions from flights before the change to its tool.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nRangers will play at European football's top table for the first time in more than a decade after stunning PSV Eindhoven to reach the Champions League group stage.\n\nThe decisive moment of an absorbing tie finally came on the hour, when Malik Tillman intercepted a PSV pass out from defence and squared for Antonio Colak to find an empty net from six yards.\n\nThe Philips Stadion went almost silent and the home side could find no response in the final half hour despite a flurry of chances.\n\nRangers can now look forward to drawing some of the continent's biggest names in Thursday's draw, where they join rivals Celtic in pot four as the pair play in the group stage in the same season for the first time since 2007/08.\n\nAlso vital will be the minimum £25m windfall which will now come their way as the Ibrox side complete the turnaround from playing in Scotland's third division 10 years ago to the Champions League.\n• None 'Dogged Rangers fight way to place with big boys'\n\nThe feat was achieved with a huge amount of resilience as PSV threatened throughout, and also amid the controversy surrounding striker Alfredo Morelos, who was left at home due to concerns about his attitude and fitness.\n\nInstead it was the man who has started in his stead all season, Colak, who was in the right place at the crucial moment to score his fifth goal in eight games after brilliant awareness from Tillman to read and shut down goalkeeper Walter Benitez's pass.\n\nThe inevitable response from PSV came as Philip Max shot wide, and goalkeeper Jon McLaughlin denied their star man Cody Gakpo when through on goal, and those were just the opportunities which came after Rangers struck.\n\nThere were others, including a free header from Ibrahim Sangare and a shot from close-range from Luuk De Jong fired straight at McLaughlin, but ultimately there was no way through.\n\nRangers showed immense character to hang on and also had their own strong spells, with Tom Lawrence unlucky not to score with a fantastic curling effort which cannoned back off the bar.\n\nBut it was their European muscle memory which got Giovanni van Bronckhorst's team over the line, as they again proved a smart, skilful and gutsy team on the big stage, traits which characterised their run to last season's Europa League final.\n\nNow, the club and its fans can look forward to testing themselves on the biggest stage.\n\nRangers have impressed regularly in Europe in the past four seasons, and this performance underlines the belief and confidence in the group as they triumphed despite trying circumstances.\n\nVan Bronckhorst made a huge call to leave out Morelos and travel with just one recognised striker in Colak, and their preparations were disrupted further before kick-of when their bus was held up by PSV fans. Then there was the fact their away record in Europe read just one win in 11.\n\nBut away from Ibrox and in a rowdy arena, they still produced the goods. It wasn't the swashbuckling football they showed on their run to Seville last season, but they were disciplined, rode their luck, and delivered big moments when it mattered.\n\nTillman's reading of the game was crucial, and McLaughlin's brilliant save from Gakpo kept them ahead. With Celtic already assured of their place in the group stage, it was vitally important for the club financially to keep pace and qualify.\n\nThe manager has to take huge credit for his influence on the team, having now guided them to six wins from six in two-legged European knockout ties. His calm authority and tactical nous have stood out particularly in cup competitions.\n\nAlmost exactly 10 years ago Rangers were held to a draw by Berwick Rangers in the third division, this caps the journey back. The league title two seasons ago was crucial, but now they can truly say they have returned to the top level.\n\nRoss County are the visitors to Ibrox in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday (15:00 BST), but before that they can enjoy Thursday's group stage draw, which takes place at 17:00.\n• None Xavi Simons (PSV Eindhoven) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Marco van Ginkel (PSV Eindhoven) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Phillipp Mwene.\n• None Attempt missed. Armando Obispo (PSV Eindhoven) left footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Cody Gakpo.\n• None Antonio-Mirko Colak (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Marco van Ginkel (PSV Eindhoven) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Armando Obispo (PSV Eindhoven) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Scott Wright (Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Carlos Vinícius (PSV Eindhoven) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Cody Gakpo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was \"joyful\" and \"would always try to help others\", her head teacher said\n\nA nine-year-old girl was fatally shot when a man being chased by a gunman forced his way into her Liverpool home.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with the men at the door of her house in Dovecot at about 22:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe gunman \"fired indiscriminately\", hitting Olivia, her mum Cheryl Korbel in the wrist and the man in the body.\n\nMerseyside Police said the family had no connection to the two men who forced their way into the house.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy appealed for anyone with information to come forward, adding that now was \"not the time to remain tight-lipped\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Kennedy said it was \"a shocking and appalling attack which will reverberate around our communities\".\n\n\"We need to find all who are responsible for this,\" she said.\n\n\"Not just the gunman, we need to find who supplied the weapon and who arranged this terrible incident.\"\n\nShe added that she wanted to appeal to Liverpool's \"criminal fraternity\" for information, as Olivia's death was \"an absolute tragedy and crosses every single boundary\".\n\nMs Kennedy said officers who were sent to the scene \"could see just how poorly Olivia was and they rushed her to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, where, despite the best efforts of medical staff, she sadly died\".\n\nShe added forensic experts were at the scene conducting house-to-house inquiries and officers were reviewing CCTV footage to establish and identify who was responsible.\n\nAppealing to the gunman to hand himself in, Det Ch Supt Mark Kameen said officers had not yet spoken to the injured man, who had not been arrested and was in hospital in a serious, but not life-threatening, condition.\n\nHe said he also wanted a man who was with the injured 35-year-old at the time of the shooting to come forward.\n\nMerseyside Police said Olivia's two older siblings, who were in the house at the time of the attack, were unharmed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liverpool police say gunman had no connection to killed 9-year-old girl\n\nNeighbour Marie Reilly, who has lived in the area for 36 years, said her partner heard four gunshots, which had sounded like fireworks going off.\n\nShe said the fact it happened on her doorstep was scary and recent violence in the city was \"getting too close\", adding: \"I think it's time to move.\"\n\nFellow resident Sarah Halliday said it was \"absolutely disgusting to wake up and find that a nine-year-old girl has been shot dead\".\n\nHer partner Scott Mason added it was \"scary for men, because women and kids are getting shot\".\n\n\"You're scared of your girlfriend and your daughter going to the shop... are they going to come back?\" he said.\n\nPolice are appealing for dashcam, CCTV and mobile phone footage from anyone in the area at the time\n\nOlivia's head teacher Rebecca Wilkinson, from St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School in Huyton, described her as \"a much-loved member of our school\" with a \"beautiful smile, a lovely sense of humour, and a bubbly personality\".\n\nKnowsley Council leader Graham Morgan said she was a \"popular pupil\", adding: \"I know she will be a huge loss to the school community and everyone who knew her\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson said it was an \"appalling act of evil\" and urged anyone with information to \"come forward\", adding: \"Guns have no place in our communities.\"\n\nWest Derby's Labour MP Ian Byrne, whose constituency includes Kingsheath Avenue, said locals were \"all struggling to process\" what had happened.\n\nHe said there was \"lots of anger out there... lots of outrage, disbelief that this could happen in our community\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to Olivia's family and said Merseyside Police had her \"full support and will receive any additional resources they need\".\n\nChancellor and Tory leadership hopeful Rishi Sunak said: \"I thought 'she was nine, she is the same age as my younger daughter'. Horrific.\"\n\nFellow leadership candidate Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, said: \"My thoughts go out to the family, and it's an absolutely appalling crime, an appalling murder that took place in Liverpool.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said in a tweet that his thoughts were Olivia's family as it was \"devastating news, for them and their community\", while Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey tweeted that it was \"a heartbreaking tragedy for Liverpool and the whole country\".\n\nFloral tributes to Olivia have been left close to the scene of the shooting\n\nOlivia's death came after a spate of killings involving guns and knives on Merseyside.\n\nOn the same night, a woman was found with a fatal stab wound in her chest in a pub car park in Kirkby, while on Sunday, 28-year-old council worker Ashley Dale died after being shot in the Old Swan area of Liverpool.\n\nPolice are still searching for two people who fled on electric bikes after Sam Rimmer, who was in his early 20s, was shot in Toxteth on 16 August.\n\nMonday was also the 15th anniversary of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, who was mistakenly shot by a gang member in Croxteth on his way home from football practice in 2007.\n\nMerseyside Police said there was nothing to indicate that Olivia's shooting was linked to other recent killings, but officers were keeping an open mind to follow any potential leads.\n\nThe force added the attack on the 35-year-old man was targeted and was believed to be related to organised crime.\n\nFloral tributes were being laid at the scene into the evening\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Met Frontline Policing Cdr Paul Brogden announced Owami Davies had been found safe and well on Tuesday\n\nThe police watchdog will take no further action over the Owami Davies case after she was found safe and well following her disappearance.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) had received a mandatory \"death or serious injury\" (DSI) referral from the Met Police.\n\nIt was made during the search for the 24-year-old's whereabouts and when it emerged Met officers had spoken with her the day she was reported missing.\n\nHowever, the referral is now \"invalid\".\n\nStudent nurse Ms Davies left her family's home in Grays, Essex, on 4 July and was reported missing by relatives on 6 July, the day Met officers spoke to her in London.\n\nMs Davies had not yet been marked as a missing person on the police database, the Met said, with the force adding it had only later established the woman it had spoken to was Ms Davies as a result of their missing person investigation.\n\nShe was then last seen on CCTV footage in Derby Road in south London, near to West Croydon rail station, on 7 July at 00:03 BST, with police making public appeals to find her for the next seven weeks until she was found on Tuesday.\n\nThe IOPC said the DSI referral had been filed on 5 August, after the Met announced arrests had been made on suspicion of her murder.\n\nAn IOPC spokesperson said: \"Given that Owami Davies has now been found safe, and we have not received information from the force that Ms Davies has suffered any serious injuries, the referral not does not meet the criteria for a DSI referral.\n\n\"We have advised the Met that it is invalid and therefore we will be taking no further action.\"\n\nMandatory referrals are made whenever police contact with someone who is later killed or seriously injured may have directly or indirectly contributed to harm.\n\nMet Police Cdr Paul Brogden said concerns around the full investigation would still be reviewed by the London and Essex police forces.\n\n\"Whilst this matter does not meet the criteria for an investigation by the IOPC, and this matter is not subject to any inquiry by our Directorate of Professional Standards, we know there have been concerns raised around the search for Owami,\" he said.\n\n\"Therefore we, alongside our colleagues in Essex Police, will be carrying out a review of all our actions from when Owami was first reported missing.\n\n\"We will carry out the review in an open and transparent manner to ensure we have acted correctly and to identify any ways to improve our response to finding other missing people.\"\n\nOfficers were said to be \"ecstatic\" to report Ms Davies had been found \"safe and well\" in Hampshire on Tuesday.\n\nA Twitter account linked to Ms Davies's family said they were \"forever grateful\".\n\n\"We the Davies family would like to express our deepest gratitude to every one of you, wherever you are, whoever you are.\n\n\"Thank you for all your well wishes, love hugs & thoughts. Together we searched far & beyond. We are forever grateful,\" one post said.\n\nDespite the arrests of five people and numerous appeals for information, officers were struggling to locate Ms Davies as they trawled through 117 reported sightings.\n\nThe 118th report, made in response to a media appeal by a member of the public, at 10:30 BST on Tuesday was the one which led to her being found.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of Facebook users around the world reported issues with their news feeds on Wednesday as a glitch appeared to boost posts to celebrity fan pages and groups to the top of timelines.\n\nOn Downdetector, an outage tracking website, users posted reports of problems between 07:00 and 09:00 BST.\n\nMany reacted to the glitch with memes mocking Facebook.\n\nMeta, Facebook's parent company, apologised \"for any inconvenience\" and said the issue was resolved.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC, \"Earlier today, a configuration change caused some people to have trouble with their Facebook feed. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted.\"\n\nA total of 81% of the reports received by Downdetector flagged issues with Facebook feeds, with the rest specifically highlighting the app or website.\n\nUsers opening Facebook on mobile and desktop were met with chronological posts to celebrity pages and groups.\n\nSome posted memes to popular Facebook fan pages, such as those for Kim Kardashian, the Rolling Stones and Taylor Swift, to make fun of Facebook's spam-like error. Others also used the opportunity to promote GoFundMe and PayPal fundraisers.\n\nConcerns over the unavailability of content posted by friends and family, usually present for users at the top of their main feed, caused many to wonder whether Facebook had been hacked or flooded with spam.\n\nFacebook outage fears have become more common since WhatsApp and other apps run by Meta stopped working for six hours last October.\n\nThe issues comes after Meta announced new changes to Facebook feeds last month.\n\nThese presented users with new options to customise feeds in a separate tab on Facebook's mobile iOS and Android versions.\n\nMeta has faced criticism over changes to Facebook and Instagram designed to help it compete with TikTok and its short-form video success.\n\nFacebook's new news feed allows users to create reels from its homepage and have more control over the content they can see and discover.", "US President Joe Biden will cancel up to $10,000 (£8,474) in federal student loans for millions of Americans who earn less than $125,000 each year.\n\nMr Biden will also forgive $20,000 of debt for students on Pell Grants, which applies to those in greatest financial need.\n\n\"People can finally crawl out under that mountain of debt,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 43 million Americans owe a combined total of $1.6tn in federal student debt.\n\nNearly one-fifth owe less than $10,000.\n\nThe temporary student loan pause, first put in place in March 2020, will also be extended a final time until 31 December of this year.\n\nSpeaking from the White House on Wednesday, Mr Biden said his plan would give more \"breathing room\" to working and middle class families.\n\n\"The burden is so heavy that even if you graduate you may not have access to the middle class life that the college degree once provided,\" he said, recalling the shame his car salesman father felt when he struggled to pay for his children's education.\n\nAbout one-third of borrowers have student debt but no degree, Mr Biden said. \"The worst of both worlds.\"\n\nThe announcement follows more than a year of intense internal White House debate and mounting pressure from progressive Democrats. Top Democrats Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are among those who had pushed Mr Biden to use his executive power to wipe out borrower debts.\n\nWednesday's plan falls short of the $50,000 per borrower plan that Mr Schumer and Ms Warren had asked for.\n\nA one-time cancellation of $10,000 for each borrower earning a maximum of $125,000 will cost the federal government around$300bn, according to an estimate from the Penn Wharton budget model at the University of Pennsylvania.\n\nMr Biden addressed this criticism on Wednesday, saying his student forgiveness plan is the \"economically responsible course\".\n\n\"I will never apologise for helping working Americans and the middle class,\" he said, adding that \"no high-income individual or high-income household will benefit from this action\".\n\nRepublicans and some moderate Democrats have said debt cancellation will add to inflation by giving Americans more money to spend. And others say that blanket debt forgiveness is unfair to those who have already paid off students loans.\n\nHouse minority leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, quickly criticised the plan on Twitter: \"Who will have to pay for Biden's debt transfer scam? Hard-working Americans who already paid off their debts or never took on student loan debt in the first place,\" he wrote.\n\nSome Democratic lawmakers have pushed back, saying that cancelling student loans helps address economic racial disparities.\n\nBlack students are more likely to borrow federal student loans and at higher amounts than other Americans. Four years after earning bachelor's degrees, black borrowers owe nearly $25,000 more than their white peers on average, according to a Brookings Institution study.", "Google plans to show ads that educate people about disinformation techniques, following a successful experiment by Cambridge University.\n\nGoogle Jigsaw, which tackles online security dangers, will run adverts on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook.\n\nThey will be shown in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland to combat fake news about Ukrainian refugees.\n\nGoogle said the \"exciting\" findings showed how social media can actively pre-empt the spread of disinformation.\n\nThe research was founded on a developing area of study called \"prebunking\", which investigates how disinformation can be debunked by showing people how it works - before they are exposed to it.\n\nIn the experiment, the ads were shown to 5.4 million people, 22,000 of whom were surveyed afterwards.\n\nThe peer-reviewed research was conducted in conjunction with Google, which owns YouTube, and will be published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nBeth Goldberg, head of research and development for Google Jigsaw, called the findings \"exciting\".\n\n\"They demonstrate that we can scale prebunking far and wide, using ads as a vehicle,\" she said.\n\nJon Roozenbeek, the lead author on the paper, told the BBC the research is about \"reducing the probability someone is persuaded by misinformation\".\n\n\"Obviously you can't predict every single example of misinformation that's going to go viral,\" he said. \"But what you can do is find common patterns and tropes.\n\n\"The idea behind this study was - if we find a couple of these tropes, is it possible to make people more resilient against them, even in content they've never seen before?\"\n\nThe scientists initially tested the videos with members of the public under controlled-conditions in a lab, before showing them to millions of users on YouTube, as part of a broader field study.\n\nThe anti-misinformation campaign and prebunking campaign was run on YouTube \"as it would look in the real world\", Mr Roozenbeek said.\n\n\"We ran them as YouTube ads - just like an ad about shaving cream or whatever... before your video plays,\" he explained.\n\nAdvertisers can use a feature on YouTube called Brand Lift, which tells them if, and how, an advert has raised awareness of their product.\n\nThe researchers used this same feature to assess people's ability to spot the manipulation techniques they had been exposed to.\n\nInstead of a question about brand awareness, people were shown a headline and asked to read it. They were told the headline contained manipulation and asked to identify what kind of technique was being used.\n\nIn addition, there was a separate control group who were not shown any videos, but were shown the headline and corresponding questions.\n\n\"What you hope to see is that the group that saw the videos is correct in their identification significantly more often than the control group - and that turned out to be the case,\" Mr Roozenbeek said.\n\n\"On average, the group that got the videos was correct about 5% more often than the control group. That's highly significant.\n\n\"That doesn't sound like a lot - but it's also true that the control group isn't always wrong. They also get a number of questions correct.\n\n\"That improvement, even in the noisy environment of YouTube, basically shows that you can improve people's ability to recognise these disinformation techniques - simply by showing them an ad.\"\n\nCambridge University said this was the first real-world field study of 'inoculation theory' on a social media platform.\n\nProfessor Sander van der Linden, who co-authored the study, said the research results were sufficient to take the concept of inoculation forward and scale it up, to potentially reach \"hundreds of millions\" of social media users.\n\n\"Clearly it's important for kids to learn how to do lateral reading and check the veracity of sources,\" he said, \"but we also need solutions that can be scaled on social media and interface with their algorithms.\"\n\nHe acknowledged the scepticism around technology firms using this type of research, and the broader scepticism around industry-academia collaborations.\n\n\"But, at the end of the day, we have to face reality, in that social media companies control much of the flow of information online. So in order to protect people, we have come up with independent, evidence-based solutions that social media companies can actually implement on their platforms.\"\n\n\"To me, leaving social media companies to their own devices is not going to generate the type of solutions that empower people to discern misinformation that spreads on their platforms.\"", "A former security chief for Twitter has turned whistleblower and testified that the company misled users and US regulators about gaps in its security.\n\nPeiter Zatko also claimed that Twitter underestimated how many fake and spam accounts are on its platform.\n\nThe accusations could affect a legal battle between Twitter and billionaire Elon Musk, who is trying to cancel his $44bn (£37bn) deal to buy the company.\n\nTwitter says Mr Zatko's allegations are inaccurate and inconsistent.\n\nIt says he was sacked in January for ineffective leadership and poor performance.\n\nIn Mr Zatko's damning revelations, first revealed by CNN and The Washington Post, he accused Twitter of failing to maintain stringent security practices and \"lying about bots to Elon Musk\".\n\nHe filed his complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July. The BBC has seen a redacted copy of the complaint shared via CBS news.\n\nIn it, Mr Zatko also criticised the way in which Twitter handled sensitive information and claimed that it has failed to accurately report some of these matters to US regulators.\n\nTwitter has faced a number of high profile hacks with Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kanye West all targeted.\n\nAmong his concerns Mr Zatko alleges that Twitter suffered from an usually high rate of security incidents - \"approximately one security incident each week serious enough that Twitter was required to report it to regulators\".\n\nHe said that so-called insider threats - security risks posed by people with malicious intent from within the company - went \"virtually unmonitored\".\n\nThe former security chief revealed his concern about how Twitter handled data, alleging that too many employees had access to sensitive systems and user data.\n\nHe worried that the company had no workable disaster recovery plan, and claimed that in the past, Twitter had failed to properly delete the data of people who cancelled their accounts.\n\nOn fake and spam accounts, he said that \"deliberate ignorance was the norm\" at the tech company, and accused Twitter executives of having little incentive to accurately identify how many there really are on its platform.\n\nHowever in the view of The Washington Post, he \"provides little hard evidence\" to back up these assertions.\n\nNevertheless, Elon Musk's lawyers have jumped on the comments. His legal team are currently trying to get the Tesla boss out of the deal, by arguing that Twitter has no way of verifying how many of its 229 million daily active users were actually human.\n\nFollowing the publication of Mr Zatko's revelations, Mr Musk tweeted screenshots of The Washington Post's story, and tweeted an image carrying the phrase \"give a little whistle\".\n\nMr Zatko's lawyer told CNN that his client started the whistleblowing process before the takeover bid became public, and had not made contact with Elon Musk.\n\nHowever one of Elon Musk's lawyers, Alex Spiro, told CNN that Mr Zatko had been subpoenaed to be a potential witness.\n\nElon Musk launched an aggressive takeover bid of Twitter, but now wants to back out of the deal\n\nA former hacker, Peiter Zatko is a well-known figure in computer security circles.\n\nNicknamed Mudge, he was a member of computer security think-tank L0pht (pronounced \"loft\"), and took part in congressional hearings on cyber-security in 1998.\n\nHe has also held senior positions with Google and the US government's research and development agency, DARPA.\n\nA Twitter spokesperson said: \"What we've seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data-security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context.\n\n\"Mr Zatko's allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders.\n\n\"Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.\"\n\nJohn Tye, of Whistleblower Aid, which is assisting Pieter Zatko, described him as a \"hero\" and called on agencies to investigate the allegations quickly.", "One thing Congressman Charlie Crist doesn’t lack is name recognition. He’s been active in Florida politics since the mid-1990s and is making his seventh run for statewide political office. His circuitous journey is another story, however – as a chat with voters outside a polling place in Miami Gardens showed.\n\nCrist was elected governor – as a Republican - in 2006. He then tried, unsuccessfully, to be the party’s nominee for Senate in 2010. After Marco Rubio defeated him in the primary, he ran as an independent – and lost to Rubio again.\n\nCrist then switched to the Democratic Party and ran for governor in 2014 – and lost – before winning his current House seat in 2016.\n\nNow he’s locked in a tight contest with Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried to take another crack at the governor’s office.\n\nIn Miami Gardens, Crist’s electoral history proved to be a blessing – and a curse. Zelma Chisholm said she voted for Crist because he had proven over the years to treat everyone fairly. She added that she liked the fact he had shown he could win Republican votes in the past.\n\nFor Tamilla Mullings, however, Crist’s Republican history was too much.\n\n“Being a Republican, now you’re flip-flopping over to Democrats ... make your choice,” she said.\n\nAnother voter said his record as a Republican legislator, including pushing for the re-implementation of a 1946 policy requiring prisoners to work in chains – which earned him the nickname “Chain Gang Charlie” from his Democratic critics - was unforgivable.\n\nPublic opinion polls show Crist with a modest lead over Fried heading into election day, however, so he may end up with another chance in November to add to his unconventional political story.\n\nTamilla Mullings sees Crist's multiple changes of party as flip-flopping Image caption: Tamilla Mullings sees Crist's multiple changes of party as flip-flopping", "Mack Rutherford, 17, celebrating in his Shark ultralight aircraft after landing near Sofia in Bulgaria on Wednesday\n\nA teenage pilot has become the youngest person to fly solo around the world in a small aircraft.\n\nMack Rutherford, 17, landed at Sofia in Bulgaria, after a five-month journey across 52 countries.\n\nAlong the way, Mack, who was born to British parents but has grown up in Belgium, encountered sandstorms in Sudan and spent the night on an uninhabited Pacific island.\n\nHis elder sister Zara is the youngest woman to fly solo around the world.\n\nShe completed her own journey in January this year and disclosed that she had \"given him advice on the route\" as she travelled to Sofia to greet Mack as he returned to the starting point of his trip.\n\nThe previous record holder for flying solo was British pilot Travis Ludlow, who was 18 years and 150 days old when he completed his journey last year.\n\nAfter completing the feat, Mack encouraged others to \"follow your dreams, no matter how old you are\".\n\n\"Work hard and move forward to achieve your goals\", he added.\n\nThe trip took him through Europe, Asia, Africa, the US, across two oceans, with his plane touching down in the UK at Wick in Scotland and departing from London's Biggin Hill Airport earlier this week.\n\nMack, who comes from a family of aviators, set off from the Bulgarian capital on 23 March, with the arduous journey seeing the extreme heat in Dubai and unexpected airport closures in India.\n\nThe young aviator also said he had slept in a shed beside a runway on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean after a \"hairy moment\" passing through rain and low cloud.\n\nIn an earlier interview with CNN while he was part of the way through his journey, Mack described some of the beautiful places he was able to fly past, from wildlife in national parks in Kenya to the New York City skyline.\n\nHe added always having \"something I can look at\" helped him maintain focus in the low-altitude flights - which took up to 11 hours at a time.\n\nAsked what his plans for the future were, Mack said: \"I'm going to keep flying. I'm thinking of something like the air force, but I'm nowhere 100% sure on anything.\n\n\"After I finish this I've just got to focus on school and try and catch up as much as I can.\"\n\nAs a result of his efforts, he has broken two Guinness World Records - becoming the youngest person to fly around the world solo, as well as the youngest to circumnavigate the globe in a microlight plane.\n\nThe teenager flew a Shark - a high-performance ultralight aircraft which can hit a cruising speed of around 186mph (300km/h).\n\nHis sister Zara said that she was \"constantly\" trying to keep in touch and assist her brother while he was in the air.\n\n\"Our parents called him every day, and I joined in those conversations.\n\n\"I gave him advice on the route, on the flight, so that I could be useful to him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zara Rutherford, 19, landed at Kortrijk-Wevelgem in Belgium to complete her round-the-world challenge\n\nMack has previously said he wanted to be a pilot since the age of three and he achieved the feat in September 2020 when he qualified for his licence aged 15.\n\nHis father Sam Rutherford is a professional ferry pilot, while his mother Beatrice is a private pilot.\n\nAnd Mack's website explains that aviation goes back five generations in his family - describing his great-great-grandmother as being \"amongst the first South African women to learn to fly\".\n\nMack holds both British and Belgium nationality and has lived most of his life in Belgium.\n\nHe is currently being educated at the private Sherborne School in Dorset, whose website has been following his progress around the world. It also carries Mack's personal statement, in which he says \"you don't need to be an adult to do incredible things\".", "Nine changing rooms at Urban Outfitters in York had to be closed so the changing room could be cleaned\n\nA police officer has kept her job despite urinating in a clothes shop fitting room while drunk off-duty and then lying to her bosses about it.\n\nPC Amelia Shearer, 24, of Cleveland Police was found guilty of gross misconduct following the incident in Urban Outfitters in York last year.\n\nA disciplinary panel in Middlesbrough found her conduct was discreditable and she had been dishonest.\n\nIt decided not to sack her but instead issued a final written warning.\n\nThe panel's chairwoman, Ogheneruona Iguyovwe, said: \"There is scope for her to be rehabilitated, there is scope for her to set the record straight and to begin on a new path.\"\n\nMs Iguyovwe had earlier pointed out that police officers were \"expected to maintain high standards of behaviour\" and should consider if their actions might cause a loss of confidence in the police.\n\n\"Officers are required to act with integrity and honesty at all times,\" she said.\n\nDuring the three-day hearing, the panel was told probationer PC Shearer had been in York with a friend while off-duty on 11 September.\n\nIn under four hours Middlesbrough-based officer drank half a bottle of Prosecco, three cocktails and a Jack Daniels and Coke before going to the store.\n\nWhile there she is alleged to have asked a sales assistant if the store had toilets, and when told it did not she went into a changing room cubicle.\n\nPC Shearer, who studied a Masters in criminal investigations before joining the police in 2019, admitted she had been drunk and described herself and her friend as \"loud and giggly\".\n\nShe denied relieving herself in the store.\n\nShe claimed to have used the changing rooms to adjust her bra - but had told her superior Insp Christian Duree she had been trying on clothes during a phone call the day after it happened.\n\nShe explained that she only gave him an \"abridged version\" of events but Cleveland Police accused her of lying - and the panel agreed.\n\nOlivia Checa-Dover, acting for the force, said the conclusion that PC Shearer had been dishonest meant she was now \"undeployable\".\n\nShe said the fact the officer had lied while being questioned on oath would have to be disclosed to defence lawyers in any future investigations she carried out.\n\nJoan Smith, for the defendant, said her client had consistently denied the claims, had good references and her performance had been described by her inspector as \"excellent\".\n\nShe said the officer had the potential to be \"exceptional\" and to \"flourish in this police force with the appropriate guidance\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A residential house was also destroyed in strikes on Chaplyne\n\nA Russian rocket strike on a railway station killed 25 people, Ukraine says, on the day marking six months since Moscow's invasion began.\n\nFive of the victims of the attack in the eastern town of Chaplyne burnt to death in a vehicle, officials said. Two boys aged six and 11 were also killed.\n\nPresident Volodymyr Zelensky reported the strike during a UN Security Council meeting. A further 31 people were hurt.\n\nRussia said it hit a military train killing hundreds of Ukrainian troops.\n\n\"As a result of a direct hit by an Iskander missile on a military train at the Chaplyne railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, more than 200 servicemen of the reserve of Ukraine's Armed Forces and 10 units of military equipment were destroyed, on their way to combat zones in the Donbas,\" its defence ministry said in a statement.\n\nUkraine has made no mention of military deaths in the strike.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilian infrastructure. Speaking on Thursday, UN human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet called on Russia's president to halt armed attacks on Ukraine.\n\nMr Zelensky said he had learned of the strike on Chaplyne, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as he was preparing to speak to the Security Council, adding: \"This is how Russia prepared for the UN Security Council meeting.\"\n\nIn April, a strike on another train station killed more than 50 people.\n\nUkraine spent Wednesday marking its annual independence day. Mr Zelensky had previously said Russia might do something \"cruel\" to disrupt the celebrations.\n\nPresident Zelensky said Russia had endangered the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and the people of Europe\n\nEarlier, he accused Moscow's forces of turning the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant into a \"war zone\" that endangered the plant and the people of Europe, putting the world \"on the brink of radiation catastrophe\".\n\nOn Thursday the city of Enerhodar, where the plant is located, was \"on the verge of a humanitarian disaster\" after being left without electricity and water \"as a result of enemy shelling\", its exiled Mayor Dmytro Orlov said on Telegram.\n\nIt is not clear whether these outages have affected the nuclear plant.\n\nRussian media reported quoting Russian-installed authorities that the occupied cities of Melitopol and Kherson, and other population centres in Kherson region, were without power.\n\nAround the world, there were gatherings of supporters in the streets on Wednesday to mark Ukraine's independence. World leaders also rallied to support the embattled nation.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared in Kyiv on an unannounced trip to show his country's support, announcing £54m ($63.5m) in new military aid - a figure dwarfed by an announcement from US President Joe Biden of an extra $3bn (£2.5bn).\n\nBut in the streets of Kyiv, it was relatively quiet.\n\nUkraine had banned large gatherings and events over fears that Russia could target such civilian gatherings. It followed a warning from the US for any of its citizens to leave ahead of the anniversary.\n\nSome gathered anyway on Khreshchatyk Street to look at the array of captured Russian tanks and armoured vehicles put on display instead of the usual Ukrainian parade.\n\nBetween his political speeches, President Zelensky and his wife also attended a memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers and civilians of the war, laying yellow and blue flowers at Kyiv's Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Kyiv residents reflect on six months of war with Russia", "Conman Jody Oliver dressed as cruise ship seaman and told targets of fictitious holidays\n\nA fake sea captain who sold bogus holidays to victims has been jailed for six years.\n\nJody Oliver, 44, dressed as cruise ship seaman and lied to his targets about holidays with huge discounts.\n\nNewport Crown Court heard he admitted stealing £320,315 in a fraud the judge called an \"intricate deception\".\n\nAndrew Davies, prosecuting, said Oliver, of Bwlch, Powys, \"baited the hook\" for his victims with bargain holidays that did not exist.\n\nOne victim was a taxi driver tipped off by a barmaid at Newport's Alma Inn about deals offered by \"Captain Oliver\".\n\nMr Davies said: \"He would dress as a ship's captain and had a fake lanyard for the Carnival Line.\"\n\nHe also created fake documents, including a forged contract, before cancelling or delaying the holidays, saying it was the result of security issues or ship problems.\n\nHe created fictitious Carnival Line staff to back up his story, forwarding victims fake emails.\n\nOne family was left waiting in December 2018 with bags packed for an airport transfer that never came.\n\nWhen victims raised their concerns, police uncovered the gravity of the fraud, carried out while Oliver was on bail for VAT fraud charges.\n\nMr Davies said, when first quizzed by police, Oliver gave his name as Jonathan and said he was born in 1983.\n\nHe insisted he was a \"master mariner\" and had served as captain for Carnival Line for two years.\n\nOliver split his time between his wife and three children, and a secret boyfriend in Newport.\n\nHe married childhood sweetheart Laura Ann Oliver in 2002 and met Rhys Burgess online.\n\nMrs Oliver, now separated from her husband, believed he worked as a businessman in the motor trade, for a gaming machine company and as a partner in a funeral home.\n\nJody Oliver was sentenced to six years in prison at Newport Crown Court\n\nOliver also targeted 16 friends and family of Mr Burgess at Newport pub The Alma Inn, including his mother Helen Marie and grandmother Denise Fisher.\n\nChristine and and Kevin Evans, friends of Mr Burgess' grandmother, booked several cruises.\n\nThe court heard Oliver led a fantasy lifestyle beyond his means and was an online gambler who had taken out substantial high interest loans and was being chased for his debts.\n\nHe lost £136,000 to online betting in 2017 and 2018.\n\nMs Evans' victim impact statement said: \"It makes my blood boil. I have very bad days myself after getting friends and family involved with this evil man.\"\n\nOliver's estranged wife told the court of her \"shock, disgust and anger\" and said she had to move twice because of his crimes.\n\nMatthew Buckland, defending, said his client had left a \"trail of devastation\" and was sorry.\n\nHe added: \"He was unhappy. His life was spiralling out of control.\"\n\nThe court heard in 2004 Oliver was convicted of defrauding the former world rally champion Colin McCrae in a fake sponsorship deal scam, followed by a 2019 conviction for VAT fraud.\n\nJudge Richard Williams said: \"You've devastated not only your immediate family but all those involved in this case and have left a lot of people significantly out of pocket and feeling betrayed.\n\n\"The motivating factor in your offending is your profound dishonesty and willingness to leech off those of your acquaintance.\"\n\nHe ordered an investigation into Oliver's finances so a proceeds of crime hearing can be held.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was \"a much-loved member of our school\", her head teacher said\n\nA nine-year-old girl who was fatally shot after a gunman burst into her home was \"joyful\" and \"would always try to help others\", a head teacher has said.\n\nOlivia Pratt-Korbel died after being shot by a gunman, who had forced his way into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, while chasing another man with no connections to her on Monday.\n\nHead teacher Rebecca Wilkinson said St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School in Huyton was in \"shock and disbelief\".\n\nShe said Olivia was \"kind-hearted\".\n\nRebecca Wilkinson said her school was in \"shock and disbelief\"\n\nMs Wilkinson said Olivia had been \"a little ray of sunshine\" and was a \"lively little soul [who was] very, very popular with all her peers\".\n\nShe said the staff are \"devastated\" and \"can't imagine how the children are going to feel when they come back to school and she's no longer here\".\n\nIn a statement released earlier, she said Olivia was \"kind-hearted and would go out of her way to help others\".\n\n\"She loved to perform and recently participated in the school production of The Wizard of Oz,\" she said.\n\n\"Olivia will be missed greatly by staff and children at our school.\"\n\nFloral tributes were left neat the site of the shooting in Dovecot\n\nIn a statement, the Archdiocese of Liverpool said it was \"shocked and saddened to hear the tragic news\".\n\n\"Olivia was a member of our school community and... our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends, classmates, teachers and local community,\" a representative said.\n\nKnowsley Council leader Graham Morgan said Olivia was a \"popular pupil\", adding: \"I know she will be a huge loss to the school community and everyone who knew her\".\n\nMerseyside Chief Constable Serena Kennedy told a press conference that Olivia's family were \"absolutely devastated, inconsolable and heartbroken\".\n\nShe has urged the man responsible for Olivia's death to hand himself in to police.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "FN Meka has more than one billion views on its TikTok account\n\nA record label has cut ties with an AI rapper after criticism it contained racial stereotypes, including repeated use of the N-word.\n\nFN Meka is an artificial intelligence musician given the appearance of a black male cyborg.\n\nBut Capitol Music Group (CMG) faced a backlash for signing the rapper.\n\nIn a statement announcing they had severed ties, CMG offered its \"deepest apologies to the black community for our insensitivity\".\n\nFN Meka currently has more than 500,000 monthly Spotify subscribers and more than one billion views on its TikTok account.\n\nIts Instagram account, which has more than 220,000 followers, has been made private.\n\nFN Meka's songs are performed by an anonymous black man, according to Anthony Martini who is one of the cofounders of Factory New, a company responsible for the AI.\n\nIn an interview in 2021, he said a human voice \"performs the vocals, but we are working towards the ability to have a computer come up with and perform its own words - and even collaborate with other computers as co-writers\".\n\nBefore CMG dropped the rapper, black activist group Industry Blackout sent them an open letter saying FN Meka was \"offensive\" and \"a direct insult to the Black community and our culture\".\n\nThey said it was \"an amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics\".\n\nThey pointed out FN Meka had released a song with the rapper Gunna, who is currently awaiting trial in the US on criminal charges - with lyrics and social media posts being used as evidence.\n\n\"[He] is currently incarcerated for rapping the same type of lyrics this robot mimics. The difference is, your artificial rapper will not be subject to federal charges for such,\" they said.\n\n\"This digital effigy is a careless abomination and disrespectful to real people who face real consequences in real life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndustry Blackout demanded a public apology and for the AI rapper to be removed from all platforms.\n\nThey also want any profits generated to go to charities supporting black youth in the arts and to black musicians signed by CMG.\n\nSpeaking to the New York Times on Tuesday, before FN Meka was dropped, Mr Martini said he was anticipating it would happen due to \"clickbait headlines\".\n\nAfter being asked about an image of FN Meka being beaten by a police officer, he said: \"Some of the early content, now if you take it out of context, it obviously looks worse or different than it was intended.\"\n\nIn their statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, CMG also admitted to \"signing this project without asking enough questions\".\n\n\"We thank those who have reached out to us with constructive feedback in the past couple of days - your input was invaluable as we came to the decision to end our association with the project,\" they added.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Olivia Pratt-Korbel was shot in the chest as her mother struggled with a gunman at the door\n\nA man who was targeted by a gunman in a shooting that left Olivia Pratt-Korbel dead has been arrested and will be questioned about her murder.\n\nThe nine-year-old was shot as her mother struggled with two men, one armed with a gun, at the door of her Liverpool home on Monday night.\n\nThe intended victim of the shooting has been named as 35-year-old Joseph Nee.\n\nNee, who was also shot, was a convicted drug dealer and jailed for three years and nine months in 2018 for burglary.\n\nMerseyside Police has not publicly identified Nee, who was previously convicted of two counts of theft of a motor vehicle, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and driving while disqualified.\n\nJoseph Nee has been named as the intended target of the shooting that killed nine-year-old Olivia\n\nBut earlier the force said a 35-year-old man injured in the shooting would be recalled to prison for allegedly breaching the terms of his licence conditions with \"poor behaviour\".\n\nPolice said the man, who was in a stable condition, had been detained in hospital and would be \"further questioned\" in connection with Olivia's death.\n\nThe force also said officers had been given the same name by two different sources in the hunt for the gunman.\n\nBoth men have no links to Olivia's family, police have said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDet Ch Supt Mark Kameen said the force was \"absolutely dedicated\" to ensuring there were sufficient resources to investigate Olivia's death, as well as the recent shootings of 28-year-old Ashley Dale in Old Swan and 22-year-old Sam Rimmer in Dingle.\n\nHe said each case was \"receiving first-class treatment and will continue to do so\" and that police raids carried out across Liverpool earlier were in response to the deaths and organised crime.\n\n\"In effect, Merseyside Police [is] baring its teeth,\" he said.\n\n\"We're proactive, we're hard-edged and we'll take the fight to the criminal,\" he added.\n\nReferencing Merseyside Police's recent watchdog grading of outstanding for its efforts in tackling organised crime, he said the force was \"not asleep here in any way\".\n\n\"This hasn't suddenly jerked us into some sort of activity,\" he said.\n\n\"This is daily business for Merseyside Police but now we're just ramping it up even further.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been left for Olivia near the site of the shooting\n\nThe force has previously said:\n\nIn a tweet, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the shooting was \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and that his thoughts were with Olivia's family and \"the people of Liverpool\".\n\nHe added that Merseyside Police would get \"whatever they need to catch those responsible and secure justice for Olivia\".\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson tweeted that \"someone out there knows who did this\", adding: \"For Olivia, and for the safety of our city's communities, you must come forward.\"\n\nOlivia's death is the third fatal shooting in Liverpool in recent weeks\n\nMr Kameen said inquiries were continuing \"into the shocking murder of Olivia\" and the force was \"supporting her family as they try to come to terms with this tragedy\".\n\n\"I would like to echo the words of our chief constable yesterday [and] appeal to the community to keep helping this family in every way possible,\" he said.\n\nHe added that this was \"not the time for anyone who knows who was responsible to stay silent\".\n\n\"It is a time for us all to make Merseyside a place where the use of guns on our streets is totally unacceptable and those who use them are held to account.\n\n\"If you saw, heard, captured or know anything, tell us directly or anonymously and we will continue to act.\"\n\nPolice and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell (centre) said she was \"really pleased\" people had shared information\n\nSpeaking while on a walk around the area with Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner Emily Spurrell and Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy said people were \"angry this is happening in their communities, where some have lived for many years\".\n\n\"They feel frightened about what's happening, but the feedback I have received is that they feel grateful for the additional support and resources we are providing, including a high visibility police presence,\" she said.\n\nMs Spurrell said she was \"really pleased\" to hear information about who was responsible for Olivia's murder had been shared with police.\n\nEncouraging others to get in touch with any information they may have, she said \"we know somebody out there will know what happened and who is involved\".\n\nPaying tribute on Monday, Olivia's head teacher Rebecca Wilkinson said St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior School in Huyton was in \"shock and disbelief\".\n\nShe said Olivia was \"a little ray of sunshine\" and was a \"lively little soul [who was] very, very popular with all her peers\".\n\nTributes to Olivia have been left by friends and neighbours of her family\n\nJean Martindale, whose grandson was in the same class as Olivia, said he had \"taken it really badly\".\n\n\"Yesterday was terrible for all the children, but he was close to Olivia... and he was very, very sad,\" she said.\n\nMs Martindale, who has lived in the area for 52 years, said Olivia's death had been \"absolutely devastating\" for their close-knit community.\n\n\"You can feel it, the atmosphere in the air, it's horrible,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she was confident the man responsible would be caught, as she believed \"whoever does know anything will give names in\", adding: \"I'm sure of that.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Footage has emerged showing passengers being evacuated through an emergency service tunnel\n\nDozens of people were left stranded for hours inside the Channel Tunnel after a train from Calais to Folkestone appeared to have broken down.\n\nFootage emerged showing Eurotunnel Le Shuttle passengers being evacuated through an emergency service tunnel after having to abandon their vehicles.\n\nThey were eventually transferred to a replacement train and taken to the Folkestone terminal in Kent.\n\nA Eurotunnel spokesman said services were now back to normal.\n\nLe Shuttle said Tuesday night's incident began when the train's alarms went off and this needed to be investigated.\n\nA spokesman said such incidents were unusual but not exceptional - far more common on trains carrying lorries than those with private cars.\n\n\"The Shuttle was brought to a controlled stop and inspected. As a precautionary measure, for their safety and comfort, we transferred the passengers on-board to another shuttle, via the service tunnel [which is there for exactly that purpose],\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We brought them to the passenger terminal building, where food and drinks were available.\"\n\nHe added the original train was then \"slowly brought out\" of the tunnel and the passengers had their vehicles returned to them in Folkestone.\n\nSarah Fellows, 37, from Birmingham, told the PA news agency she found the service tunnel \"terrifying\".\n\nShe added: \"It was like a disaster movie. You were just walking into the abyss not knowing what was happening. We all had to stay under the sea in this big queue.\n\n\"There was a woman crying in the tunnel, another woman having a panic attack who was travelling alone.\"\n\nOne passenger said \"several people were freaking out about being down in the service tunnel\"\n\nAnother passenger, who did not want to be named, said: \"Several people were freaking out about being down in the service tunnel, it's a bit of a weird place... We were stuck down there for at least five hours.\"\n\nMike Harrison, from Cranbrook in Kent, told BBC News it took about six hours to travel from Calais to Folkestone.\n\nHe said staff spent over an hour trying to find the fault on the train after it had broken down initially before they got it moving again only for it to \"conk out\" after five minutes.\n\nPassengers had to walk 10 to 15 minutes to another train, he said.\n\n\"Things were getting a bit fractious, a bit stressed. A few people were having minor panic attacks,\" he said.\n\nBut the freight train used to take passengers to the terminal was also hit by problems with Mr Harrison saying it did not have enough traction.\n\n\"By the third time we were all just thinking 'what is going on',\" he said.\n\nRachel Thynne told BBC Radio Kent it was \"getting hotter and hotter\" while staff tried to identify the problem.\n\nAll those on board the train were transferred \"in line with safety procedures and as a comfort measure\", Le Shuttle said.\n\nA passenger contacted the BBC before 17:45 BST saying they were on the train which had stopped.\n\nThey complained of poor communication and said the public address system did not work properly.\n\nOne evacuated passenger shared a photo from inside the train they were transferred to\n\nFour additional trains were laid on overnight from Calais to Folkestone to deal with the backlog from the incident.\n\nThe service transports passengers and their vehicles between Folkestone and Calais.\n\nAt 23.5 miles (37.9km), it has the longest underwater section of any tunnel in the world.\n\nLe Shuttle said all passengers would be contacted individually to arrange compensation.", "Former Newsnight host Emily Maitlis has said a rebuke she received from BBC bosses over on-air remarks about Dominic Cummings \"makes no sense\", and warned that growing political pressure has led the media to censor itself.\n\nIn 2020, the BBC said Maitlis broke its impartiality guidelines by saying \"the country can see\" the prime minister's then adviser had broken lockdown rules.\n\nMaitlis, who has since left the BBC, said its ruling, \"without any kind of due process\", may have been \"a message of reassurance\" to the government.\n\nIn response, a BBC spokesman said: \"The BBC places the highest value on due impartiality and accuracy and we apply these principles to our reporting on all issues.\n\n\"As we have made clear previously in relation to Newsnight we did not take action as a result of any pressure from Number 10 or government and to suggest otherwise is wrong. The BBC found the programme breached its editorial standards and that decision still stands.\"\n\nIn a speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Maitlis said: \"Why had the BBC immediately and publicly sought to confirm the government spokesman's opinion, without any kind of due process?\n\n\"It makes no sense for an organisation that is, admirably, famously rigorous about procedure - unless it was perhaps sending a message of reassurance directly to the government itself?\"\n\nShe added: \"Put this in the context of the BBC board, where another active agent of the Conservative party - former Downing Street spin doctor and former adviser to BBC rival GB News - now sits, acting as the arbiter of BBC impartiality.\"\n\nIt is thought she was referring to Sir Robbie Gibb, who previously worked as Theresa May's director of communications.\n\nShe also revealed that, amid all the furore at the time, Mr Cummings had personally contacted her to offer his support.\n\nBoth Mr Cummings and the prime minister said at the time that the adviser had not broken the rules.\n\nIn May 2020, Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis said the Dominic Cummings row had caused \"a deep national disquiet\"\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday during the keynote lecture at the festival, Maitlis said the media had failed to deal with assaults from populist politicians and risked losing the trust of audiences as a result.\n\nIn May 2020, Maitlis introduced an edition of Newsnight about the No 10 adviser's infamous trip to Barnard Castle by saying: \"Dominic Cummings broke the rules - the country can see that and it's shocked the government cannot.\"\n\nIn her speech, she claimed \"a phone call of complaint was made from Downing Street to the BBC News management\" the following morning, and the BBC swiftly ruled that the monologue had broken rules on \"due impartiality\".\n\nReferring to that decision, Maitlis said: \"It makes no sense for an organisation that is admirably, famously rigorous about procedure - unless it was perhaps sending a message of reassurance directly to the government itself?\"\n\nThe corporation also received more than 20,000 public complaints about Maitlis's on-air remarks.\n\nThe presenter said there had been a wider assault on journalism on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years - in which media organisations \"are primed to back down, even apologise, to prove how journalistically fair we are being\".\n\nIn her speech, Maitlis said many journalists now self-censor in order to appear balanced and avoid backlash, adding that \"the way populist rhetoric is used to discredit journalists turns into a sophisticated form of 'soft censorship'\".\n\nShe suggested any fear by the BBC and other media outlets to fully tackle the impact of Brexit \"feels like a conspiracy against the British people\".\n\nRecalling Newsnight's coverage, Maitlis said: \"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it.\n\n\"But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't.\"\n\nPoliticians like Donald Trump aimed to \"kick down belief in a trusted source of news\", Maitlis said\n\nShe described this \"myopic style of journalism\" as \"both side-ism\" - something \"we tie ourselves in knots over\" and which arrives at \"a superficial balance whilst obscuring a deeper truth\".\n\nWith reference to former US President Donald Trump, she continued: \"Just as we now understand that when we hear the phrase 'fake news' we should see it through Trump's own definition - a conscious attempt to discredit and demean - let's not turn ourselves inside-out wondering if it's true.\n\n\"The more we recognise these tropes as old, slightly sad and malign friends, the better equipped we are to call them out.\"\n\nShe added that modern journalists like herself had helped to \"normalise the absurd\", and that in the future \"whilst we do not have to be campaigners, nor should we be complacent, complicit, onlookers\".\n\nIn February, Maitlis and her colleague Jon Sopel announced they were leaving the BBC to launch a new podcast and host a radio show together on LBC.", "Most hospital patients and care home residents in England will no longer be tested for Covid unless they have symptoms, the government has said.\n\nFrom 31 August, NHS and social care staff will also not be offered lateral flow tests unless they fall sick.\n\nFree testing for the general public ended in April in England, but continued in some high-risk settings.\n\nThe government said UK Covid rates have fallen, meaning most testing could be paused.\n\nIt said individuals would continue to be protected through vaccination and antiviral treatments and it would keep the situation under close review.\n\nThe Department of Health said that, under the new rules, routine asymptomatic Covid testing of staff and existing patients or residents would be paused in:\n\nAll new admissions into care homes and hospices will continue to be tested for Covid, as will patients with weakened immune systems who are admitted to hospital or transferred between wards.\n\nStaff and patients will also still be tested if they have Covid symptoms such as a fever, persistent cough or loss of smell.\n\nHealth Secretary Steve Barclay said: \"This reflects the fact case rates have fallen and the risk of transmission has reduced, though we will continue to closely monitor the situation and work with sectors to resume testing should it be needed.\"\n\nHe said the forthcoming autumn booster vaccine programme, along with antiviral treatments, would protect those at greatest risk from severe Covid.\n\nCovid infection rates have been falling across England over the last month and the government said it expects prevalence to remain low following the most recent wave, caused by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins, the UK Health Security Agency's chief medical adviser, said: \"Covid case rates and hospitalisations are on the decline, demonstrating the positive impact of the vaccines, which remain our best form of defence. The data from our surveillance shows prevalence is low and decreasing, and we will continue to monitor this data closely.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is concerned about the pause.\n\nPatricia Marquis, RCN Director for England, said: \"Cases of COVID-19 may well be falling but this virus has still not gone away, and it is vital that there is continued vigilance to ensure patients and nursing staff are not put at risk.\n\n\"Nursing staff must continue to have access to free testing and high-quality personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We have all come a long way and must not risk any backwards step when health services are already under enormous pressure.\"\n\nThe advice in Scotland,Wales and Northern Ireland differs, but currently recommends NHS staff take regular lateral flow tests even if they do not have symptoms.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland's public spending deficit fell to £23.7bn last year as the country's finances continued to be hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nIncome from taxes rose by £11bn to £73.8bn, leaving a gap between spending and revenue equating to 12.3% of Scotland's GDP.\n\nThe deficit for the UK as a whole over the same period was 6.1% of GDP.\n\nScotland's public deficit figure stood at £15.1bn - 8.6% of GDP - the year before the pandemic hit but more than doubled to £36.3bn, or 22.4% of GDP, in 2020.\n\nThe annual Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) report said that overall spending \"for the benefit of Scotland\" by the Scottish government, UK government and other public sector bodies fell from £98.5bn to £97.5bn last year - the largest ever drop in public expenditure.\n\nThis was equivalent to £17,793 per person, which is £1,963 per person greater than the UK average.\n\nThe fall in spending was mainly due to a reduction in money being spent on Covid support schemes - with the authors saying that spending remains at historically high levels.\n\nOverall, the Scottish government spent £5.7bn in response to the coronavirus pandemic last year, down from £8.8bn in 2020.\n\nScotland received at least a further £3.7bn in reserved spending in response to the pandemic, down from £9.4bn.\n\nHowever, this reduction in spending on the pandemic was largely offset by the costs of servicing the public sector debt.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's illustrative geographical share of North Sea oil and gas revenue was £3.5bn, up from £0.8bn the previous year, as energy prices recovered from the falls during the pandemic.\n\nThe report said the oil price increased from $18.38 per barrel in April 2021 to $117.25 in March 2022, while gas prices rose from 55p per therm to 314p.\n\nThe increase was driven by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which increased competition for supplies as countries attempted to switch away from Russian oil and gas.\n\nOverall North Sea production of oil and gas fell by 16.8% in 2021 to 76 million tons of oil equivalent.\n\nScotland's total public sector revenue was said to be equivalent to £13,463 per person, £221 less than the UK average.\n\nExcluding North Sea revenue, it was £12,831 per person, or £805 less than the UK average\n\nThe report said the figures \"continue to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, which had an ongoing and significant impact on global public sector finances.\"\n\nThe data was calculated by Scottish government statisticians, with the annual report having been at the centre of the debate over independence in recent years.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney, who is Scotland's acting finance secretary, said the continued rise in oil and gas prices was likely to see North Sea revenues grow to £13bn next year, which he said would cause Scotland's deficit to fall faster than the UK's.\n\nHe added: \"Even without North Sea receipts, the record revenue generated was sufficient to cover all day-to-day devolved spending as well as all social security spending in Scotland, including the state pension.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said the Gers figures showed how \"people and their families benefit massively from being part of a strong, resilient UK\".\n\nMr Jack said: \"As we continue to recover from the pandemic and confront global pressures on prices and the cost of living, it is clear we need a shared and a relentless focus on boosting the economy.\"\n\nScotland's notional deficit is down year on year for two main reasons: extra Covid spending has reduced and oil and gas revenues have increased.\n\nThat said, the gap between what's raised in Scotland in taxes and what's spent in and on behalf of Scotland is still very high at £23.7bn\n\nThat is equivalent to 12.3% of Scotland's economic output (as measured by GDP) which is more than double the 6.1% rate for the UK as a whole.\n\nWhile these numbers are new, they trigger a very old debate about the state of Scotland's economy and its likely prospects in the event of independence.\n\nUK supporters say the figures show how Scottish families \"benefit massively\" from being part of the union and a much larger economy.\n\nIndependence supporters say if the Scottish government had full financial control it could do a better job of running the economy.\n\nToday's report does not tell us what the future holds - with or without independence - but it does highlight the very challenging financial position that needs to be addressed.", "Nurse Johanna Black retired after 37 years' service but is back doing her old role as part of the NHS staff bank\n\nA nursing union has warned some nurses are retiring when they do not want to because of a lack of flexibility from Scotland's health boards.\n\nLatest figures show nearly one in 10 nursing and midwifery posts are vacant.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing Scotland says health boards failing to accommodate staff who want to change their working patterns rather than leave is making the problem worse.\n\nScottish ministers say they are working to increase flexibility for nurses.\n\nThe overall number of vacant nursing and midwifery posts across Scotland at 31 March this year was 6,209.\n\nThis is up from 4,495 at the same point in 2021, an increase of more than 38%.\n\nRCN Scotland says the issue of retaining staff is equally as important as hiring new people to fill these vacancies.\n\nThe union is concerned about a \"retire and rehire\" trend where nurses leave their posts and then join staffing banks in order to get the reduced hours or flexibility they want.\n\nRCN Scotland director Colin Pullman said: \"People are wanting to continue in a flexible way but, for whatever reason, these opportunities are not being looked at so we're missing the opportunity to retain expertise and knowledge in the service.\n\n\"We just need to be a bit more creative, work with people and make sure their work-life balance is right.\n\n\"We have over 6,000 vacancies in the NHS so employers need to work with individuals who are either retiring or wish to come back into service, to give them the flexible option that they are looking for.\"\n\nNursing and Midwifery Council data shows the number of people leaving its permanent register in Scotland has increased for the first time after two years of decline.\n\nIn 2021/22 a total of 2,750 people left the council's register, a 16.3% increase on the tally for 2020/21.\n\nNHS workforce statistics show spending on bank nurses between 2014 and 2022 increased by 36% to £321m, with spend on agency nurses more than doubling (126.2%) to £88.9m in the same period.\n\nMuch of this increase was as a result of the pandemic where there was more reliance on temporary staff.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme on Monday, Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said the Scottish government and health boards were \"putting in a lot of effort\" to improve conditions for staff who he said had been left \"completely knackered\" from dealing with the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Recruitment is one side of the story, the other side of the story is retention.\n\n\"I have spoken to a number of nurses who tell me that having worked 30 years in the NHS they are really struggling to stay on.\n\n\"I have asked my chief nursing officer to look at whether we can be more flexible right across the board in terms of working patterns and working shifts.\"\n\nJohanna Black worked for the NHS for nearly four decades and was a senior charge nurse in a community mental health team\n\nJohanna Black was overwhelmed with the cards and warm messages she got when she retired from her role as a community nurse in East Dunbartonshire last year.\n\nThe 55-year-old had worked in the NHS for 37 years so was in a position to start receiving her NHS pension and look for another nursing role with reduced hours.\n\nBut it was not what she wanted to do.\n\n\"If it hadn't been for Covid I would have kept my job,\" she said.\n\n\"I loved my job, worked in a great team and was really proud of the service we provided, especially in the pandemic, but I would say the past two years have impacted my health.\n\n\"I think I may have been able to negotiate a slight reduction in my hours but financially I wasn't in a position to do that, so my only option was to retire so I could pick up work with less hours that I could cope with.\"\n\nJohanna with her leaving presents when she retired from her role with NHS Forth Valley\n\nJohanna has ended up temporarily back in the same senior charge nurse role she retired from, with reduced hours, but thinks the future will involve doing bank nursing shifts.\n\nThe 55-year-old thinks there \"should be more options\" for NHS staff in her position as she argues \"a lot of people still have a lot to give\".\n\nShe said: \"I think people, if they have various options open to them, they might not choose to leave.\"\n\nJohanna said she was not critical of NHS Forth Valley but added that all of Scotland's health boards \"need to think what can be done to retain that experience.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said staffing across NHS Scotland was at a record high.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"Since 2006 we have increased the number of qualified nurses and midwives by over 5,500, or by 13.7%; the number of medical and dental consultants by over 2,000, or by 63.2%, and the number of allied health professionals (excluding paramedics) by over 2,000, or by 26.3%.\n\n\"The latest workforce statistics also showed that nursing and midwifery vacancies have started to reduce in the last quarter.\n\n\"We have recruited more than 1,000 additional healthcare support staff since last October and almost 200 registered nurses from overseas to help address the unprecedented challenges facing the NHS.\"\n\nHe said work was ongoing to enhance NHS workforce levels and support health boards to fill posts.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"This is backed by our £1bn NHS recovery plan which introduced a range of direct workforce investments and new measures to support health boards' capacity for both domestic and international recruitment.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Because of their disabilities they are not treated as human beings'\n\nDisabled children are being abused and neglected in institutions across Ukraine, UN experts have warned.\n\nThe human rights officials said the war had made their situation even worse and called on the Ukrainian government to right its \"historic wrongs\".\n\nTheir statement comes after a BBC News investigation uncovered widespread abuse in the country's orphanages.\n\nThere were more than 100,000 children and young people living in institutions before the war.\n\nWhen Russia invaded in February, thousands of disabled people were removed from the institutions and sent back to their families.\n\nThe UN experts say that they were left without any appropriate support, putting them at risk of further abuse, a life on the streets or becoming victims to trafficking.\n\nHowever, thousands are still living in Ukraine's vast network of nearly 700 institutions. Even though these places are called \"orphanages\", 90% of those who live there have families.\n\nThey are casualties of a Soviet-era system that encouraged parents to give their disabled child up to the state.\n\nThere was, and still is, a belief by many in Ukrainian society that disabled children receive better care in an institution.\n\nThe BBC met this teenager, suffering from severe malnourishment, during our investigation in June\n\nOne of the experts, Gerard Quinn, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said this was a problem that long predated the war - and it was time for Ukraine to press a \"reset button to the future\".\n\n\"All wars reveal historic wrongs in the heat of the moment, and institutionalisation is one of those,\" he said.\n\n\"It is time to act, to press a reset button to the future. In doing that we need a clear commitment from the Ukrainian government to end its system of institutionalisation.\"\n\nHe said that as Ukraine rebuilds, disabled people need to be a priority - and those countries and organisations which will help fund that need to put money into community support, and not into furthering the life of institutions.\n\nIn June, BBC News visited five orphanages in the south of Ukraine and found teenagers tied to benches, adults living in cots and severely malnourished children.\n\nIn one institution we met 18-year-old Vasyl Velychko, who was tied to a bench and left to rock back and forth for hours, screaming.\n\nHis parents were able to visit but accepted that this was how he was cared for.\n\nThey wanted to take him home, but a lack of support in the community had left them with no choice but to give him up at the age of five.\n\nVasyl was screaming after being tied to a bench for several hours\n\nHis institution was just one of many which had accepted disabled children who were fleeing the fighting in the east.\n\nBBC News interviewed the directors of some of those facilities, who said they were unable to cope with the influx of evacuees. One director simply admitted he was unable to meet their needs.\n\nMany disabled children living in institutions were also taken to neighbouring countries such as Romania and Moldova, which have taken major steps in abolishing their system of institutionalisation.\n\nThe UN experts said they had evidence that Ukraine was only allowing these countries to support its disabled children if they were kept in an institutional setting.\n\n\"Third countries have a heavy responsibility to assist Ukraine to have a better future for its citizens, including children with disabilities,\" they warned.\n\nThey acknowledged that the war had placed a great strain on the country - but insisted the tens of thousands of disabled children trapped in facilities where there is widespread abuse, neglect and restraint needed to be supported to live with their families.\n\nA BBC News investigation exposes the abuse and neglect of disabled people locked away in institutions across Ukraine.\n\nWatch Now on BBC iPlayer(UK Only)", "An amber extreme heat warning has come into force, with temperatures forecast to hit 37C (99F) in some parts of the UK over the next four days.\n\nThe Met Office alert for southern and central England and parts of Wales runs from midnight on Thursday until Sunday.\n\nIt has also issued its highest alert for fire severity over the weekend, warning there is an \"exceptional\" risk of blazes spreading in many places.\n\nThe highest temperature on Thursday was 34.2C, at Wiggonholt in West Sussex.\n\nFirefighters have urged the public to help them prevent fires.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade assistant commissioner Jonathan Smith said he wanted to avoid scenes in July \"where people lost their homes and livelihoods\".\n\n\"In the first week of August last year, we attended 42 grassland and wildland fires, the same week this year we've attended 340,\" he said.\n\n\"Please don't barbecue in open spaces or balconies, throw your rubbish away safely and put your cigarettes out properly.\"\n\nMr Smith also warned people against using barbecues on balconies, saying they could lead to hot ash moving \"very quickly\".\n\nIn some areas, wildfires have broken out due to the heat. In Ryton, Gateshead, firefighters spent more than 24 hours tackling a fire which started in a field.\n\nWhile the record-breaking temperatures seen in July, when the mercury topped 40C (104F) for the first time, are not expected this week, the heat in some areas could get close to local or regional records.\n\n\"Temperatures won't be as high. But the big difference with this current heatwave is that it's much more prolonged,\" said BBC Weather forecaster Matt Taylor.\n\n\"We've already seen temperatures above 30C every day this week - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday - and that will continue until Sunday.\"\n\nTemperatures could reach 35C and peak at 37C in some areas between the Midlands and London, he added.\n\nThey are also forecast to stay above 33C in some parts of south Wales over the next few days. St Athan recorded a high of 33.2C on Thursday.\n\nThe high temperatures and dry conditions have also been causing problems across Europe - with more than 1,000 firefighters battling a \"monster\" wildfire in France that has destroyed nearly 7,000 hectares of forest.\n\nThe Met Office's fire severity index, which assesses how severe a blaze could become, is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThis will rise to \"exceptional\" - the highest level of risk - for parts of England and Wales by the weekend, while a warning for \"very high\" risk of wildfires across southern and eastern Scotland has been put in place until Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Weather presenter Stav Danaos explains why the UK is facing an amber heat warning\n\nThe period between January and June this year was the driest in England in 46 years, prompting warnings about the effects on agriculture, nature and wildlife.\n\nMore than three inches of extra rain, in addition to what would normally be expected, is needed to overcome the dry conditions in parts of southern England, but no rain is forecast any time soon.\n\nAnalysis by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology found low or even exceptionally low river flows and groundwater levels were likely to continue for the next three months in southern England and Wales.\n\nWater companies are being urged to protect essential supplies into a dry autumn, and three firms have already implemented hosepipe bans.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Jess Langton, a dairy farmer in Derbyshire, explains how the hot weather is affecting her herd\n\nSouth East, Southern and Welsh Water customers cannot use hosepipes to water lawns or plants, clean cars or fill paddling pools, while Thames Water expects to bring in a ban \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nThe company, with 15 million customers across London and the Thames Valley, was forced on Wednesday to hand out bottled water for residents in the village of Northend in Oxfordshire after supplies were disrupted due to a technical issue at a local reservoir.\n\nElsewhere, drinks breaks are to be implemented during Premier League fixtures this weekend to help footballers in the hot weather.\n\nWater levels have severely dropped exposing the unseen trees and rocks at Cornwall's largest lake and reservoir, Colliford Lake\n\nWater companies have faced criticism for bringing in hosepipe bans while just under 3 billion litres (660 million gallons) of water is lost to leaks every day in England and Wales - equivalent to 1,180 Olympic swimming pools.\n\nStuart Colville from Water UK said there were \"hundreds of people out today and across the week\" fixing leaks, adding that leakage was currently at its lowest level on record.\n\nHe said it was a \"constant battle\" fixing leaks, particularly in hot and dry conditions when soil dries, moves and puts pressure on pipes \"causing additional bursts\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Colville said it was looking \"increasingly inevitable\" that the Environment Agency would declare a drought in England.\n\nAn official drought is expected to be declared on Friday, according to water industry insiders, meaning the Environment Agency would have more control over water supply.\n\nThe Wales Drought Liaison group, including environment, health and water professionals, is also looking at the effect of the prolonged dry weather.\n\nOne farmer in Horsham, Sussex said it had been \"an exceptional year\" and described his land as being like a \"Sussex savannah\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 2, David Exwood emphasised the \"extreme risk\" of taking barbecues into the countryside - explaining how hard and dry the ground was.\n\nThe extreme heat may also cause disruption to train services, but it is not expected to be on the same scale as seen in July.\n\nNetwork Rail is not bringing in a country-wide blanket speed restriction, but some local services might have restrictions with concerns rail temperatures could reach 55C or higher.\n\nMeanwhile, people are being advised to look out for those who are older or vulnerable, as well as young children, after the UK Health Security Agency issued a heat health alert until Sunday for parts of central, southern and northern England.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nThe world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began, and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.\n\nHow have you been affected by the heatwave? You can share your experience by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Energy bill support is not enough\n\nBoris Johnson has admitted the current help for people struggling with energy bills is not enough, and said he expects more money to follow.\n\nMr Johnson will step down as PM in September, but said he was \"making sure there is extra cash\" for his successor to provide additional support.\n\nHe also said people were starting to receive the money which the government announced earlier in the year.\n\nThe topic of rising bills has come to dominate the Tory leadership contest.\n\nThe two candidates to replace Mr Johnson have set out differing strategies on how they would respond to the cost of living crisis.\n\nLiz Truss has argued that cutting taxes is the best way to help struggling households.\n\nRishi Sunak has proposed spending billions of pounds on further payments to pensioners and people on low incomes, contending tax cuts will not help them enough.\n\nElsewhere Labour has set out its own proposals including a plan to ensure pre-pay energy customers are charged the same as those paying by direct debit - a move they say would benefit four million people.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"outrageous and immoral\" that the poorest people on pre-payment meters paid more for their energy bills.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats have also called for the government to raise money by backdating the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nSpeaking at a hustings in Cheltenham, Ms Truss said she \"absolutely\" did not support windfall taxes, arguing it was \"all about bashing business\".\n\nMr Johnson has made it clear that he thinks further support will be needed from whoever succeeds him at the start of September.\n\nBut he isn't going to make that decision himself and several government figures have made it clear the big decisions can not be taken by the outgoing regime.\n\nThe lack of immediate action infuriates people like Martin Lewis, the money saving expert, and angers some opposition politicians too, who say the scale of the energy crisis is such that the government can't wait a month to decide what it's going to do.\n\nBut whatever options are suggested by the opposition or left on the table by the current government, it looks increasingly clear that concrete decisions are going to have to wait.\n\nNot least because the two people who could be making them - Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss - sharply disagree.\n\nConservative members are weighing up which they prefer.\n\nBut while they decide, decisions over help with the cost of living look like they are going to have to wait.\n\nLast week forecasts suggested that energy bills could rise to more than £4,000 per year next year for typical households.\n\nEarlier this year the government announced a £15bn package including a £400 energy bill discount for every household.\n\nAsked by reporters if this was enough, Mr Johnson said: \"No\", adding: \"What we're doing... is trying to make sure that by October, by January, there is further support\".\n\n\"I'm not going to pretend that things are easy for people right now, but there's more money coming anyway as a result of the decisions we've taken.\n\n\"I think over the medium term, the future's very bright.\"\n\nHe also argued that the price of energy would be brought down in the longer term by the government's investment in nuclear power and renewables.\n\nEarlier Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi said new cost of living policies would be \"ready to go\" when either Mr Sunak or Ms Truss took office on 6 September.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Airbus factory in Broughton in north Wales, Mr Zahawi told broadcasters: \"We're looking at all the options of what additional help we need to bring in later on in the winter months.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told one option could include expanding the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nThe current windfall tax - also called the energy profits levy - applies only to oil and gas firms, but there has been speculation that it could be extended to electricity generators.", "NHS workers in Scotland are prepared to strike over pay, union leaders have warned.\n\nHealthcare staff from five unions will be balloted on industrial action after rejecting a 5% offer from the Scottish government.\n\nUnite, Unison, GMB, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy condemned the deal.\n\nHealth Secretary Humza Yousaf said he was disappointed and would look to reopen talks with the unions.\n\nThe Scottish government has described the 5% pay deal as the largest single-year increase since devolution.\n\nHowever inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - is standing at 9.4%, with the Bank of England warning it could hit 13%.\n\nUnite said the offer was a \"real-terms pay cut\" and thousands of staff were ready to take industrial action.\n\n\"Workers have indicated that they are prepared to take action in order to strike a better deal from the Scottish government,\" general secretary Sharon Graham said.\n\n\"Unite will now move to an industrial action ballot, and our members will have the full support of their union in the fight to secure better jobs, pay and conditions.\"\n\nUnison confirmed it would ballot its 50,000 NHS members from 3 October.\n\nA preliminary consultative ballot found 83% of its members would vote to take industrial action.\n\nWilma Brown, who chairs of the union's Scotland health committee said the views of the membership were clear.\n\n\"They worked flat out during the pandemic and were promised so much by politicians and yet when it comes to the crunch our domestics, caterers, porters and other low paid members are only worth an extra £900 per year,\" she said.\n\n\"Our members in nursing were offered less than £1,500 whilst senior managers are offered more than £5,000 in the same pay deal. So much for all staff being valued equally.\"\n\nThe union has called on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to intervene in a bid to avoid strikes.\n\nGMB Scotland organiser Karen Leonard said healthcare workers were concerned about making ends meet as costs continue to rise.\n\n\"More of our members are affected by debt, fuel poverty and hunger, while soaring inflation and energy bills means the real-terms value of this pay cut will get bigger with each passing month - there's no doubt this crisis is turning into a catastrophe for many frontline staff and their families,\" she said.\n\n\"If the minister wants to recruit and retain the people desperately needed to help our NHS recover from the peril it is in, then he must value these key workers better and particularly those in the lowest pay grades, who do not receive the biggest cash increases under this offer.\n\n\"However, if these hard truths are not recognised and confronted then industrial action affecting NHS services looks inevitable in the months ahead.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said it would also launch a formal ballot on industrial action in the next few weeks.\n\nBut its members would not take any action which would put women or babies at risk, they added.\n\nJaki Lambert, RCM's director for Scotland said: \"Midwives and maternity support workers are feeling undervalued and frankly they have had enough.\n\n\"The Scottish government's sub-par pay offer will be the final straw for many members already looking for the door.\"\n\nMeanwhile the RCN's Scottish members will join colleagues in England and Wales in being asked to vote in a statutory strike ballot which opens on 15 September.\n\nJulie Lamberth, chair of the RCN Scotland board, said they were \"angry and frustrated\" that the Scottish government had failed to address a workforce crisis and proposed \"yet another real terms pay cut\".\n\n\"Enough is enough. In all my years in nursing I have never known such strength of determination amongst nursing staff,\" she added.\n\nAnd Alex MacKenzie, who chairs the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy said members were angry about the pay offer.\n\n\"It barely meets half the current rate of inflation, let alone addressing the predicted rate which is set to rise even higher in the coming months,\" she added.\n\nMr Yousaf, the health secretary, said: \"While we respect the mandate given to trade unions, I am disappointed they have voted to reject the record 5% pay deal for NHS Scotland Agenda for Change staff, and are now holding ballots for industrial action.\n\n\"We will consider the next steps and look to re-engage with trade unions as soon as we can, and hope to reach a satisfactory outcome.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bin collectors will strike as part of a coordinated campaign by unions in Scotland\n\nBin workers at 15 Scottish councils will go on strike in a new wave of industrial action later this month.\n\nThe Unite union said about 1,500 members would walk out from 24 August to 31 August over a pay dispute.\n\nIt follows a first wave of strikes in Edinburgh next week during the city's International and Fringe festivals.\n\nUnite said the action would hit all council waste services in response to a \"pitiful\" 2% local government pay offer.\n\nThe councils affected are Aberdeen, Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian.\n\nIt is part of a coordinated campaign by Unite, Unison and the GMB unions to persuade the Scottish government and local authority body Cosla to make an improved pay deal.\n\nUnite is the only union involved in this phase of strikes.\n\nGeneral secretary, Sharon Graham, said: \"Unite's members play a crucial role in keeping Scotland's bins emptied and streets clean and they have had enough of the procrastination between Cosla and the Scottish government.\n\n\"Our members across all councils will receive the union's complete support until this dispute is resolved and a fair pay offer secured.\"\n\nSchool and nursery staff have also voted to strike\n\nThe union said more than half of Scotland's 250,000 council staff are earning less than £25,000 a year for a 37-hour week.\n\nThousands of workers in schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres voted last month to take industrial action.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney last week announced that the Scottish government would give councils an extra £140m to help give staff a bigger pay rise.\n\nMr Swinney said: \"This additional funding demonstrates our commitment to local government and their staff and will allow local authorities to make a significantly enhanced pay offer.\"\n\n\"Without the ability to borrow or change tax policy, this will have a significant and ongoing impact upon our fixed budget that ministers are taking steps to address.\n\n\"Finding a solution must be a collaborative endeavour and local authorities now need to do the same.\"\n\nUnite said there had been \"no indication\" of how this additional funding would be used.\n\nCosla said it had held \"constructive discussions\" with the Scottish government last week.\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Given the importance of a pay award for our workforce, council leaders wanted to seek further clarification from both the Scottish government and UK government and will reconvene this week to further consider this matter.\"", "Waste and recycling workers voted to strike after rejecting a 2% pay offer\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will give councils an extra £140m to help them give staff a bigger pay rise.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney announced the extra funding following talks with local authority body Cosla.\n\nStaff at schools, nurseries and waste and recycling centres have voted to strike after rejecting a 2% pay offer.\n\nCosla's leaders met on Friday to discuss the prospect of industrial action by members of the Unite, Unison and GMB unions.\n\nThe council leaders decided they needed more information and said they would reconvene next week.\n\nMr Swinney later said that the Scottish government would contribute £140m of recurring funding to help Cosla make a revised pay offer.\n\nHe added: \"Without the ability to borrow or change tax policy, this will have a significant and ongoing impact upon our fixed budget that ministers are taking steps to address.\n\n\"Finding a solution must be a collaborative endeavour and local authorities now need to do the same.\n\n\"This additional funding demonstrates our commitment to local government and their staff and will allow local authorities to make a significantly enhanced pay offer.\"\n\nGMB Scotland's senior organiser Keir Greenaway had earlier said that the \"ongoing inaction on pay\" would increase the \"anger and fear\" among its members.\n\nWendy Dunsmore of the Unite trade union had said more action could be announced next week unless a new offer is put on the table.", "People around the world have been enjoying the fourth and final supermoon of 2022.\n\nKnown as the Sturgeon Moon, it was at its closest point to Earth at 02:36 BST on Friday.\n\nThe supermoon rises near the Shard skyscraper and St Paul's Cathedral in London\n\nA plane is seen with the full moon behind, also in London\n\nThe moon glows over the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool\n\nThe Dovercourt Lower Lighthouse in Essex with the supermoon rising behind\n\nPeople on the ferris wheel at the International Balloon Fiesta in Bristol with the moon glowing behind\n\nThe moon rises above the statue of the Ancient Greek god Poseidon in Ancient Corinth near Athens\n\nThe moon rises over Cape Sounio and the Temple of Poseidon, east of Athens\n\nHere the moon sinks behind the Hagia Sophia Mosque in Istanbul\n\nThe moon shines behind Edinburgh Castle during the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo fireworks display\n\nThe last supermoon of the year rises over Lower Manhattan, New York\n\nOne observer captures the event near the Eiffel Tower in Paris\n\nThe moon rises in the sky behind world's tallest building of Burj Khalifa in Dubai", "Salman Rushdie, outside King's College chapel in Cambridge in 1993\n\nOver a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work.\n\nThe novelist is one of the most celebrated and successful British authors of all time, with his second novel, Midnight's Children, winning the illustrious Booker Prize in 1981.\n\nBut it was his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, which became his most controversial work - bringing about international turmoil unprecedented in its scale.\n\nIn the Islamic world, many Muslims reacted with fury to the book's publication, arguing that the portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad was a grave insult to their faith.\n\nDeath threats were made against Rushdie, 75, who was forced to go into hiding, and the British government placed him under police protection.\n\nIran quickly broke off relations with the UK in protest and the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa - or decree - calling for the novelist's assassination in 1989 - the year after the book's publication.\n\nBut in the West, authors and intellectuals denounced the threat to freedom of expression posed by the violent reaction to the book.\n\nThe Satanic Verses, published in 1988, brought about an international turmoil unprecedented in its scale\n\nSalman Rushdie was born in Bombay - now known as Mumbai - two months before Indian independence from Britain.\n\nAged 14, he was sent to England and to school in the town of Rugby, later gaining an honours degree in history at the prestigious Kings College in Cambridge.\n\nHe became a British citizen, and allowed his Muslim faith to lapse. He worked briefly as an actor and then as an advertising copywriter, while writing novels.\n\nHis first published book, Grimus, did not achieve huge success, but some critics saw him as an author with significant potential.\n\nRushdie took five years to write his second book, Midnight's Children, which won the 1981 Booker Prize. It was widely acclaimed and sold half a million copies.\n\nWhere Midnight's Children had been about India, Rushdie's third novel Shame - released in 1983 - was about a scarcely disguised Pakistan. Four years later, he wrote The Jaguar Smile, an account of a journey in Nicaragua.\n\nIn September 1988, the work that would endanger his life, The Satanic Verses, was published. The surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous.\n\nIndia was the first country to ban it. Pakistan followed suit, as did various other Muslim countries and South Africa.\n\nThe novel was praised in many quarters and won the Whitbread Prize for novels. But the backlash to the book grew, and two months later, street protests gathered momentum.\n\nDemonstrators were seen protesting against The Satanic Verses in Paris in February 1989\n\nSome Muslims considered it an insult to Islam. They objected - among other things - to two prostitutes in the book being given names of wives of the Prophet Muhammad.\n\nThe book's title refers to a heavily disputed story about a series of verses that were claimed to have been omitted from the Quran because they were revealed to the Prophet Muhammed not by the Angel Gabriel, but by the devil.\n\nSome claimed the verses were recited to a crowd by the Prophet, but Muslim scholars have historically agreed that these verses were never part of the Quranic revelation.\n\nIn January 1989, Muslims in Bradford in the UK ritually burnt a copy of the book, and newsagents WHSmith stopped displaying it there. Rushdie rejected charges of blasphemy.\n\nIn Mumbai, Rushdie's hometown, 12 people were killed during intense Muslim rioting, the British embassy in Tehran was stoned, and a $3m (£2.5m) bounty was put on the author's head.\n\nMeanwhile, in the UK, some Muslim leaders urged moderation, others supported the ayatollah. The US, France and other Western countries condemned the death threat.\n\nRushdie - by now in hiding with his wife under police guard - expressed his profound regret for the distress he had caused Muslims, but the ayatollah renewed his call for the author's death.\n\nThe London offices of Viking Penguin, the publishers, were picketed, and death threats were received at the New York office.\n\nBut the book became a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic. Protests against the extreme Muslim reaction were backed by the EU countries, all of which temporarily recalled their ambassadors from Tehran.\n\nAn Indian Muslim wearing a mask of Rushdie was one of many protesting the author's presence in Bombay in January 2004\n\nBut the author was not the only person to be threatened over the book's content.\n\nThe Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses was found slain at a university north-east of Tokyo in July 1991.\n\nPolice said the translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, who worked an assistant professor of comparative culture, was stabbed several times and left in the hallway outside his office at Tsukuba University. His killer has never been found.\n\nEarlier that same month, the Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was stabbed in his apartment in Milan, though he survived the attack.\n\nAnd the book's Norwegian translator, William Nygaard, was shot in 1993 outside his home in Oslo - he also survived.\n\nRushdie had to go into hiding and received police protection due to the backlash to The Satanic Verses\n\nA prolific writer, Rushdie's later books include a novel for children, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990), a book of essays, Imaginary Homelands (1991), and the novels East, West (1994), The Moor's Last Sigh (1995), The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999), and Fury (2001).\n\nHe was involved in the stage adaptation of Midnight's Children which premiered in London in 2003.\n\nIn the last two decades he has published Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, The Golden House and Quichotte.\n\nRushdie has been married four times, and has two children. He now lives in the US, and was knighted in 2007 by the Queen for his services to literature.\n\nIn 2012, he published a memoir of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses.\n\nThe death sentence against Rushdie stopped being formally backed by Iran's government in 1998 and in recent years the author has enjoyed a new level of freedom.\n\nBut threats to his life always lingered under the surface, and Iran's current supreme leader - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - once said the fatwa against Rushdie was \"fired like a bullet that won't rest until it hits its target\".\n\nUpdate 15 August: This story was updated to give additional context concerning the origins of the title of the book 'The Satanic Verses'.", "Archie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and did not regain consciousness\n\nThe death of Archie Battersbee, who was at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, was a \"tragedy\", a coroner said.\n\nThe inquest into the death of the 12-year-old from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was opened on Friday at Essex Coroner's Court.\n\nIt heard he died of a brain injury secondary to strangulation.\n\nLincoln Brookes, senior coroner for Essex, adjourned the inquest until 7 February 2023.\n\nThe hearing was told Archie was found unresponsive on 7 April.\n\nTributes were left for Archie outside Royal London Hospital after his life-sustaining treatment was withdrawn\n\nParamedics who attended found him in cardiac arrest and tried to resuscitate him.\n\nHe was taken to Southend University Hospital before he was transferred to Royal London Hospital where he died on 6 August after his life support was withdrawn.\n\nThe inquest heard the cause of death was catastrophic hypoxic ischemic brain injury secondary to strangulation.\n\nThe coroner's court was told the purpose of the inquest was to learn who died, and where, when, and how they came about their death, with no-one being on trial.\n\nMr Brookes said Archie's death was a \"tragedy\" and expressed his condolences to his loved ones.\n\nHollie Dance said Archie was \"such a beautiful little boy\"\n\nArchie's parents had battled through the courts to continue his life-sustaining treatment but judges ruled continuing was \"futile\".\n\nHis family then wanted Archie to be moved to a hospice but the High Court, on hearing medical evidence, ruled he was too unstable to be transported by ambulance.\n\nArchie died at 12:15 BST surrounded by friends and family.\n\nHis mum Hollie Dance said he was \"such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and I'm so proud to be his mum\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "If you love Welsh cakes, you're now free to use the name on your candles\n\nThey say all is fair in love and war, but one company has dropped its plans to trademark the Welsh word for love after a backlash.\n\nCandle maker Fizzy Foam registered Cariad, hiraeth and Welsh cake with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO).\n\nIt stopped anyone making similar products using those terms, but the IPO has confirmed the firm has voluntarily given up the rights to the trademarks.\n\nFizzy Foam previously said the trademarks only applied to candles.\n\nAn IPO spokeswoman said: \"The marks belonging to Fizzy Foam Ltd have been voluntarily surrendered. This means the owner has voluntarily given up the rights in the trademarks.\"\n\nThe word hiraeth loosely translates to longing, and others businesses were definitely longing for this move.\n\nAmanda James was not pleased when the trademarks were originally registered\n\nOwner of Bridgend candle-making business Gweni, Amanda James, previously said the move would have a \"significant impact\" on her.\n\n\"I have a range of candles with cariad on them, I wouldn't be able to sell those,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't think anybody has got the right to say that they own these words, these words are unique to our language, to our heritage, to our culture.\"\n\nSpeaking after awarding the trademarks, the IPO said all three met the criteria defined in law and anyone was free to challenge the decision.", "Witnesses were shocked to see Sir Salman Rushdie attacked so brutally\n\nSir Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator and unable to speak after being stabbed on stage in the US, his agent says.\n\nAndrew Wylie said that the author, 75, may lose one eye after the attack at an event in New York state.\n\nSir Salman went into hiding with police protection in the UK in 1988 after Iran's top leader called for his murder over his novel, The Satanic Verses, which some Muslims deemed blasphemous.\n\nPolice detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.\n\nNew York State Police said the suspect ran onto the stage and attacked Sir Salman and an interviewer at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York state.\n\nSir Salman was stabbed at least once in the neck and in the abdomen, authorities said. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.\n\n\"Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged,\" his agent said.\n\nNo motive or charges have yet been confirmed by police, who are in the process of obtaining search warrants to examine a backpack and electronic devices found at the centre.\n\nPolice told a news conference that staff and audience members had pinned the attacker to the ground where he was arrested. A doctor in the audience gave Sir Salman first aid.\n\nThe interviewer who was with Sir Salman, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury and was taken to a local hospital. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit organisation that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nLinda Abrams, an onlooker from the city of Buffalo, told The New York Times that the assailant kept trying to attack Sir Salman after he was restrained.\n\n\"It took like five men to pull him away and he was still stabbing,\" Ms Abrams said. \"He was just furious, furious. Like intensely strong and just fast.\"\n\nIndia-born novelist Sir Salman catapulted to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, published in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nearly 10 years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous - insulting to a religion or god - and was banned in some countries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Video shows the moments after author Sir Salman Rushdie was attacked\n\nSeveral people were killed in anti-Rushdie riots in India and in Iran the British embassy in the capital, Tehran, was stoned.\n\nIn 1991 a Japanese translator of the book was stabbed to death, while a few months later, an Italian translator was also stabbed and the book's Norwegian publisher, William Nygaard, was shot - but both survived.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Sir Salman's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Sir Salman's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThere has been no reaction from the Iranian government to Sir Salman's stabbing. Iranian media were describing Sir Salman as an apostate - someone who has abandoned or denied his faith - in their coverage.\n\nThe British-American citizen - who was born to non-practising Muslims and is an atheist himself - has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions.\n\nSir Salman Rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses. Sir Salman said the main thrust of his novel was to examine the immigrant experience, but some Muslims were offended by portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad and the questioning of the nature of the revelation of the Quran as the word of God.\n\nThe Satanic Verses was banned first in the author's country of birth, India, and then several other countries before Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued his infamous fatwa.\n\nThe fatwa called for the killing of anyone involved in the publication of the book and offered rewards to those who took part in the murders. That fatwa has never formally been rescinded.\n\nSurprised by the widespread nature of the protests, Sir Salman apologised to Muslims but went into hiding.\n\nWhen Sir Salman was knighted in 2007 by the Queen, it sparked protests in Iran and Pakistan, where one cabinet minister said the honour \"justifies suicide attacks\".\n\nSeveral literary events attended by Sir Salman have been subject to threats and boycotts - but he continues to write. His next novel, Victory City, is due to be published in February 2023.\n\nFellow authors such as JK Rowling and Stephen King have written messages of support.\n\nBooker-prize winning author, Ian McEwan, called it an \"appalling attack\" that \"represents an assault on freedom of thought and speech\"\n\n\"Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred,\" he added.\n\nWriter Taslima Nasreen, who was forced to flee her home in Bangladesh after a court said her novel Lajja offended the Islamic faith, said she now feared for her own safety in the wake of Sir Salman's attack.", "Scotland's largest union for NHS staff is to consult its members over a \"disappointing\" 5% pay offer from the Scottish government.\n\nUnison had called for an above-inflation pay rise to reflect the cost of living crisis.\n\nThe union described the offer as a real-terms pay cut for health service workers.\n\nThe Scottish government said it represented the largest single-year increase since devolution.\n\nDepending on roles and experience, the government said frontline workers would receive pay rises ranging from around £1,000 to £2,400.\n\nAll staff would be paid at least £10.50 per hour, with the offer backdated to 1 April.\n\nKay Sillars, Unison Scotland's regional manager, said: \"This will come as a blow to health workers who are already struggling to make ends meet as day-to-day living expenses continue to rise.\n\n\"Achieving a significant pay increase is essential to support the retention of current staff and to stem the flow of staff leaving NHS Scotland over the next year.\n\n\"We already have 6,500 nursing vacancies across the country and offering health workers another real-terms pay cut is only storing up future problems for the NHS.\"\n\nThe GMB union also said it could not recommend that its members accept the one-year offer.\n\nScotland organiser Karen Leonard said: \"Ministers need to go further on pay for these key workers.\n\n\"Frontline NHS services are chronically under-staffed and if we want to improve this for patients then we need to recruit and retain the people needed to deliver them, and that starts with proper value.\n\n\"In the grip of the biggest cost of living crisis in 40 years, we cannot recommend to our hard-pressed members the acceptance of a deal that doesn't sufficiently confront soaring inflation and eye-watering energy bills, or a funding settlement that awards the most to the highest earners.\"\n\nThe potential pay dispute comes as the Scottish government is involved in similar negotiations with other public sector staff, including rail workers in the newly-nationalised ScotRail and local authority workers, who are being balloted for strike action in August.\n\nPolice officers are also considering what industrial action they could take after rejecting a flat £565 annual pay increase as \"derisory\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation (SPF) turned down the pay deal, saying there was \"palpable anger\" among officers.\n\nReacting to the NHS offer, the federation's general secretary Calum Steele said health service workers were \"worth every penny, and more\".\n\nThe Scottish government said NHS staff in Scotland continued to be the best paid in the UK\n\nBut he was critical of how the government has handled negotiations with health service unions compared to the police.\n\nMr Steele told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme: \"It is particularly galling to read from anyone in the Scottish government that these offers are being made following negotiations with unions.\n\n\"When it comes to the police, there has been nothing but silence and a wall of silence continues to this day.\n\n\"Discussions are not ongoing, despite what Scottish government spokespeople are saying to the contrary.\n\n\"All that is happening is that the anger among police officers is rising to unprecedented levels.\"\n\nScotland's health secretary, Humza Yousaf, said the 5% offer to NHS staff was \"a demonstration of how much we value our NHS staff who have worked tirelessly to keep us safe during the course of the pandemic\".\n\nHe added: \"Our NHS Agenda for Change workforce - like nursing and midwifery staff, porter staff, and therapy staff - have long had the best pay and conditions in the UK, and with today's offer of a 5% pay rise we're demonstrating our commitment to ensuring that continues to be the case.\n\n\"Experienced porters will receive more than £1,000 extra, while a healthcare support worker will see more than £1,200 extra. Experienced nurses will see their pay rise by more than £1,600 and an experienced advanced nurse practitioner will receive almost £2,400 more.\n\n\"In fact, as we're building on NHS Scotland staff being the best paid in the four nations, the UK government would need to deliver pay uplifts of between 6% to 14% to front line NHS England Agenda for Change staff to catch up with pay levels in Scotland.\n\n\"This has been another exceptionally challenging year for our health service and I am pleased that the Scottish government is able to recognise the service and dedication of our healthcare and support staff. We will be forever grateful for their professionalism and care.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England's health chiefs say they will create an extra 7,000 beds to tackle \"substantial\" pressures this winter.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisers warned that \"high numbers of beds may be needed for respiratory patients\".\n\nThe extra beds will include more temporary units at hospital sites and 2,500 \"virtual ward spaces\" with patients monitored at home.\n\nThe NHS is already facing intense pressure.\n\nAccording to official figures for July, nearly 30,000 patients waited more than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital.\n\nJuly also saw the highest number of ambulance callouts for life-threatening conditions since records began, and only 40% of patients were able to leave hospital when ready to do so.\n\nNHS chiefs say this could be the first winter where there is likely to be combined pressures from Covid and flu.\n\nThere are around 91,000 adult beds in general wards in England.\n\nIn a letter to all NHS hospital trusts, NHS bosses say extra measures for this winter will include:\n\nProfessor Sir Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director said: \"Winter is always a busy period for the NHS, and this is the first winter where we are likely to see combined pressures from Covid and flu, so it is right that we prepare as early as we can for the additional demand that we know we will face.\"\n\nHe added: \"As ever, it is vital that the public continues to use NHS services in the usual way, including using 999 in an emergency and using NHS 111 online for other health issues.\n\n\"And when the time comes, book in for your Covid and flu vaccines if you are eligible.\"\n\nSir Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, welcomed the additional measures but said extra staff were key.\n\nHe said: \"Without any significant government intervention to retain and rapidly increase the workforce any plan will fall short. They all need people to deliver them, and it's people we're really lacking.\"\n\nA Welsh government spokesperson said: \"Planning for seasonal challenges is an all year round process, and we have already announced 100 new ambulance staff and plans to increase capacity for urgent and emergency care this winter. The Minister will make a statement on progress in the autumn.\"", "Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has vowed to provide more money to help people with their energy bills, if he becomes prime minister.\n\nThe former chancellor said he would seek government \"efficiency savings\" to fund the support, to limit borrowing.\n\nThe amount of support is yet to be determined and would depend on the extent to which energy bills rise later this month.\n\nAllies of his rival Liz Truss accused Mr Sunak of \"another big U-turn\".\n\n\"Three weeks ago he was saying more borrowing was irresponsible and inflationary - has he changed his mind? How can Rishi's borrowing not be inflationary, but Liz's tax cuts are? Intellectually it's as watertight as a sieve,\" a source in the Truss camp said.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Sunak said he wanted to keep \"any one-off borrowing to an absolute minimum\" and would \"first seek efficiency savings across Whitehall to provide direct support for families to help with the unprecedented situation we face\".\n\nThe energy regulator Ofgem is due to announce a rise to the cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers per unit - on 26 August.\n\nIn a new forecast, industry analysts Cornwall Insight estimated the typical household annual energy bill will be £3,582 in October and £4,266 in January.\n\nMr Sunak said \"there is no doubt in my mind that more support will be needed\", adding \"as soon as we know how much bills will go up by, I will act\".\n\nThe former chancellor is competing with Ms Truss to be leader of the Conservative party and the next British prime minister.\n\nBoth Tory leadership candidates, as well as the outgoing prime minister, Boris Johnson, are facing questions about how they will tackle rising costs.\n\nDowning Street has said Mr Johnson has no plans to introduce big tax and spending measures to ease the cost of living crisis before he leaves office in early September.\n\nThe Bank of England has predicted inflation - how fast prices are rising - will hit 13% and the UK will plunge into a recession later this year.\n\nBusiness group leader Tony Danker has urged the prime minister and the Tory leadership candidates to \"agree on the principles\" of support for energy bills.\n\nThe director-general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) - which represents British businesses - said civil servants should be \"working with the candidates now\" to draw up options for helping vulnerable people as soon as one of them takes office.\n\n\"I just don't think it's responsible government for a prime minister, or future prime ministers, not to give the country reassurance,\" Mr Danker said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Liz Truss quizzed on 'no handouts' cost of living policy\n\nIn a campaign dominated by the worsening state of the UK economy, Ms Truss has focused on her pledge to lower taxes, which she argues will help households and boost growth.\n\nBut Mr Sunak has argued her tax cuts - worth an estimated £30bn - would stoke inflation and saddle the UK with debt.\n\nWriting in support of Mr Sunak, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said Ms Truss's emergency tax-cutting budget risked becoming an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.\n\nMr Raab said the foreign secretary's tax cuts would \"do little for the most vulnerable\" and did not represent \"Conservative politics\". \"It's bad politics,\" Mr Raab wrote in the Times.\n\nFormer cabinet minister Sajid Javid told the i newspaper that Ms Truss - whom he backs for the leadership - had the best plan for boosting living standards.\n\nBut, he said, \"more needs to be done\" to support people on lower incomes, suggesting an uplift in benefits payments as one option.\n\nMeanwhile, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has written to Mr Johnson to request an emergency meeting, telling him only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\" to provide the required support.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has also been calling for immediate action, saying a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee should be convened to address a crisis which, he said, would leave \"millions standing on the edge of a financial precipice\".\n\nLabour MP and shadow employment minister Alison McGovern said \"every day counts\" in working on emergency measures to deal with the cost of living crisis.\n\nShe said the party wanted VAT removed from fuel bills and suggested more targeted help could be introduced too.\n\nMs McGovern told the BBC: \"We do have government ministers who could take responsibility for bringing forward some of these things and making it clear to everyone in the country that we are going to start taking action today. Not waiting.\"\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have called for the October energy price cap rise to be scrapped. The party argues that this could be paid for by expanding the windfall tax imposed on energy company profits.\n\nLeader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Sunak's plans for more support were \"too timid\", and accused the Conservatives of living in a \"parallel universe\".\n\nSupport that has already been announced by the government includes a £650 payment for the eight million lowest-income households, an additional £300 for pensioner households, and £400 for all households.\n\nWith the current government ruling out emergency action until next week - there are growing calls for reassurance that ministers will act when the price cap goes up.\n\nRishi Sunak today sets out principles - but not figures.\n\nHe says he would use the same template as earlier this year, when the government pledged universal support for every household and extra for those on lower incomes.\n\nExactly how much Mr Sunak is promising won't be confirmed until later this month, when the new energy price cap is confirmed.\n\nLiz Truss has not yet clarified what she meant when she said she wanted tax cuts, not handouts.\n\nHer allies insist nothing has been ruled out.\n\nBut Dominic Raab - who is backing Mr Sunak - this morning warns Ms Truss that failing to live up to the challenge would be an \"electoral suicide note\" for the Conservatives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It’s been one of the driest years for a century in years\n\nMore action is needed in Wales to adapt to extreme heat caused by climate change, an expert has said.\n\nProf Andrew Flynn, of Cardiff University, said the country could face regular repeats of this summer's prolonged heatwaves and dry conditions.\n\nFarmers have warned of a \"perfect storm\" as crops wither at a time of soaring production costs.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said it was monitoring the situation very closely.\n\nAn expert panel, including NRW, have reconvened to monitor the impact of the heatwave on water levels and discuss whether to declare an official drought.\n\nAs well as seeing record-breaking temperatures, it has been one of the driest years for a century in Wales - which saw just 61% of average rainfall from March to July.\n\nA Met Office amber warning for extreme heat is in place for large parts of Wales until Sunday, in addition to a warning of a \"very high\" risk of wildfires.\n\nCommunities in Pembrokeshire and parts of Carmarthenshire face a hosepipe ban from 19 August.\n\nAt Clearwell Farm on the outskirts of Cardiff, it has been \"a very worrying time\" for farmer David Phillips.\n\nA cold, dry spring has been made worse by difficulties getting fertiliser because of the Ukraine crisis, and now the hot and dry spells, says farmer David Phillips\n\nStanding in a field of barley, he said the stalks which are barely reaching his knees should be well over his waist.\n\nHe said a cold, dry spring had been exacerbated by difficulties getting fertiliser because of the Ukraine crisis.\n\n\"Then once the crops started growing they've had searing heat on them which has effectively burnt them off rather than ripening them - it's the perfect storm,\" said Mr Phillips.\n\nHis yield would be down by a third and the grain could only be good enough for animal feed rather than being sold for malting, he said.\n\nDavid Phillips says he had to sink a borehole at Clearwell Farm as the water supply from a ground level spring was becoming erratic\n\nThe farm also grows a range of specialist crops - pumpkins for Halloween, Christmas trees and a sunflower and maize attraction - all of which are suffering due to the challenging conditions.\n\nMr Phillips said he had started taking climate change seriously many years ago because \"we live and work in it, we could see what was happening\".\n\nThe family sunk a borehole as the water supply from a ground level spring had become erratic, and they now operate their own wind turbine and solar panels to generate green energy.\n\nBut the next generation would need to build irrigation ponds to preserve water, Mr Phillips predicted.\n\n\"The water situation is changing dramatically. When we do have storms they tend to be heavier and the water runs off instead of sinking into the ground. The ground conditions lower down are drier too - even during the winter,\" he explained.\n\nRhodri Davies says this year's poor crop will have a huge financial burden for his farming business\n\nWales' potato farmers have also been badly affected.\n\n\"Even if we did have rain next week the plants are now starting to die off, they wouldn't bulk up any more so we're losing nigh on 50% of the crop,\" said Rhodri Davies, of Rosedew farm in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"There is a financial burden to that because we haven't got the volume of potatoes per acre to sell.\"\n\n\"We've been doing this now for 10 years and this has been the worst year since we started,\" he said.\n\nHowever for some growers, the warmer weather means bigger, better quality yields.\n\nLlanerch Vineyard Hotel normally produces around 12,000 tonnes of grapes a year\n\nLlanerch Vineyard Hotel in Pontyclun, Rhondda Cynon Taf, normally harvests around 12,000 tonnes of grapes every year which in turn produces 12,000 bottles of wine.\n\nThis year's warmer weather means they expect to produce 18,000 tonnes of grapes and will able to extend their range of wines.\n\nManaging director Ryan Davies said: \"This year is going to be another fantastic year for us.\n\n\"It's quite similar weather to 2018 where we've had periods of nice, dry weather which has allowed our vines to ripen quite well.\n\n\"They've got quite deep roots. They say a vine doesn't like having wet feet so this weather works really well for the vines and it means we're going to have a really good harvest.\n\n\"We'll have more grapes of a better quality because they'll ripen better and we're less likely to have diseases as well.\"\n\nVineyard managing director Ryan Davies says the warmer weather will produce more, better quality grapes\n\nFor his business, the prospect of warmer, dryer weather is a positive.\n\n\"We're in a lucky situation,\" he said.\n\n\"Our business thrives in this warm sunny weather. We also run a hospitality business and during the warmer climate more people come out, they dine, we do the vineyard tours and tastings so it works really well for us.\"\n\nWales is getting hotter, with a clear trend for increasing sunshine hours too, according to a major assessment of climate risks in 2021.\n\nSummer rainfall is expected to decrease by approximately 15% by the 2050s and by between 18% to 26% by the 2080s, with experts warning periods of water scarcity may become more prevalent.\n\n\"The weather we're experiencing this summer can be directly linked to humanly induced climate change, the greenhouse gases we've pumped into the atmosphere,\" explained Prof Flynn.\n\nProf Andrew Flynn says extreme heat will affect all areas of our lives\n\nHe specialises in researching ways of adapting to climate change, an area that has traditionally received \"less attention\" than efforts to cut emissions, he claimed.\n\n\"But now we're beginning to experience climate change in our communities we recognise that we need to do much more to think about how we adapt,\" Prof Flynn explained.\n\nHe is currently running a project alongside the Welsh government, NRW, Public Health Wales and the Future Generations Commissioner's office with communities in Rhyl and Swansea to try to better understand future challenges.\n\nWhen it comes to exceptionally hot or dry weather, it is an area that's seen even less focus because \"we typically think of ourselves as a rather wet, green country\", he said.\n\n\"But the nature of climate change is it's going to increase the variability of the ways in which we experience our environments,\" he added.\n\nChallenges include how to keep homes and workplaces cool, ensuring transport systems could keep running as well as managing water.\n\nSome of Wales' rivers have reached their lowest levels on record during the recent dry spell, with campaigners warning of devastating impacts for fish stocks.\n\nIndependent consultant on freshwater fisheries Richard Garner Williams said anglers should now put a stop to all fishing if they had not done so already.\n\nIt's been one of the driest years for a century in Wales - this photo was taken of the dry conditions at Cliff Top Park in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"The real danger we're facing now is that these oxygen-deprived waters will become barren of all but the most primitive life forms,\" he said.\n\nCatrin Hornung, of NRW, said it was monitoring the \"significant\" situation \"very closely\", working with partners \"to decide on a course of action and what restrictions if any we need to put in place\".\n\nCurrently, Wales is officially in a state of \"prolonged dry weather\", she said, and it was \"difficult to tell\" at this stage whether a drought would be declared in some areas.\n\n\"We have a set of indicators or triggers we follow such as river flows, water quality and environmental impacts and we monitor every river against those indicators,\" she explained.\n\n\"We're keeping a very close eye on all parts of Wales and we would encourage people to listen to the advice of water companies and use water wisely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As the aroma of burnt debris looms in the air and the feeling of security is not yet restored, you wouldn't expect to be met with a vibrant burst of techno music from a bombed-out shell of a community building.\n\nBut that's exactly what is happening in Yahidne in northern Ukraine where a group of young Ukrainians are picking up their shovels to clean up the ruins left by war.\n\nRussia invaded the country in February, with many major cities targeted by missiles and artillery fire - leaving large buildings reduced to dust.\n\nUkrainian youth organisation Repair Together have set up what they call \"clean up raves\".\n\nThey invite DJs to play techno music as volunteers and locals work together to restore areas that were recently liberated from Russian occupation.\n\n\"We are rebuilding,\" Darka Harnyk, one of the 200 volunteers who gathered at the House of Culture, tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.\n\n\"It was the cultural centre that was burned down to the ashes, there were several walls left and we've been having a rave out there.\"\n\nThe House of Culture used to be filled with choirs, crafts and carvings but is now filled with rubble, remains and wreckage\n\nThe group combine techno parties and cleaning up\n\nDarka, 22, says before the war she was able to \"go out every weekend\" and have raves that would run from Friday night to Monday morning.\n\nBut after seeing the devastation of the war and hearing about \"this amazing idea of a rebuilding project\", she was keen to get involved.\n\n\"Cleaning the mess, taking the cement and making sure you could see the walls, that was our main goal,\" Darka says.\n\n\"Doing techno parties and helping the world at the same time, helping Ukraine at the same time.\"\n\nFor Tania Burianova, one of the seven founders of Rebuild Together, seeing the big problems meant \"wanting to help these people\" who are in need.\n\nTechno raves were a big part of the 26-year-old's life, but without the chance to visit festivals and parties they've instead decided to bring the techno into their clean up.\n\n\"We invited DJs, and it was cleaning with music and this gave a lot of energy, motivation and inspiration for our volunteers,\" she says.\n\nWhen cities were liberated, the devastation left behind told Tania \"it was not possible to live there\"\n\nSo what's next for Tania, Darka and the group?\n\n\"We've already cleaned three villages in one region and had nine events. We want to do it [clean] every week,\" Tania says.\n\nAnd with winter coming, they feel the challenges for those in the worst-affected areas will be greater so they need to do more.\n\n\"Our next plans are to build more than twelve houses in a village that we've already cleaned and maybe we can do more before the winter comes,\" she says.\n\nThere is more to come, according to Tania\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "It’s been a week for the obliteration of precedents.\n\nFirst the revelation that a former president’s home had been searched by the FBI, made public by Donald Trump himself.\n\nThat brought three days of him and his supporters shaping that ostensibly bad news narrative into familiar themes – namely that the “political witch-hunt” was continuing and that the state was still out to get him.\n\nThen, on Thursday the Department of Justice decided it had had enough of being traduced – doing something they do not do and requesting the details of what they were looking for and what they found be published.\n\nAnd here we are with the most top secret of classified documents being hauled away from a private, beachfront golf club and the FBI citing potential crimes involving the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice.\n\nYou might think this would put anyone on the back foot, but for the former president and his backers these are as much opportunities as they are jeopardies.\n\nThey burnish his self-described position as an outsider and reinvigorate his supporters' desire for a second Trump term in which a “third world country” - to quote President Trump - can be made great again.\n\nThis isn’t over by a long chalk.", "More people chose to \"staycation\" closer to home when coronavirus travel restrictions were in place\n\nTourism in Northern Ireland has still not returned to pre-Covid levels amid cost pressures and competition from the return of international travel.\n\nIn 2019, the tourism sector in Northern Ireland hit the £1bn mark, before the pandemic hit in 2020.\n\nWhen restrictions put people off travelling abroad, more people chose to \"staycation\" closer to home.\n\nHowever, now that international travel is back, it means more competition for domestic providers.\n\nNorthern Ireland Hotels Federation chief executive Janice Gault said the industry was \"about 80% of where we were\".\n\n\"We can't compare on a similar cost base, June occupancy was slightly less than 2019 but July has been pretty much on a par,\" she said.\n\n\"Up until now we have had a strong summer with lots of events back in June.\"\n\nShe added: \"During the week we have noticed some softening from Monday through to Thursday, with people maybe choosing to go abroad for a longer time.\n\n\"I think this has been an unfortunate year.\n\n\"We have had the war in Ukraine which has driven up energy costs, food costs have increased and we've had significant wage inflation, that's something no one can budget for.\"\n\nThe summer season is crucial for tourism, as it allows the sector to build up its reserves that then keep it going through the quieter winter months.\n\nJanice Gault says energy costs, food costs and significant wage inflation are issues\n\nThe rising cost of living is putting pressure on the industry.\n\nOn the demand side, many people will not be able to afford to travel.\n\nIt is also pushing up costs which will have an impact on profitability.\n\nPeter Bradshaw owns Castle Archdale Boat hire in County Fermanagh, with a range of water activities on offer such as boat hire, kayaks and water bikes.\n\nHe said 2022 had been a strong year so far, but they had noticed some visitors are cutting back.\n\n\"We are seeing the return of international visitors, which we didn't have for two years because of travel restrictions, you definitely see more people coming from further afield.\n\n\"Definitely we are noticing people with the cost of living, they are coming and doing one or two activities rather than three or four, we have introduced a family pass to help people do more, but you definitely notice things a bit quieter in that end of things.\n\n\"We have done a bit of price reduction here and there, like off-peak times and making adjustments as required, as any business has to do when things change.\"\n\nOne cost businesses in tourism and hospitality face is VAT.\n\nPeter Bradshaw said 2022 had been a strong year for his boat hire business so far, but they have noticed some visitors are cutting back\n\nSince April, it has been back at 20%, after it was cut to 5% and then 12% during the pandemic.\n\nIn contrast, VAT in the Republic of Ireland is 9%.\n\nMr Bradshaw said VAT coming back \"was a big loss, which is difficult because 10 miles across the border VAT is much lower\".\n\n\"It would be nice to have a level playing field so people can't just go down the road and get something for cheaper down there,\" he added.\n\nMs Gault said costs had gone up across the board.\n\n\"Car hire has gone up, accommodation costs have gone up and food costs have gone up - that applies to everywhere,\" she added.\n\n\"This year is an anomaly and it's making things very difficult, we've tried to absorb a large number of those costs but some of them we've got to pass on.\"", "The UK's Sam Ryder came second in this year's contest behind the Ukrainian winners\n\nThe shortlist of UK cities that could host next year's Eurovision Song Contest has been revealed, with seven locations in the running.\n\nBirmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield will vie to stage the event in May.\n\nTwenty cities expressed an interest, the BBC said, and those not making the shortlist include London and Belfast.\n\nThe UK was chosen to host the contest after organisers decided it could not be staged by Ukraine, the 2022 winners.\n\nUK singer Sam Ryder finished second at this year's contest in Turin, Italy.\n\nThe decision to relocate it from Ukraine because of the ongoing war has led to a hotly-contested selection process between UK cities that want to attract thousands of visitors and the attention of around 160 million TV viewers around the world.\n\nThe BBC said the seven-strong shortlist was based on the cities' ability to show they have \"the capacity, capability and experience to host an event of this scale and complexity\".\n\nCap: Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won this year's contest with overwhelming support from the public vote\n\nA statement added that the process was \"heavily weighted towards demonstrating past experience in hosting major international events, as well as being able to demonstrate their credentials in hosting a celebration of contemporary music\".\n\nLondon would have met those criteria but didn't make the cut, at a time when both the BBC and government are seeking to move events and opportunities outside the capital. Others to miss out include Aberdeen, Brighton, Bristol and Darlington.\n\nAs it is, five of the shortlisted cities are in the north of England, with Glasgow representing Scotland and none further south than Birmingham.\n\nNo Welsh cities bid, and Belfast was the only potential contender from Northern Ireland.\n\nThe seven remaining cities will be scored on a set of criteria, the BBC said, including:\n\nThe successful city will be chosen by the BBC and Eurovision organisers, and will be announced in the autumn.\n\nGlasgow and Birmingham have been named as the bookmakers' favourites, while Glasgow and Manchester have proved the most popular in polls on Eurovision fan sites.\n\nEurovision organisers say the host venue should accommodate about 10,000 spectators, be within easy reach of an international airport and have enough hotel accommodation for at least 2,000 delegates, journalists and spectators.\n\nA venue would be needed for preparations for six to eight weeks ahead of the song contest, meaning all potential locations would need to move concerts and events that are already in their schedules.\n\nFormer Ukrainian Eurovision winner Jamala said next year's contest would be the \"greatest Eurovision\" yet.\n\nJamala won Eurovision in 2016 with her song 1944 and said the UK is the \"best place in the world\" to host the competition, despite initially hoping Ukraine would be able to host.\n\n\"For me, [the UK] is the best place in the world in music,\" she told the PA news agency. \"That's why Eurovision in your country is the best place for me - you are about music, you are full of different kinds of styles and genres.\"\n\nThis was the last place to host Eurovision in the UK, in 1998, and has just successfully hosted a major international event in the form of the Commonwealth Games.\n\nIts venue would be the Resorts World Arena, which has a capacity of 15,685, is next to Birmingham airport, a train station and motorways, and is part of a complex including an exhibition centre and hotels. It hosted the star-studded Concert For Ukraine in March.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Birmingham Pride This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGlasgow's OVO Hydro arena doubled as the venue in Will Ferrell's Eurovision movie\n\nThe 14,300-capacity OVO Hydro arena would be a fitting setting in some ways after being filmed for the exterior of the venue in Will Ferrell's 2020 Netflix movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.\n\nThe city centre venue is also next to exhibition centres that could be useful for facilities like a press centre, and has a nearby station and hotels. It has previously hosted BBC Sports Personality of the Year and events during the 2014 Commonwealth Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC Breakfast This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLeeds had hoped to be European Capital of Culture in 2023, but Brexit prevented UK cities from entering that particular contest. Undeterred, the city is ploughing on with staging its own year of culture. That means Eurovision \"could not come at a better time\", the council says.\n\nThe 13,781-capacity First Direct Arena is in the city centre, close to hotels and rail links.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dave Walton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiverpool's arena and exhibition centre are on the banks of the River Mersey\n\nThe home of The Beatles has a rich musical history that attracts thousands of international visitors every year. Its past major events have included the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2008.\n\nEurovision would be staged at the 11,000-capacity dockside M&S Bank Arena, which is next to a conference centre and near the city centre's hotels and rail links.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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It is also above a train station.\n\nSalford in Greater Manchester became the BBC's Eurovision HQ this year, with AJ Odudu delivering the UK scores from MediaCity.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Sacha Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMembers of a Ukrainian choir with Newcastle Cllr Alex Hay on the city's quayside\n\nThe city's 11,000-capacity Utilita Arena is close to the main train station and other central facilities.\n\nThe council says the Town Moor and Exhibition Park, open space on the other side of the city centre, would be transformed into a \"Eurovision village\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Richard Salkeld This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSheffield's arena has hosted local heroes like Pulp and the Arctic Monkeys\n\nSheffield is twinned with Ukrainian city Donetsk, and its 13,600-capacity Utilita Arena is outside the city centre but has tram and motorway links.\n\nIt was built to host the World Student Games, hosted the 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and in 2014 was the media centre and the finish line for The Tour de France Grand Depart.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Sarah Mann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said the country was \"determined to deliver a competition which reflects Ukraine's rich culture and creativity\". Congratulating the shortlisted cities, she said \"no matter which one is chosen it will be a fantastic event to make both the UK and Ukraine proud\".\n\nThe BBC's director of unscripted content Kate Phillips said: \"We are committed to delivering a truly unique Song Contest that celebrates wonderful Ukraine and champions British music and creativity in all its diversity.\"", "Harry Sarkar was a student officer with the West Midlands force\n\nA police officer made up a story he had a girlfriend then claimed she had died of cancer in order to get time off.\n\nPC Harry Sarkar would have been sacked had he not resigned and his actions were a \"significant abuse of trust\", West Midlands Police said.\n\nThe officer's \"detailed tissues of lies\" about her supposed illness, death and funeral got him bereavement leave and flexible working hours, a misconduct hearing was told.\n\nMr Sarkar did not attend the gross misconduct hearing before Chief Constable Sir David Thompson at West Midlands Police headquarters earlier.\n\nHe made the claims about his \"fake girlfriend\" between October 2020 and June 2021 and the force professional standards team said Mr Sarkar's sympathetic bosses had signed off \"sick leave\" and other benefits after relying on his lies.\n\nThe officer received three days' bereavement leave and benefited from more flexible working hours than his colleagues, it is understood, at a time when the force was under strain due to a number of officers testing positive for Covid-19 during the second and third national lockdowns.\n\n\"This case concerns a protracted period, with the officer creating a fictional relationship where the other party was suffering from cancer and died,\" Sir David said.\n\nMr Sarkar did not attend the gross misconduct hearing before Sir David Thompson (pictured) at West Midlands Police headquarters\n\n\"This enabled supervisors to allow enhanced flexibility in his working.\n\n\"These 'truths' were repeated and developed over a sustained period of time.\"\n\nWhile no investigations were compromised, it involved Mr Sarkar \"using powers in bad faith\" and there was no obvious mitigation or reason for his behaviour.\n\n\"The public would not expect this from an officer and will be concerned over the obvious odious nature of such a misrepresentation,\" Sir David added.\n\nConcluding the hearing, he said \"no other sanction would have been suitable and the officer would have been dismissed without notice and accordingly\".\n\nMr Sarkar has also been banned from becoming a police officer in the future.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has said he welcomes the warrant being made public\n\nThe FBI seized top secret files in a search of former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week, documents show.\n\nAgents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked \"TS/SCI\", a designation for material that could cause \"exceptionally grave\" damage to US national security.\n\nMr Trump denied any wrongdoing and said the items were declassified.\n\nIt was the first time an ex-president's home was searched in a criminal probe.\n\nThe list of items was made public on Friday afternoon after a judge unsealed a seven-page document that included the warrant authorising the search of Mr Trump's Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago.\n\nIt said more than 20 boxes of items were taken on Monday, including a binder of photos, a handwritten note, unspecified information about the \"President of France\" and a clemency letter written on behalf of long-time Trump ally Roger Stone.\n\nAs well as four sets of top secret files, the cache includes three sets of \"secret documents\" and three sets of \"confidential\" material.\n\nThe warrant indicates that FBI agents were looking into potential violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it illegal to keep or transmit potentially dangerous national security information.\n\nThe removal of classified documents or materials is prohibited by law. Mr Trump increased the penalties for the crime while in office and it is now punishable by up to five years in prison.\n\nThe warrant notes that the locations searched at Mar-a-Lago include an area called the \"45 office\" and storage rooms, but not private guest suites not being used by Mr Trump and his staff.\n\nThe justice department had asked a court to make it public on Thursday, a move considered rare amid an ongoing investigation.\n\nIt was approved by a judge on 5 August, three days before it was carried out on Monday, 8 August.\n\nOn Friday night, Mr Trump's office issued a statement maintaining that he had used his authority while president to declassify the documents.\n\n\"He had a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified,\" the statement said.\n\n\"The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely with the President of the United States.\n\n\"The idea that some paper-pushing bureaucrat, with classification authority delegated by the president, needs to approve of declassification is absurd.\"\n\nLegal experts have told US media it is unclear whether this argument would hold up in court. \"Presidents can declassify information but they have to follow a procedure,\" Tom Dupree, a lawyer who previously worked in the justice department, told the BBC.\n\n\"They have to fill out forms. They have to give certain authorisations. They can't simply say these documents are declassified. They have to follow a process [and it is] not clear that was followed here.\"\n\nA spokesman for Mr Trump, Taylor Budowich, said the administration of President Joe Biden \"is in obvious damage control after their botched raid\".\n\nMr Budowich accused the administration of \"leaking lies and innuendos to try to explain away the weaponisation of government against their dominant political opponent\".\n\nMr Trump's conservative allies have also condemned the raid as a political hit job as he considers another run for the presidency in 2024.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies around the country are reportedly monitoring online threats against government officials that have emerged in the wake of the FBI search.\n\nUS Attorney General Merrick Garland, who personally approved the warrant, defended federal agents on Thursday as \"dedicated, patriotic public servants\".\n\n\"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,\" he told reporters.", "A teaching union says the proposed pay rise is too low\n\nMembers of a teaching union have warned of a potential vote on strike action after its members in Wales rejected a below-inflation pay rise.\n\nIt was announced last month that teachers' salaries will rise by 5% in September.\n\nNASUWT surveyed its members in Wales and said 78% believe the pay award was \"inadequate\".\n\nInflation, the rate at which prices are rising, currently stands at 9.4% and is predicted to reach 13% in October.\n\nThere are 26,600 teachers in Wales with the average pay at £39,009.\n\nIn July, Education Minister Jeremy Miles accepted the recommendations of an independent pay review body that salaries should rise by 5%.\n\nThat will put starting salaries for new teachers at £28,866, with those of more experienced classroom teachers rising to £44,450.\n\nBut NASUWT, a TUC-affiliated trade union representing teachers and headteachers in the UK, called for 12% in 2022/23 and has threatened to ballot for strike action in the autumn unless there is a further increase.\n\nOf the nearly 700 teachers who responded to its survey, the union also said 70% disagreed with or were angry with the Welsh government's offer.\n\nStarting salaries for teachers will be £28,866 under the proposals\n\n\"The Welsh Government's pay offer falls way short of what teachers are demanding, following a decade of real terms pay cuts and the current cost of living crisis,\" said Neil Butler, NASUWT's official in Wales.\n\n\"This pay offer takes the teacher pay gap since 2010 to 22.4%.\n\n\"NASUWT members have again told us that they reject the imposition of a below-inflation pay award.\"\n\nSalaries could go up by 3.5% in the second year, subject to a review.\n\nDr Patrick Roach, NASUWT general secretary, added: \"Ministers have refused to respond to our calls for proper negotiations and, once again, we are calling on ministers to get around the table to find a solution.\n\n\"However, in the event that there is no improvement, the union remains committed to balloting its members in the autumn term for industrial action.\"\n\nMr Miles previously said he was limited in how far he could go in raising pay and criticised the UK government's funding settlement for Wales.\n\nA similar pay - 5% for most teachers - has been offered in England.\n\nIn a previous response to Welsh government criticism, the UK government said the Welsh government has had more funding than at any time since devolution began.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Durham Police issued the alert to find the missing mother and son on Wednesday\n\nA four-year-old boy and his mother who sparked an international search have been found \"safe and well\", police say.\n\nDurham Police said there were \"serious concerns\" about the Darlington pair who had travelled to Turkey in June.\n\nA force spokeswoman said both of them had been located and have returned to the UK \"where they are receiving appropriate support\".\n\nShe thanked those who shared the appeal which was seen by \"hundreds of thousands of people across the world\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charlie is the voice in the lift, sharing facts and figures about the tower for visitors\n\nA six-year-old boy has told of his delight at becoming the new voice of Blackpool Tower.\n\nCharlie is the voice in the lift, sharing facts and figures about the famous attraction on the Lancashire town's seafront.\n\nHis mother Wendy said: \"He absolutely adores the tower and the passion that he shows for it is amazing.\"\n\nCharlie, who spent time in a recording studio to capture his wise words for visitors, said he was \"excited\".\n\nThe tower's operations director Kenny Mew said they were not looking for a new voice until they heard about tower superfan Charlie.\n\nHe said: \"His school reached out to me and said they had this young boy who was passionate about Blackpool Tower and had actually recorded the lift speech and I was thinking to myself 'how's he done that?'.\n\n\"I played it back and he had the speech word for word that we'd had recorded already in the lift and it just sounded amazing.\n\n\"And we thought, do you know what, we're going to give Charlie the opportunity to do it.\n\n\"He was absolutely brilliant, he's done an amazing job and we're really proud of what he's done.\"\n\nCharlie spent some time in a professional studio for a recording session\n\nCharlie's mother continued: \"We are the proudest parents, he's just taken it all in his stride.\n\n\"His last topic at school was about Blackpool Tower, so he knew all the facts and he was firing them out across the classroom.\n\n\"He loves it and he's been like that since [he was] very little really, since we first took him up there.\n\n\"From the minute he could walk really.\"\n\nAs well as the lift, there are plans afoot for Charlie to lend his voice to other areas in the future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs Wolowitz, who was 35 years old was a much loved penguin at Edinburgh Zoo\n\nEdinburgh Zoo has announced that its oldest penguin has died after being attacked by a fox.\n\nThe 35-year-old penguin, known as Mrs Wolowitz, was killed after the fox broke into her enclosure on Wednesday night.\n\nThe Northern Rockhopper, which was popular with visitors, hatched in 1987 and lived to double her life expectancy.\n\nThe zoo said no other penguins at the enclosure were harmed in the attack.\n\nDarren McGarry, head of living collections at Edinburgh Zoo, said: \"We were saddened to discover a fox had broken into our penguin enclosure through the night and attacked Mrs Wolowitz, our oldest penguin.\n\n\"She was a big personality and a favourite among keepers and visitors, who will miss her.\n\n\"Thankfully, the rest of our colony were unharmed and are doing well.\"\n\nThe penguins are one of the most popular attractions at the zoo.\n\nMrs Wolowitz produced her only offspring, Mr Green, in 1991 when she was four years old.\n\nShe was one of several Northern Rockhopper penguins at the zoo.\n\nThey are an endangered species, threatened due to climate change, changes in marine ecosystems and overfishing.\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's Penguin Rock is Europe's largest outdoor penguin pool. The zoo also has King and Gentoo penguins.\n\nThe zoo said it would look at what more it could do to protect the animals in the enclosure from future attacks.\n\n\"Our expert teams check the enclosures daily for signs of damage but there is always a risk that wild animals will break in,\" Mr McGarry said.\n\n\"We will be looking at what we can do to reinforce the boundary.\"", "People have queued at clinics in recent weeks to receive a vaccination\n\nThe monkeypox vaccine rollout has stalled in Brighton after stocks of the jab ran out, the BBC understands.\n\nLocal MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle said only those with an existing appointment will be vaccinated until further stocks arrive.\n\nHe also raised concerns the rollout could be paused in other areas.\n\nThe UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said 100,000 doses are due to arrive in September and urged people to be aware of symptoms.\n\nThe latest UKHSA figures show there have been 69 cases of monkeypox in Brighton to date, the highest number of cases outside of London.\n\nAfter a briefing with the agency, Brighton Kemptown MP Mr Russell-Moyle told the BBC he was told there are only around 5,000 vaccines left in the UK.\n\nAnother source, who did not wish to be named, confirmed the details of the briefing.\n\nA spokeswoman for the UKHSA said she was unable to provide a comment on whether or not clinics would be pausing vaccinations.\n\nIt is understood remaining stocks of the jab will be allocated to local sexual health services in the coming days, but that Brighton will not receive more vaccines until the end of next month.\n\nMr Russell-Moyle said: \"I've already spoken to people in the area who feel worried, scared and that they've missed out. They feel that they're being put at risk, and that their enjoyment of the summer is being put at risk by bad organisation from the government.\"\n\nSources have told the BBC that low stocks of the vaccine are also set to impact other parts of the country in the coming days.\n\nIt is understood that those who already have an appointment will still receive a vaccine, but that after the current 5,000 remaining vaccines have been allocated to local sexual health clinics, no further jabs will be available until the end of September. It comes after similar claims in Scotland.\n\nMr Russell-Moyle added: \"My understanding is that if you are not vaccinated in the next couple of weeks, then it will be too late and you'll have to wait until September\".\n\nThe latest figures from the UK Health Security Agency show that there have been 2,914 confirmed cases of monkeypox since the start of the year.\n\nAccording to NHS England figures, more than 25,000 people have so far received a vaccine.\n\nCurrently about 75% of monkeypox cases are in London, which is where the majority of vaccines have been targeted, but numbers outside the city are also increasing.\n\nLabour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told the BBC his constituency would not receive more supplies until the end of September\n\nThe UK government has bought stocks of smallpox vaccine to guard against monkeypox. Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, a member of the same family of viruses as smallpox, although it is much less severe and experts say chances of infection are low.\n\nThe global outbreak of monkeypox has meant a surge in demand for the vaccine. However, stocks are limited as until recently the disease had not spread widely outside of countries where the virus is endemic.\n\nOn Wednesday, Dr Mary Ramsay, Director of Clinical Programmes at UKHSA, told the BBC the agency had moved early to procure over 150,000 doses of the smallpox vaccine from the global manufacturer. Around 50,000 of these have been received to date and made available to the NHS for distribution across the country.\n\n\"The remaining approximately 100,000 doses is expected to arrive in the UK in September. The thousands of vaccines administered by the NHS to date among those at highest risk of exposure should have a significant impact on the transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\nCountries around the world, including the UK, are suddenly scrabbling to get hold of the vaccine.\n\nIt was originally designed for a more deadly disease - smallpox - and only limited stockpiles are kept in case of bio-terrorism.\n\nEvery dose now being given to tackle an unprecedented monkeypox outbreak is being manufactured first and there is large demand around the world.\n\nSo the idea that everyone at risk could be vaccinated immediately has always been a fantasy. Even the United States, with its huge buying power, has a shortage.\n\nAnother 100,000 doses will arrive in the UK late next month.\n\nUntil then doses have been distributed around the country and health officials are assessing how long current supplies will last.\n\nExactly which parts of the UK - or all of it - will run out and for how long is being calculated and should be announced soon.\n\nSeptember feels a long way off if you're at risk of catching monkeypox, but the reassuring news is that the number of new infections is already starting to level off.", "Louis Thorold pictured with his mother Rachael just hours before the crash in January 2021\n\nA driver has been found not guilty by reason of insanity of causing the death by careless driving of a baby boy in a pram.\n\nFive-month-old Louis Thorold was hit on the pavement of the A10 near Cambridge, on 22 January 2021. His mother Rachael was seriously injured.\n\nLawyers for Shelagh Robertson, 75, said she had undiagnosed dementia at the time of the crash in Waterbeach.\n\nJurors at Cambridge Crown Court found her condition had affected her driving.\n\nMrs Robertson, of Stables Yard in Waterbeach, was driving home from the supermarket when she turned into the path of an oncoming van, forcing it on to the pavement where it hit the mum and baby, the trial heard.\n\nShelagh Robertson's defence team said she had undiagnosed Alzheimer's disease at the time of the crash\n\nLouis was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.\n\nMrs Thorold spent 10 days in a coma and 118 days in hospital, with her husband Chris describing her survival as \"miraculous\".\n\nLouis Thorold was born at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge in August 2020\n\nDuring the trial, James Leonard, defending, said Mrs Robertson was \"ill-equipped to negotiate\" the junction due to her dementia, while prosecutor David Matthew said that while there was \"strong evidence\" she had dementia, there was the question of \"where on the slope of dementia Shelagh Robertson was in January 2021\".\n\nAdam Zeman, professor of cognitive behavioural neurology at the University of Exeter, compiled a report on Mrs Robertson for the defence.\n\nHe told the court she had \"dementia caused most probably by Alzheimer's disease in a slightly atypical presentation\".\n\nHe said this would have put Mrs Robertson at \"high risk of becoming confused at that junction and one possible outcome of the confusion would be to look the wrong way\".\n\nThe judge, Mark Bishop, told jurors that if they were satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the defendant had dementia at the time, and either did not know what she was doing or did not know that what she was doing was wrong, they could return a special verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.\n\nThe boy's parents Rachael and Chris Thorold were in court to hear the verdict\n\nAs jurors returned their majority verdict, the boy's parents, Chris and Rachael Thorold, who sat in the public gallery, looked down at the floor, with Mr Thorold shaking his head.\n\nIn a statement released after the verdict, Mr Thorold said: \"Louis Steven James Thorold was the sweetest happiest, joyful and most beautiful baby. He was perfectly ours. He was our lives. He still is.\n\n\"Louis knew only love and cuddles before he was killed. A life sentence for us, his family, our community and everyone who hears this story.\"\n\nThe judge adjourned the case for a further hearing on 19 August.\n\nSpeaking after the trial, Det Sgt Mark Dollard, from the road policing unit for Cambridgeshire, said: \"Regardless of the verdict nothing will ever bring Louis back and his family will have to live with that for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"It is however, a stark reminder of how important it is for anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle to be competent and capable of driving safely.\n\n\"I would urge anyone who is concerned about a family member or friend and their ability to drive to speak up, discuss your concerns with your loved one or alternatively speak to your GP who can submit their concerns to the DVLA.\"\n\nFollowing the crash, Louis' family had set up the Louis Thorold Foundation in their son's memory, with the aim of preventing infant pedestrian deaths.\n\nMr Thorold said: \"We must now look forward. Louis wouldn't want us to be sad or give up. Louis will live on. His legacy - that one day no-one will have to deal with a death of a child on Britain's roads.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Co-op is to temporarily stop selling disposable barbecues in all its stores because of the heatwave.\n\nIt joins other supermarket chains, including Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Tesco, which have dropped the product during the current dry weather.\n\nFire brigades have warned of the risk of blazes in \"tinderbox conditions\".\n\nThe Met Office's fire severity index, which assesses how severe a blaze could become, is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, parts of south-west, southern, central and eastern England were moved to drought status.\n\nLast year, Co-op removed disposable barbecues from its stores within one mile of national parks to help prevent wildfires.\n\nOn Friday the supermarket said in a statement: \"As a precautionary measure due to the extreme hot weather, we've removed instant BBQs from sale in all Co-op stores until further notice.\"\n\nMorrisons made a similar announcement earlier in the day, saying: \"In light of the long dry spell in the UK this summer we are temporarily removing disposable barbecues from all stores until further notice.\"\n\nIt comes after it said it would stop selling the items in its stores near national parks in March.\n\nSainsbury's said its policy was a precautionary measure, but did not say how long it would continue.\n\nTesco said the move was temporary and once weather conditions allow, disposable barbecues will be made available again.\n\nLast week, Marks and Spencer said it wanted to \"help protect open spaces and reduce the risk of fires\" by removing the single use portable barbecues from sale, while Ocado also took the same step.\n\nAldi and Waitrose had already stopped sales back in March, due to the burden on the environment more generally, including the impact of the single use plastic, metal and card.\n\nCo-op says it does not sell disposable barbecues close to UK national parks.\n\nThe UK is in the middle of its second heatwave this summer.\n\nIn July temperatures broke records, rising above 40C and are forecast to hit 37C (99F) again in some parts of the UK over the next four days.\n\nFire services are warning of \"tinderbox conditions\" and have asked people not to use barbecues in high risk places, such as balconies and on dry grass, after a steep increase in the number of call-outs.", "Refuse workers are due to strike with dates due to be announced for school staff action\n\nScottish council leaders have made a new pay offer to staff in a bid to avoid planned strikes.\n\nCosla has put a 3.5% deal on the table after a 2% increase was rejected, and will raise the Scottish local government living wage to £10.50 an hour.\n\nUnions said the offer was not enough.\n\nLocal government minister Shona Robison said it was \"extremely disappointing\" that Cosla had not come up with 5%.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it expected local authorities to match the £140m extra pledged by the Scottish government for pay rises.\n\nMs Robison said: \"Cosla recognised this was not an issue for the Scottish government to solve in its entirety - it has got to be a partnership.\n\n\"Which means local authorities must look at every possible area of finance to come to a fair and affordable pay offer for staff which avoids damaging industrial action.\"\n\nEarlier, GMB Scotland and Unison announced that local authority employees across the country would strike in two four-day stoppages over the next month in the ongoing pay dispute.\n\nWaste and recycling workers will walk out between August 26 and 29 as well as between September 7 and 10.\n\nRefuse workers in Glasgow last took strike action in November 2021\n\nGMB members will strike in Aberdeen, Angus, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Falkirk, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Highland, Midlothian, Orkney, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian, Perth and Kinross, and North Lanarkshire.\n\nUnison members in Aberdeenshire, Clackmannanshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Stirling and South Lanarkshire have also said they will walk out.\n\nFollowing a special meeting of council leaders on Friday, Cosla spokeswoman Katie Hagmann said she had been mandated to make a fresh offer.\n\nShe said council leaders had reaffirmed their desire to make an offer of more than 2% but that fears had been expressed that public services and jobs would be affected as a result.\n\nMs Hagmann said: \"Following the confirmation that the additional monies provided by the Scottish government will be recurring, leaders have now mandated me today to move forward with our trade union partners on the basis of an offer that raises the Scottish local government living wage to £10.50.\n\n\"Leaders note the risk that public services will not recover, jobs will be affected and communities will see services reduced as local government budgets are unable to sustain the long-term pressures they have been under.\n\n\"Leaders continue to call on Scottish government to provide funding and flexibilities to enable an offer beyond the monies provided to date.\n\n\"As such, we will be seeking to make an improved offer via the appropriate negotiating mechanisms as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's finance secretary John Swinney had earlier urged councils to improve their offer to staff and unions.\n\nHe said some councils had already budgeted on a higher pay offer than the one on the table.\n\n\"Some have budgeted on 3% and have offered 2%. I have put £140m on table which puts the offer even higher,\" he said.\n\nNo council leader believes staff only deserve a 3.5% pay rise. The problem is what they can each afford.\n\nCouncil pay is consistent across all 32 of Scotland's local authorities. The rise has to be affordable to all of them.\n\nThe Scottish government is giving councils an extra £140m To help with pay.\n\nThis was enough to raise the pay offer from 2% to 3.5% but the Scottish government was clear that councils had to use more of their own money too.\n\nSome councils, including Glasgow, were prepared to do this. Glasgow had argued for a 5% pay rise.\n\nSome others argued they could not afford any more so would need even more cash from the Scottish government.\n\nMr Swinney said that according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission, the Scottish government's overall budget was cut in real terms by the UK government and that within that budget, councils were given a \"strong financial settlement\".\n\nThe UK government says Scotland has been granted record funding levels.\n\nLeader of East Renfrewshire Council, Owen O'Donnell, told BBC Scotland it would be difficult to avert strikes unless Mr Swinney offered more cash to councils to pay for salary rises.\n\nHe said: \"He needs to double the amount he previously offered at least.\n\n\"Councils are under a huge amount of pressure. We have been squeezed for the past 15 years and we have got nothing else to give.\"\n\nIt comes a day after the Scottish government announced an emergency budget review for Scotland in response to the growing cost of living crisis.\n\nJohanna Baxter, Unison Scotland's head of local government said: \"Unison are shocked and disappointed that Cosla leaders have yet again failed to come up with a decent pay offer for these vital workers.\n\n\"An offer of 3.5% is likely to be totally unacceptable to our reps and is some way off matching the offer made to council workers south of the border.\n\n\"Whilst our local government committee will meet next week to take a view on this there will be no suspension to our strike action at this stage.\"\n\nGMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway said: \"This is a dire response to the cost of living crisis facing our members.\n\n\"The blame game between Cosla and the government will no doubt continue, but six months on from the overwhelming rejection of the initial pay offer, this is a damning indictment of how our council workers are valued by Scotland's political leaders.\"", "Anne Heche was an Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actress\n\nUS actress Anne Heche is legally dead but will remain on life support to allow for a possible organ donation, her representative has said.\n\nThe 53-year-old had been in a coma for a week after crashing her car into a house in Los Angeles.\n\n\"Today we lost a bright light, a kind and most joyful soul\", her family said in a statement on Friday.\n\nHeche appeared in films including Volcano, Donnie Brasco and the 1998 remake of Psycho.\n\nThe mother-of-two also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing, in 2020.\n\nAccording to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), Heche's vehicle \"erupted in heavy fire\", which took 59 firefighters more than an hour to fully extinguish. The two-storey home she crashed into was left \"uninhabitable\".\n\nAs well as suffering burns, the actress was left with \"a severe anoxic brain injury\" - when the brain is deprived of oxygen - her family said.\n\nA representative said the late actress is \"legally dead,\" but added that her life-support treatment will continue temporarily to check if she may be a match for a potential organ donation.\n\nHeche was in a relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s\n\n\"Anne will be deeply missed but she lives on through her beautiful sons, her iconic body of work, and her passionate advocacy\", her family's statement said.\n\n\"Her bravery for always standing in her truth, spreading her message of love and acceptance, will continue to have a lasting impact.\"\n\nHeche was born in 1969 in Ohio and her family moved around many times during her childhood.\n\nWhen she was 13 years old, her father died of HIV/Aids, and she later said in her 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy that he had repeatedly raped her as a child.\n\nIn interviews promoting the book, she said the abuse caused her to be \"insane\" for the first 31 years of her life and that she had created a fantasy world called the \"Fourth Dimension\" to make herself feel safe.\n\nThree months after her father's death, her brother was killed in a car crash, which she believed was suicide. Her mother disputed both the suicide and the abuse claims and the pair became estranged.\n\nShe was nominated for a Tony Award on Broadway in 2004\n\nAfter her family relocated to Chicago, Heche was spotted by a talent agent in a school play.\n\nShe became known in the late 1980s for portraying twins Vicky Hudson and Marley Love on the soap opera Another World. The roles won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards.\n\nHeche came to wider prominence in the late 1990s, playing Maggie in crime drama movie Donnie Brasco, alongside Johnny Depp. She later told interviewer Larry King it had been \"heaven\" working with Depp.\n\nShe played Amy Barnes, a geologist and seismologist in the the disaster movie Volcano, opposite Tommy Lee Jones, while cult slasher flick I Know What You Did Last Summer saw her portray Melissa \"Missy\" Egan.\n\nHeche (centre) with co-stars Sandra Oh and Alicia Silverstone at the premiere of their film Catfight in 2017\n\nShe also appeared in the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights and the drama-thriller Return to Paradise before portraying Marion Crane in Gus Van Sant's remake of the classic horror film Psycho.\n\nIn 1997, having previously only dated men, she began a relationship with US talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. The high-profile couple said they would get a civil union if it became available in Vermont, but they split up three years later.\n\nHeche later suffered from mental health problems and reportedly struggled with drug use, at one point being hospitalised after parking on a highway in California and walking into the desert.\n\nIn 2001, Heche married \"Coley\" Laffoon, a cameraman whom she met on DeGeneres' stand-up tour, and they had a son, before divorcing nearly six years later. She reportedly left her husband for Men in Trees co-star James Tupper and in 2008 her representative confirmed that the actress was pregnant with her second son. The couple split in 2018.\n\nHeche appeared alongside Sigourney Weaver in the 2011 films Rampart and Cedar Rapids\n\nA new century brought a new direction work-wise, with roles in fewer blockbusters and more acclaimed independent films, such as drama Birth, sex comedy Spread and 2011's Cedar Rapids - about a naïve insurance agent on a life-changing work trip to Iowa.\n\nShe received an Emmy nomination for her role as Roweena Lawson in the 2004 TV film Gracie's Choice, about a teenage girl who tries to raise her siblings on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail.\n\nThe same year, she was nominated for best actress at the Tony Awards after performing opposite Alec Baldwin in a Broadway production of Twentieth Century.", "Farmers are demanding ministers ensure water supplies for farmers are given the same priority as those for the environment.\n\nSupporting food production is not part of the remit of the Environment Agency, which determines where much of the country’s water supplies go, warns Tom Bradshaw, the deputy president of the National Farmers Union (NFU).\n\n\"That has to change to protect food supplies,\" he says and suggests government ministers may need to bring in new rules.\n\n\"Farmers recognise the importance of protecting the environment but food production needs to be given equal status,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe demand comes as farms in England and parts of Wales face serious water shortages. Testimony from the NFU formed a key part of the evidence which persuaded the government to put much of England in drought.\n\nHalf the country’s potato crop cannot be irrigated so is very vulnerable to drought, the meeting of the National Drought Group, which met this morning, was told.\n\nThe NFU warned \"irrigation options are diminishing with reservoirs being emptied fast\". It said farmers are expecting losses of between 10% and 50% for crops including carrots, onions, sugar beet, apples and hops.\n\nFarmers would normally be planting their rapeseed crop at this time of year.\n\nBut, says Bradshaw, conditions are so bad at the moment very few farmers are likely to plant the crop.", "The sun shining on Ballygally in County Antrim on Friday\n\nA high temperature warning is in effect across the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIt will remain until 06:00 local time on Monday. A yellow heat alert is currently in place for the provinces of Leinster and Munster.\n\nOn Friday, the Republic of Ireland saw the hottest day on record for August when a temperature of 31.7C was recorded at Oak Park in County Carlow.\n\nMeanwhile, a thunderstorm warning has been issued for Northern Ireland from noon on Sunday to 06:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office has warned of the potential for flooding, damage, and disruption during this period.\n\nThe service said up to 20-30mm of rain was possible within an hour, and up to 50mm in three to six hours. Hail and frequent lightning strikes are likely during this time.\n\nA farmer in County Wexford had to create a fire break after 30 acres of land became engulfed in flames.\n\nSpeaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ farmer Paddy Walsh said \"farmers have tankers of water ready to go\" and must be vigilant.\n\nThe wildfire took hours to bring under control and was attended by six fire appliances and two water tankers from Wexford and Wicklow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barra Best This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Barra Best\n\nHosepipe bans have been introduced across England as a result of low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions.\n\nHowever, there are no plans to introduce similar restrictions in Northern Ireland, according to a senior manager in Northern Ireland Water.\n\n\"There are no concerns about our storage of raw water at the minute,\" Maynard Cowsley told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\nHe added that the company's reservoirs currently have a storage of 73%.\n\n\"All we're asking people to do at the minute is think carefully when they go to use water.\"\n\nA climate scientist has warned that the high temperatures being experienced in Northern Ireland this weekend fit with the pattern of predicted climate change that experts have warned of for decades.\n\nProfessor Paul Dunlop from Ulster University said extreme weather would have consequences for food production and flooding.\n\nHe added that we will have to deal with temperatures like these more often as the effects of climate change are felt.\n\n\"This is the future for our part of the world - hotter weather, more extreme temperatures, drier climate,\" he said.\n\n\"And then we can also get very intense rainfall because hot air can hold more moisture and if we get very intense rainfall after very prolonged dry weather we get floods because the soil can't absorb the water quick enough.\"\n\nOn Friday, Northern Ireland will be very warm to hot across most areas with the maximum temperature expected to reach 29C.\n\nTemperatures peaked at 28.5C on Thursday at Katesbridge in County Down, beating Wednesday's high and making it the hottest August day in Northern Ireland in nearly 20 years.\n\nBBC NI Weather presenter Cecilia Daly said: \"Despite such a high daytime temperature on Thursday, temperatures fell away on Thursday night and the lowest temperature recorded on Friday morning was also at Katesbridge with an overnight minimum of 5.6C.\n\n\"This is a very large diurnal range and in some ways is an indicator of how dry the ground is in this area.\n\n\"The heat will continue to build today and tomorrow and this heatwave is expected to peak on Saturday with a shift in the highest temperature values towards the west - close to 29C on Friday and possibly close to 30C on Saturday.\"\n\nShe added: \"As always it will be cooler at the beaches, though the sun is still just as strong\n\n\"Sunday will see the start of a change with a risk of showers later in the day and next week temperatures will tumble and a cool northerly breeze will set in.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland's Public Health Agency is continuing to warn people to take care in the sun and to spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm.\n\nNI Water has said it is not introducing any restrictions such as a hosepipe ban, but added that the situation is being \"closely monitored\".\n\n\"The demand for water has been increasing steadily over the past number of days and we expect it to continue to increase over the weekend in line with the high temperatures,\" the company's Des Nevin said.\n\n\"The amount of water in our impounding reservoirs is kept under continuous review and we are content with our current level of storage.\n\n\"However, it is imperative that customers continue to use water wisely, especially given the forecast for the next number of days.\"\n\nHe added: \"All this hot, dry weather may have our lawns looking a bit brown and it's tempting to turn on the sprinkler, but a sprinkler can use as much as 1,000 litres of clean drinking water in a single hour, more than a family of four would use in a whole day.\n\n\"Lawns are great survivors and with the next rain they will soon bounce back.\n\n\"While it is tempting, please avoid using swimming or paddling pools. Filling a 12ft swimming pool uses the same amount of water 500 people use for daily handwashing.\"\n\nLifeguard Supervisor Stuart Montgomery told BBC's Evening Extra programme there had been 10 serious rescues on north coast beaches this week.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Public Health Agency is continuing to warn people to take care in the sun\n\nThe hot weather has seen large crowds of young people gathering at Crawfordsburn beach in County Down.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, five police officers were injured after going to the area to investigate reports of anti-social behaviour.\n\nElsewhere, large areas of England are expected to be declared in drought from the National Drought Group.\n\nYorkshire Water has announced its first hosepipe ban in 27 years and joins South East, Southern and Welsh Water in enforcing restrictions\n\nA four-day extreme heat amber warning is in place for parts of England and Wales, with temperatures forecast to hit 37C (99F).\n\nThe MET Office is also warning of an \"exceptional\" risk of fires spreading over the weekend.", "Anne Heche attended the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards in California in March\n\nUS actress Anne Heche is not expected to survive, her family has said, after a car crash earlier this week that left her vehicle engulfed in flames.\n\nShe remains in a coma and had \"a severe anoxic brain injury\" - when the brain is deprived of oxygen - they said.\n\n\"We want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers for Anne's recovery and thank the dedicated staff and wonderful nurses,\" they added.\n\nHer car crashed into a two-storey home in Los Angeles last week.\n\nPolice said on Friday that preliminary blood tests had revealed the presence of drugs in her system, but extra testing was needed to rule out any substances given in hospital.\n\nThe Los Angeles Police Department told the PA news agency the incident was being investigated as a felony driving-under-the-influence traffic collision.\n\nThe 53-year-old mother-of-two has featured in films including Donnie Brasco, Cedar Rapids and the 1998 Psycho remake.\n\nAnne Heche appeared in one episode of sitcom Ellen, and dated its star Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s\n\nHer other film credits include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Prozac Nation, Volcano and Six Days, Seven Nights - which saw her star opposite Harrison Ford.\n\nShe was nominated for outstanding younger actress in a drama series at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 1991, for her performance in Another World.\n\nHer other TV work includes appearances in Ally McBeal, Save Me, Aftermath, Hung, Chicago P.D. and Men in Trees.\n\nHeche has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, the US equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nShe is the former partner of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, who she dated in the late 1990s. Heche appeared in one episode of the star's sitcom, Ellen, in 1998.\n\nAccording to the LA Fire Department, Heche's vehicle \"erupted in heavy fire\" after it was driven 30ft (9.1m) into the house, leaving the property \"uninhabitable\".\n\nShe is being cared for at the Grossman Burn Center at West Hills hospital and is on life support to determine whether her organs are viable for donation, her family said in their statement.\n• None US actress Anne Heche remains in coma after crash", "BBC journalist Sarah Lee was diagnosed with stage three malignant melanoma in January, five months after three different doctors had dismissed her concerns about a new mole on her scalp.\n\nBy the time it was spotted, the cancer had spread. The 29-year-old is now recovering after surgery to remove 24 lymph nodes. She is encouraging others to talk to a doctor if they're worried about their skin and to take care not to get sunburn.\n\nOne of the major causes of skin cancer is a high UV index - experts recommend taking precautions for anything over level 3. According to the Met Office, over the next few days levels are about to go up to 7.\n\nLast summer, I took a photograph of my scalp to see if I needed highlights; the scarcity of hairdressing appointments during the pandemic had almost turned me into a brunette.\n\nThat's when I saw it - a pea-sized black mole lurking among my fine blonde hair. I was certain it hadn't been there before.\n\nThe next day I called my GP who referred me to a dermatologist.\n\nAfter looking at my mole with a dermatoscope, the skin specialist told me three things: it didn't look unusual, I was too young to have skin cancer, and that it was almost impossible to get melanoma on the scalp, as the hair acts as a barrier to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation.\n\nLittle did I know that all three of these statements were wrong and would soon put my life in danger.\n\nFive months later, the mole had grown and multiplied.\n\nSo back to the GP I went - who was adamant the growing blue-black lesion on my head was a fungus that would go away on its own.\n\nFrustrated with being fobbed off, I pushed to see a different doctor. I knew something wasn't right.\n\nIn December, a dermatologist finally ordered the urgent removal of the moles for a biopsy.\n\n\"I'm glad you came,\" she told me. \"I'm really concerned about these spots on your head.\" A week later the mole was gone, replaced with a rather large scar.\n\nAfter a Christmas and new year of high anxiety, the results came in.\n\nI had stage three malignant nodular melanoma - the most aggressive form of skin cancer. It had spread all the way down to my skull.\n\nWhen the nurse told me the news over the phone, I was so shocked I almost collapsed. I wasn't a sunbed user, I used factor 30 sun cream and I grew up in Wales, where it almost always rains.\n\nI am being treated at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood, north-west London\n\nWhat did this mean for me? How much time did I have left? Would I lose my hair?\n\nBut most importantly, why had I been told by three different doctors that I had nothing to worry about?\n\nAfter CT, MRI and PET scans, I soon learned the cancer had spread to a lymph node in my neck and that I needed a radical dissection - an invasive surgery to remove all of the lymph nodes and tissue in the left side of my neck.\n\nWhen I heard the word \"dissection\", I instantly thought about the sad-looking fish I had to cut up in Year 11 biology.\n\nOn 11 March, it was my turn to be the fish.\n\nTwenty-four lymph nodes were removed from the left side of my neck during an eight-hour operation. One lymph node was found to be positive for melanoma\n\nTwo drains were placed in the wound to ensure lymph fluid and blood did not collect under the skin\n\nAfter an eight-hour operation at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, a lengthy recovery that involved carrying around my own blood in a drain for two weeks, and a few claustrophobic scans, it was confirmed I no longer had any signs of cancer in my body.\n\nBut, sadly, my journey didn't stop there.\n\nI am currently undergoing a gruelling 12-month treatment plan of dabrafenib and trametinib - types of targeted cancer growth-blocker drugs - to prevent the melanoma from coming back.\n\nThe side-effects of the medication include nausea, vomiting, fever, severe fatigue and rashes - to name a few - but by taking it, there is a 75% chance my cancer won't return.\n\nIf it does, I know the amazing team at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood in north-west London will sort me out.\n\nDue to nerve damage, I could not feel the left side of my face for a few months after surgery\n\nWhat people don't necessarily see is the toll the diagnosis, numerous surgeries, scans and appointments have had on my mental health.\n\nFrom someone who loved the sun, I now shy away from it. From someone who was so trusting of doctors, I'm now afraid to take their word on anything.\n\nI am terrified of the cancer coming back and I'm angry it could have been spotted sooner.\n\nBut what I can say is that I have gained a tremendous amount of strength. The large scar on my neck is a visible sign of that.\n\nHaving cancer at the age of 29 has been a terrifying surprise, but it has taught me to laugh harder, to live happier and to love bigger.\n\nIt's also taught me never to underestimate sun damage. It's rarely a case of \"just cutting out a mole\". As I keep saying, it's not just skin cancer and it can happen to anyone, anywhere - even on your scalp.\n\nThe skin is our biggest organ - please look after it. Wear a hat, slather on that factor 50, stay in the shade, get your moles checked.\n\nAnd push for a second, third or fourth opinion if you must.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, has been stabbed on stage in New York state.\n\nThe Booker Prize winner, 75, was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time.\n\nNew York State Police said a man ran up onto the stage and attacked Mr Rushdie, who is now undergoing surgery at a local trauma centre.\n\nPolice detained a suspect named as Hadi Matar, 24, from Fairview, New Jersey.\n\nNo motive or charges have yet been confirmed by police.\n\nMr Rushdie was stabbed at least once in the neck, and at least once in the abdomen. He was taken to a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, by helicopter.\n\nThe interviewer who was also on stage, Henry Reese, suffered a minor head injury and was taken to a local hospital. Mr Reese is the co-founder of a non-profit that provides sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of persecution.\n\nPolice told a press conference that staff and audience members had rushed the attacker and took him to the ground, and he was then arrested.\n\nA video posted online shows the moment people dashed onto the stage immediately after the incident, and police said a doctor in the audience gave Mr Rushdie first aid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: From the scene where Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage\n\nIndian-born novelist Mr Rushdie catapulted to fame with Midnight's Children in 1981, which went on to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.\n\nBut his fourth book, in 1988 - The Satanic Verses - forced him into hiding for nine years.\n\nThe surrealist, post-modern novel sparked outrage among some Muslims, who considered its content to be blasphemous, and was banned in some countries.\n\nA year after the book's release, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini called for Mr Rushdie's execution. He offered a $3m (£2.5m) reward in a fatwa - a legal decree issued by an Islamic religious leader.\n\nThe bounty over Mr Rushdie's head remains active, and although Iran's government has distanced itself from Khomeini's decree, a quasi-official Iranian religious foundation added a further $500,000 to the reward in 2012.\n\nThe British-American citizen - who was born to non-practising Muslims and is an atheist himself - has become a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, defending his work on several occasions.\n\nSalman Rushdie has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses. Mr Rushdie said the main thrust of his novel was to examine the immigrant experience, but some Muslims were offended by portrayals of the Prophet Muhammed and the questioning of the nature of the revelation of the Quran as the word of God.\n\nThe Satanic Verses was banned first in the author's country of birth, India, and then several other countries before Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued his infamous fatwa.\n\nThe fatwa called for the killing of anyone involved in the publication of the book and offered rewards to those who took part in the murders. That fatwa has never formally been rescinded.\n\nSurprised by the widespread nature of the protests, Salman Rushdie apologised to Muslims but went into hiding for much of the next 10 years.\n\nThough the writer had escaped physical harm until now, others associated with the book had not, with its Norwegian publisher having been shot and seriously wounded in the early 90s, and its Japanese translator stabbed to death.\n\nWhen Mr Rushdie was knighted in 2007 by the Queen, it sparked protests in Iran and Pakistan, where one cabinet minister said the honour \"justifies suicide attacks\".\n\nSeveral literary events attended by Mr Rushdie have been subject to threats and boycotts - but he continues to write. His next novel, Victory City, is due to be published in February 2023.\n\nHis appearance at the Chautauqua Institution event, in western New York, was the first in a summertime lecture series hosted by the non-profit organisation.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: \"Appalled that Sir Salman Rushdie has been stabbed while exercising a right we should never cease to defend.\"\n\nWriter and graphic novel creator Neil Gaiman said he was \"shocked and distressed\" by the attack on his friend and fellow writer.\n\n\"He's a good man and a brilliant one and I hope he's okay,\" Gaiman wrote on Twitter.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Rushdie's publishers at Penguin Random House said: \"We condemn this violent public assault, and our thoughts are with Salman and his family at this distressing time.\"\n\nNew York Governor Kathy Hochul vowed to \"assist however needed in the investigation\" into the stabbing.\n\n\"Here's an individual who has spent decades speaking truth to power. Someone who's been out there, unafraid, despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None Video from the scene where Salman Rushdie was attacked. Video, 00:00:08Video from the scene where Salman Rushdie was attacked", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer US President Donald Trump has said he will not oppose the release of the warrant that let FBI agents search his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Trump said he was encouraging its \"immediate release\" - but repeated his claim the search was unnecessary and politically motivated.\n\nThe US Department of Justice has made a rare request to a Florida court to unseal the warrant.\n\nIf granted, it would mean the documents are made available to the public.\n\nAnd it could confirm the reason for Monday's search of Mr Trump's Florida home - something that the justice department has not yet revealed.\n\nThe FBI search is believed to be connected to an investigation into whether the former president removed classified records and sensitive material from the White House.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents were looking for at Mar-a-Lago.\n\nThe sources did not tell the newspaper whether the information involved US weapons or some other nation's.\n\nCBS, BBC's partner network in the US, cites sources saying that the search warrant is a \"bare bones\" document that doesn't include an explanation about why it was issued or what the FBI sought.\n\nMr Trump has reacted angrily on his social media site, Truth Social.\n\n\"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a Hoax, the Mueller investigation was a Hoax, and much more. Same sleazy people involved.\n\n\"Why wouldn't the FBI allow the inspection of areas at Mar-a-Lago with our lawyer's, or others, present. Made them wait outside in the heat, wouldn't let them get even close.\"\n\nMr Trump had a deadline of 15:00 EST (19:00 GMT) on Friday afternoon to object to the unsealing - but it is not clear what his statement now means for when the documents could be published.\n\nHe already has the warrant and a partially redacted property receipt listing items seized during the search so could release them himself.\n\nEarlier, Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed he personally approved the warrant for the search.\n\nUntil now, the justice department has followed its normal practice of remaining silent during an active investigation - and documents such as search warrants traditionally remain sealed during a pending investigation.\n\nBut Mr Garland said he was asking a court to make documents connected to the search warrant publicly available, in the public interest.\n\nHe said his decision was also influenced by Mr Trump publicly announcing the search had taken place.\n\n\"The public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favour of unsealing,\" justice department lawyers said in a motion filed in federal court on Thursday.\n\nMonday's search was the first time in American history that a former president's home has been searched as part of a criminal investigation. Mr Trump and other Republicans have condemned the move as politically motivated.\n\nBut speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Garland defended FBI agents and justice department officials.\n\n\"I will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked,\" the attorney general told reporters.\n\nHe also said the decision to execute the search warrant was not taken lightly. \"Where possible it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Lindsey Halligan, an attorney for Mr Trump, said his legal team was weighing whether to release the warrant before the judge makes a ruling. They were also considering disclosing photos and video of the search, she said.\n\nFBI agents at Mar-a-Lago had requested that CCTV cameras be switched off, but the Trump team refused to comply, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner. The dispute over cameras did not involve Mr Trump's Secret Service protection team as the cameras are owned and controlled privately, CBS added.\n\nMr Trump argued on Thursday on his Truth Social platform that there was no need for the raid since he said his lawyers had been \"co-operating fully\" and \"the government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it\".\n\nHe also alleged that the federal agents had rummaged through former First Lady Melania Trump's closet and personal items.\n\nThere was no detail in Merrick Garland's press conference about what the search warrant contained, what was found, or whether it was - as media reports have suggested - an inside Trump source that provided the FBI with the key information.\n\nBut there were some revelations. The attorney general revealed he had personally authorised the search warrant. And he said that the DoJ is seeking a court order to have the warrant and the list of items taken from Mar-a-Lago made public.\n\nProsecutors don't tend to reveal their cards in public during an ongoing investigation - something Mr Garland made clear was for good reason.\n\nBut the accusations from the Republican movement - and from Donald Trump himself, of course - that the department is being weaponised by the Democrats, have been damaging.\n\nAnd without any formal statement, it's a narrative that's been left largely unchallenged.\n\nThis was Mr Garland insisting that, far from being an assault on the law, the search was the law taking its proper course.", "A police forensic unit inspects the house where the mass shooting began in the city of Cetinje\n\nAt least 11 people have been killed in a shooting following a family dispute in the city of Cetinje in Montenegro.\n\nAccording to officials, a single gunman shot dead three members of the same family before shooting at passers-by.\n\nA mother and her two children all staying in the shooter's house were killed, prosecutor Andrijana Nastic told journalists.\n\nThe attack finally ended when the 34-year-old gunman was shot dead by a civilian.\n\nAfter killing three members of the same family who were staying at his house, officials said the gunman left the property and fatally shot seven local residents using the same hunting rifle.\n\n\"For now, it is not clear what prompted [the suspect] to commit such a heinous act, on which occasion he himself was deprived of his life,\" Ms Nastic told a press conference on Friday evening.\n\nAnother six people are currently being treated in hospital.\n\nPrime Minister Dritan Abazovic said the government was declaring three days of mourning following the tragedy.\n\n\"I invite all the citizens of Montenegro to be with the families of the innocent victims,\" he wrote on Telegram.\n\nThe city of Cetinje is home to the picturesque Adriatic nation's former royal capital, and is situated in a mountainous valley around 36km (22 miles) west of the capital Podgorica.", "The 1975, fronted by Matty Healy, have not played a live show in the UK for two years\n\nThe 1975 will headline the Reading and Leeds festivals after Rage Against The Machine pulled out due to a medical issue involving their frontman.\n\nThe US band cancelled their European tour on Thursday, two weeks before they were due to headline the twin UK festivals and play a date in Edinburgh.\n\nA statement said Zack de la Rocha was following \"medical guidance\".\n\nIt didn't specify the medical issue, but the 52-year-old singer injured his leg on stage in Chicago in July.\n\nThe 1975, made up of Matty Healy, George Daniel, Adam Hann and Ross MacDonald, have not played live in the UK since 2020.\n\nThe group, who last played Reading and Leeds in 2019, previously cancelled their 2021 live dates due to the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAll four of the 1975's albums have reached number one in the UK. Their fifth is due to be released later this year.\n\nSinger Zack de la Rocha has been performing seated since injuring his leg last month\n\nRage Against The Machine, known for the 1993 anti-authority anthem Killing in the Name, resumed their US tour with de la Rocha performing seated, and will play three more shows in New York this week.\n\n\"Then Zack must return home for rest and rehabilitation,\" Thursday's statement said. \"The flights, travel time, and rigorous schedule in the UK and Europe are simply too much of a risk for a complete recovery.\n\n\"We are so sorry to all of our fans who have waited years to see us and hope to Rage again soon.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rage Against The Machine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Rage Against The Machine\n\nThe band had originally been booked to headline Reading and Leeds in 2020, but that was called off because of Covid.\n\nFestival organisers have not yet announced a replacement. The Arctic Monkeys and Dave are headlining the other days at the event, which takes place from 26-28 August.\n\nRage Against the Machine have also cancelled dates in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Poland, Croatia and the Czech Republic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 August.\n\nSend your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nAnna Holland captured this scene of daughter Helena reading to 31-year-old pony Smartie at Muirfield Riding Therapy near Gullane.\n\nAn impressive view from the Rest and Be Thankful submitted by Nic Wells.\n\nThe rescue whippets Seamus and Patrick from East Sussex on holidays - and clearly enjoying them - at North Berwick, from Catherine Cains and Thomas Gaffney.\n\nThis ace view from Newport in Fife overlooking the local tennis club and over to Dundee on a bright afternoon was sent in by Steve Wilson.\n\nCharlie Gilmore submitted this image from the Eagle's Nest bothy on the Isle of Lewis.\n\n\"I'm not telling you where I found these delicious chanterelle mushrooms,\" says Hannah Young.\n\nMartin Cohen captured these lively dolphins during a holiday on the Isle of Mull.\n\nDon McGill's daughter Tess is standing on the submerged foundations of a crannog in Loch Lubnaig.\n\nA colourful floral scene at Hynish Harbour, Isle of Tiree, from Claire Rogerson.\n\n\"Visit to Dumfries Show on Saturday - smaller than the other competitors this little horse seemed to be flying over the jumps,\" says Gwyneth Jones.\n\n\"Ruby the Collie cross Yorkie enjoying the freedom of a stubble field and hay bale jumping in Dunbar, East Lothian,\" says Faye Scammell.\n\nCarol Brown was at the Glenisla Classic Car Show when she spotted this distinctive vehicle.\n\nJo Buxton was looking for somewhere peaceful to walk the dogs and found Loch Turret near Crieff.\n\n\"Loved the symmetry of this beautiful fern, found on a visit to Hospitalfield House, Arbroath,\" says Liz Rodger.\n\nAlex Mackintosh works as a mobile barber in the Highlands but has taken up photography as a hobby. He might have his work cut out with this particular customer.\n\nCaryn Young sent in the \"glorious sight\" of the sunflower maze at Gloagburn Farm, Perth.\n\n\"Delighted with this photo of a nuthatch captured during a wee trip to Queen Elizabeth Forest Park in Aberfoyle,\" says Ian Niven.\n\nLate afternoon on Loch Ettrick in the Forest of Ae from Sandy McGrattan.\n\n\"Impressed by the new Stockingfield Bridge on the Forth and Clyde canal,\" says Alan Sanders. \"How many bridges in Scotland have a dedicated viewing platform?\"\n\nBryan Wark sent in this image of a campfire burning with the sunset over Arran in the background.\n\n\"Juggling axes on fire and riding a large unicycle,\" says Graham Paton. \"Hunter Way calls this the unicycle of death - taken on Saturday at the Mound.\"\n\nArdrossan Harbour with Arran on the horizon from Gordon Stewart.\n\nRetired postie Gerry McGuire waited patiently to catch this shot of Lady's Tower at Ruby Bay, Elie.\n\nEarly morning on the Firth of Forth captured while prawn fishing on the trawler Maxine by Keiran Barclay.\n\nGary Marshallsay took this photo of the spectacular cliffs and sea views during a walk on St Ninian's Isle on his first visit to Shetland.\n\n\"Ollie peeking through the sash window as he stays cool indoors, and no - he has not been trying out my eyeliner,\" says Jacki Gordon.\n\nBrian Colston spotted this beautiful water lily in a pond in Aberfeldy during the week.\n\n\"This team made short work of harvesting the field of barley next to our house in Elgin,\" says Alan Tough.\n\nDave Stewart captured this Scotch Argus butterfly stopping off on his fianceé's trainer, on a \"stunning walk\" in Glenborrodale, Ardnamurchan.\n\nStuart McMillan's daughter Iona was \"keen to bivvy out on top of a Munro before she went back to school\". Here she is on Ben Cruachan with teddy bear Joan.\n\n\"An evening walk through Braidburn Valley Park, Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening. A hidden gem,\" says Oscar Tollast.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Police were called to a series of incidents around Skye on Wednesday\n\nA man has appeared in court accused of murder and the attempted murder of three others in a series of incidents around Skye.\n\nFinlay MacDonald appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court after attacks on Skye and Dornie in Lochalsh on Wednesday.\n\nJohn MacKinnon, 47, died on the island. Mr MacDonald's wife Rowena, 32, is in a critical condition. Another man and woman, both 63, were also injured.\n\nMr MacDonald, 39, made no plea and was remanded in custody.\n\nRowena MacDonald was taken to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow following an attack on Skye. Her condition is described as critical.\n\nJohn Don Mackenzie and Fay Mackenzie were injured in Dornie.\n\nMr Mackenzie is reported to be in a serious condition at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Mrs Mackenzie was discharged.\n\nFinlay MacDonald faces a murder charge and two charges of assault to severe injury, danger of life and attempted murder.\n\nHe also faces a charge of assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement and attempted murder.", "The dead man has been named as John MacKinnon\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of a father-of-six and the attempted murders of three other people following a series of incidents around Skye.\n\nJohn MacKinnon, 47, died after a gun was fired at a property in Teangue, on Skye, on Wednesday morning.\n\nA 32-year-old woman had earlier been injured in an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Tarskavaig.\n\nIn Dornie on the Highland mainland, a gun was also fired and a man and woman, both aged 63, were injured.\n\nThey have been named locally as John Don Mackenzie and Fay Mackenzie.\n\nPolice said a 39-year-old man had been charged in connection with Mr MacKinnon's murder and the attempted murder of three others. He is due to appear in court on Friday.\n\nEarlier, police confirmed a Taser was discharged during the arrest.\n\nMr MacKinnon has been described as a popular and well-know figure in the Sleat area of Skye.\n\nIn a statement, his family said: \"John was a loving husband, father of six, brother, uncle and grandfather to his family, and was a much-loved member of the community.\n\n\"John loved the outdoors, was a keen motorcyclist and, as a loved father, shared his activities with his family.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said everyone in Scotland would be thinking of the communities affected.\n\nSpeaking as she visited a church group in Forfar, Angus, on Thursday, she said: \"The kind of incidents that happened yesterday would have been horrific and devastating in any part of the country.\n\n\"But the kind of communities we're talking about here are small, close-knit communities and that sense of devastation will be felt even more acutely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attacks around Skye have had a \"significant impact\", say police\n\nIn a briefing on Thursday, Ch Supt Conrad Trickett said the thoughts of Police Scotland were with the families and communities affected by the incidents.\n\nHe said the 32-year-old woman and 63-year-old man were seriously injured and remained in hospital.\n\nAnd he confirmed that the gun fired in the incidents was a licensed firearm owned by the person who discharged it.\n\nCh Supt Trickett said he wished to reassure the public that the incidents had been dealt with swiftly and professionally by local officers.\n\nHe said: \"Serious incidents which were witnessed yesterday are extremely rare and I would like to further reassure the local communities that they were dealt with and there is no further threat to local people.\n\n\"Local officers who live and work in these communities brought the situation to as swift a conclusion as possible and I thank everyone involved, including colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service, for their outstanding efforts in responding to what was a distressing series of incidents.\"\n\nPolice were called to an initial incident in Tarskavaig on Wednesday morning\n\nCh Supt Trickett added: \"The investigation, being led by Police Scotland's major investigation team, is complex and challenging and I would also like to thank the local communities for their understanding and co-operation as we work through our inquiries.\n\n\"Given the size of the investigation and the fact we are dealing with a number of different sites, the considerable police presence will remain for the near future.\n\nPolice from across Skye and also from Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and Glasgow responded and 50 officers remain in the area.\n\nThey were initially called to a report of a 32-year-old woman being injured at a property in Tarskavaig, on Skye, shortly before 09:00 on Wednesday.\n\nPolice were also called to another a property in Teangue on Skye\n\nOfficers were then called to an incident about eight miles away (13km) in Teangue where police said a gun was fired and Mr MacKinnon died.\n\nAt about 10:00 police were called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh on the west Highland mainland, where a gun was also fired.\n\nKeith MacKenzie, of the West Highland Free Press newspaper, said Mr MacKinnon's death was a shock to the local area of Sleat.\n\nHe said: \"There is a feeling of sadness for the MacKinnon family having lost a father, brother and husband, and just someone who was a friend to so many people. It is going to hit the community very, very hard.\"\n\nIan Blackford, SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber, described it as a \"very, very dark period\" for Skye and Lochalsh.\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"These are small communities where everybody tends to know everyone and there is a real sense of shock.\"\n\nMr Blackford praised the response of the emergency services and Highland Council to the incidents.\n\nKate Forbes, Scottish finance secretary and MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, said close-knit communities had been \"shattered to our core\".\n\nJohn Finlayson, Highland councillor for Skye and Raasay, said his thoughts were with families and communities affected.\n\nMr Finlayson said: \"I've never known tragedy like this and there's two communities that have been affected here - one on Skye and one on the mainland.\n\n\"So, it's a sad day, it's a tragic day, and it's a very tough day for us all.\"\n\nHamish Fraser, of Broadford and Strath community council on Skye, said the events of Wednesday were unheard of in living memory and the shockwaves would be felt across local communities for weeks and months.\n\nThe rescue operation saw multiple ambulances, air ambulances and special rapid retrieval emergency teams, which are only summoned for incidents in rural locations when people are in critical need of medical attention.\n\nPolice were later called to an incident in Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh\n\nThe west coast and Skye is known more as a tourist destination than a crime scene.\n\nSpeaking to locals in Dornie, where one of the incidents took place, it was clear it was a tight-knit and close community. Residents told me there's a sense of safety living here, with many confessing they don't always lock their doors at night.\n\nIn Skye, there is shock around the violence of the incidents with residents left reeling by the emerging details of what happened.\n\nA local Free Church minister told me he was opening the church this evening for anyone who needs to talk, find their faith, or come together as a community.\n\nIt will take time to comes to terms with this shocking and tragic series of events.\n• None One dead, three injured in string of attacks around Skye", "Plaid Cymru restored the whip to Jonathan Edwards on Wednesday\n\nA woman assaulted by her politician husband says she is \"appalled and disappointed\" that Plaid Cymru has reinstated him as an MP for the party.\n\nThe party returned the whip to Jonathan Edwards on Wednesday after legal advice and following a row about whether he should remain an independent.\n\nHis wife, Emma Edwards, told BBC Wales it sends a message \"that survivors of domestic abuse don't matter\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said it was \"considering carefully\" Ms Edwards's statement.\n\nHis wife said she now regretted a statement issued on her behalf in the wake of the incident which she said was drafted by a press officer for the MP.\n\nMrs Edwards said that she married her husband in November 2012. They are in the process of getting divorced.\n\n\"In May 2020 I called the police after being assaulted by my husband at our home,\" she said.\n\nHis wife said: \"At the time I was in shock, denial and I was hopeful that we would be able to reconcile.\n\n\"Even though Jonathan attended an online domestic abuse course, he did not accept responsibility for what happened, minimising the incident. This meant that there was not going to be any reconciliation. I was perhaps naive to think that there could be.\"\n\nShe said the statement issued at the time, which said she accepted her husband's apology, was \"drafted for me by Jonathan's press officer at the time and I was told that it would be the best way to stop it being a story\".\n\n\"I now regret saying those words,\" she said, \"as they have been used to excuse Jonathan's actions.\n\n\"I have since learned that he is presenting himself as the victim in all of this and this is why I am now seeking to set the record straight.\n\n\"I am appalled and disappointed that the party I was until recently a member of has accepted a domestic abuser to represent them as an MP.\n\nJonathan Edwards was suspended in July 2020, two months after being arrested at home\n\n\"This sends the message that women don't matter and that survivors of domestic abuse don't matter. I always believed Plaid Cymru to be better than this.\n\n\"Until now, I have maintained silence. I am not a political person and I do not seek publicity... I cannot stand by and watch the truth being distorted as it has been.\"\n\nAt that time a majority of the National Executive Committee - Plaid's ruling body - recommended that the MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr should be refused entry to the Westminster group.\n\nOn Wednesday Plaid said it had reinstated Mr Edwards, ending his spell as an independent, following what it described as \"procedural advice\".\n\nBBC Wales was told the party had been informed it would be \"unlawful\" for Mr Edwards to be kept out of the Westminster group.\n\nMr Edwards declined to comment, but issued a statement on Wednesday expressing \"deep remorse\" for his behaviour.\n\nHe said: \"The past two years have been a period of deep reflection in which I enrolled on a domestic violence awareness course which has helped me understand the impact my action had on others.\"\n\nChief executive of gender equality organisation Chwarae Teg, Cerys Furlong, said Plaid Cymru should think again about its decision and the message it sent to all women.\n\n\"Our politics must be an environment in which women are safe and where violence, harassment and abuse are stamped out,\" she said.\n\nPlaid Cymru said on Friday it believed \"the voice of victims of domestic violence must be listened to\".\n\nIt added: \"The party is considering carefully the implications of the public statement made by Emma Edwards and what action may need to be taken as a result of her statement.\"\n\nPlaid said this week that the NEC would review the party's processes to identify lessons that can be learned.\n\nIt said it would identify \"the steps required for the party to be truly free from a culture of misogyny, and to actively and meaningfully promote, defend and extend women's participation in Plaid Cymru and wider politics\".", "Boris Johnson has agreed to talks between the UK and devolved governments over the cost of living crisis.\n\nIt comes after Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote to him requesting an emergency meeting.\n\nIn the letter she told Mr Johnson that only the UK government could access resources \"on the scale required\".\n\nShe said urgent talks with the administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were needed due to the \"fast deteriorating\" situation.\n\nNo date for the discussions has been set.\n\nThe UK government previously said Scotland had been granted record funding levels.\n\nMr Johnson has also said that UK ministers had already committed the equivalent of 1.5% of the country's GDP to supporting households with the increasing cost of living.\n\nIn his response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, the prime minister said the UK government \"understands that people across the UK are worried about the rising cost of living and are seeing their disposable incomes decrease as they spend more on the essentials\".\n\nHe added: \"I agree that the response to these pressures will be best served by the UK and Devolved Governments working collaboratively to navigate these challenges together.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon, who is due to meet Mr Johnson before he steps down as PM in September, said in her letter that the Scottish government would invest almost £3bn this year in measures to help address cost of living pressures.\n\nBut the first minister warned that action was needed to address \"significant gaps in help for households\", in particular those on low incomes.\n\nLast week, the Bank of England announced projections that could see inflation rise above 13% in October, while another projection found that the energy price cap could rise to £3,358 annually from October, and could hit £3,615 from January.\n\nThe UK government was warned by business leaders that it must have \"all hands to the pump\" to address the crisis ahead of the autumn.", "An armed man clad in body armour was killed after he tried to \"breach\" an FBI building in Ohio, officials say.\n\nThe suspect fled the scene in Cincinnati and was shot by police after an hours-long standoff in a rural area.\n\nLaw enforcement officials told US media they are examining whether the man - whom outlets named as Ricky Shiffer, 42 - had any ties to far-right groups.\n\nThe head of the FBI said violence and threats against the agency \"should be deeply concerning to all Americans\".\n\nPolice have not formally identified the suspect killed in Ohio on Thursday, and did not comment on his motive during news briefings.\n\nUnnamed law enforcement officials told US media the suspect may have been present at the Capitol building in Washington on the day of last year's riot by Trump supporters, although he was not charged with any crimes in connection to the disorder.\n\nThe Ohio incident comes as US officials warn of increased threats against law enforcement after the FBI executed a search warrant on Monday at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.\n\nPolice said the suspect tried unsuccessfully to breach a visitor security screening area at the FBI office in Cincinnati at around 09:15 (13:15 GMT).\n\nHe fled the area, but was spotted about 20 minutes later by a police officer, Ohio State Highway Patrol spokesman Nathan Dennis told a news conference.\n\nA chase ensued until the suspect stopped and exchanged gunfire with officers before fleeing into a cornfield.\n\nAfter an hours-long standoff, he raised a weapon towards officers and was killed by police around 15:00 local time, said Mr Dennis. No police were injured in the shootout.\n\nAccording to NBC News, the man fired a nail gun at the FBI building and was also armed with a semi-automatic rifle.\n\nThere are two social media accounts in the reported name of the suspect, according to the BBC's disinformation reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh.\n\nMost of the tweets were about the 2020 election, saying it had been stolen from Mr Trump. The posts also included calls for violence against Democrats, the FBI and the Supreme Court.\n\nAt least two posts on the Twitter account - including one saying \"I was there\" - suggest the person attended the Capitol riot.\n\nOn Truth Social, the website owned by Mr Trump, an account in the name of one Ricky Shiffer posted earlier on Thursday, calling for Americans to \"be ready to combat\", adding: \"I am proposing war.\"\n\nOne post appeared to have been made after the incident at the FBI office in Cincinnati.\n\nFBI Director Christopher Wray, who was appointed by Mr Trump in 2017, said in a statement that \"unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others.\n\n\"Violence and threats against law enforcement, including the FBI, are dangerous and should be deeply concerning to all Americans.\"\n\nIn a speech to FBI field agents in the state of Nebraska on Wednesday, he called online threats to officials \"deplorable and dangerous\", adding: \"Violence against law enforcement is not the answer, no matter who you're upset with.\"\n• None Trump does not oppose bid to unseal search warrant", "Alison Bell was 25 when she died\n\nThe family of a woman who killed herself after a secret relationship with a hospital nurse have been given permission to apply for a new inquest.\n\nAlison Bell attended Garlands mental health hospital in Carlisle in 1987 and became pregnant the following year. She died in 1991 aged 25.\n\nThe nurse was later sacked but no criminal charges were brought.\n\nMs Bell's brother, Tom Bell, said he hoped a new inquest \"might get something close to justice\".\n\nHe said: \"This isn't through the courts, this is an inquest, but it will be justice with a small 'j' and, if that's the closest that we can get, and we've tried our best to get there, then I think that's worthy.\"\n\nMr Bell said he had spent thousands of hours, with hundreds of Freedom of Information requests and more than 5,000 emails and letters, in order to get justice for his sister.\n\n\"This is pushing, and not stopping pushing, until somebody finally opens the door,\" he said.\n\nAlison Bell's family said justice has never been done for her\n\nMs Bell and the trainee male nurse kept their relationship secret and, when she became pregnant, she had an abortion.\n\nThe relationship then ended and, in 1991, Ms Bell killed herself.\n\nAn inquest, which did not have details of either the relationship or the pregnancy, returned an open verdict but her family claim both had contributed to her death.\n\nThe Attorney General's office has now given permission for the family to seek a new inquest.\n\nA spokesperson said there was a \"reasonable prospect\" that the High Court would order one.\n\nCumbria Police investigated in 2001 but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was not enough evidence.\n\nThe case was reopened in 2017 and the nurse admitted the relationship but claimed he had not known it was illegal.\n\nAt that point the CPS said that while it was satisfied a crime had been committed, it was no longer in the public interest to bring charges.\n\nGarlands closed in March 1999. The following year, a report found \"a whole systems failure\" had allowed a catalogue of patient abuse.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Staff at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have described to the BBC being kept at gunpoint while Russian troops use it as a military base.\n\nInvading forces have occupied the site, the biggest nuclear plant in Europe, since early March. However, it's still operated by Ukrainian technicians.\n\nMoscow has recently been accused of using the plant \"as a shield\" while its troops launch rockets from there towards nearby locations.\n\nAnd on Thursday, more shelling was reported - and the head of the UN issued a new warning about fighting near the nuclear site \"leading to disaster\".\n\nNow two workers have told the BBC about the daily threat of kidnap, as well as their fears of either \"radioactive contamination of the wider region\" or a nuclear catastrophe.\n\nIn the southern city of Nikopol is one of the most dangerous vantage points in Ukraine.\n\nOn the banks of the Dnipro River, it's possible to see the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant 10 miles across the water.\n\nIt's a place which has seen heavy shelling over the past couple of weeks, with up to 120 rockets being reported in a single night.\n\nThey come from the direction of Enerhodar, the city where the plant is situated.\n\nIn turn, Enerhodar - and the power station - have also come under heavy fire.\n\nThe UN's nuclear watchdog claims there's a \"real risk of nuclear disaster\" unless the fighting stops and inspectors are allowed access.\n\nUkraine and Russia blame each other. The picture is murky, but the risks are crystal clear.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"My working day is a constant stress,\" says Svitlana, who's contacting us over text.\n\nShe and fellow worker Mykola can only use Russian Sim cards now and signal is very limited. We're not using their real names for their safety.\n\n\"I can't work like I used to,\" says Svitlana. \"The last week I haven't even been able to come to my workplace - it's dangerous.\n\n\"On Saturday, there was shelling of the nitrogen-oxygen station, which caused a fire. By some miracle, the people working there survived.\"\n\nAnother Enerhodar resident tells us that shop and pharmacy prices are now four times higher than in territory that Ukraine still controls, as well as there being a shortage of doctors. Most ATMs are closed, too.\n\nSvitlana has worked at the plant for many years, and says shells have been landing close to it every day.\n\n\"The psychological situation is difficult,\" she adds. \"Soldiers are walking everywhere with weapons and everyone is actually kept at gunpoint.\"\n\nRussia is accused of basing about 500 soldiers there. Recent footage has showed military vehicles being driven inside, and Svitlana is in no doubt it's being used as a base.\n\n\"Every day they drive back and forth in their military vehicles,\" she says.\n\n\"They positioned their military equipment right at the station buildings, to make it impossible for Ukrainian armed forces to strike.\"\n\nA text comes in from Mykola: \"The staff are now hostages of the Russians,\" it reads.\n\n\"They turned off the internet, left only landline phones, and food is available only in one single dining room. They turned the others into their bases.\"\n\nUkraine is concerned Russia has started shelling the area it occupies to try to create a false narrative, such as: \"Ukraine is attacking you - so better vote to join Russia so we can take root and protect you.\"\n\nMoscow-installed politicians for the Zaporizhzhia region have just signed an order for a referendum to be held soon. Russia has staged sham votes in the past, such as with Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.\n\nMykola continues: \"Access to all roofs is prohibited, they made their observation points there. The training building also became their barracks.\n\n\"Now, more and more often, staff are kidnapped just when leaving the shift at the security gate.\"\n\nIt's not known why the kidnapping takes place - but residents paint a picture of intimidation as Russians look to lay down down law.\n\nSvitlana and Mykola also describe rubbish being left everywhere by the Russians - but they say staff are still able to monitor the reactor properly.\n\nHryhoriy Plachkov, former head of the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, tells us the risks are \"great\" as long as the Russians controls the Zaporizhzhia power plant.\n\nHe admits it would take \"two to three\" months for the Russians to re-direct power back to their own grid, if that was their goal.\n\nEnerhodar is part of a southern front line which has seen more intense fighting in recent weeks.\n\nThere is, however, still very little movement - suggesting Europe's biggest nuclear power station will continue to slip from Ukraine's control.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm sticking it out\" - last resident of housing estate earmarked for demolition\n\nThe last resident of a housing estate due to be demolished has said the council will need to double its offer to get him to leave.\n\nNick Wisniewski has had no neighbours in his block on the Gowkthrapple housing estate in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, since December.\n\nThe 66-year-old wants at least £80,000 so he can afford to buy a new flat.\n\nBut North Lanarkshire Council said they could not pay Mr Wisniewski more than the property was worth.\n\nThe retired bank worker bought the flat in Stanhope Place several years ago under the Right to Buy scheme, which helped council tenants buy their homes at discounted rates.\n\nThe scheme has since been closed in Scotland.\n\nThe block on the Gowkthrapple estate in Wishaw is due to be demolished as part of a redevelopment\n\n\"I've been here for 21 years and I'm settled,\" Mr Wisniewski told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"I've looked at prices of houses round about. For a two-bedroom flat you're talking anything between £80,000 to £100,000.\n\n\"I finished up with the bank, I took my redundancy. But I'm not prepared to make myself skint because of North Lanarkshire Council.\"\n\nMr Wisniewski said the council had offered him £35,000 for his flat, along with two years' of free rent at a new council property.\n\nThe authority is planning to redevelop the whole Gowkthrapple estate, replacing \"ageing\" housing and creating an \"attractive and well-connected new neighbourhood\".\n\nWork on other parts of the estate has already begun.\n\nMr Wisniewski told BBC Scotland he was not willing to move into a new rented council property, but wanted to buy a new place.\n\nMr Wisniewski told the BBC he was prepared to stick it out \"as long as it takes\"\n\n\"I'm too old for this,\" he said. \"I don't want a lot of hassle in my life, I just want to take it easy.\"\n\n\"That's why I would prefer to just move out and into somewhere I could buy.\"\n\nHe said he had not heard from North Lanarkshire Council since last November and had been waiting to hear from the authority with an improved offer.\n\n\"If they gave me £35,000, I could easily put £20,000 to it which is not nearly enough. So really they need to double their offer for me to get something decent,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of people would say I'd be better to go - but I'm sticking it out because I have in my mind what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something better and I'm not going to get that only having £35,000 from the council.\"\n\nNorth Lanarkshire Council is planning to pursue a compulsory purchase order on the property but said its door \"remains open\" to Mr Wisniewski for further talks.\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"We have been in dialogue with the owner for several years about this issue and although we understand that there is a personal connection to the property, we simply cannot pay more for the property than it is worth.\n\n\"If the owner feels that the value he has been offered doesn't reflect the market value then there are ways for a valuation to be negotiated on his behalf.\n\n\"We are keen to resolve this matter to ensure that he receives a fair deal and to support him to find alternative accommodation. We have discussed the option of other suitable places for him to stay, but he has refused each of them.\"\n\nMr Wisniewski said he was open to further discussions, but planned to stick it out in his flat \"as long as it takes\".\n\n\"I reckon the council is going to make a lot of money out of it [the development] at the end of the day, so why not give me more?\" he added.", "Rising summer temperatures are causing longer and more frequent heatwaves across Great Britain, according to the Met office.\n\nBBC analysis estimates that six million people live in places at risk of higher heat during the summer months.\n\nUsing satellite data from 4 Earth Intelligence, the BBC mapped how vulnerable postcode areas were to extreme heat in England, Wales and Scotland during periods of hot weather over the past three summers - shown with a heat hazard score.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Is your postcode area vulnerable to extreme heat? Enter your full postcode to find out Find out more about the data The heat hazard score for each postcode area was calculated by 4 Earth Intelligence (a satellite analytics company), who measured the average land surface temperature over a sample of days across the past three summers in Great Britain. Each heat hazard score represents different sized groups, as shown in the scale. This is to highlight the places where the temperature in an area was higher compared to the rest of Great Britain, once the temperature had been adjusted to make it comparable across regions. For example, a score of one means the postcode was in the lowest 40% of potential heat hazard areas, while a score of five means it was in the top 1% of potential heat hazard areas. If your postcode is represented by or contains a small square, this may be because your building has too many addresses in it for a single postcode. This block can be shown adjacent to areas with the same postcode, or a few streets away.\n\nThe difference in heat between areas is often due to a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect, where buildings and roads absorb and retain heat and become significantly hotter than surrounding areas with shade or green space.\n\nThis can be seen in part of Brent, London, seen below. Postcodes next to or near green spaces, such as Roundwood Park, are generally cooler than those surrounded by other buildings over the past three summers, according to the data from 4 Earth Intelligence.\n\nA similar effect can be seen with bodies of water in Cardiff Bay. One of the postcodes below, which includes buildings next to the River Taff and a wildlife reserve, are cooler than those in more built up areas nearby.\n\nThe potential heat hazard score for each postcode area was calculated by 4EI, who measured the average land surface temperature over a sample of days in the past three summers across Britain.\n\nWhat does my heat hazard score mean?\n\nEach score, ranging from one to five, is an indicator of how likely it is that your area will experience high temperatures during hot weather, when compared with other areas in your surrounding neighbourhood.\n\nHow was the score calculated?\n\nA statistical method published by academics was used to standardise land surface temperatures for each postcode area, which involved combining satellite images for different dates over the past three years.\n\nThe temperature data was then adjusted to consider the different average temperatures of each region, to highlight hotter areas across the country, despite varying climates and temperatures.\n\nEach heat hazard score represents different sized groups, as described below.\n\n1 = 40th percentile and lower, if you lined up all the postcodes by heat hazard score, your postcode is in the coolest 40%.\n\n2 = 40th - 70th percentile, your postcode is in the mid-range. 40% of postcodes have a lower heat hazard than yours but 30% have a higher one.\n\n3 = 70th - 90th percentile, your postcode is towards the upper end of the scale. 70% of postcodes have a lower heat hazard than than yours but 10% have a higher one.\n\n4 = 90th - 99th percentile, nine out of 10 postcodes have a lower heat hazard than yours and only 1% have a higher one.\n\n5 = 99th percentile, your postcode area has among the highest heat hazard scores.\n\nWhy does my postcode show a square block?\n\nA single building can contain more than one postcode, such as a block of flats, this is known as a vertical street.\n\nOn the heat hazard map, postcodes that are part of vertical streets are represented by a square shape.\n\nVertical street postcodes which sit away from the main postcode area, or inside other postcode areas have inherited the heat hazard score from the main postcode they originally belong to.\n\nI live in Didcot or Northampton, why is there no data for my area?\n\nPostcodes in Didcot and Northampton do not have a heat hazard score. This is because of limitations in the way the satellite data was collected which meant scores for neighbourhoods in these areas were not comparable to one another.\n\nProduced by Rob England, Harriet Bradshaw, Libby Rogers, Jana Tauschinski, Deirdre Finnerty and Wesley Stephenson. Development by Alexander Ivanov, Marcos Gurgel, Shilpa Saraf and Becky Rush. Data provided by 4 Earth Intelligence.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's leader has robustly defended his response to rising energy bills, arguing his party has been \"leading\" on the worsening cost-of-living crisis.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said Labour had already made proposals to lower costs, including taking VAT off energy bills.\n\nHe called Boris Johnson a \"lame duck\" prime minister who was \"not prepared to do anything\" on soaring living costs.\n\nHe said Labour would end energy prepayment meters premiums and more policies would follow next week.\n\nSome backbench Labour MPs have criticised Sir Keir for being on holiday as the crisis over skyrocketing energy bills - driven by global economic turmoil - deepened this week.\n\nWhen asked about discontent within his party over his response, Sir Keir said Labour had proposed policies such as a windfall tax on the excess profits of oil and gas companies and cutting VAT on energy bills months ago, long before they were on the government's radar.\n\n\"For the best part of 12 months, Labour has been absolutely leading on this issue,\" Sir Keir said. \"And I'm very proud of the work we've done.\"\n\nLabour and other opposition parties have been urging the government to take immediate action on rising living costs, an issue which has dominated the Tory leadership contest.\n\nEarlier outgoing Prime Minister Mr Johnson admitted the current help for people struggling with energy bills was not enough, and he expected more money to follow.\n\nThe government has said it would leave big spending decisions to Mr Johnson's successor - either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss - when they take office in September.\n\nBut Mr Johnson, who was forced to resign last month after a cabinet mutiny, said he was \"making sure there is extra cash\" for his successor to provide additional support.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh, Scotland after retuning to work on Friday, Sir Keir talked about Labour's plan to scrap what he called \"outrageous and immoral\" energy prepayment premiums.\n\nPrepayment meters require customers to pay for their energy use in advance, often online, but also from credit bought in convenience stores.\n\nLabour says it would eliminate the \"premium\" that means people with prepayment meters, who are often on low incomes, are charged more than those on direct debits.\n\nFigures from energy regulator Ofgem show customers using prepayment meters will pay £46 more on average annually than those paying standard tariffs via direct debits.\n\nWith energy bills forecast to soar this winter, the policy is designed to ease the financial burden on the estimated four million domestic customers who use the meters.\n\nLabour says its announcement is part of a wider package on the energy crisis that Sir Keir and other senior shadow ministers are planning to unveil in the coming days.\n\n\"On Monday, I'm going to be setting out a comprehensive set of proposals a plan for how we handle the upcoming costs in the autumn,\" Sir Keir said.\n\nAnalysts predict average annual energy bills could rise to over £4,200 by January, while the Bank of England has forecast a recession in the UK later this year.\n\nBut some backbench Labour MPs had expressed frustration at the party's recent response to rising living costs and the state of the economy.\n\n\"The scale of this crisis is absolutely huge, and I'm personally not seeing enough being done by my party,\" Zarah Sultana, the MP for Coventry South, told LBC.\n\n\"Of course I want the Labour Party to go further.\"\n\nOn Twitter Diane Abbott, a former shadow home secretary, shared a mocked-up wanted poster which said \"missing during the cost of living crisis\" below an image of Sir Keir.\n\nMeanwhile, in Sir Keir's absence, cost of living and energy proposals put forward by former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown have been drawing attention.\n\nLast week Mr Brown called for an emergency budget before the UK hit a \"financial timebomb\" this autumn. Then, writing in the Guardian, he urged the Tory leadership candidates to make \"several urgently needed decisions\".\n\nThey included cancelling the energy price cap before its expected increase later in August, and bringing energy companies into public ownership \"as a last resort\" if they can not meet certain conditions.\n\nEvoking the banking collapse of 2007-08, Mr Brown said the government could \"operate their essential services from the public sector until the crisis is over\".\n\nThe BBC understands the announcement of Mr Brown's suite of proposals was not co-ordinated with the office of the Labour leader.\n\nWhen asked if Mr Brown's suggestion of nationalising energy companies was out of step with the party's policy, backbench Labour MP Chris Bryant said: \"No, I don't think so.\"\n\nHe said he was not a \"let's-nationalise-everything person\", but added: \"There will be considerable pressure if the energy companies don't act faster, in particular to help poorer customers.\"\n\nHe said commentary on a Labour leader's uptake of policy ideas can be \"a really stultifying process in British politics\".\n\n\"Gordon has come up with some good ideas,\" Mr Bryant said. \"It may not be exactly the same hymn that we're singing, but we're certainly signing from the same hymn book.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nEngland Euro 2022 winners Millie Bright, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze have been nominated for the women's Ballon d'Or, awarded to the best female footballer of 2022.\n\nLionel Messi, the seven-time men's winner, misses out as 15 Premier League players - including 12 from Liverpool and Manchester City - are nominated.\n\nMead was named Euro 2022's best player after winning the Golden Boot award given to the tournament's top scorer.\n\nOrganisers will announce the winners on 17 October.\n\nThe Lionesses defeated Germany 2-1 after extra time in the final of Euro 2022 at Wembley to secure a first major trophy for a senior England team since the men won the 1966 World Cup.\n\nBronze, 30, came second behind United States legend Megan Rapinoe for the 2019 Ballon d'Or.\n\nBarcelona and Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas, the 2021 Ballon d'Or winner, is nominated too, as is Chelsea's Sam Kerr, who scored 20 goals in the Women's Super League in 2021-22.\n\nArsenal's Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema has also been nominated.\n\nThere are 30 players in total nominated for the men's prize - with half of the names on that list playing in this season's Premier League.\n\nThe England-based players are Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Joao Cancelo (Manchester City), Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City), Luis Diaz (Liverpool), Fabinho (Liverpool), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Erling Haaland (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City), Darwin Nunez (Liverpool), Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United), Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Son Heung-min (Tottenham) and Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool).\n\nReal Madrid's Karim Benzema, one of the strong favourites, is listed but Messi does not make it after an underwhelming first season at Paris St-Germain.\n\nEngland players Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka are among 10 players nominated for the Kopa Trophy, presented to the best performing player under the age of 21.\n\nMeanwhile, four Premier League keepers - Alisson (Liverpool), Ederson (Manchester City), Edouard Mendy (Chelsea) and Hugo Lloris (Tottenham) are in the running for the Yashin Trophy, presented annually by France Football to the best performing goalkeeper.", "An official drought has been declared as low-water levels and tinder-dry conditions continue across the UK.\n\nEight parts of England, including Devon, Kent, East Anglia and Lincolnshire are affected.\n\nThe move is expected to trigger stricter controls on water use and five water companies have already announced restrictions, including hosepipe bans.\n\nMillions are expected to be impacted but the Environment Agency said essential water supplies were safe.\n\nJohn Curtin, director of operations, said the drought would go on for \"a long time\" and warned of possible restrictions on crop growing and further hosepipe bans.\n\nIt comes as the prolonged dry weather - combined with the current heatwave and July's record-breaking temperatures - have depleted rivers, reservoirs and aquifers.\n\nLarge swathes of England are bone-dry, with scenes of parched earth and grass turned yellow.\n\nThe conditions have prompted the Environment Agency to move eight of its 14 areas into drought status:\n\nYorkshire and the West Midlands are also expected to move into a drought later in August.\n\nThe decision to declare a drought was taken after a meeting of the National Drought Group - made up of government and agency officials, water firms and groups including the National Farmers' Union.\n\nAnnouncing a drought means government and water companies will put into action their plans to deal with it, with measures including hosepipe bans and taking more water than usual from rivers.\n\nMembers of the public and businesses in drought-affected areas are also being urged to use water wisely following the driest first seven months of the year since 1976.\n\nElsewhere, Wales Drought Liaison group is also looking at the effect of the dry weather.\n\nFive water companies - Welsh Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, South East Water and, most recently Yorkshire Water - have all announced hosepipe bans, while Yorkshire Water said on Friday that a ban would start on 26 August.\n\nThe latter firm, which has more than five million customers, says parts of the region have seen the lowest rainfall since records began more than 130 years ago.\n\nIt also said rivers and reservoirs in the region were running at 20% lower than expected for the time of year.\n\nSouth East Water, whose ban came into force on Friday, is now asking people to observe restrictions on using hosepipes to water plants, wash the car and fill paddling pools - with rule-breakers facing fines of up to £1,000.\n\nDominic Gardener, a farmer in West Sussex, said the dry weather was posing huge challenges for farmers.\n\n\"Everything is starting to struggle a bit - our grass is not growing at all - and livestock, we're having to feed them extra food,\" he said, adding crop yields had also been reduced by the dryness.\n\nFarmers in parts of Fife are being temporarily banned from using water from the River Eden on their fields.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency says the measure will come into effect from midnight on Saturday to tackle critical water shortages.\n\nA four-day amber warning for extreme heat from the Met Office is in place for many parts of England and Wales until Sunday.\n\nTemperatures are forecast to be lower early next week, however, and the Met Office has issued yellow warnings for thunderstorms on Monday, covering most of England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nAnd its fire severity index - which assesses how severe a blaze could become - is currently \"very high\" for most of England and Wales.\n\nThe situation facing firefighters across the UK has been described as \"unprecedented\", with increasing numbers of wildfires.\n\nFires have broken out across the nation, including in Leytonstone, east London, Studland Bay, Dorset, Creswell, in Derbyshire, The Dower House in Bristol, and Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.\n\nPolice have evacuated about 50 homes in Creswell after a major incident was declared due to a field fire.\n\nFire crews are also tackling a large blaze which broke out at a Leicestershire recycling centre.\n\nMeanwhile, homeless people struggling with the extreme heat in Bristol said it was \"making us sick,\" and even sitting in the shade was \"tiring and sweaty and uncomfortable\".\n\nBristol Street Outreach Team, operated by charity St Mungo's, has been carrying out additional shifts and giving out water, advice and sun protection to those in need.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUK temperatures have been rising day-on-day through the week. According to the Met Office, on Friday the highest temperatures were recorded in:\n\nOver the weekend temperatures could peak at 36C.\n\nMet Office chief meteorologist Andy Page said there would be \"increasingly warm nights\" with temperatures not expected to drop below the low 20s in some places in the south.\n\nSir Keir Starmer has accused the government of failing to fully prepare the UK for drought, and also out at the response of water companies.\n\nWater firms have been criticised over leaks, with about three billion litres of water lost each day in the UK - between 20% and 24% of the total water supply.\n\nThe Labour leader said the drought was \"predictable\" but \"as usual we had no plan from the government\".\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice said there was \"no reason for people to be alarmed\".\n\nHe told BBC News that the UK's water supply \"remains resilient\" and that \"we're in a stronger position than ever\" to withstand droughts, with progress made on leaks and infrastructure to move water between reservoirs.\n\nHeatwaves are becoming more likely and more extreme because of human-induced climate change.\n\nResearch institute UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) said it would require \"exceptional\" rainfall over the next one to three months to bring river, reservoir and groundwater levels back up to normal.\n\nIt said analysis showed exceptionally low levels would probably continue until October in southern England and Wales.\n\nBut scientists have warned bouts of heavy rain after a prolonged period of hot weather can cause flash flooding.\n\nRobert Thompson, a professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, said \"the ground has effectively become like urban concrete\" and will not absorb water quickly enough to cope with longer showers.\n\nThe situation in the UK is being mirrored across Europe. Much of the continent is baking in record heat, exposing riverbeds and triggering restrictions on water use in many areas.\n\nA drought has also hit Germany's Rhine River, where the water is already too low to allow some larger vessels through.\n\nRestrictions on usage during hosepipe bans can vary between water providers but generally people are not allowed to use hosepipes or anything that connects to a hosepipe or an outside tap.During a ban, people cannot use a hosepipe to:\n\nBut you can use other water sources, like using your mains water supply but with buckets or watering cans instead of hosepipes, or using stored rainwater from a water butt and there are some exceptions when a hosepipe can be used.\n\nAnyone breaking the rules could face a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nHave you been affected by the hot weather and restrictions? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Amateur detective Becky Harrington says she wants to study criminology and law after the experience\n\nA woman who turned detective to find her father's stolen car said she has been inundated with requests to find other missing vehicles.\n\nBecky Harrington, from Bournemouth, got frustrated after police failed to make progress finding the £12,000 Jaguar which was stolen in July.\n\nShe managed to find the car four miles away after using social media and scouring CCTV.\n\nDorset Police said inquiries to identify the offenders were continuing.\n\nThe Jaguar XF was stolen from the Bournemouth home of Ms Harrington's father\n\nMs Harrington, 32, said her father woke to find his car missing on Sunday 24 July and contacted police.\n\n\"But I just wasn't happy with how they dealt with it. I'm pretty savvy with social media so I put it in 45 odd groups and before I knew it was being shared all over the place, it just went everywhere,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought nobody is gonna walk down the street and not know about this car. If we were still waiting for the police, my dad would have no car.\"\n\nMs Harrington eventually found the abandoned 2020 Jaguar after going through CCTV from petrol stations and local shops.\n\nThe car was found with rubbish in the footwell behind a block of flats about four miles from where it was stolen\n\nThe experience has inspired the mother-of-two to study criminology and law at Open University.\n\n\"I've been approached by somebody asking me to help find their son's stolen BMW and other people have contacted me asking for help,\" she added.\n\nBut she said she was \"less than impressed\" about how the police had dealt with the investigation and was convinced a gang was responsible for the theft.\n\n\"Twenty-four hours after I'd told them it had been found I got a call from the police and the woman said it was still marked as stolen,\" she said.\n\nDorset Police said: \"Local officers made a number of attempts to visit the victim and consequently made contact with the victim's daughter, who then updated the police that the vehicle had been recovered.\n\n\"As part of the ongoing investigation, officers carried out house-to-house enquiries in the vicinity of where the vehicle was located and have successfully obtained significant evidence.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rollercoaster crash at Legoland's theme park in Germany has hurt more than 30 people, at least one of whom has severe injuries.\n\nAccording to the park, the accident happened after two rollercoaster trains collided with each other.\n\nThe incident took place on the Fire Dragon ride at the leisure resort, which is near Gunzburg in Bavaria.\n\nLegoland said it had immediately started a full investigation and the ride will be closed for the time being.\n\nThe company said the accident happened after one rollercoaster train stopped and another train \"did not stop completely for until now unknown reasons and made impact\".\n\nA total of 38 people were in both trains, the park said - with 31 of them suffering minor injuries. Of those, 14 went to hospital for further observation and one person needed further treatment.\n\nThree helicopters were deployed to the scene, German media reports.\n\nRiders still trapped on the rollercoaster had to be evacuated after the incident with the help of two fire engines.\n\n\"All told, the accident was quite mild,\" said the Bavarian Red Cross, which was involved in the emergency response.\n\nAccording to Legoland's website, the Fire Dragon ride is suitable for children aged six and older who are accompanied by adults, and eight years and older when unaccompanied.\n\nThe rollercoaster train, which is designed to look like a fire-breathing dragon, passes through a dark indoor area before emerging outside to a large, twisting track at speeds of up to 29km/h (18mph).\n\nIn a statement, Legoland Germany - which will open again on Friday - said: \"The staff immediately followed well-rehearsed safety procedures and guests were immediately evacuated from the trains and attended by trained resort staff.\n\n\"Legoland emergency personnel as well as paramedics, doctors, the police and the fire fighters were at site within few minutes. The park area was evacuated.\"\n\n\"We want to thank all emergency personnel showing great commitment at site today and we want to wish a quick recovery to everyone involved,\" added the park's divisional director Manuela Stone.", "Though we do not know the motivation of Salman Rushdie's attacker, the author has faced death threats for more than 30 years since the publication of The Satanic Verses.\n\nRushdie said the main thrust of his novel was to examine the immigrant experience, but some Muslims were offended by portrayals of the Prophet Muhammed and the questioning of the nature of the revelation of the Quran as the word of God.\n\nThe Satanic Verses was banned first in the author's country of birth, India, and then several other countries before Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued his infamous fatwa.\n\nThe fatwa called for the killing of anyone involved in the publication of the book and offered rewards to those who took part in the murders. That fatwa has never formally been rescinded.\n\nSurprised by the widespread nature of the protests, Salman Rushdie apologised to Muslims but went into hiding for much of the next 10 years.\n\nThough the writer had escaped physical harm until now, others associated with the book had not, with its Norwegian publisher having been shot and seriously wounded in the early 1990s, and its Japanese translator stabbed to death.", "Carl LeVan was a witness at an event at the Chautauqua Institution at the time when Salman Rushdie was attacked.\n\nMr LeVan said: \"It was just an absolutely, horrific thing to witness.\"", "Liz Truss has defended earnings at energy companies amid soaring price rises, saying profits should not be considered \"dirty and evil\".\n\nThe Tory leadership hopeful said windfall taxes on profits - urged by some to fund help for households - were about \"bashing business\".\n\nShe said cutting taxes was the best way to help with living costs over winter.\n\nBut rival Rishi Sunak said millions would be left at risk of destitution without more energy payments.\n\nHe has proposed spending billions of pounds on further payments to pensioners and the low paid over winter, arguing tax cuts won't help them enough.\n\nMr Sunak has also written in The Times to confirm he would be willing to borrow to fund these costs as a \"last resort\", if they could not be found through \"savings across Whitehall\" or cuts to government spending.\n\nMeanwhile Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said new cost-of-living policies will be \"ready to go\" when the new prime minister takes office on 5 September.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Airbus factory in Broughton in north Wales, Mr Zahawi told broadcasters: \"We're looking at all the options of what additional help we need to bring in later on in the winter months.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told one option could include expanding the windfall tax on energy companies.\n\nThe current windfall tax - also called the energy profits levy - applies only to oil and gas firms, but there has been speculation about extending it to electricity generators.\n\nHow best to respond to surging energy prices has become a key battleground in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.\n\nEnergy has come to dominate the contest in recent days, after prices were forecast to rise to more than £4,000 per year next year for typical households.\n\nEnergy companies have posted bumper profits in recent months amid soaring gas and oil prices, prompting calls to tax them further to help with rising bills.\n\nEarlier this month, BP reported its biggest quarterly profit in 14 years - $8.45bn (£6.9bn) - while Shell posted a record profit of $11.5bn (£9bn).\n\nWhen he was chancellor, Mr Sunak introduced a 25% windfall tax to the profits of the oil and gas sector since the end of May.\n\nBut speaking at a hustings in Cheltenham, Ms Truss said she \"absolutely\" did not support windfall taxes, calling it a \"Labour idea\".\n\n\"It's all about bashing business and it sends the wrong message to international investors and to the public,\" the foreign secretary added.\n\nA windfall tax is a one-off charge imposed by a government on a company, designed to target firms that have benefited from circumstances they were not responsible for.\n\nAsked about public perceptions of record profits, she added: \"I don't think profit is a dirty word, and the fact it's become a dirty word in our society is a massive problem.\n\n\"Now, of course, the energy giants, if they're in an oligopoly, should be held to account, and I would make sure they're rigorously held to account.\n\n\"But the way we bandy the word around 'profit' (as if) it's something that's dirty and evil, we shouldn't be doing that as Conservatives.\"\n\nLabour has called for the windfall tax to be backdated a further three months to January, arguing it would raise an extra £1.9bn for energy support schemes.\n\nThe party has suggested it could fund its plan for prepay energy customers to be charged the same as those paying by direct debit.\n\nIt says the higher price cap for prepaid gas and electricity could mean 4.5m households paying £184 more than those who pay by direct debit between this October and next March.\n\nLabour has said it would align the caps for the two payment methods to stop those on prepayment meters paying \"over the odds\".\n\nThe party has billed the announcement as the first stage of a winter energy plan it is expected to unveil in the coming days.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also called for the windfall tax to be extended, to pay for their plan to scrap October's expected energy price cap rise.\n\nRishi Sunak says more direct energy payments are needed over the winter\n\nMs Truss's comments come amid increasingly bitter exchanges between the leadership rivals over their respective plans to help people over the winter.\n\nThe foreign secretary has said her plan to reverse National Insurance rises and scrapping green energy bills will help families and boost the economy.\n\nBut also speaking at the Cheltenham hustings, Mr Sunak said tax cuts would \"leave millions of incredibly vulnerable people at risk of destitution\".\n\nHe added that pensioners \"don't have the ability to go out and work more hours\" and were \"already dipping into their savings in retirement\".\n\n\"If we don't provide direct support to millions of vulnerable pensioners, it will be a moral failure of this party and the country will never ever forgive us.\"\n\nHe has pledged to make extra payments to vulnerable groups this winter, on top of the £15bn package of payments he announced as chancellor in May.\n\nMr Sunak has said he is prepared to borrow to fund his plan, but this can be kept to a minimum through \"efficiency savings\" across government.\n\nWriting in The Times, he said the cost looked to be in \"the low to middle billions\", adding: \"But I'm realistic. It could be more.\"\n\nHe said this may mean having make \"tough choices\" to \"stop or pause some things in government\", as supporting people in the coming months \"has to be the first priority\".\n\nMr Sunak said: \"But I will also be honest. If it requires some limited and temporary, one-off borrowing as a last resort to get us through this winter, I'm prepared to do that.\"", "Farmers have been banned from taking water from the River Eden in Fife after it fell to a \"critical\" level, the second-lowest ever recorded.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the majority of water abstraction licences would be suspended from midnight on Saturday.\n\nA significant scarcity warning was also issued for the River Tweed in the Borders - where a ban could follow.\n\nThe National Farmers Union said it was \"devastating\" for vegetable growers.\n\nSepa said the suspensions would be lifted as soon as possible.\n\nDavid Harley, Sepa's chief officer circular economy, said: \"Having to impose suspensions on water abstractions underlines the severity of the conditions being experienced in the east of Scotland this summer.\n\n\"It is not a step we take lightly, but the evidence is clear, and it is one we can no longer avoid.\"\n\nAbstraction is the process of taking water from a river, loch or other natural source.\n\nSepa said the main stem of the River Eden had only been lower in 1989.\n\nFlows in Kemback in Fife have not been as low for this long since 2003 and Strathmiglo is also experiencing its most prolonged low flow period on record.\n\nThe River Tweed Commission fears current water scarcity plans are not adequate to protect stocks\n\nThe environment agency said the combination of low flows and high temperatures endangers fish, plants and other life.\n\nSepa said it would issue water abstraction suspension notices to farmers and officers would visit premises to ensure compliance.\n\nThe move is part of Scotland's national water scarcity plan - designed to protect the environment while allowing human and economic activity to continue during prolonged dry periods.\n\nLast month Sepa warned that water shortages could become more serious and frequent due to climate change.\n\nIt said above average rainfall had only been recorded in four of the last 12 months. The east of Scotland also experienced the driest January in more than 80 years.\n\nThe River Ythan in Aberdeenshire has been affected by water scarcity this year\n\nScotland's natural water levels are categorised by Sepa into five grades - with necessary advice for businesses at each alert level.\n\nNormal - Water can be taken from sources as usual.\n\nEarly warning - Industries should consider how they can use water more efficiently.\n\nAlert - Industries irrigating land should check equipment, not overspray and irrigate at night to avoid evaporation.\n\nModerate scarcity - Industries should reduce the amount of water they take, stagger use with others nearby or switch to other supplies.\n\nSignificant scarcity - Water resources are becoming scarce. Industries should switch supplies or stop taking water altogether.\n\nA Significant Scarcity warning has also been issued in the Borders. Mouthbridge at Blackadder Water dropped to its lowest flow since records began in 1974.\n\nSepa said farmers were being contacted and any licence suspensions in this area would take effect early next week.\n\nEarlier this week the River Tweed Commission (RTC) warned current water scarcity plans were inadequate to protect its fish stocks.\n\nThe National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland said the decision to suspend licences could lead crop failures, job losses and even put the viability of some farms at risk.\n\nHorticulture committee chair Iain Brown said: \"The suspension of licences in North Fife will be a devastating blow for vegetable growers. Without water crops will fail.\"\n\nMr Brown asked for irrigation to be permitted for high risk crops such as broccoli, cauliflower and lettuce\n\nHe added: \"Without water these crops growers will now have complete crop failure, which will cost our members millions of pounds of lost revenue and threaten the viability of their businesses.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the hot weather and restrictions? Please get in touch by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A walrus that has become a popular attraction in the Oslo Fjord is being endangered by too much attention and could even be put down for her own good, authorities say.\n\nThe walrus, nicknamed Freya, rose to fame after clambering on to boats to sunbathe - sometimes sinking them.\n\nBut the Norwegian fisheries ministry says people are getting too close, putting her and themselves at risk.\n\nIt is considering measures, including euthanasia, if crowds persist.\n\nDespite repeated warnings, people continue to gather close to the 1,300lb (600kg) walrus, the fisheries ministry said.\n\nIts statement included a photograph of a large group of people, including children, standing within touching distance of the animal.\n\nThe fisheries ministry released a picture of people gathered very close to the walrus, with faces blurred to protect privacy.\n\nSpokesperson Nadia Jdaini said authorities had witnessed several potentially dangerous incidents in the last week, including people swimming with the walrus, approaching with their children to take photographs and throwing things at the animal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Zakwan Khidzir This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"The fact that the walrus has become an attraction escalates the need for further measures. Our biggest fear is that people could get hurt,\" she said.\n\nThe police have been told about these incidents, she added.\n\nThe need to take further measures is also for Freya's welfare, which has clearly deteriorated, she said.\n\nThe walrus is not getting enough rest and a vet who has assessed her believes she is stressed.\n\nThe fisheries ministry is closely monitoring her in a patrol boat.\n\nIt is considering further measures, including a approving a \"controlled operation to put the animal down\", Ms Jdaini said.\n\nOther options include moving the walrus from the Oslo fjord. There is currently no timeline for when a final decision will be taken.\n\nMs Jdaini added: \"In the meantime, the distance recommendations and clarifications about not swimming with the walrus are repeated: we would again - strongly - recommend that the public keep their distance where the walrus has been observed and not bathe with it.\n\n\"It is for one's own safety and with animal welfare in mind.\"\n\nFreya, who was first spotted in the Norwegian capital in mid-July, was named after the Norse goddess of beauty and love.\n\nA protected species, walruses normally live further north in the Arctic.\n\nThey do not usually attack humans, but there have been some rare incidents.\n\nAt a wildlife park in China in 2016, a tourist and a zookeeper were killed by a walrus. The tourist had reportedly been taking selfies with the creature when he was grabbed and pulled underwater, while the keeper went in to rescue him but was also pulled under.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: A whale is cut free from ropes in Norwegian Sea", "Local residents came past the site of the hotel to see the destruciton for themselves\n\nSomali security forces have said they rescued 106 people who were trapped inside a hotel that had been stormed by militants on Friday night.\n\nTwenty-one people are confirmed to have died in the 30-hour ordeal, the health ministry said. The fight to retake the hotel ended overnight, officials said.\n\nThe assailants used explosives to gain entry to Mogadishu's Hayat Hotel before violently taking control.\n\nIslamist militant group al-Shabab has taken responsibility for the attack.\n\n\"I would like to inform all Somalis that the operation at the hotel was concluded at midnight,\" police Commander Abdi Hassan Mohammed Hijra told journalists in a briefing that took place close to the site of the attack.\n\n\"It is shocking that innocent people lost their lives here... The security forces were engaged in rescuing the people one by one and in groups.\"\n\nThe death toll could rise as there is the possibility that family members collected the bodies of relatives before an official count was made, Health Minister Ali Haji Adan said. He added that 117 people were injured, with 15 of them being in a critical condition.\n\nThe hotel has been largely destroyed following intense fighting between the militants and security forces throughout Friday night and Saturday, with videos showing explosions and smoke billowing from the building's rooftop.\n\n\"It has been terrible, really terrifying living next door to the gunfire, the explosions. It was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen in Mogadishu,\" Abdisalam Guled, a former deputy director of Somalia's national intelligence agency, told the BBC.\n\nA police officer told Reuters that two car bombs had been used to gain access to the hotel on Friday evening - targeting its front barrier and gate.\n\nAfter the initial attack, a website affiliated to al-Shabab said a group of militants were \"carrying out random shootings\" after having \"forcibly entered\" the hotel - described as a popular location for employees of the federal government to meet.\n\nSecurity forces struggled to gain access to the upper floors of the hotel for hours because the gunmen, who were holding an unknown number of people hostage, had reportedly bombed out the stairs needed for access.\n\nAn affiliate of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has engaged in a long-running conflict with the federal government.\n\nThe group controls much of southern and central Somalia, but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in Mogadishu.\n\nIn recent weeks, fighters affiliated with the group have also attacked targets along the Somalia-Ethiopia border, which has raised concerns about a possible new strategy by al-Shabab.\n\nThe attack on Friday marks the first in the capital by the group since Somalia's new President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was elected in May.\n\nHotels and restaurants have been frequent targets, but Mogadishu saw its deadliest attack in October 2017, when more than 500 people were killed when a truck filled with explosives was detonated at one of the city's busiest intersections.\n\nNo group said it was behind that attack, although correspondents say all indications are that al-Shabab was responsible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smoke rises from hotel targeted by explosives and gunfire\n\nThis attack is a stark reminder of the lethal capabilities of al-Shabab.\n\nAnalysts say it was a message to new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has promised that ending the insurgency would be his top priority.\n\nThis hotel siege indicates just what a tough challenge he faces, and is perhaps why the president has appealed to the international community for help.\n\nHe has said the country needs equipment, training and intelligence to help counter a group that is now described by the US Department of Defense as the \"the largest, wealthiest and most lethal\" of the branches of the al-Qaeda network.\n\nAndrew J Franklin, a former US marine and Africa security analyst, says this latest attack shows that \"al-Shabab is very far from being a bedraggled gang of irregulars on their back feet\".", "The Axioma was seized when it docked in Gibraltar in March.\n\nA £63m ($75m) Russian superyacht will go under the hammer after its owner was sanctioned.\n\nThe Axioma was seized in Gibraltar in March after US bank JP Morgan claimed owner Dmitrievich Pumpyansky did not pay a £17m ($20m) loan.\n\nThe 72.5m vessel is being auctioned on Tuesday and, because it is listed for one day only, it is expected to go for less than its estimated value.\n\nThe monster boat can sleep 12 people in six cabins.\n\nIt boasts a swimming pool, jacuzzi, spa, 3D cinema, jet skis and scuba diving equipment and has space for 20 crew.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Jared Watney This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt is the first seized luxury boat to be sold since restrictions were imposed on powerful Russians following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February.\n\nThere have been calls from some governments, including the UK, for proceeds of seized assets to help Ukrainian refugees.\n\nHowever, the money from the sale of Axioma is expected to go to JP Morgan, following the auction by Gibraltar's Admiralty Court.\n\nAlthough owned by Pumpyansky, the boat - which was originally called Red Square when it was built in 2013 - was available for millionaires to rent at up to £465,000 (549,000 euros) per week, plus expenses.\n\nPumpyansky is the owner and chair of steel pipe manufacturer OAO TMK, a supplier to the Russian state-owned energy company Gazprom.\n\nThe 58-year-old, who has an estimated £1.84bn fortune, has been sanctioned by the UK, EU and US.", "Fighting continues at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, 24 hours after it was stormed by an Islamist militant group.\n\nAt least 12 people have been killed in the attack by al-Shabab, though some local media reported that the death toll could be higher.\n\nAttackers detonated at least two explosives outside the hotel before entering it on Friday evening.\n\nAn unknown number of gunmen are still inside holding hostages.\n\nDozens of guests and staff members have been rescued.\n\n\"So far we have confirmed 12 people, mostly civilians, died,\" Mohammed, an intelligence officer who only gave one name, told Reuters new agency earlier.\n\nAfter the initial attack a website affiliated to al-Shabab said a group of militants were \"carrying out random shootings\" after having \"forcibly entered\" the hotel - described as a popular location for employees of the federal government to meet.\n\nThe director of Mogadishu's main trauma hospital, Dr Mohamed Abdirahman Jama, told news agency AFP on Saturday that the facility was treating at least 40 people wounded in the hotel attack and a separate mortar strike on another area of the capital.\n\nMeanwhile, loved ones of people still trapped or unaccounted for gathered outside the hotel, local journalist Abdalle Mumin told the BBC.\n\n\"There are a lot of efforts going, the ambulance, the firefighters, the police, everyone on standby trying to save what they can form the scene, but the scene is very difficult to be accessed because civilians, relatives to whom we have been talking are saying that their loved ones are still trapped,\" he said.\n\n\"There are also reports of dead bodies lying inside the hotel, but no one can manage to get in.\"\n\nIn a statement a police officer told Reuters the initial attack on the hotel had been two car bombs.\n\n\"One hit a barrier near the hotel, and then the other hit the gate of the hotel,\" he said.\n\nMr Mumin, who was near the hotel at the time of the attack, said he heard a \"huge explosion\" and went to report on the incident.\n\n\"We could see huge smoke coming out from the hotel, the Hayat hotel. There were an estimated five big explosions and then there was gunfire,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Smoke rises from hotel targeted by explosives and gunfire\n\nAn affiliate of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab has engaged in a long-running conflict with the federal government.\n\nThe group controls much of southern and central Somalia but has been able to extend its influence into areas controlled by the government based in Mogadishu.\n\nIn recent weeks fighters affiliated with the group have also attacked targets along the Somalia-Ethiopia border, which has raised concerns about a possible new strategy by al-Shabab.\n\nThe attack on Friday marks the first in the capital by the group since Somalia's new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was elected in May.", "The pilots fell asleep while the plane was on autopilot mode (file photo)\n\nTwo pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says.\n\nAir traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia's Addis Ababa airport.\n\nThe pilots eventually woke up and landed the plane on its second approach, the Aviation Herald said.\n\nThe Ethiopian Airlines crew have been put on leave pending investigation, state-run news outlet Fana reported.\n\nMonday's passenger flight took off from Sudan's Khartoum airport.\n\nThe Boeing 737, with a 154-seat capacity, normally takes less than two hours on its route between the neighbouring countries.\n\nReactions to sleeping on the job ranged from sympathy with the pilots' work schedule to shock that they fell asleep on the job.\n\n\"I wouldn't cast blame on the Ethiopian crew specifically here - this is something that could happen to ANY crew in the world and it probably DID happen... The blame lies on the corporation and the regulators,\" read one comment on the Aviation Herald website.\n\nAnother user suggested that there was only one solution: \"Termination. End of story. Full stop.\"\n\nOthers saw the funny side of the story, comment on Twitter, \"Sleeping on the job taken to new heights!\"\n\nAn aviation analyst called the incident \"deeply concerning\" on Twitter.\n\n\"Pilot fatigue is nothing new, and continues to pose one of the most significant threats to air safety - internationally,\" tweeted aviation analyst, Alex Macheras.\n\nIn a press release, Ethiopian Airlines confirmed that the the crew had been removed from future flights pending further investigation.\n\n\"Appropriate corrective action will be taken based on the outcome of the investigation\" the statement read.\n\n\"Safety has always been and will continue to be our first priority.\"", "T&S Rabbits reared breeds including Californian rabbits, like the ones in this image\n\nA business that breeds rabbits for meat is closing its remaining farm and handing over 250 rabbits to activists.\n\nComedian Ricky Gervais is among those to have spoken out against T&S Rabbits, which activists claim has used a legal loophole to breed rabbits for fur.\n\nAn archived page from its website shows it advertised rabbit fur products for sale as recently as March.\n\nHowever, the owner told the BBC there were never any sales and that his meat business was completely legal.\n\nPhilip Kerry said he was closing his farm in East Bridgford, in Nottinghamshire, following repeated protests, and claimed some of his property had been vandalised.\n\nThe T&S Rabbits website advertised fur products, including hats, as recently as March\n\n\"The activists have picked on us, a tiny rabbit farm, when there are between five and eight thousand tonnes [of rabbit meat] coming in from Italy, Belgium and France,\" he said.\n\n\"There are factory farms there with great big barns. Our rabbits mainly live as free range, they are not penned up like those rabbit factories in Europe.\"\n\nDefending his business, Mr Kerry said eating rabbits was no different from eating other animals.\n\n\"Lambs are still animals, and ducks, and turkeys, and chickens, and pigs, they are all animals,\" he said.\n\n\"Rabbit farms are not illegal in the UK. They should lobby government to make it illegal if they have a problem with it.\"\n\nThe business also reared New Zealand White rabbits, like the one in this stock image\n\nThe Fur Farming (Prohibition) Act 2000 states it is an offence to keep animals in England solely or primarily for slaughter for the value of their fur.\n\nHowever, it is legal to breed rabbits for meat then sell the fur as a by-product.\n\nProducts formerly advertised on the T&S Rabbits website included £275 rabbit fur handbags, £200 rabbit fur scarves, £160 rabbit fur cushions, rabbit fur hats from £60 to £130, and £600 rabbit fur body warmers.\n\nHowever Anne Wright, who has run T&S Rabbits in East Bridgford for three years, told the BBC in July that the farm was not involved in selling the rabbits' fur.\n\n\"If the fur is any good it does go away but we don't have anything to do with that, it's up to the butcher,\" she said.\n\nSeveral protests have been held outside T&S Rabbits in East Bridgford\n\nMembers of the campaign group, called Shut Down T&S Rabbits, are due to collect the animals on Saturday morning. They will be taken to rescue centres and eventually rehomed.\n\nA spokesperson told the BBC they had seen reports of property damage but their group had been protesting using legal means only.\n\n\"There's a lot of people all over the country who care deeply about these rabbits and there are many different ways people have engaged with this campaign and the mission to free the T&S rabbits,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThe group said it targeted T&S Rabbits because Mr Kerry had been running some of the last farms of their kind in the UK.\n\n\"A lot of the people who've been fighting for these rabbits are vegans. That said, rabbits are an animal that most people in this country see as pets or wildlife, not meat and fur,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nComedian Ricky Gervais has previously spoken out against T&S Rabbits\n\nRicky Gervais, who does not eat meat, was among thousands of people who signed petitions against three proposed T&S Rabbits farms in Cornwall, Rutland and Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Britain doesn't need rabbit meat and fur farms, we don't need to find new ways to exploit animals for our stomachs or our wardrobes,\" he said at the time.\n\nMr Gervais is one of the celebrity supporters of the Fur Free Britain campaign, which calls for a UK ban on the import and sale of fur.\n\nMr Kerry said three other rabbit farms he owned had already closed for various reasons.\n\nThese were at Atlow in Derbyshire, Granby in Nottinghamshire, and Hambleton in Rutland.\n\n\"We are not breeding any more rabbits,\" he said. \"We are retiring from the rabbit farms.\"\n\nHumane Society International, an animal protection charity, has welcomed the closure of the farm.\n\nExecutive director Claire Bass said: \"It's not clear how or where the rabbits are killed, but we know from documenting the slaughter of rabbits in other countries, that this can be a highly stressful and frightening experience for these sensitive creatures.\n\n\"We hope that these exploited rabbits will soon recover in the care of the shelters coming to their rescue, and be adopted into loving families.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Katie Bull from the Hope Rescue Centre with one-year-old terrier Rolo\n\nThere has been a \"sharp rise\" in the number of dogs being abandoned as the cost-of-living crisis deepens, a rescue centre has said.\n\nHope Rescue Centre in Rhondda Cynon Taf said it had taken 300 calls in the past three months about pets.\n\nThe centre said it was caused by a \"perfect storm\" of an increase in dog ownership during lockdown alongside the cost-of-living crisis.\n\nIn the year after the first lockdown, UK households bought 3.2 million pets.\n\nRolo, a one-year-old terrier is one of the many dogs at the rescue centre.\n\nHe was brought by a dog warden as a stray, with very little known about his background.\n\nThe centre said although he was very friendly, he could get overwhelmed in some situations, so needs a gentle approach.\n\nThe centre's owner and founder, Vanessa Wadden, said Rolo was one of many and the situation was the worst she has seen 17 years.\n\n\"In the last three months alone we've had over 300 calls from people asking for our help,\" she said.\n\n\"It is very dramatic, it is a perfect storm.\n\n\"We are having to turn dogs away and that is the hardest bit, it is heartbreaking.\"\n\nRagner is an American bulldog described as the \"biggest puppy at heart\"\n\nCentres across Wales are struggling to cope with demand and although many are full, staff stressed there was still help at hand.\n\n\"There are circumstances where we can't always help, we can't always take the dog in there and then, but we would urge owners to always pick up the phone,\" said Hope Rescue's Katie Bull.\n\n\"We can always offer advice if you are struggling to feed the dog, or struggling with medical costs and we can also put people on the waiting list.\"\n\nIt is a similar story at Cardiff Dogs Home. With the number of strays, surrendered and unwanted dogs rising on a daily basis, the centre has seen record inquiries.\n\nManager Maria Bailey said: \"The demand has been quite striking for lots of different reasons.\n\n\"We are getting about 40 to 50 calls a month. Between April and July this year we have taken in 225 dogs, that is roughly 56 dogs a month at the moment so we are pretty much full all the time.\"\n\nRagner, a two-year-old American bulldog, was signed over because his owner could not look after him any longer.\n\nHe is also what is now commonly known as a \"lockdown pet\", many of which have been abandoned.\n\nVeterinary charity The PDSA estimates that \"depending on which dog you have, their potential lifetime cost could be £30,000\".", "Last updated on .From the section Gymnastics\n\nGreat Britain claimed gymnastics gold with a stunning performance in the men's team final at the European Championships in Munich. European all-around champion Joe Fraser, James Hall, Jake Jarman, Courtney Tulloch and Giarnni Regini-Moran dominated to finish more than six marks clear of silver medallists Italy. They are the first British team to win the European title since 2012. Britain won with a score of 254.295, as Turkey earned bronze behind Italy. \"The way we pulled together today really showed our character. We have worked for months together through the tough times and the good,\" Fraser told BBC Sport. \"To deliver the routines we did today under that amount of pressure - I'm proud of each and every one of them,\" he added. Hall said: \"It's just been a pleasure. I've enjoyed every single moment going round with these guys. \"To be rewarded with this, it's just a dream come true.\" Britain won silver in the women's team event last week. 'One of the greatest teams ever' - superb Britain triumph The men's team maintained the consistent form that had seen them top qualification on Thursday, nearly three points ahead of Turkey, as they secured a commanding victory at Olympiahalle. Jarman, 20, led with a score of 14.500 as Britain made an encouraging start to their competition on the floor - the highest score in that section of the final - before Fraser displayed his pommel class with a 14.433. Britain were on course for gold at the halfway mark after Tulloch (14.633), Fraser (14.100) and Hall (13.433) executed solid routines on the rings - but led Germany by little over one mark. Jarman, who became the most successful English male gymnast at a single Games with his four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, helped extend the advantage as he led the team with a superb 15.200 on vault. Joined by Regini-Moran (14.900) and Tulloch (14.600), it ensured Britain stood five marks clear of second-placed Italy after four of six rotations. Having become the first British man to win the European all-around title two days earlier, the 23-year-old Fraser reinforced his credentials on the parallel bars before Sunday's individual final with a 15.166 - though Turkey's Ferhat Arican posted 15.200 in response. There was to be no let-up from the British team on the final rotation, as Hall (14.066), Fraser (13.900) and finally Jarman (12.966) secured the title on the horizontal bar, allowing the celebrations to begin. \"This team competition has topped everything off. It's been an amazing journey and I can happily say the hard work has paid off,\" Jarman said. Regini-Moran added: \"We're a great team and I think it's that team spirit that really lifts us. The team spirit we have is incredible.\" Speaking on BBC TV, former British gymnast and Olympic medallist Nile Wilson said: \"How good is that? They are one of the greatest teams ever. \"All of them are superstars. The humility and how modest everyone is on that team - you produce your best gymnastics because it's not for you, you're competing for your boys. It's such a special feeling.\" On Britain's wealth of gymnastics talent, he added: \"It's exciting times. We've created pioneers and superstars. It's just phenomenal.\" As the British team topped the gymnastics table with one day of competition remaining, fellow Olympic medallist Beth Tweddle said: \"It's such a proud moment. When I was younger, we were dreaming of that. To see Britain dominating a medal table is incredible to see.\" There will be further opportunity for Britain's male gymnasts to claim medals in Sunday's individual apparatus finals. Fraser will go for further golds in the pommel horse and parallel bars finals, while Regini-Moran has qualified for the floor, vault and parallel bars finals. Tulloch will compete on the rings and in the vault, Jarman on the floor, and Hall will contest the high bar final.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "Diane Foley (right) met with Alexanda Kotey (left), one of the members of the Islamic State responsible for her son's death\n\nTwo men who helped murder American journalist James Foley as part of the Islamic State group's campaign of terror are facing justice in the US. One of them was sentenced for terror crimes on 19 August. James's mother sat face-to-face with the other.\n\nIt was a cold morning in Virginia last year when Diane Foley sat opposite the man who kidnapped and helped murder her son, looking him fully in the face as they sat in a nondescript room in the courthouse where he would later be sentenced to life in prison.\n\nWhen she entered the room, Alexanda Kotey was already there, seated amid a flurry of activity and noise from FBI agents and defence lawyers and minders.\n\nBut when she sat down, \"it felt like it was just me and him. We looked at each other and said 'hello'\".\n\nThoughtful and measured, the weight of emotions from her experience lent a weariness to her voice as she recounted the moment and all that it encapsulated.\n\n\"It was not an easy thing to do, but it was important,\" she said. \"Jim would've wanted me to do this.\"\n\n\"Jim\" was her son, the American journalist James Foley.\n\nHis murder in 2014 at the hands of a terror cell known as the 'Isis Beatles' reverberated around the world, announcing the barbarity of the group known as Islamic State.\n\nThe group terrorised large swathes of Iraq and Syria, forcing millions to live under its brutal rule. At the height of its dominance between 2014-2017 it became the most feared terror group in the world.\n\nJames' death, broadcast on Twitter on 19 August, 2014, has become one of the most enduring and recognisable images in modern times: A young man kneeling in an orange jumpsuit in the desert. A man in a full black mask standing menacingly beside him holding a knife. A beheading carried out on camera.\n\nThe video was titled \"Message to America.\"\n\nSeven years on, two ex-Britons - Elshafee El Sheikh, 33, and Kotey, 38 - have been convicted in a US court for their involvement in his murder as part of the Isis terror cell.\n\nEl Sheikh was sentenced in Virginia on Friday. In April, Kotey was jailed for life, and Diane met him.\n\nThe four hours she spent with him were, for her, an affirmation of faith, forgiveness and a commitment to what has now become her life's work after the trauma of her son's death - freeing hostages around the world.\n\nIt is not a life Diane, now 72, envisioned for herself.\n\nBefore James went missing in Syria in 2012, she had been working as a nurse, but in the weeks after his disappearance, she quit her job.\n\nIt was not the first time he had been kidnapped while reporting.\n\nIn March 2011 James and other colleagues were kidnapped in Libya by Colonel Muammar Gadaffi's regime, but would be released 44 days later. This time, it would end differently.\n\nJames left for Syria in October 2012 to report on the growing conflict. Aware of the potential dangers, he kept in regular touch with his family.\n\nBut by November, Thanksgiving had passed and Diane hadn't heard from her son. It wasn't until later that month that an email appeared in her inbox. It was from James' captors.\n\nThe terror group said that if the family wanted James back, they had to get the US government to release prominent Muslim prisoners or deliver 100 million Euros.\n\nSimilar demands were also made to the families of other American hostages the terror cell would kidnap - human rights activists Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalist Steven Sotloff.\n\nWeeks and months followed but the family were still hopeful James would \"come home by Christmas\", Diane said.\n\nThe Foleys were told by the US government not to negotiate. According to Diane, they were even threatened with prosecution if they attempted to raise the ransom themselves, though the US State department denied this.\n\nMonths went by before the Foleys received another message threatening them with James's death in the wake of US airstrikes. \"He will be executed as a direct result of your country's transgressions towards us,\" it said.\n\nShe would learn of James's murder from a journalist.\n\n\"I thought it was some cruel joke,\" she recalled.\n\nIn the weeks after James' killing, the terror cell would go on to torture, beat, starve and murder Peter and Steven. Kayla died in 2015 - her murder was never filmed.\n\nThat year, a US drone strike killed Mohammed Emwazi, the militant seen as the group's ringleader. But it took until 2018 for the two others, Elsheikh and Kotey, to be captured by an American backed Kurdish militia in Syria, and later taken into US custody.\n\nFamilies of those kidnapped pushed for the pair to be extradited to the US and tried in a federal court instead of being sent to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.\n\n\"It was very important to us that these men were tried in America and for them to have a fair trial,\" Diane said.\n\nThe road to justice has been fraught and difficult, she said. \"It's [taken] nearly 10 years to get to this moment.\"\n\n\"I wish our countries had worked together and brought our sons and daughters home instead of having to spend so much time on bringing accountability after their murders... [but] it's better than nothing,\" she said.\n\nKotey's case, unlike El Sheikh's, did not go to trial. Instead, he pleaded guilty to eight charges relating to the abduction, torture and beheading of IS hostages in Syria, and agreed to meet the victims' families as part of the deal.\n\nIn that small room as she stared at him, she felt more \"even\", with the man convicted of helping to kill her son, Diane said.\n\n\"He was still rather frightening to me, but of course, since I knew I was safe, and he could harm me no longer, I had some power,\" she said.\n\n\"He'd already done the worst and taken away my loved one.\"\n\nIt was during their four hours together, she said, that she came to pity the terrorist who now faces spending his life in jail.\n\n\"I wanted Kotey to be confronted with the horror of what he did,\" she said, telling him about the man he murdered, the eldest of her five children.\n\n\"For him to understand the goodness he destroyed and why people like James were in Syria. It's because they cared and wanted to report the truth to the world.\n\nKotey listened quietly and then also talked about his own family.\n\n\"He said had been praying to his God for forgiveness. He shared a picture of his family, he has some young children whom he will probably never see again. It made me realise how much he's lost by following hatred and propaganda. It made me pity him.\"\n\nBut he never told Diane where the bodies of the hostages he and his conspirators murdered are buried.\n\nEven today, they have never been found.\n\n\"And he never said sorry. He was sombre and respectful towards me and talked about remorse\", but never apologised, she said.\n\nWhen she turned to leave for the last time, she made a parting comment.\n\n\"I said to him that I hope at some point we could both forgive one another,\" she recalled.\n\nShe remembers he looked at her confused and said: \"I don't have to forgive you for anything.\"\n\nHer plea, she explained, is grounded in her Catholic faith - the foundation of her strength and what has kept her going.\n\n\"I know he doesn't have to forgive me anything, but in that moment…I don't know.\"\n\nShe paused, searching for the words.\n\n\"I just feel like, as people, none of us are perfect. We all do things we regret.\"\n\n\"If I hate them, they have won. They will continue to hold me captive because I am not willing to be different to the way they were to my loved one. We have to pray for the courage to be the opposite.\"\n\n\"It's a hard journey to forgiveness, and it's not a done deal but it's what I aspire to.\"\n\nIn the three weeks after James' murder, Diane set up something which, she says now gives her life purpose: The James W Foley Legacy Foundation. It advocates for the government to do more to help Americans held hostage abroad.\n\nHer work has made her a political force - other hostage families have described Diane as \"unstoppable\".\n\n\"Governments should have the backs of our citizens when they travel internationally,\" she said.\n\n\"They need to be shrewd and have many tools to use: sanctions, humanitarian aid, vaccines or visas, anything to open up humanitarian channels so that we can stop the horror of international hostage taking.\"\n\nBut for all that, the suffering has not stopped for her or her family, she admitted.\n\n\"It's been very hard on Jim's brothers and sister, and my husband. We will probably forever pay the toll for all that we went through. All of us families have a lot of post-traumatic stress.\"\n\nOther victims' family members have said they will not take Diane's approach.\n\n\"I will never forgive them and I have made my peace with that,\" Bethany Haines, the daughter of David, told BBC in April as El Sheikh was tried in court.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Daughter of ISIS 'Beatles' victim: 'I will never forgive'\n\nAs part of the condition of their extraditions from British authority, neither Kotey nor Elsheikh will face the death penalty.\n\n\"I'm glad about that,\" Diane said. \"They have the rest of their lives to think about what they've done.\n\n\"They've lost their freedom, their citizenship, their families. Their hatred did not win.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands gather for the coronation of the new Zulu king\n\nAfter a year-long family feud, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini has been crowned Zulu king in a traditional ceremony in South Africa.\n\nThe 48-year-old is the son of the previous king, but some royals had argued he was not the rightful heir and that the late king's will was in fact forged.\n\nThousands of people gathered at Saturday's traditional coronation at KwaKhangelamankengane Palace, where the king entered the sacred cattle kraal to invoke his ancestors before being announced to both the living and the dead as the new Zulu monarch.\n\nHe was expected to wear the hide of the lion that he hunted for the royal event, a key feat in proving he is indeed the chosen one. More than 10 cows were slaughtered in preparation for the festivities.\n\nNext month, he is to be hosted by the government for a state ceremony.\n\nThe throne has no formal political power, but a fifth of South Africa's population is Zulu and its monarchy remains hugely influential with a yearly taxpayer-funded budget of more than $4.9m (£3.5m).\n\nThe Zulu kingdom has a proud history. It is world-famous for defeating British troops during the 1879 battle of Isandlwana.\n\nIts succession battles have always been fierce - and at times, bloody. The legendary King Shaka ka Senzangakhona killed his brother in 1816 in order to take the throne, then was himself assassinated in a plot masterminded by his nephew years later.\n\nBut this latest saga, following the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Bhekuzulu more than a year ago, has been an embarrassing public spectacle.\n\nVarious royal family factions continued to champion their preferred candidates through several legal challenges.\n\nBy the time he died last year, King Zwelithini had six wives and had ruled for more than half a century.\n\nKing Goodwill Zwelithini was on the throne for more than 50 years\n\nIn his disputed will, he named his third wife Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu as regent - a sort of caretaker role pending the appointment of a successor.\n\nQueen Mantfombi held the highest status among the king's wives, because she came from royalty - her father was the late King Sobhuza II and her brother was King Mswati III of Eswatini.\n\nHer marriage to the Zulus came with the condition that her first-born son would be first in line for the throne on her husband's death.\n\nSo when she died a month after becoming regent, their son Misuzulu ka Zwelithini was seen as the obvious choice to take power. He had also been named as successor in his mother's will.\n\nWhat's more, the fact that Prince Misuzulu was the only person to inherit the traditional weapons of his grandfather King Cyprian Bhekuzulu ka Solomon was seen as an endorsement that he would eventually take over from his father.\n\nHowever, two more of the late king's sons have been staking their claim to the throne.\n\nThe royal family has split into three factions, each backing their preferred prince - Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, Simakade ka Zwelithini and Buzabazi ka Zwelithini.\n\nBack in March, South Africa's president formally recognised Misuzulu ka Zwelithini as the new Zulu king, but a legal challenge was mounted by Misuzulu's brother, Mbonisi Zulu, who asked the court to halt the coronation.\n\nHowever, the court dismissed his application and allowed coronation proceedings to continue.\n\nExactly a week before King-to-be Misuzulu's traditional coronation, his half-brother Prince Simakade was announced as the new monarch by a handful of supporters within the royal family.\n\nHis backers say he is the obvious choice as the late king's first-born son, but traditional Prime Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has described this as a \"foolish provocation\".\n\nMeanwhile, three of King Zwelithini's brothers called a news conference on Thursday to announce Prince Buzabazi as their choice, claiming he of all sons had the closest relationship with his father.\n\nEven on the day of the crowning ceremony, the new king's half-sisters filed an urgent motion at the high court in Pietermaritzburg to try to stop the coronation. Princesses Ntandoyenkosi and Ntombizosuthu said their late father's will may have been forged. The challenge was dismissed by the court.\n\nMisuzulu has received strong support from other family members, who argue that customs dictate he is the rightful heir.\n\nSome believe tribalism could be at the heart of this battle. King-to-be Misuzulu's maternal heritage is from Eswatini, meaning he is not 100% Zulu and that's why some in the royal family never fully embraced his mother as the Great Wife.\n\nWhile the battle rages on for now, many believe the throne will find a way of cleansing itself and that the rightful king will be officially installed at a public coronation on 24 September - a public holiday in South Africa - ending the long-running feud.\n\nA fitting choice, because the holiday was previously known as Shaka's Day - a time when thousands of Zulus would visit his grave to honour him for uniting the Zulu nation.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Keely Hodgkinson won her first major outdoor title as she claimed gold in the women's 800m at the European Championships.\n\nHodgkinson, 20, moved to the front with 200m remaining and took victory in one minute 59.04 seconds in Munich.\n\nIt is a second European title for Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Hodgkinson, who won indoor 800m gold as a teenager in 2021.\n\nBritain's men's 4x400m relay team also won gold while the women took bronze.\n\nAlex Haydock-Wilson held on under pressure from France and Germany following legs by 400m champion Matt Hudson-Smith, Charles Dobson and Lewis Davey, as the men's quartet triumphed in 2:59.35.\n\nThe women's team - Victoria Ohuruogu, Ama Pipi, Jodie Williams and Nicole Yeargin - finished behind the Netherlands and Poland to make the podium.\n\nThere was a medal for Britain in every race on the track in Saturday's evening session, as Elizabeth Bird later clinched bronze in the 3,000m steeplechase.\n\nAlbania's Luiza Gega won gold in a championship-record time of 9:11.31, ahead of Germany's Lea Mayer (9:15.35), with Commonwealth silver medallist Bird crossing the line in 9:23.18. Fellow Briton Aimee Pratt was seventh.\n\nElsewhere, Sweden's pole vault world record holder Armand Duplantis added to his Olympic and World titles as he set a championship record, retiring after his first-time clearance at 6.06m with the gold medal already secured.\n\nIn the 800m, Jemma Reekie was the only athlete initially able to follow team-mate Hodgkinson in the closing stages, however she faded out of contention as France's Renelle Lamote took silver ahead of Poland's Anna Wielgosz.\n\nReekie, 24, finished fifth in 2:00.31, with Alex Bell sixth (2:00.68) and Ireland's Louise Shanahan placing eighth (2:01.64).\n\n\"I think you can tell I was very happy to come here and finally get on top of the podium,\" said Hodgkinson, who pointed to the sky with a beaming smile as she crossed the finish line.\n\n\"There is a great team around me that has helped me all season. It has been a hard year mentally but we've made it to the end with a gold and two silvers, so I'm really happy.\"\n\nAmbitious Hodgkinson 'wants to be a legend'\n\nHodgkinson lost out to American Olympic champion Athing Mu by 0.08 seconds at the World Championships in Eugene in July, before she was denied gold by Kenya's Mary Moraa at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham a fortnight ago.\n\nBut they remain the only two athletes to beat the Briton over the two-lap race this year after she executed her plan to perfection at Munich's Olympiastadion.\n\nReekie, who was beaten to Olympic bronze by 0.09secs last summer, suffered after trying to follow Hodgkinson - who pulled away down the home straight to ensure a perfect end to her season.\n\nThe Wigan athlete broke Kelly Holmes' 26-year British record as she won Olympic silver in Tokyo in a breakthrough 2021, a year that also saw her claim the British and Diamond League 800m titles in addition to her European indoor success.\n\nShe opened her 2022 season by producing a British indoor record - and the fastest indoor 800m performance by a woman in 20 years - at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham in February.\n\nHoping to challenge for major international titles, Hodgkinson was forced to withdraw from the World Athletics Indoor Championships with a quad injury in March.\n\nBut she has responded to that setback with three superb performances - with this final run after an exhausting summer delivering the gold she desperately wanted.\n\nAsked how she has refocused after each championship, Hodgkinson said: \"Trying to get that gold definitely helped. I think it's just about trying to forget and move on from it. Now I can go home with three medals, I couldn't be happier.\n\nOn what comes next, she added: \"There's still a world indoor medal that I don't have yet and I still have a lot of silvers, so we're going to try and get some golds. I've still got a long way to go.\"\n\nHodgkinson is trained by Trevor Painter and his wife Jenny Meadows, the 2010 silver medallist who was watching from the BBC studio.\n\n\"I'm so relieved for her,\" said Meadows. \"She's ambitious. She wants to be a legend of the sport. She wants to win everything multiple times. Aged 20, she has the time to do that.\n\n\"This is her moment. She knows how fickle sport can be. She could get injured, the next person could come through - as Moraa did at the Commonwealths. She is going to take every opportunity she can right now.\"\n\n'Everyone in this team has a story' - relay joy for GB\n\nHaydock-Wilson, the 400m bronze medallist, and Davey competed alongside Joseph Brier and Rio Mitcham as Britain's men's quartet finished in the third and final automatic qualification place in their heat on Friday.\n\nBolstered by the inclusion of individual champion Hudson-Smith and 22-year-old Dobson, the men's team led from start to finish in the final following Hudson-Smith's opening leg, with Haydock-Wilson measuring his effort to ensure he had enough left to seal victory.\n\nComparing his two European successes this week, Hudson-Smith said: \"This one feels a lot better and a lot sweeter because we have a team. This is honestly amazing.\"\n\nThe 27-year-old admitted he had struggled with his mental health over recent years as he battled with injury, debt and the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We have a great support system and without them I wouldn't be here,\" Hudson-Smith added. \"I have the future right next to me [his 4x400m team-mates]. The four-by-four boys are back and we're here to take over.\"\n\nHaydock-Wilson said: \"We're back and this is not it - this is the beginning of this team. Everyone in this team has a story, we believe in each other, we love each other.\n\n\"What Matt has come back from over the last four years, Charlie with injuries, Lewis who has been coaching himself since his coach passed away a few years ago, we all have something to fight for.\"\n\nOhuruogu and Yeargin were part of Britain's world bronze medal-winning team in Eugene in July - and they took third again in Munich.\n\nYeargin was overhauled by the Netherlands' talented 400m and 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol, and Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek despite a 49.7secs final leg as the team finished under a second off gold in 3:21.74.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "Reserve exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial paper due to illness or self-isolation\n\nMore than 200 students sat the first reserve series of summer A-level and GCSE exams held in Northern Ireland.\n\nThat is according to figures provided to BBC News NI by the Council for the Curriculum Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).\n\nThe reserve exams were introduced for pupils who missed an initial exam paper due to illness or self-isolation.\n\nThey took place from Monday 20 June until Tuesday 5 July, after the end of the normal series of exams.\n\nThe bulk of the reserve exams were held in A-level subjects, to enable students sitting them to get their qualification this year.\n\nIn the years before the pandemic, students who missed exams may have had to wait until the following school year before resitting.\n\nBut the figures released by CCEA showed that relatively few students opted to sit the reserve exams in 2022.\n\nNo students sat almost a third of the scheduled reserve A-level exams, as 15 out of the 48 held had no entries.\n\nThere were also 15 reserve GCSE exams scheduled in 5 subjects - history, religious studies, government and politics, economics, and statistics.\n\nThat was because pupils taking those subjects were likely to sit only one exam so if they missed it they might not get a grade.\n\nHowever, no students were entered for seven of the 15 reserve GCSE exams.\n\nRelatively few students opted to sit the reserve exams in 2022, figures released by CCEA show\n\nIn all, 217 pupils sat reserve exams in either GCSEs or A-levels, according to CCEA.\n\nHowever pupils who missed an exam paper also had the option of having their overall mark decided based on the papers they were able to sit.\n\nCCEA previously said that pupils who sat reserve exams may face a slight delay in getting their results but they would receive them as close as possible to the scheduled results days.\n\nThose are 18 August for AS and A-levels and 25 August for GCSEs.\n\nAccording to separate statistics from the Department of Education, there were about 29,400 pupils in sixth forms in schools in Northern Ireland in 2021-22.\n\nHowever, although some pupils take an A-level in year 13, the vast majority of pupils who sit A-level exams are in year 14.\n\nFormal GCSE, AS and A-level summer exams were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic and pupils were given grades calculated by their schools instead.\n\nSummer exams resumed in 2022, but the reserve series was among a raft of changes introduced to take account of disruption to education caused by the pandemic and restrictions.\n\nEducation Minister Michelle McIlveen has already said that pupils taking GCSE, AS and A-Level exams in 2023 will know in advance the topics on which they will be questioned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFinland's prime minister has said she has taken a drug test, after new footage emerged showing the leader dancing with a Finnish popstar.\n\nSanna Marin, 36, came under fire this week after a leaked video showed her partying, with some politicians saying she should be tested for narcotics.\n\nAt a news conference on Friday, Ms Marin said she had taken the test and expects the results next week.\n\nThe prime minister repeated her denials that she has ever taken drugs.\n\n\"I did nothing illegal,\" she told reporters in Helsinki.\n\n\"Even in my teenage years I have not used any kind of drugs,\" Ms Marin said, adding that she took the drug test as an added measure to allay any concerns.\n\nThe prime minister also insisted that she is entitled to the presumption of innocence.\n\nReporters questioned whether Ms Marin, who has been in power since December 2019, would have been able to make snap governmental decisions if necessary.\n\n\"I don't remember a single time that there was a sudden situation in the middle of the night to go to the State Council Palace,\" she insisted.\n\n\"I think my ability to function was really good. There were no known meetings on the days I was partying.\"\n\nMs Marin said she knew she was being filmed, but said she was upset that the footage had become public.\n\n\"I trust that people understand that leisure time and work time can be separated,\" she added.\n\nOne of the world's youngest leaders, Ms Marin makes no secret of partying, and has often been photographed at music festivals.\n\nJust last week, she was dubbed the \"coolest prime minister in the world\" by German news outlet Bild.\n\nFinland's PM said she was only \"the same as many people my age\"\n\nThis week, two separate videos emerged where the Finnish leader can be seen partying.\n\nThe first video, which surfaced on Thursday, sparked the initial criticism.\n\nIn the footage - thought to be taken from social media - she and Finnish celebrities are seen dancing and singing at a house party.\n\nThe second video, which appeared on Friday, shows Ms Marin dancing with Finnish popstar Olavi Uusivirta.\n\nAt Friday's news conference, a reporter claimed he seemed to kiss the prime minister on the neck - but she denied that, and said he was talking to her, and possibly kissed her cheek.\n\n\"If someone has kissed me on the cheek, there's nothing inappropriate or something I can't handle or tell my husband,\" she said.\n\nThere has been widespread reporting on the videos in Finnish media - which justified the use of the footage as being in the public interest.\n\nBut other opposition party politicians have criticised both the prime minister and the media for talking about partying - instead of more important domestic problems.\n\nThe footage has sparked fierce debate in Finland about the way politicians handle themselves and the amount of privacy afforded to them.\n\nLast year Ms Marin apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.", "More drone attacks against Russian targets have been reported in Crimea.\n\nThe unconfirmed reports follow a string of attacks against Russian military sites and equipment in the annexed peninsula over the past week.\n\nVideo appears to show smoke rising from the area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based.\n\nThe BBC has not been able to independently verify the footage.", "Rishi Sunak is trailing behind Liz Truss in the polls\n\nMichael Gove has said he will back Rishi Sunak to be the next Conservative Party leader, saying he has what the job requires.\n\nThe ex-levelling up secretary wrote in The Times rival Liz Truss's tax policies would put business executives before the poorest in society, calling the plans a \"holiday from reality\".\n\nHe also said he himself did not expect to return to frontbench politics.\n\nIt comes as Mr Sunak unveils plans he says will help British motorists.\n\nThe former chancellor is battling it out with Foreign Secretary Ms Truss to replace outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the leader of the Tories. The result will be announced on 5 September.\n\nA number of cabinet members have publicly backed Ms Truss, who is also the bookmakers' favourite.\n\nMr Gove backed Kemi Badenoch earlier in the contest, but writing on Saturday he said he was now in favour of Mr Sunak, raising doubts over Ms Truss's plans to deal with soaring prices and living costs.\n\nHe said: \"Proposed cuts to national insurance would favour the wealthy, and changes to corporation tax apply to big businesses, not small entrepreneurs. I cannot see how safeguarding the stock options of FTSE 100 executives should ever take precedence over supporting the poorest in our society, but at a time of want it cannot be the right priority.\"\n\nHe went on: \"And here I am deeply concerned that the framing of the leadership debate by many has been a holiday from reality. The answer to the cost-of-living crisis cannot be simply to reject further 'handouts' and cut tax.\"\n\nMr Gove said the tax hikes brought in by Mr Sunak as chancellor had been \"a consequence of Covid, not Rishi's inner preferences\".\n\n\"I know what the job requires. And Rishi has it,\" he said.\n\nMr Gove added he did not plan to return to frontbench politics himself, writing: \"I do not expect to be in government again. But it was the privilege of my life to spend 11 years in the cabinet under three prime ministers.\"\n\nMr Gove missed out in his own leadership bids in 2016 and 2019 and was most recently sacked as Levelling Up Secretary after publicly telling Mr Johnson to quit as prime minister ahead of his ultimate resignation.\n\nThe Sunak campaign welcomed Mr Gove's backing, with a spokeswoman saying: \"Delighted to have the support of a party and Cabinet veteran who has intellectual heft and shown the radical reforming zeal in every job he has had, that we now so desperately need.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak promised to tackle the \"war on motorists\" if he became prime minister - describing smart motorways as \"unsafe\" and pledging to stop any new ones being built.\n\nHe also said he would clamp down on rogue parking fines and review some of the neighbourhoods that have been designated as \"low traffic areas\" in recent years.\n\nMr Sunak pledged to introduce a transition to electric vehicles without punishing drivers, while also delivering a \"rural rollout action plan\" to ensure countryside communities were not left behind.\n\nLiz Truss received criticism from Mr Gove over her plans to cut tax\n\nMs Truss appears to be the frontrunner in the polls and has been backed by senior Conservatives colleagues including Nadhim Zahawi, Thérèse Coffey, Sajid Javid, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries, along with former leadership candidates Suella Braverman and Tom Tugendhat.\n\nMr Sunak was recently questioned during a recent Sky interview as to why he was unable to win the public support of close colleagues, other than his main backer, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.\n\nThe two leadership candidates appeared at a hustings in Manchester on Friday evening - answering questions in front of party members.\n\nMs Truss spoke about her plan to lift the ban on new grammar schools, saying she wanted everyone \"right across the country\" to have the choice to enlist their children at one.\n\nShe went on to criticise the Mayor of Greater Manchester, calling Andy Burnham the \"miserabilist mayor... who doesn't want opportunities\" for people in the city.\n\nMr Sunak used the event to share his plans on rolling out private-sector style \"surgical hubs\" across the country in the NHS and he also criticised the UK's foreign policy.", "Karen has been housesharing for five years\n\nThe rising cost of renting and buying a house has led to more over-50s looking for house and flat-shares, according to property-sharing websites.\n\nIt's something that is normally associated with younger people but what is it like sharing when you're over 50?\n\nKaren Miles, 66, moved into a 13-person house five years ago to save money.\n\nShe was previously living in a one-bedroom flat just outside Eastbourne but struggled to cover her bills alongside rent of around £560 a month.\n\nNow she pays £500 a month for a room, excluding bills, in a shared house in the town.\n\nHer housemates are a mix of ages, ranging from early-20s to early-50s. While she gets on with everyone, they don't tend to socialise together and Karen, who works part-time as a housekeeper, said sharing with younger people can pose problems.\n\nShe has previously had issues with some flatmates being noisy and the shared kitchen and bathroom can get dirty quickly.\n\nHowever, she said there were also benefits of having other people around to chat to.\n\n\"If I moved in somewhere on my own, I think I probably would feel a bit lonely,\" she added.\n\nKaren has tried to look for a one-bedroom flat to rent but with prices increasing she has struggled to find something affordable.\n\nShe would also like to share with friends but said it can be difficult for older people to find someone of a similar age to rent with.\n\n\"My friends have got husbands and family so it's hard,\" she said.\n\nLeading flat-sharing site SpareRoom said it had seen a 239% increase in 55 to 64-year-olds looking for house-shares since 2011 and a 114% increase for the 45-to-54 age group.\n\nHowever people aged 25 to 34 years old still make up the majority of sharers.\n\nSpareRoom communications director Matt Hutchinson said the primary reason more older people were house-sharing was affordability.\n\nHe told BBC News the increased cost of renting and buying a home meant more people were sharing for longer and becoming \"lifetime renters\", while people who had come out of long-term relationships and might originally have bought or rented a one-bedroom flat were now \"priced out\".\n\nMr Hutchinson said he expected the trend to continue as housing and other costs increased further.\n\nSarah Coles, a senior personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said official figures also suggest renters are getting older.\n\nShe added that figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest the cost of living crisis is felt more by renters than homeowners, as they spend a greater proportion of their income on housing.\n\nThey are also more exposed to rent increases as many mortgage-holders are on fixed rates.\n\nRental prices in the UK have been increasing steadily since Covid restrictions were eased in the summer of 2021, according to the ONS.\n\nHigh demand has contributed to rental prices increasing by 3.2% in the 12 months to July - the largest annual growth rate since January 2016.\n\nFor April to June, property website Rightmove found average asking rents outside London hit a record £1,126 per month - up 11.8% on the same period last year.\n\nCohabitas, a website which advertises house-shares for people over-40, also said it had seen increased demand from older age groups since it was founded in 2016.\n\nOver the past six months, it said it had seen a 44% increase in users compared to the same period last year.\n\nFor 55 to 64-year-olds the increase was 51%, while for 45 to 54-year-olds it was 35%.\n\nCo-founder Eva Orasch said the long-term trends driving the increase in sharing among older age groups were the UK's ageing population and increased house prices.\n\nIn the short-term, she said the rising cost of living and the pandemic were also contributing, with some people no longer wanting to live alone after lockdown.\n\nIn a 2021 survey of more than 1,500 users, the website found 45% of respondents had chosen to share for purely financial reasons, while 48% were sharing for both financial and social reasons.\n\nSusan used to live on her own but has started housesharing to save money\n\nSusan Laybourn, 58, also started house-sharing to save money in March 2020.\n\nMost recently she has been sharing with a live-in landlady who is a similar age to her, as well as a man in his 20s, in Trefnant, north Wales.\n\nAfter getting a job in the area, Susan, who works as a locum podiatrist for the NHS, could not find anywhere affordable to rent on her own.\n\nMany houses in the area are let as holiday homes and Susan said demand for rented properties already outstripped supply.\n\n\"At one point, I did consider just trying to find somewhere on my own and there was a couple of flats going in Rhyl, which is nearby,\" she said.\n\n\"But by the time I rang up to inquire about them they said 'oh, sorry, they're already gone'.\"\n\nShe added that not having a permanent job and often needing a shorter-term rental contract because of this also counted against her when trying to find somewhere to rent.\n\nIdeally, Susan said she would prefer to live alone or with just one other person her own age - and she could afford to do so - but it was much cheaper to share. Her current room is £400 a month including bills.\n\n\"If I could find anywhere here on my own I'd probably be paying at least £200 more just for the rent, and then you've got bills on top,\" she said.\n\n\"And when you hear about energy bills are going to go through the roof and everything, I think I'm glad I'm not private renting [on my own] because I feel like I'd just be wasting money, when I could be saving it.\"\n\nShe would also like to buy her own flat in the future but believes her age and lack of permanent job means she would not be able to get a mortgage.\n\nSusan said she did enjoy having company, especially when moving to a new area, and she gets on well with her live-in landlady.\n\nHowever, she said it can be hard to find someone her own age to share with as there is still a stigma associated with older people house-sharing.\n\nIn the past she said she felt \"almost ashamed\" that she was not able to rent her own place.\n\n\"I've kind of come to terms with it now and try to see the positives in it, rather than the negatives.\"", "Stephen Tompkinson is a well-known face on TV, film and stage\n\nActor Stephen Tompkinson is due to appear in court charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said the 56-year-old, well-known as the eponymous detective in ITV crime series DCI Banks, appeared before magistrates in Newcastle on 10 August.\n\nMr Tompkinson, of Whitley Bay, North Tyneside, pleaded not guilty to the charge at the hearing.\n\nHe will next appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 7 September, the CPS added.\n\nBorn in Stockton-on-Tees, the actor has appeared in a number of television shows, including Channel 4 comedy series Drop The Dead Donkey and BBC drama Ballykissangel.\n\nHe also starred with Robson Green in ITV's Grafters and in the film Brassed Off with Ewan McGregor and Tara Fitzgerald.\n\nHis representatives have been contacted for comment.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonah Hill says he has \"spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks\"\n\nJonah Hill has announced he will stop promoting his films to protect his mental health.\n\nThe Superbad actor said he had suffered from anxiety attacks for 20 years, which were \"exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events\".\n\nHe will not do any promotion for his new documentary, Stutz, which is about his relationship with a therapist.\n\nPsychologist Dr Sandra Wheatley told Radio 1 Newsbeat his decision was \"a really important message\".\n\nShe said the fact that \"somebody who has so much to lose is actually prepared to step back\" should be applauded.\n\nJonah, 38, opened up about his mental health in an open letter published by Deadline ahead of Stutz, which he directed and is about the therapist he began seeing in 2017.\n\nThe film was shot in secret and follows the Hollywood star's journey with his therapist, while exploring mental health in general.\n\n\"I have come to the understanding that I have spent nearly 20 years experiencing anxiety attacks, which are exacerbated by media appearances and public facing events,\" he said in the letter.\n\n\"I am so grateful that the film will make its world premiere at a prestigious film festival... and I can't wait to share it with audiences around the world in the hope that it will help those struggling.\n\n\"However, you won't see me out there promoting this film, or any of my upcoming films, while I take this important step to protect myself.\"\n\nThe 21 Jump Street actor thanked people for their support\n\nDr Wheatley, a chartered member of the British Psychological Society, told Newsbeat that when celebrities are on stage or at a film premiere they're still performing.\n\n\"But when they're offstage, they go back to who they really are,\" she said.\n\n\"So celebrities have to remember this persona in the media is an impersonation that you have, not you as an individual and that can be hard to balance.\"\n\nConsultant psychologist Dr Elena Bailey agrees that celebrities are \"very vulnerable\" when they're in the public eye.\n\nDr Bailey, who works at The Chelsea Psychology Clinic, said stepping away from the media was a \"self-protective behaviour\".\n\n\"This is because the type of attention and feedback and commentary on your life can have a very big impact on your mental health, causing a lot of anxiety, negative thoughts, symptoms of depression,\" she said.\n\nSpiderman actor Tom Holland recently announced on Instagram he was taking a break from social media as he found it \"overwhelming\".\n\nAnd last year, actor Ryan Reynolds discussed how anxiety had an impact on his life and work.\n\n\"For those who are working in the media, social media becomes a job, it becomes self-promotion,\" Dr Wheatley said.\n\n\"The public would put something up on their social media pages and it's for a chosen audience, like friends or family.\n\n\"But for celebrities it's a very absent audience so they don't know how it's going to be received, which ultimately sets a very different objective and why their anxiety is heightened.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A soldier with a Russian flag stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site\n\nRussian leader Vladimir Putin has said UN officials will be granted permission to visit and inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex.\n\nThe Kremlin made the announcement after a call between Mr Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nIt came as claims of fighting near the plant continued, with four civilians reportedly injured by Russian shelling.\n\nSeparately, the US pledged on Friday to send more arms and ammunitions to assist in Ukraine's war effort.\n\nIn a read-out following the call between the French and Russian leaders, the Kremlin said, Mr Putin had agreed to provide UN investigators with \"the necessary assistance\" to access the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site.\n\nThe plant has been under Russian occupation since early March but Ukrainian technicians still operate it under Russian direction.\n\n\"Both leaders noted the importance\" of sending the IAEA experts to the plant for an assessment of \"the situation on the ground\", the Kremlin said.\n\nThe director-general of the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), welcomed Mr Putin's statement and said he was willing to lead a visit to the plant himself.\n\n\"In this highly volatile and fragile situation, it is of vital importance that no new action is taken that could further endanger the safety and security of one of the world's largest nuclear power plants,\" Rafael Grossi said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the prospect of an inspection in his nightly address, but said specific details were still being worked out.\n\n\"If Russian blackmail with radiation continues, this summer may go down in the history of various European countries as one of the most tragic of all time,\" he said.\n\nKyiv says Russia has turned the complex into an army base - deploying military equipment, weapons and about 500 troops who are using the site as a shield to attack towns across the Dnieper River.\n\nAnd in recent weeks, the area around the facility has come under heavy artillery fire, with Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.\n\nUkrainian officials claimed that Russian shelling of the area surrounding the plant had continued on Friday, accusing Moscow's forces of wounding four civilians in the city of Marhanets, which is across the river from the plant.\n\nFive houses were also damaged in the area, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko claimed on Telegram.\n\nDespite displaying some willingness to grant access to inspectors, Russian officials have flatly refused international demands to demilitarise the site.\n\nIvan Nechayev, deputy director of the Russian foreign ministry's information and press department, said on Friday that such moves would leave the plant \"even more vulnerable\".\n\nMeanwhile, Russia submitted a letter to the UN Security Council detailing the \"provocations\" that it accuses Ukraine of plotting at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.\n\nThe Russian mission to the UN alleged that the Ukrainians want to cause \"what they believe to be a minor accident\", consisting of a radiation leak, which could see Russia accused of \"nuclear terrorism\".\n\nThe letter denied that Russian troops are storing weapons on site. It repeated an allegation that the Ukrainians had been shelling the plant.\n\nSeparately, Washington has unveiled a new $775m (£655m) package of defence equipment for Ukraine.\n\nThe funding will pay for Himars long-range rocket launchers, ammunition for artillery, surveillance drones and anti-tank missiles.\n\nAccording to a senior US Defence official quoted by Reuters news agency, the package will also contain mine-resistant vehicles for the first time.\n\nUkraine has been heavily dependent on weapon supplies from its Western allies to assist its resistance against the Russian invasion.", "Beaches across Sussex have closed due to untreated sewage being released into the sea.\n\nIn Hastings people have been advised not to swim due to a pollution risk. Beaches in Bexhill and Normans Bay were also shut after \"significant\" electrical issues at a pumping station.\n\nA spokesperson for Southern Water said: \"I apologise to residents of Bexhill and Normans Bay because this is not acceptable.\"", "Coldplay play at Glasgow's Hampden Park on August 23 and 24\n\nScotRail has announced additional trains and carriages for this week's Coldplay concerts at Hampden Park.\n\nThe band are set to bring their Music Of The Spheres world tour to Glasgow on Tuesday and Wednesday.\n\nScotRail said the extra services will go to and from Glasgow Central to Mount Florida, the closest station to the stadium.\n\nThe operator's announcement follows a weekend of disruption on Scotland's railways.\n\nAbout 80% of ScotRail's services were cancelled on Saturday as a result of strike action by Network Rail staff.\n\nThen the reopening of signal boxes at different times across the country meant 19 services were either cancelled or amended on Sunday.\n\nNetwork Rail and unions remain at loggerheads over pay and conditions.\n\nScotRail employees did not take part in the UK-wide strike but many of the Network Rail staff taking industrial action work in rail safety, meaning a normal service was not possible.\n\nThe ongoing dispute between the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and the rail network operator is over jobs, pay and conditions.\n\nEarlier this year music fans had to contend with a reduced rail timetable for gigs by Ed Sheeran, Calvin Harris and Gerry Cinnamon due to a train drivers' pay dispute which has since been resolved.\n\nPassengers at Dunblane Station were among those affected by the disruption on Saturday\n\nAhead of the Coldplay gigs ScotRail, confirmed queuing systems will be in place at Glasgow Central and Mount Florida.\n\nCommuters using services to and from Neilston have been warned that their service may be much busier than normal on both days with people travelling to the gig.\n\nPhil Campbell, ScotRail's head of customer operations, said: \"We're looking forward to helping music lovers travel by train to see Coldplay perform at our national stadium.\n\n\"To help the event run smoothly, we're adding extra carriages to key trains as well as more trains to and from Hampden.\n\n\"Our advice to customers is to leave extra time for travel as trains are likely to be busier than normal.\"", "Anthony Joshua's bid to recapture the unified heavyweight titles ended in disappointment as Oleksandr Usyk produced a terrific performance to win by split decision in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn a clash billed as the Rage on the Red Sea, a spirited Joshua, 32, showed some aggressiveness and intent - a vast improvement from their first fight - but could not match the brilliance and ring savviness of the Ukrainian who improved his record to 20 wins from 20 contests.\n\nTwo judges scored the fight 115-113 and 116-112 to Usyk and the third gave it 115-113 to Joshua.\n\nWhile there were some close rounds, Usyk - in just his fourth bout since moving up from cruiserweight to heavyweight - was the deserved winner.\n\nAt the end of the fight, a furious Joshua - quite bizarrely - picked up two of Usyk's belts, dropped them out of the ring and strode towards the dressing room, before turning round and getting back into the ring to give an impassioned speech.\n\n\"Usyk is one hell of a fighter. That's just emotion,\" he said. \"If you knew my story, you'd understand the passion. I'm not an amateur boxer. I was going to jail and I got bail and I started training.\n\n\"It shows the passion we put into this. For this guy to beat me tonight, it shows the levels of hard work he must have put in, so please give him a round of applause as heavyweight champion of world.\n\n\"They said that I'm not a 12-round fighter. I ain't 14 stone, I'm 18 stone, I'm heavy. It's hard work. This guy here is phenomenal.\"\n\nJoshua also went up to Usyk and said to him: \"I was studying Ukraine and all the champions from your amazing country. I've never been there. What's happening there, I don't know but it's not nice.\n\n\"You're not strong, how did you beat me? Because of skills. I had character and determination.\"\n\nHe has now suffered back-to-back defeats against Usyk, with the champion retaining the WBA (Super), WBO and IBF titles he won in London last September.\n\nJoshua had some success in the fight - and enjoyed his best round in the ninth, charging Usyk down and unloading a flurry of punches, reminiscent of the AJ of old.\n\nBut such is the brilliance of Usyk, he came back fighting in the 10th round and was landing clean blow after blow. Usyk landed a five-punch combination, and Joshua became a sitting duck.\n\nJoshua fatigued and Usyk - who just a few months ago was defending his nation against the Russian invasion - took full advantage in the championship rounds.\n\n\"I devote this victory to my family, my country, my team, to all the military defending this country - thank you so much,\" he said, before calling out WBC champion Tyson Fury.\n\n\"I'm sure that Tyson Fury is not retired yet. I'm convinced he wants to fight me. I want to fight him. If I'm not fighting Fury, I'm not fighting at all.\n\n\"Only God knows whether I will fight him or not but all these gentlemen here around me, my team, they are going to help me.\"\n\nFury recently announced his retirement but has until 26 August to decide on whether he will relinquish the belt.\n\nThe Gypsy King criticised both fighters on social media, and hinted he may not yet be done with boxing. The carrot of a clash with Usyk - one which would certainly cement the winner's legacy as an all-time great - is dangling.\n\nThe boxers made their ring walks at approximately 01:00 local time. Even in those early hours, there were temperatures of 30C, as approximately 12,000 fans filled out the air-conditioned King Abdullah Sport City Arena.\n\nA crowd that was somewhat subdued for most of the night came alive as Joshua - the challenger - marched to the ring first. Jeers echoed around the arena as Usyk followed. It was clear who the fan favourite was.\n\nHeading into the fight, there were questions as to how well Joshua and new trainer Robert Garcia had gelled, having only started working together this year.\n\nThe opening few rounds were close, but ones which Usyk most likely edged. After three rounds, American Garcia told Joshua he had won every round.\n\nThe champion was given time to recover in the fifth round after a Joshua low blow had him wincing. A two-punch combination to Joshua's midriff and head, from range, was the pick of the sixth round.\n\nAs the fight progressed, Usyk's movement started to dictate the fight. He landed a counter left in the seventh, before Joshua unloaded two smart shots to the body in the eighth.\n\nThen came the two of the most memorable rounds, out of the 24 across two bouts, between the two fighters. Joshua gave it everything in the ninth, and appeared to have Usyk in a spot of bother. Perhaps it was a ploy from Usyk to tire Joshua out. In the 10th, he broke Joshua's resolve - and went on to take the fight.\n\nBefore the fight, Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn insisted defeat would not spell retirement but described the bout as must-win.\n\nAfter a third loss in five bouts, Joshua now has to resurrect his career. But he can take positives from his performance. His reputation and legacy have been dealt a blow, but perhaps not as heavy as many predicted.\n\nIn June 2019, Joshua suffered a shocking knockout defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in New York. Six months later, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Joshua recaptured his heavyweight crown with a disciplined points win.\n\nBeating Usyk, however, was a totally different challenge. Joshua was in against a pound-for-pound star - the trickiest of southpaws. And he was facing a patriotic Ukrainian determined to bring some much-needed joy to a nation torn apart through war.\n\nBoxing fans wanted to see some heart and fight from Joshua. In the 10th round, when under attack from Usyk, he barked \"come on\" at his opponent.\n\nSuch is the beast of heavyweight boxing and the level of fame bestowed on Joshua, there will always be critics. This time, though, perhaps not for his performance, but for his post-fight interview.\n• None How many friends do you need?\n• None The latest trend of so-called 'Turkey teeth' is examined", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: The scene after the fatal crash near Gaziantep\n\nAt least 32 people have been killed in two separate events in Turkey when vehicles crashed into first responders following earlier accidents.\n\nA bus hit the scene of a road crash near Gaziantep on Saturday morning, killing 16 people and injuring 21.\n\nHours later a truck hit a crowd of people 250km (150 miles) away in Mardin, also killing 16 people and reportedly hitting emergency workers.\n\nThere have been no reports of a connection between the incidents.\n\nTwenty-nine people were injured in the second crash, eight of them seriously, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.\n\nThe incident in the town of Derik in Mardin province \"occurred after the brakes gave out on a lorry, which hit a crowd\", he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe emergency workers had been sent to the scene following a crash involving three vehicles, Anadolu news agency reported.\n\nThe first incident on Saturday occurred near the southern town of Nizip in Gaziantep province.\n\nA bus ploughed into rescue crews and reporters who had come to the scene of a crash involving a car that had come off the road.\n\nThree firefighters, two emergency workers and two journalists were among those killed, the governor of Gaziantep said on twitter.\n\nPhotos on Turkey's DHA news agency showed the back of an ambulance ripped out and metal debris strewn around it.\n\nJustice Minister Bekir Bozdag has announced an investigation into the crash.\n• None At least 16 killed in Turkey bus crash. Video, 00:00:51At least 16 killed in Turkey bus crash", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to show smoke rising from an area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based\n\nRussian forces in Crimea have been targeted by a fresh drone strike.\n\nThe Russian-appointed regional leader said a Ukrainian drone targeting Russia's Black Sea fleet in the city of Sevastopol was shot down on Saturday.\n\nIt follows a string of attacks on Russian forces and installations in the annexed peninsula this month.\n\nMeanwhile Ukraine's president has welcomed a deal allowing UN inspectors to visit the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, further north.\n\nEarly on Saturday a video showed smoke rising from the area in Sevastopol where Russia's Black Sea fleet is based. The BBC News has not been able to independently verify the footage.\n\nThe Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, played down the seriousness of the incident.\n\nHe said the fleet's air defences had been activated and the Ukrainian drone destroyed. \"It fell on the roof of the headquarters,\" he said. \"There was no significant damage and no-one was hurt.\"\n\nLater on Saturday, Mr Razvozhayev said anti-aircraft systems had again been in operation in Sevastopol, but gave no details.\n\nSeveral drone attacks have been reported in Crimea in recent days, including one on an airbase near Sevastopol on Thursday and another on the harbour on Friday.\n\nEarlier in the month nine Russian jets were destroyed in an attack on the Russian military base at Saky, on Crimea's western coast.\n\nFootage on social media at the time showed crowds of Russian tourists fleeing a nearby resort.\n\nThe attack in Saky startled tourists on a beach in the region\n\nCrimea was invaded and annexed by Russia in 2014, and Ukraine has vowed to retake it.\n\nHowever the Kyiv government has not confirmed or denied involvement in the recent attacks.\n\nMoscow has blamed sabotage for some of them, indicating some kind of special military operation perhaps by Ukrainian forces - or those loyal to Kyiv.\n\nWestern officials say these incidents are having a major operational and psychological impact on Russian forces.\n\nIn another development, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant could start to be restored with a visit of international inspectors.\n\nHe was speaking after Russia's Vladimir Putin said Moscow would grant UN inspectors access to the facility, north of Crimea.\n\nThe Kremlin and Kyiv have blamed each other for shelling the plant over the past week, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe.\n\nMeanwhile Russia has pressed on with its tactic of overnight shelling of cities, targeting Kharkiv, Dnipro and Mykolaiv, among others.\n\nAnd the Russian-installed mayor of Mariupol reportedly survived an assassination attempt.\n\nThe incident in Mariupol reportedly happened near the entrance of the local zoo\n\nA Russian state TV reporter said the mayor, Kostyantyn Ivashchenko, was in a car when an explosive device went off at the entrance to the city's zoo.\n\nAlso on Saturday, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres held a press conference in Turkey after another two grain ships left Ukraine.\n\nHe said he had been \"deeply moved\" watching a ship carrying grain heading to the Horn of Africa and that such deliveries provided \"urgently needed relief for those suffering from acute hunger\".\n\nThe safe passage of the vessels has been enabled through UN-brokered deals with Turkey, Russia and Ukraine last month.\n\nMr Guterres added that enabling the transport of food and fertiliser from Russia is also critical as the cost of living crisis deepens.", "Dan James has managed to stop smoking after taking it up when he was 12\n\nCould Wales really be smoke-free in the next eight years?\n\nThe first steps are in place, with the aim by the Welsh government to reduce smoking rates in adults to 5% or less by 2030.\n\nOne ex-smoker Dan James, 28, who began when he was 12, said he thought 2030 was a realistic target.\n\nHowever, lobby group Forest called on the target to be scrapped, saying the only way it could be achieved was through \"bullying and coercion\".\n\nAccording to the Welsh government, a smoke-free Wales \"means achieving a smoking prevalence rate in adults of 5% or less,\" and at that level \"the tobacco epidemic could become unsustainable\".\n\nThe strategy aims to reduce inequalities, with a specific emphasis on future generations.\n\nMr James quit smoking earlier this year, and said the Welsh government had a chance of making Wales smoke-free by 2030, as more advertising the assistance available \"will help people with their choices\".\n\nDan, who lives in Cardiff Bay, had tried unsuccessfully to give up once, before finally kicking the habit.\n\n\"In 2019, I quit smoking but only managed it for a year. I called my doctor to help me quit smoking and spoke to an adviser.\"\n\nDan started figure skating before he quit smoking and said one of the main reasons was so he would be fitter for his sport\n\nAfter quitting, Dan has days where he craves cigarettes, but said he felt much fitter now when on the ice.\n\nHe said: \"I'm not coughing up mucus now, I generally feel healthier and I can taste my food.\"\n\nRuth Billingham, 42, from Cardiff, has been smoking on and off since she was a teenager.\n\nShe had long periods of not smoking, and has gone back to it due in social situations.\n\nShe said: \"When I started smoking you could smoke inside pubs. I think it's a good thing that people aren't allowed to smoke in public places because I definitely would not have smoked as much as I have.\n\n\"At times when I've given up, I might start again because I'm on a night out, and it's just easy to have a cigarette.\n\n\"I would find it frustrating that I couldn't smoke outdoors. However, I do think in the long term it would be better for me because I wouldn't be able to smoke.\"\n\nRuth Billingham says it's easy to light up on a cigarette on a night out\n\nShe was unsure whether the Welsh government would reach its ambition by 2030.\n\n\"There's eight years and if you can smoke in fewer places that will help.\n\n\"It's a good ambition, whether it's achievable I'm not totally sure, but if they bring in a ban in public places it will help.\n\n\"People might say 'oh I'm not going out any more', but they will. They will just adapt to the change and smoke fewer cigarettes.\"\n\nThe Welsh government's plans do not include e-cigarettes. However it said its strategy to deliver a smoke-free Wales did include discouraging e-cigarettes or other nicotine products by teenagers and young people.\n\nDeputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing Lynne Neagle said: \"Whilst around 13% of people in Wales are smokers, we know that those living in our more deprived communities are much more likely to smoke than those in the least deprived areas.\"\n\nA 2021 lifestyle survey revealed 13% of adults in Wales smoke, down from 19% five years before. But that number jumped to 22% in the most deprived communities.\n\nSource: National Survey for Wales (2021). The number of smokers in Wales is gradually declining\n\nSimon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group Forest, said: \"Tobacco is a legal product and if adults choose to smoke that's a matter for them, not government. They cannot be forced to quit.\n\n\"The best way to further reduce smoking rates is not by introducing more anti-smoking measures but by educating young people about the health risks of smoking and encouraging existing smokers to switch to reduced risk products like e-cigarettes.\"\n\nHowever, Ash Wales, which wants a smoke-free Wales, said the country supported the new strategy.\n\nSuzanne Cass, chief executive of the group, said: \"73% of Welsh adults want Wales to become smoke-free.\n\n\"The Welsh government's commitment to this target is welcome. However, this bold strategy is going to need bold and decisive action to hit that 5% target by 2030.\"\n\nSmoking kills more than 5,000 Welsh adults every year, according to Ash Wales\n\nFigures released last month revealed 4% of the estimated Welsh smoking population made an attempt to quit via smoking cessation services from April 2021 to March 2022.\n\nThis equated to 14,574 of 357,745 Welsh smokers.\n\nSmoking is the lead cause of premature death in Wales and is estimated to cost the Welsh NHS £302m per year.\n\nAccording to modelling by Cancer Research in 2020, if the current trajectory were to continue, Wales would not achieve smoke-free status until 2037.\n\nKatie Till, public affairs manager in Wales for Cancer Research UK, said: \"Smoking remains the biggest preventable cause of cancer and is responsible for around 3,100 cancer cases in Wales every year.\"\n\nA YouGov survey in 2021 revealed 67% of people would support banning smoking in outdoor eating areas, such as pubs restaurants and cafes.\n\nA further 81% believed smoking should be banned in outdoor areas where children play sport.\n\nIt has been illegal to smoke in a car with children since 2015 in both Wales and England\n\nOther countries have also voiced ambitions to achieve a 5% smoking rate, including Scotland, England and Ireland.\n\nInternationally, 5% is often regarded as the rate when the tobacco epidemic is considered unsustainable.\n\nThe next smoking delivery plan will be published in 2024.", "A bid to reduce the planned size of the Star of Caledonia has been lodged\n\nThe size of a landmark sculpture designed to be built on the England-Scotland border could be smaller than planned under new proposals.\n\nThe move would see the £7m Star of Caledonia reduced to about 80% of its original intended proportions.\n\nAt 40m (130ft) the sculpture would have been twice as high as the Angel of the North at Gateshead.\n\nThe scaled back design follows a change in disability access laws since the initial design was unveiled.\n\nIt is hoped the project will attract 100,000 visitors a year to the area, generating £4m for the economy.\n\nThe spiral structure, which would sit at the start of the M74 near Gretna Green, is yet to be built.\n\nIt was first suggested as a way of helping the area to recover following the foot-and-mouth outbreak of 2001.\n\nThe idea was to emulate the success enjoyed by the Angel of the North and a competition was launched to decide how it should look.\n\nThe landmark would be clearly visible from the motorway across the Scotland-England border\n\nIn 2011, a giant star - a collaboration between the late Charles Jencks and Cecil Balmond - was selected as the winning design for the scheme.\n\nHowever, with little funding in place it looked unlikely to go ahead when it missed out on Creative Scotland support three years later.\n\nPlanning permission was extended to keep its hopes alive and fresh financial support was eventually secured.\n\nBacking from South of Scotland Enterprise was announced last year which breathed new life into the scheme.\n\nIt should help to unlock a funding package from renewable energy firm Community Windpower and the Borderlands Growth Deal to finally allow the project to go ahead.\n\nA bid for a non-material variation in its planning consent has been lodged for the scheme.\n\nIt is now being proposed to reduce it in size by 20% which it is said can be achieved while still meeting the \"artistic aesthetic and visitor experience expectations\".\n\nThe Gretna Landmark Trust also wants to construct a gravel pathway to the structure in order to ensure the project meets disabled access legislation.\n\nAn application for a variation of planning permission said it would still provide a welcome to Scotland for drivers and rail users.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James from Sheffield has been waiting for his BTec results since Thursday\n\nAn exam board has apologised after some BTec students did not receive their results as expected last Thursday, throwing university places into doubt.\n\nPearson said a \"very small percentage\" of its BTec students were affected.\n\nHundreds of thousands of students received their A-level, BTec and T-level results this week.\n\nOne student told BBC News he has now missed his chance of a clearing place at his chosen university.\n\nJames, 18, from Sheffield, did a BTec in uniformed public services at Sheffield College.\n\nAs his friends celebrated their results on Thursday, he was sat refreshing the online results page.\n\n\"I was told I would hopefully get them by the end of the day but nothing came - it's been really stressful,\" he said.\n\n\"It's kind of just going around in a loop - not having my results, asking people where they are, being told to wait and still not getting them.\"\n\nJames, who applied to study law and criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, still does not know if he has secured a place.\n\nHis plans to trade-up in clearing and read law at the University of Sheffield have fallen through as a result of the delay, he said.\n\nAnother exam board, OCR, has also had delays issuing Cambridge Technicals results to some students.\n\nIt says it will continue to process results over the weekend and it has \"delivered more than a thousand results to schools and colleges within the last 24 hours.\"\n\nBTecs - Business and Technology Education Council qualifications - and Cambridge Technicals are vocational courses which are largely assessed through practical learning, with written exams accounting for just a small element of the final mark.\n\nIn order to receive an overall grade, the marks from every module are required.\n\nPearson has not said how many students are waiting, but that it is a \"very small percentage\".\n\nThe exam board said it was working around the clock with colleges, adding staff would \"be here all weekend working to get results out as soon as we can\".\n\nIt added that UCAS, the university and college admissions service, said the best thing these students can do is contact their university of choice directly and ask them to hold their place.\n\nThe exams regulator Ofqual says it has \"every sympathy\" with students yet to receive a result.\n\nThe chief executive of the Association of Colleges, David Hughes, says the delay has put extra pressure on students.\n\n\"It is really stressful at the best of times but when a delay happens like this, I think it is terrible,\" he said.", "Cinema organs like this used to be a staple of a trip to the cinema in years gone by\n\nThey used to be an integral part of trips to the cinema, and yet most now sit collecting dust.\n\nBut on the backstreets of Porth, Rhondda Cynon Taf, new life has been breathed into the pipes of some classic items from film music history.\n\nThe old Saron Chapel has been transformed into possibly the largest collection of cinema organs in the UK - if not the world.\n\nSo, why cinema organs? Who so many? And why of all places - Porth?\n\n\"We've already had visitors from the other side of world, from Australia and America,\" said Ben Snowdon of Paul Kirner's Theatre Organ charity.\n\n\"I don't think it matters where you are, it's been a big asset to the local community… it's the only form of live entertainment in the local area.\"\n\nBen Snowdon bought the pink-illuminated centre stage organ from the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, London, in 2002\n\nThe charity has put the collection in place in order to bring organ music back to life so its nostalgic music can be enjoyed by future generations.\n\nFormer organist Paul Kirner bought the old Grade II-listed Victorian chapel in Ynyshir and has restored, converted and renamed it The Music Palace.\n\nAfter retiring he decided he wanted a place the public could enjoy the old music which was once such an key cog in a cinema visit.\n\n\"We've got four cinema pipe organs, and 10 electronic instruments from across the decades, one of which from the capital cinema in Cardiff,\" said Mr Snowdon, an organist himself.\n\nDonald Mackenzie, Leicester Square's Odeon resident organist, said cinema organ playing was a \"craft in its own right\"\n\nThere are two organs on centre stage, their pipe work filling the entire loft of this former chapel.\n\nThe striking gold and illuminated pink organ used to be homed in the Dominion Theatre on Tottenham Court Road, London, many years ago.\n\nHaving bought the organ in 2002, it spent a few years at Mr Snowdon's parents' farm before finding a home in The Music Palace.\n\nThis old Ynyshir chapel has provided a refuge for old cinema organs\n\n\"I did ask their permission (before hand), they weren't overly thrilled…the pipe work filled two attic spaces in the house,\" he said.\n\n\"Fortunately it was quite a detached farm house so didn't annoy the neighbours.\"\n\nThe cinema organ was originally installed in order to accompany early silent films - a genre of film that has seen a small resurgence across the country.\n\n\"All the subtle nuances for a love film or drama scene, it's a craft in its own right,\" explained Donald Mackenzie, Leicester Square's Odeon resident organist.\n\nNot many organs remain in their natural habitat anymore, Weston-super-Mare and Leicester Square's Odeon are the only picture houses that still regularly used an organ for premieres and performances.\n\nThe most famous other being in Blackpool Tower, made recently more famous by Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nBlackpool Tower became a fixture on TV screens throughout the country during Strictly's annual visit to the ornate ballroom, complete with organ\n\nWith 14 instruments already installed and four lying waiting in the wings of the Music Palace, the charity has purchased another chapel in the town with a plan to extending this ever-growing collection.\n\nWith all its bells, whistles, and piano attachments, the cinema organ was also the earliest version of the modern-day synthesiser\n\nBecause they take up so much space and upkeep - the heating or air con has been on all year because organs need a consistent temperature - many public buildings have been getting rid of them.\n\n\"This sort of venue is the future for a lot of these instruments - private collections where the public can come to enjoy them,\" added Mr Mackenzie.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nGreat Britain's Dina Asher-Smith had to settle for silver after Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji proved too strong in the European Championships 200m final.\n\nKambundji edged into a slight lead with 80m to go and, although Asher-Smith seemed poised to counter, the defending champion could not reel in her rival.\n\nThe Swiss athlete finished in 22.32 seconds, 0.11secs ahead of Asher-Smith.\n\n\"I came here to win, so I am not super happy,\" said Asher-Smith, whose 100m title defence was wrecked by cramp.\n\n\"This year has been up and down. I am happy to be here, but not so happy with a silver, but you have to take it.\n\n\"I am in a better shape than that but at the same time I came second and it is what it is.\"\n\nThe defeat marks another twist in a season that has fluctuated between career high points and deflating lows.\n\nA little over a month ago, Asher-Smith matched her 100m personal best and claimed bronze in one of the strongest 200m finals in history at the World Championships in Eugene.\n\nHowever, she has also had to overcome a hamstring injury, which cost her any involvement in the Commonwealth Games, and the loss of her grandmother Sislyn earlier in the summer.\n\nCramping calves, brought on by her menstrual cycle, ruined her chances of a shot of defending her 100m crown on Tuesday.\n\nAfterwards, Asher-Smith called for more research into the effect of periods on performance.\n\nOf the three titles she arrived in Germany to defend, only the 4x100m relay remains a possibility.\n\n\"It has been a good year for me definitely,\" insisted Asher-Smith.\n\n\"I am still running, I am still running PBs. My next target is to run 10.7, so I look forward to chasing that into September.\"\n\nKambundji, who came eighth and a half a second behind Asher-Smith in Eugene, was also followed home by Ida Karstoft.\n\nThe Dane beat Britain's Jodie Williams to bronze, who consoled herself with a season's best 22.85 seconds.\n\nMore from the European Championships Munich 2022", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missed your grades? The BBC's Hazel Shearing explains - in a minute - what you can do\n\nThe proportion of top A-level grades in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has fallen since 2021, but remains higher than in 2019.\n\nAbout 36.4% of A-levels were marked at A* and A this year, while last year, 44.8% of exams were graded A or above.\n\nIt is the first time since 2019 that A-level grades have been based on public exams, after two years of cancellations because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nStudents also received T-level, BTec and other results on Thursday.\n\nThe university admissions service, Ucas, said 65.3% of students in the UK who applied to university were offered their first choice.\n\nThis year's A-level marking system has been adjusted, so that grades reflect \"a midway point\" between 2019 - when 25.4% were A* and A grades - and 2021, when teacher-assessed grades led to a boom in top marks.\n\nEngland's exam watchdog Ofqual has said the approach was intended to bring grades closer to pre-pandemic levels, while reflecting \"that we are in a pandemic recovery period and students' education has been disrupted\".\n\nSimilar plans were put in place for Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nIn Scotland, where pupils received their exam results on 9 August, the pass rate at Higher level fell to 78.9% - down from 87.3% in 2021.\n\nUcas said on Thursday morning that 425,830 students had been accepted into university or college - the second highest number on record - but 20,360 students had not.\n\nThey are being advised to search for vacancies through clearing, which is where Ucas highlights courses with available spaces.\n\nUcas also said more students from the most disadvantaged backgrounds were awarded a place at university than in 2019, and that 71% of university applicants who took T-levels were accepted.\n\nThe A-level results for England, Wales and Northern Ireland also show:\n\nThere were regional disparities in England, according to Ofqual. In London, 39% of A-level grades were A* and A, compared with 30.8% of grades in the north-east of England.\n\nResults for AS-levels also came out on Thursday. In Wales and Northern Ireland, these will count towards a student's final A-level result next summer.\n\nAnd it is the first year of results for new vocational T-level qualifications in England, this year taken by a cohort of 1,029 students.\n\nThe pass rate for T-levels, designed to be equivalent to three A-levels, was 92.2%\n\nTo achieve the technical qualification, time is split between classroom learning and industry placements - with students awarded a pass, merit, distinction or distinction* after two years of work and study.\n\nPraise, who is 18 and studied at Central Saint Michael's Sixth Form in West Bromwich, felt relieved after getting her results.\n\nShe achieved B grades in her A-levels in history and English literature, and a D* in her Level 3 BTec in health and social care.\n\nShe is among about 200,000 students who received Level 3 BTec results on Thursday.\n\n\"It was emotional. I had a cry,\" she told the BBC.\n\nPraise is preparing for an interview at Birmingham City University, where she hopes to start training as an RAF student nurse in February.\n\nReceiving her results has made it all sink in that Praise will be leaving home.\n\n\"After I've done three years of uni, I'll spend a minimum of 12 years with the RAF,\" she said.\n\n\"I haven't spent much time away from home, so it's a bit scary. But it'll be something entirely different - I'm really looking forward to that.\"\n\nAfter missing out on GCSE exams because of Covid, Praise was glad there was a return to exams this year.\n\n\"I wanted to write my own exams, get my own grades and see that it was my hard work that got me to that moment,\" she said.\n\n\"These students have experienced unprecedented disruption over the last couple of years, and such excellent results are a testament to their resilience and hard work,\" he said.\n\nSpecial measures were introduced for this year's A-levels to counteract the disruption to education caused by Covid, such as advanced information about topics.\n\nAnd the grade boundaries - the number of marks needed for each grade - were more lenient this year than they were before the start of the pandemic.\n\nA-level grades are lower than last year because of the system being adjusted to counteract the sharp rise in top grades over the past two years, rather than being purely a reflection of individual student work. But grades are still higher than in 2019.\n\nIt is likely to be a competitive year for some students looking to start university. There are more 18-year-olds in the population this year and a slightly higher percentage of them are applying for places, according to Ucas.\n\nThe toughest competition is for places at the most academically selective universities. This year, those institutions have been more cautious with the number of offers they have made, after a couple of bulge years - when top grades proliferated - in 2020 and 2021.\n\nCompetition for places is also high for certain courses - including some heavily subsidised degrees, such as medicine, which are reintroducing caps on student numbers this year.\n\nAre you having to rethink your plans after getting your results? Do you have questions you'd like answered? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The attack is believed to have happened in a wooded area\n\nA man has been charged after a six-year-old girl was abducted and sexually assaulted in Greater Manchester.\n\nOfficers said the girl was reunited with her family shortly after the assault in Tameside on Thursday.\n\nLewis Jones, 23, from Liverpool, but of no fixed address, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault by penetration and one count of abduction.\n\nAfter appearing before magistrates on Saturday, he was remanded to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 1 September.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said officers continued to give the victim and her family support.\n\n\"We would once again like to thank members of the public for their assistance in this investigation and for engaging with our appeals,\" the force added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pledges to slash taxes by Conservative leadership candidates are \"unrealistic\" unless they are matched by spending cuts, a think tank has warned.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said large, permanent tax cuts could add to pressures on the public purse as the economic outlook deteriorates.\n\nBoth Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have promised tax cuts but say their plans are affordable.\n\nThe UK will find out who its next prime minister is on 5 September.\n\nThe soaring cost of living will be among the biggest challenges facing whoever succeeds Boris Johnson, with calls for more help growing louder.\n\nThe IFS's warning comes as consumer prices continue to soar, with inflation hitting 10.1% in July - a fresh 40-year high. Rising living costs are eating into household budgets, with prices rising at a faster rate than wages.\n\nMeanwhile, the Bank of England has warned high prices will push the UK into recession, with the economy forecast to shrink in the last three months of 2022 and keep shrinking until the end of 2023.\n\nAnd a new University of York study estimates two-thirds of UK households could be plunged into fuel poverty and struggle to pay energy bills this winter, the Guardian reported.\n\nForeign Secretary Ms Truss, who is the favourite to win the race, has pledged to scrap April's National Insurance rise to help households and cancel a planned rise in corporation tax.\n\nShe has argued high taxes are \"potentially choking off growth\" in the economy.\n\nMeanwhile, former Chancellor Mr Sunak has promised to reduce VAT on domestic energy bills from 5% to zero, and to cut 3p off income tax by late 2029.\n\nHowever, he says he will only cut taxes \"once we've gripped inflation\" and claims Ms Truss's pledges are unaffordable and won't help those on low incomes.\n\nBut Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the IFS, told the BBC that both candidates' plans would be unaffordable without spending cuts - none of which have been proposed by the campaigns.\n\n\"These tax cut promises are unrealistic unless they're going to set out detailed, deliverable spending cuts on a comparable scale,\" he said.\n\n\"In reality, there will be a need to spend significantly more, especially given the pressures on households with energy bills.\"\n\nThe cost of living soared to 10.1% in July, a fresh 40-year high\n\nMr Emmerson suggested that short-term government borrowing could be appropriate, to help fund support for families struggling to make ends meet.\n\nBut he said \"large, permanent tax cuts\" would only exacerbate pressures on the public finances, and were \"hard to square\" with the candidates' promises to manage the nation's finances responsibly.\n\nLast month, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned that UK government debt is already on an \"unsustainable path\" because of inflation and other factors.\n\nThe IFS said it was concerned by Ms Truss and Mr Sunak's tax plans given the \"deteriorating outlook\".\n\nIn its report, the think tank predicted that high inflation could result in more public spending - adding £4bn to the benefits bill, while tens of billions of pounds may have to go to the likes of schools and hospitals, as their bills soar, to help maintain services.\n\nIt said this was unlikely to be offset by tax revenues, leaving no spare public money to fund large-scale tax cuts.\n\nResponding to the report, Mr Sunak's campaign said his tax plans were funded and that the IFS's research supported his approach.\n\n\"[The report] drives a coach and horses through Liz's economic plan. Rishi has consistently made the case that permanent, unfunded tax cuts would cause significant damage to the public finances and push inflation up higher,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"It is not credible or Conservative to spend £50bn on tax cuts and pay for them through higher borrowing at a time of high inflation.\"\n\nA source for Ms Truss's campaign told PA news agency that she \"would use an emergency budget to kickstart her plan to get our economy growing and put more money into the pockets of hardworking people\".\n\n\"Liz will cut taxes using the existing fiscal headroom and will get debt to GDP falling within three years. You cannot tax your way to growth, and business as usual will not do.\"", "Manchester university student Jess had to check everyday to secure a house as many were snapped up\n\nWhat's it like being young and facing higher rent while your pay stays the same?\n\nFigures seen by the BBC show people under 30 face a growing cost-of-renting crisis, with worrying numbers spending more than 30% of their pay on rent.\n\nExperts say spending this level of income on rental costs is unaffordable.\n\nWe've been speaking to people experiencing this, as well as hearing what it is like for landlords.\n\nFor Manchester University student Jess Walmsley, the scarcity of housing has been a major challenge.\n\nThe 21-year-old said she and her friends began looking for a house for their third year of study back in January and February but \"there were hardly any places left this year\".\n\n\"You really have to be on it and look every day,\" she said. \"We were left with expensive or bad quality houses but luckily a student dropped out so we got a good deal.\"\n\nMs Walmsley pays £87 a week per person for a four-bedroom house, excluding bills. She said it was now common for people to start looking for houses for the next academic year as early as October - just a month into term.\n\nHer housemates have also been cutting down on using the tumble dryer and shopping a lot more at Iceland to reduce costs.\n\n\"It's a tough process, I've been working all of the summer but I feel lucky to be eligible for the maximum loan because otherwise, it would be so hard to manage,\" Ms Walmsley added.\n\nData seen by the BBC, supplied by property market consultancy Dataloft, suggests that people under 30 are spending more of their earnings on rent than other working-age groups.\n\nLondon has the highest rents, according to the data. However, many of the places where affordability has worsened since the pandemic are in locations such as Rotherham, Bolton and Dudley.\n\nShannon Waine, 31, and Oliver Kimber, 28, have had to move 45 minutes outside of Cheltenham with their 10-month-old baby Mhairi, to find affordable rental accommodation.\n\nAlthough Ms Waine is a little older than the people examined in our data, her experience shows life isn't getting any easier for this cohort.\n\nShannon Waine and her family are now paying £175 more each month\n\nAfter applying for 20 different houses in their price range in Cheltenham, Ms Waine said she had to look further afield. After six weeks, she found a house in Bidford-on-Avon in Warwickshire for £825 a month - £175 higher than their previous house.\n\n\"We used to pay £650 a month but there was no longer anything in that price bracket as there is just so much demand for two beds in Cheltenham now,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThe family have moved in with relatives twice during their search.\n\n\"It's been incredibly stressful, not knowing where we'll be and with a 10-month-old daughter has not been easy through no fault of our own,\" she said.\n\n\"Unless you have family support I don't know how people can cope - there's nowhere near enough council houses and it feels like it's all backwards.\"\n\nThe family has also had to borrow money to afford the cost of moving house in six trips from Cheltenham to Warwickshire.\n\nColin Hayman, a private landlord from Norwich, says he does have sympathy for tenants facing spiralling rents.\n\nBut Mr Hayman, who's 61, says he's also frustrated at how landlords are \"always painted as the bad guy\".\n\nColin Hayman says landlords have good reasons for increasing rents.\n\n\"Of course I have sympathy for renters, don't get me wrong,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But from a landlord's perspective there are good reasons for increasing rents which are being ignored, including changes in tax laws in respect of buy-to-let mortgage payments.\"\n\nMr Hayman, who has a small portfolio of properties in north-east England, says there are also changes coming in which make it increasingly difficult to make an income from being a landlord.\n\nThese include new regulations to make properties more energy efficient.\n\n\"It's expensive to achieve the new standards,\" he says. \"For many landlords, it's simply not viable to keep their properties as it's costing too much.\"\n\nMr Hayman says many landlords are being forced out of the market.\n\n\"They are selling up now whilst property prices are high, thus reducing supply of rental stock and pushing prices up further,\"\n\n\"The government likes to show it is pro-tenant but everything they are doing is anti-landlord.\"", "Andrew Tate appeared in the 2016 series of Big Brother\n\nYouTube has banned influencer Andrew Tate for violating its policies.\n\nThe Google-owned social media site took action following Meta's decision to ban Mr Tate from Facebook and Instagram.\n\nThe former kickboxer rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to depict him attacking a woman.\n\nHe went on to gain notoriety online - with Twitter banning him for saying women should \"bear responsibility\" for being sexually assaulted.\n\nAt the time of his removal from Big Brother, in 2016, Mr Tate said the controversial video had been edited, calling it \"a total lie trying to make me look bad\".\n\nGoogle, which owns YouTube, told the BBC: \"We terminated channels associated with Andrew Tate for multiple violations of our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service, including our hate speech policy.\n\n\"If a channel is terminated, the uploader is unable to use, own or create any other YouTube channels.\"\n\nMr Tate's YouTube channels had more than a million followers between them.\n\nTikTok has also banned an account belonging to Mr Tate as part of an ongoing investigation to remove content that violates its policies.\n\nA TikTok spokesperson told the BBC: \"Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok.\n\n\"We've been removing violative videos and accounts for weeks, and we welcome the news that other platforms are also taking action against this individual.\"\n\nOn Instagram, Tate had 4.7 million followers at the time his account was removed. That number had grown rapidly from around one million followers in June.\n\nMeta said it had removed the kickboxing star from its platforms for violating its policies on dangerous organisations and individuals, but did not provide further details.\n\nThe BBC has approached Mr Tate for comment.\n\nAndrew Tate's videos - promoting misogyny and targeting women - have come to prominence this summer, with many teens commenting on just how much he's appearing on their social media feeds.\n\nHis content has raised concerns about the real-world effect it could have, especially on the younger users exposed to it during their school holidays when they have time on their hands.\n\nThe focus has been primarily on TikTok, where users say they've been readily served up his videos - sparking a new wave of videos commenting on and criticising Mr Tate's content.\n\nYouTube has also found itself under pressure, since it's where he has racked up millions of views.\n\nI revealed how social media sites promote anti-women hate for BBC Panorama. The investigations exposed how some platforms' algorithms were recommending more and more misogyny to a troll account.\n\nSince then, several sites have made commitments to better protect female users. But, once again, questions are being raised about the role social media sites play in pushing anti-women content.\n\nMr Tate has drawn criticism online for his comments, particularly from UK advocacy group Hope Not Hate, which welcomed Meta's ban last week.\n\nJoe Mulhall, director of research at the group, said Mr Tate \"poses a genuine threat to young men, radicalising them towards extremism misogyny, racism and homophobia\".\n\nHe added: \"We've provided significant evidence to the major social media platforms, including Meta, about his activity and why he must be removed.\"\n\nVideos about Mr Tate have proved popular across social media platforms, particularly on TikTok where videos using the #AndrewTate hashtag have been viewed more than 12.7 billion times.\n\nBut this number represents not just videos of Tate and his supporters - it also includes videos made by people criticising the influencer.\n\nOn YouTube, some of his most popular videos have had millions of views.\n\nIn one video, during which he was interviewed by another YouTuber, he said he was \"absolutely a misogynist\", adding: \"I'm a realist and when you're a realist you're sexist. There's no way you can be rooted in reality and not be sexist.\"\n\nLater in the same video he called women \"intrinsically lazy\" and said there was \"no such thing as an independent female\".\n\nIn a different video, Mr Tate said: \"If I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority.\"\n\nHe added: \"You can't be responsible for a dog if it doesn't obey you.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Explosions seen at an arms depot in Maiske in Crimea on Tuesday 16 August\n\nUkrainian strikes on Crimea are having major psychological and operational effects on Moscow's forces, Western officials have told journalists.\n\nExplosions at the Saki airbase on 9 August and other assaults have put more than half of the Black Sea fleet's naval jets out of action, they said.\n\nThe fleet has a revered history, but it has suffered a series of humiliations since the invasion began in February.\n\nOfficials said the setbacks have forced it to adopt a defensive posture.\n\nIn April, the fleet's flagship, the cruiser Moskva, was sunk by Ukraine. The 510-crew missile cruiser had led Russia's naval assault on Ukraine, and its sinking was a major symbolic and military blow.\n\nAt the time, the Russian defence ministry said ammunition on board the Moskva exploded in an unexplained fire, and the ship tipped over while being towed back to port.\n\nIn June, the fleet suffered another embarrassment when it was forced to abandon Snake Island, a tiny outpost in the north-west of the Black Sea seized by Russia on the first day of its invasion, after coming under sustained Ukrainian bombardment.\n\nAnd in recent weeks, the fleet's home in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, has come under attack from Ukrainian forces.\n\nAt least eight fighter jets were destroyed in the bombardment of Saki airbase on 9 August.\n\nFollowing the attacks, scores of holidaymakers were seen fleeing the peninsula, which was previously untouched by fighting. Images acquired by the BBC showed queues of traffic on roads leading out of Crimea three days after the attack.\n\nThe 9 August strikes were not the only apparent Ukrainian strikes in Crimea.\n\nIn July, Russian officials alleged that a Ukrainian drone attack forced an end to Navy Day celebrations in Sevastopol, and on 16 August there were explosions at an arms depot on the peninsula.\n\nThe fact that explosions in Crimea - a place previously considered to be well beyond the reach of any Ukrainian attack - were watched by thousands of Russian tourists, many of whom have since fled Crimea back into Russia, has had a psychological effect in Moscow, officials told the media.\n\nThe Western officials, who spoke unattributably on background, meaning they cannot be named, said that Russia's Black Sea fleet has been reduced to little more than a coastal flotilla that is now having to adopt a cautious attitude due to Ukrainian attacks.\n\nThey added that Russia's ability to launch an assault on the port of Odesa in western Ukraine is highly unlikely in the short term.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russian state media reported that the fleet's commander, Igor Osipov, had been replaced in light of the attacks. The RIA news agency said the fleet's new chief, Viktor Sokolov, has been introduced to military leaders at the port of Sevastopol.\n\nMoscow also seems to be trying to re-arm its beleaguered fleet. State media reported that Admiral Sokolov told a group of young officers that they will receive 12 new vessels, alongside additional aviation and land-based vehicles later this year.\n\nHe insisted that the fleet has been \"successfully completing all the tasks set for it\" during the invasion, Russia's Tass news agency reported.\n\nBut on Wednesday, UK defence officials said that the Kremlin's plans have been \"undermined\" by the navy's failure to assume full control over the Black Sea.\n\nThe Black Sea fleet has generally pursued an \"extremely defensive\" position and remained near the Crimean coast, they said.", "Comedy actress Josephine Tewson, who appeared in TV sitcoms including Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine, has died at the age of 91.\n\nTewson was best known for playing Elizabeth, the nervous next-door neighbour of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances between 1990-95.\n\nHer other sitcoms included Shelley with Hywel Bennett and No Appointment Necessary with Roy Kinnear.\n\nShe also worked extensively with Ronnie Barker, Charlie Drake and Dick Emery.\n\nPatricia Routledge and Josephine Tewson in Keeping Up Appearances\n\nIn a statement, her agent Jean Diamond said: \"It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Josephine Tewson.\"\n\nThe actress died on Thursday at Denville Hall, a care home for actors and other members of the entertainment industry in north London, Diamond added.\n\nTewson played Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine\n\nTewson was born in Hampstead, London, in 1931, and started her career in the theatre. Her productions included the West End musical Free As Air, whose cast also included Leonard Rossiter.\n\nThey got married in 1958 but divorced three years later. He went on to find fame in the sitcom Rising Damp.\n\nTewson later became a regular on TV on The Charlie Drake Show and The Dick Emery Show in the late 1960s. On radio, she was in the casts of The Ronnie Corbett Thing, The Secret Life of Kenneth Williams and Bob Monkhouse's Mostly Monkhouse.\n\nTewson with Ronnie Barker in the sitcom Clarence\n\nShe had a long association with Barker, from ITV's Frost on Sunday and Hark at Barker to the BBC's His Lordship Entertains and then the 1930s-set Clarence.\n\nShe also made frequent appearances in The Two Ronnies with Barker and Corbett, and in a string of TV comedies with Terry Scott - Son of the Bride, Happy Ever After and Terry and June.\n\nAfter starring in Keeping Up Appearances, the show's writer Roy Clarke provided Tewson with the role of Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine between 2003 and 2010.", "P&O Ferries will not face criminal action over the way it fired nearly 800 employees earlier this year, the Insolvency Service has said.\n\nThe firm sacked staff without notice in March, replacing them with foreign agency workers who were paid less than the UK minimum wage.\n\nThe government agency said that, following a \"full and robust criminal investigation\", there was \"no realistic prospect of a conviction\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng asked the Insolvency Service to carry out an urgent enquiry to examine whether the law had been broken.\n\nAn Insolvency Service spokesperson said: \"After a full and robust criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the employees who were made redundant by P&O Ferries, we have concluded that we will not commence criminal proceedings.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added the investigation, which was reviewed by an independent senior prosecution lawyer, had led to the conclusion that there was \"no realistic prospect of a conviction\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"In sacking 800 dedicated staff on the spot, P&O Ferries not only acted callously but failed to uphold the high standards we expect of British businesses.\n\n\"Given their appalling behaviour, it's very disappointing that the company will not face criminal proceedings.\"\n\nThe spokesperson added that the government would not comment further until the civil investigation was concluded.\n\nThe Nautilus union, which represents seafarers, called it a \"deeply disappointing\" decision which would be met with \"frustration and anger\" by the sacked workers.\n\n\"Only one day after P&O Ferries' parent company announced record profits, making the company's claims on operational sustainability questionable, we are further let down by a system that fails to punish apparent criminal corporatism,\" said Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson.\n\nP&O chief executive Peter Hebblethwaite admitted to MPs that he broke the law by not consulting workers\n\nTransport Select Committee chairman Huw Merriman called on the government to legislate to prevent future mass sackings.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"The law isn't strong enough and as MPs we need to legislate to make sure that it is.\n\n\"I still maintain their (P&O Ferries) actions are a disgrace - but the disgrace will be on Parliament if we don't fix it and stop it from happening again.\"\n\nLabour accused the government of breaking a pledge to hold P&O Ferries to account.\n\nShadow employment rights minister Justin Madders said: \"For all the handwringing of Tory ministers, they've broken the promises they made after P&O's outrageous behaviour and instead changed the law to open the door for others to follow in their wake elsewhere.\n\n\"This outcome is a sign of a broken economy under the Tories and the fundamental weakness of employment protections under their government.\"\n\nSome staff found out they no longer had a job via a pre-recorded video message\n\nP&O Ferries's decision to sack 786 workers without notice sparked outrage from unions and politicians, leading to calls for the company's boss, Peter Hebblethwaite, to resign.\n\nMr Hebblethwaite admitted to MPs that he had broken the law by not consulting workers but said he would do the same again if he had to.\n\nHe said no union would have accepted the plan and it was easier to compensate workers \"in full\" instead.\n\nHe apologised for the distress caused by the cuts, but said they were necessary to save the business.\n\nSome staff found out they no longer had a job via a pre-recorded video message.", "Ukrainian officials previously staged an exercise in case of possible nuclear disaster\n\nUN nuclear inspectors have made an appeal for fighting to stop at Europe's biggest nuclear power plant - close to the front line in Ukraine - to help prevent a nuclear accident.\n\nRafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned of a very real risk of nuclear disaster. He has led a team to the plant where Ukrainian staff have worked in highly challenging conditions for months.\n\nRussia seized the Zaporizhzhia plant on the left bank of the River Dnipro at the start of its war and the two sides have since accused each other of repeatedly shelling it.\n\nWhen the plant was temporarily cut off from Ukraine's power grid for the first time in its history in late August, Ukraine's president said the world had narrowly avoided a radiation accident. Russian officials have even produced a map of how a radioactive cloud might spread to neighbouring countries.\n\nWhat, then, is the risk to this nuclear plant which houses six reactors - and is Europe facing a Fukushima-type meltdown?\n\nMuch of the anxiety has been about the plant coming under fire from artillery shells or rockets. Ukraine has accused Russian forces of using it as a shield from which to fire on nearby cities. Russia denies that is the case, but satellite photos have shown their military stationed near some of the buildings.\n\n\"Zaporizhzhia was built in the 1980s, which is relatively modern,\" says Mark Wenman, head of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy Futures. \"It has a solid containment building. It's 1.75m [5.75ft] thick, of heavily reinforced concrete on a seismic bed [to withstand earthquakes]... and it takes a hell of a lot to breach that.\"\n\nHe rejects comparisons with either Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima in 2011. Chernobyl had serious design flaws, he explains, while at Fukushima the diesel generators were flooded, which he believes would not happen in Ukraine as the generators are inside the containment building.\n\nAfter 9/11, nuclear plants were tested for potential attacks involving large airliners and found to be largely safe, so damage to a reactor's containment building may not be the biggest hazard.\n\nMore worrying is loss of power supply to the nuclear reactors. If that happens and the diesel back-up generators fail, that would lead to a loss of coolant. With no electricity to power the pumps around the hot reactor core, the fuel would start to melt.\n\nThe plant was temporarily disconnected from Ukraine's grid on 25 August, when fires twice brought down its last remaining 750 kilovolt power line. The other three were put out of action during the war.\n\nIn the event, electricity was sourced to a less powerful line from a coal-fired thermal power station near by and officials said the diesel generators were also used.\n\nHowever, Ukraine's nuclear agency says the generators do not provide a long-term solution and if that last power line from the national grid is broken then nuclear fuel could begin melting, \"resulting in a release of radioactive substances to the environment\".\n\nLt Gen Igor Kirillov of Russia's nuclear protection corps says shelling has already damaged the plant's support systems, so a pump and generator failure could lead to the reactor core overheating and the plant's facilities being destroyed.\n\n\"That wouldn't be as serious as Chernobyl, but it could still lead to a release of radioactivity and that depends which way the wind's blowing,\" says Claire Corkhill, professor of nuclear material degradation at the University of Sheffield.\n\nFor her, the risk of something going wrong is genuine - and Russia would be just as much at risk as Central Europe.\n\nBut Prof Iztok Tiselj, chair of nuclear engineering at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, believes the risk of a major radioactive incident is minimal as only two of the six reactors are now operating.\n\n\"From the standpoint of European citizens there's no reason to worry,\" he says. The other four are in a state of cold shutdown, so the amount of power needed to cool the reactors is smaller.\n\nMark Wenman is full of praise for the Ukrainian staff at the plant for reducing the number of reactors in operation.\n\nThat means that even though the radioactive products continue to be radioactive, the so-called \"decay heat\" after a shutdown decays exponentially with time. \"Provided the diesel generators are in good shape, even if they lost electricity from the grid they should be able to cool the reactor,\" he says.\n\nAnother major safety risk could come from the spent fuel at Zaporizhzhia. Once the fuel is finished the waste is cooled in spent fuel pools and then moved to dry cask storage.\n\n\"If these were to be damaged there would be a release of radioactivity but it wouldn't be anywhere near as serious as the loss of coolant,\" says Prof Corkhill. And Iztok Tiselj believes any release would be so small as to be negligible.\n\nAt the heart of this crisis are the plant's original staff, working under Russian occupation and under a great deal of stress. Two workers have told the BBC of the daily risk of being kidnapped.\n\nIn August, the UN secretary general called on Russia to pull its troops out and demilitarise the area with a \"safe perimeter\". Russia has refused, arguing that would make the plant more vulnerable.\n\nEmployees have warned of disaster if Russia tries to shut the whole plant down, in order to disconnect the supply from Ukraine and reconnect it instead to Russian-occupied Crimea.\n\nDr Wenman believes it is the human factor that represents the biggest risk of a nuclear accident, whether because of chronic fatigue or stress: \"And that violates all the safety principles.\"\n\nIf something were to go wrong, they would need to be on top form, and one can imagine they are not, says Claire Corkhill.\n\nA letter signed by dozens of employees has called on the international community to stop and think: \"We can professionally control nuclear fission,\" it said, \"but we are helpless in the face of people's irresponsibility and madness.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nHarry Kane scored his 250th goal for Tottenham as they moved top of the Premier League for a few hours with a hard-fought win over Wolves.\n\nThe England forward reacted sharply to head in Ivan Perisic's flick on from a corner to give Spurs their reward for their second-half dominance.\n\nKane's effort also saw the hosts become the fifth team to score 1,000 goals at home since the Premier League was formed in 1992.\n\nThe goal had been coming with both the 29-year-old and his strike partner Son Heung-min hitting the woodwork as Spurs poured forward to break the deadlock.\n\nThe intensity of their football was in complete contrast to the first period, when a Wolves team containing seven Portuguese players - the joint-most from a single foreign nation in a starting XI in the competition - were in the ascendancy.\n\nBruno Lage's side restricted the hosts to just one 45th-minute effort and were unfortunate to see record signing Matheus Nunes nod Ruben Neves' probing pass inches wide of the Spurs goal.\n\nHowever, despite the promise of Nunes' display and the neat and tidy football which saw them develop several good openings, Wolves lacked a spark in the final third as their winless top-flight run reached 10 matches.\n\nKane comes to the fore for Spurs\n\nHaving had to wait until mid-October for his first Premier League goal last term, Kane has now scored crucial goals in two of Tottenham's first three fixtures in a month that he has historically struggled in.\n\nHis last-gasp equaliser at Stamford Bridge helped Antonio Conte's side maintain their unbeaten start at Chelsea, while against Wolves he delivered a match-winning contribution.\n\nOn the balance of play it was not unmerited, though it relied upon Kane's persistence and capacity to immediately brush off one missed opportunity and search for another.\n\nHaving registered Tottenham's only first-half attempt at goal with a looping header, Kane cannoned a header against the Wolves bar in the second period before brilliantly escaping the attention of Nathan Collins to nod home from two yards\n\nHad Wolves had a player of his ilk at the other end of the pitch, the score may have arguably been reversed.\n\nThe likes of Daniel Podence and another new signing Goncalo Guedes both worked themselves into positions where Kane would have likely profited.\n\nMeanwhile, Raul Jimenez looked short of match sharpness when appearing as a substitute on his return from a pre-season injury and Lage will hope to get the Mexican up to speed quickly, with no side outside the bottom three scoring fewer goals than Wolves last term.\n• None Go straight to the best Wolves content\n• None Attempt missed. Richarlison (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Yves Bissouma.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harry Kane.\n• None Attempt blocked. Hwang Hee-Chan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nélson Semedo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jonny (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Attempt missed. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nélson Semedo (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gonçalo Guedes. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - here's everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment", "Vanessa Bryant arrives at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Friday\n\nKobe Bryant's widow has testified that she had panic attacks after learning that photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter were taken and shared.\n\nVanessa Bryant is suing Los Angeles County after first responders allegedly circulated pictures from the accident.\n\n\"I expected them to have more compassion,\" she told jurors at her invasion of privacy trial.\n\nMrs Bryant, 40, is seeking unspecified millions for her emotional distress.\n\nHer husband, basketball legend Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna, 13, and six family friends died when their helicopter crashed in California in January 2020.\n\nA report by the Los Angeles Times claiming county employees took photos at the crash site and shared them with others has enraged the victims' families.\n\nLast November, the county agreed to pay $2.5m (£2.1m) over the emotional distress caused to two families who lost relatives in the crash - but Mrs Bryant refused to settle.\n\nHer federal lawsuit was made alongside Chris Chester, who lost his wife Sarah and daughter Payton in the crash.\n\nSobbing on the witness stand on Friday, Mrs Bryant recalled being at home with her other children when she read the LA Times story.\n\n\"I bolted out of the house and I ran to the side of the house so the girls couldn't see me. I wanted to run… down the block and just scream,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bryant said she had felt \"blindsided, devastated, hurt and betrayed\" by news of the leak and \"[lives] in fear every day of... having these images pop up\" on social media.\n\n\"I don't ever want to see these photographs,\" she said. \"I want to remember my husband and my daughter the way they were.\"\n\nJurors at the trial have heard how sheriff's deputies and firefighters took gruesome cell phone photos at the accident site and showed them to others, including at a bar and a gala event.\n\nThese employees \"poured salt in an open wound and rubbed it in\" with their actions, Mrs Bryant's lawyer Luis Li said during opening statements last week.\n\nBut a lawyer for the county pushed back, saying \"site photography is essential\" and that the photos had not been posted anywhere publicly.\n\n\"They're not online, they're not in the media, they've never even been seen by the plaintiffs themselves,\" J Mira Hashmall said.\n\nMrs Bryant was the final witness for the prosecution and the defence will argue its case next.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alicia Keys and Lizzo lead tributes to Kobe Bryant at the Grammys", "El Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\nAn Islamic State group militant from the UK has been sentenced to life in prison by a US court for his involvement with a terror cell.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh, 34, was convicted in April of hostage-taking, conspiracy to murder US citizens and supporting a terrorist organisation.\n\nAddressing the Sudanese-born Londoner, the judge called his actions \"horrific, barbaric, brutal and criminal\".\n\nElsheikh was the highest profile IS fighter to stand trial in the US.\n\nHis actions are said to have resulted in the deaths of four US hostages.\n\nJournalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig were all kidnapped and killed at the hands of the cell.\n\nElsheikh has been sentenced to eight life sentences, served concurrently, with no option for parole.\n\nHe declined the judge's offer to make a comment before sentencing was handed down - his silence has been consistent.\n\nHe did make a request - which was to not be sent to ADX in Colorado, a supermax prison that provides a higher, more controlled level of custody than a maximum security prison. Inmates there are kept largely in solitary confinement.\n\nHostage families expressed a mixture of gratitude and disappointment for the outcome. Standing outside the courthouse on Friday, James Foley's mother, Diane, called the sentencing a \"hollow victory,\" but said that it did show that \"US justice will find you wherever you are\".\n\n\"Our country has lost four of its very best citizens. We families lost loved ones forever,\" she said.\n\nThe sentencing came on the eight-year anniversary of Foley's death. Mrs Foley told the BBC that when she first heard of her son's death she thought it was \"some cruel joke\".\n\nHostages said Elsheikh was part of a notorious cell nicknamed \"the Beatles\" - after the band - because of their British accents.\n\nThe three members - Elsheikh, Alexanda Kotey and Mohammed Emwazi - who are said to be part of the group all grew up in west London and volunteered to fight for the Islamic State group in Syria. They ended up guarding Western hostages.\n\nUS authorities say the group beheaded 27 hostages.\n\nElsheikh was the only one of the three militants to go on trial in the US, after Kotey pleaded guilty to charges last September and Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone strike in Syria.\n\nIn April, the 12-person jury deliberated for less than six hours over two days before finding Elsheikh guilty.\n\nThe gruelling 11-day trial involved testimony from former hostages and their family members. On the stand, they described the Beatles as a cohesive unit that revelled in brutality.\n\nWitnesses recounted receiving random beatings, being given dog names and being forced to sing a parody of the Eagles' pop song \"Hotel California\" retitled \"Hotel Osama\".\n\nElsheikh has appealed and has disqualified his lawyers, meaning he is claiming he did not get a fair trial.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ukrainian emergency rescuers attend an exercise in case of a possible nuclear incident at Zaporizhzhia's nuclear plant.\n\nIt is relatively unusual in Ukraine for a government official to invite you on a short-notice trip.\n\nIt turns out it is more common for that invitation to come with very little detail.\n\nThe main reason for that is security - it is not exactly wise to publicise when a minister is going to be somewhere, especially when you are being invaded by another country.\n\nWe decided to accept, and soon found ourselves at an airfield near Kyiv, where we and other journalists were led onto a helicopter.\n\nBy this point we knew our destination was the city of Zaporizhzhia, and the subject was the growing danger from the region's nuclear power plant further south.\n\nWithin 30 seconds of the journey starting, I realised why we were offered anti-nausea tablets before taking off.\n\nTo stay undetected, the pilot keeps the helicopter around 10 metres off the ground, occasionally hurdling over electric powerlines.\n\nThere are endless fields of sunflowers. Some are in full bloom, some are wilting, past their best. Regardless, the harvest is fast approaching.\n\nThen there is the dense woodland - thousands upon thousands of towering trees which come so close to touching the skids of the chopper.\n\nYou are left under no illusion of Ukraine's vast and rich landscape.\n\nAfter landing in Zaporizhzhia, you are struck by two things: the more industrial skyline in comparison to Kyiv, as well as the humidity.\n\nWe end up at a supermarket car park where emergency workers are dressed in yellow hazmat suits. They are practising cleaning drills in the event of a radioactive contamination.\n\nUkraine's last nuclear crisis was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear incident, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded.\n\nThey are watched by senior officials, who are keen to see how ready the region would be in the event of a worst-case scenario.\n\n\"Of course we are concerned,\" Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko tells me. \"The situation changed dramatically when the Russians started shelling the area on 5 August.\"\n\nUkraine says the situation at the plant is \"approaching critical\".\n\nRussian forces have occupied the site, Europe's biggest, since early March.\n\nThey have been urged to hand control back because of the dangers, and some staff there have told the BBC they're \"being kept at gunpoint\".\n\nFor the past two weeks there's been heavy shelling on and around the plant, with the sides blaming each other.\n\nNato is the latest international organisation to call for United Nations inspectors to be let into the Zaporizhzhia power plant, claiming its seizure posed a serious threat to Ukraine and neighbouring countries.\n\nOfficials say the plant could be cut off from power as Moscow tries to redirect electricity to Crimea, which it annexed eight years ago.\n\n\"It is impossible to ensure the safety of the nuclear power plant while the Russian occupying forces are there,\" says Denys Monastyrskyy, Ukraine's interior minister.\n\n\"It is the key concern that we all should understand,\" he adds.\n\nUkraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy says the situation at the plant is “approaching critical”\n\nThe car park is also a place where Ukrainians who manage to make it out of Russian-occupied territories first arrive.\n\nThere are queues of cars with people and full suitcases.\n\nSitting in the shade we meet Olena, who has just made it out of the city of Enerhodar, where the nuclear plant is located.\n\n\"It's scary, very scary, there is shelling all the time,\" she says while bouncing her toddler on her knee.\n\n\"There have been many more explosions and it became too dangerous to stay there.\n\n\"I didn't want to leave home, but I had no choice.\"\n\nThis car park represents Ukraine controlling what it can.\n\nUnable to force the Russians from Europe's biggest nuclear power plant, the country is instead trying to prepare for the worst, if it happens.", "In other news, the United States has announced another tranche of weapons for Ukraine - this one totalling $775m.\n\nThe package includes more High Speed Anti Radiation Missiles (HARMs) for attack on Russian surface-to-air missile radar systems, along with early warning radar facilities.\n\nThe missiles are being integrated into existing Ukrainian aircraft - Mig-29s - not an easy task because they are Russian-built with very different avionics systems compared to Western jets. But war tends to accelerate development progress, so perhaps it is no surprise that this has been achieved by Ukraine.\n\nGround-launched anti-armour capability gets a boost to Kyiv, too. For the first time, 1,500 TOW missiles - Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-Guided missiles - are being supplied. The Pentagon has also committed to a steady flow of precision-guided munitions for HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) too.\n\nFurther down the announcement is reference to \"demolition munitions\". These too have been supplied before in the shape of C-4, a malleable explosive that’s been around for more than 60 years.\n\nWith rumours of Ukrainian special operations responsible for at least some of the explosions at Russian-occupied military bases in Crimea, this is interesting.\n\nRussia has said sabotage was carried out, without offering any further explanation about what happened at the sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Alexanda Kotey (left) and El Shafee Elsheikh were arrested at a demonstration in London in 2011\n\nHostages freed by the Islamic State terror cell, known as The Beatles, gave vital evidence to identify their captors, say police.\n\nThe hostages told British police the men had boasted of being arrested at a London demonstration years earlier.\n\nOfficers identified the protest and recovered video of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey being arrested.\n\nAnalysis of their phones showed the pair's links to the cell's executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, or \"Jihadi John\".\n\nThe details were disclosed by Scotland Yard ahead of Elsheikh's sentencing in the United States on Friday.\n\nElsheikh was convicted in April of lethal hostage-taking and conspiracy to commit murder.\n\nCo-defendant Alexanda Kotey pleaded guilty in September 2021 and was jailed for life.\n\n\"This was an investigation into some truly horrific crimes,\" said Commander Richard Smith, head of Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nHe described it as a \"truly colossal investigation\", lasting eight years.\n\nThe group's actions resulted in the deaths of four US hostages - Mr Foley and fellow journalist Steven Sotloff plus aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.\n\nIt is also blamed for the deaths of British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalists Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto.\n\nClockwise from top left: Aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig, and journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley\n\n\"These were some of the most shocking and barbaric acts that we've seen and they were carried out with chilling callousness and brutality,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nHis officers were part of an international hunt to identify and bring to justice Jihadi John and his associates.\n\nCdr Smith described how their first breakthrough came from conversations with those hostages released by IS after ransoms were paid.\n\nThey disclosed how their masked captors, who were \"at great pains to hide their identities\", spoke of having been arrested at a demonstration against far-right group, the English Defence League, in 2011.\n\n\"Based on that snippet of conversation, our investigation team was able to go back and identify a particular EDL march in London on 11 September 2011,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nVideo of Elsheikh being arrested at the September 2011 demonstration was a crucial piece of evidence\n\nPolice records and video showed Kotey and Elsheikh were part of a group that was arrested after reports of a stabbing at the march, but later released without charge.\n\n\"The information was invaluable in helping us zero in on them as being the men the hostages had described to us,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nIt proved the two men had been associates before they went to Syria in 2012.\n\nData from their phones, which were seized when they were arrested, also revealed their contacts with Emwazi, who was killed in a drone strike in Syria in 2015.\n\nThe police also held on their records vital evidence against Emwazi.\n\nHe was questioned about a series of thefts in London in 2012 and his interviews with police were still on tape, Cdr Smith revealed.\n\nForensic voice analysis of these police interviews showed \"a very strong likelihood\" the recordings were of the same person as the masked executioner in the IS videos.\n\nA further breakthrough came in an unrelated case when in 2014 Elsheikh's brother, Khalid, was arrested in an Operation Trident investigation into UK gun crime.\n\nDigital interrogation analysis of Khalid's mobile phone revealed messages sent by Elsheikh from Syria on the encrypted Telegram platform.\n\nThey included an image of Elsheikh holding a firearm, which was used as evidence against him during his trial.\n\nEl Shafee Elsheikh is said to have earned a reputation for \"waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions\"\n\n\"These men thought they were beyond the reach of law\" but were brought to justice following \"a remarkable investigation\" and thanks to the \"fortitude and courage of the hostages who gave evidence against them,\" said Cdr Smith.\n\nThe pair were arrested and detained by Kurdish militia in Syria in January 2018 and were eventually sent for trial in the United States.\n\nUK ministers had argued their best chance of conviction lay in them being tried in the US.\n\nKotey pictured inside the police station in London on 11 September 2011\n\nIn August 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that a stay preventing the Home Office from supplying intelligence against the men must be lifted after the US said it would drop death-penalty charges against them.\n\nHowever, Cdr Smith disclosed that a file had been sent by his officers to the Crown Prosecution Service, after which the UK attorney general authorised 139 charges, including hostage-taking and kidnapping, against Elsheikh and Kotey.\n\nAsked why these British men were not tried in the UK, he said: \"Our job was to gather the evidence,\" adding that British detectives had been \"delighted to support\" the US prosecution.", "Lloyd Rees, who started shearing at the age of 16, works around the UK and overseas\n\nA Welsh sheep shearer has set a new British record after shearing 902 animals in nine hours.\n\nLloyd Rees, 28, completed the challenge at Blaenbwch Farm, Builth Wells, Powys, on Friday afternoon.\n\nHe sheared 203 sheep in the first two hours and then 174, 171, 177 and another 177 in the following runs to beat his target of 900.\n\nHis efforts have, so far, raised more than £1,700 for Parkinson's UK Cymru and the Welsh Air Ambulance Service.\n\nLloyd, based in Brecon, started shearing at the age of 16 and works around the UK and abroad, completing his 10th season in New Zealand in February.\n\nHe paid tribute to supporters, saying it was \"hugely appreciated\".\n\nThe previous record of 881 was only set last week, beating the 872 total set in 2021.", "In mid-July, a 600kg (94 stone) walrus, affectionately nicknamed Freya, appeared near Norway's capital city in the Oslo Fjord.\n\nNot one to remain low-key, she soon became a local celebrity, as videos of her awkwardly and slowly scrambling onto boats went viral.\n\nHowever, less than a month after her first appearance, Freya was killed by government authorities, having been deemed a danger to the public.\n\nThis has not gone down well - some went as far as to accuse Norway of \"murdering\" the mammal, while an online fundraising campaign for a bronze statue has raised almost $24,000 (£20,000) in a matter of days.\n\nIndeed, the outrage - which fanned out far beyond Norway's borders - has been such that even the country's prime minister has been forced to comment, saying putting Freya down was \"the right decision''.\n\nBut still people are asking: could Freya have been saved?\n\nFreya's journey to Oslo most likely started in the Arctic, but over the last year she appeared to have undertaken a European tour, with sightings in UK, Dutch, Danish and Swedish waters.\n\nEverywhere the walrus went she attracted attention - but in Norway this started to worry officials.\n\nPhotographs showed large crowds gathered on the edge of the water, standing within touching distance. Meanwhile, reports emerged in local media of Freya chasing a woman into the water, while one kayaker described a \"scary encounter\" with the animal when she came too close to his vessel.\n\nThe fisheries ministry released a picture of people gathered very close to the walrus\n\n\"Walruses are unpredictable in their behaviour,\" says Erik Born, a senior scientist at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, \"and are perfectly well able to catch a seal between their front flippers and stab them to death.\"\n\nAs the walrus got closer to people - or the people got closer to her - there was an obvious danger. \"Having a half-tonne heavy walrus - with sharp tusks - swimming among people is pretty risky,\" Dr Born says.\n\nWhat's more, walruses have been known to attack scuba divers and small boats - although these cases are few and far between.\n\nBut then, says Mads Frost Bertelsen, the Zoological Director at Copenhagen Zoo, that is not surprising. Walruses tend to live in remote areas, which means they don't often come into contact with humans. This means statistics on incidents are low - but, he points out, they are capable of inflicting \"serious damage\".\n\nSo would Prof Bertelsen have come to the same decision as the fisheries ministry? He says he would.\n\nThe blame, however, does not sit with Freya, according to Dr Jeff W Higdon, a consulting Arctic marine mammal biologist from Canada with experience of walruses.\n\n\"Human behaviour significantly increased risk in this case,\" he says - questioning why common sense did not prevail among the sightseers.\n\n\"Everyone who crowded that animal put themselves and their children at risk and contributed to the unfortunate outcome.\"\n\nBut not everyone agrees that the risk inevitably should have led to Freya's death.\n\n\"The risk was potential rather than demonstrated,\" argues Fern Wickson, a professor at the Arctic University of Norway.\n\nIndeed, she says the level of risk posed by Freya was no greater than those \"we regularly tolerate in our society and daily lives\".\n\n\"That the government chose to take Freya's life rather than try to manage this potential risk through implementing more effective measures to manage the behaviour of people was surprising and disappointing,\" Prof Wickson says.\n\nNorway's Fisheries Directorate did discuss a possible solution to the issue other than euthanasia with experts before acting, including members of the Institute of Marine Research (IMR).\n\nBut the outcome was not positive.\n\nAccording to the IMR, experts advised against anesthetising Freya, as she would \"then most likely have sought safety in the water and drowned after the anaesthetic took effect\".\n\nAttempting to immobilise the animal with drugs so she couldn't swim away and drown would have come with its own risk, warns biologist Dr Higdon.\n\n\"Immobilising, capturing and moving wild animals can lead to physiological stress - and in extreme cases cause death,\" he says.\n\nThe directorate agreed and had further concerns - pointing to the walrus's large size, limited access to blood vessels and \"severe respiratory and circularity problems\" when anaesthetised.\n\nBut that wasn't the only option put on the table - the IMR also considered putting a net under a boat with the aim of catching Freya.\n\n\"This would also entail a relatively high risk, as the walrus could easily become entangled in the net and panic and drown,\" the institute explained in a statement.\n\nThe \"gentlest\" decision would have involved building an open-top cage which would be placed in the water with the top slightly sticking out. Freya could then have possibly been placed inside, and taken somewhere safer.\n\n\"If it had been successful, there would be little chance of the animal getting stuck under water or damaging the device,\" explained the IMR.\n\nHowever, the IMR revealed that it did not recommend a solution, and the Directorate of Fisheries made the final decision on Freya's fate.\n\nTheir conclusion was that due to the high risk of harming or killing her and the \"significant use of resources\" and costs required to move her, it was not feasible to relocate Freya. Their statement said that growing crowds and ignored warnings led to more situations where Freya or nearby people could be injured.\n\n\"Both the behaviour of the walrus and people have changed recently. We therefore decided that euthanasia was the right measure,\" the directorate told the BBC.\n\nAs Rod Downie, chief adviser for the WWF on Polar Regions, put it: \"Freya posed a danger to the public - and the public posed a danger to Freya.\"\n\nBut Freya's journey isn't quite over.\n\nThe IMR has announced that the Norwegian Veterinary Institute will perform a post-mortem examination on her which they say could provide valuable information about the animal.\n\nWalruses are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species. However, several experts pointed out that Freya's death will have little impact on walrus numbers.\n\n\"The Atlantic walrus population is not at risk and the loss of this animal, while unfortunate, isn't a conservation concern,\" says Dr Higdon.\n\nMeanwhile, Prof Bertelsen was keen to emphasise that there were more pressing issues. \"The bigger picture,\" he says, \"is global warming and pollution of the sea.\"", "From the crunch of leaves underfoot and the fiery foliage adorning the trees, you might be thinking autumn has come early.\n\nBut experts say this hint of a change in the seasons isn't genuine. Instead it's the tell-tale sign of a \"false autumn\".\n\nThey warn the heatwave and drought has pushed trees into survival mode, with leaves dropping off or changing colour as a result of stress.\n\nAnd some may end up dying as a result.\n\nAuburn leaves and early leaf fall are both signs that trees are stressed and \"shutting up shop\", says Leigh Hunt, senior horticultural advisor at the Royal Horticultural Society.\n\n\"It's giving the appearance that we're already in autumn, but the days are too long for those natural autumn processes to begin,\" he says.\n\n\"Physiologically, the plants are not responding to autumn conditions; that's why we term it loosely as 'false autumn'.\"\n\nOld tree skeletons exposed due to low water levels at Colliford Lake near Bodmin, Cornwall\n\nHe says in all his 45 years, this is one of the most severe years he's seen in terms of damage to trees in the countryside.\n\nAnd while established trees can withstand drought through their extensive network of roots, younger specimens, such as those planted on poor soil at the edge of roads could wither and die.\n\nTrees that have lost only a few leaves with just a little bit of yellowing should recover with enough rainfall, he explains.\n\nThere's \"a critical point\", though, when the tree can't replenish the water lost through pores in the leaves and will \"literally desiccate\" or dry up.\n\nIn conditions like those seen recently, trees may react by producing more seeds - for instance, acorns - in an attempt to reproduce and survive into the future.\n\nThe drought has caused hard, compacted soil, which can affect germination\n\nAnd if there's a lot of rain we might even see \"a second spring\" with trees putting on an extra spurt of growth, he says.\n\nOther signs of the unpredictable weather can be seen in berries appearing on plants and shrubs.\n\nThe Woodland Trust, which records seasonal changes, has received its earliest ever report of ripe blackberries - from 28 June.\n\nIt says fruits and nuts are ripening faster than ever, which \"can spell disaster for wildlife\" that feed on them.\n\n\"The record-breaking heat we have just experienced has helped bring on a number of early autumn events,\" says Fritha West, from the Woodland Trust.\n\n\"We have received some of our earliest ever ripe blackberry records from the south of England. Hawthorn and rowan are also ripening early in some parts of the country, where early leaf tinting has also been observed.\n\n\"Elder and holly have been recorded as fruiting earlier too. Both extreme temperatures and a lack of water can cause trees to drop their leaves earlier than we'd expect.\"\n\nIt's hard to predict the long-term consequences of drought, but ecology experts think weeks of parched grasslands and rock-hard soil in much of southern England will be having a big impact on wildlife.\n\nThe shell of a crayfish on the dried river bed of the Thames in Ashton Keyne\n\nIn and around rivers, the drought could be felt for years to come.\n\nDuring summer droughts, fast-growing algae can smother wetland plants, killing them by blocking out light.\n\nA reduction in river levels reduces habitat for fish, amphibians and invertebrates, affecting whole ecosystems.\n\n\"These plants provide vital habitat for insects and fish, and their loss from the ecosystem causes major changes up the food chain,\" says Dr Mike Bowes of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.\n\n\"It can take several years before plants are able to recover or recolonise these drought-impacted river reaches, and so the impact of severe droughts can be prolonged.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Euro 2022\n\nCaptain Leah Williamson said her England side have \"changed the game in this country\" as she celebrated their historic Euro 2022 victory.\n\nThe Lionesses won their first major trophy as they beat Germany 2-1 in extra time at Wembley on Sunday.\n\nThey lifted the trophy and sang Sweet Caroline in front of thousands of fans at Trafalgar Square on Monday.\n\n\"We said we wanted to make our legacy about winning and that's what we did,\" Williamson said.\n\n\"The legacy of the tournament was already made before that final game - what we've done for women and young girls who can look up and aspire to be us.\n\n\"I think England have hosted an incredible tournament and we've changed the game in this country - and hopefully across Europe and across the world.\"\n• None Women's football will never be the same again\n\nThe Football Association is now set to hold talks with manager Sarina Wiegman about extending her contract with England after Sunday's success.\n\nDutchwoman Wiegman, whose deal with England currently runs until 2025, has now won back-to-back European Women's Championships, after guiding the Netherlands to the title in 2017.\n\n\"She will have a couple of weeks off. When she gets back, we'll have a conversation,\" said Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA's head of women's football.\n\n'It will be like rocket fuel'\n\nOn the legacy of England's Euro 2022 triumph, FA chair Debbie Hewitt said: \"We've got to get girls across the country playing football in schools.\n\n\"Once they have that opportunity, all of them, to play in schools and associate them with the clubs, then you will see this just take off. It will be like rocket fuel, the impact of the win.\"\n\nHewitt said the Premier League could play its part in supporting the legacy of Euro 2022 by continuing to invest in the women's game.\n\nShe said: \"We had over 17 million viewers last night watching this game in this country. If you are the Premier League. Why wouldn't you want to capitalise on that?\"\n\nEngland midfielder Fran Kirby said she wanted the success of Euro 2022 to \"become normal\".\n\n\"We want it to be that people come in to watch, and with sellout crowds in this country and all over the world, so hopefully we've played a big part in that and hopefully we can continue to grow it,\" Kirby said.\n\nElla Toone, who scored England's first goal in the final, added: \"That's what we set out to do in this tournament - make the nation proud, fight for women and get young girls involved as well and I think we've done that for every single woman in this world.\"\n\n'There'll be expectation but we have an amazing squad'\n\nWith less than a year until the women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, expectations will be high for the new European champions.\n\n\"I think we should take time to reflect on this one first, enjoy this one before we start thinking about that [World Cup],\" said Kirby.\n\n\"Of course there's going to be a lot of expectation going into that, but we have an amazing squad, we have an amazing manager, so yeah, we're really excited.\"\n\nDefender Lucy Bronze said she was keen for the England team to get a star on their badge, which comes with a World Cup victory.\n\nShe said: \"The Euros is fantastic, especially in our home country, but there's a little star missing from our crest at the minute on the England shirt. That's definitely a mission of ours to get that star there.\"\n\nThousands of fans welcomed beaten finalists Germany at Frankfurt's Romer Square on Monday.\n\nManager Martina Voss-Tecklenburg and her squad addressed supporters from Frankfurt's city hall.\n\nGermany have an incredible record in the European Women's Championship, winning it eight times in total, most recently in 2013.", "A man who has been on bail for more than five years on terrorist charges has had one condition varied to allow him to attend an 80s disco in Belfast.\n\nCarl Reilly, 46, is accused of directing terrorism and membership of a proscribed organisation - namely the Irish Republican Army - in 2015.\n\nMr Reilly was arrested after a security operation involving covert recordings in County Louth.\n\nThe bail request was made at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday.\n\nSaying the charges faced by Mr Reilly were \"serious\", a defence barrister said bail conditions had been relaxed in the past to allow Mr Reilly to travel to Spain and Manchester.\n\nHe asked for his client's curfew be extended to 02:00 BST. That would allow Mr Reilly to attend the 80s disco in Falls Park on 13 August which ends at midnight, then return to his home on Pollard Close.\n\nJudge Bagnall set the curfew at 01:00 BST to allow Mr Reilly time to go home after the disco\n\nA Crown prosecution barrister told Judge Fiona Bagnall there was a \"principled objection\" and there had been \"all along to these applications\".\n\nJudge Bagnall said she was prepared to relax the curfew, but set the time at 01:00 BST, saying there was no reason why Mr Reilly could not get home within an hour of the disco ending.\n\nThe judge also ordered that information regarding who Mr Reilly would be attending the event with should be given to police 48 hours in advance.", "A school bus sits in a creek following heavy rains near the city of Jackson\n\nAt least 37 people have now died in flash floods in eastern Kentucky, as the region braces for more rainfall.\n\nAt least six children - including four siblings, aged one to eight, who were reportedly swept from their parents' grip - are among the dead.\n\nKentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the death toll would continue to rise as \"hundreds\" remained unaccounted for.\n\nMore than 12,000 households remained without power, and hundreds of homes and businesses have been flooded.\n\nThe damage to roads, bridges and other infrastructure will cost millions to repair, the governor said on Monday.\n\nA Kentucky National Guard rescue helicopter is seen above a stranded home near the city of Jackson\n\nMr Beshear, who toured some of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods over the weekend, said he had seen \"houses swept away\" and \"schools ruined\".\n\nThis is the worst flash flooding the region has seen in decades.\n\nMr Beshear called the deluge \"the deadliest and the most devastating of my lifetime\", adding: \"If things weren't hard enough on the people of this region, they're getting rain right now.\"\n\nDisplaced locals have taken refuge in state parks, churches and mobile homes brought in by the state. Around 300 people are in shelters, officials say.\n\nMany people \"only have the clothes on their backs\", Mr Beshear said. \"Everything is ruined.\"\n\nOvernight curfews have been declared in two devastated counties amid reports of \"excessive looting\".\n\n\"I hate to have to impose a curfew, but looting will absolutely not be tolerated,\" an official for Breathitt County wrote on Facebook on Sunday evening.\n\n\"Our friends and neighbours have lost so much - we cannot stand by and allow them to lose what they have left.\"\n\nOne of those dead was Eva Nicole Slone, 50, who had ventured out in the storm in Knott County on Thursday to check on an elderly neighbour.\n\nMs Slone's body was recovered the next day near her home, her daughter told the Lexington Herald Leader newspaper.\n\nDisplaced locals attend a service at Gospel Light Church - which is doubling as a shelter - in the city of Hazard\n\nFour children - age two, four, six and eight - died in Knott County after their trailer home was swept away.\n\n\"They were holding on to them,\" the children's aunt told CNN, describing the moment they were torn from their parents' arms.\n\n\"The water got so strong it just washed them away.\"\n\nPresident Joe Biden has declared the floods \"a major disaster\" and ordered federal aid to help local rescuers.\n\nA Kentucky National Guardsman carries two children after they were airlifted to safety", "Zawahiri was al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman and ideologue\n\nAyman al-Zawahiri, who has been killed by a US drone strike in Afghanistan, was often referred to as the chief ideologue of al-Qaeda.\n\nAn eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, he took over the leadership of al-Qaeda following the killing by US forces of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.\n\nBefore that, Zawahiri was considered Bin Laden's right-hand man and believed by some experts to have been the \"operational brains\" behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States.\n\nZawahiri was number two - behind only Bin Laden - in the 22 \"most wanted terrorists\" list announced by the US government in 2001 and had a $25m (£16m) bounty on his head.\n\nIn the years after the attacks, Zawahiri emerged as al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman, appearing in 16 videos and audiotapes in 2007 - four times as many as Bin Laden - as the group tried to radicalise and recruit Muslims around the world.\n\nBin Laden and Zawahiri formed the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders in 1998\n\nHis killing in last weekend's attack in Kabul was not the first time the US had sought to target Zawahiri.\n\nIn January 2006, he was the target of a US missile strike near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.\n\nThe attack killed four al-Qaeda members, but Zawahiri survived and appeared on video two weeks later, warning US President George W Bush that neither he nor \"all the powers on earth\" could bring his death \"one second closer\".\n\nBorn in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 19 June 1951, Zawahiri came from a respectable middle-class family of doctors and scholars.\n\nHis grandfather, Rabia al-Zawahiri, was the grand imam of al-Azhar, the centre of Sunni Islamic learning in the Middle East, while one of his uncles was the first secretary-general of the Arab League.\n\nZawahiri became involved in political Islam while still at school and was arrested at the age of 15 for being a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's oldest and largest Islamist organisation.\n\nHis political activities did not, however, stop him from studying medicine at Cairo University's medical school, from which he graduated in 1974 and obtained a masters degree in surgery four years later.\n\nHis father Mohammed, who died in 1995, was a pharmacology professor at the same school.\n\nZawahiri initially continued the family tradition, building up a medical clinic in a suburb of Cairo, but soon became attracted to radical Islamist groups which were calling for the overthrow of the Egyptian government.\n\nIn recent years, Zawahiri had become a remote and marginal figure, only occasionally issuing messages\n\nWhen Egyptian Islamic Jihad was founded in 1973, he joined.\n\nIn 1981, he was rounded up along with hundreds of other suspected members of the group after several of them, dressed as soldiers, assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade in Cairo. Sadat had angered Islamist activists by signing a peace deal with Israel, and by arresting hundreds of his critics in an earlier security crackdown.\n\nDuring the mass trial, Zawahiri emerged as a leader of the defendants and was filmed telling the court: \"We are Muslims who believe in our religion. We are trying to establish an Islamic state and Islamic society.\"\n\nAlthough he was cleared of involvement in Sadat's assassination, Zawahiri was convicted of the illegal possession of arms, and served a three-year sentence.\n\nAccording to fellow Islamist prisoners, Zawahiri was regularly tortured and beaten by the authorities during his time in jail in Egypt, an experience which is said to have transformed him into a fanatical and violent extremist.\n\nFollowing his release in 1985, Zawahiri left for Saudi Arabia.\n\nSoon afterwards, he headed for Peshawar in Pakistan and later to neighbouring Afghanistan, where he established a faction of Egyptian Islamic Jihad while working as a doctor in the country during the Soviet occupation.\n\nZawahiri took over the leadership of Egyptian Islamic Jihad after it re-emerged in 1993, and was a key figure behind a series of attacks by the group on Egyptian government ministers, including the Prime Minister, Atif Sidqi.\n\nThe group's campaign to topple the government and set up an Islamic state in the country during the mid-1990s led to the deaths of more than 1,200 Egyptians.\n\nIn 1997, the US state department named him as leader of the Vanguards of Conquest group - a faction of Islamic Jihad thought to have been behind the massacre of foreign tourists in Luxor the same year.\n\nTwo years later, he was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military court for his role in the group's many attacks.\n\nZawahiri is thought to have travelled around the world during the 1990s in search of sanctuary and sources of funding.\n\nIn the years following the Soviet withdrawal of Afghanistan, he is believed to have lived in Bulgaria, Denmark and Switzerland, and sometimes used a false passport to travel to the Balkans, Austria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran and the Philippines.\n\nIn December 1996, he reportedly spent six months in Russian custody after he was caught without a valid visa in Chechnya.\n\nAccording to an account allegedly written by Zawahiri, the Russian authorities failed to have the Arabic texts found on his computer translated and he was able to keep his identity secret.\n\nIn 1997, Zawahiri is believed to have moved to the Afghan city of Jalalabad, where Osama Bin Laden was based.\n\nA year later, Egyptian Islamic Jihad joined five other radical Islamist militant groups, including Bin Laden's al-Qaeda, in forming the World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders.\n\nThe front's first proclamation included a fatwa, or religious edict, permitting the killing of US civilians. Six months later, two simultaneous attacks destroyed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 223 people.\n\nZawahiri was one of the figures whose satellite telephone conversations were used as proof that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind the plot.\n\nTwo weeks after the attacks, the US bombed the group's training camps in Afghanistan. The next day, Zawahiri telephoned a Pakistani journalist and said: \"Tell America that its bombings, its threats, and its acts of aggression do not frighten us. The war has only just begun.\"\n\nIn the years following Bin Laden's death, US air strikes killed a succession of Zawahiri's deputies, weakening his ability to coordinate globally.\n\nAnd in recent years, Zawahiri had become a remote and marginal figure, only occasionally issuing messages.\n\nThe US will herald his death as a victory, particularly after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, but Zawahiri held relatively little sway as new groups and movements such as Islamic State have become increasingly influential.\n\nA new al-Qaeda leader will no doubt emerge, but he will likely have even less influence than his predecessor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'", "Five-year-old Logan Mwangi was removed from the Child Protection Register a month before his death\n\nThere are still \"serious concerns\" about children's services in the area where a five-year-old boy was murdered by his family, inspectors have said.\n\nDespite the murder of Logan Mwangi in July 2021, Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) said \"urgent action\" was needed in Bridgend. It noted some improvements since its April 2021 inspection.\n\nLogan was murdered by his mother, step-father and a teenage boy.\n\nBridgend council said it had an ongoing action plan for improvements.\n\nThe Welsh government said it was disappointed that such improvements were needed.\n\nThe routine inspection took place between 23 and 27 May 2022, nearly a year after Logan was killed and his body was dumped in the River Ogmore close to his home in Sarn.\n\nHis mother Angharad Williamson, step-father John Cole and Craig Mulligan were given life sentences for his murder.\n\nMulligan was not biologically related to any of them, but Cole had raised him since he was nine months old and considered himself a father figure.\n\nAngharad Williamson, 31, Craig Mulligan, 14, and John Cole, 40, were all given life sentences for Logan's murder\n\nOn 16 August 2020, Logan was taken to hospital by Williamson who said he dislocated his shoulder when he fell down the stairs the day before.\n\nDoctors discovered Logan had a broken arm and the hospital made a referral to social services.\n\nThe following June, social workers in Bridgend removed Logan and his younger sibling from the child protection register - meaning they were no longer considered to be at significant risk of harm.\n\nA child practice review looking at the circumstances around Logan's death and the involvement of professionals in his and his family's life is due to be published in the autumn.\n\nLogan's death came a month before two-year-old Reid Steele was drowned in the bath at his home by his \"devoted\" mother, just over three miles away from where Logan was murdered.\n\nNatalie Steele, 32, admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility after killing her son while suffering paranoid delusions and was given a hospital order.\n\nReid Steele's family said he was caring and was always asking everyone if they were OK\n\nThe inspection report said there were concerns with Bridgend's Information Advice and Assistance (IAA) service and its ability to protect and promote the wellbeing of vulnerable children and families.\n\nInspectors said there were problems with recruiting and retaining staff, as well as staff absence.\n\nThey said this had led to the loss of experienced staff and an \"over reliance\" on newly qualified and agency social workers.\n\nLogan's body was found 250m away from the home he shared with his family\n\nChief inspector of CIW Gillian Baranski said she was pleased to see that some improvements had been made.\n\nShe added: \"However, further urgent action must be taken to secure and sustain improvement in the care and support for children and families in Bridgend.\n\n\"This work must be prioritised to ensure the best possible outcomes for children. We will continue to liaise with the local authority's senior leaders and are closely monitoring the local authority's performance.\"\n\nLogan's dinosaur pyjama top was found with a tear down one side\n\nThe inspection also found records of missing children and children at risk of exploitation were not \"sufficiently detailed\" to ensure appropriate action had been taken in a timely way.\n\nInspectors said analysis of risks such as a history of domestic abuse and exploitation needed to be strengthened, while a drop in the number of council foster carers and foster placements led to delays in providing foster carers with relevant information.\n\nThe report said: \"The workforce is striving relentlessly to support children and families, however, it is clear demand is outstripping available resource.\"\n\nCIW said it expected the council to address the concerns as soon as practicable and it would be closely monitoring its progress.\n\nIt'll worry many that there are still serious concerns about children's services in an area where five-year-old Logan Mwangi and two-year-old Reid Steele died in the summer of 2021.\n\nSome of the problems reflected by inspectors are ones already well reported in councils across Wales during, and prior to, the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nRecruitment and retention of employees, staff absences and high demand are well-known problems which have led to calls for an independent review of Welsh children's services.\n\nBut there are additional, and significant, problems in Bridgend that aren't just a result of the pandemic.\n\nWe'll have to wait to find out more about the involvement of professionals - including social workers - in Logan's life when the child practice review is published later this year.\n\nThe council's cabinet member for social services Jane Gebbie said the authority would continue working closely with inspectors to make further improvements and that management oversight and decision making had improved.\n\nShe added: \"We are actively recruiting new employees and are carefully redeploying existing staff to provide additional support in areas experiencing the most pressure.\n\n\"I would like to thank our children's services workforce for the commitment and dedication that they have demonstrated during the considerable challenges of the pandemic and beyond.\"\n\nLeader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds, who worked as a child protection social worker for more than 25 years, said this report re-emphasised the need for a Wales-wide inquiry as is happening in England and Scotland.\n\n\"The report lacks context and does not tell me as a Senedd Member how Bridgend are doing in comparison to Wales as a whole and how they could be supported with good practice from other local authorities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives reiterated the call for a Wales-wide review of children services.\n\nWelsh Conservative spokesperson Gareth Davies MS said: \"Logan's murder was a tragedy and policy makers must focus on preventing anything like this horrific killing happen again\".\n\nHealth Minister Eluned Morgan said: \"We will expect to see improvements and, of course, we are very concerned that we need to do the very best for the most vulnerable children.\"\n\nShe added that an independent inquiry would distract the government from its day job, of making sure that services are improved.", "Migrants being brought in to Ramsgate on Monday\n\nAlmost 700 migrants crossed the English Channel in 14 small boats on Monday, a daily high for the year so far.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said 696 migrants made the crossing, topping the previous daily record of 651 in April.\n\nThe French authorities stopped two boats at sea with 35 people on each.\n\nMore than 17,000 people have arrived in the UK after navigating busy shipping lanes from France in small boats so far in 2022, according to Government figures.\n\nLast year, 28,526 people are known to have crossed in small boats - up from 8,404 in 2020.\n\nThe government announced in April it plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda to claim asylum there instead.\n\nThe first flight was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings.\n\nMany migrants come from some of the poorest and most chaotic parts of the world, and many ask to claim asylum once they are picked up by the UK authorities.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"The rise in dangerous Channel crossings is unacceptable.\n\n\"People should always claim asylum in the first safe country they reach, rather than risk their lives and line the pockets of ruthless criminal gangs in order to cross the Channel.\"\n\nThe spokesman added that the government was \"continuing preparations to relocate those who are making dangerous, unnecessary and illegal journeys into the UK in order for their claims to be considered and rebuild their lives\".\n\nDover's Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke called for the French authorities to do more.\n\n\"France has a moral and international obligation to protect vulnerable people, save lives, stop people smugglers and tackle organised crime,\" she said.\n\nShe also said the \"small boats crisis must be a key priority of the next Prime Minister\".\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Secretary General warned the world had been \"lucky\" to avoid global nuclear war\n\nThe world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned.\n\n\"We have been extraordinarily lucky so far,\" Antonio Guterres said.\n\nAmid rising global tensions, \"humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation\", he added.\n\nHis remarks came at the opening of a conference for countries signed up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\n\nThe 1968 deal was introduced after the Cuban missile crisis, an event often portrayed as the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The treaty was designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to more countries, and to pursue the ultimate goal of complete nuclear disarmament.\n\nAlmost every nation on Earth is signed up to the NPT, including the five biggest nuclear powers. But among the handful of states never to sign are four known or suspected to have nuclear weapons: India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan.\n\nSecretary General Guterres said the \"luck\" the world had enjoyed so far in avoiding a nuclear catastrophe may not last - and urged the world to renew a push towards eliminating all such weapons.\n\n\"Luck is not a strategy. Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict,\" he said.\n\nAnd he warned that those international tensions were \"reaching new highs\" - pointing specifically to the invasion of Ukraine, tensions on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East as examples.\n\nRussia was widely accused of escalating tensions when days after his invasion of Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin put Russia's substantial nuclear forces on high alert.\n\nHe also threatened anyone standing in Russia's way with consequences \"you have never seen in your history\". Russia's nuclear strategy includes the use of nuclear weapons if the state's existence is under threat.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Putin wrote to the same non-proliferation conference Mr Guterres opened, declaring that \"there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed\".\n\nBut Russia still found itself criticised at the NPT conference.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned what he called Russia's sabre-rattling - and pointed out that Ukraine had handed over its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in 1994, after receiving assurances of its future security from Russia and others.\n\n\"What message does this send to any country around the world that may think that it needs to have nuclear weapons - to protect, to defend, to deter aggression against its sovereignty and independence?\" he asked. \"The worst possible message\".\n\nToday, some 13,000 nuclear weapons are thought to remain in service in the arsenals of the nine nuclear-armed states - far lower than the estimated 60,000 stockpiled during the peak of the mid-1980s.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of nuclear tensions and deals between the US and Russia", "Dara Ó'Briain: \"That's it folks, the UK has finally run out of news. It couldn't go on\".\n\nBBC Two comedy panel show Mock the Week, hosted by Dara Ó'Briain, is to end after 17 years, the BBC has announced.\n\nThe satirical show, created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, has featured Ó'Briain and team captain Hugh Dennis since 2005.\n\n\"That's it folks, the UK has finally run out of news,\" Ó'Briain said. \"It couldn't go on\".\n\nThe final eight episodes will be broadcast in the autumn.\n\nÓ'Briain added: \"The storylines were getting crazier and crazier - global pandemics, divorce from Europe, novelty short-term prime ministers. We just couldn't be more silly than the news was already.\"\n\nPatterson added the news was \"desperately disappointing\", and said: \"Hopefully we will resurface again soon. Huge thanks to Dara and Hugh and all the wonderful performers over the years. It's been a privilege.\"\n\nThe panel series became a chance for rising comedians to gain exposure, catapulting a number of careers into the mainstream spotlight, including Russell Howard, who joined the programme after winning several awards for his talents, including best compere at the 2006 Chortle Awards. He was also number two in Zoo magazine's top 10 list of Britain's funniest comics 2005.\n\nThe comedy programme has featured a number of permanent panellists, including Andy Parsons, Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard and Frankie Boyle\n\nÓ'Briain called the show \"Dara and Hugh's Academy for Baby Comedians\".\n\nMichael McIntyre, Sarah Millican, Kevin Bridges, John Bishop and Rhod Gilbert are also comics who featured on the show in the early stages of their careers, and have since become household names.\n\nHowever in recent years the programme has found it more tricky to find comedians willing to participate.\n\nJo Brand and Rory Bremner are among those who have said they wouldn't want to return to the show.\n\nBremner stated his reasons for leaving the show in 2013, saying: \"I felt that there was a new and highly competitive and quite aggressive tendency there and felt uncomfortable. But I've since found out that very few people have felt comfortable doing Mock the Week.\"\n\nBrand said in 2009 she \"didn't like the prospect of having to bite someone's foot off before they let us say something\".\n\nÓ Briain said in 2018 that the show was \"\"quite intense\", but it was \"not what it was when it was [early panellists] Frankie [Boyle] and Russell - that really was competitive\".\n\nThe show has introduced new generations of comics to its audience\n\nDespite its success, Mock the Week has not been without its critics, and the programme, along with its contributors, has also been the source of complaints.\n\nScottish comedian and writer Frankie Boyle, renowned for his dark humour, was a permanent panellist on Mock The Week for seven series.\n\nBoyle was criticised in 2008 when complaints were received after comments he made on the show about British swimmer Rebecca Adlington's physical appearance, and another joke about the Queen.\n\nThe BBC Trust ruled the joke about Adlington was \"humiliating\" and \"the commissioning editor in charge of the programme felt it had gone too far\". It said the joke about the Queen was \"not in breach\" despite being in bad taste, adding: \"It was well after the watershed, well signposted and within audience expectations for the show.\"\n\nAdlington's agent said: \"By giving Frankie Boyle a rebuke, they fail to discourage others from doing the same.\"\n\nBoyle announced in 2009 he was leaving the show to concentrate on other projects, and later told The Mirror he had become \"bored\" of the show\".\n\nBoyle sometimes caused controversy with his dark humour\n• None Why comedians are reluctant to do Mock The Week", "Cocaine sparked the death of entrepreneur and YouTube star Jamal Edwards, a coroner has concluded.\n\nAn inquest was held at West London coroner's court into Edwards's death at the age of 31 in February.\n\nHe was the son of musician and Loose Women host Brenda Edwards.\n\nThere was evidence of cocaine toxicity in Edwards' body, assistant coroner Ivor Collett said, adding the cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia, following cocaine use.\n\nThe coroner concluded the cause of death was drug-related.\n\nA toxicology report found there was evidence of cocaine use and presence of cocaine and alcohol which probably caused his death.\n\nIn June, Brenda Edwards said in a statement she was in a \"state of shock\" after finding out how he died, understanding he had taken recreational drugs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brenda Edwards: ‘Jamal has left such a legacy with people’\n\nThe former X Factor contestant and West End star said: \"We have been so incredibly touched by the outpouring of love and support, and you are all helping us try and get through the unimaginable.\"\n\nEdwards helped launch the careers of Ed Sheeran, Dave and Skepta.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Jamal Edwards speaking in 2016 and 2017, sharing business advice and the reason he got into film-making\n\nIn the days after his death tributes came from the Prince of Wales, Idris Elba and Sir Richard Branson.\n\nEdwards was the founder of SBTV, an online grime and rap music platform which he launched after his parents gave him a video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15.", "Rapper Pa Salieu was named the BBC's Sound of 2021\n\nRapper Pa Salieu says he has been removed from the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony after failing a background check.\n\nThe artist was convicted in March of possessing a bottle as an offensive weapon during a brawl which saw his friend stabbed to death.\n\nHe also admitted violent disorder and is awaiting sentence.\n\nGames' organisers would not comment on individual cases but said everyone went through the same accreditation process.\n\nThe artist, winner of BBC Music's Sound of 2021, said in an Instagram post he was given the news on Monday while rehearsing for the show.\n\n\"Next week's performance should have been a celebration,\" said the rapper, from Coventry.\n\nHe said he had \"fully cooperated\" with the legal process adding: \"I've consistently been trying to use my career to show people where I'm from there is another life for us.\n\n\"But what can you do if the police, justice system and Home Office don't care about you and put everything possible in your way to stop you trying to get on with your life?\"\n\nThe 24-year-old artist from the Hillfields area of the city was accused of joining a group that chased and cornered a man during violence outside a Coventry bar in 2018.\n\nIt followed a fight in which Fidel Glasgow - a close friend of Salieu and grandson of Specials singer Neville Staple - was fatally stabbed.\n\nAnother man, 25-year-old Michael Mistouflet, was convicted of a separate violent disorder charge after a trial at Warwick Crown Court, but Salieu and two others, Meidel Dange and Adil Naseer, both 25, were cleared of that offence.\n\nA statement from the 24-year-old musician's management said \"no human common sense\" had been involved in the decision to cut his performance from the Birmingham 2022 event with less than a week to go.\n\n\"Although born in the UK, Gambian Pa Salieu (who has indefinite leave to remain) does not have the documentation needed to apply for a visa to travel in most parts of the world and the Home Office will not issue this until his court case is concluded, already causing huge disruption to his career,\" it said.\n\n\"His trial for the incident in 2018 ended in March and he was originally due to be sentenced a month later, however the courts keep moving the date, often with less than 24 hours notice.\n\n\"This date has changed four times already, with the latest date now being set as the 2 December.\"\n\nThe statement also stressed that Salieu is \"very outspoken about his former life\" and has \"consistently tried to use his career as an inspiration for others from similar underprivileged backgrounds\" while also taking part in social initiatives including supporting youth centres and speaking at young offenders' institutions.\n\nBirmingham 2022 organisers said: \"Everyone involved in the Games goes through the same accreditation process; including our volunteers, performers, athletes, contractors, and workforce.\n\n\"We cannot comment on individual accreditation applications. This process facilitates the delivery of the Games.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British Airways has suspended ticket sales for short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport for a further week until 15 August.\n\nOn Monday, the airline said it had stopped selling the tickets until 8 August, but now it has gone a step further.\n\nThe move is due to the cap on daily passenger numbers that the UK's biggest airport has imposed over the summer.\n\nThe suspension will affect BA's flights to domestic and European destinations.\n\nThousands of air travellers have been hit by disruption in recent months, including last-minute cancellations, which have been caused largely by staff shortages.\n\nAirports and airlines, which cut jobs during Covid lockdowns, have found it difficult to recruit enough staff as demand for holidays has returned.\n\nHeathrow Airport has struggled to cope with the rebound in air travel and problems with its baggage handling systems have also led to passengers seeing huge delays in reclaiming their luggage.\n\nLast month, Heathrow told airlines to stop selling summer tickets, as it said it would limit the number of passengers departing each day to 100,000 - 4,000 fewer than previously scheduled.\n\nThe cap on numbers is set to remain in place until 11 September.\n\nAs BA is the largest airline at Heathrow it is affected by the limit more than other carriers. It is understood the airline was close to reaching the number of passengers it could carry under the current limit.\n\nIn a statement, BA said it had taken \"pre-emptive action to reduce our schedule this summer to give customers certainty about their travel plans\".\n\n\"When Heathrow introduced its passenger cap, we took a small number of additional flights from our schedule and to continue to comply with the cap, we've been taking responsible action by limiting sales or all the available fares on some of our Heathrow services to ensure more seats are available to rebook customers,\" the company said.\n\nThe company added that it would \"continue to manage bookings to be within the Heathrow imposed cap\".\n\nBA could limit or suspend sales again while Heathrow's cap is in place. The impact will be mainly on short-haul flights, though long-haul routes could sometimes be affected.\n\nAviation consultant John Strickland said BA's short-haul flights over the next week would effectively be full, leaving \"almost no room to manoeuvre to rebook passengers\" in the case of unforeseen problems such as bad weather.\n\n\"It therefore has little choice but to take seats off sale to protect for this eventuality and sacrifice last minute high price ticket sales,\" he said.\n\nMr Strickland added that most last-minute sales go to business travellers, for which volume is lowest in August, \"so the sacrifice is minimal\".\n\nConsumer group Which? said the move by BA would reduce customer choice and lead to \"significant price increases\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening, a direct flight from Heathrow to Frankfurt this coming Saturday cost a minimum of £617, compared with £243 in two weeks time, according to flight comparison website Skyscanner.\n\nStopping selling some tickets from Britain's biggest airport in the lucrative summer peak, when demand is strong, is not something you'd normally expect an airline to be doing.\n\nThe decision follows Heathrow's extraordinary decision to limit traffic to a level the system can cope with, given ongoing resourcing challenges.\n\nIt's understood British Airways was close to reaching the number of passengers it could carry under that cap this week.\n\nThe decision is meant to prevent last-minute bookings. And it should leave some leeway in the system for where rebooking is needed.\n\nBut it will limit passengers' last-minute options at a time when capacity has been squeezed and many prices have risen.\n\nAnd it might not be the end - BA has made it clear that while Heathrow's passenger cap is in place, it may have to pause sales again.\n\nBA has cut nearly 30,000 flights from its April-to-October schedule in response to staffing problems.\n\nOn Friday, BA owner IAG reported its first profit since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, despite facing what it called a \"challenging\" environment at Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe company said the problems at Heathrow had forced British Airways to limit its capacity to 69.1% of pre-pandemic levels between April and June, and this was expected to increase to about 75% between July and October.\n\nA row broke out last week between Ryanair and Heathrow, after the airline said airports had not recruited enough staff to cater for the rebound in travellers, saying they \"had one job to do\".\n\nBut Heathrow hit back at the criticism, describing it as \"bizarre\".\n\n\"Airports don't provide ground handling, that's provided by the airlines themselves. So this is like accusing us of not having enough pilots,\" said Heathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye.\n\nVirgin Atlantic also criticised the airport, claiming it was responsible for failures which were contributing to the chaos.\n\nEmirates Airlines had initially rejected Heathrow's request to cut flight capacity but later agreed to cap sales following talks between the two companies.\n\nLast month the Competition and Markets Authority and Civil Aviation Authority issued a joint letter to carriers raising concerns that some airlines may not be doing everything they could to avoid harmful practices, including selling more tickets for flights than they could reasonably expect to supply.\n\nAirports outside the UK have also faced issues. On Tuesday Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, which has faced staff shortages, said it would continue to limit passengers in September and October to ensure safety and a reliable service.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss: \"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses.\"\n\nLiz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs following a backlash from Tory MPs and opposition parties.\n\nThe Tory leadership candidate had proposed regional pay boards, in a bid to save taxpayers a potential £8.8bn.\n\nBut the policy was criticised by several senior Tories, who argued it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nMs Truss has now said the proposal would not be taken forward.\n\nThe foreign secretary told the BBC the plan had been \"misrepresented\" and people had been \"unnecessarily worried about my policies\".\n\n\"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses,\" Ms Truss said. \"But what I want to be clear about it that I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards.\"\n\nEarlier a spokesperson for Ms Truss's campaign said current levels of public sector pay would be maintained if she became prime minister.\n\nFormer Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Ms Truss are vying for support from Conservative members to replace Boris Johnson as Tory leader and prime minister.\n\nA spokesperson from Mr Sunak's campaign described the U-turn as dramatic.\n\n\"It demonstrates a lack of serious judgment by setting out plans that would see pay dramatically cut for police, nurses and our armed forces in Cardiff and Canterbury, Teesside and Taunton during a cost of living crisis,\" they said.\n\n\"It also shows a worrying lack of grip of detail in what is already a woolly economic plan.\n\n\"If this was in a general election, it would have been a potentially fatal own goal for the Conservatives.\"\n\nAnnouncing the policy on Monday night, Ms Truss had said she wanted \"a leaner, more efficient, more focused Whitehall\" and set out plans which suggested savings of £11bn a year.\n\nThis included £8.8bn which would come from introducing regional pay boards, meaning that civil servant pay - and potentially later other public sector workers' salaries - could be adjusted to reflect the area where civil servants work.\n\nIt could have seen workers in, for example, the south-west or north of England paid less than those in the south-east.\n\nIn addition to saving money, the Truss camp also argued it would help boost growth in areas, where the private sector had been crowded out by public sector salaries.\n\nHowever, the proposal was dropped after just over 12 hours when it was met with strong resistance from Tories.\n\nTees Valley mayor Ben Houchen - who is supporting Mr Sunak - described the policy as \"horrifically bad\", telling the BBC's World at One it could lead to more scrutiny of policy from the foreign secretary.\n\n\"There are lots of tasty soundbites from Liz - what we're now seeing is that as people start to scrutinise that detail it can unravel quite quickly,\" he said.\n\nLiz Truss is widely thought to have been ahead in the Tory leadership race.\n\nShe had momentum in the campaign - and had avoided any significant errors.\n\nThis policy has attracted huge criticism from opposition parties - and many Conservative politicians supporting Rishi Sunak.\n\nThey argued regional pay boards would have been \"levelling down\".\n\nSpeaking to Mr Sunak's allies this afternoon, they argue Ms Truss's plans are unravelling and that it was a \"catastrophic error of judgement\".\n\nTeam Sunak will hope this starts to change the dynamic of the campaign - and potentially put him back on the front foot just as Tory members start voting.\n\nTeam Truss will hope that junking the policy quickly will limit the damage.\n\nMs Truss met supporters in the south-west on Tuesday as she continued her campaign for the No 10 job\n\nA number of Conservative MPs in the south-west of England also attacked the policy, including Sunak ally Steve Double who said it would be \"hugely damaging to public services in Cornwall, where we already struggle to recruit NHS staff\".\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the proposal \"reveals her [Liz Truss's] priority would be to slash the pay packets of working people\".\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: \"U-turning on a multi-billion-pound policy five weeks before even taking office must be a new record.\"\n\nMs Truss has been seen as the frontrunner in the race for No 10, with several polls suggest she is more popular among the Conservative party membership.\n\nBoth candidates have announced a string of competing policy proposals to woo Conservative members.\n\nThe latest came from Ms Truss who, in an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, pledged to order a review into whether not paying for a TV licence should still be a criminal offence.\n\nThose who watch TV or BBC iPlayer risk being fined or taken to court if they do not pay the £159-a-year licence fee.\n\nIn 2020, there were 55,061 prosecutions and 52,477 convictions for TV licence evasion.\n\nMs Truss told the Mail a \"disproportionate number\" of women had ended up in jail for non-payment, adding she wanted to \"look at how we can make sure that we reform the TV licence fee, so we don't end up with those punitive results\".", "A total of 1.5 million bounce back loans were granted during the pandemic\n\nMore than 16,000 businesses which took out a type of government-backed Covid loan have gone bust without paying the money back, the BBC has found.\n\nHundreds of directors, who got loans they were not entitled to, have also been disqualified.\n\nThe cost to the taxpayer of these insolvencies could be as much as £500m, and is likely to grow as more companies go under.\n\nQuestions are now being asked about what is being done to recoup the money.\n\nThe figures, obtained by the BBC under a Freedom of Information request, have been described as \"shocking\" by a former head of the Serious Fraud Office.\n\nSir David Green QC describes checks the government required banks to do on bounce back loan applicants as \"hopelessly inadequate\".\n\nSir David Green QC says checks carried out on bounce back loan applicants were \"hopelessly inadequate\"\n\nA total of 1.5 million loans worth £47bn were handed out. One of several measures designed to help businesses survive the pandemic, the loans were supposed to be paid back within 10 years. But in the rush to save the economy, checks on borrowers were limited.\n\nUnder the scheme any small company could apply for a loan of up to £50,000 depending on its turnover. Applicants were allowed to \"self-certify\" the figures.\n\n\"You wouldn't send an army into battle without assessing the risks. And just the same in this situation, the risks, which were obvious, should have been assessed and addressed,\" said Sir David, who is now chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel.\n\nHe believes bounce back loan money must be recovered wherever possible.\n\nThe government has said it will \"not tolerate\" people defrauding taxpayers.\n\nThe BBC has been investigating what will happen to the hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayer money given to companies which have since become insolvent.\n\nThe majority of those businesses went bust for legitimate reasons, however there is increasing evidence that a proportion of bounce back loans were misused. The BBC has discovered that hundreds of company directors have so far been disqualified from running businesses.\n\nAnd many of those companies were not eligible to receive the loans in the first place. Previous research shows that 45% of successful applicants to two banks showed no evidence of trading at the relevant period.\n\nWith festivals cancelled, Peter Ferguson's events companies struggled during the pandemic. And so he turned to the government's bounce back loan scheme.\n\nMr Ferguson took out a £50,000 loan through a dormant company called Beautiful Digital Events Ltd. He gave a turnover figure which overstated the true amount and used the money to buy himself two cars.\n\nPeter Ferguson took out a £50,000 bounce back loan through a dormant company\n\nMr Ferguson has since been censured by the Insolvency Service and banned from being a company director for six years.\n\nBut another of his companies is putting on one of Scotland's biggest festivals, Party at the Palace, on 13 and 14 August.\n\nMr Ferguson is no longer allowed to be a director, but is listed as a \"person with significant control\" and promotes the festival line-up on his Facebook page.\n\nAnd, earlier this year, on holiday in Las Vegas, Mr Ferguson won more than £200,000 playing poker.\n\nThe terms of the bounce back loan state that the dormant company is liable to pay it back, not him personally - and that company has now been dissolved.\n\nMr Ferguson responded in a statement: \"With the in-person events industry in Scotland wiped out overnight, I sought a loan to move into the digital events space.\n\n\"Despite our best efforts and much to my deep sorrow, this service failed. I was advised to liquidate the company, having been willing to repay the loan up to that point.\"\n\nHe has confirmed that he took out a total of five bounce back loans, including the one for Beautiful Digital Events. As for the four others, he said \"one has already been paid back in full and a payment has not been missed on the others\".\n\nScrolling through the website of the Insolvency Service, we found scores of company directors who took out loans with, it seems, little or no prospect of being able to repay them.\n\nIn fact, a request under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that so far 260 directors have been disqualified with their companies still owing a bounce back loan.\n\nThe loans were spent on everything from gambling debts and cryptocurrency schemes - to cars, house renovations, even flying lessons.\n\nThe rules state that if there's no money left in the business the loan can't be paid back.\n\nSo it's not clear how much the government will eventually be able to recover.\n\nSeveral agencies have been tasked by the government with investigating Covid loans and getting back the money.\n\nThe Insolvency Service has brought only one prosecution to date but claims it has another 30 cases pending.\n\nIts website is updated almost daily with new examples of directors being banned from running a business after obtaining bounce back loans they weren't entitled to. The maximum ban lasts 15 years.\n\nBut the service has no record of how much money has been recovered because each case is handled separately by a private insolvency practitioner.\n\nThe government has also asked the National Investigation Service (Natis) - a law enforcement organisation which usually investigates local authority corruption - to look into the scheme.\n\nThe latest figures show Natis, which has a £6m budget, made 49 arrests and recovered just £4.1m. It has identified 673 suspects of whom 559 used the bounce back loan scheme.\n\nIt's now thought £17bn could be lost to fraud, mistakes and companies going under.\n\nSir David Green QC from the Fraud Advisory Panel believes organised criminal groups have had a field day.\n\n\"Fraud is opportunistic and organised crime groups are experts at that opportunism.\"\n\nBut he thinks with limited resources, police should target the worst offenders, while company directors who did not play by the rules should be pursued through the civil courts.\n\n\"It's important to concentrate on those areas where you get most bang for your buck, and that, I would suggest, is in relation to the most egregious organised frauds rather than individuals,\" he said.\n\nRaitis Dzerkalis had a car repair company in the West Midlands. He claimed a £40,000 bounce back loan - he wasn't entitled to it.\n\nThe Insolvency Service said he exaggerated turnover and didn't spend the money on the business.\n\nThe company became insolvent and, like Peter Ferguson, he was banned from being a director - in this case for 10 years.\n\nBut Mr Dzerkalis has another company, which he transferred into the name of a housemate.\n\nNow Mr Dzerkalis seems to work as a part-time DJ.\n\nWe caught up with him at home in Coventry but he didn't want to talk. So we have no idea if he has attempted to pay any of the loan back.\n\nBusiness Minister Lord Callanan said in a statement that \"tough new powers\" had been introduced allowing the Insolvency Service to disqualify directors for dissolving companies to avoid repaying bounce back loans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rafiqul Islam and his son died after being poisoned, police say\n\nA father and son from Cardiff have died while three other family members are in intensive care after being poisoned in Bangladesh, police have said.\n\nThe family were staying in a flat near the north-eastern city of Sylhet.\n\nPolice officers broke into the building on Tuesday morning after relatives raised the alarm.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and his son Mahiqul, 16, died on their way to hospital while his wife and two other children are being treated.\n\nThe family, from the Riverside area of the city, were on a two-month visit to the country and were all found unconscious.\n\nSupt Farid Uddin said the condition of those in hospital - Husnara, 45 and Samira, 20, were critical, while eldest son Sadiqul, 24, was receiving treatment.\n\nPolice in Bangladesh believe Rafiqul Islam and his family were poisoned\n\n\"After discussing the overall situation with the doctors and inspecting the scene, we believe this may have been a case of poisoning,\" he said.\n\n\"The other people in the building are close relatives of the victims. We questioned them. At the moment, we believe they fell asleep after dinner last night.\n\n\"This must be investigated further. How were they poisoned? How did they die? We will be able to confirm after an investigation.\"\n\nThe family was staying near Sylhet in north-east Bangladesh\n\nHe said relatives called police after they heard no sound coming from the flat.\n\nOfficers broke in and recovered the five unconscious victims inside.\n\nSupt Uddin added: \"After they were taken to the hospital, the father and the youngest son were declared dead.\n\n\"The mother and daughter are in critical condition. They have been transferred to the ICU. The other brother, Sadiqul, is receiving treatment.\"\n\nOther family members have flown out to Bangladesh.\n\nSupt Uddin said all five family members were sleeping in the same room on Monday night and relatives raised the alarm at about 10:00 local time when they failed to wake up.\n\nAt first it was thought to be food poisoning, but it is now being investigated by police.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have been carried out and been sent to Dhaka. The results could take five days.\n\nMr Islam's brother-in-law Abdul Mumin Khan, who found out the news on Tuesday morning, said: \"I didn't know what to do or what to say.\n\n\"Everyone is very sad. Everybody is crying. My wife, all the time, is crying. I am crying as well.\n\n\"I can't believe this has happened. This person is very friendly, a very nice guy. His son is very sweet and friendly. Everyone likes him and he likes everyone. His son is a very, very nice boy.\"\n\nHe said they were waiting to hear what the police had to say.\n\n\"I was talking with my wife and she was saying, 'I don't believe that he is dead'. But, the reality (is) he is dead,\" Mr Khan said.\n\nMuhibur Islam said there was disbelief in the community\n\nMohammad Rafiqul Islam, assistant secretary of the Bangladeshi Association, Cardiff, said: \"Everybody is so shocked.\n\n\"It's summer holidays and a lot of British-Bangladeshi people are in Bangladesh right now, especially in Sylhet, Osmani Nagar and Tajpur, the place where this incident happened.\n\n\"It will never be forgotten by us. We are praying for his soul.\"\n\nMuhibur Islam, from Jalalia Mosque and Islamic education centre, added: \"The whole community itself is in shock of a well-known family, very well known in the area over the years.\n\n\"It's just disbelief. Absolute disbelief, that's what it is.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of Bangladesh Association Cardiff, Mohammed Haroon, said he used to work with Mr Islam, who was a taxi driver and a member of badminton and football teams in the city.\n\nHe said: \"He was a very nice person, very helpful person who was at the mosque all the time and constantly working with the community.\n\n\"It's very sad but I do believe the older son is quite well now, he's up and talking. His daughter is still critical and his wife is not out of danger yet.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said: \"We are providing consular assistance to a British family following an incident in Bangladesh and are in contact with the local authorities.\"", "Tenants whose bills are included in their rent could miss out on the government's £400 energy rebate because it is paid to their landlord, charities have warned.\n\nHousing charity Shelter said this group were \"at the mercy of their landlord passing on this much-needed support\".\n\nAn estimated 585,000 households - 13% of private renters - have energy bills included in their rent.\n\nThe government said it expected landlords to pass on the discount.\n\nThe National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) also said that where tenants incurred the cost of increased energy bills, the discount should be passed on to them by their landlord.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson pointed out there would be cases where all-inclusive rents had been set without reflecting the recent surge in energy costs.\n\n\"The government needs to ensure that its scheme recognises such cases where it is the landlord who is ultimately paying the cost of increased bills, rather than the tenant,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe typical household energy bill could hit £3,615 a year in January, up from £1,400 a year in October 2021, according to a forecast from consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nThe government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living, including a £400 discount on energy bills.\n\nLast week the government revealed details of how people in England, Scotland and Wales would receive the payment.\n\nThe Treasury is still in discussion with Stormont ministers about how to make the payment to households in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe money will be paid in six instalments, with a discount of £66 applied to energy bills in October and November, and £67 a month from December to March 2023.\n\nHow the money is received will depend on how you pay your bill.\n\nHowever, for tenants whose energy bills are included in their rent, their landlord would receive the discount as they are the bill payer.\n\nHelen, 25, rents a room in a four-bed house in Leicester with bills included.\n\nShe is worried that if she asks her landlord to pass the £400 payment on to her he will increase her rent when her contract is up for renewal later this year.\n\n\"I'm leaning towards not rocking the boat because I'm dreading that conversation about renewing and what my new rent will be for the next six months,\" she told the BBC.\n\nHelen, who did not want to give her surname, is a PhD student and her stipend will increase by just 2% in September - well below the rate prices are rising, with UK inflation hitting 9.4% in June.\n\nIf her rent increased she said it would be \"a real stretch\" to cover her other living costs.\n\nAs she shares a house with strangers, Helen said it was also difficult to discuss the situation with her housemates, who she would have to share the payment with. She did not know if they would feel the same as her.\n\nWhen it comes to utility bills, government guidance states that landlords who have a domestic electricity contract with a licensed supplier and then resell the electricity to their tenant, based on usage, must comply with maximum resale price rules.\n\nThis means landlords are not allowed to make a profit on energy they are reselling.\n\nLandlords with a domestic electricity connection where a fixed cost for energy is included in the rent \"should also be passing on the discounted payments to tenants\", the government said.\n\nBut charities have raised concerns that landlords will not pass on the saving to their tenants.\n\nAre you a renter worried about missing out on the £400 energy rebate? Please email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch via WhatsApp: +44 7756 165803 and Twitter: @BBC_HaveYourSay\n\n\"There's no specific legal obligation for landlords to pass on this support but they aren't allowed to overcharge tenants for the energy they've used or make a profit on it,\" Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said.\n\n\"This could be the case if they pocket the government support and continue to charge the same rate for utilities.\"\n\n\"Landlords can only charge for energy used, the standing charge and VAT. So, it's worth making a note of how much energy you're using to make sure you're not paying more than you should,\" she added.\n\nMs Neate said it was \"unfair that those at the sharp end of this crisis could miss out on this much-needed support\" and urged the government to make sure it went \"to the people who need it the most\".\n\nGillian Cooper, head of energy policy at Citizens Advice, said there was no clear guidance on how landlords should pass on the discount \"or any law to make sure they do\".\n\n\"We're worried that renters could fall through the cracks and miss out on extra cash,\" she added.\n\nDan Wilson Craw, deputy director of campaign group Generation Rent, said: \"A lot of landlords have already raised the rent to take account of higher energy bills and there's no easy way for tenants to ask them to pass on the £400 grant if they don't want to - threatening to move out is one approach but that is difficult when rent on a new property could be much higher.\"\n\nHe suggested tenants could ask their landlord to take into account the £400 rebate the next time they tried to increase their rent.\n\nBut he added that until Parliament passed the Renters Reform Bill, tenants could still be evicted without reason if they complained.\n\nLandlord Annette Munro hasn't increased the rent on her flat, despite soaring energy costs\n\nHowever, some landlords who have not increased their tenants' rent said they did not think they should have to pass on the £400 discount.\n\nAnnette Munro, 59, rents out a flat in London with bills included and believes landlords should only have to pass on the rebate if they have hiked rents due to rising energy costs.\n\nShe said the monthly energy bill for her property had increased from £90 to £267 but she has not put up the rent for several years because her tenants are \"already struggling\".\n\n\"If landlords haven't put [the rent] up and have absorbed that cost because they like their tenants and they want to keep them, then I think that they should be able to take the £400,\" she told the BBC.", "Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister after a chaotic 45 days in Downing Street. But where did she come from and what makes her tick?\n\nA Remain supporter who became the darling of the Brexit-backing Conservative right wing.\n\nA former Liberal Democrat activist, who marched against Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, but claimed to be the keeper of the Thatcherite flame. It is fair to say that Mary Elizabeth Truss has been on a political journey.\n\nShe was not a household name, like her predecessor Boris Johnson, when she became PM. But she leaves having made history; serving the shortest tenure of any UK prime minister.\n\nDuring the leadership election this summer, her promise to return to fundamental Conservative values - cutting taxes and shrinking the state - proved to be exactly what party members, who got the final say over who took over from Mr Johnson, wanted to hear.\n\nAnd, crucially, as foreign secretary she had remained loyal to Mr Johnson until the bitter end, as other ministers deserted him. It won her favour with Johnson loyalists.\n\nGrassroots Tory supporters of Liz Truss saw in her the steadfast, tenacious and determined qualities they admired in Margaret Thatcher - an image Ms Truss herself has tried to cultivate.\n\nBut despite her shifting political positions and allegiances over the years, these words also come up frequently when friends and family are asked to describe her character - along with \"ambitious\".\n\nFamily: Married to accountant Hugh O'Leary with two teenage daughters\n\n\"She's a very opinionated person in terms of what she wants,\" said her brother Francis in 2017, when recalling his older sister's teenage dalliance with vegetarianism.\n\n\"When you go to a restaurant, you might be 14 but she was precocious about what she wants, what she didn't want.\"\n\nWhen the family played Cluedo or Monopoly, \"she was someone who had to win,\" added Francis in a BBC Radio 4 profile of Truss.\n\n\"She would create some special system to work out how she could win.\"\n\nMaurizio Giuliano, a university contemporary who first met her at a Liberal Democrat event, says she stood out from the other students.\n\n\"I remember her being very well-dressed compared to other 18 to 19-year-olds. She also had the demeanour of a real adult compared to what we were at that age.\n\n\"She was forceful and opinionated and she had very strong views.\"\n\nSerious political debate was the order of the day in the Truss household, according to Francis, the youngest of her three younger brothers.\n\n\"You didn't sit around talking about the latest Megadrive game at the dinner table, it was much more issues, political campaigns etc,\" he told Radio 4's Profile programme.\n\nIt must have felt inevitable that she would get involved in politics in some capacity when she grew up, but no-one in her family would have predicted the path she eventually took.\n\nBorn in Oxford in 1975, Ms Truss has described her father, a mathematics professor, and her mother, a nurse, as \"left-wing\".\n\nAs a young girl, her mother took her on marches for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, an organisation vehemently opposed to the Thatcher government's decision to allow US nuclear warheads to be installed at RAF Greenham Common, west of London.\n\nThough she is now proudly a Conservative from Leeds, back then she was a Scottish liberal.\n\nThe family moved to Paisley, just west of Glasgow, when Ms Truss was four-years-old.\n\nIn a BBC interview, she recalled shouting \"Maggie, Maggie, Maggie - oot, oot, oot,\" in a Scottish accent, as she took part in marches.\n\nThe Truss family later decamped to Leeds, where she attended Roundhay, a state secondary school. She has described seeing \"children who failed and were let down by low expectations\" during her time there.\n\nSome of Ms Truss's contemporaries at Roundhay have disputed her account of the school, including Guardian journalist Martin Pengelly, who wrote: \"Perhaps she is selectively deploying her upbringing, and casually traducing the school and teachers who nurtured her, for simple political gain.\"\n\nOne Roundhay school mate, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"It was a really good school, really supportive teachers. Quite a lot of us have gone on to good universities and good careers.\"\n\nAlthough not part of her friendship group, he has clear memories of the young Truss.\n\n\"She was quite studious, serious,\" he says, with a \"heavy social conscience\" and part of a group that were into environmentalism.\n\n\"I remember a school trip to Sellafield and her asking difficult questions and giving them a grilling. I remember that quite distinctly.\"\n\nAt Oxford University, Ms Truss read philosophy, politics and economics. Friends recall a well-liked, if frenetic student.\n\nThe teenage Truss caused a stir at the Lib Dem conference with her anti-monarchy stance\n\n\"I remember her determination which was very impressive for me,\" says Jamshid Derakhshan, who was studying for a postgrad degree in mathematics when Truss was an undergraduate.\n\n\"She was very quick with everything. Going around the college quickly, being everywhere.\"\n\nAs to what sort of prime minister his old friend will make, Dr Derakhshan says: \"My feeling is she's not going to be stuck with one particular idea, she's very flexible in her mind and what will be best for the time.\"\n\nMs Truss was involved in many campaigns and causes at Oxford but devoted much of her time to politics, becoming president of the university's Liberal Democrats.\n\nAt the party's 1994 conference, she spoke in favour of abolishing the monarchy, telling delegates in Brighton: \"We Liberal Democrats believe in opportunity for all. We do not believe people are born to rule.\"\n\nShe also campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis.\n\n\"Liz had a very strong radical liberal streak to her,\" said fellow Lib Dem student Alan Renwick in 2017.\n\n\"We were setting up the Freshers Fair stall, Liz was there with a pile of posters, saying 'Free the Weed' and she just wanted the whole stall to be covered with these posters.\n\n\"I was scurrying around after Liz trying to take these down and put up a variety of messages, rather than just this one message all over the stall.\"\n\nHer Instagram posts have seen a transformation, from candid shots posing with rhubarb... to striding out of high-level meetings flanked by assistants\n\nHer conversion to conservatism, towards the end of her time at Oxford is said to have shocked her left-leaning parents, but for Mark Littlewood, a fellow Oxford Lib Dem, it was a natural progression.\n\n\"She's been a market liberal all of her adult life,\" according to Mr Littlewood, who is now director general of the libertarian, free market think-tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs.\n\n\"Her political career reflects her ideology - she has always been highly sceptical of big government and privileged institutions who think they know best,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nShe clearly changed parties, but that \"was a judgement about what's the best and most likely vehicle for her to succeed in politics and get what she wants to get done,\" Mr Littlewood said.\n\nNevertheless, what she has described as her \"dubious past\" came back to haunt her as she tried to convince Tory members she was truly one of them.\n\nAt a leadership hustings in Eastbourne, some in the audience jeered, as she told them: \"We all make mistakes, we all had teenage misadventures, and that was mine.\n\n\"Some people have sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was in the Liberal Democrats. I'm sorry.\"\n\nShe had become a Conservative because she had met like-minded people who shared her commitment to \"personal freedom, the ability to shape your own life and shape your own destiny,\" she explained.\n\nAfter graduating from Oxford she worked as an accountant for Shell, and Cable & Wireless, and married fellow accountant Hugh O'Leary in 2000. The couple have two children.\n\nMs Truss stood as the Tory candidate for Hemsworth, West Yorkshire, in the 2001 general election, but lost. She suffered another defeat in Calder Valley, also in West Yorkshire, in 2005.\n\nBut, her political ambitions undimmed, she was elected as a councillor in Greenwich, south-east London, in 2006, and from 2008 also worked for the right-of-centre Reform think tank.\n\nLiz Truss became an MP in 2010\n\nConservative leader David Cameron put Ms Truss on his \"A-list\" of priority candidates for the 2010 election and she was selected to stand for the safe seat of South West Norfolk.\n\nBut she quickly faced a battle against de-selection by the constituency Tory association, after it was revealed she had had an affair with Tory MP Mark Field some years earlier.\n\nThe effort to oust her failed and Ms Truss went on to win the seat by more than 13,000 votes.\n\nShe co-authored a book, Britannia Unchained, with four other Conservative MPs elected in 2010, which recommended stripping back state regulation to boost the UK's position in the world, marking her out as a prominent advocate of free market policies on the Tory benches.\n\nDuring a BBC leadership debate, she was challenged about a comment in Britannia Unchained, describing British workers as \"among the worst idlers in the world\". She insisted she had not written it.\n\nIn 2012, just over two years after becoming an MP, she entered government as an education minister and in 2014 was promoted to environment secretary.\n\nAt the 2014 Conservative conference, she made a speech in which she said, in an impassioned voice: \"We import two-thirds of our cheese. That. Is. A. Disgrace.\"\n\nThe speech was little noticed at the time, but it has taken on a life of its own on social media, attracting much mockery and becoming widely shared.\n\nTwo years later came arguably the biggest political event in a generation - the EU referendum.\n\nMs Truss campaigned for Remain, writing in the Sun newspaper that Brexit would be \"a triple tragedy - more rules, more forms and more delays when selling to the EU\".\n\nHowever, after her side lost, she changed her mind, arguing that Brexit provided an opportunity to \"shake up the way things work\".\n\nBecoming the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary in 2016\n\nUnder Theresa May's premiership, she became the first female Lord Chancellor and justice secretary, but she had several high-profile clashes with the judiciary.\n\nHer initial failure to defend judges after they were branded \"enemies of the people\" by the Daily Mail, when they ruled Parliament had to be given a vote on triggering Brexit, upset the legal establishment.\n\nShe later issued a statement supporting the judges, but she was criticised by Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd as \"completely and absolutely wrong\" for not speaking out sooner.\n\nAfter 11 months as justice secretary, she was demoted to chief secretary to the Treasury.\n\nWhen Boris Johnson became prime minister in 2019, Ms Truss was moved to international trade secretary - a job which meant meeting global political and business leaders to promote UK PLC.\n\nLiz Truss held a frosty joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in the weeks before the invasion of Ukraine\n\nIn 2021, aged 46, she moved to one of the most senior jobs in government, taking over from Dominic Raab as foreign secretary.\n\nIn this role she has sought to solve the knotty problem of the Northern Ireland Protocol, by scrapping parts of a post-Brexit EU-UK deal - a move the EU fiercely criticised.\n\nShe secured the release of two British-Iranian nationals who had both been arrested and detained in Iran.\n\nAnd when Russia invaded Ukraine in February she took a hard line, insisting all of Vladimir Putin's forces should be driven from the country.\n\nBut she faced criticism for backing people from the UK who wanted to fight in Ukraine.\n\nHer decision to pose for photographs in a tank while visiting British troops in Estonia, was seen as an attempt to emulate Margaret Thatcher, who had famously been pictured aboard a Challenger tank in 1986. It also fuelled speculation that she was on leadership manoeuvres.\n\nClaims she was deliberately trying to channel Thatcher grew even louder when she posed for a photograph in a white pussy bow collar of the kind favoured by the Iron Lady.\n\nBut she has always dismissed such criticism, telling GB News: \"It is quite frustrating that female politicians always get compared to Margaret Thatcher while male politicians don't get compared to Ted Heath.\"\n\nLiz Truss posed for official shots in a tank whilst visiting British troops in Estonia last year\n\nMs Truss's campaign for the party leadership was not free of controversy.\n\nPressed on how she would tackle the cost-of-living crisis, she said she would focus her efforts on \"lowering the tax burden, not giving out handouts\".\n\nShe has been forced to scrap a plan to link public sector pay to regional living costs by a backlash from senior Tories who said it would mean lower pay for millions of workers outside London.\n\nAnd she called Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an \"attention seeker\", adding it was best to \"ignore her\".\n\nShe also got into a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron, who accused her of \"playing to the gallery\" at a leadership hustings. Asked if Mr Macron was a \"friend or foe\", she had said the jury was still out.\n\nBut it was domestic issues, or rather one domestic issue, that dominated the sometimes fractious leadership contest with Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Truss's response to the cost-of-living crisis was always likely to define her premiership. And ultimately her time in Downing Street began to rapidly unravel following her disastrous \"mini-budget\".\n\nLiz Truss now becomes the shortest-serving prime minister in UK history.", "Gwenan Pritchard had a crude comment shouted at her from workmen when she lifted her vest to feed her daughter Eiri in the park\n\nDisgust and disapproval from onlookers is one of the reasons why some women are reluctant to breastfeed in public, researchers have found.\n\nSwansea and Cardiff University experts said strangers' attitudes had a direct impact on mothers' behaviour.\n\nGwenan Pritchard, 31, from Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was \"devastated\" when workmen made comments about her breasts as she fed her daughter Eiri.\n\nShe was in a playground with her friend and their daughters when it happened.\n\n\"Both our daughters were about 18 months at the time and my friend was bottle feeding her daughter, and I breastfed mine.\n\n\"There were some workers nearby who shouted sexualised comments about my breasts.\"\n\nShe said Eiri, who is now three, stopped feeding and the experience left her really upset.\n\n\"To sexualise me and my daughter in that moment it was horrendous, it made me feel ashamed of the bond I have with my daughter.\"\n\nMs Pritchard did not go back to that playground for a while and said the experience put her off breastfeeding in public.\n\nGwenan Pritchard said people do not realise \"the impact of their words and their actions\"\n\n\"It was completely inappropriate, it was in a children's play park, one of the places where my daughter is the happiest and safest and being able to feed without prejudice and that was not what her or I faced,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nShe is now training to be a breastfeeding support worker because she does not want people to go through what she did.\n\n\"It goes beyond not wanting to feed in public, it is about the bond you get with your child, and it not only made me feel embarrassed but it felt like he broke the bond between me and my daughter, because I no longer wanted to feed in public.\"\n\nMs Pritchard added that although the experience affected her deeply, she stills breastfeeds Eiri and said society needed to be educated that breastfeeding is not sexualised.\n\nMs Pritchard was left worried someone would sexualise her and her daughter when she breastfeed\n\nDr Aimee Grant of Swansea University's centre for lactation, infant feeding and translational research led the study which looked at existing research mostly from the UK, USA and Australia.\n\nHer team examined 17,700 pregnant women and mothers' responses as well as 156 male partners, 46 grandparents and 438 members of the public.\n\n\"The attention of members of the public who observed breastfeeding was incorrectly focused on mothers as sexualised women rather than as caregivers to infants who needed feeding,\" she said.\n\n\"This created a hostile environment in which it was harder for mothers to feed their babies, which was stressful and unpleasant.\"\n\nThe study has been published by journal Maternal & Child Nutrition.\n\nIt found mothers were aware of stigma relating to breastfeeding in public and feared conflict with strangers.\n\nThe study, led by Dr Aimee Grant, has been published in the journal Maternal & Child Nutrition\n\nThis fear was not felt evenly, with mothers who were young, poor, and from marginalised ethnicities reporting increased surveillance and stigma. They also experienced reactions of disgust at breastfeeding.\n\nThe study also found people had a poor understanding of normal infant feeding behaviour and the need to breastfeed in public.\n\n\"We urgently need the public to reframe their view of breastfeeding, so that it is understood as nutrition for babies, rather than a political or sexualised act by their parents,\" Dr Grant said.\n\n\"This means that the public should not stare, tut or make negative comments about breastfeeding babies.\"", "Boarded up nightclubs are appearing more and more in towns and cities across Britain\n\nBritain has 20% fewer nightclubs than it had when the country first went into lockdown in March 2020.\n\nNightclubs have been in decline for the last 15 years or so and figures given to BBC News by the Night Time Industries Association - a trade body promoting the sector - highlight that the trend of closures is continuing.\n\nThat's despite the government offering billions of pounds in grants and loans throughout the pandemic to support hospitality businesses which were forced to shut down.\n\nThe NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in England, Wales and Scotland. In March 2020, when the figures were last published, the number was 1,418.\n\nThe body is now warning that the \"culmination of pandemic debt, growing energy bills, workforce challenges, supply chain, increased insurance premiums, landlord pressures and product cost increases have created a perfect storm\".\n\nSome parts of the country fared worse than others, such as the Midlands in England, where nearly 30% of nightclubs have closed since the first lockdown just over two years ago.\n\nOn Saturday night, Rosie Saveedra travelled from Halifax to Loughborough for a night out with her cousin Holly Jarram.\n\n\"I've never seen as many shutters on a Saturday as you do now,\" Holly told BBC News.\n\n\"The nightlife has certainly changed from 10 years ago, it used to be booming and full of people but now there's barely anybody in sight.\"\n\nSince all social restrictions in England were lifted, in July 2021, she's coming out \"a lot less\" than before Covid-19 \"purely because we used to work in the office and you'd go for drinks after work and it would turn into a night.\"\n\nRosie Saavedra and Holly Jarram describe the streets as \"being dead\" on a Saturday night now\n\nWorking from home, and a change in routine for millions, is one of the major factors the hospitality industry hasn't fully recovered.\n\nRosie thinks it's more noticeable in towns than cities, especially in Yorkshire.\n\n\"Venues are closing at quite a rapid rate,\" she told the BBC. \"The economy is going downhill so it's to be expected.\"\n\nThe NTIA said in a statement: \"Operating cost pressures coupled with consumers with less disposable income have seen the early stages of a recession with slowing ticket sales and visitor frequency.\"\n\nMohammed Abib's takeaway shop used to be opposite a nightclub - but it's closed down now\n\nThe situation is also having a knock-on effect on other businesses.\n\n\"The price is going up and everyone is trying to save some money because the cost of living is going up day by day and we're struggling now,\" explained kebab shop manager Mohammed Abib in Loughborough town centre.\n\nHe says the rate at which nightclubs are closing is having a direct impact on his business and he's worried about things getting worse.\n\nAt 22:30 on Saturday night there were no customers in his Peri Peri Delight takeaway, next door to a building society that has \"where people make the difference\" printed on its front.\n\n\"We used to have so many people queuing but now you can't see anybody,\" Mohammed explained to the BBC.\n\nOver the next hour there were never any more than three customers at one time in his shop.\n\n\"It's really hard and I've spoken to a few of my other friends who are running businesses and they're all struggling because the cost of the food products is almost double now,\" he said.\n\n\"We used to buy a box of wings for £13 and now it's £25 and we can't put our prices much higher because people can't afford it.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise that nightclubs are important cultural institutions and key drivers of local night time economies, but no national government can control the global factors pushing up the price of energy and other business costs.\"\n\nAlice Wilde says \"nothing\" about the clubbing experience is the same price as it was before the pandemic\n\nWhat Mohammed describes is mirrored in other parts of the country, like in Stockton-on-Tees where 23-year-old Alice Wilde lives.\n\nShe told BBC News she's going out clubbing a lot less with her friends and it's \"been a while\" since they went out.\n\n\"At the club we used to go to, a double used to be £2, now it's £3.50,\" she explained to the BBC. \"We all prefer staying in now because we can choose the music and we can walk to each other's houses.\n\n\"I can buy a bottle of vodka and a bottle of lemonade for half the price of a night out now and it'll probably last me to the next drinks gathering with my mates.\"\n\nNow on the \"rare occasion\" Alice goes out it's for \"people's birthdays or celebrations\" and they'll drink more at home before heading to a club, rather than pay for alcohol in a bar or pub.\n\nShaun O'Donnell has been a bouncer for 12 years but the venue he worked at before Covid hit didn't re-open\n\nBouncer Shaun O'Donnell says, in his experience, customers are now more likely to avoid clubs and are instead choosing smaller venues where \"the drinks are slightly cheaper\".\n\nHe told BBC News that the industry is struggling to recruit staff who want to do the late hours at the weekend as people found alternative employment when clubs were shut between March 2020 and July 2021 in England.\n\n\"Numbers are really low and the money's not great either so it's putting people off,\" he explained.\n\n\"Everyone's been off getting used to normal bed times and now you're asking people to work until 4 o'clock in the morning. Who really wants to do that?\"\n\nO'Donnell predicts \"smaller venues will survive\" but bigger ones won't when premises stop benefiting from financial support offered to help non-essential retail premises in England as a result of social restrictions.\n\nHospitality businesses were exempt from paying business rates up until June this year in order to \"grow and recover from unprecedented disruption\", but they now receive a third off the normal charge for the rest of the financial year.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We've stood behind the hospitality sector throughout the pandemic with a £400bn package of economy-wide support that saved millions of jobs and offered a lifeline to hundreds of night-time businesses up and down the country.\"\n\nBut NTIA CEO Michael Kill said: \"The government needs to recognise the economic, cultural, and community value of clubs and the wider night-time economy. We must protect these businesses, using every means possible, and recognise their importance before it's too late.\"", "Last year in June, Spelga Dam was 3.3m below its top water level\n\nIt has been the driest July in more than 20 years in Northern Ireland, with just over 50% of the normal monthly rainfall.\n\nA total of 45.8mm of rain was recorded for the whole month. It has not been as dry since 2000 when just 40mm of rain fell.\n\nThat is despite serious flooding across the north west on 23 July.\n\nSix people were rescued in Londonderry and Strabane.\n\nNorthern Ireland also had its seventh dullest July on record, according to the Met Office, with just 95.7 hours of sunshine.\n\nA number of roads in Derry were flooded due to the heavy rain on 23 July in the north west\n\nAn academic from Queen's University, Belfast, has warned that further such flooding is likely as climate change takes hold.\n\nIn fact, 46.4mm of rain was recorded in Castlederg, County Tyrone, that day - more than half of what is expected during the entire month of July (86.9mm).\n\nSome parts of Northern Ireland have been wetter than others.\n\nNorthern Ireland also had its seventh dullest July on record, according to the Met Office\n\nArmagh, for example, recorded just 24mm of rain in July, whereas Castlederg recorded more than three times that amount at 76mm.\n\nSo far this year, Northern Ireland has recorded 538.1mm of rain, just 9mm more than last year when Northern Ireland Water was considering a hosepipe ban.\n\nNI Water is closely monitoring water usage and, if demand becomes excessive, then a hosepipe ban is possible\n\nHowever, the company said: \"We are currently content with our level of storage.\"\n\nIt has advised customers to continue to use water wisely.\n\nWhile NI Water is not introducing a hosepipe ban, the company said the situation was being closely monitored and, if demand became excessive, it would have to consider the possibility of a hosepipe ban in order to protect water supplies.", "Guillemots on the Isle of May national nature reserve\n\nDavid Steel is usually sad to see the seabirds heading south from the Isle of May, but this year he is glad that at least some are escaping their crowded nesting sites which have become a breeding ground for the new lethal variant of avian flu.\n\nThe manager of the nature reserve in the Firth of Forth tells me his big worry now is that they might take the disease with them.\n\nA global pandemic, which could return to devastate the colony again next spring, is a big concern, Mr Steel says. This year has been terrible enough.\n\nOver the course of spring and summer, a new and deadly variant of bird flu has been spreading through seabird colonies around Scotland.\n\nFrom Shetland to the Farne Islands in Northumbria, washed-up bodies of dead birds are becoming a more common sight.\n\nScottish government agency NatureScot recently closed 23 islands to try to manage the outbreak.\n\nDavid Steel is concerned avian flu will become a global pandemic\n\nThe Isle of May, a home during the spring and summer for thousands of seabirds, was one of them.\n\nI was given special permission to visit the island, which sits in the outer Firth of Forth, about five miles (8km) off the Fife coast.\n\nAs our boat approached, grey seals bobbed out of the water, shags were perched on the rocks around the small harbour and puffins struck out into the steely waters.\n\nArctic terns wheeled overhead, their warning cries telling us that we were too close to their chicks, hidden among the rocks and sea campion.\n\nSoon they will start epic journeys to Antarctica.\n\n\"The winter is crucial,\" Mr Steel says.\n\n\"We've got to start to learn more about this and also make decisions about next season, because obviously there's a big risk that our birds, these Arctic terns beside me here, they're going to take it south with them.\n\n\"Will they take it into other colonies? Will they take it into albatross colonies in the south, penguin colonies, so it becomes a global pandemic then and comes back next spring?\n\n\"That is the worry, it really is, it's a big concern\".\n\nGannets at Bass Rock have been badly hit by the avian flu\n\nOn the path from the harbour, we find the body of a puffling, a young puffin, which didn't even make it into the water.\n\nMr Steel says it has been devastating to watch so many birds die and to know that there is almost nothing he can do about it.\n\nOn the other side of the Firth, at the Scottish Seabird Centre in East Lothian, those concerns are echoed by its chief executive, Susan Davies.\n\nOver the past few months, she has seen dramatic changes on the Bass Rock, which is just off the shore of North Berwick.\n\nNormally, huge areas of it are covered by gannets. But this year, gaps have appeared and grown ever larger. The lower slopes have become littered with dead birds.\n\nThe Bass Rock colony lies off the coast of North Berwick\n\nMs Davies says the UK government's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and NatureScot are working together on the crisis.\n\nShe says: \"One of the primary reasons behind that is to bring some coordination, to put a better surveillance plan in at key sites, to now understand the way in which the disease is changing and how it might mutate and affect other species.\"\n\nCould those other species include humans?\n\nMs Davies says, \"Some of the research that has been funded by Defra this year is also looking at what mutations would now have to take place in this form of highly pathogenic avian flu for it to be transmissible to people and what control measures would they put in place if those mutations happened.\"\n\nThat is an alarming prospect and one which is brought into sharp focus by the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThat crisis may have loosened its grip, but it has not gone away.\n\nAnd the implications of avian flu for birds and other species on the planet remain deeply troubling and unknown.\n• None RSPB says bird flu not going away anytime soon", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nAdam Peaty says he has his \"spark\" back after powering to a first Commonwealth 50m breaststroke title in what he says is his final race at the Games.\n\nHaving missed out on a 100m medal on Sunday as he recovers from a broken foot, the English swimmer had said he was \"not bothered\" about adding the shorter title to his collection.\n\nThat did not appear to be the case as he thrashed the water in celebration.\n\n\"I had two options this morning - I either fight or don't fight,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone who knows me, knows I fight.\"\n\nPeaty certainly looked ready to fight as he entered the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, beating his chest twice before raising his hand to acknowledge the goosebump-inducing noise from the crowd.\n\nThe 27-year-old jumped up and down behind his block, before eventually the shouts of \"come on Peaty\" subsided and silence fell.\n\nInitially, after touching first in 26.76 seconds, Peaty only gave an understated nod of his head.\n\nBefore the final, he had said \"you back a lion into a corner, they're going to bite\". He looked every bit the king of the pool as his celebrations sprang to life and he climbed on the lane rope to roar at the crowd.\n\nIt was a fairly comfortable victory in the end too. Australian silver medallist Sam Williamson was 0.21 seconds back, with Scotland's Ross Murdoch - who secretly retired in December before returning to swimming - taking bronze in 27.32 seconds.\n\nPeaty said after his 100m that he had lost his spark in the last two years and needed to take a long break before turning his attention to a third Olympic title at the 2024 Games.\n\nThe crowd's response to his victory may go some way to helping him fall back in love with the sport and he repaid their applause by throwing his cap and goggles into the stands.\n\n\"That means so much to me, because what I have been through the last five years,\" Peaty said.\n\n\"I lost my spark towards the beginning of the week and I have it back now. A lot of people have got to understand that I reached the bottom of the bottom yesterday and to bring myself up with the crowd in my own mind and that is the result.\"\n\nLater, as he received his medal on the podium and lapped up the adoration of the Sandwell crowd, that spark had returned to his eyes and the smile to his face.\n\nPeaty said he \"can retire now\" after completing his collection of Commonwealth titles, but added that he was \"looking forward to resetting\" and training over the winter.\n\n\"I am so glad I got that loss earlier in the week because these wins feel so much more alive and so much better,\" he concluded.\n\nPeaty also apologised in his post-race interview for his comments made after missing out on a medal in the 50m breaststroke final - saying he was \"not bothered\".\n\nBBC pundits had described his reaction as \"disrespectful\".\n\nHe told BBC Sport: \"I want to be accountable for that. It came across very wrong. I did address it and I'm sorry to anyone who misunderstood that. A lot of emotions yesterday. I'd reached the bottom of the bottom yesterday.\n\nPeaty, had earlier clarified his comments on Twitter, writing: \"Sometimes in the heat of the moment, my emotions better me... These championships mean a lot to me, being a home Games.\"\n\nPeaty's was not the first English gold on the penultimate night of swimming in Birmingham - as earlier on, Brodie Williams passed compatriot Luke Greenbank on the last length of the 200m backstroke to take the title.\n\nGreenbank had his head in his hands as Williams celebrated, but the pair then embraced as the home crowd cheered.\n\nLaura Stephens brought more joy for the hosts with 200m butterfly silver in the next race and James Guy continued the rush of medals for England with joint silver in a thrilling 100m butterfly final.\n\nTeenager Josh Liendo - the first black Canadian swimmer to win world short course gold in 2021 - took gold in in 51.24 seconds, ahead of 200m bronze medallist Guy and Australia's Matthew Temple, with South African Chad le Clos fourth.\n\nEngland's James Hollis won bronze in the 100m butterfly S10, in which Australia's Col Pearse won gold, and the hosts' quartet of Lauren Cox, James Wilby, Guy and Freya Anderson ended the night with a mixed 4x100m medley bronze.\n\nIn the women's 200m butterfly, Australia's Elizabeth Dekkers claimed gold in two minutes 7.26 seconds - 0.64 seconds ahead of Stephens - and compatriot Brianna Throssell took bronze.\n\nBen Proud - champion in the 50m butterfly - qualified fastest for the men's 50m freestyle final in 21.63 seconds, with Lewis Burras also qualifying.\n\nIn the 100m freestyle, Emma McKeon became the joint most-decorated Commonwealth athlete of all time alongside South Africa's Le Clos as a bronze took her medal tally to 18.\n\nFellow Australian Mollie O'Callaghan won that race and Shayna Jack took silver.\n\nLara van Niekerk claimed a comfortable win in the women's 100m breaststroke with fellow South African Tatjana Schoenmaker taking silver and Australia's Chelsea Hodges bronze.\n\nAustralia had time for three more golds before the night was through.\n\nJasmine Greenwood won the 200m individual medley SM10 and for the fifth time in the Games, they claimed all three medals in a swimming event.\n\nAriarne Titmus smashed the Commonwealth Games record of eight minutes 18.11 seconds in the 800m freestyle, winning in 8:13.59, with fellow Australians Kiah Melverton and Lani Pallister were second and third respectively.\n\nThey then continued their domination of the relays - in which they have taken all six possible golds - by winning the mixed 4x100m medley.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gesiye worked in collaboration with musicians, designers, filmmakers and photographers to create the work\n\nA portrait of slave owner Sir Thomas Picton has been put back on display, albeit boxed up-and alongside new artworks and information that \"reframes\" his place in history.\n\nThe portrait was removed from National Museum Cardiff in November following scrutiny of memorials to slave owners.\n\nThe museum commissioned two artworks from Trinidadian artists to reframe his legacy and give a voice to his victims.\n\nYoung people also worked with curators to provide additional context.\n\nPreviously, information accompanying the portrait of Picton, who was from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, hailed him as a hero of the Battle of Waterloo.\n\nIt had not included his brutal treatment of the people of Trinidad, including the torture of 14-year-old Luisa Calderon.\n\nOne of the new artworks - an installation called The Wound is a Portal - is by multidisciplinary artist Gesiye who is from Trinidad and Tobago and has Nigerian heritage.\n\nEight photographic portraits of Trinidadians baring tattoos and a short film adorn the walls of a dark room.\n\nArtist Gesiye drew on the \"cathartic process of tattooing to explore generational trauma\"\n\nGesiye said she found black Trinidadians who were willing for her to tattoo them by placing adverts in newspapers and putting up flyers on all the streets in Trinidad named after Picton.\n\n\"I'm using tattooing to kind of bring people together to share this connected story, but also to create a space where we feel safe to have these conversations about things that are usually quite painful and that we might otherwise avoid talking about,\" she said.\n\nGesiye worked in collaboration with musicians, designers, filmmakers and photographers\n\n\"My mother actually grew up on Picton Street - it is something that is very present in national consciousness\".\n\nGesiye, who had travelled from Trinidad to see her installation at the museum, said she was struck by the size of Picton's portrait.\n\n\"It's massive, you can see the intention to make him very grandiose and to minimise some of the pain that he may have caused,\" she said.\n\nWhen asked what should happen to other portraits, statues and streets named after Picton and other slave owners, she said there was \"no one answer\" which applied to all.\n\n\"History is really a story that's been told by someone who had power at that time,\" she said.\n\n\"It feels very important to do it like this\".\n\nArtists Mary-Anne Roberts, Miguela Gonzalez and Adeola Dewis all have Trinidadian heritage and live in Cardiff\n\nThe second newly commissioned artwork - Spirited 2022 - is described as an ancestral work that honours African traditions, inspired by the Ol' Mas' traditions of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.\n\nVisitors make their way through a walkway of metal sculpture, bamboo frames, twisted paper, found objects and audio-visual elements.\n\nIt was created by collective of four artists Laku Neg.\n\nArtist Miguela Gonzalez said: \"This is not a response to Picton himself, this is our understanding of our history and this is us filling in the gaps of a story.\"\n\nShe said they set out to tell the story of Luisa Calderon, the best-known of Picton's victims, as well as two other slaves - Present and Thisbe.\n\n\"We know that he pretty much tortured a 14-year-old girl for days and that was the legacy that he left for us in Trinidad,\" she said.\n\n\"That's our understanding of who he was and we know across the Atlantic that legacy is quite different.\"\n\nShe said Present was a slave who was caught trying to escape and hanged.\n\n\"She was a child who never had a childhood so we're trying to give her back her childhood through this art,\" she said.\n\n\"We're also representing Thisbe, who was accused of crimes and tortured in front of Luisa as a threat for Luisa to see 'if you don't confess this is what will happen to you'.\n\n\"She was tortured, after her death she was dismembered.\"\n\nSpirited 2022 tells the story of three of Picton's victims\n\nShe said their focus had been on Picton's victims, rather than the man himself.\n\n\"If we were to be really frank we don't have any strong opinions about what should happen to the portrait - that has its context and if you explain what it means and you give a nuanced understanding of who that man was then that's fine,\" she said.\n\n\"Everyone should understand all the different variations of history, it is not black and white.\"\n\nArtist Mary-Anne Roberts added: \"This is the beginning of conversations with all sorts of communities and remembering that the museum is a palace of the people - let's get the people into our palace.\"\n\nDr Kath Davies says the long-term future of the Picton portrait is yet to be decided\n\nThe Picton portrait is one of 209 memorials in Wales to people with links to slavery, identified by a 2020 audit.\n\nThe new exhibition came about after the museum called on the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP) to decide the future of the portrait, which had hung in the museum's Faces of Wales gallery.\n\nThe group said the painting should remain on display but with added detail about Picton's actions as a slave owner.\n\nDr Kath Davies, National Museum Wales' director of collections, said they had listened to community partners to gain different stories and different perspectives.\n\n\"There are no neat narratives to the story,\" she said.\n\n\"I think what you'll see here today is an exhibition which tries to cover all the aspects of Picton's life and Picton's activity, and I think it'll be up to the audience to make their minds up.\"\n\nShe said seeing the exhibition come to fruition had been joyful, adding: \"It will underpin the way that the museum works in future.\"\n\nAsked about the future for the still boxed-up portrait, she said: \"Where the story goes next I think is the best question. The young people we've been working with haven't decided.\n\n\"And that's what's in some ways been so exciting or maybe challenging for this project - we've had to just take everything a step at a time and really listen, and we'll listen again about what the future of Picton will be.\"\n\nReframing Picton will be at National Museum Cardiff from 1 August to 3 September 2023", "Farm thefts last year were valued at £40.5m\n\nTheft of farmers' livestock, vehicles and fuel is on the rise due to the UK's cost-of-living crisis, according to a new countryside crime report.\n\nRural crime claims payouts between January and March were over 40% higher than in 2021, insurer NFU Mutual says.\n\nIt warned rising food prices could see livestock thefts increase further and contaminated meat enter the food chain.\n\nThe NFU wants the government to launch a national taskforce to deal with rural crime.\n\nDavid Exwood, the NFU's vice-president, said: \"Taking a joined-up approach and establishing a cross-governmental task force - including Defra, the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the National Police Chiefs Council and the Association of Police & Crime Commissioners - will be crucial if we are to prevent further impacts from crime on farm businesses, both financially and emotionally.\"\n\nThe NFU Mutual report warns that an increase in rustling - which saw an estimated £2.4m worth of farm animals stolen in 2021 - could see animals slaughtered in unhygienic conditions and sold on, threatening food security, animal welfare and people's health.\n\nMeanwhile, it said its claims data from the first half of this year indicate that fuel theft has more than doubled compared to the same period in 2021. Its survey found 49% of respondents felt fuel theft was now their greatest crime concern.\n\nThe total cost of rural crime was estimated at £40.5m across the UK last year, an overall decrease on previous years and the second annual fall during the pandemic.\n\nSecurity measures, rural crime initiatives, quieter roads and community vigilance all played their part in suppressing countryside crime, the report found.\n\nBut Rebecca Davidson, NFU Mutual's rural affairs specialist, said that this year farm theft is \"quickly gathering momentum as criminals make up for time lost over the past two pandemic years\" and that was having an impact on farmers' mental health.\n\n\"Crime in the countryside causes high levels of anxiety and disruption, with many farmers and rural home owners feeling vulnerable due to their isolated location,\" she added.\n\n\"The knowledge that determined thieves are scouring the countryside looking for targets, and returning to carry out night-time raids can lead to sleepless nights for people in remote areas.\"", "Mahiqul Islam, left, and Rafiqul Islam died after being found unconscious in Bangladesh\n\nThere is no concrete evidence a father and son were poisoned in Bangladesh, a doctor has said.\n\nRafiqul Islam, who was 51, and Mahiqul, 16, from Cardiff, died after being found unconscious in the north-eastern region of Sylhet on 26 July.\n\nPolice believed they had been poisoned - but initial autopsies have not confirmed this.\n\nDr Shamsul Islam, who conducted post-mortem examinations, said they provided no indication of cause of death.\n\nTest results have been sent for further analysis and Dr Islam said his investigation will not be concluded until the results returned.\n\nThe family, from the Riverside area of the city, were on a two-month visit to the country and were all found unconscious in the flat.\n\nMr Islam's daughter, Samira, 20, is still understood to be in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nHis wife, Husnara, 45, and their eldest son, 24-year-old Sadiqul, are believed to be recovering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rafiqul Islam and his son died after being poisoned, police say\n\n\"During the initial autopsy nothing was found,\" Dr Islam said.\n\nHe also said there had been no signs of injury on either Mr Islam or his son, adding there was \"no concrete evidence\" at this stage to suggest poisoning may have been the cause.\n\nIt is understood that findings from the toxicology report may not be published for another two weeks.\n\nMr Islam, a taxi driver from the Riverside area of Cardiff, had been a member of his local badminton and cricket teams.\n\nHis son, Mahiqul, had previously been a pupil at Fitzalan High School, and had been described by relatives as \"very sweet and friendly\".\n\nHundreds lined the streets for the funeral of Rafiqul Islam and his son last Thursday\n\nIt is thought the family had travelled to Sylhet for earlier in July, for Mahiqul to receive medical treatment.\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets for their funeral, which took place in Osmaninagar in Sylhet last Thursday.\n\nPolice are continuing to investigate, having previously said they suspected the family may have been poisoned.\n\nNo arrests have been made.", "Catastrophic climate change outcomes, including human extinction, are not being taken seriously enough by scientists, a new study says.\n\nThe authors say that the consequences of more extreme warming - still on the cards if no action is taken - are \"dangerously underexplored\".\n\nThey argue that the world needs to start preparing for the possibility of what they term the \"climate endgame\".\n\nThey want UN scientists to investigate the risk of catastrophic change.\n\nAccording to this new analysis, the closest attempts to directly understand or address how climate change could lead to global catastrophe have come from popular science books such as The Uninhabitable Earth and not from mainstream science research.\n\nIn recent years climate scientists have more often studied the impacts of warming of around 1.5C or 2C above the temperatures seen in 1850, before the onset of global industrialisation.\n\nThese studies show that keeping temperatures close to these levels this century will place heavy burdens on global economies, but they do not envisage the end of humanity.\n\nResearchers have focussed on these lower temperature scenarios for good reasons.\n\nThe Paris climate agreement saw almost every nation on Earth sign up to a deal that aims to keep the rise in global temperatures \"well below\" 2C this century, and make efforts to keep it under 1.5C.\n\nSo it's natural that governments would want their scientists to show exactly what this type of change would mean.\n\nBut this new paper says that not enough attention has been given to more extreme outcomes of climate change.\n\n\"I think it's sane risk management to think about the plausible worst-case scenarios and we do it when it comes to every other situation, we should definitely do when it comes to the fate of the planet and species,\" said lead author Dr Luke Kemp from the University of Cambridge.\n\nThe researchers found that estimates of the impacts of a temperature rise of 3C are under-represented compared to their likelihood.\n\nUsing climate models, the report shows that in this type of scenario, by 2070 around 2 billion people living in some of the most politically fragile areas of the world would be enduring annual average temperatures of 29C.\n\n\"Average annual temperatures of 29C currently affect around 30 million people in the Sahara and Gulf Coast,\" said co-author Chi Xu of Nanjing University.\n\n\"By 2070, these temperatures and the social and political consequences will directly affect two nuclear powers, and seven maximum containment laboratories housing the most dangerous pathogens. There is serious potential for disastrous knock-on effects,\" he said.\n\nThe future impacts of extreme climate change have not been fully explored\n\nThe report says that it is not just high temperatures that are the problem, it's the compound and knock-on effects such as food or financial crises, conflicts or disease outbreaks that have the potential for disaster.\n\nThere should also be more focus on identifying potential tipping points, where increasing warmth triggers another natural event that drives temperatures up even more - such as methane emissions from melting permafrost or forests that start emitting carbon rather than soaking it up.\n\nTo properly assess all these risks, the authors are calling on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to carry out a special report on catastrophic climate change.\n\nThe researchers said that seriously studying the consequences of worst-case scenarios was vital, even though it might scare people.\n\nThey said that carrying out this research would allow scientists to consider emergency options such as climate engineering which might involve pumping coolants into the atmosphere. Researchers would be able to carry out a risk analysis for these drastic interventions compared to the worst effects of climate change. Focussing on the worst-case scenarios could also help inform the public - and might actually make the outcomes less likely.\n\n\"Understanding these plausible but grim scenarios is something that could galvanise both political and civil opinion,\" said Dr Kemp.\n\n\"We saw this when it came to the identification of the idea of a nuclear winter that helped compel a lot of the public efforts as well as the disarmament movement throughout the 1970s and '80s.\"\n\n\"And I hope if we can find similar concrete and clear mechanisms when it comes to thinking about climate change, that it also has a similar effect.\"\n\nThe plea for serious study of more extreme scenarios will chime with many younger climate activists, who say they are often not addressed for fear of frightening people into inaction.\n\n\"It is vital that we have research into all areas of climate change, including the scary reality of catastrophic events,\" said Laura Young, a 25-year-old climate activist. \"This is because without the full truth, and all of the potential impacts, we won't make the informed choices we need, and we won't be driving climate action with enough pressure.\n\n\"For years climate change has been hidden, misinformed, and avoided and this has to stop now. Especially for the younger generations who are going to be left to deal with the consequences of years of pushing the Earth to its limits.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nBBC News Climate and Science reporter Ella Hambly contributed to this report.", "Three British men accused of being mercenaries are to stand trial in a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.\n\nJohn Harding, Dylan Healy, and Andrew Hill will be tried in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, a breakaway region of Ukraine, Russian media said.\n\nThe court, which is not internationally recognised, sentenced two British men to death recently.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it condemned the exploitation of civilian detainees for political purposes.\n\nEx-serviceman Mr Harding, originally from Sunderland, had been fighting alongside Ukrainian forces since moving to the country in 2018. In July he appeared in a video appealing to Prime Minister Boris Johnson for help.\n\nMr Hill has been fighting with Ukraine's International Legion.\n\nMr Healy, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, had been volunteering in Ukraine as an aid worker when he was captured at a checkpoint in April, alongside Paul Urey who died in July while being held by Russian-backed separatists.\n\nRussia's state news agency Tass reported that the three British men had refused to co-operate with investigators and testify.\n\nThey are being tried alongside two other men from Sweden and Croatia.\n\nJohn Harding, who is in his fifties and originally from Sunderland, moved to Ukraine in 2018\n\nThe same court in June sentenced Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin to death. The Britons were captured while fighting for Ukraine were accused of being mercenaries.\n\nTheir families insisted they were long-serving members of the Ukrainian military and not mercenaries.\n\nThe UK and Ukraine have condemned the sentences for violating international laws protecting prisoners of war.\n\nAfter this latest development, the Foreign Office said it was in constant contact with Ukraine to support its efforts to get all the Britons released.\n\nIt added: \"We condemn the exploitation of prisoners of war and civilian detainees for political purposes and have raised this with Russia.\"\n\nThe news came on the same day that Russia banned BBC newsreader Huw Edwards, along with a number of other journalists, as part of its latest wave of sanctions.\n\nMr Edwards follows several of his BBC colleagues who were blacklisted by Russia in June, including fellow newsreader Clive Myrie and BBC Radio 4's Today programme presenter Nick Robinson.\n\nEdwards tweeted he had \"made the Kremlin cut\", adding Wales and Ukraine flag emojis next to his name on the list.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMoscow's foreign ministry issued a list of 39 newly-sanctioned individuals who are now barred from entering the country, in response to UK sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nIt follows a decision last month by the UK to sanction Russian ministers and members of influential families linked to the President Vladimir Putin.\n\nOther journalists banned include ITV's political editor Robert Peston, the Sunday Times' political editor Caroline Wheeler, the Times' columnist David Aaronovich, the Guardian's war news editor Dan Sabbagh, and TalkTV's Piers Morgan.\n\nIn response, Morgan tweeted visiting Russia \"wasn't on my immediate vacation to-do list\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTravel bans have also been placed on David Cameron, former prime minister, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, and Labour MPs Lisa Nandy and David Lammy.\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford featured on the list as well.\n\nThe Russian foreign ministry said in a statement: \"As has been noted more than once, the pernicious actions of the UK in planting Russophobia, spreading false information about our country and supporting the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime will receive an adequate and decisive response from the Russian side.\"\n\nDespite repeated claims by Russia to the contrary, Ukraine's far-right remains a relatively small minority in the country.", "Last updated on .From the section Commonwealth Games\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.\n\nEngland's Laura Kenny won a stunning track cycling scratch race gold at the Commonwealth Games, a day after thinking it would be her final race amid a \"serious confidence crisis\".\n\nOn the Lee Valley VeloPark track where she made her name at the 2012 Olympics, Kenny timed her attack to perfection under deafening roars from the crowd.\n\nIt is England's first cycling gold of the Birmingham Games, and Kenny's first Commonwealth title since 2014.\n\n\"I can't believe it,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Sport, the 30-year-old added: \"I said to Jase [Jason Kenny - her husband]: 'I think this is going to be my last race.'\"\n\nHer victory comes months after she suffered a miscarriage, followed by an ectopic pregnancy, after which she considered quitting the sport.\n\n\"I watched Adam Peaty completely reflect in his interview and I thought, that is me all over,\" Kenny said.\n\n\"I've lost the spark, training doesn't come that easy. Every day I'm like 'here we go again'.\n\n\"I've been through three Olympic cycles now. To keep picking yourself up after this whole year has been a nightmare... I have absolutely just lost motivation.\n\n\"Then last night I was messaging my new coach Len and I was like 'no, I'm not giving up, I have one more roll of the dice - please just help me'. It could not have been better set up if I tried.\"\n\nNew Zealand's Michaela Drummond was second while Canada's Maggie Coles-Lyster won the bronze, with Scotland's Neah Evans finishing an agonising fourth having led at the bell for the final lap.\n\nKenny, Great Britain's most successful female Olympian with five golds, won bronze in the team pursuit earlier in the Games but was off the pace in Sunday's points race, finishing 13th.\n\nThe first two of her Olympic golds came at London 2012, a decade ago.\n\nBut she said she was left with a \"bad taste\" after team-mate Matt Walls was involved in a horrific crash on Sunday, in which he and his bike catapulted into the crowd.\n\n\"To cross the line here in London, I could not ask for anything more,\" Kenny said.\n\n\"Sunday left a pretty bad taste to be honest. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind.\n\n\"You see Matt Walls crash like that and it really makes you think: 'What am I doing?' I have been so lucky; in my whole career I have had one broken shoulder and one broken arm.\n\n\"You see something like that... I was having a serious confidence crisis. I just didn't want to be on the track - and when that happens, I race badly and I don't get a result. And that's what happened.\n\n\"Whereas today, I was so fired up. I kept saying to myself in the toilet, 'I can do this'.\n\n\"Some man on the start line said 'you've got this Laura' and I felt like turning round to him and saying 'yes I have'. I was like a completely different bike rider.\"\n\n'That one's for him' - Capewell dedicates medal to late father\n\nIt wasn't long before the largely English crowd at the velodrome were on their feet again, as Sophie Capewell won silver in the women's keirin, the race immediately after Kenny's.\n\nIt was 23-year-old Capewell's second medal inside 24 hours, having won 500m time trial bronze on Sunday.\n\nShe dedicated the medal to her father, Nigel, who died in October 2021.\n\n\"Most of today has been a bit of a blur. I've been feeling a bit under the weather probably since the sprint day. I took it one race at a time today and I'm so proud of myself,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I'm just so proud, without getting too emotional, I lost my dad and I just think he's with me a little bit.\n\n\"It's been a really, really hard past few years basically and that one's for him. Everything's for him going forward.\n\n\"I know he'd be screaming in the stands for that one, because I nearly got it right. It means much more than I can put into words.\"\n\nAnother medal was to follow for England, with Ollie Wood winning bronze in the men's points race.\n\nThe 26-year-old finished on 35 points, as New Zealand took gold and silver with Aaron Gate winning on 45 points and Campbell Stewart second on 38.\n\nWood's bronze adds to the silver he won in the team pursuit on Friday.\n• None BBC Live guide for links to all live streams", "Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan's capital Taipei, despite repeated warnings from China over the visit.\n\nThe US Democrat and Speaker of the House has made the trip without the backing of the White House.\n\nThe visit has only further strained relations between Washington and Beijing, with China saying the US would \"pay the price\".\n\nAfter touching down in Taipei, Ms Pelosi tweeted that her delegation's visit honoured \"America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant Democracy\".", "The Scottish government has urged Westminster to provide additional funding for public sector pay deals.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said failure to do so would risk an inability to fund equivalent offers without cuts to public services.\n\nMr Swinney, who has taken on the finance and economy portfolio, issued the warning in a letter to Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi.\n\nThe UK government said it had provided Holyrood with a record settlement.\n\nBut Mr Swinney outlined concerns that last year's UK Spending Review did not take into account the level of pay increases recently proposed by independent pay review bodies.\n\nMr Swinney, who is covering Kate Forbes' brief while she is on maternity leave, also said the Spending Review did not consider the wider effects of rising inflation.\n\nAnd he added that without further funding, the Scottish government may only be able to issue similar pay rises by reducing budgets elsewhere.\n\nHe wrote: \"Further to the joint letter from devolved administration finance ministers to you on July 15, and in light of the UK government's subsequent announcements regarding public sector pay, I am concerned that no associated funding is being provided to meet these additional costs.\n\n\"Last year's UK Spending Review, which as you know determines the majority of the Scottish Budget, did not take account of the levels of pay uplift now proposed or indeed the wider effects of inflation.\n\n\"The associated reduction in spending power across public sector budgets is deeply worrying for our public services and our capacity to respond to the cost of living crisis, which will undoubtedly bring renewed challenges through the coming autumn and winter period.\"\n\nThe call for more funding comes as pay offers to a range of public sector workers in Scotland have been rejected by unions, raising the prospect of frontline services being impacted by industrial action. This includes:\n\nMr Swinney warned that Holyrood's fixed budgets, restricted borrowing powers, the inability to change tax policy and the lack of additional funding for public sector pay deals via the Barnett Formula meant the Scottish government could only replicate these pay deals for public workers in Scotland with \"deep cuts to public services\".\n\nHe added: \"I would urge you to consider appropriate funding for public sector pay, and would welcome early discussions with you on this matter.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said: \"We have provided the Scottish government with a record £41bn per year for the next three years, the highest spending review settlement since devolution.\n\n\"As a result, the Scottish government is receiving around £126 per person for every £100 per person of equivalent UK government spending in England over the next three years.\n\n\"We're also helping to tackle the rising cost of living, protecting eight million of the most vulnerable families with direct payments of £1,200 this year, and providing additional payments to pensioners and disabled people.\"\n\nScottish Labour's finance spokesman Daniel Johnson said it was not acceptable for both governments to blame one another for their \"collective failures\".\n\nHe added: \"It is the SNP who have, for almost 15 years, failed to value public sector workers or prioritise fair pay deals for them, all while the Tories have presided over a massive transfer of wealth to top earners.\n\n\"To fix this we need an economy that is growing and relentlessly focused on giving everyone a chance to succeed.\n\n\"Neither the SNP or the Tories are willing or able to use the powers at Holyrood or Westminster to do that.\"", "US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi is second in line for the presidency\n\nUS House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has arrived in Taiwan, defying warnings from China and concerns from the White House. But she has a long history of criticising the Chinese government.\n\nMost famously in 1991, two years after large-scale protests in Beijing were crushed by the Chinese government, she visited Tiananmen Square and displayed a banner honouring the deceased demonstrators.\n\nFor its part, the Chinese government has made no secret of its disdain for Ms Pelosi, once labelling her \"full of lies and disinformation\".\n\nChina sees self-ruled Taiwan as a breakaway province, and has not ruled out using force to unify it. It deploys significant pressure to dissuade other countries from recognising Taiwan's independence.\n\nBefore her visit, China warned of serious consequences if Ms Pelosi went to Taiwan.\n\nShe is second in line for the presidency after Vice-President Kamala Harris, and would be the most senior US politician to travel to the island since her predecessor Newt Gingrich in 1997.\n\nHer plans to visit the island were kept under wraps - however rumours were circulating about the plan, prompting the Chinese warnings. Her Asian tour also includes visits to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.\n\nThis leg of the trip is not backed by US President Joe Biden, and with US-China tensions continuing to run high, even White House officials reportedly tried to dissuade her. Mr Biden recently told reporters \"the military thinks it's not a good idea\".\n\nTwo years after protestors were crushed by Communist Party forces in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the then-California representative visited the capital city.\n\nSlipping away from her official escorts along with two other members of Congress, she went to the city square without the permission of her Chinese hosts.\n\nThere, they unfurled a small, hand-painted banner which read: \"To those who died for democracy in China.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nancy Pelosi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe police closed in quickly, roughing up reporters who were covering the event and chasing the lawmakers out of the square.\n\nChina's Foreign Ministry later denounced the incident as a \"premeditated farce\".\n\nSome criticised Ms Pelosi's actions during that visit. Former CNN Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy that she was the reason he got arrested at the scene.\n\nMr Chinoy said he was not aware of what Ms Pelosi planned to do at the square, and was detained for several hours as the police were unable to target a visiting foreign dignitary.\n\n\"It was my first experience with Pelosi's penchant for high-profile gestures designed to poke China's communist rulers in the eye - regardless of the consequences,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mike Chinoy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Pelosi, who also helped lead a resolution condemning China's actions in 1989, has continued to speak out about the \"massacre\" of demonstrators over the years.\n\nMost recently, she issued a statement to mark the 33rd anniversary of the protests this year, calling the demonstrations \"one of the greatest acts of political courage\" and slamming the Communist Party's \"oppressive regime\".\n\nAt a meeting with then-Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao in 2002, Ms Pelosi tried to pass him four letters expressing concern over the detention and imprisonment of activists in China and Tibet, and calling for their release.\n\nSeven years later, Ms Pelosi reportedly hand-delivered another letter to him - by then President of China - calling for the release of political prisoners including prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo.\n\nLiu was named the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize but was not allowed to travel to Norway to accept the award. He died of cancer in 2017 while still in Chinese custody.\n\nMs Pelosi has opposed China's bids to host the Olympic Games as far back as 1993 on the basis of its alleged human rights abuses.\n\nShe was one of the lawmakers that unsuccessfully urged then-US President George W Bush to boycott China's Summer Olympics opening ceremony in 2008.\n\nThis year, the Speaker of the House again led calls for a \"diplomatic boycott\" of Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China.\n\n\"For heads of state to go to China in light of a genocide that is ongoing - while you're sitting there in your seat - really begs the question, what moral authority do you have to speak again about human rights any place in the world?\" she said.\n\nIn response, a spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington said US politicians were in no position to make \"wanton groundless criticism\" against China.\n\nOver the years, Ms Pelosi has also pushed for China's trade status to be linked to its human rights record, and to attach conditions to China's entry to the World Trade Organization.\n\nThe policy has been controversial: Mr Bush vetoed legislation related to this several times, while former President Bill Clinton initially supported but later abandoned it, saying broader American strategic interests justified the reversal.", "Politicians from across the political divide in Northern Ireland have gathered at Stormont to pay tribute to Lord Trimble.\n\nThe assembly was recalled for a special sitting on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nMLAs were given the opportunity to remember the former Ulster Unionist Party leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who died last week aged 77.\n\nUK and Irish prime ministers were among mourners at his funeral in Lisburn, County Antrim, on Monday.\n\nLord Trimble led the UUP from 1995 to 2005 and was the first person to serve as first minister of Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"David leaves this world with the blessing of a good name here on earth.\"\n\nHe was instrumental in the negotiations and signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which brought to an end the worst of 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles.\n\nHe opened with his own tribute to Lord Trimble, describing him as a \"complex and thoughtful character\" who carried a heavy burden as the leader of unionism.\n\n\"There is no doubt David Trimble took risks and took decisions often in the face of fierce opposition when it would have been personally easier for him not to do so,\" Mr Maskey said.\n\n\"David and his family made sacrifices and paid a personal price for the leadership he showed, but the Good Friday Agreement and this Assembly do exist because of him.\"\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader, Doug Beattie, said that before 1998 unionists and nationalists would not have been seen in the same room together, \"never mind share a handshake or form a government with joint responsibilities\".\n\nHe contrasted that to scenes at Lord Trimble's funeral on Monday where political leaders from across the divide came together.\n\n\"At David's humble and dignified funeral, handshakes and pats on the shoulder were offered freely from every political corner with warm words of condolence - that's progress,\" he said.\n\n\"David's life was one of service...he had a vision focused on peace and on ending the sectarian divide while protecting Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom.\"\n\nDoug Beattie, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), laid a wreath under the portrait of the party\"s former leader at Stormont\n\nSinn Féin vice-president, Michelle O'Neill, paid tribute to Lord Trimble's \"courage and generosity\", as she recognised the personal risks he took to achieve peace.\n\nBut Ms O'Neill also noted that 2023 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"It would be a travesty if the political accommodation which the agreement is, the political institutions, and the relationships north-south and east-west are not reset between now and then,\" she added.\n\n\"History will be kind to David Trimble for the huge part he played, but it will be unforgiving to those of you who obstruct progress or refuse to show leadership.\"\n\nDUP minister Edwin Poots noted that he was one of only four current MLAs left, who was elected to the Assembly of 1998 and shared the chamber with Lord Trimble.\n\n\"His ability and intellect was evident for all to see,\" Mr Poots said.\n\n\"His attention to detail was second to none. Actually, so much focused on the detail sometimes he didn't focus on the message, but he was so focused on the detail.\n\n\"He was brave, in that he took on the challenges that came his way and they weren't easy, particularly in a constituency like Upper Bann where the unionist population is very strong unionist population and they were certainly uneasy with much of what he was doing, and that transpired in future elections. But he was a dedicated unionist.\"\n\nAlliance Party MLA Andrew Muir described Lord Trimble as a \"complex character\", and said that while he would not have agreed with him on some matters, he said he had made a \"significant, substantial and positive contribution\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland is, thankfully, a very different place now than it was back in 1998, but we should not kid our self that we don't have much further to travel. We do,\" he said.\n\n\"The prize of a truly reconciled people, a place where everyone is proud to call home, and fully functioning institutions sadly remains yet to be achieved.\n\n\"With so many of the giants of the peace process now no longer with us, current and future generations turn to us all here to take the baton on and complete the journey set out in 1998.\"\n\nSDLP MLA Matthew O'Toole said \"very few politicians are able to claim a record of achievement as profound as that of David Trimble\".\n\nHe noted successive leaders of unionism \"struggling to deliver meaningful compromise without the demon accusations of Lundyism and treason\".\n\n\"Trimble faced these accusations too, but stuck at it,\" he said.\n\n\"Dogged, diffident, sometimes difficult. He used a legal mind and remarkable tenacity to achieve - and then implement - a deal which esteemed both historic traditions and constitutional aspirations and acknowledged the interconnectedness of this island, and of both islands.\"\n\nAssembly Speaker Alex Maskey signs the book of condolence for Lord Trimble at the Great Hall, Stormont, on Tuesday\n\nTraditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister started off by saying he disagreed with Lord Trimble on the Good Friday Agreement. He said the assembly had been failing and dysfunctional since it was set up in 1998.\n\nHowever, Mr Allister paid tribute to Lord Trimble as \"more honest politically\" than \"those who supplanted him as the leader of unionism\".\n\n\"I'm happy that in latter times I found common cause with Lord Trimble in opposing the [Northern Ireland] Protocol, and he was of course a joint applicant in the ongoing judicial review challenge to that protocol.\"\n\nMr Allister also recalled Lord Trimble as a law academic at Queen's University when he was a student, and described him as a \"supreme academic and someone who was an intellectual of giant proportions\".\n\nMLAs have also signed a book of condolence.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader, Mike Nesbitt, said the only fitting tribute to Lord Trimble would be \"to get the institutions at Stormont back up and running again\" to deal with issues that remain, including the protocol.\n\n\"What we are dealing with are challenges but they are nothing like the challenges that David Trimble had to overcome 25 years ago,\" he said.\n\nThe assembly will also sit again on Wednesday to try again to elect a new Speaker.\n\nMr Nesbitt said his party questions the point of the assembly recall on Wednesday, adding that \"it is not going to go anywhere\".\n\nHe urged urged party leaders to get together \"quietly and privately to resolve the differences\".\n\nThe assembly has not been sitting because the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has refused to vote for a Speaker.\n\nThe party is refusing to re-enter power sharing as part of its protest over the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\nWithout a Speaker, the assembly cannot function, but a Speaker can only be elected with support from a majority of unionist and nationalist members and this is not possible without the DUP.\n\nDUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said his party would not be supporting the election of a new Speaker.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Maguire have received the most Twitter abuse of any Premier League players, a new report has found.\n\nOfcom analysis of 2.3 million tweets in the first half of last season found nearly 60,000 abusive posts, affecting seven in 10 top-flight players.\n\nHalf of that abuse was directed at just 12 individuals - eight from United.\n\nHowever, the study by the Alan Turing Institute also found the vast majority of fans use social media responsibly.\n\n\"These findings shed light on a dark side to the beautiful game,\" said Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom's group director for broadcasting and online content.\n\n\"Online abuse has no place in sport, nor in wider society, and tackling it requires a team effort.\"\n\nThe report identified two peaks in the frequency of abusive tweets.\n\nThe first came on the day Ronaldo rejoined Manchester United on 27 August 2021, generating three times more tweets than any other day (188,769), of which 3,961 were abusive. At 2.3%, that is marginally lower than the daily average.\n\nThe volume of posts can largely be accounted for because of Ronaldo's 98.4m followers. On this day the Portugal forward was mentioned in 90% of all tweets aimed at Premier League footballers and 97% of abusive tweets.\n\nThe second peak came on 7 November when defender Maguire tweeted an apology following Manchester United's 2-0 home defeat by Manchester City.\n\nOn that occasion, 2,903 abusive tweets were sent - 10.6% of the total that day - with many users reacting to Maguire's post with insulting or demeaning language.\n\nThe report also found a duplicated tweet - using the same exact phrase - was sent to Maguire 69 times by different users within two hours.\n\nThe study says \"it is possible that this duplication occurred because users saw the abusive message and decided to replicate it - indicating organic organisation rather than coordinated behaviour\".\n\nThe Alan Turing Institute said that understanding the organisation of online abuse is of increasing interest given the harm caused by co-ordinated attacks and \"pile-ons\".\n\nOther players were targeted by large volumes of abuse following a \"trigger\", despite receiving relatively few tweets overall.\n\nNewcastle defender Ciaran Clark, now on loan at Sheffield United, was sent off against Norwich in November, with 78% of the abusive tweets he received coming on this day.\n\nMeanwhile, Crystal Palace's James McArthur was also the subject of a spike in abuse after being yellow carded for stepping on Bukayo Saka against Arsenal in October.\n\nResearchers will also look at whether a spike took place when an incident that saw West Ham defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping his cat came to light, as that took place after the data was collected.\n\nHow did the study work?\n\nAs part of its preparation to regulate tech giants under new online safety laws, Ofcom teamed up with the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, to analyse more than 2.3 million tweets directed at Premier League footballers over the first five months of the 2021-22 season.\n\nThe study created a new machine-learning technology to automatically assess whether tweets are abusive, while a team of experts also manually reviewed a random sample of 3,000 tweets.\n\nOf that sample, 57% were positive towards players, 27% were neutral and 12.5% were critical. The remaining 3.5% were abusive.\n\nOf the 2.3 million tweets analysed with the machine-learning tool, 2.6% contained abuse.\n\n\"These stark findings uncover the extent to which footballers are subjected to vile abuse across social media,\" said Dr Bertie Vidgen, lead author of the report and head of online safety at the Alan Turing Institute.\n\n\"While tackling online abuse is difficult, we can't leave it unchallenged. More must be done to stop the worst forms of content, to ensure that players can do their job without being subjected to abuse.\"\n\nWhat are the recommendations?\n\nThe UK is set to introduce new laws aimed at making online users safer, while preserving freedom of expression, with rules for sites and apps such as social media, search engines and messaging platforms.\n\n\"Social media firms needn't wait for new laws to make their sites and apps safer for users,\" said Ofcom's Bakhurst.\n\n\"When we become the regulator for online safety, tech companies will have to be really open about the steps they're taking to protect users. We will expect them to design their services with safety in mind.\n\n\"Supporters can also play a positive role in protecting the game they love. Our research shows the vast majority of online fans behave responsibly and, as the new season kicks off, we're asking them to report unacceptable, abusive posts whenever they see them.\"\n\nTwitter says it welcomes such research to help improve conversations on its platforms, while also pointing to a number of online abuse and safety features it has implemented to stop such posts reaching individuals.\n\nA Twitter spokesperson said: \"We are committed to combating abuse and, as outlined in our Hateful Conduct Policy, we do not tolerate the abuse or harassment of people on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation.\n\n\"As acknowledged in the report, this type of research is only possible because our public API is open and accessible to all. However, our publicly-accessible API does not take into account the range of safeguards we put in place, so this does not completely reflect the user experience.\"\n\nTwitter said it had not seen the data, but claimed 50% of all \"violative content\" is found by its own processes to help the burden on an individual to report abuse, adding \"we know there is still work to be done\".\n\nEuropean football's governing body, Uefa, last month pledged to work with social media platforms to tackle online abuse as part of a Respect campaign during the European Women's Championship.\n\nOther projects have included BBC Sport's Hate Won't Win campaign, alongside Sky Sports, while in April 2021 football clubs, players, athletes and a number of sporting bodies undertook a four-day boycott of social media in an attempt to tackle abuse and discrimination.\n• None Our coverage of your Premier League club is bigger and better than ever before - follow your team and sign up for notifications in the BBC Sport app to make sure you never miss a moment", "This is the suspected location of the strike in Kabul - green plastic sheeting has been draped over the balconies\n\nThe first signs of an operation that was months in the making erupted when an attack rocked the centre of Kabul in the early hours of Sunday morning: we heard two thunderous blasts on our street nearby.\n\nSpeculation swirled around who or what had hit this \"empty house\" in Sherpur.\n\nIt is a neighbourhood which became notorious over the past two decades for its garish multi-storey villas, mocked by Kabul residents as the stronghold of corrupt warlords and officials, a gaudy symbol of the spoils of an ugly war.\n\nKabulis called it Choorpur, the town of thieves. The Taliban took over some of the empty villas, close to some high-walled Western embassies, which also slammed shut when the Taliban took charge.\n\nWith every day, new pieces of this puzzle surfaced: of a possible strike on an Islamic State target; the use of a US drone which raised even more questions; the involvement of US forces on the ground.\n\nAs Kabul woke to the news that the US had killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike, we tried to approach the area on a main road leading into the street threading past Spinney's luxury supermarket and the Afghan Ghazanfar bank.\n\nA single Taliban guard angrily crossed his arms to warn us away.\n\nFrom a side street, we reached the back of the villa on foot.\n\nGuards and workers in adjacent buildings confirmed which house had been hit on Sunday; balconies protruding from the top floor were now covered with green plastic sheeting.\n\nHad anyone seen any activity, any residents, at this place?\n\n\"The house was empty,\" was the refrain. Was this a reply rehearsed in advance, an echo of the Taliban's official statement?\n\nOwners of nearby buildings told us they had been ordered, hours earlier, to shut their rooftops to everyone, even their own workers.\n\nAs news of Zawahiri's killing shot like an electric current through social media, the scene of this explosive moment seemed strangely quiet.\n\nTraffic flowed on surrounding tree-lined streets on this warm summer's day. But as minutes ticked by, more journalists arrived, more passers-by stopped, more Taliban guards showed up.\n\n\"If you don't listen to me, I'll speak to you through my gun,\" one armed Talib warned a colleague as we stood on the main street.\n\nA group of Afghan and foreign journalists approached us, one journalist in tears after an angry altercation on the main road which led to the front of the house.\n\nHer equipment had been forcefully taken away. It was then returned.\n\nNow what had only been whispers grew louder.\n\nThere was talk that Arabs had been seen, in recent months, moving through these streets. No one dared speak much about it.\n\nA local journalist living nearby told us: \"We've seen non-Afghan residents in this neighbourhood in the past couple of months. They don't speak the local languages. We don't know who they are.\"\n\nNow there are many questions, conspiracies and a range of possible consequences.\n\nThe death of Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top target on America's wanted list, had been reported many times before including last year when he was said to have died of illness.\n\nZawahiri was al-Qaeda's most prominent spokesman and ideologue\n\nIf he was alive, he was said be a recluse in the rugged terrain along Afghan-Pakistan border.\n\nBut now it emerges that he was a guest of the Taliban leadership, living in that villa smack in the centre of Kabul and said to belong to Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting Taliban interior minister, who is under US terrorism sanctions.\n\nThere is an echo of the 2011 US killing of Zawahiri's brother-in-arms, Osama Bin Laden, who had been hiding in plain sight in a villa in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad, down the street from a Pakistani military academy.\n\nThere is an echo too of the Taliban's rejoinder to the US after the 9/11 attacks that Bin Laden had only been their honoured guest, in Afghan Pashtun tradition.\n\nThe 2020 US-Taliban deal, signed after nearly two years of tortuous negotiations in the Gulf state of Qatar, was meant to sort out this crucial question.\n\nDuring the talks, we were repeatedly told that the Taliban commitment not to allow Afghanistan to be a safe haven again would be spelled out clearly, in black and white.\n\nBut the deal which emerged, with secret annexes, was not so clearcut.\n\nThe Taliban vowed to prevent any attacks on US soil from their territory.\n\nBut they never explicitly agreed to sever ties with their fellow jihadis including Zawahiri who, like other al-Qaeda leaders, had sworn allegiance to the Taliban leader, or emir, Haibatullah Akhundzada.\n\nSince the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August last year, there have been repeated and credible reports of al-Qaeda fighters crossing the Pakistan border into Afghanistan but there have also been repeated Taliban pledges to fight against terrorism.\n\nThe Taliban also accuse the US of violating their deal in their attack against a residential neighbourhood of Kabul. A statement from a Taliban spokesman warned that \"repeating such actions will damage the existing opportunities\".\n\nThis watershed moment comes at a time when the Taliban, one year after seizing power, are still struggling to establish international legitimacy and recognition. They may not wish to endanger any fragile progress.\n\nThe US and other Western powers have also been trapped in a bind: how do they help the people of Afghanistan, mired in a deepening humanitarian crisis, when many Taliban leaders are still under US terrorism sanctions?\n\nAmerican interests in this region also include the fight against extremist groups like Islamic State, an enemy they share with the Taliban\n\nThe Taliban have been walking a political high wire ever since they took charge in Kabul.\n\nHow do they maintain their standing in the global jihadi community, including their long-standing relations with al-Qaeda?\n\nSocial media is now buzzing with accusations of another US war crime with another alleged extrajudicial killing.\n\nHow do they complete their transformation from an insurgency to an internationally respected government but still keep their ultra-conservative credentials?\n\nThat high wire is now wobbling. The world is watching.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'", "Bin Laden (left) and Zawahiri together declared war on the US and organised the 9/11 attacks\n\nThe US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed.\n\nHe was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.\n\nHe and Osama Bin Laden plotted the 9/11 attacks together, and he was one of America's most wanted terrorists.\n\nMr Biden said al-Zawahiri had \"carved a trail of murder and violence against American citizens\".\n\n\"From hiding, he co-ordinated al-Qaeda's branches and all around the world, including setting priorities for providing operational guidance and calling for and inspired attacks against US targets,\" the president said in a live television address from the White House.\n\n\"Now justice has been delivered and this terrorist leader is no more,\" he added.\n\nThe FBI updated its Most Wanted Terrorist poster on Monday with Zawahiri's status: \"Deceased.\"\n\nThe 71-year-old Egyptian doctor took over al-Qaeda after the death of Bin Laden in 2011.\n\nMr Biden said he had given the final approval for the \"precision strike\" after months of planning.\n\nOfficials said Zawahiri was on the balcony of a safe house when the drone fired two missiles at him.\n\nOther family members were present, but they were unharmed and only Zawahiri was killed in the attack, they added.\n\nMr Biden said Zawahiri's killing will bring closure to families of the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 attacks in which hijackers crashed passenger jets into landmark buildings in New York and Washington - including two skyscrapers in Manhattan.\n\nSome 344 firefighters were also killed. Andrew Ansbro, president of the New York Firefighters Association thanked Mr Biden for \"helping to bring another level of closure to all impacted by these attacks\".\n\nMr Biden said that Zawahiri had also masterminded other acts of violence, including the suicide bombing of the USS Cole naval destroyer in Aden in October 2000 which killed 17 US sailors, and the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 223 people died.\n\nDouglas Sidialo lost his sight in the Kenyan attack, and told BBC Newsday that while he never condones violence, news of Zawahiri's death is welcome.\n\n\"It's good that it has happened - that they're bringing down those who were behind these heinous and barbaric acts of cowardice around the world,\" Mr Sidialo said.\n\nThis is the suspected location of the strike in Kabul\n\nThe attack in Kabul early Sunday morning rocked the centre of the capital - we heard it on our street nearby.\n\nSince then, speculation has swirled about who or what hit this \"empty house\" in the Sherpur neighbourhood known for its gaudy multi-storied villas.\n\nHours after President Biden announced news of Zawahiri's death, workers in buildings nearby told us no one lived in the villa whose balconies are now covered with plastic sheeting. Adjacent shops were told by the Taliban to close their rooftops.\n\nTaliban guards pushed journalists, sometimes forcefully, away from the scene.\n\nThe streets are quiet - this news is explosive. It again highlights the weaknesses of the 2020 US-Taliban deal.\n\nThe Taliban say they agreed Afghanistan would never again be a base to launch attacks against the United States. But they never agreed to sever all links to groups like al-Qaeda including their long-time brother-in-arms, Ayman al-Zawahiri.\n\nA Taliban spokesman described the US operation as a clear violation of international principles - but did not mention Zawahiri. US officials maintained that the operation had had a legal basis.\n\nUnder a peace deal struck in 2020, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control.\n\nHowever, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are long-time allies and US officials said the Taliban were aware of Zawahiri's presence in Kabul, and he lived freely and in the open in the Afghan capital.\n\nZawahiri's killing comes nearly a year after Mr Biden withdrew US troops from Afghanistan, bringing an end to a 20-year military presence there, and allowing the Taliban to retake control of the country by force.\n\nIn background briefings, US intelligence officers accused Taliban affiliates of going to the safe house after the strike to try to cover up evidence of Zawahiri's presence there.\n\nUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that by hosting and sheltering Zawahiri in Kabul, the Taliban had \"grossly violated\" the peace agreement.\n\nThe drone strike is the first known US intervention inside Afghanistan since the military pullout last August and, despite the withdrawal, the decades-old \"war on terror\" grinds on, the BBC's North America Correspondent John Sudworth observes.\n\nDays before the withdrawal, a miscalculated US drone strike killed 10 innocent people in Kabul, including an aid worker and seven children. The US said it had been a \"tragic mistake\" and had been aiming to target a local branch of the so-called Islamic State jihadist group.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden on Zawahiri killing: 'Justice has been delivered'\n• None Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the binding pledge", "A weapon was found on the man during a search, police said\n\nA man allegedly found with a crossbow in the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas Day has been charged under the Treason Act.\n\nJaswant Singh Chail, 20, has also been charged with threats to kill and possession of an offensive weapon.\n\nMr Chail, from Southampton, is in custody and will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 17 August.\n\nThe charges were brought after an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.\n\nMr Chail was arrested at about 08:30 GMT on Christmas Day. The Met said he was stopped \"within moments\" of entering the grounds and he did not enter any buildings.\n\nHe has been charged with an offence under section 2 of the 1842 Treason Act, namely \"discharging or aiming firearms, or throwing or using any offensive matter or weapon, with intent to injure or alarm her Majesty\", said Scotland Yard.\n\nThe Queen had been staying at Windsor Castle for Christmas, rather than spending it as usual on her Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nHer Majesty was due to be joined for lunch by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, as well as the Earl and Countess of Wessex.\n\nUnder the 1842 Treason Act, it is an offence to assault the Queen, or have a firearm or offensive weapon in her presence with intent to injure or alarm her or to cause a breach of peace.\n\nIn 1981, Marcus Sarjeant was jailed for five years under the section of the Treason Act after he fired blank shots at the Queen while she was riding down The Mall in London during the Trooping the Colour parade.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "The price of petrol fell in July, knocking nearly £5 off the cost of filling a tank, according to the RAC.\n\nAverage petrol prices dropped by nearly 9p over the month to 182.69p per litre, while diesel fell by almost 7p to 192.38p per litre.\n\nBut the motoring group warned the reductions still don't fairly reflect the fall in the wholesale price of fuel.\n\nIt said major retailers should be cutting pump prices much further.\n\nFuel prices have soared in recent months, driven by the war in Ukraine and moves to reduce Europe's dependence on oil from Russia, a major supplier.\n\nWith food and energy bills also surging, many households are feeling financial strain.\n\nWholesale petrol prices peaked at the start of June, but have since fallen as the price of oil has dropped back. Fears of a recession in the US and elsewhere have hit demand for oil, and the price of Brent crude - the international benchmark for oil - has fallen to around $100 a barrel, after soaring when Russia invaded Ukraine.\n\nThe RAC said nearly £5 was shaved off the cost of a 55-litre tank of petrol in July, from £105.29 down to £100.48, as retailers lowered their prices.\n\nThe cost of filling up a diesel tank dropped by £3.68 over the month.\n\nThese are the third and fourth biggest monthly reductions, respectively, in the last 20 years.\n\nHowever, the RAC says the falls are still too slow, given the significant reductions in the wholesale price of fuel.\n\nWholesale petrol prices have fallen by 20p over the last eight weeks, whereas the average price paid for unleaded by drivers has only dropped by 9p in July.\n\nBased on average wholesale prices last week, the RAC says petrol should be around 167p per litre, not 183p.\n\nIt warned that the failure of major retailers to slash petrol pump prices in line with the fall in wholesale costs of unleaded is costing drivers, who are paying nearly £9 a tank more than they should be.\n\nRAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the biggest retailers should have \"cut their prices more significantly on a daily basis\", given the steady and consistent fall in the wholesale price of petrol.\n\nHe said their unwillingness to do this made July \"an unnecessarily tough month for drivers\".\n\nHowever, some fuel analysts argue that is not a fair comparison.\n\n\"Over the last eight weeks, prices have jumped around; it's understandable if retailers have tried to smooth those differences out in their prices,\" said Steve Irwin, director at Portland Analytics.\n\n\"There is often a lag between wholesale prices dropping and a drop in prices at the pump. I expect we will see further price drops in petrol in forecourts over the next week or so of a further 5, 6 or even 7p a litre.\"\n\nWhile the drop in petrol prices is good news for drivers, Mr Irwin warned it is not necessarily a good sign for the economy.\n\n\"The market is clearly worried about a downturn, with people cutting back this autumn and winter, and that is being factored into the wholesale price,\" he said.\n\n\"If signs of that downturn don't materialise, prices may go back up again. If the market thinks they are, they could fall further.\"", "Russia has accused the US of direct involvement in the war in Ukraine for the first time.\n\nA spokesperson for Moscow's defence ministry alleged the US was approving targets for American-made Himars artillery used by Kyiv's forces.\n\nLt Gen Igor Konashenkov said intercepted calls between Ukrainian officials revealed the link. The BBC could not independently verify this.\n\nA spokesperson for the Pentagon said it provided the Ukrainians with \"detailed, time-sensitive information to help them understand the threats they face and defend their country against Russian aggression\".\n\nHimars is a multiple rocket system which can launch precision-guided missiles at targets as far as 70km (45 miles) away - far further than the artillery that Ukraine previously had.\n\nThey are also believed to be more accurate than their Russian equivalents.\n\nMr Konashenkov said: \"It is the Biden administration that is directly responsible for all rocket attacks approved by Kyiv on residential areas and civilian infrastructure facilities in settlements of Donbas and other regions that caused mass deaths of civilians.\"\n\nIn April, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said US President Joe Biden's decision to supply Ukraine with billions of dollars worth of arms meant \"Nato, in essence, is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy and is arming that proxy\".\n\nThroughout the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has been accused of numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity. Last week, Ukraine accused Moscow of bombing a prison in separatist held Donetsk to cover up allegations of torture.\n\nAnd the BBC has documented allegations of torture and beatings of Ukrainian prisoners by both the Russian military and security services.", "Ismail Abedi has refused to answer questions about the Manchester Arena attack\n\nAn arrest warrant has been issued for the Manchester Arena bomber's brother.\n\nIsmail Abedi, 29, was convicted in his absence in July of failing to appear at the Manchester Arena Inquiry after being ordered to give evidence.\n\nAbedi, who uses the name Ben Romdhan, had refused to answer questions on the grounds he could incriminate himself and later fled the UK.\n\nHis younger brother Salman Abedi killed 22 people and injured hundreds more in the terror attack on 22 May 2017.\n\nHis other brother Hashem Abedi, who helped plan the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, was jailed in August 2020 after being convicted of murdering all those who died.\n\nSir John Saunders, the chairman of the public inquiry, had demanded Ismail Abedi appear at the hearing.\n\nIn May 2020, Ismail Abedi was asked to provide a witness statement but, in July of that year, he responded in writing, saying he would not provide a witness statement, \"because I am concerned about the risk of self-incrimination\".\n\nHe was told that failure to comply was a criminal offence, to which he replied he did not wish to answer the questions and asserted he wished to claim privilege against self-incrimination.\n\nThe inquiry pointed out that such privilege could only ever be claimed on a question by question basis, not in blanket form.\n\nHe then asked for immunity from prosecution from the attorney general before he would agree to give evidence, but the inquiry chairman refused the application.\n\nA formal notice was then issued requiring the defendant to attend the inquiry on 21 October 2021, but he did not attend.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the attack\n\nLast month, he was convicted at Manchester Magistrates' Court of failing to comply with a legal notice to attend the inquiry as a witness.\n\nDistrict Judge Jack McGarva said he was \"satisfied beyond reasonable doubt\" he had \"no reasonable excuse for not attending\" and he was \"guilty of the offence as charged\".\n\nProsecutor Sophie Cartwright QC told the court that notification of Tuesday's hearing had been sent to Ismail Abedi's last known address, an email address he had previously used and his former solicitors.\n\nThe judge said he was satisfied that Ismail Abedi was aware of the hearing and also noted that the proceedings had had a \"great deal of publicity\".\n\nIssuing a warrant without bail, he said: \"We will now have to wait for him to be apprehended.\"\n\nHe faces a jail term of up to 51 weeks for the offence.\n\nThe news of the warrant has been welcomed by a number of the victims' families.\n\nKim Harrison, whose firm Slater and Gordon has represented 11 families at the inquiry, said they remained \"gravely concerned as to why Abedi was able to leave the country before giving evidence\".\n\n\"The families deserve to know the truth about what happened that night and the contempt Ismail Abedi has shown them is truly despicable,\" she added.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Booker gave evidence to MPs about her body dysmorphia\n\nHarmful body expectations mean ads should carry warnings if model photos are digitally altered, say MPs.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Committee wants the government to quickly introduce new laws.\n\nIt also said social media promotion of cosmetic services such as dermal fillers should be tightly regulated.\n\nThose booking a procedure should be given a 48-hour cooling-off period and there should be a full check of their medical and mental health history.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the committee, said: \"We heard of some distressing experiences - a conveyor-belt approach, with procedures carried out with no questions asked.\"\n\nReality TV star Charlie King told the MPs there had been no assessment of his wellbeing when he had a nose job done.\n\nKim Booker, who, like Charlie, has body-dysmorphic disorder - spending lots of time worrying about flaws in appearance that might be unnoticeable to others - told MPs she had become dependent on image-altering apps.\n\n\"I got to the point where I constantly had these filters,\" she said.\n\n\"I was putting filters on my face on my stories and things like that - and it completely altered the way I looked.\n\n\"When the video flipped off to my natural face, I got a bit of a shock.\n\n\"I hated what I saw, because you get used to the filtered version of yourself.\"\n\nGrowing up in the 1990s, Kim, who is from Dorset, says she was bombarded with \"Disney princess\" images of how a woman might look.\n\n\"I felt that I needed to fit the template of the big eyes, the small nose, the flowing hair and the tiny waist,\" she said.\n\n\"That has grown with me through my teenage years, into adulthood.\"\n\nThe committee wants advertisers to feature a wider variety of body aesthetics - and for influencers to stop posting filtered or unrealistic images.\n\nBeauty activist Sasha Pallari led a campaign in 2020 called #filterdrop, which encouraged social media users to post selfies without using a filter\n\n\"We believe the government should introduce legislation that ensures commercial images are labelled with a logo where any part of the body, including its proportions and skin tone, are digitally altered,\" its report says.\n\nMeanwhile, it says dermal fillers should be made prescription-only substances, in line with Botox, and there should be minimum training standards for providers.\n\nThe report also calls for the government to urgently review the growing use of anabolic steroids in the UK - the UK Anti-Doping Agency estimates more than a million users - mostly men wanting bigger muscles.\n\nProlonged use of anabolic steroids has been linked to cardiovascular disease and brain changes\n\nProf James McVeigh, who helped with the report, said: \"One of the key things that we are facing is that many people taking anabolic steroids for a prolonged period of time will not return to normal testosterone production.\n\n\"We know that the longer the period people use, the more damage there is in later life, with cardiovascular disease and brain changes.\n\n\"A point will come when they may want to stop using anabolic steroids - but they will face a severe crash.\n\n\"That dip when you stop using puts you at the point of zero testosterone, with depression and a lot of mental health problems.\"\n\nJames Brittain-McVey told MPs about his struggle to conform when starting out with his band, The Vamps\n\nVamps lead guitarist James Brittain-McVey, who had surgery to remove natural breast tissue from his chest, told the committee: \"Social media encouraged me to fall further down that rabbit hole.\n\n\"The first thoughts I would have when I woke up in the morning was, 'Should I be eating that, am I going to be able to get to the gym?\"'\n\nEating disorders have risen in recent years, the report says, recommending the government introduce annual checks of every child and young person's weight and wellbeing.\n\nIt also calls for more action to tackle child obesity, such as restricting multibuy deals for foods and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar.\n\nThe British Beauty Council said: \"If we want to show the industry as the professional, economy-boosting, equality championing and dynamic sector it is, we must be open, transparent and answerable. We, therefore, hope the Government takes the Committee's recommendations forward.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We will be introducing a national licensing scheme to help prevent exploitation, improve safety and ensure individuals are making informed and safe choices about non-surgical cosmetic procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Archie Battersbee's mum 'let down' by court ruling\n\nArchie Battersbee's life support will start to be withdrawn on Wednesday morning, his mother has said.\n\nThe family's appeal against the decision to end his treatment was refused by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.\n\nHollie Dance said her son's treatment would end unless an application was made to the European Court of Human Rights by 09:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nArchie, 12, was found unconscious at home in Southend, Essex, on 7 April.\n\nHe has never regained consciousness and his mother believes he may have been taking part in an online challenge when he suffered brain damage.\n\nMs Dance said in a statement: \"We want to make an urgent application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but the trust are saying that that has to be submitted at 09:00 BST, which gives us and our lawyers no time to prepare it.\"\n\nArchie's life support will be withdrawn at 11:00 if an application is not submitted to the ECHR in time, she said.\n\nHowever, the Christian Legal Centre, which has been supporting the legal action by Archie's parents, said its team would submit an application to the court by 09:00, \"in order to give Archie more time\".\n\nArchie Battersbee suffered brain damage in an incident at home on 7 April and has not regained consciousness\n\nSpeaking after the Supreme Court's decision, Ms Dance said she would \"fight to the bitter end\".\n\n\"I hope I've paved the way for any other parents that want to go up against a trust in this country and the justice system,\" she said.\n\nMs Dance said she felt the system to decide treatment options where there is a dispute between families and hospital trusts \"needs reforming dramatically\".\n\nBarts NHS Health Trust, which runs the Royal London Hospital in east London where Archie is being treated, said it would continue to \"work with the family to prepare for the withdrawal of treatment\".\n\nCourt of Appeal judges had previously ruled the 12-year-old's life-sustaining treatment should not continue beyond 12:00 on Tuesday.\n\nBut this was delayed while the Supreme Court heard the application from Archie's parents.\n\nThe family had asked that court to assess whether more time should be given for the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) to look at the case.\n\nBut it said the Court of Appeal had \"made the correct decision\".\n\nThe ruling said it was \"not clear that Archie has any more extensive rights in international law\" nor was the decision to end treatment a \"breach of international law\".\n\n\"The panel reaches this conclusion with a heavy heart,\" the ruling said.\n\nPresident of the Family Division Sir Andrew McFarlane, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Moylan had ordered a short delay in withdrawing life-sustaining treatments until Tuesday for Archie's parents to consider any other applications they wished to make.\n\nAt that hearing, Sir Andrew said: \"In short, his system, his organs and, ultimately, his heart are in the process of closing down.\"\n\nDoctors treating him have said they believe it is \"highly likely\" he is brain-stem dead and argued it is in his best interest for life-support to end.\n\nA previous High Court ruling heard Archie's \"every bodily function is now maintained by artificial means\", while another heard Archie had not \"regained awareness at any time\".\n\nLast month specialists told the court they did not believe it was in his best interests to continue treatment.\n\nAlistair Chesser, chief medical officer at Barts Health NHS Trust, said: \"Our deepest sympathies remain with Archie's family.\n\n\"As directed by the courts, we will now work with the family to prepare for the withdrawal of treatment.\n\n\"We aim to provide the best possible support to everyone at this difficult time.\"\n\nThe Christian Legal Centre has called for \"systematic reform\" of the law following Archie's case.\n\nChief executive Andrea Williams said: \"Legislation must be passed reforming the system. Archie's case stands in the gap.\n\n\"The precedent his case sets can go an incredibly long way to fixing a system which has no room for error.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Owami Davies was last seen in south London\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murder by detectives searching for a student nurse who vanished nearly a month ago in south London.\n\nOwami Davies, 24, left her family home in Grays, Essex, and was last seen in West Croydon on 7 July.\n\nHer relatives have not heard from her and she has not attended work, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThe Met said the two men, aged 23 and 27, were detained in the Croydon area and remained in custody.\n\nDetectives from its Specialist Crime Command are now leading inquiries to locate Ms Davies because they have the resources and expertise required for a complex investigation, the Met said.\n\nThe force added that the case remains a missing person's investigation.\n\nFollow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of people lined the streets to pay tribute to the father and son who died\n\nThe funeral has taken place for a man and his son from Cardiff who died after a suspected poisoning in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh.\n\nRafiqul Islam, 51, and 16-year-old Mahiqul, died on their way to hospital on Tuesday.\n\nHundreds of people lined the streets of Sylhet for the funeral, which took place at 13:30 local time on Thursday.\n\nRafiqul Islam's mother, Zarina Jobbar, along with two of his brothers and sister were among those in attendance.\n\nHis wife, Husnara, along with their two other children, 20-year-old Samira and 24-year-old Sadiqul, remain in hospital.\n\nSamira is understood to be in a critical condition.\n\nPolice in Bangladesh believe Rafiqul Islam and his family were poisoned\n\nMr Islam was a taxi driver who lived in Riverside, Cardiff and was a member of local badminton and football teams.\n\nHe was described by a relative in the city as \"very friendly, a very nice guy\".\n\nA local community leader called him a \"very helpful person who was at the mosque all the time and constantly working with the community\".\n\nHis teenage son Mahiqul, who had been a pupil at Fitzalan High School, was described by a relative as \"very sweet and friendly.\"\n\nSpecial prayers are due to take place at the local mosque in Riverside on Friday.\n\nOriginally from Bangladesh, Mr Islam moved to the UK in the mid-1980s on the basis of his father's British citizenship.\n\nThe family had been staying in a flat in Osmaninagar near the north-eastern city of Sylhet since earlier in the month.\n\nPolice are investigating their deaths, which were at first believed to be due to food poisoning and are being treated as \"wrongful\".\n\nIt is understood Husnara and Sadiqul have now both given statements to police.\n\nPost-mortem examinations have been carried out and been sent to Dhaka but it could be a few days before the results are known.\n\nA relative of the family told BBC Bangla that when family members got no answer at the flat on Tuesday morning, they saw through a window that the family were lying haphazardly on two beds and they called police.\n\n\"The police came and broke down the door,\" said Cebul Mia. \"We also helped them. We went inside and saw that everyone was unconscious. I saw that they were struggling to breathe,\" he said.\n\nThe family were staying in the city of Sylhet, Bangladesh\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford, whose constituency includes Riverside, where the family live, said: \"My thoughts are with the Islam family and their friends today.\n\n\"We are all thinking of Husnara, Samira and Sadiqul as they are treated in hospital.\n\n\"This is a terrible incident which will have affected the wider Bangladeshi community here in Riverside.\n\n\"The Cardiff West constituency office and my Parliamentary colleague Kevin Brennan are on hand to offer support to all those who need it.\"", "BP has reported its biggest quarterly profit for 14 years after oil and gas prices soared.\n\nThe energy giant saw underlying profits hit $8.45bn (£6.9bn) between April and June - more than triple the amount it made in the same period last year.\n\nIt comes as typical household energy bills have been forecast to hit more than £3,600 a year this winter.\n\nThe bumper profits have prompted calls for the government to tax firms further to help families with rising bills.\n\nBP's profits were the second highest for the second quarter in the firm's history.\n\nIt follows a host of profit announcements from other firms including Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies and British Gas owner Centrica, which have been reaping the benefits of higher gas and oil prices.\n\nDale Vince, the founder of energy supplier Ecotricity said BP was \"holding a shedload of money that is coming from hard-pressed bill-payers in our country\", adding he believed it was time to increase taxation on the profits of oil and gas companies.\n\n\"Clearly there are exceptional windfall profits in the oil and gas sector, and clearly there's a problem in the energy market, and we should fix one with the other,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\nCampaign groups Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth as well as Labour and the Liberal Democrats also called for a tougher windfall tax on oil and gas firm profits.\n\nProfessor Nick Butler, a former vice president of BP, said he believed the energy giant was \"very sensitive to the reputational problems of making money at this level\".\n\nHe told the BBC there was a \"real case\" for the government calling together the industry \"to find a plan to get us through the winter\".\n\n\"You have Europe as a whole now cutting back gas use by 15% immediately, which is not happening here, and actually going out around the world to secure as much of the supply as they possibly can through the winter,\" he said.\n\nThe government has introduced a package of measures to help people with energy bills, such as a £400 discount, and following political pressure, ministers announced in May that oil and gas firms would pay an extra 25% on profits made in the UK.\n\nThe tax applies from 26 May to profit made in the UK, which for most oil and gas companies is a small part of their operations. For BP, it accounts for a tenth of overall oil and gas production.\n\nBP will therefore not be required to pay the levy on the majority of the profits it made between April and June.\n\nThe Treasury said it did not comment on \"individual taxpayers\", but added it expected the windfall tax, called the Energy Profits Levy, to raise about £5bn in its first year.\n\nCritics of a windfall tax argue it might hit pension funds invested in energy firms.\n\nHowever, pension funds are invested across different countries and industries, so a tax in one sector is unlikely to make a noticeable difference.\n\nThe huge increase in profits for firms has been fuelled by higher prices for oil and gas, which have risen sharply due to the war in Ukraine.\n\nIn recent months, Russia has reduced supplies to Europe following the invasion and fears are growing it may switch off the taps altogether.\n\nThe potential of gas supply problems has led to the wholesale price soaring, which has led to energy firms passing those costs onto customers - pushing up household energy bills by unprecedented amounts.\n\nHigher oil prices have also led to the price of petrol and diesel reaching record highs at the pumps in recent months, although prices have started to fall slightly.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight, told the BBC's Today programme that energy bills \"at this point in time\" looked set to stay high across 2023 and into 2024 and warned higher bills was \"a long-term problem for households.\"\n\nHe said current government help would make a \"dent\" in higher bills but was \"not going to offset this.\"\n\nBP said its bumper profit results were driven by strong refining margins and oil trading. It announced it would boost shareholder payouts by 10% as well as buy back shares as a result of its higher earnings.\n\nLast year, chief executive Bernard Looney described the energy market as \"a cash machine\".\n\nBut on Tuesday he said the company's staff had helped to solve an \"energy trilemma\" which he added was \"secure, affordable and lower carbon energy\".\n\nIn a conference call he added: \"In terms of cost of living we all have to recognise that it's a very, very difficult place for people, not just, by the way, in the UK but across of the world right now.\n\n\"We understand that, we get it. Our people inside the company get it, they want to help.\"\n\nMr Looney said BP was \"backing Britain\" by investing £18bn in the country this decade.\n\nThe company said its half-year figures were affected by a massive £19.9bn hit from its move to ditch the its near-20% stake in Russian oil producer Rosneft in response to the Ukraine war.\n\nRichard Hunter, head of markets at online investment firm Interactive Investor, said BP had \"already made some strong progress\" in recouping the financial pain of its Russian exit, adding BP's latest results were an \"early indication of the company's ability to repair such damage\".\n\nThe contrast is stark but inevitable. The same high oil and gas prices emptying the pockets of consumers are filling those of the companies that sell it.\n\nBP's profit from April to June was triple the amount than last year and is the second highest in the company's long history.\n\nThe company said it would increase its payments to shareholders by £3.6bn in the next three months. Those shareholders include most pension funds but these numbers sit uncomfortably alongside new estimates that average annual energy bills will cost over £3,600 a year.\n\nInsiders at BP and Shell, which announced record results last week, point out that a couple of years ago, both companies were losing billions and no-one was offering to subsidise their losses.\n\nBoth companies have profited from soaring internationally-set oil and gas prices as a rise in post-Covid global demand has been exacerbated by attempts to cut Russia out of the international energy market.", "House prices are continuing to rise despite the growing cost of living crisis.\n\nThe Nationwide said prices climbed 11% in the last 12 months, although the rise over the last month was just 0.1%.\n\n\"The housing market has retained a surprising degree of momentum,\" said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\nBut he said that there were \"tentative signs of a slowdown in activity\".\n\nThe July figure was slightly ahead of June's annual rise of 10.7% and left the average house at £271,209.\n\n\"Demand continues to be supported by strong labour market conditions, where the unemployment rate remains near 50-year lows and with the number of job vacancies close to record highs,\" said Mr Gardner.\n\n\"At the same time, the limited stock of homes on the market has helped keep upward pressure on house prices.\"\n\nThe Bank of England is expected to increase interest rates by as much as 0.5% on Thursday when and that could \"exert a cooling impact on the market\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to expect the market to slow as pressure on household budgets intensifies in the coming quarters, with inflation set to reach double digits towards the end of the year.\"\n\nFirst-timer buyer mortgage completions remain around 5% above pre-pandemic levels, according to the Nationwide, despite the rising affordability pressures caused by the cost of living squeeze.\n\n\"First-time buyer numbers remain strong but that is likely to reflect significant financial input from the Bank of Mum and Dad, as deposit levels rise along with house prices and interest rates,\" said Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients.\n\nBorrowers remained extremely keen to secure a fixed-rate mortgage before rates go up again, as they are expected to later this week, he said. \"Minds are focused on getting deals done before the cost of borrowing inevitably rises further still.\"\n\n\"Today's market is being fuelled by people's desperation to find a home before interest rates rise further and the cost of living crisis bites deeper,\" said Nicholas Finn, managing director of Garrington Property Finders.\n\nThursday's expected bank rate rise to 1.75% will have a \"dampening effect on the market,\" said Alice Haine, personal finance analyst at Bestinvest.\n\nShe predicted the effects of soaring inflation and the cost-of-living squeeze will \"add more pressure on the property sector\".\n\n\"There are a barrage of challenges to come - from the surge in energy prices in October, to runaway inflation continuing to outstrip wage growth - and the pressure on household finances will intensify.\"\n\nGabriella Dickens, senior UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said rises in mortgage rates will cause buyer demand to cool further.\n\n\"The rate for a two-year 75% loan-to-value fixed-rate mortgage already has increased to 2.88% in June from 1.57% in December - the fastest six-monthly increase since at least 1995,\" she said.\n\nThat could rise to about 3.1% by the end of the year if the Bank of England increased rates in line with current market expectations, she added.\n\nIf the recession many are predicting sees unemployment rise sharply, the property market will invariably take a hit, said Andrew Montlake, managing director of mortgage broker Coreco.\n\n\"Even then, though, the impact on prices will be limited due to the abject lack of supply and homes being built.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. DJ D-Lish talks about the prejudice she's experienced as a female DJ in a male-dominated field\n\nLess than one per cent of the dance music played on UK radio is made by a female solo artist or all-female band, a new study suggests.\n\nWomen are also under-represented on the charts, accounting for just 5% of dance hits, according to the report, which examines gender imbalance in the scene.\n\nTo get heard, it says, female acts have to collaborate with male producers.\n\nSongs with women as the \"featured\" vocalist make up 44% of dance music on the radio and 37% of chart hits.\n\nThe pattern can be seen in the careers of musicians like Ella Henderson and Raye, whose collaborations with male producers like Jax Jones and Nathan Dawe often chart higher than their solo material.\n\nThe research, which covered the years 2020-2021, was conducted by the Jaguar Foundation - which is the brainchild of Radio 1 DJ Jaguar Bingham.\n\nShe says she was \"disappointed and saddened\" by the findings, which looked at female and non-binary representation across the club scene, from the board room to the charts.\n\nJaguar believes the lack of female dance producers is \"systemic\", with many women discouraged from pursuing a career in music at an early age.\n\n\"If I think about when I was at school, boys were always encouraged to do more technical things like music production,\" she says.\n\n\"As a result, there are more men in that field, so they managed to take over the scene and become the majority. So anyone who isn't [a man] maybe feels shunned, doesn't feel comfortable or doesn't feel welcome.\"\n\nArtists like Raye (right) often score their biggest hits as the featured vocalist on a song by a male producer such as Jax Jones (left)\n\nThere is some room for optimism - the report's authors say - with the report showing that the proportion of female and non-binary acts on UK festival bills has doubled since 2018, from 14% to 28%.\n\nHowever, it notes that women are often relegated to warm-up slots at the bottom of the bill.\n\n\"You'll have an all-male line-up and then you'll have one woman,\" says DJ Nia Archives in the report. \"It's ridiculous to be honest with you. But you know, it's quite a boys' club.\"\n\nHer comments are borne out by the evidence. At this year's Creamfields festival, for example, Nina Kraviz is the only female headliner - from a total of 33, across the festival's 10 stages.\n\nThe result, says Jaguar, is that dance music has almost forgotten its roots in the queer and black minority spaces of 1970s Chicago, Detroit and New York.\n\n\"Now, if you look at a lot of major festival line-ups it's just a lot of guys - which isn't really representative of what it should be.\"\n\nThe lack of diversity is reflected in the audiences who attend these shows, the report suggests.\n\n\"If you've got an all-white male line-up, that's gonna attract a lot of white males,\" says rising London producer TSHA.\n\n\"A gay black man or a black woman's not going to feel like they can come to that party. They're not going to feel like that party is for them.\"\n\nThe report, which was backed by the Sony Music UK Social Justice Fund, also highlights the fact that many women feel unsafe in clubs.\n\n\"You can be DJ-ing and are literally having to watch your drink at the same time,\" DJ/producer Riva told the authors, while Yewande Adeniran said they insist on \"a safety rider\" after several experiences where \"guys have come behind the decks\" and harassed her during a set.\n\nJaguar presents the BBC Introducing show on Radio 1 Dance, championing new artists\n\nJaguar says such tales are not uncommon.\n\n\"Imagine walking through the doors at work and not feeling safe - but that's exactly what happens. You come into these clubs late at night, often on your own, and there are a lot of people there who might be intoxicated.\n\n\"That's why we need to educate the clubs, the bouncers and the staff to make sure everyone feels safe on the decks, but also on the dancefloor.\"\n\nTo help achieve that, the report's authors have drawn up a template for an inclusivity and safety rider that artists can present to club and festival promoters.\n\n\"It says, 'I won't play on this line-up unless there's another woman, person of colour or trans and non-binary person alongside me',\" explains Jaguar. \"If not, it's within my rights to cancel the gig.\"\n\nThe broadcaster says her dream is that male headliners like David Guetta and Calvin Harris will also insist on these terms.\n\n\"If guys have these contracts too, it would really accelerate the thing that we're trying to achieve here, which is diversity,\" she says.\n\n\"It's a really important step that we need to take.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It is clear now that Beijing is not going to be satisfied by venting its anger at Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan with mere words, or even some targeted sanctions on Taiwan companies.\n\nThe announcement of six large exclusion zones around Taiwan starting on Thursday, and lasting for four days, has the potential to turn this into a full-scale crisis.\n\nBeijing did the same thing back in 1996, the last time there was a so called “Taiwan Straits Crisis”. But then the exclusion zones were all well outside Taiwan’s territorial waters.\n\nThis time three of the six zones intrude into Taiwan’s 12-mile limit. That is unprecedented.\n\nTaiwan’s defence ministry has already called the move a breach of UN conventions, and said it amounts to an air and sea blockade against the island.\n\nIf China were to move ships or aircraft into those areas, it would amount and invasion of Taiwan territory. This makes the stakes much higher as Taiwan may feel compelled to defend its own territorial waters.\n\nThe US Navy is watching all of this very closely, and already has the USS Ronald Reagan carrier battle group sailing nearby in the Philippine Sea.\n\nIn 1996 the then US President Bill Clinton moved two carrier battle groups close to Taiwan, to make it clear the US was ready to intervene if China attacked the island.\n\nBut the military balance today is very different from 1996. China has its own carrier battle groups, both of which are reported to be heading towards the Taiwan Strait.", "The price cap is expected to go up again in October\n\nTypical domestic energy bills could hit more than £3,600 a year this winter, according to a new forecast.\n\nConsultancy Cornwall Insight said the typical gas and electricity bill in England, Wales and Scotland could reach £3,615 in the new year - hundreds of pounds more than previous predictions.\n\nThe government has announced a package of measures to help households with the rising cost of living.\n\nHowever, some have called for more support for families.\n\nThe average energy bill was £1,400 a year in October 2021. The last energy price cap increase, in April 2022, saw that rise to around £2,000.\n\nThe price cap - the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for average energy usage in England, Scotland and Wales - is expected to go up again in October.\n\nCornwall Insight told BBC Breakfast that the typical domestic customer was likely to pay £3,358 a year from October, then £3,615 a year from January.\n\nThat is much higher than earlier predictions.\n\nDr Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at Cornwall Insight, said rising wholesale gas prices and concerns over Russian supply were behind the big leap, and warned the government help announced \"will only scratch the surface of this problem.\"\n\n\"However, while the rise in forecasts for October and January is a pressing concern, it is not only the level - but the duration - of the rises that makes these new forecasts so devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Given the current level of the wholesale price, this level of household energy bills currently shows little sign of abating into 2024.\n\nIn May, energy regulator Ofgem said the typical household should expect to see an £800 increase in October, to £2,800 a year.\n\nHowever, it subsequently admitted that \"prices are looking higher than they did when we made that estimate\".\n\nLast month, BFY, a management consultancy, predicted a typical energy bill could hit £3,850 a year by January.\n\nThe energy price cap sets a limit on the amount that can be paid for each unit of energy.\n\nIt is based on the price energy suppliers pay producers for electricity and gas.\n\nThis has risen sharply, fuelled by the war in Ukraine which has threatened supplies from Russia.\n\nMany families are already facing soaring costs, with UK inflation - the rate at which prices are rising - at the highest in 40 years.\n\nLast week, personal finance expert Martin Lewis said people would be \"panicking\" over their energy bills, and warned it would \"be desperate\" when bills rise this winter.\n\n\"It's going to throw many households into a terribly difficult financial situation,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Lewis said that more needed to be done now to help the poorest households.\n\nA spokesperson from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: \"While no government can control global gas prices, we are providing £37bn of help for households including the £400 discount on energy bills, and £1,200 of direct support for the most vulnerable households to help with the cost of living.\"\n\nLast week, the government announced how households in England, Scotland and Wales will receive that £400 to help with rising fuel bills this autumn with the money paid in six instalments.\n\nThe energy bill discount is part of a wider package of measures to tackle soaring prices.\n\nOther measures include a £650 payment to more than eight million low-income households.\n\nThe first instalment of payments to those on benefits started being made from 14 July.", "Ekin-Su and Davide, both 27, will share the £50,000 prize money\n\nEkin-Su and Davide have been crowned the winners of Love Island, winning the show's £50,000 prize money.\n\nThe pair, both 27, said they \"couldn't believe\" they'd won, describing their time on the show as a \"dream\".\n\nEkin-Su Culculoglu is an actress and model from Essex, while business owner Davide Sanclimenti is from Rome, Italy.\n\nDuring an ad break, ITV2 played a trailer for Big Brother, confirming rumours that the reality show will be revived on the channel in 2023.\n\nPresenter Laura Whitmore announced Ekin-Su and Davide as the winners of the hugely successful ITV2 dating show during Monday's live final - which had an average of 2.89m viewers.\n\nThe couple will share the £50,000 prize money. A previous show tradition, which gave one member of the couple the chance to \"steal\" the jackpot for themselves, was dropped this year.\n\nSpeaking to Whitmore earlier in the episode, Davide said it was \"100% a dream to be here with her [Ekin-Su]\".\n\nEkin-Su said: \"It feels so surreal, finding the man of your dreams and just growing, I'm lost for words.\"\n\nShe described her relationship with Davide as \"absolutely bonkers, crazy, romantic and fun\".\n\nGemma and Luca were named the runners-up, while the the third-placed couple was Indiyah and Dami.\n\nTasha, the show's first deaf contestant, and her partner Andrew, finished in fourth place.\n\nLaura Whitmore hosted the final live at the villa in Mallorca\n\nReflecting on their journey, Ekin-Su said: \"There was an instant spark, a genuine butterfly feeling, and there was a caring and intelligent side I was really attracted to.\"\n\nDavide, who was originally coupled up with Gemma, added: \"As soon as I saw her [Ekin-Su], my head turned, I was like 'wow'. There was initial attraction.\"\n\nThe couple's win was welcomed by viewers on Twitter, with journalist Monifa Bobb-Simon writing: \"Ekin-Su really carried this show. Her and Davide's mess was a chaotic masterpiece. The right winners.\"\n\nAuthor Toni Toni said: \"Our Turkish Delight and her Italian Stallion are so deserving! TV gold! This season should be renamed Ekin-Su Island because it would have been dry without her!\"\n\nWriter Chanté Joseph described Ekin-Su as the \"people's princess\", while radio presenter Yasmin Evans added: \"This is Ekin-Su's world and we just live in it.\"\n\nBlogger Em Sheldon tweeted: \"Ekin-Su and Davide are proof that we want to see islanders over the age of 25 fall in love too please.\"\n\nAnd in an article published ahead of the final, Lucy Thackray of the Independent described Ekin-Su as \"the greatest Love Island contestant of all time\".\n\nEarlier in Monday's final episode, the islanders were seen taking part in a salsa lesson with professional dancers, who taught them some Latin moves ahead of the Love Island summer ball.\n\nAt the ball, the couples read letters to one another about their journey throughout the series, before showing off their dance routines and finally jumping into the Mallorca villa's swimming pool.\n\nThis series of the ITV2 dating show has been popular with viewers, with most episodes attracting an audience of more than three million.\n\nAlso on Monday, ITV confirmed that reality show Big Brother, which has previously aired on Channel 4 and Channel 5, will be rebooted for a new series in 2023.\n\nThe show's former host, Rylan Clark, tweeted an image of the ITV2 logo in the shape of the Big Brother eye, adding: \"He was always watching… It's coming home #BBUK\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement, ITV said the \"global television phenomenon\" would make its \"much anticipated return to UK television and moves onto ITV2 and ITVX from 2023\".\n\n\"A new cast of carefully selected housemates, from all walks of life, will take up residence in the world's most famous reality TV home for up to six weeks, with cameras capturing their every move, and the nation following every twist and turn.\"", "Airbnb says its business will be resilient, even in the event of economic downturn\n\nAirbnb said travel demand remains strong, despite concerns about economic slowdown and rising prices hitting households.\n\nNearly 104 million nights and experiences were booked on the platform in the April through June period, a record high for the lodging website.\n\nLong-term stays continued to be the fastest growing type of travel, a shift driven by the rise of remote work.\n\nBut international and city travel, which had lagged, have also recovered.\n\nThe company said it was now in the middle of its strongest peak summer travel season yet, and it assured investors that it was well poised for whatever may hit the economy.\n\nIn fact, a slowdown may actually help the company, executives said.\n\n\"Airbnb was founded during the recession,\" chief executive Brian Chesky said in a conference call with analysts to discuss the company's results.\n\nIn the event of another slowdown, he said, \"we think a lot of people may turn to hosting once again, so this is a big opportunity for us\".\n\nOverall, bookings in the April-June period rose 25% from last year to 103.7 million and up 24% from 2019.\n\nHigher prices helped lift the company's revenue, which surged 58% from last year to $2.1bn.\n\nNearly half of the company's reservations are for a week or longer, the company said.\n\nTravel demand remains strongest in North America, where bookings are up 37% compared to 2019.\n\nGrowth in Europe - while travel has recovered from the pandemic - is lagging that recovery, hurt by factors such as the weaker pound.\n\nThe company, which announced in May that it was pulling out of China, said demand remained below pre-pandemic levels in the Asia Pacific region, as Covid restrictions keep Chinese tourists at home.\n\nDespite the removal of China listings in July, Airbnb still has more than 6 million active listings on the platform.\n\nMr Chesky said the company had now achieved \"growth and profitability at scale\" and said the firm would both continue to invest in the business, and spend $2bn on buying its own shares, which have fallen this year.\n\nExecutives said the buyback programme was a sign of their confidence in the company's future.\n\nThe company reported a profit of $379m, compared to a loss of $68m last year.", "The street trader was not one to go looking for trouble, his wife insisted\n\nThe wife of a Nigerian street trader who was killed in Italy has told the BBC she is seeking justice following his \"painful death\".\n\nAlika Ogorchukwu, 39, was reportedly selling handkerchiefs in the seaside town of Civitanova Marche on Friday when he was chased and beaten to death.\n\nA 32-year-old Italian has been arrested on suspicion of murder and robbery.\n\nA video circulating online shows a man on top of Ogorchukwu, punching him with his bare hands.\n\nNone of those who witnessed the broad daylight attack appeared to intervene.\n\n\"This is a form of wickedness I don't know,\" Ogorchukwu's wife, Charity Oriachi, told the BBC's Focus on Africa.\n\nMs Oriachi said she had received help in coming to terms with her husband's death but was tired of \"talk\". Now, she was only interested in justice, she insisted.\n\nHer family had lived in Italy for a long time, she said, stressing that her husband had never sought any trouble.\n\nThe killing has sparked outrage in the local community, including Nigerians, who took to the streets over the weekend and are planning another demonstration soon.\n\nThe Nigerian government has asked Italian authorities to quickly \"bring the perpetrator of the heinous act\" to justice.\n\nThe suspect - a white man named as Filippo Claudio Giuseppe Ferlazzo - has been ordered to remain in jail as the investigation continues.\n\nHis defence lawyer told the media the suspect had said he was sorry and that there was \"no racial element\" involved.\n\nA police investigator said Ogorchukwu was attacked after the trader's \"insistent\" requests to the suspect and his partner for spare change.\n\nThe partner, identified as Elena D, told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that Ogorchukwu had touched her arm, but that did not bother her.\n\nMs Oriachi now wants to see the suspect \"face to face\", to understand why he killed her husband, the family's lawyer told the Associated Press.", "American horror novelist Stephen King is taking on a new monster: corporate consolidation.\n\nThe author was the star witness in an anti-trust trial to block the two biggest US publishers' $2.2bn merger.\n\nThe US Department of Justice called on King to testify about how the proposed tie-up of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster could affect authors.\n\nKing, 75, told the court in Washington DC that he felt \"the move would be bad for competition in the industry\".\n\nBoth publishing houses have argued the merger would not hinder competition because the companies would continue to bid against each other for the rights to publish novels, even after the transaction is finalised.\n\nKing - who has 50 years' experience in publishing - called that idea \"a little bit ridiculous\".\n\n\"You might as well say you're going to have a husband and wife bidding against each other for the same house,\" the novelist quipped, according to journalists in the court.\n\nSince publishing his first novel, Carrie, in 1974, King has penned more than 70 novels - including other cult classics like The Shining, and It - that have sold over 350m copies.\n\nIn the last decade, King has also become more outspoken on social media, interacting with fans and often encouraging his 6.8 million Twitter followers to support local and independent bookstores.\n\nIn November 2020, Penguin Random House and Paramount Global, Simon & Schuster's parent company, announced plans for a merger.\n\nA year later, the justice department sued to block the acquisition. US President Joe Biden's administration has vowed to increase competition as a central part of its economic policy.\n\n\"American authors and consumers will pay the price of this anticompetitive merger - lower advances for authors and ultimately fewer books and less variety for consumers,\" US Attorney General Merrick Garland said following the announcement of the lawsuit.\n\nAttorneys representing the merger have denied these allegations and argue that stopping the transaction \"would harm the very authors DOJ purports to protect\".\n\nThe \"DOJ has not found, nor does it allege, that the combination will reduce competition in the sale of books\", Daniel Petrocelli, Penguin's lead attorney in the trial, said in a statement.\n\n\"We are confident that the robust and competitive landscape that exists will ensure a decision that the acquisition will promote, not harm, competition.\"\n\nAnti-trust legal action seeks to ensure acquisitions and mergers do not create market monopolies, or anti-competitive practices such as price-fixing.", "A man has made his first appearance at crown court charged with murdering a nine-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a town centre.\n\nLilia Valutyte was found with a stab wound in Fountain Lane in Boston, Lincolnshire, on Thursday.\n\nDeividas Skebas, 22, appeared at Lincoln Crown Court on Monday afternoon, having earlier appeared at the city's magistrates' court.\n\nMr Skebas, of Thorold Street, Boston, was remanded in custody.\n\nA plea and trial preparation hearing has been set for 19 September.\n\nLilia had reportedly been playing hula hoop with her younger sister in the street before her death.\n\nA toy pram was also left at the scene where the pair had been playing, according to locals.\n\nDozens of flowers and other tributes were left at the corner of Fountain Lane and Fountain Place in memory of the schoolgirl.\n\nA service of reflection and prayer was held at St Botolph's Church.\n\nTributes have been left near to where Lilia was killed\n\nReverend Jane Robertson said the service gave people an opportunity to gather and \"pray for the family\".\n\n\"Over the last few days there have been so many people coming into the church and lighting candles and talking to us and expressing a variety of emotions,\" she added.\n\nLincolnshire Police said two people who were arrested on Friday had since been released with no further action.\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An abuse survivor can sue Visa over videos of her posted to Pornhub, a US court has ruled.\n\nSerena Fleites was 13 in 2014 when, it is alleged, a boyfriend pressured her into making an explicit video which he posted to Pornhub.\n\nMs Fleites alleges that Visa, by processing revenue from ads, conspired with Pornhub's parent firm MindGeek to make money from videos of her abuse.\n\nVisa had sought to be removed from the case.\n\nMs Fleites' story has featured in the New York Times article The Children of Pornhub - an article which prompted MindGeek to delete millions of videos and make significant changes to its policies and practice.\n\nHer allegations are summarised in the pre-trial ruling of the Central District Court of California.\n\nThe initial explicit video, posted to Pornhub without her knowledge or consent, had 400,000 views by the time she discovered it, Ms Fleites says.\n\nShe alleges that after becoming aware of the video, she contacted Mindgeek pretending to be her mother \"to inform it that the video qualified as child pornography\". A few weeks later it was removed\n\nBut the video was downloaded by users and re-uploaded several times, with one of the re-uploads viewed 2.7 million times, she argues.\n\nMindGeek earned advertisement revenue from these re-uploads, it is alleged.\n\nMs Fleites says her life had \"spiralled out of control\" - there were several failed suicide attempts and family relationships deteriorated - then while living at a friend's house, an older man introduced her to heroin.\n\nTo fund her addiction, while still a child, she created further explicit videos at this man's behest, some of which were uploaded to Pornhub.\n\n\"While MindGeek profited from the child porn featuring Plaintiff, Plaintiff was intermittently homeless or living in her car, addicted to heroin, depressed and suicidal, and without the support of her family,\" Judge Cormac J. Carney's summary of her allegations says.\n\nMindGeek told the BBC that at this point in the case, the court has not yet ruled on the truth of the allegations, and is required to assume all of the plaintiff's allegations are true and accurate.\n\n\"When the court can actually consider the facts, we are confident the plaintiff's claims will be dismissed for lack of merit,\" the company said.\n\nThe Judge ruled that, at the current stage of proceedings, \"the Court can infer a strong possibility that Visa's network was involved in at least some advertisement transactions relating directly to Plaintiff's videos\".\n\nBut Visa argued that the \"allegation that Visa recognized MindGeek as an authorized merchant and processed payment to its websites does not suggest that Visa agreed to participate in sex trafficking of any kind\".\n\nIt also argued, according to the judge's account of its position, that a commercial relationship alone does not establish a conspiracy.\n\nBut Judge Carney said that, again at this stage of proceedings, \"the Court can comfortably infer that Visa intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn from the very fact that Visa continued to provide MindGeek the means to do so and knew MindGeek was indeed doing so.\n\n\"Put yet another way, Visa is not alleged to have simply created an incentive to commit a crime, it is alleged to have knowingly provided the tool used to complete a crime\".\n\nA spokesperson for Visa told the BBC that it condemned sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse material.\n\n\"This pre-trial ruling is disappointing and mischaracterizes Visa's role and its policies and practices. Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for illegal activity. We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case.\"\n\nThe senior departures followed further negative press in an article in the magazine the New Yorker, examining among other things the company's moderation policies.\n\nMindgeek told the BBC that it has:\n\nThe company also said that any insinuation that it does not take the elimination of illegal material seriously is \"categorically false\".", "Edinburgh is the first part of Scotland to propose a control area\n\nProposals aimed at limiting the number of Airbnb-style lets in Edinburgh have been approved by Scottish ministers.\n\nThe city council had asked for permission to establish the country's first short-term let control area.\n\nThis means that in most cases, planning permission will be needed to change the use of an entire residential home to short-term letting.\n\nIt follows concern that such lettings have exacerbated housing shortages and fuelled antisocial behaviour.\n\nHowever, others have raised concerns about the impact the new rules could have on the availability of rented accommodation.\n\nThe City of Edinburgh Council has said the move will prevent short-term lets being set up where it is not appropriate.\n\nHousing Secretary Shona Robison said government approval was a major step forward for the council's plans.\n\n\"I recognise the important role which short-term lets play as a source of flexible and responsive accommodation for tourists and workers, which brings many benefits to hosts, visitors and our economy,\" she said.\n\n\"However, we know that in certain areas, particularly tourist hot spots, high numbers of lets can cause problems for neighbours and make it harder for people to find homes to live in.\n\n\"The Scottish government considers that the council has adequately considered and responded to concerns raised before seeking approval of the control area designation. We have concluded that the proposed designation would be reasonable.\"\n\nCouncil leader Cammy Day said the decision paved the way for Edinburgh to become the first short-term let control area in Scotland.\n\n\"For far too long, too many homes have been lost in our city to the holiday market,\" he said.\n\n\"In fact, around a third of all short term lets in Scotland are here in the capital, so their associated issues of safety, anti-social behaviour and noise have a detrimental effect on many of our residents.\n\n\"We will now progress implementing the changes and the next step should be looking at whether we can apply a cap on numbers, too.\"\n\nUnder the new scheme, planning permission will always be required to change the use of a dwelling house to secondary letting, unless the exceptions set out in legislation apply.\n\nWhere this happened before the introduction of the control area, the existing planning rules will apply.\n\nThe Scottish government said this would require planning permission if there has been a material change in the use of the property.\n\nRenting out a room in your own home, or letting your home while on holiday, will still be allowed.\n\nThe proposals were approved by the council's planning committee earlier this year, after 88% of the 5,600 people who responded to a consultation on the proposals supported the introduction of the scheme.\n\nHowever, the plans were described as \"restrictive and anti-business\" by the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers, which said the city's real problem was a lack of house building.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells has been trying to retrieve the hard drive for nine years\n\nAlmost 10 years ago James Howells threw away a hard drive during a clear out - forgetting about the Bitcoin on it.\n\nNow, with the Bitcoin worth an estimated £150m ($184m), he is planning to spend millions digging up a Newport landfill in a bid to find the lost hard drive.\n\nIf recovered Mr Howells said he would give 10% of the proceeds to turn the city into a crypto-currency hub.\n\nBut the council said excavating the site would pose an ecological risk.\n\nMr Howells, an IT engineer, accidentally threw away the hard drive in 2013 after mining 8,000 Bitcoins in the early stages of the currency's development.\n\nBitcoin fluctuates wildly in value - in January 2021, Mr Howells' was worth around £210m, but with a big crash coming earlier this year, it is now worth significantly less.\n\nNewport council, which owns the landfill site where Mr Howells believes the drive to be, has repeatedly denied him access to dig there, on the grounds of environmental and access concerns.\n\nMr Howells has now pledged about 10% of the proceeds of the hard drive, should it be recovered, to fund a range of crypto-based projects in the city.\n\nAny plan to search for the drive would require a huge manual task of digging through thousands of tonnes of compacted landfill that has been accumulated at the site for decades.\n\nBut Mr Howells believes he now has the funding and expertise set up to do it in an effective and environmentally beneficial way for the site.\n\n\"Digging up a landfill is a huge operation in itself,\" he said.\n\n\"The funding has been secured. We've brought on an AI specialist. Their technology can easily be retrained to search for a hard drive.\n\n\"We've also got an environmental team on board. We've basically got a well-rounded team of various experts, with various expertise, which, when we all come together, are capable of completing this task to a very high standard.\"\n\nJames Howells has devised a plan to recover the cryptocurrency\n\nFinding the hard drive, though, is just part of the monumental task. There is no guarantee that, if it is there, it is even in a recoverable state.\n\nBut if it is, then its owner is set for a major windfall, although the actual amount will depend on which direction the volatile cryptocurrency goes in.\n\nBut it is likely to be many millions of pounds.\n\nThe 37-year-old, who has signed away some of the ownership of the coins as part of the funding process, said his donation to the city would be used to promote the use and understanding of cryptocurrency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is cryptocurrency and how does it work?\n\n\"We've got a whole list of incentives, of good cases we'd like to do for the community,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the things we'd like to do on the actual landfill site, once we've cleaned it up and recovered that land, is put up a power generation facility, maybe a couple of wind turbines.\n\n\"We'd like to set up a community-owned (Bitcoin) mining facility which is using that clean electricity to create Bitcoin for the people of Newport.\"\n\nAmong his other plans are proposals to give £50 worth of Bitcoin to every person in the city and install crypto-based terminals in all shops.\n\nNewport council said it had repeatedly responded to Mr Howells requests for access to the site:\n\n\"We have statutory duties which we must carry out in managing the landfill site,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Part of this is managing the ecological risk to the site and the wider area. Mr. Howells' proposals pose significant ecological risk which we cannot accept, and indeed are prevented from considering, by the terms of our permit.\"", "These is no confirmation yet that Mrs Pelosi - seen here in Malaysia with her counterpart Azhar Azizan Harun - will visit Taiwan\n\nTaiwan is bracing for a potential show of force from China as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to arrive on the island late Tuesday.\n\nHer visit - which is not backed by the White House - would be the first by such a senior US official in decades.\n\nMs Pelosi is the third-highest ranking official in the US government and a long-time critic of Beijing.\n\nChina has repeatedly warned against the visit and on Tuesday said the US would \"pay the price\".\n\nTaiwan is a self-ruled island, but claimed by China, which sees it as a breakaway province.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China had been in communication with the US about sensitivity of the visit.\n\n\"The US side will bear the responsibility and pay the price for undermining China's sovereign security interests,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday China sent warplanes up to the median line, the informal dividing line in the Taiwan Strait between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.\n\nIts forces have also been holding live fire drills and the Chinese military's eastern command posted a video online saying it was \"fully prepared for any eventuality\".\n\nTaiwan's defence ministry said it had a full grasp of military activities near the island and was determined to defend itself against any Chinese threats.\n\nThe US has formal diplomatic relations with China and not Taiwan but maintains what it calls a \"robust, unofficial relationship\" with the island.\n\nEarlier in the week National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters China could respond with military provocations - including firing missiles near Taiwan, launching large-scale air or naval activities or making \"spurious legal claims\" to justify a naval blockade of the Taiwan Strait.\n\nMs Pelosi embarked on her tour of Asia on Sunday without mention of Taiwan on her itinerary. She has so far visited Singapore and Malaysia, and also has stops in South Korea and Japan scheduled.\n\nHowever she is widely reported in Taiwanese and US media to be planning to land in Taipei late on Tuesday evening and hold meetings with Taiwan's leaders on Wednesday.\n\nOn Tuesday Taiwan's premier Su Tseng-chang said the island \"warmly welcomes\" any foreign guests and \"would make the most appropriate arrangements\" for any visitors.\n\nThe visit has created a diplomatic headache for the White House. President Joe Biden last week said the US military believes a Pelosi visit to Taiwan is \"not a good idea right now\".\n\nOn Monday Mr Kirby said Ms Pelosi \"has the right to visit Taiwan\" and \"makes her own decisions\", adding that the White House respects the US Congress's independence.\n\nThere is strong bipartisan support for Taiwan among the American public and in the US Congress.\n\nAnd Ms Pelosi, a senior figure in the Democratic Party, has long been a vocal critic of the Chinese leadership, denouncing its human rights record. She has previously met pro-democracy dissidents and visited Tiananmen Square to commemorate victims of the 1989 massacre.\n\nShe originally planned to visit Taiwan in April, but postponed the trip after she tested positive for Covid-19. Earlier this month she said it was \"important for us to show support for Taiwan\".\n\nMr Kirby pointed out that Republican former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had visited Taiwan in 1997, and that other US lawmakers visited Taiwan earlier this year.\n\n\"Nothing has changed. There is no drama to talk to. It is not without precedent for a Speaker of the House to go to Taiwan,\" he said, adding that Ms Pelosi is travelling on US military planes during her Asian tour.", "Liz Truss has said she wants to save taxpayers' money by ending national pay deals for civil servants' pay.\n\nThe Tory leadership candidate wants to link civil servants' salaries to living standards where they work, meaning similar jobs could have different salaries depending on location.\n\nMs Truss says the scheme could be rolled out to other public sector areas, saving £8.8bn a year.\n\nLabour called her plan \"a fantasy recipe for levelling down\".\n\nThe party's deputy leader Angela Rayner said it would reduce \"the pay of Northerners, worsening the divide which already exists\".\n\nSome Conservative MPs in the south-west of England have also come out strongly against the proposals, with Steve Double, a Rishi Sunak ally, saying it would be \"hugely damaging to public services in Cornwall\".\n\nAnd Ben Houchen - mayor of Tees Valley and another supporter of Mr Sunak - said: \"There is simply no way you can do this without a massive pay cut for 5.5 million people including nurses, police officers and our armed forces outside London.\"\n\nBut minister and Truss backer Jacob Rees-Mogg said: \"Anyone who currently works for the civil service will remain on their current terms but new people will be paid the market rate in the area in which they live - and that's quite rightly taking care of taxpayers' money.\"\n\nHe added that \"if the government is the highest payer, it then crowds out private sector investment.\"\n\nMs Truss is competing with former Chancellor Mr Sunak to become the next Conservative leader, and prime minister.\n\nThe party's 160,000 or so members are voting on which of the two they want to replace Boris Johnson, and the winner will be announced on 5 September.\n\nMs Truss has also proposed scrapping jobs aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in the public sector.\n\nIn addition to introducing regional pay, Ms Truss has said she would save £137m by banning union representatives from getting paid time off to focus on union work.\n\nThe foreign secretary also wants to reduce average civil service annual leave from 27 days to 25 and scrap Whitehall's diversity officers - something her team estimates could save £12m a year.\n\nAlong with the proposed reforms to public sector pay, she says the total savings to the taxpayer would be up to £11bn.\n\nThere are bits of tinkering here and there in Ms Truss's plans, like saving £12m a year from cutting civil service diversity officers.\n\nBut the only way these plans will save \"billions\" is if they not only pay civil servants less in poorer areas - but other public sector workers too.\n\nMs Truss says she'll only do this if it \"works\" when they introduce it for civil servants.\n\nEconomically, the argument is that it's harder for private companies to hire people where public pay is higher and harder to compete with.\n\nBut politically - it's very hard to see how she sells this.\n\nTo save billions, she's arguing you'd need a situation where nurses, police, teachers - for example - would be paid less in Sunderland than ones in Surrey.\n\nLots of policy has been pumped out in this campaign with headlines like 'Whitehall waste' to appeal to members.\n\nBut dig in to the detail, and there are loads of questions about how some of these would work in practice.\n\nThe foreign secretary has also been criticised for describing Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as an \"attention-seeker\".\n\nScotland's deputy first minister John Swinney said he was \"absolutely horrified\" and described the comments as \"obnoxious\".\n\nAt a question session on Monday evening, Mr Sunak told party members he was the candidate for change.\n\nHe was introduced to the stage in Exeter by former International Trade Secretary Liam Fox who said Mr Sunak had the \"character, courage, experience intellect and downright decency\" to win over swing voters.\n\nMs Truss received her own campaign boost when she received the endorsement of trade minister Penny Mordaunt.\n\nMs Mordaunt - who was knocked out of the race after finishing third in the polling among MPs - described Ms Truss as the \"hope candidate\".\n\nThe FDA - the union for senior civil servants - said it was \"astounding\" Ms Truss was planning to move jobs out of London while at the same time cutting regional pay.\n\nAlex Thomas of the Institute for Government think tank said the idea of regional pay \"comes around every few years\".\n\n\"The reason why chancellors and prime ministers have previously tended to abandon it is the benefits are pretty marginal - both in terms of the cost you can save and the benefits to the local economy.\"\n\nBut the Taxpayers' Alliance argues it would help boost economic growth in regions such as the north-east of England and the Midlands by reducing inflated labour costs and thereby encouraging the private sector to invest in these areas.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liz Truss criticised Scotland's first minister before ruling out a second independence referendum\n\nTory leadership hopeful Liz Truss has claimed it is best to ignore \"attention seeker\" Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nThe foreign secretary criticised Scotland's first minister before ruling out a second independence referendum.\n\nSpeaking at a hustings event in Exeter, Ms Truss described herself as \"a child of the Union\", having spent some of her youth living in Paisley.\n\nScotland's deputy first minister John Swinney said her comments were \"completely and utterly unacceptable\".\n\nTalking to voters at the hustings event, Ms Truss said: \"I really believe we're a family and we're better together.\"\n\nTory party members then cheered and applauded as she said: \"I think the best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her.\n\n\"She's an attention seeker, that's what she is.\n\n\"What we need to do is show the people of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales what we're delivering for them and making sure that all of our government policies apply right across the United Kingdom.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon was accused by Liz Truss of being an attention seeker\n\nMs Truss later replied \"no, no, no\" when asked about whether she would support another independence referendum in Scotland if she becomes prime minister.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that Scotland had been \"ridden roughshod over\" by the attitudes of the Conservative party over the last few years.\n\nHe cited the UK Internal Market Bill as an example of an \"erosion\" to democracy in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"When people are saying to us we would like our two governments to work more closely together, this comment from Liz Truss demonstrates what we are up against.\n\n\"I come across this frequently when I'm dealing with the UK government - a contempt for Scotland, a desire to belittle Scotland and not hear our voice.\n\n\"And if you don't believe me on this just listen to what Mark Drakeford, the Labour first minister of Wales, says - he says exactly the same thing about how Wales is treated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Swinney: \"People in Scotland, whatever their politics, will be absolutely horrified by the obnoxious remarks.\"\n\nHowever MSP Murdo Fraser of the Scottish Conservatives said he would ignore Mr Swinney's \"manufactured outrage\" on the issue.\n\nHe told the BBC that while he was not sure of the whole context of Ms Truss' remarks, he believed she was referring to Nicola Sturgeon's \"incessant and increasingly tiresome demands\" for another referendum.\n\nHe said: \"Liz Truss is far more in tune on Scottish opinion on this issue than Nicola Sturgeon. I think Liz Truss is absolutely right to say this is not the time for another referendum.\n\n\"There are other priorities the Scottish government should be focussing on - not least the NHS, the appalling rate of drugs deaths, trying to rebuild our economy post-Covid.\"\n\nMs Truss and Rishi Sunak are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and British prime minister.\n\nNine Scottish Conservative MSPs, including Murdo Fraser, Rachael Hamilton, Liam Kerr and Oliver Mundell, declared their support for Liz Truss on Monday.\n\nMeanwhile eight Conservative MSPs declared their support for Rishi Sunak in a joint letter in the Telegraph on Tuesday. They are Donald Cameron, Liz Smith, Miles Briggs, Jackson Carlaw, Maurice Golden, Jeremy Balfour, Dean Lockhart and Alexander Stewart. MPs John Lamont and Andrew Bowie have also backed Mr Sunak.\n\nWelcome to the era of muscular unionism.\n\nIf, as expected, Liz Truss enters 10 Downing Street, it's clear she will ditch the cautious constitutional approach of the Johnson administration which addressed the issue of a second independence referendum by simply repeating the mantra: \"now is not the time.\"\n\nMs Truss is adopting a far more robust attitude. It's not quite the \"never, never, never!\" with which Ulster's Ian Paisley denounced the 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement but \"no, no, no!\" is not a million miles away from it.\n\nThis is already being cheered by staunch unionists who had been longing for more robust engagement, some of whom, not coincidentally, are currently deciding whether to vote for Ms Truss or Rishi Sunak as their leader.\n\nHours before her comments the Spectator's Stephen Daisley, for example, argued that the constitutional debate had become \"a one-sided war, and one that Westminster is losing.\"\n\nBut there is a reason this approach — and particularly sharp personal attacks — was on the whole rejected by Boris Johnson and his team.\n\nThey feared that an all-out assault on Nicola Sturgeon would play directly into the Scottish government's hands as it would be cast as an attack not just on the first minister but on the nation which elected her.\n\nIt is true that polls suggest a majority of voters in Scotland are not keen on a referendum any time soon.\n\nIt is also true that last year voters in Scotland elected a majority of MSPs who had made manifesto commitments to hold another independence referendum - returning Ms Sturgeon as first minister in yet another landslide election victory in the process.\n\nThere is a fine line between insulting a political opponent you dislike and dismissing the people who voted for her, including those whose support you one day, presumably, hope to win for yourself.", "There is ambiguity over a pledge of allegiance now Hibatullah Akhundzada (main focus left) leads the Taliban and Ayman al-Zawahiri heads al-Qaeda\n\nA key question arising from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan is their relationship with their long-time ally, al-Qaeda.\n\nAl-Qaeda is bound to the Taliban by a pledge of allegiance - or \"bay'ah\" - which was first offered in the 1990s by Osama Bin Laden to his Taliban counterpart Mullah Omar.\n\nThe pledge has been renewed several times since, although it has not always been publicly acknowledged by the Taliban.\n\nUnder the 2020 peace deal with the US, the Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any other extremist group to operate in areas under their control. They reiterated this vow days after the takeover of Kabul on 15 August.\n\nBut they do not appear to have publicly rejected al-Qaeda either.\n\nAnd al-Qaeda has certainly not softened its rhetoric towards the US.\n\nThe Arabic word bay'ah is a term meaning a pledge of loyalty to a Muslim leader and is the foundation of fealty between many jihadist groups and their affiliates.\n\nIt entails obligations for both parties, including obedience by the one offering bay'ah to a leader. Reneging on the pledge is considered a serious offence in Islam.\n\nIn al-Qaeda's case, it effectively subordinates it to the Taliban, by bestowing the honorific title of \"commander of the faithful\" upon the Taliban leader and his successors.\n\nBin Laden continued to deliver threats to the US from Afghanistan after 9/11\n\nIt was probably a factor in Mullah Omar's refusal to hand Bin Laden over to the Americans after the 9/11 attacks, leading to the US-led invasion in 2001.\n\nOne famous example of the flouting of bay'ah came when al-Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq refused to adhere to its pledge to central command, leading it to break away and later re-emerge as the Islamic State group (IS).\n\nIS-K - Islamic State Khorasan Province - is the IS regional affiliate in Afghanistan.\n\nThe IS attack on Kabul airport was a targeted at the US, the Taliban and ordinary Afghans\n\nAl-Qaeda is not the only jihadist group to offer bay'ah to the Afghan Taliban.\n\nThe Pakistani Taliban have previously pledged loyalty and recently renewed it after the takeover of Afghanistan.\n\nAfter Bin Laden's death in 2011, his successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, offered his pledge of allegiance to Mullah Omar on behalf of al-Qaeda and its regional branches.\n\nThis was renewed in 2014 after IS declared its caliphate in areas of Iraq and Syria.\n\nBut in July 2015, the Taliban announced that Mullah Omar had died two years prior. Embarrassingly, al-Zawahiri had offered allegiance to a dead man.\n\nAl-Zawahiri renewed his pledge to the new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, on 13 August 2015, vowing to \"wage jihad to liberate every inch of occupied Muslim land\".\n\nMansour quickly acknowledged the pledge from \"the leader of the international jihadist organisation\", an apparent endorsement of al-Qaeda's global jihadist agenda.\n\nThis is starkly is at odds with the Taliban's own messaging, which restricts the group to the implementation of Islamic rule in Afghanistan and normal relations with neighbouring states.\n\nWhen current leader Hibatullah Akhundzada assumed leadership of the group after Mansour's death in a US air strike in May 2016, the Taliban did not publicly acknowledge the renewed pledge from al-Zawahiri.\n\nThis ambiguity over the current status of the pledge is at the heart of the ongoing uncertainty over the relationship between the two groups.\n\nWith their return to power, the Taliban are now being pulled in two directions.\n\nTheir ties to al-Qaeda lend the Taliban credibility within hardline jihadist circles, and the historic loyalty towards al-Qaeda means they may not be keen to abandon their ally now they hold power.\n\nBut the Taliban also remain bound by their obligations under the US peace deal, and the pragmatic approach to governance they have espoused.\n\nCongratulatory messages from al-Qaeda and the group's regional affiliates have heaped praise on the Afghan group for their \"victory\" and reiterated Akhundzada's status as \"commander of the faithful\".\n\nThe Taliban have not publicly acknowledged these messages, despite doing so for other groups like the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.\n\nBut the reported arrival in Afghanistan of Amin al-Huq - a close associate of Bin Laden - suggests that links between the two groups do remain.\n\nAnd al-Qaeda reportedly maintains strong links with the Haqqani network, which is part of the Taliban.\n\nThe issue is illustrative of the essential dilemma facing the Taliban. On the one hand, they crave recognition on the international stage and the benefits that brings - but this is largely incumbent on their rejection of extremism.\n\nOn the other, they cannot easily disregard their alliance of more than 20 years with al-Qaeda.\n\nTo do so might alienate the more hardline among their militants and other extremist groups who have so fervently celebrated their takeover of Afghanistan.", "The family visited Sandwell Aquatics Centre to watch the men's 1,500m freestyle event\n\nPrincess Charlotte joined her parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on a visit to the Commonwealth Games.\n\nThe trio watched swimming, hockey and gymnastics while in Birmingham.\n\nThey also paid a visit to SportsAid, which supports young athletes, where Princess Charlotte placed a medal on its medal board.\n\nThe Earl and Countess of Wessex and their children, Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn, also attended the Games on Tuesday.\n\nEngland's women went on to win the hockey game 3-1\n\nBefore Prince William and Katherine's arrival, Prince Edward, who is vice patron of the Commonwealth Games, spoke with former prime minister Theresa May as he entered Sandwell Aquatics Centre during the men's 1,500m freestyle heats.\n\nThe royals cheered and applauded alongside the crowd for England 1,500m freestyle hopeful Luke Turley.\n\nHe won the second heat in 15:35.65, with Northern Ireland's Daniel Wiffin just under two seconds behind in second place, meaning both qualify for the final.\n\nPrince William posed for photgraphs with spectators during the swimming event\n\nIn the afternoon, the duke and duchess watched the hockey as England's women took on India at the University of Birmingham's Selly Oak city campus.\n\nThe team went on to win 3-1, making it three wins out of three in their competition so far.\n\nThe family were later seen at the Arena Birmingham, which was hosting the artistic gymnastics, where England's Jake Jarman won fourth gold medal to become the most successful English male gymnast at a single Games.\n\nPrincess Charlotte placed a medal on a Team England medal chart while on a visit to Sport Aid\n\nHis teammate Alice Kinsella also took gold in the floor event.\n\nEngland finish the Games with 16 gymnastics medals, 10 of which are gold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDuring a visit to SportsAid at Birmingham University, of which the Duchess is patron, Charlotte revealed gymnastics was the sport she liked most and joined a nutritional workshop.\n\nThe family also visited Arena Birmingham which is hosting the artistic gymnastics\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people driving for Uber has hit an all time high, as concerns about the rising cost of living push people to find new ways to make money.\n\nAlmost 5 million people are now picking up passengers or making food deliveries for the company, 31% more than last year, boss Dara Khosrowshahi said.\n\nUber has been struggling with a driver shortage since the pandemic, leading to longer waiting times for customers.\n\nHigh petrol prices also make it harder to earn money on the platform.\n\nBut Mr Khosrowshahi said interest in driving for the company was accelerating despite those costs.\n\n\"That's right: more people are earning on Uber today than before the pandemic,\" he said in prepared remarks for investors to discuss the firm's financial performance.\n\n\"Against the backdrop of elevated gas prices globally, this is a resounding endorsement of the value drivers continue to see in Uber.\"\n\nUber has been criticised for the treatment of its drivers.\n\nIn the UK, the Supreme Court ruled last year that the company must count them as workers. But in many countries, including key markets such as the US, Uber classifies drivers as self-employed contractors, meaning they are not entitled to benefits such as minimum wage or holiday pay.\n\nUber has said drivers value the flexibility to choose their own schedules. But it has also responded to concerns, for example introducing a fuel surcharge that customers pay to help offset driver costs.\n\nIt also recently unveiled other changes, including allowing drivers to see how much they will make before agreeing to take a ride, aimed at making their platform more appealing to drivers.\n\n\"Rather than relying solely on financial incentives, our goal has been to improve drivers' overall experience,\" Mr Khosrowshahi said.\n\nHigher demand, which had plunged when the pandemic hit in 2020, is also helping to attract drivers back.\n\nUber said there were 1.87 billion trips on the platform in the April-June period - an average of roughly 21 million per day - up 24% from last year, and 12% more than were taken in 2019 before the pandemic hit.\n\nThe rise in demand helped push gross bookings up 33% to $29.1bn (£24bn)\n\nRevenue more than doubled to $8.1bn, though some of that was due to a change to how the company accounts for its UK business.\n\nDespite the gains, the company lost $2.6bn. It said more than half of that was due to a decline in the value of its stakes in overseas companies such as Zomato, Grab and Aurora.\n\nUber shares jumped more than 13% after the better than expected results. The numbers suggest a path for Uber to become profitable, despite inflationary pressures and lingering driver shortages in some cities, said Dan Ives, analyst at Wedbush Securities. \"In a nutshell, despite rising ride share prices throughout the US/Europe clearly consumers are still moving to the Uber platform especially as travel, shifting to the office, and other post pandemic trends take hold globally with Uber poised to benefit into 2023,\" he said.", "Only weeks ago Penny Mordaunt and Liz Truss were bitter rivals to make the final two in the leadership race\n\nLiz Truss has received a boost in her bid to become the next prime minister after her candidacy was backed by former leadership rival Penny Mordaunt.\n\nThe trade minister was knocked out of the race after finishing third behind Ms Truss and ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nMs Mordaunt gave Ms Truss her support, calling her the \"hope candidate\", as she appeared at a leadership hustings.\n\nEarlier in the contest some of Ms Mordaunt's allies accused Ms Truss's team of a dirty-tricks campaign.\n\nDuring a second hustings event - held in Exeter - Mr Sunak once again attacked Ms Truss's tax plans and promised he would cut taxes responsibly.\n\nThe pair are vying to win over Conservative Party members, whose votes will determine which of them will become the next Tory leader and British prime minister.\n\nThe party's roughly 160,000 members started receiving ballot papers on Monday, with the result due on 5 September, when Prime Minister Boris Johnson will leave office.\n\nTax policy has become the main battleground, while both have announced a string of competing policy proposals to woo Conservative members.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I could be sipping pina coladas right now, says former leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt\n\nMs Mordaunt is the latest cabinet minister to back Ms Truss, joining Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi in endorsing her candidacy.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Sunak has received the support of senior Tory MPs, including former cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Damian Green.\n\nMs Mordaunt said at the event - along the south coast from her own Portsmouth North constituency - choosing between the two candidates was hard but it was \"too important\" to \"leave this to chance\".\n\nShe said: \"At the start of this final phase of this contest, I didn't know the answer to those questions, but I've seen enough to know who the person I'm going to put my faith in is - and that is Liz Truss.\"\n\nIn her opening speech, Ms Truss said Ms Mordaunt was \"a great patriot and I'm proud to call her my friend\".\n\nThe warm words marked a change in tone, after allies of Ms Mordaunt accused Ms Truss's team of a dirty-tricks campaign to block her from reaching the final stage of the leadership contest.\n\nMr Sunak had his own Tory big hitter to introduce him on stage - in the form of Mr Fox, the former international trade secretary who has himself stood twice to be party leader.\n\nMr Fox said Mr Sunak had the ability to win over swing voters and stop a Labour-SNP coalition \"tearing our nation apart\".\n\n\"We will need a leader and a prime minister, with the right policies, yes, but with character, with courage, with experience and with intellect, and the downright decency to swing those voters behind us and get them to vote Conservative,\" Mr Fox said. \"I believe that leader, that prime minister, will be Rishi Sunak.\"\n\nHe said character was shown by Mr Sunak's performance during the pandemic, making \"difficult but vital decisions\", including the introduction of the furlough scheme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: I ripped up the rule book as chancellor, Rishi Sunak tells audience at second leadership hustings\n\nWhen Mr Sunak spoke, he said he would focus on three priorities if he became PM - \"restore trust\", \"rebuild the economy\" and \"reunite our country\".\n\nHe once again attacked Ms Truss's plans to slash taxes and reiterated his belief that he had not taken the \"easy path\" in setting out his vision for the country.\n\nHe said he would \"cut taxes\", outlining his plan to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 16% by the end of the next parliament.\n\nBut he added: \"We are going to do that responsibly. We are not going to ask our kids to pay for it. We are going to do it by being tough on public spending, reforming public services, and by growing the economy.\"\n\nFollowing the hustings, Ms Truss announced a \"war on Whitehall waste\" in her campaign's latest policy offering.\n\nShe claimed she would save taxpayers £11bn by cutting civil service time off, ending national pay deals and scrapping jobs aimed at increasing inclusion and diversity in the public sector.\n\nHer campaign said most of the savings would come from tailoring pay to living costs where civil servants work.\n\nBut a source close to Mr Sunak's campaign said Ms Truss \"seems to have confused the wage bill of the civil service with front line public sector workers\".\n\n\"This means stretching the NHS to breaking point and fewer police fighting crime as we head into a general election.\"\n\nAlex Thomas, from the Institute for Government think tank, said the £8.8bn proposed savings from regional pay bargaining would not come from Whitehall.\n\n\"The whole Civil Service pay bill is only about £9bn,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You're not going to reduce the Civil Service pay bill to £200m unless you pretty radically reshape the state.\n\n\"I know she wants to be radical but possibly not quite that much, so it's going to come from the wider public sector, it's going to come from nurses and teachers and local authorities.\n\n\"This is not a war on Whitehall, it's more like war on Workington,\" he added.\n\nUnions and Labour also warned Ms Truss that her proposals would face resistance if she were to implement them.\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union, said Ms Truss's pledge to cut regional pay for civil servants was \"astounding\", calling her plans \"recycled failed policies\".\n\nDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner condemned her plans, saying: \"This wannabe prime minister is stuck in the past, fighting old battles, and promising a race to the bottom on public sector workers' pay and rights.\"\n\nMs Truss has also been endorsed by West Midlands mayor Andy Street, who said she had a \"bold, optimistic vision\" for the country.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch historic moment Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan, the first visit by such a senior US official in decades\n\nUS Speaker Nancy Pelosi has met Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in a visit that has been strongly condemned by China.\n\nMs Pelosi, the most senior US politician in 25 years to visit Taiwan, said her delegation had come to make it \"unequivocally clear\" that the US would not \"abandon\" the island.\n\nChina had earlier said the US would \"pay the price\" for Ms Pelosi's visit.\n\nTaiwan is self-ruled, but China sees it as a breakaway province that will eventually unite with it.\n\n\"Forty three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan... today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan,\" Ms Pelosi said, referring to the Taiwan Relations Act.\n\nTaiwan has become yet another flashpoint amid heightened tensions and sharp rhetoric between Washington and Beijing in recent years, with the US walking a diplomatic tightrope on the issue.\n\nThe US abides by the \"One China\" policy - a cornerstone of the two countries' diplomatic relationship which recognises only one Chinese government - and has formal ties with Beijing and not Taiwan. But it also maintains a \"robust unofficial\" relationship with the island. That includes selling weapons for Taiwan to defend itself.\n\nMs Pelosi's visit is viewed by Beijing as yet another sign of support for Taiwan.\n\nHowever, the White House has been opposed the visit, and President Joe Biden had said the military assessed it as \"not a good idea\".\n\nIn her meeting with Ms Tsai at the presidential office, Ms Pelosi called Taiwan an \"inspiration to all freedom-loving people\", saying: \"The world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America's decision to preserve democracy here in Taiwan remains iron-clad.\"\n\nMs Tsai similarly praised the partnership between both places, saying Taiwan remained a \"trustworthy and reliable partner of the US\".\n\nShe added that Taiwan was \"facing deliberately heightened military threats\", adding that it \"would not back down and that Taiwan will do whatever it takes to strengthen its self-defence capabilities\".\n\nMs Pelosi is expected to meet a group of human rights activists later on Wednesday.\n\nShe had earlier met with Taiwan Deputy Speaker of Parliament Tsai Chi-Chang.\n\nAs her plane touched down on Tuesday night, Chinese state media reported that its military jets were crossing the Taiwan strait. Taiwan denied those reports at the time, but later said that more than 20 Chinese military planes had entered its air defence zone on Tuesday.\n\nWithin an hour of Ms Pelosi's arrival, China announced that the People's Liberation Army will conduct a series of live-fire military drills in the air and at sea around Taiwan later this week - warning ships and aircraft not to enter the affected areas.\n\nThis follows days of escalating tensions in which Chinese warplanes had already ventured out as far as the median line, the unofficial divide separating China and Taiwan in the waters between them.\n\nThe danger with escalation is that it is hard to pull back.\n\nNow that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to visit Taiwan - the highest-ranking American official to do so in 25 years - won't others want to do the same in the future?\n\nNow that China has held major live fire exercises of such a scale, so close to Taiwan, why not do that again?\n\nNot so long ago, Beijing's plan with Taiwan involved engagement.\n\nHowever, the approach under Chinese President Xi Jinping has become much more belligerent, with ever more pressure being applied on Taipei.\n\nThe biggest challenge perhaps for regional stability is that everyone's public position on Taiwan is ridiculous. It's like a giant game of pretend which is becoming harder to maintain.\n\nChina pretends that Taiwan is currently part of its territory, even though the island collects its own taxes, votes in its own government, issues its own passports and has its own military.\n\nThe US pretends it is not treating Taiwan as an independent country, even though it sells it high-tech weapons and, occasionally, a high-ranking politician visits on what looks very much like an official trip.\n\nIt's apparent that it would take nothing for this flimsy show, designed to guarantee the status quo, to fall apart.\n\nWhile Ms Pelosi's visit had been the subject of huge international speculation for days, it had been shrouded in secrecy until the last minute.\n\nWhen she set off on a tour of Asia on Sunday, there was no mention of Taiwan on her official itinerary, which included Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan.\n\nBut after Ms Pelosi landed, the White House's Mr Kirby told CNN this visit was similar to previous trips by other officials, adding that the \"United States is not going to be intimidated by threats\".\n\nMr Wang called it an \"open political provocation\", adding that it \"seriously violates the one-China principle and harms China's sovereignty\".\n\n\"The US must stop obstructing China's great reunification. Taiwan is an inalienable part of China\".\n\nChina also rolled out several curbs on Wednesday, stopping shipments of sand to Taiwan and suspending the import of some fruit and fish from Taiwan.\n\nBeijing also exerts international pressure on other nations to accept its \"One China\" principle - that there is only one Chinese government, based in Beijing. Only 15 nations in the world have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.", "The company said it offered \"the chance to have up close and interactive encounters with blue sharks in their natural environment\"\n\nA snorkeler has suffered a leg injury after reportedly being bitten by a blue shark off the coast of Cornwall.\n\nThe incident is believed to have happened during an organised trip at lunchtime on Thursday 28 July.\n\nA Maritime Coastguard Agency spokesperson said a coastguard team went to Penzance Harbour to pass the casualty into the care of an ambulance.\n\nBlue Shark Snorkel, the company that organised the tour, said such incidents were \"extremely rare\".\n\nThe casualty was handed over to an ambulance crew at Penzance Harbour\n\nIt reported that the person injured had found it \"very scary\" and had \"thanked everyone for their amazing actions\" to get them quickly and calmly back to shore.\n\nOn its Facebook page Blue Shark Snorkel said: \"As we know, these things can happen when we choose to interact with wild animals in their own environment.\"\n\nOn its website, the company said it offered \"the chance to have up close and interactive encounters with blue sharks in their natural environment\".\n\nThe statement added: \"We immediately enacted our emergency response plan, with first aid being carried out on the person involved.\n\n\"Following advice and assessment from the coastguard, the person walked off the boat and received further treatment ashore.\"\n\nAn MCA spokesperson said: \"HM Coastguard sent Penzance Coastguard Rescue Team to meet a snorkeler who suffered a suspected shark bite... It is believed the swimmer suffered a leg injury.\n\n\"The coastguard team met the casualty at Penzance harbour to assist with passing them into the care of the ambulance service.\"\n\nThe snorkelling company said it was \"trying to understand why it happened and were in continued talks with shark experts\".\n\nThe firm also shared a statement from the victim, who said: \"I don't for a second want this freak event to tarnish the reputation of an already persecuted species.\n\n\"We all take these risks when we enter the habitat of a predator and we can never completely predict the reactions of a wild animal.\"\n\nBlue sharks visit the UK during the summer months from the Caribbean, and are known to mainly feed on small fish and squid, but have been known to attack seabirds and other small sharks, according to the Wildlife Trusts.\n\nUK-based charity the Shark Trust says there have been no \"unprovoked\" shark bites in British waters since 1847, when records began.\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 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